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PAGE 4 FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1964.

A Timely Reminder

A subscriber writes to remind us that the housing situation in Charlottetown is still as bad as when we had our last editorial comment on the subject. It would appear, he says, that the provincial and municipal governments here are busy tossing the ball back and forth as to who should be getting on with the job. While they are doing this, the tenants remain with very little protection, and, more important, without housing for lower income groups.

At the same time. this alert cor- respondent reminds us. in St. J'ohn‘s, Newfoundland they are getting on with the job of providing 397 new housing lots. with space being re— served for schools and apartment buildings. This is apparently the biggest project ever undertaken in that area and will cost $1,720,000, of which the federal government will pay 75 per cent, the remaining 25 per cent being shared by the city and province.

‘ Can it be, asks our correspondent. that neither the city fathers nor the provincial government are con- vinced of the urgent need for hous- ing legislation and development in Charlottetown? Surely not, after all we heard about it during the last two civic election campaigns! Could not the holdup be due, rather, to a dire shortage of funds?

. Our correspondent must have figured that we might raise this question, because he concludes with the reminder that while this prob- lem, with its many evil side effects, continues unnoticed and unsolved by our legislators and officials. money can always be found for erecting signs and other gadgets costing thousands of dollars and which have, at best, only a. superfic- ial value.

We find ourselves in reluctant agreement with these comments, and trust that the emphasis we have given them here will serve to rouse public opinion to a disgraceful omis- sion in our whole centennial year planning. There was time for this housing project to have been launch- ed many months ago. and for it to have been completed by now. But other things were given priority; and here we are with the challenge still facing us, and getting more

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Insistent the longer it is neglect- Our welfare organizations have been sounding warnings to this ef- . It is time. surely, that action being taken.

,. What Did He Say? Writing in the Montreal Gazette, 7 noted columnist Arthur Blakely sites External Affairs Minister and Wty Prime Minister Paul Martin " of the few surviving masters .‘the cautiously worded phrase. We ‘ his explanation of what he ' t by this tribute both instruc- ’_ and entertaining, and have taken I '_h'berty of drawing upon it here. *3: A lawyer by trade, it would seem z, -: Mr. Martin acquired the habit location at an early stage of his ' if: cal career. He had an opportun- ' 1% watch Mackenzie King demon- ’ -. what could be done with the a gal employment of words. and j‘ as profited by the example. ‘ himself had selected as his _ the great Gladstone, of whom v Lucy once wrote:

him make a. speech on a sub. on which he did not wish to .~ hlmeelf. The long roll of - and misty eentancee, each - ee ingeniously qualified.

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ambiguity or phrase, speedily baffled the most attentive listener. He had rhetorical devices, not of the kind that inspire confidence, which be- came familiar to careful students of his methods.

“There was the sentence thrown out in the middle of an argument or statement of policy in the nature of a back door, enabling the speaker to retire hereafter from his position if it was not convenient for him to adhere to it. There was the ob. scure and apparently meaningless phrase, wrapped up in redundant verbiage, attracting no attention, and committing the speaker to noth- ing, but yet adumbrating the pos- sible change of policy, and destined to be referred to hereafter to justify his consistence in taking some step which had never been suspected or anticipated. ‘

"In many of his political speeches there was the contradiction, or the statement, which to his listeners sounded so genuine, so positive, so eloquent. so indignant that it carried away his audience—but, when it was carefully examined. it was found that the sentences were so ingenious- ly constructed that they did not quite mver all the assertions they appeared to contradict, or quite bind the speaker to all they appeared to imply."

King mastered this technique, and at times seemed to out-Glad- stone Gladstone. His famous “con- scription if necessary but not neces- sarily conscription" is a genuine masterpiece which compresses the largest possible amount of ambiguity into the shortest possible space.

Mr. Martin is reportedly striving to follow suit; and the success of his experiment is attested by the fact that Mr. Diefenbaker, no stran- ger to evasive subtelties, has repeat- edly thrown uphis hands, protest- ing that he found it quite impossible to understand what the minister seemed to be saying. If, that was, the minister was really trying to say something.

