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The Issue Should Resl

A new question in connection with last week‘s bribery and coer- cion charges in the House of Com- mons has been raised outside the House, this time by RCMP Commis- sioner McClellan, who commented in an interview on Wednesday on the seriousness of the “leak” which pro- vided the ammunition for these charges.

Only a limited number of per- sons had access to the RCMP files on allegations by Montreal lawyer Pierre Lamontagne that he was of- fered a $20,000 bribe to go easy in opposing a bail application for a person who was wanted in the Un- ited States on a narcotics offence. This was “restricted, top secret” information, and a leak by a mem- ber of the force would be a serious affair. An inquiry being con- ducted, the commissioner said, to determine who gave out this infor- mation to “an unauthorized per- son."

In view of the fact that this months-old affair would never have come before the public had it not been “leaked” in some manner, and Would consequently never have been submitted to a proper inquiry, one can only wonder at the attitude of mind which regards its belated dis- closure as the major source of con- cern at this time.

Isn't it possible that Mr. Lamon- tagne himself supplied the inform- ation to a member of Parliament, for the very purpose of giving it the publicity it failed to receive at the hands of Justice Minister Fav- reau and the RCMP commissioner when they decided, in private, with- out consulting the Iaw officers of the Crown or even the Prime Min- ister, that no action should be taken?

In any case, the authority of Par- liament is pretty wide in probing into all such matters of public con- cern. It is provided, for example, that “as the prerogatives of the Crown can only be given away or delegated to others by the consent of the Crown stated in express terms, so the rights, privileges and immunities of the House of Com- mons cannot be taken away by im- plication or by the vague terms of any statute, but only by the ex- preSS words of the law or by the ex- press resolution of the House.”

It was only after repeated Op-

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position pressure that the Govern-.

ment finally consented to broaden its terms of inquiry in this case, to include “the way in which the allegations when brought to the at- tention of the RCMP and the Min- ister of Justice were dealt with." This is where the issue rests, and it should be left there. Commissioner McClellan will be an important wit- ness, and it would be better if he refrained from giving interviews on the subject until that occasion

Faces More Hunger _ According to a news dispatch, Pope Paul is being shielded from sights of poverty in Bombay and (I see only the modern, thriv- 1 side of the city during his visit ' . This is because of threats of demonstrations by Hindu ex- twists. But it also points up the f¢t that India is facing a deepen- i _ 100d crisis and there is mount- ' .mer and bitterness being dis- f' fit the government’s handling 1aviation. ' kills actually began with o "' i .- ln August, 1960, and eluiost from then on ““fil'i‘dmflo measures to in- ‘l production could rem- ‘fioueflp. It has gone from “H ' ' _ ' ,

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bad to worse, with spiraling food prices which the government has been unable to cope with. '

This fall’s rice crop is reported to be “very good” but because of un- usually heavy monsoon rains the harvest is unlikely to be much more than the 36-5 million tons of last year. The wheat crop has suffered even worse from floods; latest esti- mates of a total production of 10 million tons compare unfavorany with an average of 11.2 million tons the past three seasons.

Hardly a week has passed re- cently without food riots in some part of the country. The shortages, coupled with high levels of bank lending and a rise in India’s money supply. have led to an overall price rise of 14 per cent this year. The total food grain production is like- ly to be less than 85 million tons, roughly what it has remained for the past three straight years. How serious this is, with an additional one million mouths to feed every month, is indicated by the official target of 100 million tons original- ly set for 1965-66. India's own production is buttressed by im- ports from abroad, but these are going “from ship to mouth” and are quite inadequate.

According to a New Delhi cor- respondent, the tragedy is that the bigger landlords and rich peasants, who often control the ruling Con- gress party's local organizaton, have blocked land reforms and other farm measures. Nor has the Con- gress government ever had the au- thority to fully mobilize India's vast idle human resourses for rural im- provement. Since farming accounts for half the national income and almost half the country’s foreign exchange, this drags down the en- tire development effort.

It is a grim picture, eased some- what because of a rice harvest. but almost certain to worsen again critically next summer.

Scotland Worried

We heard no complaints about a “haggis crisis” during the recent St. Andrew‘s Day festivities, but it appears that such a crisis is loom- ing in Scotland. All because of an acute shortage of haggis-stitchers! The news comes to us in a round- about way, via a little-known pub- lication called London Letter, which explains the situation in the follow- ing terms:

“It (haggis) is made from the large stomach bag of the sheep . . . liver, lights and heart of the sheep chopped up, mixed with onion, oat- meal and Jamaican pepper, sewn in the bag and boiled for three hours . . . Selecting, cleaning, turning in- side out, salting and filling these slippery balloon-like skins, and then stitching them up deftly and at a speed, is now a little-known but highly skilled art.”

So dire has become Scotland’s plight today that quite often, in- stead of being sewn up in a sheep’s stomach, the haggis is being canned —a terrible comedown for the dish described by Burns as the “great chieftain o’ the pudding’ race.” Tons of ersatz, or canned, haggis are being exported from. Scotland each year, but never before had the in- habitants thought of eating it.

