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Sounds Grave Warning
Is the federal Department of National RGvenue putting in very grave ,ieopaidy our personal rights and liberties as Canadians? This is the charge made in the Financial Post. a reliable Toronto publication, which devotes a news page and a. lengthy editorial to the subject in its current. issue.
So wide. are the powers of ill- iestigation granted income tax officers. the paper claims. that with the concurrence of the attor- ney-general and by invoking a special section of the income Tax Act. they can compel a judge to send tax violators to iail. No alter- native suspended sentence. or alter- native fine. is permitted.
Because protection against self- incrimination under the. Canada Evidence Act does not extend to such administrative acts as the income Tax Act, income tax of- ficers can question a taxpayer un- der oath about a suspected vio- lation. and such evidence can be used against the taxpayer in court.
Ontario‘s Premier Robarts. it is noted, has named Chief Justice .1. C. McRuer to head a new royal commission to study within his own province this ouestion of the cros- ion of individual rights and liberties by bureaucratic powers. The Post suggests that such 3 move on the federal from s overdue. But Ot- tawa. it warns. is taking an oppos- ite course. flight. now it is seeking legal sanction to let income tax officers question witnesses under oath without allowing the person against whom evidence is being sought for possible criminal charges to be present or to have a lawyer present.
The motives of the civil servants who wield 0' want to wield these arbitrary powers may often he well-intentioned. But this is not the
now
point. Usually it is to “expedite” . the business of the. state, to in- i crease efficiency and so forth. .
that. tyrannical measures are sought. inevery instance. If the allegations ma'de. in the Toronto paper are true. believers in the. rule. of law in the demorratic state have cause for concern.
Still Unexplored
A graphic picture of man‘s ig- norance of the waters that cover seven-tenths of the. earth’s surface was given by a British explorer in a recent BBC broadcast. Whatever prestige the, moon pioneers bring back to their country, he said. and whatever samples they may bring back of the moon itself. it will sure. 1y: be. many decades before mankind w. be able to explore his tenuous foothold on the earth's solitary neu- tral satellite. But the oceans cry or)". to be exploited. just. as soon as thléy are properly mapped and
sperm
understood. We still seem to be a l
long way from reaching this ob- jeOtive.
aln earlier times terrestial man Wis unavoidably ignorant. of the ggat aquatic world around him ex-
for the fringes where he fish- ‘
ivor sailed. But at a time when he if” had submarines of a sort for aJ’hundred years and gone to the h of the deepest sea in a yooope, it is no longer reason- that the oceans should remain unexplored. the water: so un-
i . Oceanography just has not
the backing it should have had. “It began some ninety years ago,
throundaphalf-year
people. difficult conditions. i .
her scientists collected 4.717 new species of animals. and amassed so much information that 20 years and 50 fat volumes were necessary to record all the new facts. Much of the data collected by the Chal- lenger team came up. quite simply. in various buckets attached to vari- ous lengths of string. Although to- day items of equipment are more sophisticated. a large part of ocean- ography is still done by this method.
The field of research is vast in- deed. When one remembers that the water surface of the globe is so much greater than the land sur- face. that the oceans are consist; ently deeper than the land is high —lhe great mass of Africa is main- Iy some 5,000 feet, or less. above the sea. but. about 75 per cent of the oceans is over 10,000 feet deep—it
' suddenly seems quite a fluke that
there is any land at all.
Olie example of the countless surprises the oceans have in store the accidental discovery off South Africa. Just before the war. of the coelacanth—a creature pre- sumcd to be extinct for some 30 mil- lion ycars. And there is the ques- tion whether oceanographers will succeed iii locating the giant squid. It must exist in millions in the depths. for almost. every time a whale dives, it either fails to come up alive or it surfaces with some giant squid within its stomach. This monster grows to 66 feet in length and up to 50 ions in weight. but none has ever been caught alive.
If it is adventure into the un- known that men crave. why indeed go thc A small part of the billions now being expended in planning moon flights would make. some startling additions to our knowledge of the seas around us.
Butter Oil Sales
Our dairymen will receive as good new; the announcement from Ottawa that arrangements have been made for the export sale of 50 million pounds of the government‘s butter oil surplus. virtually clean- ing out its stocks. The government had entered agreements with 11 Canadian firms for the sales, which are expected to take place in the next two or three. months.
