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PAGE 4 TUESDAY, OCTOBER i8, 1966.

A Deepening Crisis President Johnson asked for the prayers of peace-loving people as he left yesterday on his 25,000-mile Pacific-Asian__journey...He_ will. visit ~ at least six countries in the next 17 . days, and he has promised to do his best to advance the cause of peace and of human progress. South Viet- _ nam is not on his itinerary, though it stands as thé focal point of his ardous travels. The tragic irony of the situa- tion is that he has himself ruled out any likelihood in the foreseeable future of another pause in the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam. _Speaking at a press conference before leaving Washington, .the president declared: <‘Jf it develops - that there is any hope that would flow from another pause, we will - always keep it in mind. We will make - additional sacrifices if we need to. But I see nothing on the horizon at this moment that would justify my asking all 300,000 or 400,000 Ameri-

‘

"Gans to stand there with their’ hands

in their pockets because someone here suggested they pause, unless their-enemy — paused.” The United States,he emphasized, would not stop bombing until and unless there—- ‘was some ‘indication that the .Reds would reduce their military activity in the area. a His statement represented a rejec-

* “Yon of UN Secretary-General U

Thant’s suggestion that the United States halt bombing as a first step toward a negotiated settlement of the war. There had been suggestions from private groups that the U.S.

*—guspend- the bombing to provide a

peaceful setting for the presidential trip to Manila, but this too has been ruled out. “There is no sign- from the’ Com- munists that they regard Mr. John- ditions, as anything but an excuse for intensifying U.S. war activities. While the Chinese have charged that Mos- cow was conspiring with Washington in a “peace plot” to end the hostili- ties, this has been explicitly denied by the Soviet leaders, who in turn have attacked the Chinese for set- backs to a Hanoi victory by refusing . to cooperate in joining Communist- “bloc action against American forces. To found any peace hopes on this dispute would be futile and dangerous. a It would seem, indeed, that prayers for a providential intercession were never more needed, if the war is not to escalate into one of major pro- portions.

A Phoney Reform Last week Liberal party politicking ® was so much in the limelight that we didn’t hear one word about the activi- * ties of the Tory dissident leader, Dalton. Camp, who seemed to have vanished into the void. But he has emerged in Waterloo, Ontario, still calling for a reassessment of John Diefenbaker’s leadership and warn- ing that when the president of a na- tional party (that’s Mr. Camp) can be blocked because he seeks to exercise a “democratic right,” the time has come for a change. Inspired, seem- ingly, by the manner in which the Liberals window-dressed their con- ference as a “grass-roots” affair, he : says this is what the Conservatives need and that now no longer can au- thoritarianism carry a political party.

One result of the Liberal con- ference may well be that future party leaders, whether they are prime ministers or opposition chiefs, will henceforth have to face a secret bal- lot after every election on the ques- tion of leadership. Why a secret. vote?

_ cause, of course, our MPs are not ~ voting ‘on their own”<in the Com- mons but as representatives of their constituencies. The voters have a right to know where.they stand. But haven’t the “grass-roots” supporters of a party who send delegates to. a party convention the same right? Apparently not, in the eyes of the party reformers. Actually, these automatic leader- . ship tests every few years are likely to result, not.in better leadership but in the leaders devoting more-of their ‘time. to currying favor with their party stalwarts and less to their

count of his stewardship at an annual or biennial convention. yBut when a party—especially a ruling party—at- . tempts to speak for the voters as a whole its place isn’t in a democratic ‘country, but in Soviet Russia or Red China, where they make. a fetish of party supremacy. ;

This is where the Liberal resolu- tion, if if-was not mere window-

ground. Prime Minister Pearson was

“4well aware of this when he said he

regarded himself as being directly responsible to-Parliament and to all the people of Canada, not merely to the Liberal party, :

As the Hamilton Spectator com- ments in this connection, the ironic part of this Liberal venture-in- “the dangerous area of direct democracy”

was that it was really all started by «

Mr. Diefenbaker. “So awed by the Tory leader are the Liberals still,” it says, “that they instinctively sought to protect themselves against the so- called leadership crisis in his party, as_though they somehow feared he was going to walk across the street and start leading them. But the truth is that even if the Tories:had such a clause ‘as this it wouldn’t do the anti- Diefenbaker people much good. No

secret -ballot-can-be-won-in.a-vacuum....-

Mr. Diefenbaker remains in office,

bers are_afraid of him but because his important lieutenants who aspire

- to pieces of his crumbling power, so

far haven’t. dared“to risk publicly marshalling the needed votes. And that they must do, secret ballot or not.”