The Wrong Place

The question of bilingualism in the armed forces can hardly be said to have been settled by the explan- ation given, in the Commons the other day by Defense Minister Cardin. First reports from Ottawa indicated that the serviceman who wanted to get ahead would have a difficult time gaining promotion un- less he learned French. But Mr. Cardin explained that proficiency in French is only one of the many fact- ors considered in promotion, and that the Canadian Army needs bilin- gual personnel for services abroad.

This, of course, has always been true. But when Hon. J. Angus MacLean asked whether a soldier who speaks English and a foreign tongue qualifies as bilingual, Mr.‘ Cardin said the Army’s order refers only to English and French. It is this attitude that it disturbing, for plainly it is intended more as a con- cession to Quebec than as a solution to any military problem.

This, indeed, was implied in the original announcement by the ad- jutant-general, which read: “An increase in the proportion of bilin- gual officers and men in the Cana- dian Army is important in order to give proper recognition to the bilin- gual character of Canada.”

In theory and as an educationnl measure in peacetime, such a scheme might be admirable. But is the Army the proper place in which to introduce it? Soldiers, after all, are in training for war. Their effi- ciency under battle conditions is what should be of prime concern; and how can this efficiency be pro- moted by bilingualism? One would say that it would tend to have the reverse effect, if any. '

EDITORIAL NOTES

Former President Eisenhower seems to be having second thoughts about the methods used by Senator Goldwater's supporters at the Re- publican convention. If his fore- sight had matched his hindsight, he might have spoken out to some ef- fect at the right time.

O O O

The Australian government, un- like its Ottawa counterpart, has just finished the 1968-64 financial year with a corpus of $62,048,000. instead of the $180,816,000 deficit for which it budgeted. ,A major factor in this achievement was th e high income earned from exports, particularly big purchases of wool

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THE MAN IN THE IVORY TOWER

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Benefits From Foreign Investment Policy

Patrick Nicholson’s guest columnist today is Hon. Wal- ter Gordon, Minister of Fin- once

The widespread public debate of last summer on the issue of foreign ownership in Canadian industry appeans to have quieted down.

Now. with a calmer atmos- phere is an opportune time for Canadians to ' about the policies in this field which were implemented a year ago — the reasons for them and the goals they seek to achieve.

Those policies, designed to en- courage forcign-conitrolled com- panies to accept Canadian in- vestors in partnership, are just

as important by as they were a year ago. Indeed, the widespread econo-

mic grmvch which Canada has

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Budget can be more ' achieved. With larger savmgs ated by this 0mm ad- Canta-

Se important points should be kept in mind in any consideration of this subject. First of all, foreign invest- ment in Canadian industry made a tremendous contribution to our national growth. No other noun has received such great benefits from the willingness of

sources. Foreign lcnowahow have developed Can- ada faster than would have been possible otherwise, and all of us are better off because of it. NEEDED IN CANADA

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ondlyiformany years to comeOanedlawlllneedflorelgn

capital to help us grow. There can be no suggestion that we should slam our doors on it or that it. shnuld be anything less than welcome. Canada has al- wvays treated foreign capital fairly and must certainly con- tinue to do so.

However. Canadians should be worried about excessive re- liance on non-resident capital. Not does this leave us vulnerable to internuptione 1n the inflow of capital, as was shown by the exchange crisis of l962. Not only is there concern over borrowing capital just to pay our international bills. We are also uneasy about the sheer size of the foreign investment that has accumulated. '

Latest available figures show

foreign firms controlled 69 per cent of the value of investment. in Canada‘s petroleum and ma- tural gas industry, 59 per cent in mining and melting and about 60 per cent in manufactur- ing—an industry M special im- portance in creating new jobs for Canadians.

