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{AGE 4 MONDAY. JULY 13.

Come Now, Mr. Gordon!

The “new levels of largesse" on which this Province has been placed in its fiscal relations with Ottawa were scathingly reviewed in the House of Commons the other day b.\’ our junior member for Queens. Mr. Heath Macuuarrie. it was in some ways a partisan speech. and it would wnstitute a striking exception to the other contributions to the de- bate if it weren’t. But it was es- sentially an appeal for fair play and justice to this smallest. partner in the Confederation setup. The fig- ures quoted by Mr. Macquarrie are not in dispute. and they spoke pretty strongly for themselves.

The speaker rigliily called at» tention to the benefits we received under the Diefenbaker Government through the Atlantic Provinces ad- ;ustments grants. and to the fact that after six years of Conservative administration the Province was roe ceiving. in unconditional and con- ditional grants from Ottawa. 300 per cent more than under the former Liberal regime. This was allotted to us not as a special favor but on the basis of legitimate fiscal needs.

1964.

Then came the reversal to the old niggardiy treatment of previous years. Out of the first $87,479,999 under the changes in the equalization formula and increased tax abate- ments proposed by Finance Minister Gordon we are to receive the pittance of 5553.000 In the next stage. out of $106,662,000. our allotment is to be $678.000—making a total of $1,- 621.000 out of the overall total dis- bursements of $264.973.000. The fiscal need formula went completely out the window in the allocation of these grants; and as this Province has the smallest tax base and is the most dependent on federal assist- ance. it has placed us in a very pre- carious posnion indeed.

"We cannot threaten." said Mr. Macquarrie. “We cannot coerce by saying that you will lose all the seats in Prince Edward Island. We do not. have 75 or 83 or 85 seats. We have only four. But I will say to the Minister of Finance that no matter how sophisticated his form- ula. whether it is achieved before or after the event. no formula will work in this country Which does not have as its essential ingredient a recog- nition of the tax ability and fiscal needs of the provincial communities making up this country. This is the essence of co-operatlve federalism."

A reasonable plea. surely. which it is to be hoped—even yet—will not prove to have fallen on deaf ears.

Not Left To Chance

At roughly the some time that Soviet Premier Khrushchev began his recent Scandinavina tour. during which he advised Denmark and Nor- way to reconsider their member- ship in NATO. more than 7.000 of- ficers and men from NATO’s Mobile Forces were completing three weeks of intensive manoeuvres in northern Norway. The timing was coincidental but it‘ was clearly emphasized that despite a general lessening of world teneion and extensive efforts by the Soviets to woo Scandinavia. the reg- ion’s military preparedness is not being left to chance by the West.

Thus writes a Copenhagen cor- respondent for the Christian Science Monitor. who says that the operation

~ waa the fourth series of manoeuvres

by aeloctod land and air units from mm- Mobile Conunand Forces and the second in two years to concen- trate upon tactical problems in thin I...

.m h the purpose of these V junctions? The answer

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ties in the fact that the major Soviet objective in Scandinavia is clearly access to the ice-free ports. If NATO successfully controls the mouth of the Baltic and the Kiel canal, the Soviet Union is limited to Murmansk and perhaps in case of war the Flu- nish port of Petsamo. Control of several deep—water fjords on the North Norwegian coast during war- time, would greatly shorten her com- munication lines with the sub- marines in the North Atlantic.

Without outside help. defense of Scandinavia in Norway and Denmark alone would be virtually out of the question. Here is a concrete example of the need for continuing NATO defenses. however persuasively Mr. Khrushchev may argue to the con- trary.

Costly Caravan

The caravan of the Royal Com- mission on Bilingualism and Bicul- turaiism is still wending its way across the country. In the opinion of the Hamilton Spectator—a news- paper usually moderate in its criticxsms—it is going to prove one of the costliest any government in this country has sent a-touring. From other sources we gather that this view is becoming widespread.

