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PAGE 4 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11.73%;

For Fluoridation

It is possible that we may have another vote on the water fluori- dation issue in Charlottetown in the not too distant future. In any case it is interesting to note that Ot- tawa, which like Charlottetown turned down fluoridation a few years ago, has exercised the privi- lege of changing its mind. In a plebiscite accompanying the civic election last Mondav. the issue was carried by an affirmative vote of 58,234 against 36.079.

Within a year—maybe three months—fluoridated w a t e r will flow into Ottawa homes unless the anti-fluoridationists are successful in a last attempt to prevent it. They claim the pro-fluoridationists con- travened the Elections Act by ad- vertising their point of view on a Sunday. only 24 hours before the election. The reference is to a tele- cast over a local Ottawa station Sunday afternoon. The pro—fluorida- tionists maintain that the 48-hour blackout on campaigning applied only to candidates for office—not to plebiscites.

The antis charge. also, that “our doctors and dentists have been betrayed by big business and we just didn't get enough contribu- tions to get the. information to the public." The pros’ reply to this complaint is that it was “the infor- mation," in the form of overwhelm- ing scientific opinion, that deter- mined the attitude of the doctors and dentists and, in the end, of the electorate. As far as they are con- cerned. the issue has been settled.

There was a majority for fluori- dation in each of the 10 civic wards, the most resounding note of ap- proval coming. appropriately, from the home ward of Controller-elect. dentist. Dr. Murray Heit.

A side effect of the vote in Ot- tawa is that. the townships of East- view. Rockcliffe. Gloucester and Nepean will get flouridated water too. The city supplies water to these four areas and contracts for supply in cl u d e provisions covering the eventuality of Ottawa flouridating its water.

The previous plebiscite on fluoridation was defeated in the 1962 civic election. 45.428 to 43.547. Monday's figures represent a strik- ing change in public opinion. It will be encouraging to those in other communities who believe that this is a health move of prime public importance, especially to the younger generation.

A Moot Question

According to Justice Edson L. Haines of the Ontario S u p r e m e Court, breathalyzer tests for drivers suspected of drinking do not go far enough. The present law allows a driver to refuse these and other testa, thus removing. in the judge’s opinion, a valuable diagnostic aid from the use of the courts. He call- ed for a repeal of the section of the Criminal Code which permits such rIIfuaala. This would allow the police

V compel a citizen to take the tests.

The Globe and Mail complains that the learned jurist has over- looked an important fact. namely that this would also permit a cit-

.“ to testify against himself. The

of a citizen not to be coerced ' giving testimony. it maintains, use of the most vital rights that ' ha- under British common law. ‘ , it argues, to hire a great more policemen and keep _”. visible on the highways ‘ 'y would not dare to drink. all for British justice,

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contemporary’s argument in this case leaves us. unconvinced. If a citizen “testifies against himself" by allowing his breath to be analyz- e<' for alcohol content. doesn’t he do the same thing inadvertently, if he has over-indulged, by his con- duct at the wheel and by his gen- eral condition of befuddlement? These evidences of alcohol absorp- tion are taken into account by every court. but they do not carry the scientific authority of the breathalyzer tests; and that, it seems, is the real objection. It may be a valid one—on the ground. namely, that these tests are not as scientific as they claim to be——but surely it is unsound to contend that they are on a par with compelling a citizen to give verbal testimony to his disadvantage.

As for policing the highways so thoroughly that no driver would "dare to drink." that would take some doing! Prohibitionists used to maintain that with enough enforce- ment officers they could achieve the same result; and we know h0w that “noble experiment" ended!

One’s rights. after all. are strict- ly circumscribed by the rights of others. With the tremendous in- crease in motor traffic. the driver Whose drinking habits make him a menace at the wheel may expect 1ch and less consideration under the law. This is not injustice: it is simply an application of the law of self-preservation m a d e necessary by the society to which we all belong.

Who Said Mushrooms?

Think of a mushroom farm gear- ed to a production of 11 million pounds a year and creating jobs for a thousand workers when peak output is reached! That’s the pro- ject which has just got into opera- tion in England to meet the grow- ing British appetite for this delect- able fungus.

Hidden underground beneath the rolling hills of Derbyshire and using a network of concrete-lined. bright- Iy-lit tunnels once used by the RAF Bomber Command for bomb stor- age. the farm is equipped with mod- ern air-conditioning to give a scien- tific control of temperature and environment in the raising of crops. The cost of installation and other works runs to nearlv half a million pounds. the equivalent of $1,402.- 500. -

The mushroom-growing compost is manufactured on the spot and transferred underground where the tunnels are lined with seven-foot- long wooden boxes, stacked eight- high. in which the production cycle is completed in ten weeks. Fork- like trucks and other labor-saving aids operating 100 feet below the surface provide an outstanding ill- ustration of the trend in British agriculture towards mechanization and mass production.