Canadians should not confuse the mechanics of the substantial tax incentives offered last year with the long-term objectives of policy.

to induce the owners of foreign- controlled companies in Canada to make at least 25 per cent of stock in 0 companies availi- able to Canadian investors. BROADER PURPOSE But the broader. vital pur- pose of this partnership policy is to create a situation in wlldch these companies will be more likely to false Canadian in- terests and objectives lnlbo ac- ommt when they make in!-

An Island Victory

Cape Breton Post

After a hearing that lasted 18 weeks. a Scottish High Court Friday in Edinburgh ruled that Harris tweed is Harris tweed only if it is produced wholly in the Outer Hebrides. The judg- ment has put the Scottish main- land cloth industry in a tlzzy.

he court action was started by the Scottish mainland weav- ing firm. Argyllshire Weavers Ltd, which sought a ruling that any tweed made from yarn spun on the Scottish mainland was entitled to be called Harris

tweed. The Argyllshire company also

sought to enjoin the Harris Tweed Association. Ltd“ from making statements that tweed produced anywhere but in the Outer Hebrides was not Harris

tweed.

Judge Lord Hunter refused both applications. The island victory over the mainland is complete The dge's logic seems impeccable. There‘s no dodging the fact that Han-la is an island of the Outer Hebrides.

The marketing of ants tweed began a little more than a Century ago and now is one of Scotland's prime exports.

Science Cooperation

New York Times

The informal Soviet- Ameri- can agreement for scientific co- operation to improve existing methods of desalting sea water is welcome for at least two rea- sons. One is the increasing shortage of fresh water in many parts of the world and th sequent growing need for meth- ods permitting really economi- cal conversion of the aea'a brine into drinkable, sweet water.

Beyond this. however, th e agreement marks another step in the trend toward wider com- mcn efforts by Soviet and Amer- ican scientists in areas where panacea will bring mutual bene- l .

implicitly. the willingness of both sides to conclude this latest. pact indicates that in Moscow and in Washington there is sat- Iafectlon that gotta have been reaped from earlier decisions to facilitate cooperation in some aspects of space science and in the utilization of atomic energy

5. United States t Union annually waste billions of dollars and lose molt time because many areas they conduct com- petitive research and therefore

cage in vast amounts of - less cation ' leedese on bet

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sides understand the magnitude and gravity of this waste. and the need for maximum cooper- ation to reduce the coat and in- creaae the effectiveness of scientific research and develop-

ment.

Continuing reciprocal dian-net hinders the conclusion of addi- tional agreements that would make possible more nee joint work_ But it Is encourag- lng that progress is being made. And as Americans and Bus- aians get accustomed to co-op- eration for common beneflt in scientific fields, they may gen- erate habits and attitudes that could ultimately spread to the

political field. again with mitt-v

us an as. Should this trend confi

rea suggested,

and Russians to go to the moon together. .es representatives of a meal

unified bu _ joined to combat disease; anger, the dangers of the most alien

menace moan There are about 400,000,000 llnded

per-millimeter” b ammo chronic aye

by pea-e

abroad, and to carry on all the induslrlal functions that can ef- ficiently perfionmed ere.

In about, we feel that foreign controller: of industries in Can- ada should have an active con- dion interests and

This is the government’s firm- ly-obaicd policy and surely it is not an unreasonable one. We believe that Canadian partner- ship in foreign-coulme com- paniea will help firms realize that their own interests and Canada‘s interests are not

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Controcrure Of The Hand

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and little fingers. They had our ed up gradually until the tip were touching the palm and he could not straighten Clem.

Dupuytnen had nothing to guide him. because tbe‘condl- tlon never had bees "

Surgery was suggested because the fingers could not be straight ened by force. The operation must have been successful be- came moi-fly then-after, a coach man had the same type of sur- gery. All this took place more than a country ago and media- order is known as Dupuytren's contracture.

The typical delflormity usuatlg

as a mu n a palm of the hand, The initial turmr ‘spread'a gradually. one;

for years, before it pull down on the fingers. On the surface. Dupuytren’a appears to be a contraction of the tend- ons, but this is not so. It is the fibrous tissue below the skin of the palm that is involved.

