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PAGE 4 THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1965.

At Loggerheads Reports indicate that the Conser- vatives are at it again at Ottawa, with the Diefenbaker group and the Balcer faction at daggers drawn over the Liberal Government’s opting-out for- mula which would allow Quebec, and @her provinces, to choose sole juris- diction in certain federal-provincial agreements.

It is lamentable at this time, when so much depends on strengthening the major Opposition party as an al- ternative to an administration which is laboring under so-many difficulties, that the Conservatives should be so insfStent on disturbing the peace among themselves. Divisions of opin- ion within a party are inevitable, but thpy should provide a reasonable basis for discussion leading to agree- ent on a common policy. This 1s ently required when, as in the nt case, there are so many rum- of an early federal election being led. -

It is true, as an Ottawa corres- ndent in the Globe and Mail has ted out, that Mr. Pearson’s gov- ment is muddling and muddied, fantastically accident-prone. True that, with the Rivard escape, Ot- wa is in-danger of becoming a na- al joke. But an election requires t the voters be given a choice of

of failure.

It was hoped, when the parlia- mentary session resumed, that the wounds of internal battle over Mr. Diefenbaker’s leadership would begin to eal. But there is little if any sign of this. It is not surprising that the whole country is reacting with a sense of bafflement to the situation.

-~. Nor is either of the major par- ties likely-f6 be rehabilitated by the strdins and passions of an election _gmmpaign, as the Toronto paper well Says. Both need time to cure their internal troubles. And it adds that Mr. Pearson has the greater duty as Prime Minister to use all his execu- tive authority to restore a dignified image to Canadian government. Only when both parties have put their houses in some kind of order can there be a meaningful appeal to the

people. 60th Anniversary

The people of Saskatchewan are lebrating their province’s diamond ee during the current year, and occasion is appropriately taken in Commercial Letter of the Cana- m Bank of Commerce for a full- review of the achievements, past _present, of this 60-year-old part- “in our Canadian Confederation. es a gripping story, and an in- one. e founders of the Canadian na- had laid the basis for western lement some 20 years before Saskatchewan became a province, with the construction of the first trans-continental railway on Canadian t#ritory. There followed a period of disappointed hopes and economic re-

cession until conditions became ripe -

féP large scale settlement to b® gin

the turn of the century. By 1905, when provincial status was con- ferred, a considerable area was al- ready under cultivation in Saskat-

_...@hewan_and, by 1911, annual wheat

production was over 100 million bashels.

~*S~But the vicissitudes of the wheat

economy are ‘reflected in the prov-

ince’s subsequent story. The popula-

rose to more than 750,000 in

1921 from less than 100,000 in .1901,

___. foflowing the period of most active

settlement, and to a peak of 930,000 in 1936 at which time it began to de-

itive alternatives, not between de-

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the decline was checked. Since 1951, the total has begun to grow slowly once more and last year reached a new peak of 953,000. Nevertheless, the rise in population has still been less than the natural increase

As a result of recent develop- ments a new pattern of basic pro- duction has emerged. In the period when agriculture was overwhelming- ly dominant, the size of the grain crop was faithfully reflected in the total output of goods which varied from $75 million in 1937 (a year of almost complete crop failure) to $446 million four years later on the strength of a bamper crop and much higher grain prices. Today, given reasonably pros- perous national business conditions, tHe size of the crop merely spells the difference between a fair vear and a good or excellent one

Along with developments in min- ing and secondary industries have gone improvements in agricultural

‘technology, in production diversifica- tion, in marketing arrangements, and in provision for credit to farmers, which have brought increased stabil- ity to farm incomes

Relic Of The Past

It will surprise most Canadians, and no doubt many Britishers as well, to learn that Britain still has a law which jails people for not paying debts. Actually, the effect is not to jail people for debt as such, but for contempt caused by failure to pay off installments ordered by the court. But it amounts to the same thing. About 7,000 persons are in prison at any one time in England and Wales on counts of this kind. Scotland has the deduction-from-salary system, and now the British government is taking the first step to brings the laws for the United Kingdom into conformity.