“

Pe

* The True Discoverer ~Noted recently in these columns ‘was the manner in which the cham- pions of Leif Ericson were lambasted by a supporter of Christopher €ol- “umbus as the true discoverer of ‘America. It’s a controversy, it seems, “that pops up regularly at this time of the year—just around Columbus Day

> —and,inrecent- years, there. have

been other claimants to the honor as

~—“gon’s- peace offers; under-such-con-—|—well = aa

tary procedure, and have every issue decided that way by our MPs? Be-

duties to the public. There is nothing . wrong with a ‘leader giving an ac-

dressing, impinges on dangerous

not because the ordinary party mem-_|

IVE UP THE WHEEL 2? He Tunks HE IS THs WHEEL

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Se a NEW COURS. -yort

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THE BIG WHEEL

been put under suspicion in Par- liament of the very grave of- fence of censoring the evidence which a witness plamned to pre- sent before a parliamentary committee. Mr. Hellyer’s polit- ical future depends-upon his ab- ility to disprove this allegation;~ -the..future...usefulness. of Parlia- | ment depends upon the integrity and indépendence of all who are asked to provide evidence and information for MPs. ;

=““The official report: of -proceed- ings in the House of Commons contains esamples of evasive or- non-replies -given by the Minis- ter to direct questions; in the following extracts, I have under- fined significant words. To un- derstand this cross-talk, the reader needs to know. that the witness, “Admiral Landymore, first read his prepared presen-. tation, and then replied to ques- tions posed by MPs. The accusa- tion against Hellyer is that he censored, or was responsible for the censoring of, part of that presentation; of course he could not censor the unrehearsed re-

plies. to—1inpredictable questions

—this was never suggested.

WHAT RECORD SHOWS Harold Winch (New Democrat, Vancouver): “I should like to direct a question to the Minister of National Defence which I think is of absolute urgency and

OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson : Evasive Answers To Pointed Questions

Defence Minister Hellyer has of this matter when the com-

mittee meets.” \ ‘

Gordon Churchill (P.C., Win- nipeg): “Answer it now.”

Hellyer: “If my hon. friend will check the evidence that-was given the day the Maritime Commander (Admiral Landy- more), appeared before the committee, he will find that in his testimony he’ did ‘give figur= es with respect to manpower ald recruiting, and there was -no limitation whatsoever in re- spect-of the questions or the an- swers.” :

Winch: “‘This is not an answer to my question.-I asked, was anything cut out prior to the presentation? Can we now have an answer yes or no. from the minister?”

Hellyer: ‘‘The Admiral delet- ed from his text two or three references to friendly nations..."

M. Lambert (P.C., Edmonton) —:"* Were there any portions of the admiral’s brief with refer- ence to personnel matters and morale which the minister indi- cated should be within the pur- view only of the chief of person- pel? 3. i Serie

Hellyer: “I did not make any such indication.”

John Diefenbaker: “‘I wish to ask the minister a very simple

question. Did he read the story by Admiral Landymore which appeared in the Toronto Star on July 23, and which read as fol- lows: ‘The section on personnel, wherein I described the actual state of affairs in my command, was thoroughly censored and re- written... Is this true or is it not?” . a .

™ Heliyer: “So far ‘as my giving® instructions

is concerned, it is not... I have to accept the re- sponsibility for all the actions that were. taken.”’- a

Diefenbaker: “Does not the minister consider that in view of the revelations made by Admir- al Landymore that his evidence was changed while in the pos- seSsion of the minister and be- fore presentation to the commit- tee, this-is something that.the defence committee should 10 ok into?”

Hellyer: ‘Full opportunity will be available to the committee to check all allegations of this na- ture and to look side by side at the original document and’ what Admiral Landymore actually said. When that is done they will find there was no~ restriction

whatsoever in so far as his dis-'

cussion of. unification was con- cerned.”

Pompous Ti

nkering —

Cataracts

\'In Young

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen Cataract is a haziness of the lens that’ leads to blindness of the affected eye. The pupil which is ordinaril we ae ap- ars milky or white. re are vee forms and causes of these opacities, .but the type that de- velops in the elderly is the most common. On the other . hand, some children. are born with these lesions (congenital catar- act. )In many of these instances the mother had a viral disease such as German measles in the early months of pregnancy. _ The lens lies directly behind the pupil and is composed of lay- ers of tiny transparent fibers surrounded by a clear capsule. It is the size and shape of an aspirin tablet and is capable of getting thinner or thicker de- pending upon whether we want to see an object close: by or far away. It changes with age due to a reduction in circulation. __ Whenever a sharp pin, knife, scissors, point, or fragment of glass or metal pierces the struc- ture the fluid (aqueous humor) within the eye enters the lens substance, the fibers swell, @ cataract develops, and the vic- tim loses sight in that eye. This is why more and more machin- ists and other workers are en- couraged to wear protective gog- gles. The Wise Owl club is a na- tional organization made up of men whose vision was -spared when a piece of metal hit and shattered the glass but did not penetrate the eye. Many children

when hit with a B-B or short- pointed object.

