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Pearson's Difficulty

: In a television interview the other day, Mr. Pearson complained that it was “pretty difficult" for 8;;Prime Minister not to appoint members of his own party to the senate so long as the upper chamber is} operating in its present form. No doubt this is correct, though perhaps not in the sense the speak- er?- had in mind.

a The real difficulty lies in the fact that there are so many Ideserving I degmocrats who have claims on the party in power, and who would feel ’

indignant if an outsider were given thb preference in a well-paid sine- cure of this kind. And since the prime minister is solely responsible for making these awards. the whole weight of their wrath would fall upon him.

Mr. Pearson has indeed made it more difficult than ever to get out of this partisan rut. Under the new scale of parliamentary pay which he introduced. senators receive an in- demnity of $12,000 per year, plus a tax-free expense allowance of $3,000. Whether they work hard at their jobs or not, they all get this lavish indemnity. Having made the plum jucier than ever as a partisan award. it is not surprising that the donor should find himself more and pore embarrassed at the manner in which the system is working.

But there is a way out, which would cut. down its value as a political payoff and make it less at- tractive to party big-shots as a re- ward for past services. Mr. Pear- son knows what it is, for it is the system currently followed in the British Parliament. The House of Lords there is the equivalent of our Canadian Senate. but there is a dif- ference. Nobody is paid for be- longing to it. except for the time actually spent in parliamentary ses- sion.

Thus at no cost to the public purse. unless the Peer makes him- self useful. the British have a means of honoring those who de- serve honor. both within the politi- cal structure and outside it. _

That mightn't solve Mr. Pear- son's whole problem in the matter, but wouldn't it be worth a try?

From Bad To Worse

The Liberal and New Democratic parties are said to be watching with close interest an experiment in Toronto municipal affairs, aimed at breaking the taboo against political parties engaging openly in muni— cipal politics. Three New Demo- crats, proclaiming their party of- filiation and presenting their pro- gram as a party program, have en- tered in the forthcoming election in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough ——one for a seat on council and. two for seats on the board of education.

Their backers are hoping that this will lead to wide participation of political parties at the municipal level. The same view has been ex- pressed personally by the Liberal national director, Keith Davey, who is quoted as saying that he believ- ed party politics in civic affairs would be of great: benefit, produc- Ing better candidates, a better votp Ing turnout, greater public inter- est and a better idea of where the candidates stand on municipal is- sues.

' It is, indeed, desirable to achieve

night wean-unis. m aim can so' much-lured” to

their counterparts on the provin- cial and federal levels, or whether the kind of interest generated by partisan motives would bring any better men into the field.

As for making for greater ef- ficiency. we have only to look at the present setup at Ottawa, and the way it has become bogged down in partisan politics to the detriment of the interests of the country, to realize that what is needed is less, not more, of the same thing.

The party system is probably a necessary evil in federal and pro- vincial affairs, but we doubt wheth- er it has stood in lower repute at any times since- Confederation that it does today. It‘s a strange time to talk about bringing municipal politics into line!

Came In His Kilt

From a London correspondent comes this footnote about the new Parliament in Westminster. One of the Liberal Party newcomers to the House of Commons, Russell John- ston. startled the chamber by ap- pearing in a kilt. And he rightly remarked there was no reason why he shouldn't.

Mr. Johnston is the member for Inverness. He was at Portree High School in the Isle of Skye (where our Skye pioneers came from in the early days of settlement in this province) and he regarded the kilt as normal wear. He could find no rule which forbade him to wear it in Westminster, and wear it he did.

But there was a complication in that a skean-dhu or Gaelic dagger stuck into the top of the stocking is an essential part of the Scottish national costume. Would Mr. John- ston be ruled by the House attend- ants to be breaking the rule for- bidding members to take any of- fensive weapon into the chamber with them? This rule dates back some centuries to the days when skirmishes could have occurred on the floor of Parliament. '

As it turned out, Mr. Johnston’s right to wear his skean-dhu was not questioned. His blue tartan on a green background with a yellow strip was much admired.

