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PAGE 4°. SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1966.

Passed Unanimously.

The Opposition can claim to have scored in the Legislature when’ it succeeded in getting passed, unani- mously, a resolution calling for the tabling. .of all data relating to the Government's involvement in indus- trial development in the province in recent ‘years.

The information on _ industrial

always been available to the public accounts committee, and that should be sufficient. But it didn‘t’satisfy the

- Opposition, which kept hinting that

there must be something the Govern- ment was trying to hide. Indignant at this imputation, the Government denounced it as a whispering cam- paign detrimental -to the. province's industrial -interests. The Opposition - deftly turned this charge to account by inserting it in the preamble to its resolution, arguing that a whispering eampaign “usually starts when the public are -not fully informed,” and succeeded finally in carrying its point.

This, from the Government's stand- point, was “‘a cheap political trick.” But if it really believed that provin-

~~~ dal interests would suffer by reteas-

ing the information demanded, its duty, surely, was to stand by-its guns and fight the battle out. Evidently it felt that the matter was not of that importance, and that there was no point in allowing its opponents to ‘capitalize on what could be played up as a hot political issue. Another sign, perhaps, that an -election—is-not-too-far—-away.—In-any. case, we have had an example of how governments with even a majority backing in the House must, at times, ff they are sensible, yield to their op-

ponents as representing a more for- |

midable consensus of public opinion. Regardless of the merits of the case in this instance, it could be term-

eda good example of democracy in

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action.

Also it could be studied with in- ‘terest events at Ottawa, where a Liberal government has been under fire for

- covering up- matters. -of-.a—- more-

malodorous nature; where it has re- acted with “scandal, smear and scuttlebutt” and “finally taken to retorting in kind, by throwing mudballs of its own composi- tion. Our local legislators, to their credit,. have conducted themselves with more’ propriety. We trust that they will continue to do so, regardless of the issues over which they may have to lock horns.

- Such Language!

Escalating at a faster pace than the Viet Nam war is.the’row going on between the Communist Chinese and their onetime Soviet Union pals. The Jatest blast from China has been a charge that the Soviets have formed a “holy alliance” with the United States to encircle it. The official statement: appeared to signal an im- ‘minent formal split-in the workd Com- munist movement.

Mark. thatthe .opprobrious_ferm was not an “unholy” alliance. but a “holy” one. Holiness is anathema to Communist ideology and the in- ference here, we presume, is that the

indignant yelps of-

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| Minit 0 commission_report, Revenue———¥-

Reports from Moscow anda other Furopean Communist sources add a new twist to the story, Thev are to the effect that: the Soviets may have called the congress in order to read the-Chinese out of the world Com-” munist movement following six vears of Sino-Soviet dissension. Albania, Peking’s only ally in Europe, also re-

jected the invitation with similar charges. , Specifically, the Chinese accuse °

Ryssia of acting in co-ordination with the United States “in its plot for peace talks” and of attempting to sell out the Vietnamese Communists. -*You- have worked hand in hand in a whole series of dirty deals inside and outside the United Nations,” the CHinese said. “You are now actively trying to build a.ring of encirclement around socialist China.”

It. would.appear, indeed. that the two big Communist powers are def- initely at the parting of the ways. If

not, one or both of them will Have to .

start eating crow on a gargantuan scale.

A Poor Showing Replying to a complaint of the Auditor General that little had been done to correct the ‘‘outdated proce- dures, uneconomical operations and wasteful practices” noted in the

Minister Benson has come up with a remarkable explanation. ‘There are,”

+ he said, “entrenched, long-standing’

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+ the commissioners in the 4 . $3,000,000 | din has. staked his political life

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in. connection with recent

bureaucratic-vested interests to over- come ‘in some instances. This is a fact of life inside of government as well as outside. It takes time to decide whether in the long run it is quicker

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to get around these obstacles, or to” |

ride roughshod over them. I frankly

confess that I belong to the ‘get |

around’ school.”

Mr. Benson didn’t say what these “bureaucratic-vested interests” were which were holding up improvements in the public service. But presumably

he knows, and the Ottawa Journal -

makes a good suggestion when it says that at least he should be invited by- the Commons committee on public ac- ‘counts to idéntify them. Three years’

- have passed since the recommenda-

tions for a clean-up were made; and Parliament has not even e suggestion of legislation to be enacted for deal- ing with them. Some minor reforms have been effected, but the effort of

‘inquiry has been largely wasted.

