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RAGE | 4 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1966.

Still Far Behind

Among the supplementary esti- mates tabled ‘in Parliament, recently was an additional $3 million grant to the Medical Research Council for its scholarship and grants-in-aid program, to bring the resources of the Council “in line with its. responsibilities.” This organization is the chief agency of the Government in its support of medical research carried out in the universities...and.‘teaching hospitals. “The additional funds will be applied to the Council’s 1966-67 program, for which provision had already been made in the main estimates for an amoynt of $12,350,000. They may be taken, says. a news release from the federal Department of Industry, ‘‘as an indication of the Government’s in- tention to give strong support to medical research in this country.” Doubtless the extra grant will be welcomed. But in view. of the federal ~plans-for-pushing medicare through — on a universal basis, one wonders how _far it will go in meeting the demands for the hugh crash program that is - needed at this time. The Gundy re-. port, endorsed by nearly 400 of the country’s top medical educators and scientists and presented to the Gov- ernment in-January,-calls_for_spend-_ ing of $150 million on new research facilities in the next five years and a 514-fold increase in federal research

grants by 1970. And we must give .

urgent attention now, the report says, to-the problem of expanding our medical schools.

CAPITAL FUND — Ottawa plans, during the current parliamentary ses- sion, to establish a'$500 million Medi- cal.Resources Fund with the idea of providing $33 million annually for 15 years for medical school construction. But this fund is for capital expenses only. It will not pay any part of the schools’ operating expenses, such as teachers’ salaries. And badly as they need more physical plant, the schools need teachers even more. They are in demand everywhere, and they must be wooed by the deans.

As for medical research, the Gundy report figures that to set up one new scientist in the business and support him, with his team of assistants and technicians, costs $152,000. Once he’s - established, it will cost about $40,000

a year to keep this scientist in his lab. At the moment, we have 1,072 full- time teacher-scientists in our medical schools. By 1970, the Gundy report says, we shall need’ to more than _double this figure, to 2.348. To build- _.labs for these new men will cost. $93 million, plus another $57 million to equip them. < This total of $150 million for new facilities is almost as much as the total that will be available in these five years from the Medical Resources Fund. But that fund must also pay for teaching facilities in the expanded schools: The report says the $500 mil- “Jiobn—in the fund must. be greatly. dine. creased or the spending of the tioney must be telescoped into a much short- er_period than the 15 years now proposed by the Government.

LITTLE. INDUCEMENT — Can- ada’s top medical scientists now draw their principal support for their re- search projects. from the Medical Research Council. But only 46 teacher scientists—or about one out of 25— qualify for the top MRC rank of re- search associate. These men draw an average salary of $14.000.a vear, and are allowed to earn no more &H.000-extra from teaching or medical practice. Thus these top-line scientists earn aittfe: more than the $19,000 in- come of the average practising Cana- dian doctor. Actually, most research- ers earn a good deal less.

What disturbs the scientists mare ' the Gundy report «calls if downright ~ demoralizing is the lack of monev ter

finance thei: research ‘projétts

Actually, it seams. there isyqnly $25

milliowW® year avaitabte toulat tye Mt researth (in Canada; and

medical

ry

than -

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about $1.5 million or that comes from

air ! the U.S. government.

The report makes clear the essen- tial link between the money spent on medical research and the supply: of ‘doctors. Our supply is barely ade

quate today, with one doctor-for each_ |

879 Canadians—a ratio that. places Canada about 20th among the nations of the world. Just to maintain this ratio we must somehow find 1,300 new doctors every year. But our 12 medical schools combined produce a total of only 850, of which’a sizeable bloc--equal to the graduating classes ‘of the three largest schools—-quickly drifts off to the United States. Unless we want the quality of our medical care to suffer we must substantially improve that ratio, because’ the . advent of national medicare will in- _increase the demand for physicians’ services. Certainly the extra $3 million ad- ded to the appropriation in the main

estimates for Medical Research Coun- |

cil activities this year represents an improvement. But it does seem, in the circumstances, like a drop. in the bucket.