It has appointed a committee, headed by a judge, to study systems in other countries where debtors have money taken from their paychecks if a court so orders. One reason it is eager to stop these jail sentences is that prisons are seriously overcrowd- ed. Another is that debtors are not regarded as criminals.

It is realized that once in prison, a debtor has less chance than ever of rehabilitating -himself. He might re- main there a maximum of 42 days, until his ‘‘contempt” is purged. More often this is done by relatives or friends scraping together money to Py the debt.

The number incarcerated for of- fenses of this kind is more than at any time since the days of Charles Dick- ens, who gave such a graphic de- scription of a debtor's prison in “David Copperfield.” Of course the squalor and misery of Marshalsea Prison, where Mr. Micawber waited patiently for something to turn up, is -a far cry from Drake Halt in the English midlands, where most debtors are jailed today. Debtors imprisoned there have many concessions that were never dreamed of in Victorian days. But it is a relic of the past, nevertheless, and it is not surprising that a present-day Labor government should wish to abolish it.

Gas Spurs Rivalry

A contest is on between two west- ern provinces in which big stakes are involved. The Alberta and Southern Gas Company has applied to the Na- tional Energy Board for a license to export additional natural gas to the California market, and the applic-

ation is being fought by British Co-- |

lumbia interests, supported by the provincial government. They argue that if the Alberta request is granted, development of British Columbia’s rapidly expanding gas fields will be severely handicapped.

British Columbia contends that the Rocky Mountain barrier makes it only logical that its gas should be sold to the United States west coast, having the market east of the moun- tains to Alberta.- Evidence has been presented to the Board to show that the west coast province has ample gas reserves to meet both domestic and export requirements.

_ Hearings on the application will be held by the Board this month, and the results will be awaited with wide- spread-interest... They could deter-. mine the trend of western Canada’s gas industry for years to-come.

EDITORIAL NOTE

Economic experts from 40 nations will meet in New Zealand this month to talk about money for Asia. They will’ meet under the mantle of the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, often called Asia’s economic parliament: The meeting may produce a new billion-dollar Asian development bank, opening up a new and less Western politically onented source of money to lend to

underdeveloped Asian nations.

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i “THIS HAS A QUEBEC POSTMARK”

OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson

Issues Raised In Intra-Canadian Conflict

I recently described the justi- , littke surprise that several intel- | most of vow ‘will be happy to fly

fications for the overt or sub- conscious desire for greater self- government, or , separatism, among a large and increasing group of better- educated and younger Quebeckers.

Quebec's mood has led to the crisis in which Confederation now finds itself

But the other nine provinces also have a position in this in- tra-Canadian conflict which has become a crisis. In fact, the further one travels away from the Quebec border, the more vir- ulent is the anti-Quebec back- lash

The Commission on Bilingual- ism and Biculturalism was ap- pointed by the present Liberal government ‘‘to recommend what steps should be taken to

develop the Canadian Confedera- |

tion on the basis of an equal partnership between the two founding races..."

In this wording, the Pearson | the north, that by the time it reaches the northern US. stat- | has been considerably |

government deliberately and un-

justifiably tried to rewrite our |

history and our constitution to fit its partisan purposes, and to justify what other parts of Can- ada regard with good reason as its softness towards Quebec. QUEBEC RIGHTS History tells us that French originally settled just

| troduced a bill |that the U.S. army engineers the | study ways of opening up the

ligent top Americans York and Washington recently

\Naughed at Canada’s fuss about | a new flag. ‘Within 10 years,

in New

the stars and stripes.”

That is how serious our crisis is.

Warmer Winds From North?

Moose Jaw

Canadians who turn their ra- dio sets to southern U. S. sta- ions, have been hearing many times this past winter about “masses of cold air from Cana- da’’, moving ,to. make it most uncomfortable for our U.S. cous- ins. This has been going on for years, some times it is ‘‘masses of cold Arctic air’, which is a more correct description of the occurrences.

