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Moving With The Times

‘ Probably we‘re in for the same kind of thing in Canada. but some details of the proceedings at. the big Democratic convention in Atlantic City this week must have shocked many oldtime politiwl henchmen in thij country. The convention was

mo‘s’t part. were pushed into the minor role of “extras” in the care- fully contrived performance. iTelevision requirements dictated the construction of three huge stands. festooned with the snouts of_’TV cameras. Behind these im- pediments sat delegates who had

come 3.000 miles or more for the .

privilege of watching proceedings on special television sets—and some needed binoculars to see the sets.

Thus reports a. Canadian Press correspondent. who figures that, of

the 5.260 delegates and alternates who were there officially, one-fifth i

hadn‘t the ghost of ’1 chance of see— fig what was going on up in front. The more didn't come near the actual conven- tion floor until they knew they were needed. That was when they were called upon to supply "a shouting. chanting, placard-waving. balcon- flbating. whistling. clapping and singing back-drop to specially-im-v portant speakers they cduldn‘t hear."

- But as one loyal Montana del-

egate philosophized. puting down his—binoculars for a moment to rest. his eyes from the events seen through TV: “That's progress!"

? Whatever it was. it necessitated the laying of some 60 miles of wire in the hall and the construction of an elaborate boardwalk down the isles to cover the wiring system. In addition to this political “ship-to- shore” communication in the con- vention hall. the floor was punctu- ated during sessions with antennae of dozens of walkie-talkies carried by police. who operated on their otwn separate unit. or by television reporters. or technicians. or con- vention officials.

3 It was pretty much the same thing at, the Republican convention in Los Angeles. A far cry indeed from the oldtime political gather- ings. not to speak of the whistle stop tours that were so popular in ybnrs gone by.

f Toward Maturity The fact that. we still have to ptition the British Parliament in er to amend the British North plerica. Act is a technicality; but to ritual rankles. and it is regard. t in some quarters as both illogical id humiliating. Hence the interest int is being taken in the proposed floral-provincial conference here ixt week. at which agreement will i sought on a formula for sever- 3 this "unbecoming umbilical at- ohinont."

For this choice phrase we are i - ed to the Toronto Telegram. ion editorial which reminds us i the present arrangement is

;s.-?‘g_r;~raifloa¢p.n 2.5.2:: 3

of enrberrassment to the (as it is to us. since we are safe Commonwealth country

amendment into its

~that we haven't tried. 4% and constitu.

I ‘waaladthroe years " of Jiutica. . It was blockadby

sophisticated of them '

primary objections from Seek. stchowsn and secondary reserva- tions on the part of Ontario, Que- bec and Alberta.

Now Prime Minister Pearson is trying his expert mediator’s hand

3‘ at finding a route round the bar-

riers that frustrated Fulton. If he succeeds. it will be quite an achiva- merit: for the framers of the BNA Act themselves. unfortunately, ne- glected to include the rules by which it could be amended. This' has been the main cause of disagreement ever since.

Saskatchewan balked in 1961 at the proposal that any alteration of the act's sections dealing with rights exclusively earmarked for the province must require the un- animous consent of all 10 govern- ments involved. This theory of unanimous approval, strongly urged in some quarters, has been de- scribed by experts as sheer inven- tion without legal or historical foundation; and when Justice Min- ister in 1946. Louis St. Laurent went so far as to say that legally even those sections of the BNA Act that guard the French language could be altered without provincial

A _ . consent. arranged principally for telev1sron . coverage. and the delegates, for the ‘

Another source of friction at the 1961 conference was the contention of Ontario. Quebec and Alberta that the BNA Act. through an

I amendment passed in 1949. had

given the central government too much discretionary power. They felt it would lead to invasions of areas the provinces considered

‘ theirs. . » Our Toronto contemporary adds 1 -‘ that “the Pearson plan—to be pre- .

sented to the Premiere in Charlotte-

town on Sept.l—is said to include ‘ . tranquillizers to calm these fears."