--Mr._Benson-had.a-second excuse for

this delay. He asked the House to keepin mind that “two elections, one change of government, three minority parliaments, and countless ministers have flitted across the stage of history in the 41 months since Volume 1 of Glassco first appeared in September, 1962.” He could- have added that x Liberat- government has “been in- power during the three years since the .last volume was issued, and that the worst slowdown of all was caused -by his government leader calling an unnecessary election in September,

back to business until January, with all the autumn lost in politicking and regrets.

Not a very inspiring example, even for the slow-poke school: of reformers with whom the minister chose to identify himself. ; :

__. EDITORIAL NOTES

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The Centennial Commission Bul- letin notes that the Watson. Lake, Yukon, community. club_ decided to meet in the community hall to discuss a centennial project. Then fate inter- vened. Moments before the meeting the hall was destroyed by fire and the club ‘decided the Watson Lake centennial project would be a new hall.

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No tax increases *in the provinical budget, praise be! But what of the federal one. which Finance Minister Sharp is bringing down in the Com- mons next Tuesday? -He is expected,

oto announce measures to damp down

| inflationary pressures and_these, it is |: said, could take’ the form of higher

Russians have. become so debased, |

that they are actually taking to relig- fous ways in their underhand dealings with the Yankees. What could be

worse than that? It would be equiv- °

alent, in our terminology, to charging

a one-time ally with having formed an

unholy pact with the devil.

The timing of this accusation— is also significant. It came in a formal letter from the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee to the Sov- fet orp central committee reject- ing a Communist Party Congress in Moscow which opens on March 29. To make

Peking radio

‘ a eee . 4 wax: ?

invitation to attend the World:

taxes or, alternatively, a slowdown in government. projects to ease demands on the economy. Either way, they wouldn't be very helpful to this sec- tion of the country. :

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Long a dream in Manitoba, develop- ment of the power potential of the Nelson River is to be undertaken by the province in cooperation with-the federal government. At a.cost of $120 million, Ottawa will finance, build

~ and own: the high-voltage’ transmis-

. sure, that it wold get publicity, the | statement Was” broadcast over the 3 a “F eapacity of 855-000 kilowatts, —

sion like that will carry Nelson power to Winnipeg. The, province will. pay virtually twice as much to complete .the initial development. phase which includes construction of a power site

at Kettle” Rapicts-with a-_generating > Robert —Giggey-—-Henry- Wedge

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OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson

National Security The Basic Issue,

Mr. Justice Spence has— said | in last year's election that top Li- | “print” explain the denied as

that he does not object to news- | beral strategists were studying; sertion that- a compromising | : = | erus, painful menstruation, and

paper comment upon the Mun- he will hold his enquiry in open

| court as much as possible. Can-

adians will.then be able to fol-

| low the unfolding of the story of

the dead German spy, who s

| not dead and may never have | been a spy. That will help them

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to judge whether Canada should ever have been made an inter- national laughing-stock. through the exposure of this case. Its merits in the eyes of more than one politician of more than one

| party may lie less in the protee- tion.of our national security than | in-the possible_destruction of ed on Parliament Hill that one. case unfolds in enquiry. It

political enemies or rivals.

I believe that these are some | somehow obtained possession of | will give what evidence at the + Van Delien, co Chicago Trib- | china ‘between French forces

| of the key points to watch:

1

--1965_and_not.summoning. Parliament...

1. Justice Minister Lucien Car- ing to, the RCMP, and had 4& | these questions would throw a

on his assertion that Gerda Mun- singer had ‘‘experience in espion- age in Germany.” Why then did the Liberal Government ad-

>. mit her as an immigrant from

Germany in 1956? Was she known then to be a security risk and was she kept under constant surveillance by the RCMP, at a

cost to the taxpayers of Canada *

of about $30,000 per year? WHY LONG. DELAY? s

2. Cardin says he regards the case as having constituted a

‘threat to our national sécurity.

He may be right. he is presum- ably sincere, in this. Why then did he never study the file be- tween his appointment as as- sociate minister of National De- fence in April 1963 and his dis- closure of the case in Parlia- ment nearly three. years later?.

Why did he not have” enquiries”

made as to the whereabouts of this dangerous person? Why did he think she was dead? Why did he misleadingly describe it at first..as the ‘‘Monseignor” case?-

3. Cardin says he first learned

of this case from departmental | _ sources—presumably gossip, not

files - when he was with Nation-

al Defence from April 1963 on-.'