The bill so far. for nearly a year's ‘ work. $422,706. But. the. com- mission is only just getting into its stride. By the end of next March, if it spends the government's esti- mate—and at the rate things are going it will—the bill will have reached $2,238,707.

The commission already has 36 research specialists. In the next six months it plans to hire 65 more full- time and 28 part-time research work- ers. This means that the commis- sion is now boring in all directions. Dead facts and theories will be ac- cumulated and bales of paper pro- cured for future sittings.

The things that divide Cana- dians. argues our Hamilton contem- porary. are not lifeless theories but living facts. But this commission has provided a heyday for the theorist. crawling through the book stacks and polling public opinion. It started out with the best intentions. but it is in danger of becoming ‘a showpiece for the madness of mod- ern bureaucracy.

Its bulky report can do nothing more than elaborate and underscore what we know already—that we have two cultures and two lan- guages in this country and that the problems arising out of them can only be soved by mutual good will by the desire of all parties to find a common ground. and by working for a common aim. The commission may succeed in discovering points of irritation which may be corrected: but surely we do not. need to spend over two million dollars to achieve. this end.

The Big And The Small

If there is a. wet spring next year in the area of the Wood Buffalo Na- tional Park in Canada's Northwest Territory. an interesting experiment will be carried out. This is the breeding area for the whooping crane. of which there are only 39 known live specimens in the world. The species is nearing extinction. and scientists are trying every means to rehabilitate it.

If a whooper lays any eggs in the area next spring. they will be picked up by helicopter. placed in an incubator. and flown to the Monte Vista national wildlife refuge in southern Colorado. There they will be placed under Japanese silky bantam hens. In this experiment. in addition to helping in the hatch. scientists are hopeful that by care- ful lifting of the eggs from the nést in Canada. the-whoopers will be in- duced to lay more eggs there.

What. intrigues us in this news story is the reference to those little Japanese silky bantams in Colorado. who must. have a highly developed motherly instinct indeed. Accord- ing to the experts. they are “very faithful and stay close to the eggs." Thus one of the smallest members of the chicken family has been pick- ed for the job of hatching eggs for the largest. of flying birds. who seem to be awful duds at doing anything for themselves.

EDITORIAL NOTE Goldwater’s campaign for the Republican nomination ‘now seems “an absolutely cinch.” says a news report. Fortunately. he will still be a long way from winning the 5mi-

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_O_'l;TAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

Whoi Purpose Behind Shuffling Strategy?

Parliament‘s snail-pace legis- lation under the Pearson Gov-

ernment long ago became a na- .

tional joke. Canadians may well ask with bewilderment what ex- actly our $18.000 per year legis- lators think they are doing. for they certainly are not perform- ing the work for which they voi- umeered and for which they are

paid.

The House of Commons is in- eptly led from the Liberal ben- ches. and it is unduly obstructed by the leader of the Conserva- tive opposition and his few hat- cher. men. We can compare the situation with late 1962. when

e roles of those two parties were reversed; but. then the ob- struc.ion was much more flag- rant and universal than it is to- day.

GRITS WANT ELECTION?

The explanation of the pres- ent situation. I believe. lies in the wish of Liberal smaegists to call yet another election this Fall. But they know that this would be so unjustified. and so unpopular in the country that they are trying to make it ap-

pear that the Conservative op- '

position is forcing an election. The Liberals will find it im- possible to make [his lie stick. since it is well known and very obvious here that the overwhel- ming majority of Tory MPs. as well as the smaller parties. con- sider another election neither necessary nor desirable,

9 Pearson Government is now frankly making no attempt to get urgent legislation passed by parliament— this is the far~ cicai climax of its vaunted days of declsmn" and its subse- quent 390 days of dancing.

