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PAGE 4. THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1965.

= Better Leh Unsaid -

‘Opposition Leader Diefenbaker

~ has seen fit, in a television interview,

to criticize Prime Minister Pearson for his recent speech in Philadelphia that called for a pause at the right time in air strikes against North Viet

Nam. “Once you rush into public ex- |

hibition of this kind.” he said, “you ‘defeat the very purpose you have in mind because you build up public re- sentment in another nation that can- not but have detrimental effects upon \ the course that ought to be followed.”

It should be pointed out that Mr. -| Pearson didn't “rush into public ex- | hibition” in making his statement;-he | ‘was speaking in acknowledgement of |

an award tendered him for outstand- “ing peace-keeping efforts during 1964, and his address was expected to deal with problems affecting world

peace at the present time. His speech |

was not critical of American foreign | - policy in this respect: far from it. But had_he’ omitted reference to the conflict in Viet Nam, or to Canada’s views on the subject—which were known to be favorable to arranging peace talks at the earliest opportunity —he would have placed himself in an— equivocal position indeed. |.

Since then, his proposal has found support-from such leading American figures. as Senator Full- bright. chairman of the U.S. Senate committee on foreign affairs, and George F. Kennan, former U.S. am- bassador to the Soviet Union and to Yugoslavia. The latter, in a recent interview, was quoted as saying that it is “properly of concern to our friends, and we need the advice of our friends.’’ He went on to commend

Mr. Pearson’s suggestion as “a con-

‘structive one, which I hope the US. implements soon.”

Unfortunately, the efforts to ar- |

range peace talks appear to have broken down. The prospect is that in- stead of being slowed by diplomacy the conflict will go on for several months, with Chinese and even some

Soviet fighters ultimately becoming in- |

volved. But this does not detract from the merit of Mr. Pearson’s proposal, or from his right to have offered it in his Philadelphia speech. As for “building up resentment”

at Washington by his remarks, Mr. |

Diefenbaker wasn’t so careful when in

office to avoid this kind of thing him- |

~ self. He has heretofore maintained that we are too much under the in- fluence of U.S. policy. makers, es- pecially since the Pearson: govern- ment took office. His sudden concern

about’ being too outsnoken: smacks |

strongly of partisan opportunism. Cer-

tainly his commenton the subject has

done nothing to help the situation,

nor does it seem to -have been in- ~gpired by any such purpose.

Awesome Visitations Tornadoes and floods are taking

a heavy toll in the Middle West-at this | season. The Red River is on the ram-’ page in Manitoba, but the chief de- |

struction is being caused along the Mississippi, which has reached the highest flood crest ever recorded. swirling in a broad path across north- ern Illinois, Indiana arid northwest- ern Ohio. Scores of ‘communities have been declared disaster areas and the number of persons killed and injured is mounting daily.

We can be thankful that such dis- asters are practically unknown in this part.of the continent. When caused by tornadoes, they seem beyond fhe powers of modern science to deal with. A tornado is so compact, violent and shortlived that it defies analysis. Its lifetime may be measured in

@& = minutes, even though the squall line

it produces may endure for many, | | with doors 456 feet high. What great: |

hours, marching across the land and spawning a succession of tornadoes. There were feports of 37 tornadoes in the Midwest last Sunday alone.

_ The encounter that produces a | . tornado-breeding squall line is typi-

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cally between moist. warm afr from the Gulf of Mexico and cold air-that has crossed’ the Rockies. West, and been drained of moisture. In such an encounter the ‘cold air, like’ a wedge, moves under the warm air. which rises. The warm air then

from the |

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cools and squeezes out its moisture in

heavy rain.

Dr. Edwin Kessler, head of the Weather Bureau's storm laboratory at Norman, Oklahoma, has measured a two-inch downpour of this kind. In a region of 10 square grfles, he found that it released energy equivalent to 350 atomic bombs of the Hiroshima

[ variety. Only about one per cent of this goes into air motion, but that is still very great.