We’ve often thought that our own legislative proceedings could be brightened up in this manner, and‘that Premier Shaw and Op- position Leader Matheson would be the right ones to take the lead. The next session is still far enough away to give consideration to the matter in the light of the precedent set in the Mother of Parliaments.

On condition. of course. that the skean-dhus would be kept where they belonged and under no prov- ocation used for the purpose of settling political scores on either side!

No More Nightmares

Two US. airforce. pediatricians recently conducted a simple experi- ment on 30 children, all of them victims of “tired child syndrome." The results, as reviewed in the Mil- waukee Journal, are of general in- terest.

The youngsters, most of them 5 to 9 years old. were torn by anxiety. They had nightmares and were moody and introspective. Un- der questioning it developed that they watched television an average of three to six hours daily on week days. from 6 to 10 hours a day on weekends.

The more TV they saw, the doc- tors found, the worse things got. Excessive viewing produced anxiety which inhibited sleep. This left the young viewers too tired to play so they watched more television.

The pediatricians asked parents of the disturbed children to cut out their TV watching completely or reduce it substantially. Results were swift. All but four of the 80 were free of within three to six weeks. Symp- toms appeared again as soon as un- limited viewing was resumed.

The good doctors discovered what any Wise parent knows—that unlimited TV viewing usually leaves children as moody and snappish as underfcd coyotes. A good firm twist of the parental wrist was all that was needed to bring them back to normal.

EDITORIAL NOTE

“Quebec is my province, but Canada is my country." says Prem- ier Mange. Words well spoken! Much better than many of the slogans we’ve heard lately,‘ which put all the emphasis on provincial rights and none on those of the na- tion.

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RUDOLPH AND THE REINDEER

OTTAWA REPORT By

Conoclo’s Lead Followed By British MP’s

The newly-elected Wilson Go- . an election rather than just be- - cial sacrifice. But it is equally

vernment in Britain has moved 1 fast to raise the pay of Members of Parliament. just as the new—‘ ly-elected Pearson Government did in Canada last year. ‘

The taxpayers in both coun- tries have a very real grievance ' in connection with these similar‘ acts by a new government. This 1 is not that Cabinet Ministers and ' MP5 are overpaid at the higher scae — far from it, when one considers the responsibility of the job to be done — but that the l raise was announced just afterl

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fore one. Thus “the job" was advertis-

ied at the lower pay scale. But

had it been known that the high- er scale was in fact going to be paid. it is a reasonable assump- tion that in many cases better qualified candidates would have offered themselves for election.

There of course many parliamentarians in both coun- tries who are fine characters

with great ability. serving their?

country at considerate inan-

Tomils’ Pi’riiul Flight

Winnipeg Free Press

One of the most cruel measur- , es to be undertaken by onel Asian people against another is? the forthcoming deportation ofi 5000 Tamils from Ceylon. i

It can only be compared with l the expulsion of the Sudeten l Germans from Czechoslovakia i at the end of the last war. but whereas that expulsion was per- ; petraied in the heat of passions ? generated by a bitter war, the Tamils are being deported as a ‘ deliberate policy measure. in : times of peace. to appease. a' rampant. intolerant Sinhalese nationalism.

The Tamils. whose original ’ home is in the southern part of India. are an iltelligent and in- dustrious people. who came to Ceylon at the end of the last century and early in this cen~‘ tury in work on tea estates planted by the British. Today there are some two million Ta- mils in Ceylon. a greater part of whom have been born on the is-

land. often second and third generation Ceylonese. . Under the British rule. and ;

until the late Prime Minister So- lomon Bandaranaike assumed power. the Tamil language was one of Ceylon's official languag‘ es. and Tamils occupied m a n senior positions in the civil ser~ vice.

All this was charged under the regime of Bandaranaike and his widow. Sirimavo. the present prime minister.

The. Tamils were first depfiv- ed of their rights. pogroms were organized in Tamil villages. and now these unfortunate people are to be deprived of their homes and possessions an in a country with which they have little in common except remote ancestry.

