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PAGE 0 s/rrunmv. ocroann 20, 196?. - Cutting Pretty Deep

When the Federal Government announced its emergency austerity program it indicated that a $200,- 000,000 reduction in expenditures would be necessary to bolster the country's foreign exchange reser- ves. The revised estimates tabled on Thursday in the Commons by Finance Minister Nowlan shows that the pruning knife is being applied in a still more drastic manner. Feder- al budgetary spending for the cur- rent fiscal year is being cut by $227,- 947,034, and practically every de- partment of administration is af- fected.

If the Opposition is consistent in its demands for an attempt at bud- get balancing, it can hardly, in prin- ciple, disapprove of these reductions. But between principle and practice there is a wide margin for disagree- ment; and, in any case, the Oppos- ition parties themselves are b_v no means agreed as to the overriding need for belt-tightening at this time. The chief cuts appear to have been made in defense, construction programs, federal payrolls, foreign aid and the (‘B(‘.

In addition, we note that there have been slashes in both agricul- ture and fisheries departmental ex- penditures. Spending in agriculture is being dropped $12,600,000 to $155,400,000. This includes a $3,- 100,000 cut in payments to farm- ers for hog quality premiums and lime assistance. The austerity drive in fisheries cuts deepest into the budget for the Fisheries Research Board, which was reduced by some three-quarters of a million dollars. Conservation and development work, which includes purchase of lands and buildings, has been trimmed, along with the Newfoundland bait ser- vice budget, and about a million dol- lars has been cut from general ad- ministration of the department.

In view of what we have heard about the grave problems facing both these basic industries, and the urgent need for rehabilitating them, it is hard to reconcile these reduc- tions with sound national economy of any kind. However, we have only the bare figures before us. We shall ex.- pect a full debate on the revised estimates for these departments, in which our own cabinet member, Mr. MacLean, is vitally concerned as fisheries minister.

In particular, this cutting down of the Fisheries Rrsiearch Board program, just when it was begin- ning to prove its value to the indus- try, will need a lot of explaining. This applies to new construction programs as well, where penny- pinching could prove a pretty poor way of stabilizing the economy.

Joey Rides Again

In springing a surprise general election in Newfoundland for Nov. .19 Premier Smallwood said he was doing so to obtain a mandate for his long-term fisheries development program. Since he has had no report yet from his recently-called fisher- ies conference about this program. qad«doean’t. expect one before next

apring.‘ this waeobviously an excuse _

‘:1-a_ther'» than a Voting will come on the heels of

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The irony of it is that this non- existent fisheries program he is talk- ing about, and which will cost at least $50,000,000 during the -next four or five years, will depend on substantial support from the Feder- al Government. Mr. Smallwood says it would be “madness” to proceed without a mandate because New- foundland taxpayers have the right to decide on how their money is to be spent. But doesn't that go for the federal taxpayers as well? Wouldn't a vote for the federal administra- tion be just as strong an indorsation of this provincial-federal project as a vote for Joey himself?

That, of course, is not the way Mr. Smallwood intends to present the issue. He’ll be denouncing the Tories and all their works, just as he has done in every campaign; and we'll be surprised if he doesn't get away with it again. This will be his fifth election since bringing his prov- ince into Confederation, and there has been an average of less than three years between the campaigns. Always be has been able to pull some kind of an emergency rabbit out of the hat.‘

He complained, recently, that his job had become boring and monoton- ous—there just wasn't enough stiff opposition to make it interesting. His opponents should have been warned by this kind of talk that he was preparing another surprise for them; but they seem. once again, to have been caught off base. They are loudly protesting that an election at this time is unnecessary—-as if that had anything to do with it, except from Joey's standpoint. Any sim- ilarity between his idea and theirs on such a point would be purely coin- cidental.

The Last Barrier

The result of Britain's seasonal round of political conferences has been an alignment on a major issue for which there is no precedent in British history. The issue, of course, is Britain's membership in the Eur- opean Common Market, and the im- mediate situation is that the Con- servatives and Liberals stand over- whelmingly committed to Europe while the Labor Party is officially on the fence but seen to be internal- ly split into an ardently anti-Com- mon Market left {and a deeply con- vinced Common Market right.

