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Burton Lewis Frank Walker

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Kids 6 FRIDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1962.

Eighteen Years After

From Edmonton comes the story

of a Second World War veteran who has just received his war Imedals by mail from Ottawa—18 years after his discharge from the 'RCAF. It was nobody’s fault, it seems! Government policy has been to send medals only on request and this veteran had never asked for them. He figures that the Glassco royal commission on government ef- ficiency “must have found a ware- house full of the medals, and in order to sell the building they had them sent out.” '~‘ In Ottawa, the veterans’ affairs department has explained that about three years ago, it was ad- vertised that the medals were avail- able and some veterans claimed them. But a big stockpile remain- ed and for the last two years the department has been mailing the medals to the last known address 1of veterans.

Surely this is a matter which could have been tackled in a more efficient and energetic manner from the start. These medals represent the “blood. toil and sweat” of the ‘men who earned them; a token recognition of the nation’s indebted- ness to them. They were not ‘ S:_:mellllng‘ to be dished out on

the basis of the old army cookhouse

call: “Come and get it!" The least of the Government’s responsibilities to our war veterans goes further than that. Every possible means should have been taken, years ago, to have these service decorations made available and to see that they reached every recipient’s hands. If an extra staff was required to trace the whereabouts of veter- ans in some—or even in many—— cases. what of it? The Glassco report revealed a spate of bureau-

Lcratic activities in other depart-

ments that‘hdded up to nothing at

all, and that could have been much

Ifbettcr dispensed with. That stock-

pile of undistribut'ed war medals

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U.S. Potato Issue

7 The Maritimes are not unique ; in having their potato marketing problems, and in having difficulty _in coming to agreement on the best jmethods of dealing with them. '_l,'nited States potato growers have expressed conflicting views on the fsame subject, and their conflicts ipinpoint the problem confronting any Secretary of Agriculture at éWashingbon who attempts to shape 9 farm programs. 5“ To help the Secretary decide ., fwhether national marketing orders should be instituted to control pro- rdUCthfl and marketing of U.S. Ipotatoes, public hearings have been 3 held this month in Denver, Colorado. 3: The hearings have continued a ser- s- ies of six regional sessions which began last March in New York City ,1 and Were recessed in Atlanta a few " weeks later. They brought out some support but also sparked consider- gable opposition to the administra- tion's efforts to introduce national federal “supply management" into :__ the potato business. , -i The split in viewpoints comes on the question of who is to do the supply mdmgemmh—governmmt or the turner himself? Both camps at the potato hearings in Denver last week voiced their views decis- ively. A spokesman for the National ‘ to Advisory Comittee said ’ "authorities will ask the new

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ments for potatoes. A proposal to restrict the volume to be marketed has been discarded in favor of the acreage control. During a recess in the Denver hearings, however, growers and shippers from 13 states allied themselves into an in- formal organization opposing any kind of nationwide program on potatoes. They felt it would be “unworkable, unfair, unnecessary, expensive, restrictive of progress in the industry, not responsive to new technology, not in the public wel- fare, and would result in substan- tial waste through forced destruct- ion of edible food.”

This statement further contend— ed that the order would reduce the income of potato producers and the consumers’ freedom of choice by holding off the market certain grades and sizes of potatoes. A spokesman for the Idaho Growers and Shippers Association said the proposed agreement would place Idaho’s potato industry in the hands of 46 persons, only two of them from the state.

Hearings in six cities have pro- duced some 6,300 pages of testi- mony full of pros and cons, which will be stu died by Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman. If Mr. Freeman decides marketing or- ders are needed, he will later sub- mit the proposal to potato growers in a special referendum. This is an old political method of handling “hot potatoes" of all kinds, and of relieving governments of the em- barrassment of taking the onus for them.

Mr. Otto Speaks Out

It couldn’t have been a comfort- able experience for Mr. Pearson and his chief Liberal lieutenants to hear Mr. Steven Otto, their party stal- wart for York East, denounce the party’s shortcomings in the House of Commons the other day. Accord- ing to Mr. Otto, the Liberals were failing to be a liberal party. They had neglected to introduce inter- nal reforms, had campaigned on a platform that was “not concrete, nor solid, but fuzzy,” and had re- fused to take a. firm stand on any issue because some part of the public might be opposed.

