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PAGE 4 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1933.

.I‘homro Newspapers

Annoylng _ In the Senate debate_on a govern- ): ment bill containing increases on im- ports of British wool cloth, 0pposi-, ‘ tion leader W. Ross MacDonald call- ed the measure .“annoying” on the eve of next month's Commonwealth

‘: Trade Conference. ' r “We have invited representatives"

of all the Commonwealth countries to

L. l lems,” said Senator MacDonald, “A few weeks befOre they areto meet l which they have to encounter in or- der to reach the conference. It is not good policy to invite'frien'ds to your . house to work out something to your ‘ mutual advantage and then do some‘ l thing to annoy them.”

i We quite agree with Senator Mac- : Donald's viewpoint. From a purely fi- nancial angle, the increaSes on Briv tish imports are probably not very important. They may not increase the price of clothing to any greatextent, nor will they have a very adverse ef- “ feet on the broad pattern of _British

v; exports. But they will arouse fears % among British business men that Mr. Diefenbaker’s pre—election suggestion ’ that a sizable quantity of imports be i diverted from the United States to he

‘ Unied Kingdom was just talk, with no

real desire for stimulating British

Q, trade behind it. Theyxwill also create

1 suspicion throughout the Common- wealth ‘that what Canada is really in-

“ terested in is not stimulation of Com-p

monwealh‘ trade but an unimaginativs protectionist fortits own indus-

\

tries. I .

adawis approaching the Common-‘ Wealth Trade Conference, the con-

‘ forence will fail. Each member of the

Commonwealth has its. jown \ \‘tra'de problems. Canada cannot expect to have everything its own way. There

here we set up a partial roadblock

‘ come here and discuss our tradE‘prop.. -

If this isithe spirit in which Can- ‘

s

willlhave to he. give angltake' on the, V part of all, if’ the Minister’s

laudable intentions, as declared inthe election campaign, are to be of any practical service. - ’ '

It should be needlessto point out that the _ present Federal men is especially vulnerable to cri- ticism of high tariff policies, because of unfortunate experiences in this

field of former Copservativek Govern- ; I; V . K H ‘ ‘ ‘ - poses, however, will continue and be \ , expanded as time goes on.

ments. - - . A‘ Slender Hope

It is noteworthy that Israel sup ported the motiOn at the United Na- tions Assembly in favor of a solution of the Middle East deadlock on Arab terms. She did so, of course, lest she should stand alone in opposition. But‘ it must have been with grim fore- boding that the Israeli spokesmen heard the speech " of Mr. Ahmed Shukairy, the delegate for saudi Arabia, who said: ‘ .

a single span of territory of the Arab

Persian Gulf and from the northern extremities of the United Arab Re- public down to the southern bor- ders of the Soudan in the heart of Africa. All this is the Arab father— land, possessed by one and only one nation—theArab nation.” This area includes Israel, Mordcco, Algeria, Tu- nisia,» Libya, the United Arab Repub- {lic of Syria and Egypt, Lebanon, Jor- f’dan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Ku- wait, Qatar, Bahrein, Muscat, Oman, Addn, and possiblytlran and Maure- tania. The region is 27 per cent larger than the territory of the United Sta- tes. ‘ ‘ ’ Befpre the vote, Mr. ~Eban, speak- ing for Israel, defined the attitude of his government to the Arab motion, with special reference to the state- ments made by the delegation for Saudi Arabia. “We are neighbors,” he said, of the two nations, Lebanon and Jordan, whose anguish and tur- .moil lie at the'centre of the Middle East crisis today. With each of them We share a common frontier. It their independence and ifitegrity were di- minished, ours would be gravely im. perilled.” He did not-indicate what Israel would do in such conditions but the resort to force in self-defense

was plainly implicit in his warning and was so understood by. the Gen- eral Assembly. ‘ ‘

He then proceeded to challenge the concept of “one Arab nation.” The Middle East, he said, is inhabited by

¥

“Arab nationalism will not giVe upt-

fatherlapd from the Atlantic to the.

Govern- ‘

54 million Arabs, taking language as the broadest criterion. and 76 mil- lion non—Arabs; by eight Arab states and at least four .non-Arab states. In the light of this fact, official declalu ations about a continuous area be- tween the Atlantic ocean and the Per- sian Gulf as the inheritance of one nation “must be regarded as an of‘ fense to international peace as well as a distortion of history, geography and law.” Mr. world should come to terms .with Arab nationalism but only if that na- tionalism first comes to terms with ,the United Nations Charter.

