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P; E 4 TUESDAY. SEPT. 8. 19M. 9'» . . The Broader VlSlon

"The reenactment. of the visit of the Fathers of Confederation to Charlottetown received nation-wide publicity last week. It also inspired some. interesting reflections on how the Fathers, were they to re- turn at this time, would seek to improve upon their efforts in shap- ing a broadening destiny for the country. In what, way would they wish to change conditions they had not. foreseen but. which have since arisen? They builded. indeed, bet- ter than they knew; but, how would they build if only they had known more?

This point is raised by the Mont.- real Gazette. which suggests that. the Fathers would, for one thing. realize that they had no real con- ception of the responsibilities they were placing on the provinces when they assigned them the fields of education, health. and roads. They would be the first, surely, to admit i that their work of 1864 would have to be refashioned to help the prov- ‘ inces to meet, the changes brought about in the intervening years.

Education was no great question when schooling was not compulsory i at any age, and when the univer- sities. small as they were. were left largely to churches to support. As for health. little was known about illness. and sick persons were al- most always cared for at home. Nor were roads any great concern in the days of horse and carriage. when 'even in the cities many streets were unpaved. or covered only with a little macadam. and when snow and ice became the winter pave- ment. for the sleighs.

The Fathers even believed that the per capita financial respon- sibility of the provinces. so far from growing. would decline with the years. As municipalities grew and multiplied, they, with their tax on property, would relieve the provin- cial governments of many obliga- tions.

Changed beyond all recognition is the situation in this regard; and there can be no question that the Fathers, looking about themselves today. would he the. first to admit that their work of NM would have to be refashioned to help the prov— inces meet the changes. So far from standing rigidly on what they had done. they would urge Cana- dians to be as flexible in approach

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would urge the same spirit of re-

Unspeciacular Progress The United Nations is up to its

most part are a direct result of re- fusals by more than half the mem- bers to pay their share of the funds to keep it going. Fortunately. there appears to be no unwillingness among the debtor nations to con- tribute to one phase of the organ nation’s'program—a phase which has been operating unspectacularly but with gratifying success since Its creating in 1959, and which is him as the United Nations

we] Fund.

Me countries. Governments ” nations contribute to it, and projects are under a low-income regions, from surveys of natural to training of skilled 'man- - cost of the effort so ' flinch—40 per cent pro- 1' MItaelfandOOper

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more than the services It Is render- :.ng under this program, Its exist- ance would be justified. Lately, for example, an effective counterattack has been mounted against the plague of desert locusts. a scourge since Biblical times. It may soon be brought under permanent control. In this favored part of the world. we find it hard to imagine what this achievement would mean.

A square mile of desert locusts weigh an estimated 300 tons and eat their own weight in food each day. Vast armies of them swarm through Asia. Africa and the Middle East. In Ethiopia alone they devoured enough crops in 1958 to feed one million people a year. The UN fund has developed new techniques to seek out and destroy their breed- ing zones. An international network provides three weeks’ advance warn- ing of their activities.

Other tangible achievements have been scored throughout the underdeveloped w o r l d. Tunisian farmers increasing their milk pro- duction through new cattle feeding methods. construction of the first major hydroelectric plant in the Sudan. soil surveys showing that idle lands in southern Togo can be used for large scale production of fruit and sugar cane are but a. few of the examples cited in a UN report.

Canada. of course. contributes to this fund and takes pride in doing so. In UN Secretary General Thant's words there are few if any obliga- tions more urgent. and few if any

. programs of international assistance

helping more effectively in the pro- motion of world peace and security.

Mr. Jodoio's Warning

The increase in "hard core" un- employment brought about by auto- mation was emphasized by Presi- dent Claude Jodoin of the Canadian Labor Congress In his Labor Day message this year. And it is high time indeed that this problem was receiving some attention in Canada. It should be worrying our politicians at Ottawa 9. lot more than some of the issues over which they are wrangling at. interminable length.

In the United States, Congress has approved a thorough study of this subject and its implications.

_ A 14 member national commission

will do the work and issue a. report by Jan. I, 1966. Do we propose to wait in Canada until this report Is available, instead of grappling with the problem ourselves?

The U.S. study was prompted, in part, by doubt among economists that automation is merely another chapter in industrial progress. What is being seen now is that it is noth- Ing less than a revolution in pro- duction.

What we are confronted with is a unique combination—the com- puter and the automated self-regu- lating machine. This, it is claimed, puts us on the threshhold of a sys. tem of almost unlimited productive capacity which requires progres- sively less human labor.

Already it is known that in the United States more than half of the new jobs created since 1957 were in the public sector—mainly in teaching. Job creation in the private

sector of the economy, except in

service industries, has not been encouraging. Economic expansion is moving at an accelerated pace, yet nearly four million Americans can- not find work. About 1.2 million of these are teenagers. With the bumper crop of post-World War 11 babies scheduled to descend on the labor market in the next few years, more and more jobs will have to be found. Still, automation marches forward.

