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PAGE 4 FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 6. 1964.

Wiser Counsels Prevail

The passage of the government's supply bill in the House of Com- mons on Wednesday removes a major source of worry both for the government and for the taxpayers at large. A Conservative blockade here could have continued the de- bate interminably, tieing up the business of the country and for- cing a dissolution of Parliament and a subsequent election which almost certainly would be fought over the controversial flag issue.

This, it is claimed, is what was in Opposition Leader Diefenbaker’s mind, but wiser counsels prevailed within his own party. The revolt began, reportedly, last week when deputy leader Leon Balcer, former Minister of Transport in the Diefen- baker government, called for a speedy adoption of the new flag rec- ommended by the Commons flag committee. and warned that a gen- eral election on this issue would be. a national disaster. His statement had been approved unanimously at a caucus meeting of Quebec Conser- vative MP5.

Then Gordon Fairweather, Con- servative MP for Royal and former Attorney General of New Bruns- wick. announced that he was firmly opposed to an inflexible position which might force an election on this divisive issue. Later, oppos- ition to Mr. Diefenbaker’s flag pos- ition was said to be growing among Ontario Conservatives and reach- ing out to touch the Prairie Conser- vatives who have hitherto given Mr. Diefenbaker his hardcore sup— port.

According to one party source, at least 29 Conservative MPs were prepared to oppose any move of Mr. Diefenbaker to make the flag battle a fight to the finish. This quite apart from the “wobblers and doubters" who viewed his approach to the problem with misgivings but hadn’t yet made up their minds to oppose it.

In the circumstances, and what- ever value Mr. Diefenbaker may have seen in continuing to hold up the supply measure, it would have been disastrous in his own party in- terests to have done so. His course, however, may have been influenced by another matter. This was the proposal Prime Minister Pearson is said to have made at a conference of party leaders on Monday, to the effect that the government would be prepared to defer the flag debate until the key items of legislation had been dealt with.

Whatever the reasons for the ap- parent switch in Conservative policy in this case, it would seem to be well

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advised. This doesn’t mean that e '

good shareof the blame for the flag squabble doesn't lie with the Liber- als, who initiated it. It does mean that Parliament has wasted far too much time already over it.

. The University Problem From a questionnaire it circulat- ed earlier. in the year the Financial Poet estimates that 180,388 full- time students enrolled in Canadian 7 universities this year, up 14 per cent . from last year’s total of 158,240. Making allowances for drop-outa, i duplications and late registrations i this means that 'the total of 179,000 . forecast in figures projected by the ’ Canadian Universities Foundation l will be

to it or to the Associated Press or Reuters ‘

am mfllon, meet or I m I the next 10 years. But the total capital investment over the next decade will be much higher than that. One university authority esti- mates capital costs over the ten- year period as being "more than $2,500 million.”

Costs, however. are not the only problem inherent in the university crisis. No less acute are the prob- lems of maintaining standards, combatting the tendency to mere bigness. and competing with in- dustry to secure a good quality of graduates for teaching personnel.

This raises the problem of con- vincing university authorities to make the best possible use of their equipment and plant. The call for a year-round use of buildings and facilities becomes more insistent as time goes by. As the Post survey report expresses it: "The day of trimester system—0r year-round campus—is drawing closer.” This system has already been adopted in the form of pilot projects. We may expect that, of necessity, it will be- come standard practice in the years ahead.

Meanwhile. the division of capital costs will also have to be tackled in a more realistic way. At present provincial governments contribute 63.1 per cent of university capital income. the federal government 5.8 per cent and corporations 7.5 per cent. On the face of it, it would seem essential that Ottawa. be in a position to shoulder more of this burden. This is one place where a constitutional amendment would be helpful; but unfortunately the trend is toward limiting, rather than extending, federal responsibility in such matters.

Mr. Gordon's Prospects

Finance Minister Gordon has cau- tioned members of Parliament about getting too enthusiastic over the prospect of an early tax cut. Revenues, he says, are buoyant, but only mid-year figures are so far available and they reflect a change in the method and timing of tax collections. The real picture will be told in the year-end figures after next March 11. However, there is good reason to view that picture optimistically.