Now London Letter forecasts gloomiiy: “Unless we can induce more girls to take on haggis-sew- ing, even Scotland, the home of the haggis, will have to accept the canned variety.” That, it is im- plied, would be little short of a national disaster.

EDITORIAL NOTES

In future it may be said of the Great Flap. Debate, grumbles the Calgary Herald, that seldom be- fore have so few paid so little at- tention to so much said by so many.

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Officials of a public housing pro- ject at Hillingdon, England, agreed to order a new bathtub for a wo- man who demonstrated that she was too plump to squeeze into the old one. That's public service for you! A government la a a devoted to the public weal, notes an exchange, might have told the lady to put herself on a crash diet.

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There will soon be a sales desk in Parliament Building at Ottawa to provide tourists with special in- formation on governmental affairs. It is one of a number of changes proposed in a report last week from Speaker Alan Macnaughton. More than 600,000 visitors have been through the building this year with a record 15,600 on May 17.

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SLOW GOING IN THE OTTAWA CHIMNEY

OTTAWA REPORT By

Patrick Nicholson

She Proved A Volionl Helpmo’re

Bruce Hutchison. in his re- cently published sketch of Can- ada's fourteen Prime Ministers, dismisses the first Mrs. Diefen- baker in one inc: “ .. Diefen- baker was happily married to

Edna M. a vivacious school teacher..." As Canada’s Thiri e e nth

Prime Minister slides onto the scales of history. the judges Will have to do better than that in as- sessing the indispensable influ- ence of that happy marriage and vivacious wife.

In the devoted memory of her many friends, the warm and wonderful Edna was the heroine of her husband‘s long years in the valley of humiliation. when defeat followed defeat and re-

buff after rebqu thwarted his attempts to win his way into public life. She buoyed him up through repeated failure. and steeled his flagging spirits to another effort. He ran bottom 0 he poll at Prince Albert in fed- eral elections in 1925 and 1926: bottom of the poll in provincial elections in 1929 and 1938: he was even beaten in a municip election at Prince Albert 1936

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Yet Edna was always beside him, always cheering him when his volatile spirits sank —— as they so often did — to the depths.

TRIBUTE BY FRIENDS "Enda was a wonderful per- son; she gave her all for John, She was his secrets 1' y , his re- search staff and his telephone answering service rolled into one." one Westerner recalls.

"E d n 3 did everything for John. She taught him to play bridge: she taught him to da nc e: she taught him to enjoy life. She was always gay and happy herself," comments a Quebec friends.

Edna certainly made up her husband's lack in human re- lations. She had a wonderful talent for making friends, for inspiring trust and affection.

“Edna never allowed John to get pompous or distant,“ one of her many admirers remarks. “She certainly k new how to make him keep his feet down on earth where men walk. And Edna was the best public rela- tions worker John ‘ever h a d . charming the press and e v e n winning over that fearless tiger Aust‘n Cross."

“MY WONDERFUL EDNA"

My own most vivid memory

of the charming unselfish Edna was when a cloudy sky darken- ed the greyneaa of a late Psi afternoon. I was talking to M: Diefenbaker in his ill - lit and gloomlly barren little backbon- char's office in the Parliament Building. The door burst open and Edna burst in. Such was the radiance of'her personality, bubbling with galety and inter- est, that it seemed as if a switch that a June nun suddenly bathed the room In brightness and warmth. I “Isn’t Edna wonderfull" com- mented :- p usband, “Wonderful, wonderfil. She has got everything that I lack, every- thin !"

Edna Mae was the daughter of the late Chauncey Brower lnot Bower) of San upon. e u been John Dlefenbaker‘s child-

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hood sweetheart. and laughineg described how in those days she even trusted herself in hi first “red devil” of a car. Sad to have no children. she canahz- ed her energy to h e r husband Like most energetic people, she never put on weight — to a point where this worried her vfr'ends. In a “Dear Jonn letter in the summer of 1943, his mother wrote “Sorry Edna ' not well. She is too thin, can . you get the girl to eat?"

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Edna’s many friends still recall with admiration her in- valuable dedication to her hus- band. “She always seemed be waiting for a husband who was late for an appointment." Unintentionally she carved deeper niche in their hearts than he did. One of his closent friends Edna", thinking probably of her immense wifely value, in a let- ter in which he aptly remarked “a defeated politician is the sorriest human alive."

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US. And South Vietnam

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President Johnson, h a v i n g carefully punctured speculation a harder United States military

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“The meeting reviewed the accumulating evidence of con- tinuing and increased North

line was imminent in South Viet iVietnamese support of the Viet Nam, has followed through with Cong and of North Vietnamese adherence to the policy his ad- forces in, and passing through,

ministration inherited a year go.

The alternatives — especially expanded military operations against the Communists—have

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tucked away.

Once again, priority has to be given to the task of hardening the sand-castle South Vietna- mese political structure to the base needed to support any suc- cessful battle against the Com- munist Viet Cong.