If not, what then? That poses the big question, which no one ventured to ask in so many words, at the Gen- eral Assembly. The hope is—and it

one-Tthat the. Arab world will learn moderatiOn rather than arrogance from its new status and power in

world affairs. , .

' Cost Of TeSls

, , Recently published figures show that inthe last five years nuclear tests have cost the United States -, more than $200 million. This includes only the cost of the tests themselves and the construction 'of the neces- sary bases. The actual cost of ‘ the of course, greatly increase the amount. . .

Britain,“ no doubt, has spent a similar amount, proportionate to the number. of tests;' while the, Soviet Union has probably spent more. .It is safe to say, therefore, that more than ahalf billion dollars, has been spent on these tests since 1954, not counting the cost of the explbsives.

of the hospitals, schools, medical research and the like that this vast sum of money might have provided; or think of the food it might have bought for the hungry

cost of stockpiling bombs and other

weapons of war, and one has some.

idea of the benefits which could

come to humanity if only war could outlawed once for, all.

Growing Danger

committee on the effects of atomic ra-

- dist-ion does more than point out the '

danger involved in nucleal; tests. It emphasizes that contamination from

, peaceful uses of atoms, energy isij ust

as“ dangéroufi‘ss Which bri‘ses from the testing of "bombs. In this it

., resembles a report drawn up by the

British Medical Research Council two years ago. - The bomb tests will probably be stopped as soon as an'agreement can 'be reached by the great powers for

adequate control of the ban. The use

something which no nation is preparé ed handle safely; although, no doubt, research into ways and means of

r keeping the danger at a minimum is

going all the time. But there is as yet no effective way ‘of ' disposing of atomic wastes. ‘

“ of power, with its potentialities for good for all mankind, came too soon—- before another essential branch of sci- entific knowledge was developed suf- ficiently to look after the hazards.

1 EDITORIAL NOTES \

One of the main causes of unrest in the Middle East is population conn gestion. Egypt, for example, has a population of nearly 24 millions—2,< 370 persons to a square mile.

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A new college of science at Cam- bridge University, called “Church- hill College” in honor of Sir Winston Churchill, is expected to cost around ' $10 million. Already, more than $7 million have been raised. A sizable ,, amount came from. American ad- mirers of the war time leader.

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In Smethwick. Eng. members of an angling club stocked a pool with 7,000 trout. That was 5 yearsago. Not one was caught. Recently, divers were sent down to see what the trouble was. They reported that the fish had found an~Outlet to the pool and escaped, apparently soon after they were put ianhere was not the right kind of fdod to keep them con- tented... _' \l t It ‘ t

The massive growth of motor vehicles in Canada is dramatically shown in a timely report issued by the Canadian Good Roads Association. It calculates that local expenditure on roads and bridges in Canada this year will for the first time exceed a billion dollars. Only two categories of gov- ernment expenditure—national de- fence and social welfare—are more

costly than roads and streets.

millions of the world. Add to it the

The report of the UN. scientific,

of . atomic ,power ,for‘ peacfful pur-"

Eban added that the .

must seem to Israel a very slender '

various weapons and devices would;

This is '

The fact is that this new source '

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t _' Special Correspondent

, Polymer Corporation has long been the stormy petrol among the flock of men Corporations, which represent the taxpayers’ venture as investors into big bus- iness under government manage- ment.

J.W. Murphy, Conservative M. P fior Bolymer's home town of Sarnia, is in a better position than. anyone else in Parliament

' to know the good and the bad

about the; carbonation through 194 cal talk. Through the years, Mr. Murphy has repeatedly shown hris uneasiness about the hand- ling of the taxpayers money at Polymer, and has fired repeated questions at the government. When the Idlberal Government was in power, its specialist in busincss management was indus- trial~millionaire C.D. Howe.‘ He collected Cabinet portfdlios and supervisory pohts as enthusias- tically. and humorously, as my children col-lect- postage stamps.

But s Clo.

inet title walls", he alluays had Polymer under his Mug. And as long as the cooperation was in A that position; Mr. Howe. would have no part of- Mr. J.W. “Get- that-man-ofif-my-lback" Mumphly’s' curiosity. a ~ I

But times have changed. Cur- iosity is welcomed now, and ques— tions are receiving the most full and often the most surprising aus- \ wens under the Diefeubaker open~ ' b00k policy.

RUBBER WAR~BABY

So the turn of ' Polymer has come. Mr. Munphy has had to wait a long time, but now he will get his watchdog questions answered. His pertinvacity may well save the talxpaycns ‘mamy’ millions in future expenditure.