Disenchanted

‘fo their credit, it is the younger generation of parliamentarians who are denouncing most strongly, and with least partisan bias, the dis- graceful level reached in House of Commons proceedings last _ week. “Men like Tory David MacDonald, the

| 29-year-old minister from Prince | Edward Island,” writes Michael Best,

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of the Ottawa staff of the Toronto Daily Star, who has a feature story on the front page of- his newspaper tel-

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ling how the Munsinger debate—with |

its implications of vengeance, black-. mail and-character destruction—left many of these junior MPs disillusion-

ed., Two months ago they took their |

seats in Parliament for the first time, — " filled with vigor and*idealism; proud ‘inheritors of its traditions. Their faith has-been rudely shaken, and they have searched for the answers. ae disturbed and frightened ’ Mr. MacDonald -is quoted. as | vita: “is that people in’ Parliament _can believe their opponents can do only bad, and that they themselves | are the only honest, true and right- eous.”’ He expected to find “this black

‘and~ white thinking- among~children;~;- . or perhaps in wartime when you've

got to hate the enemy,” but not in Parliament, “among the supposedly mature men who lead the nation.”

Politics, he maintained, must be based on “a certain basic respect among foes. If, we don’t respect people who hold views opposite to our own, we’re lost.” And he saw no trace of that respect as the parties who hold opposite views went at each other's throats.

The Prince County. member is also quoted as: saying that “to a degree, the Liberals may have been right in the election campaign when they said a majority government was needed.” He thought the performance may have pointed up another Parliamen- tary weakness—too many lawyers. He named John Diefenbaker, his owii leader, as the “prime exponent” of the courtroom style in Parliament> but referred to some of his disciples as having “gone beyond Diefenbaker in viciousness.”

This rates full marks for outspoken- ness; but it leaves unsaid what the _ Star's Ottawa. editor, Peter C. _New- man, places strong emphasis on in the same issue of the paper—namely, the responsibility of Lester Pearson as well as John Diefenbaker for turning

Parliament into a feuding arena. Also, as Newman points out, in view of the behaviour of their own front-benchers the.-Liberals are only mesmerizing themselves with the idea that they

4 could control the House if they had

a majority. Minority governments have been made to work in other de-.’ mocracies. What's lacking at Ottawa — ‘is not a majority but inspired leader- ship. :

This writer savs that even the most cynical members: of the House have been made aware that their power to influence events is oozing away in an atmosphere of bitter persecution and shrill .defense. -Little wonder that their junior colleagues are voicing their disenchantment, and crying as

it were in chorus: ‘A plague on both your houses!”

EDITORIAL NOTE Oregon. ‘and Washington this summer expect to open.a 4!2-.mile- long bridge spanning: the Columbia

River at its mouth, thws finishing the Pacific Coast HighwaW and closing the’ Jast water gap Jeft on the coast- line-hetween--Canada and Mexico Several-vears: im planning, the $24

million bridge will link Astoria, Ore., and Mergler, Wash., and will replace aferey (hat has plied the iver fot

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ARC DE TRIOMPHE?

OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson

Readers may: ask why -tawa Report’’ never reported the’ most sensational break in Ottawa since Gouzenko fled the Russian Embassy. i

True, on Séptember 30; I could have reported: ‘Tonight

“Ot-, dians;

story to)

"1959->

I had dinner with John Diefen-'

baker=-and— Ricky.

I could have reported that the Li- 7 berals were considering the use | of the Munsinger story as‘a sec- | ret election weapon. if

But “Ottawa Report” never | -Mmentioned the gossip . because. | quite simply, as long as a pub-—- lie figure is adequately perform- | ing his public duties, I believe that his private life is his own) business... This used to be al healthy Canadian ‘tradition; none

| thought the less of Sir John A.