Mr. Pearson, of course, dis- agreed with Mr. Otto's assessments of his party. But, suggests an ex- change, it is likely that the elec- torate would not disagree. It would probably be inclined to extend the charges to cover the other major party as well. In fact, the electorate said as much in the June 18 elec- tion when it found that no party offered a sufficiently concrete pro- gram or sufficiently strong and de- cisive leadership to merit a major- ity in the House.

A patchwork of promises born of what they think will please the voters has carried parties into power in this country before. But. in the federal field at least, it doesn’t seem to work any more. Canadians want to know where they are going, and they can know this only if their political leaders know where they are going and have the courage to map the road that must be travelled. Mr. Otto is in favor of his party’s rediscovering what it is and where it thinks we ought to go, and letting Canadians know. Perhaps, in caucus, he has already been taken over the coals for his outspoken comments on this deli- cate subject, but his frankness has served to clear the air.

The Conservatives, who applaud- ed his remarks, would do well to take stock of their own predica- ment. If they had a few back- benchers of their own who resort- ed to free expressions of this kind, it wouldn’t do any harm at all. It might put the faultfinding members beyond hope of ever getting a senatorship, but it could jolt the party awake and help it to advance on the future.

EDITORIAL NOTE

The School of Hygiene of the University of Toronto has decided to award the Robert Wood Johnson Award of 31,000 this year to Dr. M. Z. Husain, a young physician from Pakistan. This is the first time that an overseas student has won-this award which is given to a graduate in hospital administrap tlon who achieves high standing and gives the most promise of making

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THIS YEAR’S HOBGOBLEN OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

The New Tory Heir Apparent?

No Party leader in Ottawa to- day wears his crown jauntily and unchallenged, this column reported last month. And men- tioning a name which will be increasingly in the news. I said: “The Crown Prince of the Con- servative Party, popular, undis- puted across the country, and a likely election winner. is Trade Minister George Hees. Today rated Canada's best salesman, he would be equally capable of selling himself and his Party.

Later in that same month. this column referred to "our go-geto ting Minister of Trade and Commerce. Hon. George Hess." Not having been a sports-writ- er. I never reported George Hecs the Footballer. who won the Grey Cup with the Toronto Argonauts in 1938: nor George Hecs tho boxer, who won the heavyweight championship of Eastern Canadian universities before that. And having been a combatant rather than a cor-

- respondent during the war, I

never had occasion to write of George Hees, Brigade Major with the army overseas. SPRUCE GROWTH

But month by month and year bv year this column has

‘recorded the development of

George Hees. politician an d campaigner. slnce he entered our Parliament for the first time in May 1950.

“Housing. the Cinderella of federal politics. has found its Prince Charming in George

cos. the np-and-coming Con- servative M.P. from Toronto," I wrote in 1952. “If he is success- ful in forcing the Li Government to adopt his propo- sals. this Prince Charming will put new homes within the means of most Canadians. and deserve the gratitude of the 530,000 fa- milies who need a new home today but cannot afford the cost under the present government plan "

So fast did George Hees de- velop as a campaigner that two y e a r 3 later this column pro- claimed “llces or decline seen P.C. choicc". as his name was put forward for the offce of pre- sident of the party association by the forwarddooklng section. "The Old Guard is going all out to Stop Hoes." I re orted. A week later. the story was “The new president of the Causewa- tive Association. George Rees, has many plans for strengthen- ing his Party."

For his two years of o f f l c e. he travelled the width of this

Our Yesterda ’s

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO December 14, 1937 Major T.E. McNutt was guest speaker at the weekl er meeting of the Charlottetown Y’s Men's Club last night. Ma- jor McNutt gave an interesting talk on the history of the Old Forts at Charlottetown. T h e club voted 525. to the Dispensary

Christmas Fund.