ward. If, as he: now asserts. it seriously. concerned the security of Canada, surely he had the responsibility to raise it at once, instead of keeping quiet about it until this month?

4. It was being said here early

Our Yesterdays

(From The Guardian Files).

| TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO

(March 26, 1941) ©

Fire at sea sent 19 men of the Royal Canadian Navy to death Flames suddenly _— enveloping HMCS Otter, a patrol vessel drove her crew boats off Halifax and only 22 of her ‘complement of 41 survived a raging Atlantic.

_.. Smooth. working, fast- skating

Ottawa Canadiens junior team. champions of the Ottawa and Valley District;last--night—con- tinued their superiority over thé Maritime champions as_ they sent the Junior Royals. down to a 123 defeat in the opening game of the Memorial Cup playdowns.

TEN YEARS AGO (March 26, 1956)

Past President's medal presented to Comrade

was Roy

| Bruce by A.C. McEachern, MC,

| Branch,

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honorary president of Kingston Canadian Legion, BESL.

A representative | delegation of members of the Provincial Pharmaceutical Society met with representatives from the

* Societies in.N.S. and NB. over

the weekend at Fort _Cumber- land Hotel, Amherst, N.S. Char: lnttetown, members = attending

| were Clark Cantwell, WR Kil

IK, Mae Pierce and,

loran, A.M. Jewell, Donald, Stewart

tendance.”

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into the .1ife- -

f Run-Away Nylons : Christian Science Monitor ; ies Chemistry did a great” thing’—The Same effect had been ob: 1°

| the ‘Munsinger file, and—ponder-

| STOLEN PRINT

5. It has been reliably report-

| af the key figures in’ the case a tape recorded by, and befong- | “print”? made of that tape which

he retained For what purpose ; and with what right? Does a

photograph is on the file? |

6. Commissioner, Harvison of | the RCMP took a 3-page precis | of the Munsinger file to Davie Fulton, who was Conservative | Minister of Justice from 1957 to | | 1962. Fulton stowed that precis | |to Prime Minister Diefenbaker 'in February 1961. Neither ‘of them examined the complete file. Did the precis, prepared by the RCMP, indicate to both Dief | and Davie that there was no |

significant security angle? t

These. seem to be the sort of | | questions which thinking Cana- | dians will ask themselves as the is not -yet known which persons

| judicial-enquiry; but answers to

| | vivid light_on why the five year | old Munsinger case was sudden-

~ Real Sea

National Geographie Society

Real ‘sea monsters” are even | mains a parasitic drawf. doing | weirder than the fanciful beasts |

| of old sailors’ yarns.

The most imaginative old tar | might hesitate. to claim that -he _has seen a creature with arms

35 feet long. Yet the giant squid | has such tentacles and a 19-foot ‘body to go with it— more than

50 feet of writhing sea. monster.

Living deep in the ocean, the | giant squid’ is almost never seen | alive. An occasional dead spec!- | men is cast up on a beach or re- .mains_are found in stomaches of deep-diving sperm whalés. ~

FISH LIVE IN DARK

Fish that live thousands of feet deep in the ocean~ must adapt to living in the dark. ' Plants. carmot develop in ¢ inky blackness, so the fish must eat either plant and animal re- | mains that sift down from above :|—or each other.

| armed with ferocious teeth to | enable them to make the most of

| any chance encounter with their |

scarce prey. The jaws of some disengage, allowing them to en- | gulf a dinner larger than the diner.

Mates as well as food are | searce. The male anglerfish sol-

ves both problems when it finds . a female. He fastens his jaws to

her body and remains attached for life. :

The male’s jaws and tongue gradually fuse with the tissues of the female. When the two blood streams join, the male no longer needs to feed. It then re-

The. creatures of the deep are

Monsters

nothing but fertilize the fe- |-male's eggs as they emerge. Some fish carry biological lamps on the end of stalks or along the sides of their bodies. The pale glow, which can be flashed on and off, acts as a lure to potential mates or food. LAYERS OF 00ZE : The bottom of the ocean is covered by layers of va vious oozes, which have accumulated

in places for eons. To avoid

sinking into the soft mut, many | animals walk~ on stilts: Crusta- | ceans have enormously long ‘legs, and fish have developed great extensions of their fins.