Corporation revenues in the cur- rent year include a non-recurring windfall from the plan to advance the date for final payment from June to April. Most of this was col- lected in June and July and will be reduced to an insignificant amount in the remaining months. But even allowing for this, there is still a healthy increase in this source of revenue.

This year, too, the employment increase has been greater than Mr. Gordon anticipated. Assuming that early signs in 1965 do not point to a setback—and the consensus ap- pears to favor continuance of pres- ent levels, if not an improvement—- he should be able to count on per- sonal tax collections about 9 per cent above the current year.

Mr. Gordon has also had the benefit of the 4 per cent increase in sales tax on building materials and production machinery, which came into effect March 31 at a. time when capital investment was showing a sharp jump.

The expectations for higher rev- enues will be partially offset by revenue losses of some $25 million resulting from tax abatements given to the provinces after the budget. It is also conceded that the heaviest expenditures are always piled up in the latter months of the year. Nevertheless, financial com- mentators are almost unanimously predicting that the balance has changed greatly in Mr. Gordon’s favor, and that he is now assure- ed of a. substantial surplus at the fiscal year’s end.

Some go so far as to say that his forecast deficit of $75 million could turn out to be a surplus of as much as $400 million-——making it one of the greatest underestimates of revenue in the history of govern- ment finances.

EDITORIAL NOTE

There is word from the soap and detergent industry, says the Mil- waukee Journal, that the switch from hard to soft detergents is about six months ahead of schedule. The change will be completed by next June 3 instead oflby the end of 1966. The new soft detergent can be broken down for more read- ily by biological action, sharply re- ducing its capacity to foam after it

nearly . leaves the sink or washer.

AERIAL VIEW, CHARLOTTETOWN

OTTAWA REPORT By

Patrick Nicholson

Capitol Sworming With Huge Aircraft Lobby

The reorganization and in- tegration of our defence forces is being accompanied by a welcome sweeping with an economy broom by Defence Minister Paul Hellyer. Not: only is he trimming 10.000 em- ployees from the swollen staff 'of National Defence Headquar- ters. but he is pondering care- fully and deeply before com- mitting Canada to a large bill for new military hardware. In making this important pur- chasing decision. he has the House of Commons Defence Committee watching eagerly over his shou er.

This committee is unusually strong and unprecedentedly ac~ five this session. it has b

fortified by the addition of Parliament‘s outstanding de- fence expert, former Defence

Minister Douglas Harkness, af- ter this rebel from the Diefen-

baker Cabinet had unreasonably been exiled from this obvious field of usefulness.

aptain David Groos. Lib- eral MP for Victoria, BC, is also a powerful member. having re- tired from the navy three years ago after 26 years service. One of the more conscientious and deep-thinking members of this important committee is Heber Smith, Conservative MP 0 Simcoe North, who left the army with the rank of Captain after five years war service.

COSTLY NEW PLANES Heber Smith tells me that he has been especially inter- ested in the recent goings-on here associated with the pur- chase of a new aircraft. Ottawa has been swarming with the largest and most ac- tive lobby ever seen here, tempted by the prospect of a plum order which at one time looked like costing the tax- payers over 5600900000. Heber Smith had noted this. and is still ready to pounce on the government if the taxpayers get this. in his opinion and rightly so. needless soaking. The development and p duction of new warplane takes several years from first idea to squadron service. So our Defence Minister must al- ways peer well ahead in his crystal ball world situation and Canada’s possible role and requirements ‘11 it.

Our major defence commit- ments in the coming years will be to continue to main-

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in Europe, and presumably to hold a mo- bile all-purpose expeditionary force trained, '

in United Nations peace-keep- ing operations. as our contri- bution to the “Nordic Force" now in the planning stage.

ROCKETS 0R BOMBERS?