Butter oil stocks totalled 85 million pounds last November when the agricultural stabilization board began offering the commodity for export at ‘37 cents a pound—repre- senting a loss of about ‘10 cents a pound or thereabouts. Since then it has sold about :20 million pounds and lost some in a Quebec fire. The huge sale now planned will cut the stocks to about 5 million pounds which will be held in reserve.
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Still unresolved. however. is the question of preventing butter sur- pluses from building up in the future. The floor price of 64 cents a pound will continue to be paid. The “consumer subsidy” introduc- ed in 1962 will be cut from 12 cents a pound to 11 cents, and the government estimates that it will save $3.5 million by this one-cent reduction. But the smaller subsidy is expected to mean higher retail prices for butter. which is not. a good way of encouraging sales.
EDITORIAL NOTES
Great. Britain. reportedly. is ex- periencing a decline in drunkenness among young people. The Christ.- ian Economic and Social Research Foundation thinks that it. is be- cause there has been a change in group behavior. It is no longer the thing to “get tight". Credit, says the Labor paper the Daily Her- ald. must go to the Beatles. In- terest in the Beatles and similar sin-called singing groups has been powerful enough to keep the minds of youngsters off drink and on the apparently pleasing sounds emitted by these ensembles.
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The Japanese mint has begun making gold. silver and bronze med- ills for this year’s Olympic games. About 1.000 coins will be minted for the various events. The Olym- pic charter does not specify the de- sign of medals but modern trad- ition is that the front will show an Olympic winner held on the should- ers of a crowd of people. On the reverse are two goddesses of Vic. tory. holding palm leaves. The new medals will follow this basic design but as an innovation. each medal will be printed with the name of the specific event plus the words “XVIII Olympiad, Tokyo. 1964.?
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THEY CAN’T UNDERSTAND lT
BUSINESS SLOWED DOWN Bitterness Rite ln Parliament
Pai'tismnship and bitterness. rife in this Parliament from the beginning. have now slow- ed the public business almost‘ to stalling speed.
This cannot go on. A Prime Minister can allow the public business to be slowed only so far before asking for dissoluv tion of Parliament. and appeal-
ing to the voters.
I5 this what some of the members of Parliament want? if so. they are out of touch
with the people. The voters of Canada are sick and tired of electionecrinfl. Most of them. have gone through three elec-
tion campaigns —- two federal and one provincial — in the last two years. They can be
expected to deal impatiently anyone responsible for launching them into a fourth.
No one expects Parliament“ in be free of partisanship. It
Toronto Telegram
is a debating place where dif-' erent poinls of view can be voiced and examined and pub- licized. The clash of partiesi and the exposing of policies to the critical eye of the voters. and their representatives make? demoeracy work under the par~ liamentary system.
partisanship and nasti- ness have gone beyond reason in this Parliament. The mem- bers have already done them-. selves out of an Easter recess by seemingly endless debate over procedures and rehain of issues already hasde over on the liustings.
Now. the Prime Minister has been forced to warn the mem- bers that they may do them- selves out of a summer recess.
For two special reasons. it is not in the public interest to hold another general election at this time
A Beo’rle Is A Beadle
Denver Post
There is in the English lan- guage the time-honored word headle. Webster's Big Book de- fines beadle variously as one who proclaims. a criei‘. one whose office It is to walk before dignitaries.
Another Anglo Saxon word of equally impeccable heritage is beetle: The El: Book differen- tiates between two types of be- MIPS: one is defined as “any colepterous insect having four wings. the outer pair being stiff cases which cover the others when they are folded": the oth- er is defined as "a heavy ham- mering or ramming instrument. usually with a wooden head."
'mv a new word has insinuat~ ed itself into the Ian-gauge. It. is Beatlc. an obviously c a p i t al word which is a phonetic cous-g in of beadle and beetle but which i
have no etymological relationship to the older words.