The vast pressure at great depths seems to have little influ- ence on the animals living there. Since water fills their body cavities. the force inside and outside their bodies is equal.

Man's knowledge of the ocean

up. Certain coiled tracks had appeared in many pictures of the ocean floor. | what made them. In 1965 scien- | tists announced they had photo-

| graphed the unknown animal: a ; | three-foot long enteropneust, or |

acorn worm, that feeds on t he | bottom - oozes.

| seem a most unlikely place: un- der the Ross Ice Shelf in Antar- _ctica. The invertebrates discov- | eredg there. apparently feed on material washed under the ice shelf from ocean waters else- | where. |

fof women when it gave them snylons,-sheerer__and___stronger than silk. World War 11 experi- ence with cotton and rayon sub- stitutes made wearers appre- ciate nylon -all the more.

But you can't expect chemical- ly made hoisery to have no faults at all. The girls working in the city hall at Jacksonville, Fla., were made embarrassing- ly aware of this fact pne day re- cently. Suddenly, without warn- ing, their . stockings began to run.-four, five runs (or ladders as the British would say) to a leg

The Jacksonville ers rushed out to buy replace-

ments, causing a run on the |

stocking counters. - : What *mysterious force caus- ed this phenomenon? There was

a simple explanation What chemistry does it can undo. Ny lon. made 'from acids, is resis

tant to many things but not to sulfuric acid. And particles of that-chemical were found in fu- mes of an industrial oil blown in

‘from .a searby plant,

stenogtaph~ |

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served about 20 years before in | i this spot...when weather condi: . | tidns* were’ the same.

All this indigates one thing to | {us Modern chemistry and Cin- | | derella's fairy god-mother have | something in common. With a | | swish the good fairy provided | elegant attire for a raggedy maid but caused it to disappear when the clock struck’ twelve.

Chemistry rarely indulges in such whimsical acts. So if once jin 20 years, it plays havoc with | girls’ stockings, we cannot be- too hard on it. ua

WASHINGTON (AP) — AFL- CIO Presdent George Meany successfully underwent surgery to repair arthritis damage to ‘his right hip,'a- spokesman reported

Friday. The operation was per- formed cin Harkness Pavilicn | Hospital .in New York City

Thursday; the spokesman said. |

|Meany, 71, will reed a whilé to | recuperate, but it- is unknown

‘Thow long, the spokesman

bottom. is still meager, but one | mystery recently was. cleared |

but no one knew |

Sea life exists in what might | |

Eating For Twa, Persons

By Dr eodore R. Van Dellen

Since the dawn of man, thous- ands of superstitions and mis- conceptions about pregnancy

have evolved and only recently |

have the majority fallen by the wayside. “Eating for two” has persisted, possibly because it sounds logical. The end result is a fat mamma. The fetus is a parasite’ and velops whether mother eats not. This was demonstrated

| repeatedly during famineé asso-

ciated with \wars.A_ balanced and adequate diet is needed, ‘however, for a strong healthy foundation. Besides, newborns weighing more than nine pounds face more hazards tha the six pounder. ' “For every pregnancy,

tooth’’’ is another fallacy. This

may have been true before’

modern detistry, but teeth in this age group should be blamed on neglect, rather than on pregnancy. Women who take care of their teeth and eat pi ly need not lose an ivory ile pregnant. Further- more, the fetus does not absorb calcium from mother's teeth be- eause the mineral is more read- ily available in other sources. Hanging curtains. or holding on to a subway strap will not

loss of

cord. There is

livery. Breastfeeding does not improve mother’s appetite, cause large breasts, or increase the waistline. It does, however, encourag' uterus to return to normal | size. Some women

are convinced that drinking beer |

stops up the milk supply, but this is a moot question. ‘ There is no need to remain in bed for 10 days after. delivery unless complications occur. The

sooner the individual is ambula- |

tory the less bowel and bladder trouble; the circulation .improv- es, and the chance of developing vein disturbances is minimal. Nowadays, pregnancy is_ not recommended as a cure for frigidity. malposition of the ut-

nervousness.

CONVULSIVE TENDENCY Mrs. K. E. writes: One of my

vulsions when he is feverish. He does not have epilepsy, accord-

convulsions occur? _ REPLY Convulsions often are ‘associ- ated with infectious diseases in young children, possibly _be- cause their immature nervous system is easily irritated.

