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________.______'__————-— “The trongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink” ____________.___.—————————— PAGE 4 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1964. ______________._.__.—-——-————

Some Alierihoughis

With the Senate vote on Thurs- day night indorsing the maple leaf flag, and the adjournment now of the Commons. this controversial is- sue has ended. As defined by Prime Minister Pearson, it amounted to the right of Parliament to come to a decision in the matter. The decision having been made, it becomes the duty of all of us to conform to it.

This is a basic principle in our democratic system. and denial of it, under any pretext, would be poor citizenship. Many will have grave personal reservations with respect to the new flag as a substitute for the old. but they will accept it for this reason. with respect. if not with enthusiasm.

For those who have gained their point there is also a duty of putting a. curb on their aspersions against others who opposed it by every par- liamentary means. Of the kind. for example, that Peter C. Newman makes in the Montreal Star, when l he represents Mr. Diefenbaker as being the spokesman of those who are “out of touch with the aspira— tions of contemporary Canada." and as an obsolete figure “intoning a litany of obstruction against the 20th century.”

Mr. Newman, it will he recalled, was the author of a biography of the Conservative leader which he entitled “Renegade in Power." Renegade means an apostate. one who deserts a cause, a turncoat. Mr. Diefenbaker must be the first rene- gade in history to be damned for clinging obdurately to a lost cause, for fighting to the end for a symbol that would not. in his own words, do injustice to “memoried sorrow or old renown." and for remaining— in Mr. Newman’s words—“a prison- er of his heritage"!

It is one thing to accept the new flag because we must, as good citizens. accept Parliament's decis- ion in the matter. It is another thing to stomach, without protest, this kind of commentary from one of Canada’s top-ranking journalists. We cite it because of the reputa- tion Mr. Newman enjoys. and be- cause it is typical of much else that has been said on the subject.

The Government should not for- get that the reason why there was approval for using closure to end the flag debate in the Commons Was that everyone was sick to death of the wrangling. The public would settle for almost anything just to get it over with and Parliament back to work.

It was not a question, for many thousands of Canadians, of spurn- ing the heritage of the past in our flag emblem, but of making a big- ger sacrifice of their sentiments than those who outvoted them have had to make, in the interests of unity. That. too, is something the Government would do well to remember.

. A Maior Campaign

' Last year in the United States, 71 per cent of all deaths came from heart disease, cancer, and strokes. Heart disease and strokes claimed the lives of 994,747 Americans. can- on of 285.362. We haven‘t seen the comparable figures for Canada, but rm may be correspondingly high. are civilization’s biggest kill- and every effort made to com- them is of general interest. ' ‘,, Last week a presidential com-

flailon to prepare a mass attack on ; arenas ailments reported at Wash- ', It recommended that 82.9

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sugar]... .7 . I

- be spent for this purpose a the next five years. That is

. years,

a lot of money, even for the wealth- iest natiOn to invest in a campaign of this kind. The commission insists, however, that the federal govern- ment “has a major responsibility for direct and diversified support of medical education and other pro- grams designed to produce the health manpower upon which the control of heart disease. cancer and stroke depends." Also that “the “nation can well afford and the people will enthusiastically support substantially increased expenditures intended to ‘save lives today and produce more lifesaving knowledge for tomorrow.”

What is of special interest are the commission’s conclusions as to the prospects of success in this three billion dollar campaign. “The pros- pects,” it says, “are excellent for reducing the toll of heart disease in the years immediately ahead. Great strides have been made in the past 15 years on the research fron- tier. Today's challenge is twofold—— to bring these advances not to just the fortunate few but to the many who can benefit from them, and to continue to acquire new life-saving knowledge.”

Something worth while indeed, to be ranked among the great proj- ects of the century.

Beating The Bandits

In Sydney, Australia, ten young men have won a fortune during the past 12 months with a “fool proof” system that allows them to beat “one-armed bandits” at will. They have formed a syndicate to write a book on the subject, but are keep- ing quiet about their method until it is published early in the new year.

The youthful combine. ranging in age from 21 to 23, claim their ex- ploits could end the multi-miilion- pound enterprise of gambling clubs in New South Wales. Sydney news— papers have published the story and vouch for its authenticity. A re- porter who watched the “bandit— beaters” at work said wins of £200 Australian ($448) and more in three hours were commonplace.