EDITORIAL NOTES

In American Opinion. the John Birch Society’s monthly magazine. this explanation was offered for President Johnson's victory at the polls on Nov. 8: "All of these 42 million supposedly reasonable adults voted for scrapping the United States Constitution entirely, as an absurd and useless antique. and for replacing it with whatever moder- nistic pieces of legislative furniture might appeal to the taste of th 9 Supreme Court.”

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The new President of the Unit- ed Nations General Assembly. Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana. pointed in his inaugural speech last week to the increase in independent coun- tries in Africa from eight to 36 since 1957. Actually, nine countries were independent in 1957, but the omission of South Africa was not an inadvertent slip .on the speaker's part. He did not include it in his list because his country and a num- ber of other African states do not recognize that white-ruled nation

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Southeby's in London last week auctioned. for $12,600, a collection of letters from Rudyard Kipling’s parents to his headmaster when the boy was 13. In one. father Kipling. an artist who had worked in India, wrote: "I must confess from what I have seen of Ruddy it is the moral side I dread a breakout on. think he has the stuff to resist temptation. Journalism seems to me especially invented for such desultory souls." Which goes to show that politicians aren’t the- only ones who hold journalism to be a rather low form of life! p

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OTTAWA REPORT By

Patrick Nicholson

Page Boys Beor Brunt Of Long Session

The House of Commons assu- med a Dickensian air of brutal- ity and sweated child labor last week. when three little page boys fainted from exhaustion at their work there. One young lad was taken to hospital in a coma.

This unreported s i d elighl. more than the MP5 orations. de- scribes the chaos caused by this long session of Canada’s “Wrong Parliament“ which has worked holidayless since it opene on February 18 It passed Its 200th

sitting day two weeks ago. and established the record as Cana- da‘s longest Parliament months ago.

Whenl heard about the page

i boys. I checked on the sickness, V the I

attendance and stamina of

various other workers on Parlla- :

ment Hill. "I hope it snows- so hard none of you can get. here tomor-

\\ " a disgusted elevator op- ‘

l erator told two MPs.

Toys And The Killioys

Guelph Mercury

As before every Christmas the do-cooders are again on the warpath against my weapons of war. They include a highly voc- , al women‘s group. which means well but whose members would be better employed darning their ‘ husbands' socks than in exhaust. i ing themselves in passing still more unread resolutions against I nuclear arms. ‘

They may have concluded that 3 since Canada now has the war- " heads ~despile all their advice of recent years land it. was ex- cellenl advice. although unwork~ ablel— they need a new target

Since most. young mothers are too busy for extramural agita- tions. it is assumed that the ma- jority of Illem have raised their children and have time on their hands. Have they forgotten lllal their own sons used to play with toy weapons. which probably they bought for them?

The viewers- Willis alarm in- clude some editorial writers. They must be so vcry old that they have forgotch when they played cowboys and lndiam

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pistols and rubber-lip- ped arrows. One of them weeps: "It is a pity that youngsters are encour- aged to think of lethal weapons in terms of fun". What a u‘. boyhood his must have been His next step should be to ll'c- Ill- .13.!

man nature. The ancient

- been creaking through the toy

departments and warns parents what to expect: “Machine guns that fire plastic bullets. Missile throwers. Young cannon. Sub- marines. Tanks with turret . Airplanes with bomb re-

have such playthings back in his boyhood. «The Boer War? T h e Riel Rebellion'h All the horrih. 1e toys he mentions. except for the missile throwers. were. for that matter, made and sold a quarter of a century ago. during World War I'l.

All that. remains to make the outcry fully absurd would be for e SPCA to protest the inclus- ion of cavalry and artillery hor- ses in sets of tin soldiers.

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The For Blue Yonder

Winnipeg Free Press

Mr. Grant McConachie‘s pre- dictions of the shape of air trav- el to come within the next 20 ‘ years are. to put It mildly. im- aginative. The Canadian Paci-l iic Airlines president believes! that supersonic airliners twhic'n l are now on the drawing boards ‘ and which are expected to fly at. l around 2,000 miles an hourl will , be obsolete almost as soon as they are airborne. l Instead, global flying lif that I word can still be usedl will he , done in air ships which w i 1 l i can 160 passengers. take off 1, vertically. travel at around !7.- 000 miles an hour. and so will 3 reach anywhere in the world in less than an hour

All of which sounds p retty Jules Vernish Yet science and technology are advancing these days at a rate that makes day's far - out predictions oe- come the facts of tomorrow. Mr McConachie expects the air- ships to be flying by 1980. That is not very far into tomorrow,

Yet 16 years ago. in 1948, who would have dreamed that in 1964 the Soviet Union and me United States would be racing satellites to Mars?

The safely. speed d fre- quency of transatlantic flights today. which we take entirely —______a__

ELECTED SWISS PRESIDENT

BERN IAPI Hans-Peter Tachudl. 51. minister of interior since 1959. was elected presi- dent of Switzerland Thursday for 1965. The election by a joint session of the two houses of parliament w a formality. The presidency rotates annually]

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as a matter of course. would have been hard to believe even a rats ago. So it. would be foolish to scoff at Mr. McConachie's predictions.

