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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1965.
! Miss LaMarsh’s Reply
=. As reported in our issue of yes-
terday, Health and Welfare Minister | Judy LaMarsh has emphatically ‘de- |
nied having made the statement at- tributed to her in Preston, Ontario, on Oct. 12 that “a pensioner in Prince Edward Island doesn’t need in actual dollars anything like a pensioner liv- ing in Toronto.” At Summerside on Tuesday night she said she was as- tonished when she read this report, as it was completely erroneous and
preposterous.
This being so, it is regrettable that Miss LaMarsh didn’t find occasion to express her astonishment earlier and dissociate herself from the statement as soon as it appeared in the press across Canada on Wednesday, Oct. 13. This, as we stated before, was a
report sent out by The Canadian -
Press, a nation-wide, cooperative, non- partisan news organization which en-
joys an enviable reputation for faire»
ness and accuracy in its reporting. Surely this was important enough to have warranted an immediate re- sponse from the minister, who has a competent secretarial staff to check
news reports of ber statements and~
call her attention to inaccuracies
when they occur.
We felt, in justice to all con- cerned, that we should get in touch with Canadian Press headquarters
yesterday.
The reply we got from
this source was that the reporter who ‘covered the Preston meeting confirm- ed the accuracy of his quotation, also that an identical statement was pub- lished on Oct. 13 in the Galt Reporter,
which covered the meeting independ- —
ently of The Canadian Press. We feel that our readers are entitled to. this _ information, which is all the help we
can give them in the matter.
“Incidentally we note that another Qntario paper, the Sudbury Star, e out last Saturday with an ed- iforial blast against the minister for ming to downgrade Prince Ed-
ward Island pensioners as being less needy than those in Toronto.
Its
criticism was doubtless based on the Canadian Press report, which the
__minister_ has now. repudiated. But it_ just goes to show how much trouble
can be caused by mixups of this kind. : Perhaps Miss LaMarsh, who head- efi a Liberal “truth squad” in the last féderal campaign to keep track of Mr. Diiefenbaker’s statements, can think some better way than we have at ent of keeping track of her own,
nd of getting them accurately before
e country. The newspapers
ap-
if at all from the Canada Pension Plan. _ It proposed to correct this | by bringing everybody under the Canada Pension Plan, regardless of income, paying $25 extra a month to | existing pensioners, and establishing | $25 as the minimum payment (in
come on pension would benefit little
Ie addifion to the present $75) for all
|( futuré pensioners.
The pension fund could stand
this because the premiums have been set at a scale to produce not only what is needed to pay the pensions, | but to build a large capital fund for | the use of the provincial govern- | ments. The premiums’ were nearly | doubled at the insistence of the Que- ' bec government, which was at least | as interested in the capital it would | get as in the pensions ifs people | would get. Premier Robarts of Ontario pro- | posed to go part way to meet the | Quebec position by recommending | that premiums be collected from | all, not just those making more than $600 a year, and that the time before the maximum pensions became pay- able be extended from 10 to 20 years. At the same time he proposed to meet the need of individual pension- ers for larger pensions by determin- ing the pension payable on a worker’s last 10 or best 10 working years, in- stead of on his full working life of 42 years. ,
Reduced to its simplest terms: Canada has two pension plans, the Canada Pension Plan for the nine English-speaking provinces and the Quebec Pension Plan for Quebec. As set up at present both will collect larger premiums than are necessary to pay the promised pensions. Mr. Robarts proposes (and the Conser- vatives propose) that some of this ex- cess be used to increase the pensions of those who would not otherwise . benefit under the plan.
‘The next federal government could do this by renegotiating with Quebec. Quebec could choose either to match its plan to the federal plan, in which cage its capital fund from premiums would be somewhat reduc-
pensioners would receive $75 a month, compared with the $100 paid elsewhere in Canada. .
As the Toronto paper points out, the Conservative plan might : raise some political problems, but it is certainly not deceitful, and it would have the virtue of assisting nearly 2% million Canadians whom the Lib- erals have chosen to forget.
To Be Welcomed
The American Automobile’ As- sociation has embarked upon a pro- ject of prime importance to all con- cerned with highway safety. An as- sociation committee comprising the presidents of the four major auto companies across the border has re- tained one of the country’s oldest and largest research organizations, Arthur D. Little, Inc., to make an analytical review of the present state of know- ledge of motor accident causes and prevention. Proposals for in-depth explorations of traffic safety have also been invited from a number of the leading universities.
In announcing the inauguration of this project, AAM president Ray Abernethy observes that the initial study .will provide direction” as to where research efforts ‘can be ap- plied for maximum benefit to the public. Other steps will be taken in
to find ita task beyond their | the near future as part of an inten-
ebmpetence!”