Dancing'.I Mike Pearson and his partners are dancing what Ottawa's mayor. Charlotte Whit-

ton. so expressiver calls the Ot- :

tawa three-step: one SLED for ward. one shuffle wooflingly sideways. one retreat shamefac- ediy backwards

Look at the damning record. On Friday. 15 May Mr. Pearson told the House of Commons that there were 37 important meas- ures he wanted Parliament in process before the summer hol- idays. In this list. he did not mention the flag at. all. But only 'two days later he launched “Mike‘s Maple" at the Winnipeg

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formed one of his usual shuffles. j

He announced a new list of es sential pro-holiday legislation. This was cut down to 18 items. but the flag had suddenly been introduced with high priority. Then on 26 June Canada’s lead- er led us into another retreat he listed only six items which must be passed before the hon days. and the flag was r a t ed first.

SHOULD PLACE CANADA FIRST

Omitted from Mike's maple- blurred list was ,auoh urgent business as the redistribution of constituencies. without which

another election would be a moc- kery: and legislation to halt the

destruction of our magazine in- ‘ duatry. amendments to the Na- ‘,

tional Housing Act. farm credu. crop insurance. minimum wage legislation and the Railway Act a certain other urgent bills. all of which concern the employ- ment and welfare of Canadians oualya flag worn a a single new job nor improve any Canadian‘a welfare: a it la too late to reunify Canada without more concrete steps. But the flag certainly is. in the Liberals‘ view. a honey of an n.- aue on which to precipitate an election; why. it abwld p every French- Canadian seal se- curely in the Liberal bag! This is a brutally crlt'cal ex-

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into a 1964 election. I can think of no other explanation which so accurately fits the unbelievable

The Civilized Computer

Christian Science Monitor

Computer civilization is ad-

vancing. Computers themselves . are becoming more civilized. as i

people in the computer age un- derstand that term.

’ that is what we are saying: computers are now be- ing developed which will oe able to call one another up sometime. They will place their own calls and exchange infor mation. Maybe when they are fully developed telephone entiiur slasts they will be able to ex- change even hearsay.

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harm to Canada which is being perpetrated in the House of Commons.

For most. of us. what compul- ers say toione another over the telephone will be incomprehetp sible. Doubtless the messages will also be minuLely detailed and practically interminable Probably they will be phoning one another when they ought to be timing the steak. or when an- other compuler wants to get on the two-party line. or when the head of the computer household is expecting a'rlong-distance call

This. obviously. is civilization. And the computer is for it.

Those - Guelph No retailer would consider

buying new merchandise for ma store “by the pound.‘ Yet many

. store operators are guilty of buying advertising "by tho und."

0 The daily newspapers in every section are struggling against in host of Johnny- come- lately shopping news sheets and other throw aways. The "throw- aways" seek to equa. their bulk distribution with the paid circulation of a legitimate news- Regardless of whether c n 4:

throw-away is tossed on a lawn or delivered by the‘ postman. ll

U.S. llWcir” Agoinsi Cuba

New York Times

The complications of United

States policies toward Cu b have been shown dramatically in the last few days by e con- trast Washington's move to restrict the sale of food and medicines to Cuba. and its stern reprimand to the young exiles who raided a Cuban port recently and then issued a tri- umphant communique from Miami about it. Food an medicines were heretofore the only categories of goods that cc‘uld be shipped to Cuba'wllhout government per- mission. Now specific licenses will required. clearly in or- der to cut down on these ship- manta

This is not the way to win the cold war against Cuba. nor is it the way to present an image of the United States lo the world as humanitarian and ma nonl- mous. The United States i not gain by making Cubans more hungry. or friends by making them suffer from lack of medicine. '

The Cuban exiles. on their part. are not helping their peo- ple in Cuba or noticeably weak- ening'the Castro Government by raids which are simply irrita- tions and which only lead to more. not less. repression in Cuba. his State Department has repeated what it said more than a year ago.