(NOTE: All correspondence

to Dr. Van Dellen should be addressed to: Dr. Theodore.

une, Chicago, IMlinois.)

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- NOTES BY

A retired friend says he thinks the company felt it wasn't los- ing a vicepresidgnt so much as it was gaining a parking space. —. Windsor Star. .

Those, who believe a world g0- .vernment. would, assure peace ‘ and amity among nations, forget | that. like all other governments it, too, would be run by politi- cians Woodstock — Sentinel Review.

The last stubborn little corner of the crossword puzzle requires | knowing a couple of words you | wouldn't want to know even if you did. — Calgary Hérald

If brides generally ado pt pants for their wedding outfits, as did Carol Sinclair Dunham | of New?-York, other traditions .| will have to go out with the sa- | tin gown and the flowing. train. | Take the walk down the aisle for instance. ' Brides and_ brides- | maids traditionally perform this part of the rites very slowly. | They barely place one foot a head of the other in a hesitating mincing step. A person in pants | must stride. Else she'll be tak- | en for a sissy.. — Portland Ore- | gonian.

THE WAY.

| A person can save himselj ‘many hard falls by refraining from jumping to conclusions.— ‘Chatham Daily News.

A preacher says there were- n't any golf links in the Garden ‘of Eden. For that matter, there weren't’ any~ preachers -~.there either. — Sarnia Observer.

In Stockbridge the other day, a clergyman told his friend: “We have just-had the greatest revi- val our church has experienced . for many years.” “I’m ta hear it,” replied the friend. “And how many did you add te |the fold?"’. ‘We didii’t add any” said the clergyman. “But we _got rid of three.” — Chilton Ti- ‘mes-Journal.

A young lawyer from the North sought to locate in the South. He wrote to a friend in Alabama, asking him what the |prospect seemed to be in the ‘city for ‘‘an Honest young law- iyer and Republican’. In reply the friend wrote: -“If you are an honest lawyer, you will have © absolutely no competition. If you are a Republican, the game laws will protect you.” — Mon- ‘treal Star. ,

Catfhada’s Peace Soundings

| ' By Dave

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| ; Canada's soundings on the pos- sibilities of Viet Nam peace. ne- : gotiations are regarded as po- ‘ tentially the most important” in”

|the country’s diplomatic _his- tory. Certainly Ottawa -looks on

them as the most: delicate in | years and every precaution is | being taken to ensure that no | details leak out which might | jeopardize the initiative. Chester Ronning, the 71-year- /old, Chinese-speaking Canadian diplomat brought out of | ment for & special mission to | Hanoi and Saigon, has returned to his home at Camrose, Alta. NEW VISIT PLANNED

‘But his trip home is only tem- porary. “He is scheduled to re- ‘turn to Ottawa in a few days to be available to give any ad- | vice required by Prime Minis- /ter Pearson and External Af-

| youngsters always develops con- | fairs Minister Martin.

| There are no current plans for another mission by Mr. Ron-

| ing to the doctor. Why do these ning.

| Mr. Pearson and Mr. Martin |had long talks with Mr. Ron- +ning-on his return last week.

Not a word about any of these | is that India and Poland don't

; talks has been made public.

| HAS GENEVA EXPERIENCE

|. Mr. Ronning was a member |of Canada’s delegations to the

.| Geneva conferences of 1954 and

| 1961-62. The former ended the jeight-year civil war in Indo-

and Communist Vietminh and.

McIntosh

Canadian Press ‘Staff Writer

established the Canada-India- | Poland truce commissions in Viet. Nam,, Laos and Cambodia.

trality of Laos. .

Mr. Ronning was able at the 1954 conference to arrange with the Chifiese Communists the re- lease of Sqdn. Ldr. Andy Mae- Kenzie of the. RCAF, shot down two years earlier during the Ko- rean War. .

Canada has made direct, ap- proaches not only to Hanoi and

retirey~Saigon. but also held discussions

with United Nations Secretary- |General U Thant, the United 'States and with a number of other countries concerned, espe-. cially India. and Poland. OPTIMISM REMAINS

Mr. Martin has said Canada, India and Poland as members of the Viet Nam truce commis- sion, might be able to arrange a new Geneva conference on Viet Nam and he ‘has engaged personally in talks with repre- ‘sentatives of the two countries.

A meeting of Mr. Martin and the foreign ministers of India. ‘and Poland still is a possibility. The present feeling in Ottawa

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