This monstrous measure has not aroused a single peep in the United Nations. As to the West- ern world. it no longer dares to interfere in Asian affairs lest it be accused of ‘neocolonialism."

This painful exodus should be stopped. and if it cannot be stopped. the suffering of the half million Tamil should at least be alleviated.

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Segregated Banking

Milwaukee

The fact that six new “negro” 1 banks have an chartered in ‘ the United States since January. ithere were 13 before this year) may be interpreted as a sign of . continuing civil rights progress} in this country. It also showsi improving economic conditions for Negroes. .

It has different significancel however. to Andrew F. Brimm- er. deputy assistant secretary of l commerce. the first Negro to i hold a secretarial position in { that department. It means. he ‘ says. that much of the financial I community is still off limits to most Negroes and. as a result, they have had to develop a banking system of their own.

Besides the 19 banks. Negroes own some 50 life insurance firms and 34 federal savings and loan associations. according to l Brimmer. who is a professional

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These. institutions serve Mo 3

functions. They pro- vide home mortgages and loans to Negro businessmen. Brimmer estimates that Negroes

own 1,300 manufacturing firms and 2,600 wholesale concerns. most of them producing nd selling cosmetics. beauty 3 nd barbershop supplies for neg- roes.

Although a segregated finan- cial system sounds repulsive at first glance. stronger Negro banks are providing enough competition in some m ' ties so that established institu- tions are becoming more sym- pathetic to the needs of Negro borrowers. Hopefully. as the Negro moves further up the eco- nomic ladder. there will be no need for him to maintain his own banking system.

Balance Of Terror

tendon Free Press

In some long~dlstant time in the future. historians may look back into the latter part of the twentieth century and speculate upon wh t we become known as the war That Never Happened. When mankind ulti- mately comes to its collective senses, our descendants may ironically grateful for the per- fection of weapons that made conflict impossible. ‘

By spending around fifty bil- lion doilars a year, the United States has been able to attain and maintain four-to-one nuc- lear superiority over the Soviet Union. That figure seems o be fixed: there is little likelihood of its helm: diminished in the foreseeable future. though Rus- sia may start catching up next year.

Consider only a few of the awesome statistics. The United States now has In intercontin-

capable of obliterating a city. Russia has "only" 200

same weapons In addition. the United States has 1.100 nuclear bombers. half of them ready for immediate action. plus 20 Polar- is submarines. each able to de- vastate more than a dozen cities. Russia‘s undersea nuclear wea- ponry is probably equal.

All this is known by the chill- ing term "overkill." designed to impress on the potential enemy the knowledge that even a sur- prise nuclear strike will bring in- stant and total retaliation so massive that neither n atton could survive.

So. for the first time in his- tory. we see two nationrbuild in up awesome arsenals they hope never to use, but which they must keep strengthening so long as there is the slightest

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incompatibility And RH Factor

Ly Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen Every year many Rh babies are born in our larger hospitals. Approximately four new in each institution will need a lifesaving exchange transfusion. The throblaetoalc their blood is incompatible with the mother's. The mother is Rh negative and the‘infant. Rh pos- we.

All blood looks the some but special disclose the pres- ence of certain chemical sub- stances (antigens). In the case of the Rh factor, for example. 85 per cent of us have these antib- ens iR’h positive) and the re minder do not (-rh negative).

Rh positive people are not bo- thered by transfusions but Rh negative individuals run into trouble. They often are able to tolerate one transfusuion with Rh positive blood. but thereafter they become sensitized and de- velop antibodies against these antigens. A reaction follows the introduction of a second batch of Rh positive' cells.

"I he offspring of an M nega- tive woman and an Rh positive

ually are Rh positive. Prior to birth of the first baby, the blood of the fetus mixes with that of the mother. sensitizing her 00 Rb positive blood. Some- times this reaction does not oc- cur until the second pregnancy. At any rate, the woman's ser- um now contains the antigens mentioned previously. This pre- sents a problem in subsequent pregnancies because the moth- er's antibodies get into the blood stream of the Rh positive fetus and begin to destroy the red cells. When millions of these cells are destroyed, their iron content escapes into the circu- lation and may damage the

e severity of the reaction depends upon the degree of sen- sitivity. Some of these children die long before birth (miscar- riage or stillbirth). Others are

estined to have a difficult start in life unless their blood is re- moved immediately and replac-

able men and women—espec- iially younger ones still raising 1, a family — who could not afford to take a job paying. as in Can- ada. $10,000 a year. but who would have been willing to apply ' for it had they known that it would pay 318.000.

ed with Rh negative blood.

