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Big Deal has the rhountain of gov- heaved so laboriously and~ Brought forth so small a mouse as the deal between Canada and je United States. grumbles the Win- Yeipeg Free Press. and with good rea- gon. Industry Minister Drury has been compelled to admit in Parlia- ment that there will be no equality @f price at a reduced level. The Can- édian price wil! not fall. The most We can hope for. says Mr. Drury, is that the price will not rise much. ! This announcement denies all the @rlier hopes for lower prices held qut by. the Canadian government when it made the deal. In plain Eng- lish the deal does nothing for the car purchasers. But it does something for the manufacturers. Since they @re no longer paving customs duties @n their imports of parts thev-will— permanently save -about—$5@-million—

—— Tie reali low of rec]

enue to the government must’be made up by the Canadian taxpayer. Thus. he will continue to pay the present

high price for-his-car.-as a first pen-

alty, and he must pay a large subsidy to the manufacturer as a second.

If it were candid. savs the Win-

Mipeg Liberal paper. the government

would admit that its real and only Purpose is not to benefit the purchas- er but to expand the automobile im- dustry. This will increase employ- ment. which is desirable: but the same protectionist argument can be applied, with equal logic. to all manu- facturing industries in Cahada. If it is sound for automobiles it is sound

for every other manufactured product *

and it makes nonsense of the gov- ernment’s pius protestations against barriers to international trade.

Nor ‘does our Winnipeg contem- Porary concede that this was a matter of mere bungling. It pinpoints the motive in plain terms.‘ “The gravy produced by. the automobile deal.” it Says. “will go. for the most part. to the manufacturers of Ontario and Quebec, where the Liberal Party is based, where the electoral votes are to be found.”

The government. it adds can drive down the price of automobiles if it wishes to do so. Once the manu- facturers know that they must use their subsidy to benefit the consum- er or face free imports of relatively cheap European cars. prices will soon fall. as the public was led to expect.

But Mr: Gordon's new budzet. alas. makes no provision for this desirable and- natura! outcome.

Bureaucratic Jargon Someone suggested at Ottawa. the other day. that the next roval commis- sion should be given the task of re forming the kind of bureaucratic jar-

gon that passes for English in govern. '

mental’ quarters. Such a commis- sion, if it gets appointed. would find a kindred spirit at Washington in the person of Lawrence R_ Klein. one

' to gloss over the facts: a feeling that

hires writers witfiout tests." But the greatest single cause. he insists. is faulty and inadequate instruction in

- English composition in the education- al system.

Among the horrible examples of government prose the author cites the following: |

_ “Diffugiility 6f knowledge _throughout-the environment in which the families are to move is essential if.the full. expression of their poten- tiality is to become explicit in action. Facts pertaining to experience of every sort that,the family is in the course of digesting give the context and full flavor of consciousness to

' their experience.”

Klein's translation: “Full know- ledge of the family and its history by all concerned is necessarv if its move to a new community is to be success-

: fol”

But this semantic offense isn't much worse than an example that has since turned up in the form of an

~~order issued bv the CS Army Chief ~

of Staff. The New York Herald-Trib- une quotes it as follows: “I do not - believe that we need blink at or con- done those instances where the im- propriety of the actions of our leaders and instructors can be interpreted clearly as offensive to many of the individuals who are subordinate to them.” . : “What he is trying to say,” ex- plains-the New York paper. “is that drill sergeants should quit cussing privates.”

Money No_ Object

“That “Preliminary Report of the Roval Commission ‘on . Bilingualism

__No’one cares about good writing: in- — ! sensitive, harrassing or incompetent ' editing: a civil service system which

and Biculturalism” which warned us -

__that we were passing through “the greatest crisis in our history” was a pretty costly volume to produce. It's all the commission has to show ‘for its activities so far. and we won't get another installment until 1967. Meanwhile. according to a return tab- _-led_in Parliament last week. the cost tothe taxpayers, as of March 31 last,

mission’s appointment in July, 1963.

. But the worst is yet to come. The commission has submitted ad- ditional spending estimates of $2.- 485.000 for the 1965-66 fiscal year

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has been $1.653.316 since the com- ~

and more funds likely will be needed |

to complete the inquiry_in_1966-67. This would add up to a cost well above the four million dollar mark.