Isolation thus is located political- ly in the left wing of the Labor Party which is itself the least in- fluential of the major groupings of political power in Britain. Roughly speaking the anti-Common Market cause has been driven into a seg- ment of political opinion which is at best a thin minority sixth.

This is the situation as describ- ed by Joseph C. Harsch, distinguish- ed London correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, who sees it as a far more decisive clarifica- tion than seemed possible a month ago when the yearly round of party conferences started. The apparent decisiveness of it constitutes a mas- sive political dividend for Prim a- Minister Harold Macmlilan.

Unless there should be a read- justment of the pattern as drastic as the one which produced the pres- ent situation, it is to be presumed that Britain will be entering the Common Market as rapidly as negotiations can be concluded and detailed arrangements can be com- pleted. There will be no stalling by the British Government. ,

The only obstacle remaining to speedy conclusion to the affair is now President de Gaulle of France. Conceivably he still can impose terms which London would find im- possible to accept. The upcoming Adenauer visit to Washington will beimportant in this respect. This will be President Kennedy's chance

. to persuade the German Chancellor

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to throw his weight for tolerable ‘terms to the British. If "this hap- pens, then Britain’a entrance into Europe will be as certain ae any- thing can be in politics.

. EDIT ORlAl. NOTE

So far only 5,900 farmers in three provinces have taken-.out in- suranee on their 1962 crops under the federal-provincial scheme; Ac- cording so-a report cabled this week inthe House of cmnmone. {J00 Manitoba farmers purchased cover- age worth"more than 810,000,000: sornti 1,360 ‘farmers in Saskatche- wan 32,400,000 worth; and »so«pur_atq=;‘iuwan in Prince Edward‘ when the pmsrsm tor the

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9 *2: , CLOTHES AND THE MAN FOR SHERPA CHILDREN Hillary's School In The High Himalayas tv

Sir Edmund Hillary, the con- queror of Mount Everest, has bull‘. a school for Sherpa cm]. drcn in the high Himalayas.

The school was a gift of the explorer's 1960-61 scientific ex- pedition to Nepal. He said the project “turned out to be per- haps the most satisfying of our Himalayan adventure."

Sir Edmund describes the ; building of the Sherpa school in i the October issue of National Geographic. A report on the ex- L pedition itself is given by its. glaciologisl and climatologist, Barry C. Bishop, a staff mem- ber of National Geographic. Mr. Bishop also will take part the 1963 American Mount Ever- est Expedition, supported in 1 part by the National Geograph- ic Society.

VILLAGE NEEDED SCHOOL "In terms more meaningful than money," Sir Edmund writ- es, we wanted to show on r gratitude to the Sherpas—high- altitude porters. cooks, and as- : slstants, who had worked so t haul for us in the mountains.” Most of the Sherpas c time from the Nepalese village Khumjung which lies in a val- ley 13.000 feet high and only l5 miles from Everest. Their loge had never had a school. An Indian aluminum company donated a prefabricated struc- ture, and the International Com-

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Mingbo, day’s march from Girders, beams, and l o n g rippling sheets of aluminum jog- glcd across country on fh backs of Sherpa porters.

Sir Edmund and three other expedition ,members— Wally Romanes, Desmond Dolg, a n d Bhanu Banerjee-— erected th e 20-by-40-foot building. T h e Y were assisted by Sherpas who had never handled a wrench or driven a nail.

After much trial and error

Khumjung.

It cm dedicated in traditional

Nepalese style.

LAMAS PROVIDED MUSIC "Soon out of

inctlike flageolets. They were

OUR YESTERDAYS

i(From the Guardian Flleat TWENTY-I-‘IVE YEARS AGO ‘October so, 1937 . The four - muted schooner. James E. Newsom. Capt. Daw-

wlth a cargo of Welsh hard coal. The vessel which sailed

.1 have taken about t lrty.