The shape of things to come. as seen by the CPA president. certainly is exciting; but it may not appeal to everyone. The idea of being strapped into a projec- tile tto prevent one from float- ing around the cabin) and being blasted off at a high rate of ac. celeration is less than reassur- ing—even if one is iranquilllzcd to the gills and really oesn‘t care much what‘s happening.

So while more will be some busy- busy- busy people who wrll relish the idea of getting to Sydney or Hong Kong or Tokyo in 40 minutes. there will also be the elderly and unadveniure- some types who will hope that some airlines at least will keen in service the outmoded and slow jet airliners that bumble along at under a thousand miles an hour.

One may be sceptical about this brave new world. without doubting for one moment the promised speed. There comes to mind the European refugee who. when the flrat jet crossed Ill e Atlantic. remarked somewhat wistfully: "Once it took six months to reach America. Now you can get there in six hours. But you have to wait six years —.for your quota " W cCuIIocIl"

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"The MP5 are so llred that they cannot see straight." com- mented one doctor - MP.

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above - average sickness absen- ‘ ces. but. they are all exhausted." an official told me.

"Tile constables in m a n cases have not had a holiday at i all this year." said another. THEY FLY -

I But. the MP5 themselves. those whose voluntary caprice extends l the compulsory labor of the par- I liamentary staff. are getting good holidays. Thanks to the un- limited free air tickets which all

MP5 now enjoy, they can absent

themselves and disappear home- 1' ward for long week—ends and for

holidays of ten days or more. at

the taxpayers expense. . The plight of the little p a g e V boys ls lamentable. They are the 1 cruelest victims of the "Lo n

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Session". for which most obser- vers and participants lay in e blame on one man, whom Prime Pearson calls “Th e ‘ Great Obstructor.”

The pages range in age from 12 years to 17. Most of them a re little fellows in their earliest teens. They have to go to school in the mornings: then they re- port at the House of Commons

1 at noon .From 2.30 until 10 pm. every day while the House is sit- ting. they have to attend in t h e

amber. carrying messages. toting filcs. fetching glasses or water. piles of newspapers. cups of coffee and racks 0 magazines, and generally running errands for the. MP5. It is a long rough day for a young bay. and exhau- sting slnce they sent pmost of the parliamentary hours on their fact.

1 WHAT WOULD UNION SAY?

No union would permit such a routine for its members. inclu- ding regular 10-hour working days after school attendance and for this the lads are paid 3] per month or say 59 cents per hour. The Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to children should protest to Mr. Speak e :- against long holidaylcss s e s - ons. And w h at about the dazed Hansard reporters and transla- lor and printers. the elevator operators. the slenographers, the cleaners and the constables?

Meanwhile the speeches drone

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As the famous Dr. Spooner remarked in one of his syllable - transposing sayings: It's beery work lecturing to empty wenches."

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While the. average mid- w e c x attendance peaks at about 140 out of 265 MP5 now. a Friday afternoon vote recently caught th e happier - at - home Tories typically at less than one-third strength; and each Tory MP sti- vlng hls views on the flag Friday afternoon had. by my count, an audience of 16 Liber- als. 4 Tories a n d 3 "others". Where were our other Ml 318.000 per - year We?

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Diabetes In The Aged

By Dr. Theodore B. Van Dallas

Several months ago we wrote an article on juvenile diabetes, saying the younger a person is when the disease develops. the more serious it is likely to be. This does not mean that the con- dition is beyond help but that

e youngster needs large doses of Insulin and r l c t diet. These children should be school- ed thoroughly in the manage- ment of diabetes. because they must live with it. the rest of their lives.

We received an unsigned note from a “Can you write anything opll- mistlc in your column about dia- betes over the age of 60 yearaz" This question was made to ord- er because the disease usually is mild when it appears after age 00

Some overweight victims may be able to keep the disorder un- der control by losing weight

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along on a diet fitted to their in- dividual needs. Still others re- quire one or two antidlabetlc pills daily. Insulin injections may be required Initially but the majority ' able to get along without the hormone as soon as the ailment is brought under control.

We might add to this optimis- tic information that diabetes at an older age does not necessar- Ily affect longevity. Some peo- ple become depressed when mls- fortune strikes and take it out on others as thou h they were responsible. They should blame their ancestors and be thankful for a long life despite a few-trou- bles along the line. After 60. give me diabetes in preference to many other ailments.

This does not mean the mal- ady can be neglected. The urine should he tested daily and the physician consulted when te sugar level rises. In additiot. diet and weight must be wat- ched carefully. Since diabetes affects circulation. meticulous care of the feet is in order. This involves cleanliness, softenlng the skin with cold creams, and

l avoiding injury.

. T THE SAME J. K writes What is the dlf- ference between a sterilizing op- eration and a hysterectomy? REPLY

Hysterectomy is removal of the uterus. a surgical procedure that prevents pregnancy there- after. The operation Is not done for this purpose. as there are many simpler procedures that In de sterility. Tying off or cutting the spermatic cords or the Fallopian tubes are examp- les.