Thirteen South Kings County owners of radio sets were con- victed under the Radio Tele- graph Act at Murray River this week. They were operating sets without a licence. A fine was imposed in each case.

TEN YEARS AGO December 14. 105! Brigadier WE. Reid was re- elected president of the Prince Edward Island Rifle Associa- tion last night at the annual meeting of the association aboard the IIMGS Queen Char- lotte. The Honorary President. Lt-Col. D.A. MacKinnon, and vice presidents Major J .M. Jones G.A. Cotes and Major J.A. Mae—

Dlnald were named.

Beverley Ann MacGregor of Grahams Road becomes the first Lone Guide on P.E.I. to re- ceive the Girl Guide am cl a as

32. Mrs. Charles mm meg; the presentation recently.

broad laud, meeting and cheer- ing party workers in very near- ly every riding, and laying the organisational groundwork for his party‘s victory at the n e x t election. It was his achievement in this period more than any- thing else which disclosed his high qualifications for a senior post in the new Conservative Ca- binet in 1957.

Another election intervened, and this column reported: “In this campaign. George He e s toured and spoke in more ridings than any other Con servative ex- cept his chief. By train, plane, car. boat and even helicopter, he visited 71 ridings during the battle, and spent no less than 24 days in Quebec Province. Tor- ontonian Hoes speaks French fluently and off the cuff. with full confidence and with lavish interpolation of the most fright- ful slang, and with sufficient grammatical errors to win fellow-feeling of his audience."

Then I reported: “Hon George Hees has proved himself so able as Minister of Transport that in- dustrial executives are lobbying to have him transferred to be Minister of Trade and Co m- merce."

This transfer was made. Then began the most successful era in the Hees saga, typified by his remark which I reported: “Can- adian businessmen need a little shove, to get them off their backsides and out across the world to sell their goods." Ca- nada began to export more ma- nufactured products than ever before, under the spur of the Bees export drive. Trade Con- ferences, Samples Shows, and Fly- and - By Missions followed. An executive was speaking for all Canadian industry when he told me: "This guy Hees is a dynamo. If any Canadian manu- facturer does not go along with him, he is a damn fool."

Meanwhile, and for obviously sufficient reason, this column had reported in March 1961: “The Prince Charming of the Conservative Party has become the heir - apparent of the Conservative throne.“

This is the record of the poll- tical maturing of the politician whom C.D. Howe once called “the immature Member from Toronto", now can as Canada's future first “managerial Prime Minister.

Nature’s Time Of Rest

Ottawa Journal

Nature is locking up for the year and posting the books on another cycle. Daylight hours e few. hen the sun has fol- lowed its low arc across the southern sky, night's curtain drops abruptly.

or a brief interlude moun- tain peaks flame in a glowing pageant; then the brilliant col- ors fade to silvery grey steel - blue. Maples and oaks on the ridges are silhouetted like steel etchings. For a few minut- es the evergreen slopes are paintings of deep purples. Then darkness closes in and golden shafts of light slant from farm kitchen w dow .

There are December days when nlmbus clouds hang low and a bare countryside is pew- ter-hued. There are brooding days when a pale golden platter sun shines from a cloudless sky: fences and silos, trees in the meadows ant the church spire in the village are sharply ltmn-

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As a man rides to town on a sunlit day, the slanting rays reach far into the woodlands. Swamps and swales are open and and ice eyelids cover the dark pools that stared at the sky a few weeks ago. Groundhogs are sleeping in their burrows and queen bumblebee: are In their hibernating spots. Wheth- er the land he brown and grey or the fields and uplands are white with snow. one can sense the completeness of the cycle.

There are those who are im- patient with the short days and long nights; but he who has wis- dom as well as knowledge ac- cepts Nature's plan. Man who is delving into the innermost secrets of matter can neither lengthen nor shorten time. It is the one common denominator of all men. December is part of the master plan, a time when the rest period begins-for Nature, if not for people scurrying about with Christmas lists and wor-

The Little Fire

New York Times

Twenty years ago today a group of 47 men and one wom- an, headed by Enrico Fermi, working in great secrecy in a gloomy squash court on the cam- pus of the University of Chicago, lighted the first atomic fire on earth. It was only a little fire, generating heat energy at th e rate of h a watt, and it was allowed to burn for only 28 min- utes before it was deliberately extinguished at command from Dr. Fermi. But in that lit- tle fire a new age—the Atomle Age—was born. The world as we knew lt was never to be the same again.