A delightful children’: recital at the P.E.I. Protestant Orph- ‘ was thoroughly enjoyed ‘by an ap- preciative audiences The pro-

three years has given her time and talents freetu the trslnhl the beetle children. lltllt

-ran vans aco . _

tan .A lflowaavutesllor. FWFOIO.

Hugs, from New Bruns- twe talks at Issues. Jieichsee as hleutori per-tad tel-

Profeuor W.8. ’ the University

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l ing, India. To assure a future

National Geographic Sock,

coming at my invitation, to give their blessing to this last pro- jolt of our expedition.

"The band circled the bulld- mg twice, with the head lama of Thvangboche marching in their midst and intoning prayers. By now the r u had turned to a downpour, and we noted proud- lv that our new building did not leak Even more proudly we watched the crowd of Sherpas. who had come from miles around, stand dripping and sol- emn through the three- and-a - halt’-hour ceremony. To them,

ay.n

Sir Edmund engaged a Sher- pa-born teacher from Darjeel-

master for the school, a bright

15-year-old boy was sent from Kliumjung to study at Katman- dl. a ‘tel Nepal. we left Khom- jung." Sir Edmund w r l t e s, led at the school and saw fifty children sitting cross- legged on the floor. They rang- ed in age from 6 to 16 and none. till now, had been able to read or write... We started for Kat- mandu with the heart - warming feeling that our enterprise had surely been worthw 'le."

Sir Edmund plans to establish two more schools in the Himala- yas In the meantime, the new building in Khumjung may well be the world's only schoolhouse wiln a sturdy fence to keep off '8l(S.

It is one of the ironies of our time that Stalin. having been banished from the Soviet _Un- ion, should now be turning up in Cuba — and. of all things. un- d the auspices of Nikita Khrushchev. - .

Soon after the Bolshevlk re- volution. the Russian workers discovered the practical mean- ing of the "dictatorship of the proletariat.” And they reacted against the long hours and low wages imposed by their new ty- rannical boss. the Soviet state.

They would come late to work, loaf on the job and leave before closing time. -

Stalin cracked the whip and issued a series of labor decrees in the 1930's and the 1940': which cowed the workers into submission.

The history of the terrible

Stalin In Cuba

New York Herald Tribune

They engaged In 3 5]owdown_ /his job after giving due notice.

thirties and forties under Stalin now appears to be repeating it- self in Cuba. Ernestol Guevara, one of Cuba's economc tsars, has just told Cuban workers that their “slow pace must not be permitted."" He announced that the government would, es- tablish "work and s a l a r y norms for all categories of

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“D the "prolefarlat."’ I-Ie permit- ‘ted the Soviet worker to leave

And penalties for absenteeislm appear to have been relaxed.

But Cuba is a new Commun- ist state. And apparently must pass through the “Stalin- ist stage" before it can expect to enjoy the only slightly le s s tyrannical treatment of Khru- :hcl1ev's commmunism.

The Melcm

President Kennedy, has often made clear his understanding of the dangers to all humanity of continued radioactive contamin- etlon atmosphere-1-ast March, for instance, when he promised that the American test series would be completed with- in two or three months of its re- sum . '

Now, without public explana- tion, more atmospheric tests have been ordered. Because the data or which such a decision is made are secret, it is imposs- ible for any layman to say whe- ther these newest tests are ab- solutely’. required by "military necessity.

The melancholy fact is that no end of the nuclear weapons race is now in sight. As each

, aide ‘increases the number 0 f its explosions, it increases its knowledgd. but it also raises the incentive for the other side I:

aumlnen own still further explosions. :1

nuts I started th e ‘current race. a year-ago, or course: but now each side

New York Times

choly Facts

argues it must test because the other does. Meanwhile, the ra- dioactivity the atmosphere continues to increase, and w e begin to see the impact on earth

In Minnesota and Utah some dairy farmers stopped feeding their cows fresh grass at th e hei e summer and shift- ed to stored hay because of fear of the effects of radioactive iod- ine in milk produced by cows

fed exclusively on grass. that has absorbed this year’: high percentage of fallout material.