"These attacks are neither supported nor condoned by this

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President Kennedy explained the reasons at the flare. pointed out that ouch raids "may strengthen Soviet lion :1

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must. still be classed as "more dered merchandise." Because of its low readership. any throw" away is a questionable buy for retail advertising. says the magazine Furniture Field. Proponents of "throw-away.

as good advertising mediums quick to point out that large retail chains have used flyers and mailers with great success. Overlooked is the fact that these well-merchandised printed piec- es from Weill - lmowu shores create their own readership by virtue ' a lance built up with sound adver- tising programs in newspapers.

been gradually removmg their military forces from Cuba. It is to our interest that they continue lo do so, not that they find an

Mental I by Dr. Mona 3. Val Della

What is mental health? It in- volves the ability of a person to form normal relationahipa with others. The aniotlonally stable respond freely and maponalblx lo the demands made on them by their follows. and they are willing to co-operale and com- municate with those about in. These people appreciate their kinship with family. friends. and associates and are capable of love and compass .

They belong to the commu- nity in which they live and par- ticipate in its religious. econom-

aocs'ol . The

mentally healthy maize iii a t such varied contacts enrich liv-

ing. '11:. emotionally disturbed of- alienate

fr om family and community. The y become estranged. detached and withdrawn, The W of pay- chi-talc case is to restore their

This is not always easy to do because they have built' up de- fenses against adversity and the

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a. society. The longer (this situation pereblb, the herd- er it is to change. Sedativea. shock than”. and other form» of treatment help but mu c n more than this is required to re- lieve moiety. u deuce and mange if: victim to communicate.

We learned a lesson in World War III about psychiatric casu- alties (shellshock and psycho neuroses) in combat. The out- look was better when these men were treated in nearby first aid

and returned to duty quickly. Those who were evac- uated to base hospitals were less likely to find themselves back at the front. Why? After being ev- acuated. the service man‘s - tense mechanism had lime to and become well estab- lished. l

modern mental health clinic is comparable to the first aid situation of World War II. The person with an emotional prdblem een earlier a nd many are able to rejoin th e l r ' and oormmmlty ante short term treatment. T h e s e centers also give follow-up care to those who have been institu- tionalized and are living at h

me. . DIABETES AND ITCHING' A. H. writes: I have diabetes

l under control) but pruritus

still continues. Should it n of

have subsided after urine and blood sugar became normal?

E L Yes. if if was due to diabetes. Allergy and nervousness a re other possibilities. RSHNESS AND SPEECH S. T. writes: A 6-year-old boy . His father always has been strict with him at the table. Could this harshness be responsible for the child‘s speech defect? , , REPLY Yes. There is a strong emo-

ng. GRADUAL RISE D. T. writes: If a person gets high blood pressure. does it oc- cur suddenly or gradually? REPLY

Gradually except in malignant hypertension or the type th at develops during pregnancy.

FLU SHOTS DURING PREGNANCY

Mrs. L. writes: Can flu shots

early in pregnancy deform the 9

baby. REPLY Not to my knowledge.

DEPOSITS M. K. writes: Could calcium deposits in the jaw be due to a

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former attack of tuberculosis? REPLY

This is doubtful. TODAY’S HEALTH HINT— Dietlng? D e v e l op won’t er '

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excuse for remaining.

Canada's doctors are alarmed over drinking- and- driving and the facts justify their concern.

allace Troup reported to the Canadian Medical Associa- tion that soon“ persons were in- jured or killed by traffic accl- dents in Canada in 1983. an in- crease of 3.2 per cent over 1962. In Canada 28 r cent of all fatal accidents involved drink- ing drivers. And in Ontario dur- ing‘Marcli. of this year 53 per cent of all accidents - involved (kinking driver: and pedesc triana. ,

These statistics result from marked changes in the drinking habits of our society.

It would too much ex- aggeration to suggest that Sal- urday night in Toronto la. like New Year's Eve used to be— a night full of people who drink and drive.

The lack of aelf- control and wisdom which we demonalrale in our drinking patterns is ob- vious. It is not enough to de- ip ore the trend: what he needed is a frank and honeal‘ appraisal of the extent of the problem and the acknowledgement that we in factneod protection from our-

selves.

CMA recommend: liabi- er control on licence renewals. clarifications in ills Criminal Code blood or bro