The Right Approach

Bilingualism is a subject that has been pretty well talked out. but perhaps an exception should be made in the case of a statement by J. Allan Perham. president of Canadian Oxygen Limited, in ad-

dressing a Toronto service club the i other day. Mr. Perham gave a dif— ‘ the problem by charging the English-speaking min- . i ority in Quebec withya heavy share

it s u a 11 y '

ferent slant to

of the onus for the current dissatis- faction of French Canadians with the existing setup.

"If we accept. the fact. that the major business enterprises of Can- ada including those of QUebec. are owned. managed or controlled by the non-French element.” he said. “then we of the business community must accept responsibility for doing something about our present national condition."

It is in his own province that

the Quebecer most resents the one- .

sided bilingualism which in many industries makes it impossible for him to conduct his business in his native tongue, the speaker added. But the separatists can only claim to command majority support in Quebec if the English-speaking Canadians' position becomes rigid and unbending. '

Worth noting. too. was the ad- vice offered the speaker to those

who would help correct the situa- ‘ he urged. ‘ your French-speaking col-‘

tion.

“Meet leagues. Invite them here. Dis- cover for yourselves that we are all Canadians. help them make the same discovery. If possible.

“Visit Quebec,"

treal revealed that out of 797 ro- plies. 75 per cent of the students re- jected separatism. Let us encourage the students who stand for a united Canada.”

EDITORIAL NOTES

A third edition of “Teachers for Africa". just issued by UnesCO. lists vacancies for the academic year 1964-65 in African secondary. post- secondary and higher educational

establishments. A total of 1.300 vac— Y

ancies in 21 countries are described. 1 O

A new. unusual church dedicated

w i as a memorial to Dag Hammarsk- taken full powers of ‘

jold. was inaugurated this month at

. Katjum. in the far north of Sweden. ' The church is unusual because it is

built in the shape of a Laplander’s tent with a solid wooden cross be- sida it. A group of young people from the Swedish International Work Camps Organization helped the Lsplsndsrs to build a road to the church and to clear the ground in the immediate vicinity. '

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NOT A NORMAL WAR

Victory At Sea, Setback On Land

Montreal Gazette

North Viet Nam and China ‘ rilla tactics. at some point the Nam is a good indication of Am-

have not followed up the clash- es in the Gulf of Tonkin with any unusual or significant mili- tary action. There may have been some reinforcements and troop movements. but. there has 3 been nothing that would point to i major Communist retaliation. l The situation has. so to speak. returned to normal.

Does this mean the U n l t e d States and its allies have won

an important victory. which will bring the war in South Viet Nam closer to settle ment? Unfortunately. it does not

This is not a normal war be- tween states It is a civil war. in which South Vietnamese Com- munist is pitted against South Vietnamese anti- Communist. with the majority of the popula- tion indifferent and neutral. The Communists. who control muc'i of the countryside. are supplied and trained by North Viet Nam and by China. The anti-Com- munists. who hold the cities and some of the countryside. are suoplied and trained by the Uni— ted States.

HELD INITIATIVE

Communist movement. known as the Viet Cong. h a . held the initiative for some time. its guerrilla tactics are es- sentially the same as th as which defeated France a decade ago. They are constantly drain- ing the strength and morale of the South Vietnamese govern- ment forces They are prepared to use any form of terror. with- out moral inhibitions. to achieve their ends. It cannot be denied that their tactics are succeed-

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up. . According in Communist guer-

Viei C thing resembling normal miii- ; tary operations. Instead of pick-r ing off small units of South Viet- \ namese government troops as at i present. it will try to smash the army in the field.

This moment could be ap- proac‘iing. The Viet. Cong have}

it making increasingly bold-:

er raids. The South Vietnamese government is still suffering ; from internal dissension. a it seems to be facing new opposi- . lion amongst the population. The Viet Cong may feel the time is ‘ close when this government can i be pushed into disintegration.