We also have an important home defence obligation in our participation in the Nort American Air Defence sys- tem. or NORAD. But since Russia is now talking about bomber-burning bashes. ob- viously we will have a reduc-

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Hamilton

Speaking in Los Angeles. Dr. Henry C. McGill, from New Or- leans. said heart attacks that kill North American males be- tween aces 40 and 50 may have their origin in childhood. the implication seems to be that while atherosclerosis (artery clogging) is something organic at the final stages its beginning might be traced to a pattern of life in the young.

In many investigations heart disc

of

that they are relatively un- known among the th Ameri- can countries and considerably less a killer in Europe than In North America.

Many doctors. including some . at this symposium in Angel-

as where Dr. McGlll waa spen- lng, have expreued the M

ing requirement for costly high- level interceptor planes as de- fence against raids by man- ned bombers. It is more eco- nomical and efficient for a potential attackethussia and USA alike—to build and main- tain at constant readiness a number of intercontinental mis- siles, rather than squadrons of man-flown bombers. Further. a rocket is at present more dif- ficult to intercept. and its greater speed slashes the warning time at the receiving d

n . These factors all add up to

New Broom

our requirement for a general

purpose aircraft, which can operate in close support of ground forces anywhere, es-

pecially without elaborate hard- top runways for take-off. Rea- son therefore argues against the costly sophisticated high- lcvel interceptor plane, and in favour of a 1970 version of the World War Two army co—opera- tion workhorses. the Mustang and the Typhoon.

Ottawa‘s “skirmish of the sky-fighters” waged by the air industries lobbies will be de- scribed in a later column.

Very Busy

Financial Post

Those who remember tn e grinding hardship and human misery of prairie life in the thir- ties will find much to command their attention in new develop- ments in Sackatchewan' Very clearly, The Financial Post says in an editorial. prosperity has come to the prairie heartland and it is not all because of Sask- atchewan‘s huge success in wheat.

Its leaders assert that the new fact of life in Saskatchewan IS the growing attractiveness of the province as a location for industry. More companies. they point out. were incorporated in the province during the third quarter of this year than in any previous quarter. Regina is fast running out of services indus- trial land. And Saskatoon is hav- ing its own boom as a supply centre for new potash mines.

Equally significant for Sask- atchewan’s future is the drive of Premier Ross Thatcher and his five-month—old Liberal adminis- tration to remake the image of Saskatchewan and present it as

the place where government ad-

ministration is friendly 3 n d hospitable to business. Rearranging and in some cas— es dismantling 20 years of quasi-socialist experiment ob- viously won’t be easy. Any re-

duction of the power now wield!

y o gencies or any sell-off of assets is likely to raise cries of pain from some vested interest, But this is pre- cisely the task that Mr. Thatch- er has set for himself. He is breaking government monopol- ies in several areas of business with all the thoroughness of an experienced iconoclast. He is courting business leaders in the East and, in short. moving as much of heaven and earth as he can to sell Saskatchewan as an industrial site.

If past and present perfor- mance are reliable guides. up- heaval and controversy will fol- low the energetic Mr. Thatcher all his days. But since well-be- ing in the West very directly ef- fects the prosperity of the econ omy as a whole. all Canadians will wish Matcher well in his bold moves to bring more busi- ness into the Prairies.

Business And

Attractive as it is to many people. the prospect of getting rid of government intervention in business is not .likely to hap- pen. For governments can exert influence by refraining from ac- tion. as well as by taking it. About the best we can ask is that all such action be carefully thought out in advance and car- ried through in the light of the fullest possible information

It is important that there be a constant dialogue between bus- iness and government spokes- men. so that each may be aware of what the other is trying to do This was what Finance Minis- ter Walter Gordon was trying to do in his Peterborough speecn to an industrial and municipal relations conference.

Mr. rdon expressed the be- lief that political independence must be largely equated with economic independence. He par- ticularly stressed the import-

ance of retaining control within

A Killer’s Origin?

Spectator

that there will ever be a pill or any other direct means for cur- ing hardening or restricting of the arteries.

After examination of blood vessels of many youngsters in the United States who h a ve been killed in accidents. Dr. Mc- Gill says there is a definite change in the structure of th e vessels which is absent among South American males in the some age group.