’Mr. E. Rowzce, President and

. ,HOWTOGETJTOUT . .r

- Spotlight On Polymer

By Patrick Nicholson «*

for The Guardian

Managing Director of Polymer,: was called ‘to give evidence be- fore the House of commons Es- timates Committee recently. He described hoW‘Polymcr was set up after ‘Pearl Harbour, to manu- facture synthetic rubber and thus help to meet the urgent wartime needs of the Western allies sf. ter J apasn’s advance had cut all ur major. sources of naturah

‘ rubber in Malaya.

The taxpayers investment in Polymer during the war reached $48 mill-ion. In the decade since the war, the cost of plant used at Polymer has doubled to $92 million and working capital has likewise nearly doubled. In the same tlme, the prbductlon of cyn— t-hetic rubber has almost treblcd. to 130,000 tons per yes-r. 'One-‘ third of Polyrmlcr’s output is used in Canada, meeting 55 per cent of our total need for rubber. The remaining to-tlhlrids of Polymers production has been sold‘i-n lor- eig-u markets. _ _ -

So good dri‘d Bolymer’s' pros- pects look, that further expansion was planned. More raw materials. would be needed. especially a sub- stance called Butadiene which is obtained from uatumall gas. ‘50 land was bought near Red Deer, Alberta, and plants were formul— ated to build it plant there to make Butadrieoe for Polymer. The plant would cost the taxpay- ers about $18 million. MURPHY’S INSPECTION

But now the Murphy search- ligbt is on Polymer.

Some of his ’ pertinent . questions concern the granting of contracts. Why, he has asked, has a cer- tain labour contract been given every year to Curran and Her- ridge, when acceptance of their

tenders by the well-known Sar-

Choln Smoking My Blur VISIOh By Herman N. bundescn, M. D. ALL OF YOU are well aware that it is dangerous to drive after drinking alcohol. Well. may be dangerous to drive while smok- ing excessively. too. . I

At least that'is the oplnlon offla British publication, “The Optl - clan.”

WHAT HAPPENS V The blood stream, you see. ah- snnbs carbon monoxide from in- complete combustion of tobacco ‘210 times taster than it takes in oxygen. Heavy smoking can pro- duce as much as 10 per cent sat- uration of hemoglobin with car- bon monoxide instead of oxygen- Tests have shdwn that only three per cent carbon monomde saturation can measurably impair sharpneSs of vision and :depth per- caption.

All of this,*.“’llhe Optician" says. seems to indicate that smoking at the wheel hampers the And certainly geod eyesight is a driving essential. - ONE-EYED DRIVING

sired-hing of depth perception. have you ‘ever realized how diff-i- 'cu=lt it would be to clni-ve, or to do almost anything. for that matter. with only one eye?

Here’s a" little demonstration that will show you just how valv liable your those—Kilimanasllowrfl sight is: But I. don‘t want you to try it while driving.

Close one eye. Then» point to an object about eight to ten feet a— You will notice that. your fin- ger appeaan to be almost touch- ing the objcct. Blight?

Then open boil: eyes and look

385m . .

PROPER PERSPECTIVE

'Now you see both your. finger and the distant object in the pro-

There is a rigidity in prices which has been characteristic of our economy ever since the end of the war. The last thing .Con- sidered is lowering factory pri- ces. Anything but that. There is no more “free enterprise” be-

‘ cause every producer expects to

be protected—by somebody else. This is at the bottom of our pre- sent troubles—Kingston Whig - Standard

Brooklyn sells more to Canada than Canada buys from Argen— tina. Louisville sells more to the Dominion that does New Zea- lznd. Detroit more than .Brszll. Chlago’s’ sales to Canada ,Just about equal everything the Dom- inion buys from Brazil. U. S. sales to Canada are several times larger than US sales to thenited Kingdom, US exports to Canada equal all Us. sales to. Western Europe. —- Winnipeg Tribune .