The word Beatle twhich usu- ally appear in the plurall is a patently based on the word
beat. a quaint mid-20th century.
expression of so recent vintage that the Bit! Book is of no
.and abundantly lthrough its
do the
On the basis of what we know. however. about meaning of beadle
we can attempt the following de- finition of Beatles:
It apparently comes in fourl parts (althouzh we doubt it is wingedl. and is some-thin: like a wooden-headed bug that func- tions as a heavy hammering in- . slrument, ll proclaims loudly 17 press agents: another 20th cen-l tury curiosilyl and is certainlyi a crier .\nrl while it generally walks before teenagers. it has —in its native habitat — walked l before dignitaties lat commandI performanccsl.
The word Beatles has been us- ed in the formation of the word Beatlemania. a malady which has severely blighted Great Britain. which ‘has swept! the East Coast and which (if all the nation's picture tubes don't. go out) bigs fair to sear the entire I United States. |
In light. of all this. we would I like to suggest a new word bas- . ed on Beatles. The word in Bea- I
help in determining its mean-| llephobia. We have It.
ing.
And we have had it!
After Hitler’s Pattern
Daily Telegraph. London
Pi‘eSldent Soekarno has ceremonially smashed the lingering hopes of any
"OW last
conferences in which him find a way out of his quar- rel with Malaysia.
One has to go back to Hitler l to find a parallel to his gross sabre-rattling threats to crush.
America got a public black} eye for her combined effort. cajolery and restraint by being told. in English for the benefit. of the American Ambassador: "Go to hell with all foreign aid."
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The outburst is due to Tunku I so
Abdul Rahman 5 fully justified insistence that "cease-fire"
by the withdrawal of Indonesian regular fm'ces. over Whom ln- doneaia admits control. from Malaysia territory.
Indonesian military chiefs are i now announcing that. they will continue to send in regulars and ‘ irregulars that they will. disrupt Malaysia's supply linesI
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There could be no more fla- grant campaign of admitted ag- lrelsion. ‘
Nor could there be a clearer I case for United Nations support 3 than that presented throughoul‘
Malaysia.
The United Nations was
fact the midwife at the birth In
September of the new Federa- tion that Soekarno is determin- ed to grab.
To utioly him it conducted
results I m the three-month round of1 well-mean- : in: third parties sought to help I
. cond Afro-Asian conference. who
0 ‘ performance.
In ’ st I “CWSPOPGFS.
an investigation into whether I the people of the territories roai~ ‘ 1y wanted to unite. and gave I clean bill.
. w it is reported from New York that the Tunku has asked U Thant to occupy himself with the present grave problem.
it. is to be hoped that the dele- gates to the meeting at Jakarta which was to prepare the ac-
witnessed President Soekarno'l understood the significance of what is going on.
Indonesia's armed interfer‘ ence in Malaysia seems about to escalate. and to go on doing
If it is not stopped it is only a matter of time before fish and Mayalslan forces no longer be able to contain the situation by the fantastically dif- ficult and expensive operation of winkling out the aggressor groups in tlhe dense junole
Deliberate preventive action against their anaemny point: across the border might be nec- essaw.
Butitcouldmlllwibeuéd that the United Nation had not had every chance to find some better solution.
SOVIET NEWSMPDM
Soviet Union bu 6.712 the moat widely read of which are Pravda. Iz- vestia. the youth paper Kom- } oomolokaya Pravda and trade i union pm mind.
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The first is that the Federal Government, the provinces and a Royal Commission are strug-
gling to sort out the crisis of:
our Confederation. brought on by Quebec‘s "quiet" and some- times nol so quiet revolution, by hard bargaining and dispas- sionate analysis.
It could do irreparable harm to our country to expose these problems to partisanship and political expediency on the hus- tlings at this time.
The second special reason is that there is nothing in the Ca- nadian political situation to suggest that a general election could be counted on to settle our political affairs for a clear four-year term by giving any one party a good working ma- jority.
The people about
were undecided In
leaders still cs with
present themselv- no unequivocal politi- successes in evidence to swing the voters strongly one way or another.