The secret. whatever it is, is in the pull. The players hold the handle near the base and, appar- ently, by varying the pull, can sus- pend the action of any reel on the machine until a winning lineup. The syndicate members are said to be all prosperous. self-employed busi- ness men, who refuse to allow their surnames to be published for fear it would ruin their business. One of them used his winnings to fly to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., last year for a $9,000 heart opera- tion.

Machines of this kind are sup- posed to be illegal in Canada, but they are reported to be doing a thriving business nonetheless. So a lot of Canadians may be waiting for that book to come out in Aus- tralia. to see how the bandit-beating game works. But we venture to say the gambling machine operators will be a step ahead of it. They’ll have a new gadget installed that will be fool-proof——-if indeed they're not already in on the scheme and are just publicizing their racket and luring suckers on. That could be possible. too!

EDITORIAL NOTES

This is the only time of the says the Ottawa Journal. when a bearded fellow can go around saying "Ho ho ho" and not be taken for an eccentric. I t 1

Turning out the lights, advocat- ed for the White House by Presi- dent Johnson as an economy meas- ure, may not save the government after all. The Detroit News reports that after a similar “lights out” campaign in New York, an electric industry spokesman pointed out that turning out fluorescent light- ing might be more costly than leav- ing it on. What happens is that the life of the installation is shortened because of the extra "start" it needs when turned on.

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The next opportunity may tempt many Canadians to vote for the minor parties, since supporting the major once has not brought good government lately. But as the Fin- ancial Post points out, an increase in votes for the splinter parties may

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only lead to a succession of minority i

governments unable to govern firm- ly. Even on grounds of narrow self- infereet, Liberals and Conservatives should pull themselves together and get on with the job.

ANOTHER FLAT WHEEL

UN PEACE-KEEPING

Clash Over Non-Payment Goes On

The clash at the United Na- lblot- and of the uncommitlod ‘in of

tions over the nonpayment of peace - keeping dues has been i merely postponed. and Andrei:

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bloc were yet in come. ONLY A MINORITY Today the Western powers

the Arab bloc inducing the

1 rest of the Afro- Asian nations to declare war on Israel.

I It is therefore, not improb-

Grnml‘k“ l" his address to me I form only a minority in the sea gable that after a compromise

Unitcd Nations on \Ioutiny of- 1 fercd no clues as to thc Soviet way of thinking in this mailer. i He merely reiterated the Soviet stand that all peace- keeping is- I sues should be settled in the Se- 4 curily Council. where the big' powers have a veto. a position i never abandoned by the Soviet Uni-"n sincc the days of Sta'lin.

The present situation is. in fact. a heritage of the Korean war. and stems from the "Unit- ed Action for Peace Plan” 'oft- en also referred to as the "Unit- ing for Peace Resolution"l ad- opted by the United Nations General Assembly on Nov. 3. 1950. The resolution was passed at that time by 52 votes to five i with two abstentions. Those vot- I in: against were members 0 v the Soviet bloc. while the two ‘I abstentions were those of Syria , and Yemen.

CYPRUS DISPUTE The Cyprus dispute was real- ly a watershed, because by then the Western powers had begun l having second thoughts about the continued usefulness of the "Uniting for Peace" resolution. . In retrospect. the Assembly vote l 1950 rcvcals the profound ‘. changes wrought in the make 1 up of the world body since that 1 time. i In l950 the big Western powers i

still could take most of the As- iwhile his sons run his the (His brand of Social Credit is as

sembly delegates behind

of member nations. it could. therefore. happen~ and this is not a particularly far- fetched

ly. supported by the Commun- ist powers. mizhl vote on some scheme that would be most re- puznanl to the West, A war on South Africa or the policing by U.\' forces of \l‘ssissippi spring easily to mind. or the possibil-

l speculation - that the Assemh— ’

Zhas been arrived at over the past dues. the Western powers may be quite willing to rescind the “Uniting for Peace" resolu- tion and let poace~ keeping mat- ters go back to the exclusive competence of the Security Council where they too have the veto. Indeed, some such arran- gcmenl may be part of the com- promise.

Socred Pre

miers Split

Guelph Mercury

Premich Manning of Alberta and Bennett of British Colum- bia hold office under the Social Credit label. There any similar- ity ends. Mr. Manning as a youth heard William Aberhart. intruder of the Alberta S or i al Credit movement, giving one of his sermons mixing financial reform with that- old- time- re- ligion, joined hm, was an MPP and provincial secretary at 27 and succeeded him as premier when only 35.