Cheers. for that hold Conser-

Mg. Frank Lennard of ‘Wenlt‘ worth, for serving notice that he,

,fior one, will oppose the wasting

of public money on buying crude “modernistic” paintings be hung in Canadian embassms a~

years ago, he went to an exhibi- tion of modern art and was um able to make head ornataril of some of the pieces shown. He wasn‘t the only one, but he was one of the comparative few who had the intellectual honesty to admit itl—Bnautford Expositor

vative member of Parliament, '

broad. He explains that, several ,

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year, one bri‘ ‘ , _be emelsins £3ng depressing outlaw. gemtfarv repeat: a e ices have:

hum-an cs ' be“ the heedlessmsg, the throwing matches, srette stubs {rm Public education, g, Vancouver

Could

But at lulnn‘manity? " In the New York

we but new Of'anciént myth , "

S

mg?

n-i-a criminality or aw. McKay Construction .could have saved the taxpayers “many thousands of dollars a year"?.Mr Murphy pointed out that profits hail slum- péd by one quarter over the last business yeai‘; why, he asked, rats retiring President Barring- ton given a bonus of three months salary amounting to $12,500? And what about Red Deer? lim- perial Oil of Sarnia now su ly Polymer’s present needs of u- tad-lenc at 15 cents per cubic foot. Could not adequate supplies at a mom favourable price be negotiated with Imperial? Is that $18. million investment really- ne- cessary? And what about our export sale‘s‘TAre our ficrelgn markets secure? Mr. Rowzoe has been overseas recently. The Hon. Raymond O’~ Hurley, Conservative Minister no in charge of Polymbr, tells me that Mr. Rowzee reparts that the picture is not very glowing. Ger- many, one of Polmc’r's best cus- tomers, is building her own syn; thetic rubber plant. We may lose the French market. Strong- er competition can be expected loom the-LISA. where, there is ‘ now sunp’lus production, and three private companies are plan- ning to set up ovenseas plants. Mr. Rowcee has said that Pol- ymer has not obtained «any lil- crease in its priCes the past five years,,, although the costs of labor and materials have risen; this makes Poll‘imeu' match our gold mines as about the only commercial enterprises. which have not been able to increase their prices to match inflation during the past years. _ Mr. Ray O’I-Iurley plans to vis- it Polymer, himself as soOn as Parliament rises. And, he told me, Mr. Murphy is invited to loin him, to see for himself and to ask any questions. Whatever the answers may be, this new attitude is more satisfactory. '

For many of Canada’s Efskim‘os, migrating canilbou herds spell dillference between survival and death. Ilf the animals fiollow scv custorned routes, and if there is an abundance of them. the es-

~kli£fnlOlS are assured food, clothing. and bone tor tools and hunting weapons. Ilf, on the other» hand, the caribou fiolllow unusual routes or ,a-re unexpectedly flew, the re- sult or the Eskimos is extreme bards lip, and alien starvation.

Dependence on the caribou its partllcvulanly heavy in the Eastern Arctic, wlhe-re alternative sources of food are slim. It is this region that has been hardest hit by the sharp decline in herds in recent years. ('llhene wens estimated to be about 670,000 of the animals between Hudson Bay and the Mac keunie River in 1949, but only 277, 000 in 1955.)

The reason for the decline is not clear. It may be purely cyc- lical, or the result of disease, poor fieedllnlg grounds and inadequate

._ shooting regulations. At any rate. a Dominion Government study of the animals stalled last year, is new meaning completion, and the repontmay Show the way to a policy for restoring and minim-l (Joining the hands. DEATH BY STARVATION

At last month’s session of the council of the Northwest Terri- tories, 23 Eskimo deaths in 1957 were attributed to starvation and exposure. The catastrophe that overtook. one group of 14 was de— scnilbed to the House of Commons the other day‘by Mr. M.A. Har- die, the member for MacKenzie Rlve‘r.

In the same debate, Honorable Alvin Hamilton, Minister of North em Allis-irs and National Resour— ces, outlined Government plans for nomad Eskimos of the Kee- watin District, west of Hudson Bay, where the deaths which Mr. Hialndie spoke of occurred. The Minister said arrangements were being made to move some of these Eskimos off the barrens into sett— tletments. In addition, pvalrcls in— to the inleuiorawlhere the people live~woullld be expanded and 'ex-

tended. so that a Closm‘ protect-

ive watch could be kept, over

Eskimos In Transition

Globe and Mail .Toronto

them.

These patrols and, other namgements to liming aid to the Eskimos on the barrens are good as flat as they go. and should be welcomed on mumanit-arian groun- ds. It is unthinkable that Eskimo bands should perish‘for want of food in this land of abundance, and particularly in this day of air communication that has bro- ught the rmotest Arctig: area within reach of quick help from outside.

GREATER PROMISES r

But of much greater promise to the Eskimo in the long run-and to Canadsof which they are part- is the program which Mr. Haml- lvllon (which islto say the Gover- nment) apparently has in mind .of diluting them tor a new life. At least, we hope that is what was meant when Mr. Hamilton talked about moving Eskimos to settle- ments where they could be looked actor.