Considering that heart disease was seldom reported among the ancients and is rare today among more "primitive" people it is difficult to reach any other conclusion than that somewhere along the path of life. the stress. ea. strains and living habits of modern man in a modern state have something to do with this

(real killer.

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the nation of communications outlets and financial institutions.

Whether these aims attained in today's world is a matter for debate. And whether the actions Mr, Gordon has tu- ken to attain them is snoher question. But by and large, Ca- nadians would prefer to have control of these vital areas in Canadian hands, just as they have shown over the years that they prefer to maintain a Can- adian nation.

Complementary to Mr. Gor- don’s speech, and part of the same dialogue. is the address delivered by George Hoes in Cal- gary. The former minister of trade and commerce. who ow heads the Montreal and Cane» dian stock exchanges.

crease Canadian ownership Canadian companies would be to increase the exemption on common stock dividends from 20 per cent to 33 1-3 per cent.

Mr Rees pointed out that more than 38.000.000.000 rests in Canadian aavlngs accounts. and that a considerable part of this could find its way into invest- ment in Canadian development Perhaps it is better to use the carrot which Mr Hoes waves

RECOVER OLD ANCHOR

KINGSTON. Ont. (C?) Scuba divers from HMCS Cata- raqui here Tuesday recovered a Lam-pound anchor which be. longed to an American schooner that sank about fam- miles southwest of here In Lake 0n- tar-lo 92 years ago. The aixJoot anchor from the crime:- Med- bury was in almost perfect cou- ditlon. Recovery of the anchor followed a summer of diving

rationa at the site where the

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I Conception At Age 59

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen We answered a query from the;

opportunity to remarry out wanted to know what were ner chances of getting pregnant. We replied that they were very slim because conception at this age would be a sort of medical rec-

We received an old newspac. er clipping from a reader. with a picture of a 59-year-old moth- or along with her newborn in- fant and 65-year-old husband. This Arkansas couple say the child was rn t her in “an- swer to a prayer." The unsigned letter accompanying the story says: “Most doctors are not al- ways right. We have saved this picture a long time to show it to someone "

The medical profession hesi- tates to accept this type of evi- dence as scientific. Was this woman actually 59? Was the baby delivered at home or in the hospital? Who attended the birth? Medical science may be willing and waiting to give her credit for being the oldest wom- an to give birth but they need a few more facts to make the case history authentic.

Newspapers usually report what they are told by the parti- cipants but do not necessarily accept this type of information as the gospel truth. Physicians who have delivered thousands of babies report that pregnancy af- ter 52 is unusual. We might as- sume that after that age. it is

rare.

Prior to 1900. several reports were published about women bearing children at age 58, 60. 61, 62. and 73 years of age. The record goes to the woman who died at the age of 112, leaving a daughter of nine years. Most ob- stetricians take these stories with tongue in cheek because they occurred before births were registered. or the persons invol- ved came from .out of the way places.

Sometimes physicians err in giving information to the press Many years ago the public was amazed to read about a 21-year- old Escanaba, Mich, girl who had been running a daily tem- perature of 120 degrees F. for several weeks. Several medicos were comment and all said it was impossible. Fin ally. a team, including Dr Mor- ris Fishbein. was sent to inves- tigate. All they had to do was watch her carefully while th e reading was taken. They found she was putting the end of the thermometer on the hot water bottle next to her face.

THE TRIGGERING STREP

. . . Wh does a strep throat cause rheumatic fever in some children but not in others?

PLY It is believed that streptococ- iset up an a ergic state in susceptible persons. REACTIVATING TB G. E. writes: How can a per- son who has recovered from tu- berculosis prevent b r e a king down again? REPLY The disease can be reactivat- ed by lowering resistance throu- gh inadequate diet. alcoholism, overfatigue. and living under un- hygenic conditions. PROTEIN NONROUGIIAGE W. B. writes: Please n a me some good proteins I can eat. I'm not allowed rough foods. REPLY