The president has asked US. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor to consult urgently" anew with the South Vietnamese govern- ment on this and other mat-

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rs. But the tone of Taylor's dis- cussions in Washington, includ- ing his 21A-hour meeting Tues- day with President Johnson. is being described as pessimistic. LATEST APPRAISAL

Some indication of the atmos- phere at this latest appraisal can be read in a remark attrib~ uted to Defence Secretary Rob- ert McNamara, in an aside to Johnson as reporters entered the conference room: “It would be impossible for Max (Taylor) to talk to these people without leaving the impression the sit- uation is going to hell." .

here was no press confer- ence with Taylor

.panded military operations

the territory of as in viola- t‘ n of the Geneva accords of 1962."

This is interpreted readily a warning that while the has decided now to forgo ex- to hit the trans-border and, the de- cision can be changed. DIFFICULT SITUATION SEEN

Backing that sentence is the restatement of basic American policy in South Viet Nam “of providing all possible and use- ful assistance to the South Viet- namese people and government in their struggle to defeat the externally - supported insur- gency and aggression being con- ducted against them."

While the report says that the farm output continues to rise and prices and money values are stable, the poIltical situa- tion is “still difficult.“

This is the essential. immedi- ate and continuing battleground for Taylor. the former military chief of staff who is labelled as the man who sold a policy of deeper American involvement to the late President Kennedy.

He now is thus committed in a personal sense to making work a policy which, probably through no fault of his, has gone from bad to worse condi-

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The official statement on the. “on! can be cemented in Sal-

talks carefully avoids. some earlier ones. any timeta- bles for military, economic or political achievement. Its only real teeth seem to lie in this sentence:

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unlike i gon. it seems evident that even-

tual alternatives for the Taylor policy are complete American withdrawal or extended mili- tary action beyond the national orders.

. Thosmeu Surgmopru Prices

Just a year ago consumers in

I cou try were complaining bitterly about sugar pricaafrhe outcry was so met at ques- tlom were asked In Parliament. demands were made for an in- vestigation into the cause of the high prices and, generally spea- king, sugar manuflcturen were under the gun. -

Today sugar prices in local stores are just about half what they were a year ago. But, human nature being what It is, there has n no public ex- pression of satisfaction to match the criticism of last year. Yet the high prices of yesterday and the much lower prices of today are two sides of the same coin.

Two price lists of a Canad- lan mar company. one issued one November 19, 1963, the other on November 19, 1964. show how drastic has been the drop in prices.

0n the basis of 100 pounds of s u g a r in Montreal. the price of fine sugar at the refinery

Is 81. . grenulated suaar then was $16.60. as against 37.65 today. Similar reductions are evident in every other grade The reason is not hard to seek. Today’s prices simply reflect — as did the prices of a year ago — the world price. When demand is [real and sup-

tlme sugar prices go up.

ply is low. the price goes up. When supplies ‘ the price comes down. countries try. by economic tricks, to avad the effect of world price fluctuations ,

through long - term agreements in which an as upon price is paid for sugar. no

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be. When the world price is high, this is to the advantage of the buying country and its consu-

mars.

But when prices fall, these con- airmen must continue to pay the agreed - upon price. Thus a years when the world price was very low, Great Britain p a l d more than twice the prevailing price to her suppliers.

Canadian sugar ta bought on the open market at whatever the price happens to be. at times, mean high prices. as it did a year ago. But the market always stralghfens itself out In response to supply and demand: a consumers can be fairly aurc that high prices ~ today will be followed by low prices tomor- row. is is something that should be kept in mind it a xt

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ROME! BRING CASH lrltain's stately homu have become his business. taking in $05,000 annually

more than 82 from visitors viewing them.

Medical Browsing

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellan Horse kicks horseshoe may not sound unusual except that the horseshoe in this case Is‘ a man's kidney. An Ohio physician - was consulted a farmer's 18-

the urine—signs of kidn

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an. The diagnosis was question- ed because the young man we not kicked in the region of eith- er kidney.

Xo‘ays revealed a horseshoe kidney—so named.because the tops of the left and right organ are bridged by a band of renal tissue. This center was the dam-

aged area. case was con- sidered rare by Dr, Herbert A. Kaufmann because (1) horse

ahoe kidneys are not common and (2) neither are horses.

0 Lon Angales physicians engaged in a project to deter- mine whether newborns secrete tears. They do. This seemingly farfetched research has practi- cal applications. One is that In a few rare congenital diseases, lacrimation is absent and test-

: for production could lead to early diagnosis. Another good thing to know is that tears give newborns, as well as adults, protective lubrication of the on as well as use anti- microbial action of the lysozy- me content of this secretion.

The study involved 249 full-

crying and non-cry ing babies. All the infants had been given the usual prophylais against opthalmia neonatorum. One day after birth, 82 per cent of the 140 eyes of the full- term noncrying infants produced nor- mal tears; 87 per cent on the second day, and 95 per cent by the end of a week. In the pre- mature noncryers. tears were proportional to body weight, the percentage ranging from 14 in babies weighing 3.3 pounds to 63 in those 4.4 to 5.5 pounds.

Full-term cryers Were moistcr -—96 per cent of 187 eyes secret- ed tears on the first day and 94 to 100 per cent in two ay to one-week old infants. The inci- dence of lacrimation in crying preemies again was proportion- ate to weight, ranging from 67 to 78 per cent.