For these reasons physicians recommend special tests for Rh negative mothers to deter- mine the antibody levels. If they suspect erythroblastosis. y may induce labor a few weeks early to save the child via an

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STUDY BY COMMITTEE 5 l There is one significant differ- ‘ence in the pay increase in the ‘ ' two countries. Herc. the Pear- :son Government itself decided; 'on the size of the increase. In 1 Britain, all parties approved the setting up of an independent ‘ committee about a year ago. to

study parliamentary pay scales

. and expenses. and to make re-

; commendations.

i The chairman of that commit-

‘tee was Sir Geoffrey Lawrence.

QC. a former chairman of the General Council of the Bar. who l is not himself an MP. Prime i Minister Wilson has accepted l the committee's recommenda- 1 tion concerning the basic pay of iMPs. but has sharply scaled [down the recommendations for .Ministers and others receiving l more than the basic figure.

i For example. the British .Prime Minister used to receive 5 the equivalent of $30,000 a year. 'The committee proposed that ‘ this should be raised to $54,000. .but Prime Minister Wilson has scaled this down to only 342.000. .‘This compares with the recent ‘ increase for our Prime Minis- ) fer from 537.000 to $45,000.

l “HEAVY EXPENSES" . The Leader of the Opposition. in Britain used to receive $9,000. The committee reportedly made no recommendation for an in- crease. but Mr. Wilson has pro- posed that former Prime in- ister Douglas Home should re- ceive $13500. This compares with the 335.000 a year now paid £0 Opposition Leader Diefen‘ba- er.

Under the previous scale here. Mike Pearson as Opposition ? Leader received $27,000. The new and the earlier fiizure here both seem unreasonably high, since they are exactly the same as the sums paid to Cabinet Ministers. who have the addi- tional work and responsibility of administering a Department of Government.

The ordinary MP in Britain will have his pay raised from $5.250 to $9.750. This is all sub- ject. to income tax. apart from “proved parliamentary expens- es." The Lawrence committee reported that it found that MPa have "exceptionally heaivy ex- penses". ranging from less than 81.500 up to the total amount of the former pay figure. which was claimed and substantiated by 55 MP5. The median expense claim was $3.264.

Our MPa had their pay raised from 310.000 to $18,000. the new figure including a nontaxable

. expenses for which. unlike Britain. vouchers do not have to‘,be submitted as substan- flatten.

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lPUFFINESS AND ALLERGY

F. L. writes: An eye specialist

. told me the swelling of my right

eyelid is due to allergy. if this. is

' so. why is only one lid affected? REPLY

You may be allergic to some- thing on your hand or finger and rub only the affected eye.

EXHAUSTED OLDSTER

Mrs. G.H. writes: Why would a woman in her 70‘s. whose health habits are good, go down in egergy to the point of exhaue

on

REPLY She may be depressed. ill. or anemic. A thoroth physical ex- amination, plus a few simple tests. will answer the question. FIND AND AVOID CAUSE M. G. writes: Is there any cure for allercies in general? REPLY

Yes. if the causative agent can be found and avoided. This is not easy. Most allergic per- sons should attempt desensiti- zation and use medicines to con- trol symptoms.

MOUTH MALIGNANCY

A. V. writes: What are the symptoms of cancer of the mouth?

REPLY

A tumor or an ulcer that con- tinues to instea of eallng.

TODAY'S HEALTH HINT—

When tension mounts. escape for a while.

(NOTE: All correspondence to Dr. Van Dellen should he addressed to: Dr. Theod Van Dcllen, co Chicago Trilr one, Chicago, Illinois.)