NOT THE ANSWER ‘

United States has found an an-i

on the Asian mainland. ,‘ such a peripheral part as South

shire

ong will switch to some- l erican power in the Far East. At

‘ see. and in the air, around t h e . rim of the Asian continent. the i United States is supreme and‘

can defeat any challenge. But ' even

Viet Nam. the story is very dif- ferent.

5.000.000 LOTTERY

CONCORD. NH. (APT—More tan 55.000000 in tickets has been sold for the New Hamp- Sweepstakes to be run Sept. 12 at Buckingham Park. The announced Thur

a a y four

drums will be used for the final

This is a sorry picture. So far , drawings on Sept. 10. The final

no one in South Viet Nam or the ' drawingsl regresent tickets sold y .

since Ju

Preschool Checkup y

Dr. hectare B. Van Dallas The pro is a uiar rocoduu except

perhaps when it comes to inocu-

lation output the usual child:

hood diseases. No one wants to

be a ' on but there is

some c atlon that the other

masters also receive th a sa 0 . ‘ '

Revacciaation against small-

tMI.‘ nus. also is available against polio and measles, . In the preschool tests. the tiny- aician concentrates outlieeyas. cars. mouth. heart. hull. and feet. Poor posture It? result from habit but it. may brought on by muscle fatigue due to un- dernourishment or insufficient sleep. T ‘ vision and hearing.

7, factor! for months or years. a child who has .been nearsighted most of his life sel-_ dom knows bite difference; so far as he is concerned. no on e sees beyond the eldest the road or the house next door.

The condition of the heart and lungs bears investigation, Over- exertion may aggravate a heart defect and the teacher can give these children special duties to compensatefor the inability to play ball during recess. ~

The six- year-old is overdue for a dental examination. as this

is the age when first per- manent teeth erupt. . The baby teeth begin to. drop out atlthis

time but they should not be neg- lected. When a decayed tempor- ary tooth falls out prematurely. normal alignment will be distur- bed unless the area is filled with a space maintainer. .

ny ouugaters have sever- al colds during the first veer or two of school. This should not be

or resistance to infection. For the first time. the child is asso- ciating with hundreds of other boys and girls in t‘ie classrooms and on the playgrounds. Many

sweepstakes commission

have or are coming down with a respiratory infection on any day of the school week

LATENT DIABETIC J. E. writes: Is latent diabet- es treated the same way as dis- 9

REPLY

The potential ilatenil diabet- ic does not need insulin and sel- dom requires the oral anti-dia- betic pills. The majority hold their own by maintaining normal weight and hevin periodic checkups. In addition. the urine is tested for sugar whenever they go through periods of stress . such as an accident. operation. f or a serious infection.

1 (NOTE: All correspondence l to Dr. Van Dellen should be . addressed to: Dr. Theodore Van Dcllen. on Chicago Trib- une. Chicago. Illinois.)

Disorders" of these senses may. 80

regarded as a lack of immunity .i

. . Nous BY THE wAY“

Inseam are Italy. goo I bids in spite of the company they museum keep—at home. —Adams County Times.

Halea— "Wiiat kind of bus-

. — on as: ' a single man and lot the husbands alone."—— Windsor'Stsr.

One of the Beatles. Reuters rec ports from Liverpool. says that the foursome, would refuse ta perform in South Africa or any place where than is racial seg- reaation. Which prompts an old- er generation democrat to ask why regions practising aparth- eid or color bias should be apar- ad while solidly democratic na-

tions are not.— Victoria Times.

flea do Illa lessee at who wear glasses. It all dang]: ope their framaa.-— Trl-County reas.

There is only one in In s million who understands the in- taruational and it‘s in run into him..-.- Calgary Herald.

The tight-nursed Smiths took their infant son to the movies. The-usher warns that un- less the child kept quiet. iii a y would have to take their money back and leave the theatre. Halfway through the second fea- ture. Smith nudged his wife and w pared: “What do you tifiink of it?" "Terrible!" replied Mr Suit . “ _ ." agreed r. Smith. "Pinch the baby a few flmoa."—Galt Reporter.