EFFORT MADE An effort was made. with un- animous parliamentary c u n-
Unsolved Epidemic
By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen
An unusual outbreak took place in a New York convent in 1961-62. 0! the 69 reslder.l nuns, 26 developed fever. fat lgue. headache. depression and muscular pain. The disorder turned out to be epidemic neu~ romyasthenia. a condition eas- ily mistaken for polio. espec-
ially at hhe outset. This mala- 1 13,000 colored mph province represent two percent : of the population. They are tho I
dy also land disease. and it favors (no.
young. Neuromyasthenia m c a n a nerve (neural muscle (my) weakness lasthenia). It usually begins with loss of appetite. nausea. marked weakness. and pains in the head. back. and limbs. The muscles may be so weak. for practical purposes. they are paralyzed. The most troublesome features are the manifestations of irritability. depression. and impaired think-
has been called lce- .
ing. Weakness aggravates lhc behavioral symptoms and the . combination interferes witn ‘ normal living. -
Another characteristic of the i illness is the prolonged period 3 of disability. The disorder lanl- 1 ed one to eight months and < many nuns convalesced for long I periods before returning to nor- 3 mal. In this stage. the disease , may resemble liystcria becaus. of the variety and type of com- plainls.
Neuromyastihenia Is not fa- tal and complete recovery is the rule. The cause of the New 1 York epidemic could not he dc- . termined. Extensive tests were ! made and public health oi‘u-j cials who were called In found little except a marked excre- tion of creatine in the urine. . The significance of this fllldlll'.‘ i is not understood except that it indicates muscle involvcmrn
Numerous epidemics affect- lng muscles and nerves have been reported. including Olll h r e a k s of cervical myaigiu tstil‘r net-kl. vertigo (dlzzmcss' and pleurodynia (chest pain. Many infectious viral diseases also lead to muscle weakness headache. alid excessive fali-
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. true. All of these conditions an
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sent. to expedite public bust-I
ness by limiting questions all the opening of each day's sitf‘I ' o matters of urgency.
questioning the end. To paraphrase the ada gt. with the worst will in th e world. no system can work. i'e- gardless of its intrinsic merit. But our parliamentarians had
was tacked on at
m A = half-l r r‘ - m , iou pe iod for less ui.,enl.i come. or tobacco
better cloak their bitterness: and get on with the country's business. If necessary. M r.
Pearson should keep them sit- ting through the heal and hum- ldity of the Ottawa summer. The voters don't want to meet them on the hustling: right
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difficult to diagnose unless an epidemic takes place.
RIB FRACTURES
C. B. writes: At times I break ribs one after another when I sneeze or twist around Could you explain “that is hap- pening to me?
REPLY
Bone diseases that predispose to fracture with only muim ; trauma include osteoporosis. ostoogencsis imperfecta. nyucr
.parathyroidism. cancer. and in- I
fection. These conditions at. ‘ as difficult to explain all lncv ‘ are to pronounce.
RESTAURA.‘T HEABTBDRN ‘ .l. K. writes: I work in a res- taurant and am eating all file ‘ lime. Could this be responsible - for the heartburn that makes‘
me feel miserable?
EPLY Yes But certain emotional a s p e c l 5 must be considered. such as becoming angry at lnt boss or resentful of working conditions. EYE TIC Mrs. M. Q. writes: Is twitch- ing under the eye caused by a visual or a nervous problem? Y
Both are possibilities. Tho. . nervous aspect may be aggra- vated by ovcrinuulgcnce "in lea.
BODILY DISCOMFORT V. l writes: What is meaning of malaise?
REPLY
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A feeling of general discom- fort or uneasiness. This sensa- tion often is the first indication - of an oncoming infection.
T0 BITING I
E. A. D. writes; Why do A‘ bile my togue frequently while .‘ eating?
REPLY . Lack of concentration on the . hand. '
Job at
i takes time and planning, < ever. Each spring. spray crows .
1 can easily
5 called upon to exercise vitures
; must be developed or invented. i just as were our dreadful wea-
NOTES BY THE WAYT
A fondue in probably u fol- ‘low who zeta onthuoiut‘lc about Iomethin: you don’t live a darn about—Gall Reporter.
I It in only to be modern. All ‘
you have to do is dispute ev- erything your grandparents
Brandon Sun.