That was 21 years ago. Manning carries on the Aber- harl tradition of Sunday ser- mon broadcasts.

Mr. Bennett is a millionaire hardware merchant. who works full-time at the premiership stores.

potted palms, twist their arms ‘[different from that of Mr. Man-

and pretty much obtain own way.

If hamstrung by the Soviet veto in the Security COUflCl-l. the West could take any controver- sial issue to the Assembly in the safe knowledge that the As- sembly would vote as expected and override the veto. Only five Communist countries were rep- resented at, the UN, and very few countries considered them- selves "uncommitted." Tne vast upheavals on the world scene. the formation of the Afro-Asian

PUBLIC FORUM

This column ls open to the diacusaiol by correspondent of Questions of In- terest. The Guardlan does not neces- Ilrily endorse the opinion of correl- pondenls, All letters publllbad are sob-

rirty eorrreapendonee regardi- Ieli‘ern submitted.

# CABINET RESPONSIBHJ'I'Y Sir.— We very much apprec- late the support you have given

in your load editorial of Decem-

her 9 ("Paging Mr. Pearson")

to the-views expressed by e

Federation in its editorial in the

December “Argus.”

However. it is somewhat on oversimplification to state that our editorial “says r min- isters should not be allowed to

' in office". What we said was: "If a cabinet minister is not sufficiently in control of his department to s is going on and hasn't sufficient atrium to take the blame for mistakes that may occur, be had better vacate the front ben- ches for the back benches when he doesn't he to accept rm spons‘blllty for anything".

A reader of your editorial might conclude that we were asking the Prime Minister to fire the two Ministers whose break with tradition was the oc- casion for our editorid. This woul be wmg. We would pre- 'er that they reform. i think a 'e-resding oldie last paragraph, here we suggest that the

rim mm lnmot his Min-

are In our parliamentary tra-

' rial mon

Executive Secretary, Civil Service Federation of Canada.

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ning as the Conservatism of Wallace McCutcheon from that of John Dlefenbaker, or the Liberalism of Prime Minister Pearson from the clashing phil- leeral Premiers

osophies of

Ottawa

In a talk on rural poverty Fe rcstry Minister Sanve uses the OttaWa River to divide Canadas' farmers into east and west sec- tions.

West of the Ottawa are $25,000 from families, and 82,000 of them are consider “low income families." East of the Ottawa are 111,000 farm fa- milies, 83,000 of whom are class- ed as low Income (less than 52.500 g r o a s sales of farm value of less than $25.000l.

The percentage of is r m pov- erty is 19 per cent in the west, 30 per cent in the east.

Non - farm rural families pre- sent a grimmer picture. There are 385,000 of these west of the Ottawa. and 185,000 are "low income" (less than $3,000 an- E a st of the Ottawa n o n - farm rural families and a stagger i u s 160.000 are lnohelow-incom e

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group. The percentage of such pov-

On November 29. millions of Germans lighted the first ‘of four candles of a ribbon-decor- ated firswreath to celebrate the first Sunday of Advent -- the 24 days preceding Christmas Eve.

To mark the approach of Christmas lighting one more candle on the “Advent wreath" on each Sunday before em- ber 24 is universal custom in Germany but. there are a ver- iety of lesser known Advent cue- toms in the country‘s rural ar- eas. Someof'them date back as far as the 10th century. and some are apparently of heath-

ub. en origin. On N

member 30. the begin- ning of the ecclesiastical year. for example. rural girls of mar- I rluoable age celebrated the

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rout of 8!. Andrea by Wu: leaving fos-svlaloaoftbelrfntmbu— the

“ Lesace of Quebec. Smallwood of iNewfoundland or Thatcher of l Sacka‘fchewan,

l Just as the latter is a former iCCF politician. Mr. Bennett is .‘an tax-Conservative. as is his chief lieutenant and general. Robert Bonner. Mr. Bennett sat as a Tory MP? un- til he failed in an effort to fake l over his party's provint’vl lead- : ership.

i It was then that "social Cred- B.C. version, was born. 1 A h l c administration coupled ,with feuds which continue to .split the Conservatives and I‘Liberals. plus the business com— ;munity‘s fears of the CCF have kept him in office for 12 years and there is little sign of his government's decline.