There are. of course. potas for |

| monitoring these awesome mianifesta-

can only rarely identify a tornado

tions of nature, but a radar operator |

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from the pattern on his scope. Too |

often it is indistinguishable from a. . heavy thunderstorm. At the Oklaho-_

ma laboratory efforts are being made

~-to improve the technique, but there is—

much yet‘to be done. What is. needed is an automatic system that will spot | the incipient tornadoes, several at a time, and warn each community in | their probable paths. That. at least, would save lives if not property. Completion of such a_ project, surely, is of more importance than orbiting the earth or sending astro- nauts to the moon. Perhaps, when the _ current crisis subsides, measures of this kind will get the priority they | should have on the nation’s research program.

Beethoven Avaunt!

Communist China has begun an offensive against. all ‘‘Western bour- geois music’’ and the phrasé, appar- ently, is applied to everything from | Beethoven to the Beatles. Peking’s leading publications are behind the

classical compositions to abandon |

them and switch'to more “‘revolution- | ry” home-grown works.

"Among See music lov-

emy of Sciences, who has done so in a long article in a Peking newspaper in which he subjects himself to humble self-criticism.

| Mr. Ma describes how under

malign influence he-had.-been. over-:

| come by a desire to take singing les- | sons. He bought a great number of

foreign songbooks and eventually

could recite some operatic arias with

ease. This was the beginning of his | downfall, he writes, since’ they were “filled with bourgeois sentiments.” Gradually his class viewpoint became | “blurred.”

| Symphony many times, I began to have strange illusions about the idea

| of ‘universal love,’ which was praised”

| in the choral section of the sym- | phony.” he says. He even began to think of a world “filled with friendly | love” and permanently rid of war. | _.Poor Mr. Ma not only admitted to | these “‘strange illusions” but also con- | fessed to a liking for “love songs.” Now he finds that they “tend to cor- | rupt and poison the minds of their | listeners” and “can only paralyze one’s revolutionary fighting will.” “From now on,” he promises, “I will certainly love ardently the revolution- | ary songs that inspire one and fill one | with courage and abandon Western ' bourgeois music that leads one astr

and contribute my share toward the socialist cause.” . Beethoven, who was something of a revolutionary himself in his dav, | would have enjoyed writing a scherzo on this hilarious theme.

' EDITORIAL NOTES

College professors with doctoral degrees are becoming scarce.in .the United States. In 1953, 40 per cent of | all college teachers held Ph.Ds, but ‘it is predicted by 1970 the country _ will be 90,000 short of having even | 30 per cent of its college faculty in | this classification. The University of | Illinois alone states that in the next

| four years they must “employ one- ‘fourth of all the new Ph.Ds. produc- ed in the nation.”

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The largest building in the world, reports the New York Times, is the

| newly-built $104,500,000 Vehicle As- sembly Building at Merrit Island, Florida. It has 129,000,000 cubic feet, compared with 96,000,000 for the

| Great .Pyramids at Cheops and 77,000,000 for the Pentagon. It is 525 feet high and has four giant bays

humanitarian purpose will this serve? To enable removal ’of the giant mis- siles which will be assembled there. | The air-conditioning system could , cool 3,000 average-sized homes.

drive to convince older devotees of —

pe eae t-has—been—|- Ma Yer-sheng, ape the C inese Acad-

BOTH THE CARROT AND THE STICK

‘OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson Authority Slipping From Parliament's Handa

It is time to tear down the out- | moded veil of anonymity and to

raze the anachronistic . bulwark

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of ‘non - responsibility’, behind | which the administrators of Ca- | nada — the civil servants — have overlong been sheltering. | And I shall quote no less an authority than Prime Minister Pearson himself as asserting that,” as ‘government now “opera-~ tes, the major powér can often

ters but these apopinted serv- of the taxpayers. ~

_ By long and honoured tradit-

ion, Cabinet Ministers have as-

ity then as secretary than I now have as chairman."’

He explained that his pro- gramme for a ‘war on poverty” will be coordinated by a spec- ial cabinet committee, of whica he will be chairman, and the

| brilliant and likeable young La-

| bour Minister, Allan MacEach- | en, will be vice - chairman.