Macdonald because he hugely enjoyed the national drink of his none respect- ed less Sir Wilfred Laurier be- cause there were suggestions of | an illegitimate child; more re-| cently, whispers of sex and evid- . ence of drink in the highest | places have not been blazoned in newspaper_headlines. |

has been sleeping in my bed?” | -

ADMITTED .AS SECURE

Gerda Hessler was‘born in East | Germany in 1929. A brief mar- | Tiage in Germany to a citizen of USA - who by chance played | baseball for the old Ottawa Ath- | letics - gave her the name Mun- singer. Sometimes she was) known as Olga Schmidt; when | she came to Canada, her friends | in Montreal called her Ricky. | That was no doubt why George | Hees could not at first recall | meeting a woman named Olga | Munsinger. | Gerda. Munsinger stepped a- ~ shore front the steamship Arosa’ Star in Quebec City on August , 7, 1956, a welcomed immigrant whose passage was assisted by |

|. the Liberal Government with the

taxpayers’ money. As an imml- grant from behind the Iron Cur- tain, her background and = secu- rity were presumably thorough- ly checked, and she was approv- | ed by or on behalf of Immigra- tion Ministéf -J..W. Pickersgill as suitable to become a Cana- | dian citizen. In the eyes of the LI- beral Government headed by} “Uncle. Loule’’ (St. Laurent, as evidenced.._by._the _ regulations ‘they enforced-far-would-be immi- grants, Gerda Munsinger was judged to threaten neither the se-

curity nor the morals of Cana- | | thievery at a giant Soviet indus-

‘Our Yesterdays

(From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE. YEARS AGO (March. 23, 1941) Jeanette MacDonald and son Eddy starred- in Noel .Co- ward's ‘‘Bitter Sweet’ at the Prince Edward Theatre in Char- Jottetown.

if

Nel-

and Queen, howed

King millions

Led by the _ the Empire's

their heads and prayed for its

defenders. and friends, and for

a speedy victory. : TEN YEARS AGO (March 23, 1956)

Walter Baker was appointed Director of the Charlottetown Protestant Welfare Bureau at a’ meéting of the directors held at the YMCA.

lhe Atherton ,Regals oham

mered out a strone-9? win ever the Springhill All Stars in’ the Alberton Rink in the open ing taime total set Nova Scola [he title

Bame of a two 1¢8 tor the PRI

tarmediate oR!

Munsinger-"; And so-on, until six years later

What's Become Of Our Old Tradition?

entitled to rely on that govern- ment judgment. DEATH OR DISHONOUR

I have just read ‘‘The Last | Battle’*,--deseribing-the- capture. of Berlin in the Spring of 1945. This enthralling book was writ- ten—by—Cornelius_Ryan, the aut- hor of ‘‘The Longest Day” a- | bout D-day. He describes Ger- | man doctors warning their pa- | tients of the fate worse than | death which awaited every fe- | male between 8.and 80 years old | in. the path of the Russian ar- “mies;—and—giving—them— tablets or even rat poison for use in that emergency. Gerda Hes-

sler. lived through the ars. be |

occupation: for three years be-

_ Tantalizin gly Mysterious

and all Canadians Were | ea: escaping,

|By Dr. Theodore R. Van Delien ‘lings. The first is an easy and

‘shall come: Several years ago

-|later~+It never had been opened,

Meaning Of Euthanasia

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(CP)—An_ in- tax. rates this

WASHINGTON crease in U.S. Euthanasia has two mean- can economic book picks up | fresh inflationary features _un- der the stimulus of the Vietna- | mese war: —

The: current debate is prim- arily about the, timing and | whether a tax rise should be poet of the restraining package

luding tighter credit and fur- | ther reduced federal spending |

calm death and the second, pain- lessly putting to death persons suffering from incurable and distressing diseases. It is the latter that most of us associate with enthanasia. Some believe dn it and others do not.