It is argued that without com~ puters, advanced machinery and technological progress, industry would be atalemated. But the chal- lenge does not lie in prohibiting modern inventiveness. It lies In making automation a genuine boon —not a bane—for the working classes as well as for other aeg- ments of the population. That is why a study in depth is so import- ant to Canadians as well as to our American neighbors.

EDITORIAL NOTE

From Ottawa comes the report that while the defense department Is in the process of shedding public relations staff, the new industry department will hire as informs.- tlon officers. This would be a ratio of one .I for

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OLYMPIC TRIALS

IN SOUTH AFRICA

Reaching The Point Of No Return

CAPETOWN Last month! may Stand in South Africa po- . litical history as the period in which Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd made his decisive break- through to the English - speak- Ing community here, and ‘ which while South Africans gen- erally passed the point of no an- } luntary) return on the apart-l heid course.

The tre nd in this direction was perceptible long before South Africa quit the Common- , wealth In 1961. But the clrcum- stances of that event and the other pressures to isolate this . country which it encouraged ! gave that movement new mom- ' entum.

To all such pressures has been a predicrably born reaction which, though often camouflaged In uncon-. cern, has brcd sympathy Wllll: 1r. Verwoerd’s thesis that. short of surrender by whith South Africa to African Nation- alist rule, the world is beyond l pleasing. And ' ced yona reasoning with, following lhc‘ exclusion from the Tok yoi Games of the proposed mixed- racial South African learn,

Dr. Verwoerd is also seen by m a'ny here as being proved slowly right In another part of his bas'c argument —— that if . white South Africans stand * firm foreign threats will ab- ate.

NEW ATTITUDE Despite peripheral external trade continues ‘ pand (exports to Canada, for instance, are expected to leach a record level this year. as Imports from Canada did 135: year). Similarly. there is evidence newly realistic attitude toward South Africa on the part of black leaders in neigh- boring or nearby territories Dr. Hastings Banda of indepen- dent Malawi and Seretse Kha- ma of soon . to - be independ- ent Bechuanaland are among those who have emphasiz~ ed that. they cannot afford to participate in any continental crusade agatnm South Africa Others are likely to follow suit. and the Verttvoerdian vts- lon of a substantial communi- ty of states. from Moise Tshom- be's Congo southward, persua- ded by mutual interests to live In harmony together. no longer

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seems as completely iar-fetc- 5 bed as it formerly did. ‘ Opponents have to concede. , too, that the first cxpcrl- , ment in pure apartheid - the I setting up of the semi - indepen- dent Bantustan State in the ,

Transkei —— has gone better, so 3 far. th 3 it they expected. In fact, Opposition Leaders have ‘ stated recently that it would ‘ no longer be possible to rover. i so the Transkei process should i they come to power. ;

A KEY EVENT

All these longish - term trends. like every fresh out-i urst of violence to the north, ‘

- have made Dr. \‘crwoerd's du- ,‘ I

mcstic image of far - sight- I ed wisdom and father figure assurance irresistible to more I and more While South Africans.

But the event which gave a i decisive spurt to this grad u a l i moyement was the exploding of l a bomb In the crowded passeng-

nesb u r g railroad a month ago. I

The emotional blast effect of in- ‘ contestany aimed at inflictingl

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:lism rampant and

human injury. which ll achieved a bloody scale. went high and wide.

Public passions were so ar- roused that, for a week after The Bomb, even to criticize Gov- ernment policies was enough to identify the critic. in

bomb - throwing revolutionar- res.

Now a month later, the geo metry of political argument has resumed its normal shape. But beneath the surface there re- mains h public mood which legiti- mate almost any action which the security police may care to ake.

Once there would have been

‘= strenuous public protest. Nou,‘

smce The Bomb and In a per- iod when rumor rules. there is a wide tendency to give the se- curity police carte blanche. For Dr. Verwoerd there are

i or concourse of the main Johan- “Ch palmcal d i v idends With

in disar- anti-intellectua- I‘IOW . IIO‘ thing neulralism no longer the fashionable political shel- ter that it was.

the liberal movement ray, impatient

Preview Of l984 Models

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In these days when nearly everybody owns one. nearly everybody ls interested in what the automobile of the future will be like.

A British scientist, Dr. John Black, hazarded a guess re- cently. The car of HIM, he says. will be I ik e the fair - ground bumper car and its occupants will be packaged like eggs.

For the next 20 years, Dr. B l a c k thinks. automotive designers and engineers will be concentrating on producing an accident . proof car.

He predicts that 1984 automo- biles will be equipped with a spring - loaded bumper right around the body and built to

ride ov er the engine on Im- pach Inside the car. the occup-

ants - in the event, of a collis- ion — will be held safely in their seats by rubber safety “shelves” which swing down from the upright.

He also envisages short- wave radio communiation be~

Rewriting

Toronto at

Premier“ Jean Lesage display~ ed an unworthy petulance at Charlottetown w h e n he com- plained that not a word of French had been spoken during the reenactment of the historic conference there 100 years be- fore. He brushed aside the as- surance that this was historical- ly authentic with these words: "Even If Cartier did not speak French at. the conference. there should have been some at thls performance."