About Those Pensions
* About the only political promise . Pearson could make to us in Char- town was the rather nebulous e that old-age pensioners who need ore than the present $75-a-month msion will, under the National As- ce Plan, be provided with ad- ional allowances at the joint cost the federal and provincial govern- mts. He coupled the promise with that voters should not be
eived by Tory or NDP promises
*+@ raise the old-age pension to $100 m $75 and pay for the increase out
of the Canada Pension Fund. That
oners
puld mean, he said, that as Quebec had a pension plan separate from the Cenada Pension Plan, Canadians in
other nine provinces would be ying the increase to Quebec pen-
What the Prime Minister didn’ ill his audience, and as we are re- minded in a trenchent editorial on subject in the Globe and Mail, is at the Conservative plan was fully
sented in the Ontario govern-
committee last January, ‘and ed aside by Miss LaMarsh’s de- nt. This brief pointed out that Canadians now on pension
_ | sive industry-wide safety program. A
safety administrative committee has been charged with implementing over- all industry policy in this connection.
With the services of the best and most experienced_persons who can be secured, it is felt that a co-ordinated effort of this kind will provide a solid base for more aggressive action in the fight to cut down highway accid- ent tolls. “ While the plan is to be carried out mainly in the United States, the outcome and the recom- mendations will’ undoubtedly be of value to Canada as well.
EDITORIAL NOTES
United States troop strength in South Viet Nam has topped the 130,- 000 mark, the American Military mission reports. Of a total of 131,700 troops now stationed there, 75,000 are Army personnel, 36,900 are | Marines, 13,100 Air Force, 5,830 Navy | and 270 Coast Guard.
* * *
Latest news from the water fluori- dation front comes from Connecticut, where the department of health has
| set deadlines for water suppliers in the state to file fluoridation plans. This is a follow-up to a law passed
at the last session of the legislature, |
requiring fluoridation of all water supplies in communities with more than_20,000 population.
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THE ELECTION SYMPHONY
OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson Concern Over Diversi on Of Water Supply
The basic difference between wheat and water is that a mod: erate annual supply of the lat- ter will produce in Canada a huge exportable surplus of the former. The reverse does not apply; by scattering.a few grains of seed wheat on our Great Lakes. we cannot raise levels.
I have referred in this column to the losses which Canada and Canadians are now suffering through the draining of water from our Great Lakes-St. Law- rence Seaway water system. Ralph Cowan, the all-Canadian MP elected as a Liberal in Toronto, has made a_ special study of this problem, and his voice has been the loudest of the few raised in warning.
On the other side, we have
heard -some_—gigantic _engineer- as
ing proposals to redesign the the face of Canada to meet the needs of our prodigal neigh- bour. Oné such proposal, toe divert rivers which now flow in- to the Arctic Ocean, caught the imagination by its engineering daring. But now it is begin- ning to cause national fear by its economic rashness. Canada is already using up each year more of our supply of pure water than nature will replace we cannot afford to give or to sell our water to others; on the contrary, we must adopt bet- ter conservation methods ° to hold our own.
THE GENERAL SPEAKS
Canada’s | outstanding author ity on this subject is General A.G.L. McNaughton. Knowing my previous interest in it, he kindly sent me dn advance copy of a speech dealing with water resources ‘which he recently de- livered before the Canadian Club of Montreal.
“My thesis is a simple one,” the General declared. “It rests on a basic premise that is self- evident to any thoughtful per- son, namely that water is THE fundamental -resource in any civilisation. ‘There is NEVER too much water; the amount of water available determines the upper limit of a nation’s deve lopment. In Canada, our upper limit of development is high largely because of our. water re sources. This fact should be an inducement for us to speed up our progress rather than to re- linquish the fundamental asset that makes it possible. It is therefore nonsense to talk about a surplus .of water in Canada. and it is dangerous folly even
Our Yesterdays
(From The Guardian Files)
Hitler received vice- premier Pierre Laval of France some where in French territory it was announced, climaxing indica- tions in Berlin circles of a deve loping attempt to mass the sur viving French_ warships with those of Germany and Italy for
a sh wn with the British tae
One of Britain's newest de stroyers, the 1,600ton Kimber- completed
miraity announced, trapped 1,058-ton Italian destroyer, Fran- cesco Nullo, driving it ashore and blowing it up.
Ian Huunter, artistic director of the famed Edinburgh festival arrived jn Ottawa to make a sur- vey of possibilities for an annual international festival of music and arts in the capital.
The Hon. Keir Clark, minister
to contemplate selling our wa- ter.” PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS
While the General thus in- sists that he who would sell Canada’s river water would be selling Canada down the the river, Prime Minister Pear- son has disclosed that his gov ernment plans to discuss with the USA proposals to ‘export our water to that country.
