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Oi Vital Import

When the 15 Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth meet in Lon- don next month they will represent, collectively, 700 million people. They will speak for one-quarter of man- kind in which practically every race and creed is represented. History knows of nothing remotely equiva- lent to this organization which——to quote the recent words of Mr. Dun- can Sandys, now the British minis- ter in charge of both the Common- wealth Relations and the Colonial Offices-—is in “a unique position to help to bridge the differences be- tween nations and races and build up confidence among them.’’'

The Prime Ministers will con- vene for the first time in the new Commonwealth Centre. This was formerly Marlborough House, built by Sir Christopher Wren, and made available by Queen Elizabeth for its new purpose. They will meet round a 48-foot-long table made of West African timber. sitting in chairs presented by various Commonwealth countries. On the first and second floors are 18 large working rooms for the government leaders and dele- gations. Part of the Centre already houses the Commonwealth Economic Committee, the Commonwealth Education Liaison Unit, and the staff of the Association of Univer- sities of the British Commonwealth.

There the voices of Europe, 01 Africa, Asia, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the Caribbean will be heard on the great problems of the day. “These voices," says a. com- mentator in a bulletin just received from the United Kingdom Infor- mation Service, "have been heard at ten Prime Ministers’ meetings since the end of the war. Memory brings back the milestones——the peace treaties in 1946, the question of India’s republican status In 1949, the dangerous world situation in 1951, the impact of‘ Europe's Com- mon Market in 1960, the departure of South Africa in 1961. Looking back, what strikes me most forcibly is, first, that the Commonwealth has shown the capacity and resili- ence to emerge from other crises and to bring its special tolerance to bear on world affairs.” ‘

It is worth keeping this in mind as we note the emphasis that will be placed this time on the question of Britain's prospective entry into the European E c o n o mic Community, and its possible effects on the Com- monwealth. If the conference be-' comes a forum for narrow wrang- ling on this issue, instead of aiming at a practical solution which will en- able Britain to join the Common Market while safeguarding her Commonwealth relationships, it will have failed to demonstrate to the world what the Commonwealth is, What its true functions are and what supreme value it has for the whole of mankind.

And So It Goes

For several generations, in most

‘countries in the world, farmers’

sons have been lured away by the ‘llighu pay and living standards, the

' limited, regular hours of an indus-

filhl job, and the more lively social amenities amidst the bright lights it cities and town. But the impact

A 5 much more serious on the cal- egriculture of Eastern

where the former private

. .fllas become the state's hired _

* ‘p sauce. which pre- ' softly it father's foot-

alwaya much more

tivated than mv-at of the large col--

lectives on which the farm help is too often called upon to toll at high- ly unrealistic targets fixed by city planners too often ignorant of the

realities of farming and the poa- ‘

sibilities of the land.

Thus writes a Christian Science Monitor correspondent from Vienna, with special reference to the Soviet satellite countries in Europe. Most of these countries are paying more heed to agriculture’s investment needs but are only just beginning to realize that attention to personal needs is also essential if young people are to be persuaded to stay on the land.

Hungary and Bulgaria, for ex- ample, have instituted a minimum wage for collective farm members as an auxiliary to the stan dard practice of payment in cash and kind based on the harvest. Several governments have extended social- insurance benefits to peasants. But much more has to be done if these regimes are to avert a farm labor crisis.

In Chechoslovakia, where the prizes of industrial work are even more than in the other East Euro- pean states. the average age of farm workers is 50 compared with 40 only six years ago, and in Slovakia, which has very largely a rural economy, as high as 55. A drive to recruit 40.000 to 45,000 young people a year for farming produced little more than half the required number in 1959 and again in 1960. Last year the response was but half a. lower target of 30,000.

In Hungary, in ten years, the number of farm workers dropped

"nearly 350,000—-the vast majority

between 19 and 25. Some 64 per cent of the industrial workers are under 60 compared with only 40 per cent on the land. Of all Hungarian sexagenarians, less than 5 per cent are in industry but more than 20 per cent in agriculture.

