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A Dreary Subiecl I

One issue we hoped had been buried completely under the mass of more urgent matters before Par- liament has cropped up again, right It the session’s opening. It figured in the’ Speech from the Throne as having something to do with “mak- ing manifest Canadian destiny,” and it relates to that dreary subject- “the choice or a national flag and other national symbols.” There is to be a federal-pi-nvincial conference to discuss the matter, and invita- tions to it are likely to be sent out. within the next fortnight.

No particular date has been picked yet. The suspense must ‘be unendurable until‘ the Prime Minis- ter gets round to making this decis- ion! When he does. he will -notify the Provincial Premiers personally, so that they can drop everything and hurry to 0ttawa——-or wherever the conference is to be held-ready to give their views on how best our destiny is to be made manifest.

Mr. Diefonboker had promised this conference in his election cam- paign. Now he is redeeming his pledge. Other pledges may have got

' lost i-n the shuffle, but not this one!

i . The other parties, too——-they all had

pledges of some kind about doing something about a national flag. They all seem to think it holds our ‘destiny in itsfolils somehow, though

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teases 8. preference for any particu- lar kind of flag.

‘ Some years ago a parliamentary committee was established and after studying 2,695 flag designs, recom- mended the Red Ensign with a

-‘Maple Leaf on it somewhere; but “this design was never submitted to Parliament for approval. The last debate on the ‘subject was “talked out” last January, and got nowhere. Now Mr. Diefenbaker, with touch- ing innocency, thinks a federal- provincial conference will settle the matter.

' Why doesn't he consult the Royal Canadian Legion? They want the Red Ensign retained, and that ought to be’ good enough for the rest of us. But no, tl.e politicians prefer to listen to a more vociferous crowd of patriots.

' Well. we're tired of ‘the whole controversy, and so must our read- ers be, too. For the present at least, we’ll conclude with the following lines from Sir Edward Hamley, which we think more of than all the speeches that are likely to emanate from the coming confer- once on the subject: A “A moth eaten rag on I worm ' eaten pole- It does not seem likely to stir a man’s soul. '13‘: the deeds that were. done , V ' ’neath that moth eaten rag -when the pole was I staff and . i " _,tl1_e rag was 8 flag."

Partisan Game

appointment of one of Can-"

an o I t_ distinguished news-

pIpI1§hen to the Senate, comments

'§otontg,Globe and Mallmwould I .t 7'.

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Irlsa that an-. 0185. U0. VII oo- ing rewari ed for his political loyal- ties.

These appointments. of course,

are in keeping with ‘past Canadian -

practice. But it is disappointing to note Prime Minister Diefenbaker'I

conformity to this dismal tradition

because he had promised reform of the Senate, and had actually intro- duced legislation last April to cor- rect another defect in that cham- ber. His bill (1 ed when Parliament was dissolved for the June election, and it is doubtful if he plans now to revive it since Senator 0’Leary is 73, and under the bill he would be retired witlnn two years. ' A

‘One amendment badly needed would be for the Government to break with tradition by making I fixed proportion of Senate appoint- ments from the non-partisan areas of the national community. This, would take some courage and self denial on the part of the Govern- ment, but once established the sys- tem would be politically difficult for succeeding governments to abandon.

Mr. Diefenbaker’s latest appoint- ments will have dismayed the hopes that were beginning to arise of Senate reform. But the Globe and Mail warns that by persisting in awarding Senate seats to political hacks it is dooming the Senate it- self to extinction. Its diminishing prestige cannot fail to add weight to the arguments of those who claim that the upper house should be abolished, as was the casein New Zealand in 1950, after it had de- clined in usefulness.

Uniform Curriculum

It is disappointing that at the recent conference of education min- isters in Edmonton no action was taken on the proposal for 8. more uniform curriculum for Canadian

schools. The move toward uniform- '

lty, however, seems to be on its way. The four western provinces, and more recently, Ontario, have met to discuss the problem, _and the cur- ricula of these provinces have 11- ready come closer together. Th is year Alberta and British Columbia introduced a new elementary arith- metic course which includes mater- ial agreed upon by both provinces.

There is evidence that the min- isters of all provinces have become very much aware of I national de- sire for a progra m of this kind, through the content of a majority of letters written by citizens in reply to an appeal for private views on the matter at the Canadian con- ference on education held in Mont- real last March. But several obsta- cles still stand in the way. V

A uniform curriculum would

mean an uprading of curriculum in some province.=—an upgrading that they may feel they are not yet ready to make. There is also the problem, at the secondary level, of differences in the number of high school grades. And there is the weight of senti- ment and‘ history, backed by the ‘constitutional fact that education is I provincial matter, which makes someiprovinces fearful of compro- mising their control of education within their bounds.