The General said that the North American Water and Power Alliance, proposed by by the USA is ‘‘a monstrous corporation which would drain our water resources and dis- distribute the benefits across the continent at a cost of some hundred billion dollars.”
“If our friends to the south
have a hundred billion dollars to spend on the problem, let them spend it to process their abundant supplies of dirty wa-
ter. scheme would dis- possess C of her water while the A is that USA does
not need Canadian water.
The real problem, the’ Ger eral suggested, is the scarcity of. clean water, rather than a shortage of water. If Canada plans to take any steps with USA about water, those steps should be to insist upon measures al- ready planned to halt pollution. “It is a matter of great urgen- cy, and the sooner it is dealt with, the cheaper it will be.”
But sell our water to the USA? | No, Mr. Pearson. ‘
The dental patient who hears Beethoven's “Ninth” instead of the noise of the drill cannot elude the suggestive effect. He con- centrates on the music, is dis tracted from thinking of the pain, |loses his fright — and the treatment does not seem to be so bad after all.
3,500 dentists from 28 coum tries were recently able to wit- ness the effectiveness of ‘‘mus- ical drilling’ in Stuttgart. But this was not the only novelty at the West German Dentists’ Convention and _ International Dentistry Show. This great tech- nical exhibit displayed dental instruments that document the high standard of dentistry tech- nology today.
In addition, the convention “offered “a scientific ~ program with 96 lectures mainly on the problem of parentosis. This disease that affects the tooth bed and which becomes appar- ent through bleeding and shrink- ing gums and finally by the loss of healthy teeth is, in addition to caries, one of the most fre quent tooth illnesses today. —
An entirely healthy set of teeth is a rarity in Europe. Sick teeth and teeth anomalies are the rule. 90 per cent of all per- sons are treated by dentists and especially the number of child- ren and young people is contimr ually on the rise.
iation of German Dentists Dr. Erich Muller really ‘“‘blew up” on the subject of the civilized
The president of the Assoe- |
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persons phlegma in to taking care of his teeth. called him a “lazy chewer”.
per care of his teeth.
Dr. Muller suggested forbid- ding all sweets to children and to give them fruit and carrots in- stead. He also spoke out in favor of forbidding shops located near schools to sell sweets to child- ren.
The conventional dental chair will disappear one of these days from the dental ppractise. The patient will no longer sit in a chair but lie relaxed on a hy- draulically moveable couch.
And the dentist will not drill, grind or fill teeth while stand-
ing but while sitting next to his | patient.
Throughout the Middle Ages the threat, of bubonic_ plague hung like a sentence of death over the crowded cities and towns of Europe. Far back into history we find records of wave upon wave of the pestilence sweeping at intervals across the continent and the islands off- shore and leaving behind it de cimated populations, disordered commerce and terrified surviv- ors.
The last great plague to sweep London broke out in stinking houses around the Longacre early in the year 1665. Through- out that dreadful year and into the year that followed the week- ly death counts were alarming: ly high and cries of ‘‘Bring out your dead” rang like alarms fn the night.
In pits all over London and in the fields around, the flood of plague-deformed bodies rotted and added the stench of their decay to the already polluted air of the city and the man who felt the- hard plague sore form- ing in his groin gave up hope for the future and prepared him- self for the pain and the hideous black vomit that marked the
of education, cut the ribbon and} death.
declared the new high school at Souris officially open.on Octob-
The horror of 1665 was the last
great plague epidemic to sweep southern England. A gradual im-
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provement of sanitary conditions lessened-the possibility of a re turn of the black death in its old, gigantic forms.
Man’s memory of horror is, however, long and so it is that modern outbreaks of plague strike a dreadful chord
tain wild rodents and the, possib- ility of a return of the lence is present provided condi- po for its spread are avail- able.
To think that such conditions are to be found in a rich country like the United States almost staggers the Journal of the cal Association that six cases ~the disease, five in New Mexico,, and one in California, have beeen identified.
The American authorities, no
bt, have the situation well in and.-Only one death has so far been reported. News of an out break of plague, however minor, cannot fail to strike a chill into the hearts of those who know history. The shadows of old ter- rors still lie across the world, however faint time may have made them.
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The only exception is when psy- chological factors are respon- sible.
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SLOW LOSER
J. S. writes: I have osteoarth- ritis and am overweight. I’ve tried dieting but cannot shed more than two or three pounds. Walking is difficult besause the pain is mainly {n my _ knee. When watching TV or reading, I’m in the habit of lying down. Could this be the reason for my failure to lose weight?
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T. S. writes: Does allergy ever disappear as suddenly as it appeared?
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Some of the incidental infor- mation in the pamphlet is in- triguing. It is no surprise to
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