“Who will be the-secretary-of-

that committee?" I naturally

“bef wielded not by elected minis: asked “him.

probing to” ' who would wield authority grea- ter than the prime minister therein. ‘“‘Tom Kent,” he = re- plied.

~tives. Yet it is still always- the

“After enjoying Beethoven's Ninth |

I will strive to remould my thoughts

| ee # to insure the proper

| serious illness or death in

Minsters who must publicly ac-. cept responsibility for all act- ions, defending and explaining them before an often critical House of Commons. WHO GOVERNS CANADA? The tradition that civil ser- | vants may shelter behind their ministérs therefore in many cases no longer has validity. The press, in my belief, should relate, explain and comment upon the top appointed bureau- crats and their actions. exactly as it comments upon elected po- liticians. Canada’s civil service | fosters the assertion that it is second to none in the world; if this is the case, it-has nothing to fear from publicity but praise. | Mike Pearson, himself a car- eer civil servant until he switch- ed ta politics in 1948, implied

_ that even his authority is on oc- | casions second to that of certain |

of our faceless grey eminerces. |

Referring to his days as a civil i “tT!

servant, he said recently: used to be secretary of many | government committees, ‘and sometimes I had more author-

ity then as secretary than I now

PUBLIC FORUM |

This eclamm te open te the @iseussicn | by corresponden®s of questions of. te | “terest. The Guardian dees wet neces

{jim anid: his thoughts

| tan, however, handles. its

| erty, the people of Canada are entitled to*know as much about. act- | ions as they know about jir- | man Pearson, who is there by vote of the people, yet who ddmits he will be ped bs gg | power by the

The proposals for this ony ‘on

‘poverty disclose. this as being

the most far - reaching program- me of government interferenc in’ the private life of you and me

which Canada has ever iowa. It will take us far from the Can- adian tradition of sturdy pione- ering and rugged individualism. It will bring us nearer than any. other western nation to the’ re-

gime described by the father..of . | symptoms of nervous exhaus- |

communism, Karl Marx “from each according to his abilities,

to each according to his needs.” Anyone.--he-he- MP. er eivi!-ser- vant, who i< t6 have authority in.

—planning—this—entirelys—

Canada, should not be hidden behind civil service anonymity in the outworn tradition. I -beli- eve this is an excellent exam- ple of the point I. make There is a confusing mixture | of politicians and civil servants at the top of the Liberal ‘Party. In addition to Mike Pearson, aed other cabinet ministers have been deputy ministers or in oth- er senior positions on the public payroll. As MPs they can now be questioned daily in Parlia- ment, and sanctioned periodical- ly at elections. But as authority slips or is grabbed from the hands of Parliament. we should scrutinize more closely the non- parliamentarians. assuming that

power

Life’s Pleasant In Swat

National Geographic Society

- prosperous

' are firewood, jaywalking. and

stocking trout streams. Swat's surplus of emeralds is no prob- lem at all.

The little Himalayan state in | West Pakistan is ruled by the hereditary Wali of Swat. gi ‘or- | eign affairs, defense; and com-

tions.

General Miangul Abdul , the present Wali | ruler. busi- |

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tricity. The Wali schools, a college, hospitals, and a network. see Wall te pred of bis hig | ways and frowns on jaywalkers. | Offenders are forced to run Prvig: Pag ay therdie ootgag til they drop from exhaustion.

Swat 1,800

land. The mild lowland climate permits two crops a year.

The precious land has! been cultivated so long and so loving- ly that weeds have largely been eliminated from fields. Grazing cattle and goats keep meadows closely cropped. Buildings are kept in good repair: trash does not accumulate in farmyards or roadsides. The result !s a tidy, parklike landscape. ;

Every fallen leaf and twig is picked up—not for the sake of carr but for use as fire-

ao strict laws permit only the waste portions’ of trees to be used as fuel, lumbering.is second to agriculture as a source of revenue in Swat. Another substantial source of ' income is the annual auction of emeralds from an ancient mine near Mingora. The sale brings | in more than $200,000 every year. The Wali hopes to earn addi- Tevenue from __ tourists. The mountainous

encompasses sarily endorse the opinion rer | square miles of hills, mountains, Swat is spectacular, a ski resort valleys.