Thus Mr. usage, who seems bent on meklng a career or having his own way, Is ready to exchange the French fact for the French fiction. He felt he had been Insulted and that only a rewriting of history would atone.

His patently unreasonable M.- titude might be dismissed as an amusing tantrum but for the fact that Mr. Lesage showed a disappointing failure to grasp the significance of Sir Georges Etienne Center's willlngness to speak in English on that day to 1364. As the spokesman for French Canada at a critical mo- ment In history, he had far more reason than Mr. Lessge new has for a display of fierce

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This Is the Important point the; Mir. Lesage has somehow mis- 59d and why his anger Is cause for sadness.

The book. Confederation and Its Leaders. by M. 0_ Hammond gives this account of Cartier and his motives: "After bitter- ly resisting (George) Brown's plan for representation by pop- ulation because, he said, it would be unjust to Lower Can- ada. Cartier joined hands with Brown In 1864 for the greater union of the British North Ame: lean colonies. .

"For his vision and states manshlp. he paid the acne price demanded by smaller minds. He was new of m- eonslsteney but he rele that he did not regret lils earlier de clsion. He was taunted with u crIfIcInl his own race but be res fat was safe guarding their nauoaellty a n o religion. He wee op d by Influentlal men of both races h a m province until. almost alone among the Influential men he carried the banner of union."

Canada today. no less than too years ago. needs leaders with minds bl; enough to see beyond the nearest provincial bum nd the next year. c» star la too good a model to have

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tween drivers. which will allow them to talk to each other while care are In motion at any speed.

As far as ease of driving Is concerned. Dr. Black recom- mends grouping all controls within as Inches of the driver, between elbow and shoulder height. with all do]: on the driver's eye~line.

i enlightening. This

large I ,' sectors of the public mind. with

Depressibri After Birth

By Dr. Theodore I. Vol Della- A Chicago grandmother writ.- es: “My daughter gave birth to a baby two months ago and she has been depressed for the, last month. This condition ls getting worse. This Is her sixth child and this never happe . Is the most patient and finders standing mother I have ever known. Her husband just keeps telling her to snap out of it. Is there some suggestion I can make to him?” ’

Yes. This woman needs help. provided your conclusions are correct, Some women go Into a depression following the birth of a child, and this mental state should not be treated lightly or blamed on physical exhaustion. Your daughter should I If ever with the physician and not be left alone. especially when she appears listless.

Preg oe cause psychiatric disturbances. Real or imaginary problems, woo-

ries. and fears during and after pregnancy usually are respon- sIble. In some Instances there is a residual infection that ups the woman's strength and creat- es a handicap that is difficult to overcome when caring for sev- eral children and k e e p In 3

house. i

Many of these women feel low and view the future without. hope. They fear becoming a bur- den to family and friends. Some have shifts In mood and in the amount of energy they have: others lose appetite.

' then depression Is obscured by a variety of other symptoms that are. more physl- cal than emotional. These com- plaints include fatigue, back. ache. headache, insomnia, ab- dominal distress. or chest pain. Weight loss ls common. when these women do not enjoy food and cannot sleep. Tliey may be- come violent or irrational. They seldom "snap out of it" and the sooner psychiatric care Is start- ed. the quicker the response to treatment.

Physicians are aware of these problems and try to prevent them by making the mother's stay at. the hospital pleasant and

‘ an- swering all questions that arise before and after delivery of the child.

BUMP 0N HEAD

G. T. writes: Several months ago. I 'tappened to be rubbing the top of my head and felt a small bump as though someone had hit me. It doesn't bother me but I wonder if I ought to do something about It.

RE LY

Various types of cysts a nd tumors may develop on the skull. The most common—like the wen—Is not serious. But

i there is no way to find out with-

out an examination. RECURRING GOUT

T. L. writes: Will one attack ,

of gout lead to further bouts? REP

Yes. though the c lances of re- 1'

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currences are decrease proper diet and medication. SWOLLEN s F. C. writes: between the eyebrow and eyelid indicate a kidney disorder? REPLY

Some persons with kidney di- sease have puffy eyelids on aw- akening in the morning. But why guess? A simple urine test will answer your question.

SLUGGISH THYROID

M.J.S. writes: Could an under- active thyroid cause difficulty In speech. vision. and hearing?

REPLY

No. but hypothyroidism might make these sensor. less acute. TODAY‘S HEALTH HINT—

Don’t visit a sick friend if you have a cold.

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

Siberiabvlsmgst Uppity

Siberia is notorious as a place

to whlch undesirables in Russia have been exiled. It Is indlcatlve of. something or other the Siber- Iana are getting a blt uppity about the character of those sent them. They have com- plained lo the Kremlin that Si- beria Ia being made a dumping ground for loafers. drunks and other nogoods. In _ mind that many parts of Siberia have been set- tled by convicts. this discrimin- ation may seem strange. The fact Is that a large proportion of those exiled fo Siberia In the past have been decent persona. some of them the beat of Rus- slane.