Most of, the believers are

healthy. Their belief is strong so lo ii One

as they remain : my ‘patients ‘ reminded me from time to time that if he developed an incurable and painful disorder to induce death by injecting into a vein. When he was stricken ith a fatal disease, he promptly ask- ed for a battery of consultants. All physicians have patients who beg for a "mercy ‘killing” when suffering becomes intoler- able. The doctor refuses be- cause ‘he cannot play the part of God and decide when death

and other domestic programs.

Meanwhile, the president and his advisers continue to “argue that both guns and butter, are possible.

Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, in a Feb. 17 statement that still stands publicly,. what- | ever contingency. plans are | afoot, said:

‘‘We have seen too many ex- pansions turned into recessions by slamming down too hard on the brakes. We’ have seen far too much unemployment - under - employment and much idle productive semaine far too long to countenance

less and drastic cutbacks in private demand—thus deliber- ately creating idle reserves of manpower and capacity.”

the brother of a physician was dying of cancer and begged him to substitute poison for the pain- relieving drug he was re- ceiving.

The medico thought about tt at length and finally handed his brother a small box that suppos- edly contained enough. poison to kill. The. cancer-riddied—victim—} thanked him, put the box in the drawer, and died three weeks

Defence Secretary Robert Mc- | Namarg, also seeking to keep the economic situation cooled psychologically, has argued that | the demands of the Vietnamese war comparatively are less than that of the Korean. campaign.

The counter-contention is that Korea came during a period of

and the capsules proved to be nonpoisonous.

Euthanasia is widely practic- ed among suffering animals by | giving them the coup de grace to end their misery. It also was practiced unconsciously by phy- sicians. prior to the turn of the century. There were no specif- ie remedies and death was in- advertently hastened by with- drawing pints of blood, covering the body with leeches, purging, cupping, and-what not. This was the custom of the day: John C. Lettsom (1744-1813) was sald to have written the following: “When any sick to me apply,

I physicks, bleeds, and sweats

has pushed demand close to or | even past supply, with conse- quent inflationary hazards.

The argument has _ direct | meaning for Canada, tightly | tied to the U.S. economy.

undergoing = | veral operations and perm

‘ent health damage, she oe | What’ s that to me, I. Lettsom.”

| This also deserves to be remem- | bered when considering later | events.

Did .Dief and I really dine with | her? Yes - we and 3,497 other |

| people. The occasion was a din-

ner at Montreal's Show Mart, following the’ Quebec custom, to honour Pierre Sevigny just af- | ter he was appointed to the Ca- | binet:. Most Quebec Ministers | and Tory MPs bought tickets to | attend; so did thousands of Tory | _|aupporters and friends and sight- seers. I believe the Party Lea- | der and. the-Press. were invited | guests rather than--cash custo- mers; Saye: we were there. |

National oy Soclety

Strange creatures may swim t about in the dense atmosphere of Venus, target of recent So- viet space probes.

On earth, space scientists point out, fish and whales live suspended in—water._On- Venus living things may float in the thick clouds that completely hide the planet's surface.

At present, no one knows ff

there is life on Venus. Skeptics

| point out that in 1962 the Marin- | er II space craft reported that the surface temperature of Ven- | us might reach 800 degrees Fa- hrenheit—hot enough to melt lead.

The finding, based on radio | emissions from the planet, arg- | ued against the possibility of life on Venus, but some scientists- believe the data could have been misinterpreted. The sur- face of Venus’ may not really be | that hot- Even if it is, life might exist in the milder “atmosphere. RESEMBLES EARTH

Venus remains ‘ tantalizingly mysterious, though no other planet approaches earth so clos- ely— a mere 2% million miles away. Like Mars and earth. Venus orbits about the sun in a region where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for life--to—be-~a--possibility...,....