pendents. All letters published are

ject to editing and condensation where secessary, The Guardian is unable te enter inte any regaré- tog letiers submitted. ~

PLAGUE OF ABSENTEEISM Sir,—1 find in reading today's, | Apri 19th issue of The Guar- dian, in your editorial “it | Should Go Through,” that Prime |

Minister Pearson has agreed to_

consider adopting as a govern. ment. measure a private bill in-

should be acted upon, and pass- ed without delay as soon as Parliament gets underway) again. The quorum should be no | carrying on of the nation’s bus- iness } :

As a voter, | am amazed the baleful indifference many our parliamentarians manifest | toward their duties ag represen- | j tatives of the people of Canada. What in thunderation do“ they | think they are elected for? Is it | to neglect their duties by absent- ing themselves when they feel like it? That is not what they are being paid for out of the public treasury

Of course we would make every allowance in the case of the family. I an very happy to note that our Prince Edward Island MPs are worthy examples of de-

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destroyed voted service, and we are proud | the Mist sightseeing as workmen

of.them in that respect I am, Sir, etc.

Montague, P.E.L

W D. JOHNSTON:

s> | and fertile Most‘ of | Soars Sma poauie are forwe- ‘ers who raise rice, wheat, corn,

vege- | Se een eae ee

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Our.Yesterdays |

(From The Guardian Files)

times reaching the proportions |

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and laid down a bar- of snow to the depth of 10

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1 that the United os fe se aes |

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present status made to Congress today by Admiral .

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Naval Officers’ the wardroom of | Charlotte, Lieut. Dita Black was elected | for the coming

prepared Soe $00 honeyisen Sad tourist season. A spark from a welder’s torch was blamed.

| his father

‘is planned. and the hunting and fishing are good> Many - species of fish abound in the cold. turbu- lent rivers, but attempts to in- | troduce trout have not been sue- ' cessful.

Swat is an archeologist’: par- | adise. Dozens of unexcavated | Buddhist. ruins dot the valley. | After Alexander the Great con-

influences

Most of the present. inha! belong to the Yuzuf Zia tribe; Moslem Afghans who began

moving in 499 years ago. The tribesmen fought bitterly PR themselves for genera- tions. In the 192N's, the father of the present Weli consolidated | his position as strongest of the chiefs and was proclaimed rul- er. When Pakistan became in- | dependent in 1947 Swat acced-

to Pakistan.

The Wali succeeded

1949. He takes a close interest in government, |. seeing petitioners personally. ad- | ministering the tribal laws of the | state, ae tr en serious cases.

In a National Cecigraghte | ar- | ticle. Justice William 0. Dong- las reported a Wzal discussion he had with the Wali about the

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‘Avoidable Emphysemia

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Delien |

There has been an alarming the

chronic ir- infections, and injury from cough- air sacs dilate and the their elasticity. Air enlarged sacs, and when it cannot es- cape.-Shortness of breath, {a- ensue. ae bronchitis lingers for weeks or

—< well- established emphy-

‘sema is difficult to treat be-

(ogee damage fa. trrevéreman.|

{There is a 30 to 60 per cent loss

; Of lung function. Some relief is obtained when the individual | learns how to breathe in order | to eliminate stagnant air from the lungs. Antibiotics lessen the

| infection and _ bronchodilators

| such as Mucomyst, Isuprel, and

Vaponefrin open up the bronchi. |

These products are inhaled and | may be combined with an en-

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| jous sputum and mucal plugs. An operation is available which a permanent opening is

| into the windpipe. Suction cath- eters are inserted to keep the | Poconmeway clear.

This is an ironical situation

| able tragedy. The present in- So to be caused |

cee | logical because the condition is | Tare ig/ nonsmokers.

INDEFINITE DISTURBANCE M. T. writes What are the |

tion?