Almost half of Canada'l Nel- roes live in Nova Scotla. Tao t c
believed in.
ores! economically. and the most discriminated against Ne-
N
Church Observer.
parenll. a nd'
A zoolotllt any! notion park. should not become "slums wllh a View." There‘s no fear of that. Someone will sure in put up billboards to block the view. -— Ottawa Journal.
l-‘ather— Young men. Jun why are you bringing my dau. ghter home at. six o‘clock in the morning? The Young Man i have to be at work by seven. sin—Toronto Star.
if you laugh at your bou‘ Jokes. it may not prove you
I have a sense of humor. but it
met in Canada. —— Unitedl
does prove you have sense .-
l Calgary Herald.
In A Class By Itself
Nollonal Geographic Society
Tree experts may have solv- ed a smelly problem that has
I
fouled the air for 200 million.
cars. ‘ Female linkao free: (like
holly and some other trees, a‘
inkgo is either male or fe-
8 male! shade many city streets. 3
but bear evil-smelling fruit in the fall. The smell has been deseribed as a combination of burnt caramel age —~ or \orse. Bolanists recently developed
0"
. a spray which hopefully will
fruit buds in spring. The deodorization campalgn ' how-
must pinpoint the potential of- fenders on street by street. And since harmless male ginkgos resemble the fe- male. crews must mark the females to avoid
the trees. DINOSAUR FOOD
Often called living fossils. ginkgos grew 100 to 0 mil- lion years ago.
Dinosaurs nibbled their lacy. fan shaped leaves. Earliest man must have sniffed the smelly fruit of the female
f
died out and most others were modified drastically through. the ages. the ginkgo biloba not only survived but changed very little. Now planted as a decorative tree that reaches 100 feel. it thrives in the modern city. indifferent to smog. soot. and meager sidewalk soil. In
autumn. the fmlage turns a bright canary-gold. The prehistoric ginkgos of
North America left a beautiful
and stale cab-.
spraying all j
make the trees drop their small “llllcll means
legacy in what Is now Washing- ton Stale's Ginkgo Petrified Fo- rest Remains of trees. buried eons ago under laws. have lur- ned into gemlike stone
No known ginkgos now grow in the wild. Their preservation is attributed to the care of Chi~ nose Buddist priests and monks. The tree was consider- ed sacred in China and Japan. The oldcsl specimens are found near temples.
Travelers look the ginkgo. "silver fi‘uit"iin Chinese. to Europe early in the 18th century. and to the Unit.- ed States somewhat later.
The planter of an early spew imeii in the United States paus- ed to write: Thou queer. onl- Iaiidisli fan-Icade tree Whose grandfather came o'er the sea.
MISSING-LINK 'I‘REF. The ginkgo loses its the fall. Sflmf‘llillf‘s night. Their resemblance maidenhair fern gives it the English name of maiden-hair tree. Bolanisls believe the leaf is almost a missing link be- tween for its and flowering plants. They put the ginkgo in a class by itself ‘(ill‘lkL’thCflC‘u
vces, . because no other plant has sim- While most prehistoric plants ,
ilar bolanical characteristics. Soft. finc- textured ginkgo wood is used to make chess boards and chcssmen in China. The nauseous fruit encloses a kernel. which Is roasted and eaten as a delicacy in the Or- ient. An ancient Chinese herb book recommended it as treat- ment for tumors. But the Na- tional Cancer Institute. inves- tigating the ginkgo in its plant research program any curative properties.
Future Of The “Overkill”
New York Times There has been justifiable re- , This is the enduring challenge joicin: at the relaxation of alo~ and t e a bid in it hope I
mic tension between this coun- try and Russia. The world has
been led to a higher opinion of l
humanity's humanity and, to a degree. of its wisdom. But nei- ther we nor our desoendants. to the end of time. can ever afford nverconfidence. This is a thing that has to be worked at — per- sistently. intelligently. forever. ‘rom now on. unless some other blight reduces us to wan- (lf‘i‘lllll and ignorant tribes. liv- ing on roots and berries_ crack- ing raw shellfish on the beach. mankind will haVe the know- lctlge and means to kill itself. That is the final "overkill." We put an end to the experiment. of conscious and reasoning life on this planet. Thus we in this country. those in Russia. those in all countries with an atomic potential. are
and restraint: never before re- quired of men on this earth. In order to live at all it ll neces- sary for us to take one more step toward becoming super- men. Humaneness and wisdom are weapons of survival that
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