At the Edmonton meeting, I suggestion for a common I c h 0 ol curriculum, already indorsed by the Manitoba government, was set aside for the time being. A communique issued two days after the talks be- gan said it had been studied and it was “agreed to review these and other possible procedures in advance of our next meeting." There the matter rests, with the prospect that it may become the subject of per- tinent debate in the not too distant future.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Premier Smallwood says he’: “.fed up” and “bored” with the job he's been holding in Newfoundland against all-comers for the ‘past 13 years.Jt's lost its challenge, l_1_e says, and he has felt like quitting I dozen times in the last year or two. Like Alexander, healghs for more worlds *0 Eoflfllterg .I.nd_.thero "just ain't , any” on the political horizon. . -V '0 ‘ I = I ,

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WHEN FIDEL PLAYS HISTUBA,

FREE MARKET FOR IDEAS

The United Nations Are Now lO8

What g o e s through the mind of a man in exotic. colorful rob- es as he walks down the aisles of the parliament of nations to represent I new country for the

‘ time? Does he know what quality of experience lie I ahead? How great is the aware- ness of I delegate in unaccus- tomed diplomat‘s black as he takes his country's new seat - does he know what obligations are closing in around him?

The greatest need of the many nations today is that eac one be responsible. Irres- ponsiblllty comes easy to new countries. to tempt them, pre- cisely because they are new. Their leaders were often n of schooled in the art of self-gov- ernment.

irresponsibility come: easy to

old nations too, for another rea-

son-— because someone else carries I burden of foreign aid and of defense against in- ternational violence. Many of them feel free to stand aside and criticize.

Where can responsibility best be learned?

Inside the United Nations or left outside?

Where is there I more intense education in Communi ta c- tics? In accountability? In what. happens to international If- fairs when emotions run away with reason? In the needs of other countries which modify one's own demands? In the risks of war?

To all in the UN is to hear the best available running debate on world affairs. To c I It I country's vote is .1 headyi free- dam and often expresses I sel- fish interest or some blindly pol- itical demand. Bui if the need is for experience, where can bet- ter éxperlence be found?

If we believe in the free mar- ket for ideas, where can the better ideas have I better 9 portunity to win? So persuasion is the only course in all but the most extreme cases.

And how best to persuade? Leave new countries outside the

? We recognize there are grave

- problems raised by the contin-

ual adding of small countries to the UN membership. We would not minimize them. It may be that structural changes in the Charter will have too be consid- ered. though they would beyery difficult to arrange.

But mass bloc voting has not. been as bad as feared. I I d e e d It has rarely

eucr-5 from the old. Indeed many new cruntriea I n d leaders have shown an astonishing degrco of youthful wisdom and under-

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standing of the ideals of the arter. I This is not the moment to In- tagonizc the smaller members I, of international society who are leaders the free world in o st i

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needs to enlist. as lthe Cuban ex- perience shows. '1‘he~UN can be —and has not proved not to be- the most direct road to a higher

concept of integrity.

The battle in gain an Amer- ican Negro admission to the Ulnversity of Mississippi is I vital one in the long campaign to crush I century of resistance to integration in the color-con- scicus southern United States.

One by one the states that fnilgllt to preserve slavery in the days of Lincoln have bowed to the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that U.S. Negro chil- dren are entitled to equal ac- cess tc the-white man's schools.

In 1957 federal troops helped implement integration of e Central High School in Little Rock. Ar. But segregation had been breached in Arkansas be- fore Little Rock—Negroes had already gained admission to university in that state.

THREE HOLD OUT

In all southern fates except three there is at least token in- tegration. The boldouts are Mis- sissippi, Carolina and Alabama. Negroes feel that if they can crack Mississippi the remaining bastion: of 'resisl.-

The M’ssissipi Test

By Harold Morrison Canadian Press Staff Writer

Ince slowly will crumble. Gradually. they believe. the token Negro representation in white schools will widen and the bitter resentment against col- ored classm es w‘ y ' . They cite Little Rock as an example. In the first year of high school integration. life for the new Negro students was dif- ficult. Whites and Negroes clashed on playgrounds and in school corridors. But discipline has stiffened and friction has been r uc . BARNETT BELLIGERENT Mississippi’: Governor Ross

_ Barnett has called on the peo-

ple of his state to shed their blood, if necessary, to keep Ne- gro James Meredith from It- tending Mississippl University.