Furthermore, no other planet so resembles earth in size and , density. These qualities bear on- the life question because a very large planet would have such | power gravity that living things would be crushed. A much

t

smaller one could not retain an | us

atmosphere for inhabitants to breathes

No one knows what lies be- neath Venus’s clouds. jome as-

tronomers have suggested that

| they disagree on whether the | sea consists of water or petrol- | eum.

| humerous

|LIFE JUST STARTING? | us as.a world where life is just

|phere, having more carbon and less free oxygen .than that on.

| earth

| what closer to the sun than is earth, it has received more sol- /ar energy. Thus life could have

the planet may be covered by jungles of incredible | others say that Venus ia sore

likely a dustbowl. Still other ex- |

perts believe that an enormous ocean envelopes the planet, but |

The contradictory opinions

| arise :not only from the difficul-

ty of gathering data, but the am- biguity of the findings, and the | interpretations to which the somewhat shaky facts lend themselves. |

Some scientists envision Ven-

beginning. The Venusian atmos-

earth, resembles the air that is known to have had long ago.

One theory holds that life once lexisted on Venus and was anni- hilated. Since Venus is some-

evolved -earlier and then been wiped out, possibly by the Ven- | usians themselves through ‘some development akin to the earthly hydrogen bombs. -Appearing... as. both the Morn- ing Star and the Evening Star, Venus is the brightest and most | beguiling of planets. With or | /without life, it remains, in H mer’s words, ‘‘the most beauti- ful star set in the sky.”

The ancients worshipped Ven- : Polynesians paid homage to Today

it with human sacrifices.

‘earth's Twin Sister is again ex- |

citing. the human imagination as man reaches out to discover

| her secrets.

The Stran

A story used to go the rounds { at one time of ‘a little ingenious

trial complex.

Sentries were ‘posted. not so

| much to keep spies out as to dis-

courage light- fingered comrade

workers,

One comrade worker passed through the ’barrier many times | pushing a wheelbarow full of straw, .The comrade sentry al- ways searched the straw, but never found anything in it or on the suspect's person.

Years later they met again under different, very frendly, circumstances: ‘Tell me, com. rade. worker, now that it! doesn't matter, what were you stealing?’

“Wheelbarrow: 8;

But truth is- stranger than -fie- tion, Word comes from Castle Air Fovce Base, California, of

the daring exploits of a 14-vear- old and two l3-vear-olds* They first \asited the hase an hieveles. Then they were in. buai ness

They liherated some oun forms. The. 14-year-old. donned | that of a heutenant colonel, yuriors® those

his | of captan or lieu |

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their .»

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Sh News

In the course of about two weeks

; they--came and went as they pleased, getting sharp nee

from sentries,

They drove off, with saversl thousands of dollars worth of equipment. including four trucks. That's an improvement on wheelbarrows.

With that sort | of security. thank heaven their flair didn’t run to H-bombs.

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* Televisions

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Ibert. ttractions. If after that they: choo: Mote has many sites

Despite periods of ‘‘unusual wea- | ther,” it has one of the best | climates in, the world. The scen- ery is varied and full of joy. The chinooks alone makes Al- berta~spectacular.-- :

Alberta has wealth and pros .perity, good government . and public administration of super- int quality. No place no earth provides more opportunity for

‘to die,

. STREP THROAT K. R. writes: .What would ;eause.five bouts..of, strep sore | throat in six months? REPLY I_assume that cultures were taken in each attack to deter- |mine whether streptococci were responsible. If not, the sore \throat may be traceable to a

year is considered inevitable by many observers as the Ameri- |

in the vast Johnson anti-poverty

COMPARE VIET NAM-KOREA~

economic slack and Viet Nam |

youth. The northern tands are |

variety of organisms, to allerzy, irritation, or the common cold.

BOURBON AND WATER - A reader writes: shot_ glass of bourbon mixed with a tumbler of water for re- laxation after dinner. Recently |.1_constantly_retch and. lose _ my meal. Why?