It was the first time that a new kind of fire had been lighted on earth since the legendary Prometheus stole fine from the gods. That little fire lighted in Chicago 1) years ago today was the first that did not have its origin in sunlight. Its source was the nuclei: of the atom, the same cos source from which the sun the! and all the lumin- ous stars derive their energy.

on that historic day in 1942 men achieved the first self-sus-

reactlon and mere- by initiated the controlled re- lease of a energy. I: was the first dereonstrntion that just one atom of uranium split will

trolled reaction for the genera- tion of vast quantities of energy millions of times greater hen the energy yield of equivalent amounts of coal or oil.

But that little fire proved much more than the fact that an atomic reactor were at last within reach. It also proved that the primitive nuclear reactor bricks and uranium and graph- tte was, indeed, a neutron me-

e for the transmutation of the elements. Man at last had faund a Philosopher’s Stone for increasing several hundredfold the niggardly supply of nature's nuclear fuels and for resting a host of other new elements for improving his life on this

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\Goyo’s Illness Still Mystery

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen

FRANCISCO GOYA. the great Spanish painter, lived two lives. He was bold and boisterous as a youth; following one of his escapades, he was found with a knife in his back. But his talent was so great in time he became a court painter where he h ad access to the lighter side of "Spanish town and country life in which all the ladies were oung and comely and the men handsome and well turned out."

According to Terence Caw- thorne, Goya became a favor- ite of the heir to the throne and his wife; he was taken up by society in general and a few of the duchesses in particular. Reading between the lines, we assume that this aspect of his life was all work and all play, which is not easy to do. despite a strong constitution.

In 793. at the age of 47, Goya was attacked by a mysterious illnesr which started mine 1‘ I about his wild life. He became dizzy, deaf, and partially blind. Overexposure and overexertion were‘blamed because the ill- ness followed an a t t e m p t to mend the axle of a coach. He was plagued by bouts of diz- ziness and head noises for some time. His sight improved even- tually but he remained totally deaf for the remainding 35 years of his life.

During this second period of his life, the color and character of his imaginative p a i n tings changed entirely. Dr. C aw- thorne says the change was from “gay to macabre, from colorful to somber. and fro pleasant dream to ghastly night- mare."

Some believed the llln ess changed his brain. Others, that his actions represented a rebel- lion against being stone deaf. We will never ow except that Goya's behavior during the first part of his 1 l fe sugg e s t s con- siderable emotional immatur- ity. This background becomes a real handicap when the chips

down and the bubble of a gay and carefree life bursts.

It sometimes is diffith fo the average man to understand how a person can be so talent- ed ln one field yet make a com- plete mess of his private life. Creativity is one side of a gen- ius; the ability to control him- self a-nd his thoughts is another. This may explain why many of our most valued and beautiful

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CALLS LUMBER TALKS ST. JOHN'S. Nfld. (OP) — A

and boring industry in Newfound- land will he held

imported lumber.

HIGH SPEED HEAT

as, oflfiottmllesan beta- Monstrous-salmon

“breech-temperatures“: “nuisance.

paintings, stories, musical com- positions, and other artistic en- deavors were created by first class scoundrels.

(Dr. Van Dellen will answer questions on medical topics if stamped, self-addressed enve- lope accompanies request.)

STIES ARE INFECTIONS

T. . writes: Can parakeets infect the human eye? I have had two of these birds for a year now and have developed a sty in each eye.

EPLY

Parakeets cannot be blamed for sties. These lesions usually stem from a staphylococcal in- fection of one of the glands in the eyelid. There may be an associated irritation of the lids or refractive errors may he correction. Send stamped. self-addressed envelope for leaflet on sties. ATROPHIED MUSCLES