The experience of East Germany is worst of all——from the general shortage of manpower caused by the refugee exodus which the year- old Berlin wall was erected to stem. According to a West German Social Democratic journal, almost 40 per cent of all people employed in the East German economy last year were between 50 and 60 years. and 57 per cent of all farm workers were over 40.

For Candidates’ Wives

This is the off season for polit- ical campaigning in Canada, but in the United States it is just begin- ning. Timely, therefore, is the f‘code of conduct" which has been concoct- ed by the Colorado Republican state central committee for those wives of candidates who accompany their husbands on the political rounds. Here it is, short and spicy:

“Don’t wear a flowered hat. It may steal too much attention from the candidate.

“For heaven’s sake, don't yawn during the speech. Listen attentive- ly, no matter how many times you've heard it. -

“Be sure to laugh at his jokes, insipid and corny though they be. ‘Not a guffaw, mind you, but a. pleasant, feminine chuckle."

These rules threaten to make the campaign harder on the candi- date's wife than on the candidate himself. One commentator suggests, indeed, that they are enough to make the little lady vote for the opposition.

EDITORIAL NOTES With about a dozen vacancies in the Senate needing to be filled, Prime Minister Diefenbaker w 0 ul (I seem to have a good opportunity of introducing Senate reform on a non- partisan basis. 0 0 Thanks to American ai d. the Solomon Pools will continue supply- ing drinking water to Jerusalem and Bethlehem as they have done

since their construction in old

Testament times by King Solomon. The aid, which was extended to the government of Jordon through the U.S. agency for international de- velopment, involved help in digging a well south of Hebron and provis- ionyof pipe for the 20 mile run from Hebron to the parched pools. Nor- mally-Americsn foreign aid finances modern structures. In this case it is pmserving a water system older than the famed aqueducts of im- perial Rome.

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THE GLEANERS OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

Trader Hees’ Revolutionary Methods

Canada's newly fired up man- ufacturers a r e now selling watches to the Swiss and um- brellas to the British.

These unlikely feats of sales-

manship vividly illustrate how;

Trade Minister George H e e s has shown Canadian manufac- turers to their surprise th at they can compete successfully in world markets.

Trader Hees has done more to help Canadian industry in 22 months than his 14 predecessors did in the 68 years since our Trade Department was created.

This not very glamorous Min- ; istry was the footslogger among I government departments when Hon. George Hees wa appointed to it in October 1980. Even its show-window staff Trade Commissioners stationed ; overseas ranked a very poor | second in contrast to our velvet protocollared diplomats. B ut ; Mr. Hees has inspired the whole I department with excited enthu- 5 siasm for his imaginative new drive to make the World “Buy ‘ Canadian". And Trade Com- missioners from Djakorta to Detroit are forgetting tilt‘ nIce- . ties of the embassy cocktail as 5 they get another sort of kickj from the unexpectedly success-E ful task of boosting Canadian 1 exporls. ‘ FOUR STEPS TO SUCCESS I

“The boys am hopping now f we have got their striped pants } off them." says one of e Export Drive leaders in the Ministry here.

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This column la apea ta the discussion

fling and condensation when necessary. The usrd n is unable to enter into any correspondence regard- ing tellers submitted.

consulted, they might describe

"""'*"""'“"W" their Chinese Nationalist rulers QUIET MUSIC in different terms.

Sir. -— A few evenings ago The case of Sn Tung-chi. a

I went with some friends out to Woodleigh. Having been there before I did not go in but sat in the car and listened to the quiet music.

What a change it was to sit there for half an hour and listen to the old hymns being played, to listening to radio or televi- sion where they seem to th k that a big noise is music. What. memories ll brou ht back of the days in c idh when we as a family would gather around the old organ in the parlor and sing all the old hymns.

Lt. Col. Johnstona and son are also to be commended for not turning the Sdsbath my info a day of pleasure and gain as is being done most everywhere.