Using Wrong Mirror

PIC WWII! “In”

These few communist news- papers published ln the western countries are not newspapers at all in the'ordinsry meaning of the word. They do not report news. Their editors select cer- tain events and interpret. or misinterpret. ii'iem t demon- strate that the world is exactly what communist ideology claims it is. r

The papers do not interest or influence the public generally: it is a case of communists talking to themselves. As a publishing venture. the western commun- igt press is an exercise in futil-

Y:

In fact. however. it would ap- pear that those papers serve . quite a useful purpose back in I

e communist homeland. One; of the group of 38 Canadian btisi- i ‘uessmenwho recenly made a; two-week visit to Russia men-

tions this point in an article iii a national weekly.

“The Russian has no way to compare his lot with that of any country beyond the Iron Ciir- taln.” states Oskah 1,.» J o n e s. president of Toronto's Consum- era' Gas Company. “His 0 ply knowledge of Canadian, Ameri- can, British or French living comes from the very few tour- ista he might~ see briefly. from such newspapers as the Canadian Tribune. the organ of the Communist Party in Can-

uews stands), communist ueWspeper

ew York counterpart."

The fact that the Russian peo- ple believe Canada to be the country portrayed in its local communist press is ridiculous. but it is not laughable. It is an appalling example of thought control as practised by the com munists.

Bob Be

Nimble

Cape Breton Poet

SWIFT footwork or nimble redtape technique will be re- quired to transfer Robert F. Kennedy's legal residence from Massachusetts to New York in time for him to run for election as a Democratic candidate for U.S. senator in the latter state.

Residents of Massachusetts rarel are so much in a hurry the less so when they are Boston- lens as is Mr. Kennedy although his actual home has been ' Virginia for years. The Ken- nedys are people accustomed to going places in a hurry so it will be surprising if the attorney gen- eral doesn't get away with it.

In the meantime. numbers of indignant New Yorkers are call~ lng Mr. Kennedy a carpetbagger. a word derived from the period immediately following the War

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Between the States. when num-

erons politicians from the north went to the defeated Confederate states to be elected on the Re. publican ticket. This wasn‘t dil- ficult then because the people recently released from slavery had the votes.

At that time. a common piece of luggage was the carpet bag the outer covering of which api- ually was made of carpet ma- eriel. Ever since. the word car- petbegger has betokened an out- sider or interloper. and is used in a derogatory sense.

Numbers of New York news- papers. including the august New York Tlmes Oppose the plan for Kennedy to stand for election in that state. but it’s said he has more than enough support from the various county party bosses to give him the nomination in the New York state convention.

swer that will end the war. Sen- i ator Goldwater. it is true. has‘ said that if he were President he i would order the commanders on . the spot to win. and let them go j ahead and do what they want. _ But this is not an answer: it. is : passing the buck. Mr. Goldwat-

or would soon find that. as Har- ‘ ry Truman used to say of the‘

i Presidency. "the buck stops l here." For the present. South Viet i

Nam and the United States can- v not hope to win. They can only i, try to keep from losing. '1‘ his does not offer any prospect. of an end to the war. But it does hold out the possibility that. in time. L'ie Communists will grow just as tired of the war as the gov- ernment of South Viet Nam. Then some compromise settle- ment might be negotiated.

The distinction between the clashes in the Gulf of Tonkin and the guerrilla war in South Viet

PUBLIC

FORUM

SCHOOL BOOKS

Sir.- I would very much like to circulate an island-wide pPll- tion to all parents— protesting against the number and quality of the school books. To as y most of them are ridiculous is putting it mildly. When I began

teaching fifteen years ago. at:

least the numbers were fewer. Just. for example. take a lad: at any page in "Pirates 3 n Pathfinders“ you. parents. do not decide to rebel and have that book. plus others. relegated to the dust bin.

your child's welfare.

are are far too many failur- ea in all grades. and most par- ents agree that they are over- whelmed at the number

0 r-

bookii required'each year. Why 1 ' i I feel no sting of tears.