I With tremendous gaps be- itween them ideologically and economically. it is not surprisi- . ing that Mr. Bennett sees little {virtue in Mr. Manning‘s advoc- acy of a new federal political

party.

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erty is 35 per cent in the west, 53 per cent in the east.

Taking the eastern rural popu- lation us a whole M-r. Sauve tells us this: 26 per cent (346.000) of persons of school age or over, but not attending school, have only Grade Four education or less. West of (the Ottawa the figure is 16 per cent (310,000

persons).

An incredible 64 per cent of Canada‘s total rural population has Grade Eight education or

less.

Small wonder that Mr. Some can say: “ e M becoming more and more convinced that education is the most Irnpot‘tant single factor among the causes

verty...”

Anyone wondering what all the hurry ts about in educational .‘revolutlons" such as Quebec's Operation 55 need only refer to statistics to catch the feeling of urgency.

German Advent Customs

Wort Germany Newsletter

band. If they dream of a man drinking wine or beer. legend says. the marriage will be bap- py. Water and brand. naturally. prophesy a poverty-stricken marriage.

On Epiphany: January 6. Ger- man children go from door to door, singing the time-hallowed songs of Yuletide. announcing the arrival of a prosperous new year and collecting apples, pears. nuts and In re- urn.

Torchligbf processions In which white clad girls represent "tantra brides" marked the feast of the Holy Lieu, It Do camber 13. while minors on De camber 4 paid tribute to their patronesa, the Holy Barbara. by

their lighted lamps in windows all night.

attorney- .

Driving And Drinking

l is n a scion lists it as colloquial in referring to “a

period marked by lllnou. a

its

a . 1,Another- type of indefinite

on is: "My girl friend taunts about once a year, usust- 1 upset

A desert during this parlid of sciouanoss could settle the ques- tion easily. Almost everyone has seen a person faint The attack uual-ly is precipitated by poor ventilation, hunger. or an emo- fional upset such as the sight of blood. excitement, or fear victim slumps to the floor a n d lies perfectly still. The pulse and breaching are barely perceptlbc lo and the skin is cold and ash- on.

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An epileptic seizure its entire 1y different. It. comes on without cause a any time day (1- night, while sitting in a chair or walking along the street. Faint- ing never occurs while sleeping but epilepsy does. The indlwd- ual cries out. falls to the floor. and thrashes about. In a few minutes, the body becomes rig- id and relaxes as though in sleep.

LUMP IN THE NECK Miss G.B. \vrltcs: i am 52. Until a few months ago I was the happy-go—luckv type. Then I noticed a lump on the side of my neck and went to a doctor. He said it was my imagination or nerves. If there isn’t a lump there, how can 1 feel it with my fingers?

REPLY 'Ibis is not a matter imag- ination but of interprltation You feel a thickness in a muscle or a gland. and believe it is a

tumor. CHEMlCAL TRIGGERS

N. Z. write: Twenty your:

uni had gem in my right

It cleared up with -tet

further trouble until recently

when I started taking vitamin

312 hots. Could thee injec-

tion trigger anoiher attack? REPLY

Yes Liver extract does the

same and to do certain drug,

including alcohol. WEEK-KNEED

I". L. C. writes: What would

cause a knee to buckle suddenly

while wal

Y Weakness of the muscles that support the knee joint. D IN LUNGS . A. M. writes: What is pulmon- ary edema?

PLY The small air sacs are filled with fluid, leading to cough and shortness of breath. There are mary causes. including a fail- ing heart and the inhalation of irritating fumes.

POLYPS ARE REMOVED A. O. B writes: What is done about stomach polyps?

REPLY

Removal is suggested, espec- ially if your physician cannot be certain these lesions are benign, S HEALTH II

addressed it Van Dollen c-o Chicago Tribune. Chicago. Illinois.

DEATHS UP OTTAWA (CP) —- Number of persons killed in motor vehicle traffic accidents in the first half of 1954 rose 18.5 per cent to 1,842 from 1.581 in the same period last year. the bureau of statistics said. The number of persons injured advanced l3.5 per cent to 59,830 from 52,694 and the number of accidents reported increased 6.1 per cent to 161,168 from 151.849. "IIIIIIIIIW It’s Hero The New