We know the disturbance la hereditary. Sixty per cent of

" male victims and 20 per cent of

female sufferers develop it be fore age 45. it also may develop after age 75 (1 to 20). which makes it difficult the genetic point of view. Thus a family history of the contrac- ture is not obtained when a po- tential victim dies at age 50 to

om a heart attack or ortho- sis of the liver.

The disease is likely to be un- usually severe when it develops early in life. In such cases there lg likely to be a strong heredi- tary tendency.

Surgery is the best treatment. The skin of the entire palm and the fascia must be r e m o ved (palmar faaeiectomy), especial- ly in the younger person, avoid recurrences. This pro-

ure is recommended w h en the contracturea are painful or

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the deformity interfere with the use of the rest of the hen . EXERCISES AND CRAMPING

A. S. P. writes: I have a small but aggravating problem. I like to exercise —- and need to — but whenever I stretch my legs I get horrible cramps in my feet and legs .Do you know the an- swer'.‘

REPLY

More exercise, but try not to overstretch the muscles. I as- sume you one taking e n o u g in

salt. INFECTED BLOOD H. K. writes: Is serum hepa- titla’ from a blood transfusion the same as hepatitis from a virus?

REPLY Yes, The victim receives blood from someone who had

viral hepatitis — usually within 12 months. .

to study from .-

-A- rather tiled seat cliche vacations concerns the ofethletewhols ham to to work in order

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their time largely in road tray. el. Driving on madm- highways, or asthe Europeans call on trunk roads. is a form of‘ hard labor. . Tests show that the pulse rate of even veteran drivers goes up as soon as they get into their “cars to set out on a busy high- way. Some manoeuvres, such as passing and cutting in at high speed send the. pulse rate up

Deletion of a clause that would leave the Roman Cath- olic Church virtually above the law of Malta has finally cleared the way to independence for the underdeveloped, over - popu- lated Mediterranean island.

The new ment. signed in London Tuesday and the British Parliament agreed to all it through, despite op- position from the Labor party's left "wing, so independence could come in September.

The compromise agreement. will be opposed by a minority, accepted by ‘a majority, en- thusiastically embrac ed by

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none. I

It ls said that Malta. con- verted to Christianity when St. Paul was shipwrecked there in 60 AD, suffers from too many politicians. It also suffers from a lack natural resources and its, big population is supported by the royal naval station and dockyards.

Various previous attempts at integration with Britain and. later, at independence, had met

it 'sappolntment. one proposed London meeting some delegations even refused to sit. down with others and they all packed up and went home. STUCK To GUNS

Through it all the powerful archbishop of Malta, Man. Michael Gonzi, stuck to his guns. “I will never yield to any measure that may weaken the authority of the church," he said some years ago.

But in this round, them-luau went directly to the Vatican for the Pope’s approval before ap- proachlng either Prime Mints- ter Borg Olivier or the arch- bishop.

The compromise agreement includes two major changes ea

New Malta I M

Mama’mmm

AForm Herd Labor-

cation in such a way as to hind. er restoration of working cap. aclty. It soundd like the ultimate in clouanesa. _ ‘ at. it was aimed at was us- ing a vacation from one job to extra money working at another. (Something like part. time moonlighting).

With a law like that on the statute books already. it would not be a long step to another worded to discourage spending a vacation in a sort of Grand Prix race to nowhere in peril- cular and back. Perhaps a 69:. men demonstration of efficiency in that department. will give the notion respectability. Imagine people bragging about how little mileage they had run up instead of how muchli

Agreement

a concession to the opposition Labor leader in Malta, Dom Mintoff, but they are' not likely to satisfy the former prime min. later. '-

Hla contention is that there should be free elections before independence on the grounds that the church interfered in the 1962 election campaign by mak- ing it a sin to read Labor litera- ture and by threatening excom- municatlon to anyone who sup- ported hm. Ollvler'a National- ist party unsealed Mintoif but won only 42 per cent of the popular vote.

Inserted in the new agree- ment is the provision that “no law shall make any provision that is discriminatory." And de- leted la the clause saying that “nothing done by. the Roman Catholic Church . . . shall be held to be in contravention of any of the provisions of this chapter"—tha chapter on hu- man rights.