However, we here in the west- ern plains area of Canada, ab-

| sorb enough of the cold Arctic

air when it sweeps down from

es, it warmed up.

Even at that the U.S. doesn’t like it and Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin has in- recommending

Great Lakes and the Seaway for

the valley of the St. Lawrence. That area, generously extend-

year around navigation. In the bill the ‘ice blockade’ is de-

ed into a huge wealthy hinter- | scribed as being one of the most ‘

jand making it our largest pro- | “serious obstacles to -the econ- vince, was recognized as having | omic advancement of the mid- special French associations. At | western United States and a the conquest and again at Con- hindrance to national defence.” federation, French features such 4 similar bill reached the as their language and their civil |Rules Committee of Congress law were enshrined into legal | put died there last year.

rights within the borders of | rhe suggestion is made in Wis-

Quebec—but not generally in : ; : other provinces. ‘“s, consin that the air - bubbling

The French also have a histor- | system as used in Scandinavia, ic foothold in Acadia, and a |Greenland and elsewhere be

ied -out Power jet engines more modern overspill adjacent i to Quet boviers. 3 would forcé air under the ice on

| the lakes and in the seaway. The

Times-Herald

effect is to honeycomb the under side of the ice and make it easy for icebreakers to break it up. There is also the suggestion that nuclear reactors might be

adopted to de-icing the lakes. -

There is a ‘vast expanse of Canada between the Great Lak- es and the Arctic Ocean. If this Arctic air is an obstacle to the development of the Mid- West- ern States, it is having the same effect on Canada. If it is absol- utely necessary to warm-up the

| Great Lakes areas, Minnesota, | Wisconsin and: Michigan, Sena- tor Proxmire, should look furth- er afield.

A country which has built one

;canal through the isthmus of

{ Panama and proposes to build |

a second: which invented the atomic bomb and has nuclear | submarines that make , around the world under the ice

; Of the north sea and the Antarc- ,

tic Ocean, should be able to master the job of warming the Arctic Ocean.

the Japanese current through Bering Sea and Bering Straits | into the Arctic Ocean? Then the cold Arctic air mass would be- come warm and would seep down from the north like a Chin- | 00k. Hurry up, Senator Proxmire, | get cracking on the bigger un- | dertaking and everybody will be happy except perhaps Victoria and Vancouver, Portland and the coast area of Washington ' State.

have no claim as one of the two | founding races of certain@Qjher provinces od | As for those words ‘equal par- tnership’’, does this envisage numerjcal equality in the feder- al parliament? does it mean uni- | versality of the French lan- cow are usually and probably guage? | correctly suspected of being Now many French- Canadians | carefully staged affairs. Bricks, are asking for their minority in | stones and bottles of ink are other provinces exactly the hurled at a foreign embassy: same rights as the constitution | police break up| the mob and gives the English in Quebec. In | eventually there is an apology fafct the constitution implies that | and repairs are made. It all English shall be the official lan- i guage ‘of Canada, but grants of- ficial status equally to the French language in the prov- ince of Quebec, and in the fed- eral parliament and law courts. It does not give the French language official status in, say, Saskatchewan. The English pop- | ulation of Quebec is about 575,- 000, or 11 per cent of the total. (And the B and B commission surprisingly reports that a high. er proportion of English than of French in Quebec are bilingual). The French population in Sask- atchewan

Public demonstrations in Mos-

But there appears to have been a genuine demonstration on

bassy in as hot-blooded a riot as the Russian capital has seen. Ambassador Foy Kohler de-

while some of their number were arrested.

000 Ukrainians and 68,000 Scan- | _This outburst in itself would

dinavians. Should these languag-

es be given official status, ahead

of French in fact, in Saskatche-

they Oey bangndl! eet iny of other ' There is no doubt Que- | ‘The Times of London in a re- bec, and the other provinces, should have ‘restored to them |Comt J6page supplement on

Canada doesn’t equivocate about pointing out the dilemma. it agrees that the proximity and

negpen to bay cut-off Adantic able dependence on provinces, example? ; With the crisis of Confedera- |%® American economy. How-

ever, the Times states, when

| One Hopeful Ray

| not be news except for the con- text in which it occurred. The students were protesting Amer- ican - led air strikes against | North Viet Nam, a military ac- tion which the Kremlin certain- ly does not approve and which Premier Kosygin has, warned could explode into full-scale war.