T enjoy a”

opening up. Educatoin is less expensive here and of a hgh degrec of excellence. Social ab fare is making giant strides, .2

ince or nation. ;

All this ts so well know.’ that doubuiess repetition is tiresome, but Texas has had that ehect “or the natives.”

certain areas atead-of-any-%rov-—

' You may have develope’ an |

ed bunion is best treated surgic- | ally. | 5 . IMPETIGO || ff It's Fish and can

L.A.. writes: Is penicillin or ;

‘any other antibiotic ‘elpful in |, be ane | clearing up impetigo? |

impetia | “WE HAVE IT"

Yes. Impetigo is caused by | Fr

various organisms, chiefly | : | staphyloccocci and cree neeee. esh Frozen A variety of treatments also are y |used, including all the better Cured Fish baat aeons ;

( 3 correspondence ; f te Dr. Van Dellen should be | QUEEN ST. MEAT addressed to: Dr. Theodore MARKET Van Dellen, C-O0 Chicago Trib- | 223 Queen St. Dial 47336

REPLY But now Albertans learn that that_they have realy been hid- ing one shining light under ea bushel.

Did you. know that the prov-

| ince is rat-free, while other

ulcer ér obstruction that is unre- lated to the drink. Some persons also are sensitive to alcohol. BUNION "G. T: writes; Are there any | exercises to decrease the size of

!a bunion? REPLY No. If anything. the bunion | will increase in size with exer- ‘eise unless proper. shoes are worn and better walking habits are instituted. A well establish- |

keep them out?

It's true! Joe Curba, the pest-control supervisor of the agriculture department, con- firms it. He keeps a vigilant patrol at the Saskatchewan bor- der, since rats infiltrate from

une, Chicago, Illinois.)

Charlottetown to:

provinces fight desperately to

Uy, s. Economic Pressures

MacKenzie

ceil an Press Staff, Washington

, Former vice-president Rich. ard M. Nixon, likely candidate for the Republican presidential! nomination in 1968, has said:

' “Johnson inflation will be the | major domestic issue in the 196° (November: congressional elec. tion) campaign.

“His itresponsible refusal to ‘face up to the danger vof eco. | nomic escalation at home at a | time when we have military escalation abroad will cost -his | party scores’. . . of seats." | Assorted difficulties face | Johnson in gauging the tax-in- crease “mood at a time when even Dr. Walter W. Heeller, chairman of the presidential economic advisers for 1961-64, urges swift planning of .tem- porary tax increases because the “fine mist of incipient in- | flation may be turning into light rain.”

CONGRESS MIGHT BALK

For examplé, Congress might balk at this stage and urge in-

president’s domes program. Or,.as argued, severe a psychological damper might turn boom to mild recession. It might backfire’ politically among a public treated to tax cuts only two years ago.

But pressures are mounting | for the economy. and for the

in these areas: Rising imports, labor's intentions to seek wage increases beyond v.'untary guide lines set by the govern- ment; more signs of commodity price increases; and shortages of material from textiles to metals. ;

At least some . Democrats, speaking through the Joint Eco- nomic Council of Congress, have | said evidence: increases daily of ja for a general tax in-

crease before the year ends.

Republicans agree, but prefer | cuts ini federal spending.

Alberta Stakes New Claim

Lethbridge Herald

the east. Evidently Saskatche- wan is unfriendly to rats and they scurry out as fast as they can.

One rat does a damage of $20 a year. In the U.S: damage is---estimated-..at...almost...four billion dollars annually!

way to. keep out those two- legged rats one reads about in eastern crime scandals!

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presented —a | nated globe Mowing the~ latest frontier changes in Asia and Africa to St.Francis Xavier University here. Another _ new

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the Scottish language, pre-

| sented by Frank Ross, former | lieutenant - governor of British | | Columbia. ~

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