The return shows that the ten

commissioners received $234,333 up to March 31 in honoraria and living ‘and travel expenses. Each commis- Sioner receives a $100 honorariam each day spent on public business, plus a $20 living allowance for each “day away from home. plus actual _ expenses. The largest payments went to co-chairman Andre Laurend- eau, with $39.650. and commissioner Jean-Louis Gagnon of Montreal. with $29,370. Davidson Dunton of Ottawa. received $24.216. /

The commission paid $739.716 in salaries and $116,052 in expense al- lowances to members of its staff and persons under contract. A total of $563.215 was spent on office rentals

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NEW ASIAN HIGHWAY

Overland Route From France To Malaysia

National Geographic News Bulletin

New highways in Asia will

make it possible to drive from ~ ~~ Le-Havre,; France; to-Singapore— In Iran~

over good roads. Khyber Pass in central Asia will be as ac-

System,

cessible as the Riviera.

Highway .@ Modern 34,000 - mile network follows ancient caravan ic’

routes in many places, in near- ing reality. This sytem will link up with Europe’s new 10,090- mile road--network at Istanbul. * Asia’s first priority route, A-1l, running from the Turkish - Iran

percent complete. Work is well along on Route A-2, from the Iraq - Iran border to Singapore. Other roads in the system will fan out across Asia and serve more than 600 million people.. EXTRA $2 BILLION

Work on the Asian Highway began in 1958 under the auspic- es of the United Nations Econo- mic Comxnission for Asia and : the Far East. National and for- eign governments, including the | United States and Russia. have helped build the roads. The Uni-

ted" Nations is “seeking further | public and private investment te

provide the $2 billion needed to complete the system.

The Asian countries cannot af- ford the luxury of superhigh-

+ Ways along American and Euro-

| tem of all - weather roads

pean lines. The goal is a sy s-

asphalt, concrete. or first - class

| grayel in a few places — touch- | img major cities. Certain exist-

The other co-chairman, ,

The highways thread through hich mountain passes, plunge

| imto gorges, and cross barren

wasteland. Committees are

| working to eliminate another

and contracts for various services. -'

the full-time staff numbered 121 on April 1 last. and they comprised 65 full-time research workers and 56 administrative and secretarial em- plovees. In addition there were 65 “occasional” employees and 18 part- time employees.

Considering all that went into its production. and how cost determines value these days. we've decided not~ to leave our only copy of the commis- sion’s “Preliminary Report” lying around loose in the office any longer. It could only be a temptation to some bibliophile to make off with it!

Of the editors of ‘the US. Bureau of °

Labor Statistics. who has spent a vear

wallowing in official writing for the purpose of anal\7itic its atrocities.

~ His report must-have teen hard

for labor department officials to swal- low, for they refused to sponsor it. But the author was encouraged when the commissioner of education. Fran- cis Keppel. read it—and ordered 20 more copi Now he’s hoping it will | get wider circulation. but has no jl lusions about the difficulty in the wav of remedying the situation. Mr. Klein concludes that hardly anyone in government can write well. and that the problem arises from the fact that “by and larze. we are never

properly taught to write. This fail-

write so wretchedly: “Political re straint. which causes a timid author

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EDITORIAL NOTES

A revealing story on the state of the economy in Canada is to. be found

in a report on the national cimulative ..

dollar volume of Canadian construc-

tion contract awards for the first four |

months of 1965. The total stood at $1.405,602.600. That was $129,000.- 000 higher than for the same months

in 1964. and sets an all-time record. :

British-bred dogs are rapidly bark- | ing their way around the world. ac- |

cording to Board of Trade figures which reveal that 5.297 dogs from

British kennels found homes abroad |

this year. poodles. Yorkshire terriers. pekinese. and cocker spaniels. Half the num- ber of dogs exported went to the Un- ited States. Export value of British-

~—bred.'dogs_is_put_at_£500.000.__Of every 30 pedigree dogs born in Brit-

ain, one is now exported .