It is some moral comfort that the guilt for continued radioac- tlvc pollution of the atmosphere - is now clearly the Soviet Un- ion's. The United States recent- ly offered an agreement ending all atmospheric tests, a pact that would uire no out

apectlon. But Mo a or] down this offer hat went so far to meet the U.s.S.R's ‘own

demands. As a result of this ac- gon. - humanity and all liv- 1

things on this planet must pay a price whose impact will

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ling petit ma]. though less effective in other types of epilepsy._

minor epilepsy? According oshes

Dr. Louis D. B cago, some continue to have

it‘

Petit Mal Lead To ‘Epilepsy

Iy Dr.~-Illeedore ,3. VII Belles MINOR episodes of epilepsy

(petltmall maybesolyriefthev

are oolned for the

overl June, or years. This is lronlcal in modern times because drugs are» evan- able to control the, condition. Moat victims of petit me! e children. usually under age 10.‘ The attack comes on without warning and consists of e sud- den blackout. The child be- comes motionless. stares Into space, and does not respond to commands. Just las suddenly. consciousness returns and the youngster resumes whatever he is doing. should the bout come. on while eating. the boy or girl may get a blank expression and chew more slowly but doesn‘t. drop the knife or fork. Two to 20 seconds later, he resumes eating but has no idea what was said or what he did during the brief period of unoonsiouenees. Some children have one blackout a week whereas others have them every . Those with frequent lapses do poorly in school because the continuity of instruction is in- terrupted so often. The child does not fall as a rule and may continue to walk or even 1' l d e a bicycle during an attack. The entire affair has been described as a blank place or an absence in the stream of consciousness. Various drugs (Tridione, Paradione. and Mil- ontlnl are effective in control- they are

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Do these" children outgrow to of Chl-

siege: of petit‘ mal even in ad-

ult life but it is not unusual for- them to become less and le as frequent as the chi er. In many. they disappear before age 20

id gets old-

Now and then petit mill is re-

placed by the major type of

epilepsy (grand mal) or by psychomotor seizures. Some de- velop convulsions: others. tem- porary hallucinations or illu- slons involving peculiar smells and tastes. Objects appear to be far away or unreal, as i the story, "Alice in Wonder- land."

(Dr. Van Dellen will send leaflet on the various types of epilepsy if stamped. self-ad- dressed envelope accompanies request.

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was“ something make you “"‘°"v V" t° ."”‘ “P "“'°“5lh sleep good. They called it ‘work. the Kr-We to be connected to -- Gait Reporter. a bell on.the wall of the house.

The bell, unrung, is still in post. tlon. And so. presumably, is John Wilmer, - saint John Telegram Journal. -

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Maybe celorlps don't count. as a current book contends. but’ they certainly add. - Wood- stock sentlnel Review.

- The Bretons

The Breton Information Bur- eau ls an organization dedicat- ed‘to the preservation of the Breton language and culture. both of which it fears are in danger of being submerged. And in this respect the Bqetona. who are of Celtic stock. are at pre- sent making common cause with those who speak Scotch Gaelic, Basque. Occltan and certain oth- er tongues. A petition signed by 52 professors and lecturers at 11 Nordic universities. the bureau is happy to report, was se nt not long ago to the UNESCO councils of the Scandinavian countries, asking them to u s e their influence with the parent body to take measures on behalf of the small ethnic groups.

The petition points out that in nearly all countries there are organizations and laws for th e protection of rare plants and animals. But there is “not a sin- gle officially recognized associa- tion" for the defence of the small ethnic groups. The peti- tioners say: '

THREAT To CULTURE

“Since la-n g u a g e and thought, and thought and culture are so intimately bound, the ex- termination of a language is tan- tamount to the destruction of the culture it expresses. Neither the Nordic peoples nor the Catalan: and Basques would abandon their languages for the sake of English or Spanish, however

widespread and use of these may “We recognize fully the vantage for most peo know several languages. parti- cularly thoae ‘of numerically important neighbors. But one should not have to abandon one'a own for that! That is evi- dent for us Nordics. but appar- ently lncomprehenslble for many members of the big na- a."