Speaking of radio. why do ra- dio announcera think they are the entertainers and the music is just a fill-in for them between

I am. Sir. etc., , . WALTER A. LORD Tryoe, P.E.I. -

RIPOET DIIAPPIOVID Ilr. —Ws have always enjoy-

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your paper. How can you justify it? It was not pleasant reading. It was not beneficial to anyone. It was offensive and disgusting.

We all know these things‘ hap- -

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them certainly, if convicted; He’ should an» the fact that Cosnmonw it: will have

So we are protesting any more details of these kind of happen- inla. Your paper has always been pr iced for being a clean paper so let's sot make it a

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The hard sell of exports was

I I 24 hours of his appointment as iTrade Minister. Within eight L weeks he was able to initiate the

, first Export Conference here in ,‘ Ottawa. Trade Commissioners ' were brought home from over- seas posts around the world, to describe to Canadian business- men just what could be sold here

W . . i The second stage was to en- large this impact through a

Conferences. three in Ontario; centres and one in every other I province. Exports from our

Trade Department and others : versed in the capture of foreign j

of. defence contracts journeyed to

these conferences to meet some 5.000 businessmen. g

When our industrialists had f been spurred by step one to co- i vet the opportunities of the ex- ‘ port market. and briefed in the particular opportunities b ‘ step two. radar Hees was rea- I dy to launch his third I t a ge. Canadian Samples Shows. op- ‘ ularly dubbed "Fly-and-Buy E Missions".

HEES A HUMAN DYNAMO ,

At the first of these held In 1 Toronto this summer, 120 to p ’ buyers f r o m US retail 0 u t- E

lets and store chains met 120 Canadian manufacturers a n d examined their products. One manufacturer had to close his

order book after selling his;

positive step. opening Canada’: i

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initiated by George I-lees within :

, Vancouver

series of 12 provincial T r a d e ;

entire output for two years ahead. Anolher spoke to the group when he told me: "This guy Hees is a dynamo -— if

manufacturer not go along with.him. he is I damn fooi."

A similar success in Mon- treal led to other fly-and-buy missions being planned: Winnipeg in October for the three Prairie provinces. and at in November for BC manufacturers.

But before then. Trader I-lees will launch his fourth stage his drive to keep Canada ahead of her trading rivals. This will

be an industrial Expansion Con- ‘ rence held in Ottwa on 7I

September. it was planned as a meeting of a small group of

Canada‘s top businessmen. to i to 139 hear and to discuss the propos- .3 als of six industrial leaders on §

means of achieving greater and

more competitive Canadian pro- =

ductlon. But so many additional cxecu-

tives have heard of this, and‘

asked to be invited. that the

1 venue has already been chang-

ed from Parliament's h u go Railway Committee Room to the much larlzcr main ballroom

in Ottawa’: Chateau LaurIer.l<io- ;

tel. And now it seems probable that regional follow-up confer- ences will be held to cater to

e swelling number a m o n g

Canada's 37.000 industries which 7

want to stake claims on Can-

§ada's new-found export bonan-

18

The Case Of Mr. Su

‘ Vancouver Sun

Some American orators are i fond of referring to Chiang l(al- : shek‘a Formosa regimed as al

bastion of the free worl ; b

If the Island's 10 million native Formosans were ever

Formosan lawyer who belongs to one of the island's tiny op- position parties and sat on one of Formoaa's 16 c e u n t y coun- cils. adds no lustre to Chiang'a image.

Mr. Su was brought to secret trial on unspecified charges. He is now fa c I u g execution for treason. Ills wlf given a suspended sentence. is reported to be still held in jail, with their two - year - old dau-

Q 5' as

er. The nature of Mr. Su's crimes I

has not ed. In

ficially disclosed except th e are fact of his arrest last year.

But it has been suggested that - Mr. Su was involved in a minor ,

protest movement that began when Chiang's navy evicted some Formosan squatters from

requisitloned land. Another cx- . planation is that he was arrest- ; in ‘ connection with a student pro-

ed on trumped-up charges

test campaign.