It would have been simple for the Russians to let the embassy be attacked, arguing as they have in the past that the rioters had gotten out of control. In- stead, Soviet police brought up reinforcements, including water

| tanks and a portable fence, and

the riot was quelled.

Hold ing The Purse-Strings

ort William

Times-Journal

| have on Britain's automotive

exports to North America, sel- |

ection of it as something less than an encouraging example of economic trends is understand- able.

ence that the pedestal upon which we Canadians are our new national image

ed by else is un-

combined with a preponderance | comfortable truth.

trips |

Readers. And Writing

| By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen

Can mumps recur? Not as a rule, but a La Grange, Ill. wo- man has a personal experience to report Her children develop- | ed mumps and she followed suit with swelling of the glands on one side of the face and neck Thirteen years later she devel- oped a second attack involving the glands on’both sides. She re- mained in bed two weeks and at home six weeks “The first at- tack did not produce permanent immunity The second attack was harder on me because I was older A few years ago! de- | veloped regular measles. Old age does not prevent childhood diseases.”

A Wilmette, Til, man told of his son who had mumps when 11, a second attack at 18, and a | third at 33 years of age. This is

unusual and I assume that his | system is incapable of manufac- | turing protective antibodies against mumps

At any rate, the disease does recur in a small percentage, as- suming the diagnosis was cor- rect. Now and then the infection settles in one of the salivary glands and a few weeks later spreads to the others. This is not a recurrence: it is the same at- | tack in which the virus spreads from one gland to another. The | disease burns itself out as soon ; as the body develops immunity.

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, SEATO still exists but Pakistan, |

Laboratory animals which nib- |

of the arteries than those con- suming a large single meal A reader projected the idea into her way of living and wrote: ‘I find no fault with this theory as it mav apply to the recluse or domestically isolated individual, but as chief cook and_ bottle- washer for a family, I am dis-

mayed “Consider the appalling con- sequences in terms of litter,

dishes, and the accumulation of garbage. I have no desire to in- hibit those who seek = sciestific methods of dietary practice or a manufacturer of nutritional spe- cialties who might come up with a practical solution. How about handily packaged, balan- ced, nutritional units with a value of 50 calories each, sup- | plied in capsule or suppository

tration at 20-minute intervals? The litter-free aspect of this around- the- clock ingestion sys- tem would appeal to any home- maker.”

A good suggestion' But what happens when someone is invit- ed to lunch?

ALLERGIC TO ASPIRIN

A. T writes: Whenever I take aspirin, I break out in hives and My feet swell. Is this an unusual feaction to the drug?

REPLY

Yes, except among the small percentage of- our population who are aijergic to aspirin SYPHILIS AND INFERTILITY

Mrs. G. writes: Can syphilis make a woman sterile?

REPLY

It is possible but many wom- en with this disease have given birth to babies. The condition usually is detected long before delivery because a blood test is done routinely on every preg- nant woman.

(NOTE: All correspondence to Dr. Van Delien should be

What about diverting a part of:

addressed to: Dr. Theodore Van Dellen, co Chicago Trib- une, Chicago, Illinois.)

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~ Pakistan’s Position

By Arch MacKenzie

Canadian Press

When Pakistani President Mo- hammed Ayub Khan visits U.S. President Johnson next month, he goes to Washington as an ally-turned-neutralist.