Barnett has revived passions

that did

the north’: victory in lean Civil War. But Negro lead- ers believe that if U.S. Attor- ney-General -Robert Kennedy puts on I full display of federal’ military force Barnett will back down

Everybody knows about bird watching, which is I distinguish- ed affair with Generals Ind‘ Governors gleaming on every side. Fish watching. on the oth- er hand, is the passion, it may be guessed. of I comparatively small number of 'en(huslasts.' but now, as reve ed in our correspondence columns the" other day, In article in the cur-

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'nnl of the British Sub- AquI' Club, recommends fish watch- ing to "divers as I s I rio u I- Itudy."

That bit about divers is acme- tb of. I snag to those whose imagination is fired by th I I place of advice and who feel the urge to rush off and start wa

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same time, cap, it me .tIl notes of whatever denizens at the deep may happen to aw

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does not require any great genius or effort to watch them -—it can, 111- ct, be done from the depths of an armchair with the eyes half closed. Perhaps. however. the wat- ching of.fish in bowls is on I par’ with the shooting of sitting pheasants by I sportsman the gazing at cased canarles by In ornlthologlat. Perhaps fish have to be free before any w l l 1 bring himself to the task of con- on em. v e l then. there are no lnauperable obstacles in the th' of th I eager amateur.’ Fish "have their stream and

pond." Ia Rupert Brooke put it,

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Ilraltlout two tyllelotahccthatdoaoleonv pmstbctootor-tortura the toes."rbIyIaewellve .

-for this purpose.

, The than: of the oriehtal typa Iandal (Ion-lea’ or go-Iheadll II. mId' of bar and Dnflarold Shallow of Chicago has report- Id several instances of allergic reactions hr substance.- eruption arises in Iallsglve II- dividu ‘between the‘ and adjoining toe as well along the top. of the to where the thong runs back of the dal. _ clears when the zorlea Ire not worn. ‘ Orthopedlcully modified wooden clogs ire popular in Denmark and are said to give good support for those with flat feet. The best soles are made of alder-wood and some have rubber heels, sponge in- soles, or metatarsal supports. The tops usually are oxhide. There is plenty of wiggle room when these shoes are worn without laces.

Thong sandals offer no pro- tection against th e weather, falling bricks, orxfellow pas- sengers on I crowded bus. The old fashioned wooden shoe or modified clog offers more along th l a line: American shoe man- ufacturers get gray hair trying fit yet have

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(Dr. Van Dellen will answer questions on medical topics If

stamped. self-addressed enve lope accompanies request.) NOT FROM KISSING

I.C. writes: I'm I high school senior and last year I was the hospital for five weeks with infectious mononucleosis. Ever since, my classmates have been teasing me about the "kissing disease." Please print in your column that the disease does not always come from kissing. REPLY

Several years ‘ago an army physician blamed the spread of this viral disease on kissing be- cause so many West Point ca- dets developed it a few weeks after returning from vacation. This-cause has not been sub- stantiated and In all probabil- ity the disease is spread via the air, direct contact. or con- taminated fingers.’ You should know whether it came from kissing but don't protest too much and your fellow students will stop teasing. I stamped self - addressed enve- lope for leaflet on infectious mononucleosis. .

SPINAL CURVATURE J.H. writes: Besides taking aspirin, can anything be done for backache due to curvature of the spine? '

REPLY Yea. Make I concentrated ef- fort to Improve your posture, even toe extent of wearing I brace or special corset. Mean- while. strengthen the uaclea ough exerc se. . DISEASES FROM PIGEONS H.L.M. writes: Do pigeons cause any -242::-‘ tliaease besides pneumonia?-

REPLY '

Yes. They have been blamed for many fungal and viral dia- eaaes. ‘

TODAY’! HEALTH HINT-

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A Ventu res Guelph, A clan of Americans is mov- ing to I 524.000 acre site in Northern Australia to establish I cattle station. They are leav- ing Florida because of I land boom there "closing in" on them and preventing expansion. There are 28 members of the Townshend family who are go- "to make I new frontier for our children, their children and f u t u r e generations". In Florida they held for years the cattle ranch they sold for near- ly I million dollars and already I vanguard is in Australia, to arrange for the construction of houses needed to accommodate the clan.