Most popular breeds are —

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formidable obstacle to Asian travel — red tape at frontiers. Route A-1 crosses eight coun- tries: Iran, Afghanistan, East and West Pakistan, India, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia. ‘and Viet Nam. Route A-2 gen- erally runs south of A-1. but swings north up into the Hima- | layan kingdom of Nepal before Pakistan, Burma, Thailand, and Malaysia.

As camel caravans still plod along sections of the routes. highway engineers must prov- ide for animal traffic. THe 300- mile asphalt stretch from Kabul to Kandahar in Afghanis-

Our Yesterdays

May 2 at Golden. Colorado.

Robert Hutchesan will be ac- cepted by the P.E.1. Presbytery - Sa an ae a

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tan has a special lane for cam- els. -

Means More Idle.

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are more and more idle Ontario—acres whica

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ed by the stone fences. but it all was fertile. There were ‘hree

level. It was quite possible to do so, however. in the days of the

gable Britons have been driving the route in Land- Rovers for

vehicles keep turning up in| Bangkok and -Calcutta. Calcutta has become so congested that there is talk of awarding it the | ultimate traffic status symbol — | a bypass. .

In 1960, an air - conditioned | bus made the from London ©

Thailand opened thousands of of new farm land = and | spurred growth of new towns. | xports of merely one crop — — more than paid for the entire of building the road. —

Fields | er had just finished plowing one | of these fields with a tractor. It | was difficult work, and always the danger of breaking expen- sive equipment. He vowed it would be the last time he ever plowed that field. Sd Yet it was a fine field, which never had known a crop failure in the 150 years since it was cleared. It would be capable of producing abundant crops for

ture— and decreasingly valuab- | le even as pasture because it , won't be re-seeded. |

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products. we aa the custom, grew recognize HEAT STROKE inviolability — almost the sa-centures ‘P.R- writes: What is the best credness — of embassies. “This thing to do in severe sunstroke? was the. principle known as ‘‘ex- REPLY traterritoriality” — the acknow- Get the patient to a hospital. Jedgement that an embassy in a for emergency care is needed. foreign country was really not Severe heat stroke is dangerous part of that country, but was un- and the victim may have last- der the flag~and jurisdiction of © ing complications if he survi the country that had there es sents. — have Milder attacks respond to tablished its diplomatic centre. damaged, even destroyed ing with ice packs or baths. Such a principle was all the gether. : EXTERMINATION : : Mrs. F. writes: I would like | 'N ; hb mos from my home before my baby |. Good eign rs is born next month Will this — Vancouver > oe visitors to the US. But the sis This depends upon the insec- ticide used and whether the job is done by an amateur or a pro- fessional. Why not have the ex- terminator come to your housé while you are at the hospital ha- ving the baby? UNUSUAL Mrs. S. writes: Can someone who had ‘a complete mastec- tomy more than a year ago pos- sibly get neck and head cancer? REPLY Yes, but having more than. one cancer within a year is most unusual. In all probability the the cancer in the neck represents an extension of the lesion from the breast . _ *WRITER’S CRAMP’ P°G.A. writes: What does the

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Americans are now allowed to take home $100 of duty-free pur- chases after visiting another country. Since most of these purchases are made in Canada. Canadian businessmen should be’. very concerned at a new U.S. administration proposal to halve this duty-free allowance to $50

Until the Kennedy administra- tion became concerned at the rapid outflow of dollars in 1962. Americans were allowed $500 worth of duty-free imports, and ~ unless the U.S. Congress acts on the new proposal or confirms the $100 allowance by July 1, the $500 allowance will be re-es- tablished.

What a blessing that would be ' for Canada in the never-ending

struggle to reduce the enormous

Canadian deficit in trading be-

RECORD QUAKE

tween our two countries. ' strong earthquake was regis- This {s a muscle p that But Vice-President Hubert tered Friday off the west coast develops in the hand and-fore- ‘Humphrey hinted, vesterday that of New Zealand's South Island

arm of writers. It is said to be> nervous origin.

(Note: All dence to Dr. Van Dellen should be ad- dressed to: Dr. Theodore. Van Dellen. c-o Chicago Tribune,

no relaxation in U.S. import reg- ulations is likely. He said there is a $1.6 )pillion gap between what Americans spent abroad the and what foreigners spend in the U.S. One solution he put for- ward was enticing more foreign

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