REPLY | ___Jitteriness, inability to.-con:. | contrate. irritability, yeonecraay ‘a

_| fatigue, headache. and — tion of the heart. These | ten toms are not specific, however, for this condition, because nerv- ous exhaustion is a rather indef- inite disturbance. In fact, it is so vague a term that many physi-

| cians never write it without quo- |

tation marks. LENGTH OF LIFE

in i made just below the collar line |

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The amount of sleep required ten minutes more. — - Herald. :

Gushing lady in gréut ‘foftst:- “Oh, * wondrous oak, wat | wouldst thou say if thou could " Guide: “If it could , it would tellest thou | that it's a maple.’ ‘Terqute Mer.

“My daughter is having her |

voice cultivated.” “Is it ‘iffiprey- ing?

apartments away. Now we get complaints from away off. in the next building.” Provincial.

“We spent our vacation driv-

ing around the entire country.” |

“Touring, eh? -You- must- have- | passed through some beautiful | country. * “Oh, we must, have!

by the average person is about Calgary 5

“It's growing stronger: She used to be heard only two |

— Vancouver |:

After all, we averaged over- 500 f

miles a day." — Toronto Star.

A friend of ours loves to knit bec tr oe something

asked Tom, “‘Geft ready?" “Oh, no,”

= ~ Boring From Within —

By Harold Morrison Canadian Pess Staff Writer

More tian a decade ago: eight country whic countries banded into what ap Jus. it was the Peared .to be a solid ailiance to | country

prevent Communism from run- Ning riot in the Pacific. But | time and change

once told the

only major

on which the Ameri-

cans could rely in Asia, appears

to be weaving new bonds of

in. political | friendship with Peking, appar-

turned the treaty of defence into | ently pursuing Chinese support adocument of demoralizing for its claims to Kashmir.

despair. Even from the outset there | didn’t seem much hope the |

BRITAIN- HOPEFUL Britain still thinks SEATO has strength and vitality. It

Southeast Treaty Organization, | points to non - military .achieve- | whic) includes the United | ments, a Se ee

|"States, Britain and France — would ever work.

and the Philippines.

| Sciools in Thailand, *SEATO

Basically it was designed to funds have helped stimulate

| Signatories,

unity of. defence against new Communist methoa of at- | , tack—the slow struggle of guer-

block aggression against the | | economic development among to. prevent another | low-standard countries.

Korea. But it failed to provide | But SEATO has not held back

the the Communist surge.

The prospect. of a war be- tween the U.S. and China cover

| rilla warfare in disease-infested | South Viet Nam is not an ap- | because emphysema is an avoid. Jungies at the periphery of the petizing one for France. It fa-

| alliance in Southeast Asia.

vors neutralization of Indochina,

| tioned in terms of SEATO re- | sponsibility; tie SEATO coun- tries could respond if those at | the periphery of the Alliance | ealled for help. i

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NO UNANIMITY . But the SEATO countries | could not agree whether Laos needed help..-or~-what —-xind-.of -

| the alliance wou

Amid this deepening politicai cleavage, Thailand. had hoped si ory, quivers. It

ignat id Communists at bay. but ner the years its faith in SEATO has been shaken. Bold declara- tions and big guns appear un- wieldy weapons to prevent the

slow, silent boring* from within.

| help was required. They could +-net-agree-onthefuture_of South

| in Ni or wether the tur- moil re was stirred by civil | war or outside attack. Stealth had replaced open affront; the | SEATO alliance was a Maginot |

100 Gallons

of hot water per hour at

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lowest possible cost.

FOR ONLY A FEW PEN- NIES A DAY BUY AN ESSO WATER HEATER.

| Line with its flanks exposed. Now France has decided it ; won't send its foreign minister

| to the SEATO ministerial meet- i in London May 3. Its dele- |

| TROT WY THE WAY

' ing : *,

Yes, plus a little bit of luck. _ first step toward complete | .

TODAY'S HEALTH HINT— French withdrawal from the | & Fitzrey St. Cocktails are sky high in cal- Alliance. IAL 4-8543

ories. Pakistan, another member DI -

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BRITAIN’S BATTLE .. THE SEXES

The role of women in modern society has been the subject of a great debate raging on a British T.V. series produced by Elizabeth Cowley,

: formerly of Ottawa. A: Weekend Magazine

feature by Robert Musel highlights some of the ‘ provoca ye opinions

emerging from the discussions—of interest to both séxes,

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