If these are the real reasons for Mr. Su‘s arrest. the death penalty seems excessive. to put it mildly. And it is a jittery re- gime lndeed which will jail a two-year child and its mother for father's alleged crimes.

If this Is in em, Chainrs American backers shouldn't be rprlsed if many Asians

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too au aren't enthusiastic abou it

Wovin The Flag

Globe as Mail. Toronto

in his usual outspoken way, Prime Minister Robert Menzies of Australia has warned of poll- tical dangers to the Common- wealth if Britain joins the lur- ‘.’.?i7.''.'.. 1.. °'.«“.z........" ' all‘ s as v- that if the economic union. with Britain as a member. evolved Into a federated politi- cal community, the Common- waallh would cease tape as as-

ucialioa of S . Mr. ales has

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Africa’: excluded from in ub, ovsri e aace of racial tolerance as one use Comslsonw til’ patent principles

little political significance if it economically stagnant. ..Brf- ialn's Foretiegan Secretary, Lord

that Britain will join the Co m- mon Market without being able to provide complete guarantees for Commonwealth produce. But i in nu, Britain's entry would be the best guaran-

tee of a ‘gradual tariffs and the development in Western Europe an e veu greater market for Common- wealth exports. POLITICAL ASPECT

On a political level, foo. Bri- tain can hardly afford to stay outside of Eur

ll oubledly ‘deprived of II a 1- “special relationship" with the United states. she would be much less help to

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We doubt. therefore if If r. lfenzles is helping his on country. rest of

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Scorpion Bite

Causes Concern

Iy Its. Tbeedsra I. Val Ilellea

SCOIIPION bliss are not un- usual in southwestern United states and o but are news when they occur in Canada. Furthermore. they are likely to stir up considerable medical consternation.

This is exactly what happen- ed when a Toronto food inspec- tor opened up a crate of toma- toes and was bitten on the thumb by a scorpion. The vic- tim was rushed to the hospital." where an attempt was made to

vent the venom frun getting into the general circulation and paraly g ‘the nervous system. A tourniquet was applied above« the elbow, the hand ‘was im- mersed ln cracked ice. and

injected j u a i above the site of the bits.

The poison control centre in Temple was called for advice and to find out whether scor- pion antiserum could be obtain- ed. It reported none available in all of Canada and suggested snake anflvenln II a temporary measure. After is was given the hospital authorities began their search for scorpion anti- venln, first contacting the New York City department of health and poison center. They had none in stock. .

Later, this poison control cen- ter reported in the New York state Journal of Medicine how they called zoos. m u a e u in a. pharmaceutical c o m p a III e s , armed p e r v ice installations, ‘ public health and medical labo- ratories, the national clearing house for control cen- ters, and the director of poison- ous animals laboralory at the Arizona state university. "No luck. The only source of s u p- iéliy was a laboratory in Mexico

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Meanwhile. the patient w a s doing well and complained only of itching and ess of the end of the affected finger; lie ' was discharged after 48 hours. I A scorpion bile can be seri- Ious and the specific sntivenin

treatment. The lack of this pro- duct In the United States sn;l , Canada demonstrates the dearth :of serious reactions to these I bites. It also shows the need {for less hysteria and a calmer I approach on the part of physi- I clan and patient when a acor- pion bites. _ ‘ (Dr. Van Deilen will answer ’ questions on medical topics if

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Notes in THE WAY?‘

Yea may be as he --Illlt track. bjsl you'll set run over if you just stand there. — strat- ford Beacon-Harald. -

The and the bears not cause the avenue stock market spectacular to lose as as money as do bum steers. — Oshawa Times.

It's daagersus is eyes. says an ocullst. 30 you help it when you look at the list of what your vacation costs you! -— St. Thomas Times Journal

A recent beneficiary of ..ftsa ull market in coins is a Mr. John Moffit. of Vancouver. a former alderman there. He was about to deposit. in the bank