He will have been a recent visitor to Peking and Moscow and a fairly-recent convert to warm contact with the Chinese. the countries lined up by John Foster Dulles in the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.

as France, is a token partici- pant these days

In 1955, Pakistan also was tied more firmly into the pro- Western Bloc with membership in a similar middle-eastern mil- itary grouping. Today, Britain and Iran are’ the remaining loyal members * while Turkey has cooled somewhat and 60 has Pakistan. Iraq is out. CHINA A FACTOR

Pakistan is an example of some of the facts of life created by the rising role of China in Asia

While Pakistan has had an es- timated $,4000,000,000 or more in aid from the U.S —military and economic it has turned to China as well now. Part of this shift was caused by anger at the US. help for India when the arch-enemy of Pakistan was being invaded by China along the northern frontier

Staff Writer

Pakistan viewed the Indian | arms buildup with concern.

The just-concluded state visit to Peking is a culmation of the new Pakistani approach. |'There has been a settlement of |a border dispute between the two countries, discussion of in- creased contacts and provisign by China of a $60,000,000 inter- est-free-loan | VIET NAM A TOPIC?

In Washington, Ayub is ez- pected to report on his impres- sions of the two Communist capitals to Johnson. He is also expected to make a pitch for Negotiations on Viet Nam if the situation at-that. time re | unchanged. | The president carried much the same message to Peking | but without any visible sign of | softening China’s | views that negotiations hinge /on American withdrawal from South Viet Nam Johnson, it is expected, will | take just as tough a line. | But there is no sign at least | yet Pakistan is going to sacri- fice any of the economic aid from the US. because of stronger ties with China

It. was open hostility to the U.S. which threatened economic aid for Gama] Abdel Nasser’s United Arab Republic and cut off Indonesia.

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Concern In Australia

Montreal Gazette

The growing tensions and up- heavals in Asia have caused a marked change of policy in one important country in the area— Australia. Australians are com- ing to realize, more than at any time since the Second World

War, that they are in a position”

which is both exposed, and like- ly to attract hostile attention.

When the world’s major wars were fought-in Europe, Australia seems the last place on earth which needed to worry about its This situation crumbl- ed during the last war, when Japanese aggression crept close to, and might have enveloped Australia, had it not been for Pear! Harbor

After the war, there was a temporary return to security. But now, faced with China’s campaign against the West and against the white ‘“race,"’ and with Lndonesia’s erratic adven-

turism, Australia is taking stock of its future. It, and New Zea-

land, are two nations in the world’: most troubled > rea which, in spite of geography,

are both Western and white One response has been a re- armament program. Conscrip- tion is being introduced. Expen- sive armaments are being bought from the United States, Britain and France And there is increasing debate whether the country should embark on an emergency program to deve-

lop the barren northern regions Above all, Australians are honing that they can commit

the United States firmly to the defence of the island continent. For in the last resort, Austral- ians know they would need a gigantic ally on their side if China and Indonesia ever be- gan a determined c am paign against them

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Britain Takes Her Stand

Fort William

A white paper issued by the British government on the sub- ject of defence makes the posi- tion of the Labor government very clear. Britain is going to take her place with allied demo- cracies in the defence against communist aggression ‘the na- tion will ask Parliament to vote $6,360,000,000 in 1965 for the pur- pose) but at the same time she will lean heavily on the nuclear force of the United States.

Put briefly, Britain is acting on the assumption that the de- fence of Western Europe is ade- quately set, since the nuclear strength of the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. almost precludes a belligerent move there. But she sees great need for the rein-

forcement of defence forces in.

the Middle East and Asia, and will place. emphasis on her co-

_ operation in this area,

‘Charlottetown to:

Times-Journal

When another labor govern ment was in power prior to the Second World War. defence pre- parations were permitted § ta slacken—a mistake that came close to being fatal. It is reas- suring to see the present labor government being realistic. de- termined to do what it can to protect those who depend on British power to resist the ma- chinations of Peking.

The government at London is committed to no mean task as it embraces sueh a policy. India, Malaysia and other places in the east ‘are quite vunerable to at- tack from China. Plenty of man- power from military equipment will be required to maintain nec- essary protection. Not without good’ cause does Britain call oa her allies to help share the de

fence burden.

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