Juvenile cataracts (in contrast to the senile variety )also stem from disease within ‘he orbit, especially when “toxins released ‘by germs and viruses penetrate the lens. The fibers are poison- ed, swell, and become_opaque. Surgery is helpful provided the optic nerve and retina are not involved.

Congenital and some juvenile cataracts can be treated by needling, a method never used in eliminating the senile cata- ract. The technique utilizes a slender-knife with a needle- like point. The fibers are proken up and ‘entirely absorbed, thus opening up the lens for sight.

POLIO INCUBATION I..K. R. writes: Does the pclio a work suddenly or will a after exposure before symp-

toms ? REPLY

Symptoms appear on an aver- age of -14-days —after exposure: The organism enters the body through the gastrointestinal tract and from there goes to the bloodstream where it multiplies. This is the nonparalytic stage of polio; paralysis occurs if the causative virus leaves the bloodstream and invades the nervous system.

RAW TONGUE %& Mrs. K. F. writes: My hus- band went to a doctor who told.

does this mean? ‘REPLY I presume he means that the tongue is beefy red in-color, like raw meat. Inflammation anem- ia, and certain vitamin ‘deficien- cies are the chief causes.

NECTAR FOR LONGEVITY

powdered milk a day too much for me? I am 85 years old.

There was the Chinese claim, for example, which caused so much ex- citement in the Communist world. Some Russian, obviously spurred on by ideglogical considerations, suggest- ed soon afterward that it was the Portuguese who first discovered the New World centuries before Colum- bus. Then, too, there was the Irish claim for St. Brendan, the Japanese claim (we forget for whom) and in the past year or.so, the claim advanced for the ancient Etruscans. Now comes another—this time for the Welsh.

A Welsh-born journalist, Richard Deacon, says he has proof that the

son of a Welsh king founded a New +

World colony 300. years before Col- umbus. This was one Madoc, a son of Owain, King of Gwynedd in what is now North Wales. According to his champion, Madoc sailed from Wales and’ made his American landfall at a site close to Mobile, Alabama, in

~-1170. The legend of Madoc’s trip is

part of early - Welsh literature

and has intrigued historians and -

others for years, but Mr. Deacon

' claims to have found a: contemporary

account of the expedition. He pro- poses to publish his findings in book form next year. ae

No less a person than President Johnson got-into the act’this year by proclaiming Oct. 9 a Leif Eriscon day in accordance with a congres- sional resolution. United States flags were displayed on all government buildings throughout the day. This could be termed an affront to sup-

porters of Columbus, but they are |-

getting used to such things these days. Next year, it could be. Madoc the Welshman day. And who knows what next?

“SyBut after all, the Columbus dis- coveries are the ones that really count. He began the centuries of

concerns a matter that requires clarification. Would the minister inform’ this House whether, in respect of officers of the armed services giving evidence before the defence committee of this House, it is correct that their presentations are received by him and censored before they are allowed to be made to the committee?”

P.T. Hellyer : (Liberal, Toron- to): ‘‘No. I do not believe in cen- ‘sorship any more than my hon, friend does. He was present in the committee and knows that there was-no restriction « what- ever spect of the questions asked and the answers given.”

Winch: “I am afraid I did not |... get an answer to my question. I ask the minister whether the in- formation given by a \now retir- ed admiral that his presentation to the defence committee, made in camera, was censored and certain parts cut out before he made that presentation, is cor- rect. Can we have a direct ans- wer as to whether that was done?” -

Hellyer: “I will be glad to an- swer all the questions in respect

Our Yesterdays

(From The Guardian. Files) © TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO

dicated that he would conform to the wishes of the executive in the event they should wish him

fo carry on.

God's in His Heaven, and maybe all’s well up there, but perhaps we may wonder about what we’re doing down here with some of our religious forms. By and large there’s much to be said for some of the “‘loosen- ing” of church ceremony and practice, but what are we to think of the Anglicans in’ Aus- tralia who have approved in general synod by a large maj- ority the trial use of a new form to the Lord’s Prayer?

They have changed ‘Give us this day our daily bread” to “our bread of the morrow give Us this, dag) oe

Apart from the awkwardness of the-style and the unnatural order of the words the change looks to us as though it had. been written in by some labor union bargainer. It seems he “wants not just to-get-the -bread each day, but he wants it in ad- vance. Perhaps the next change will ee that it be tax-free.

The'improvers, if we may use that: word without appearing to mean it, then get at the beduti- fully musical and meaningful old line: ‘‘Lead us not into tem- ptation.” Many a time have many of us been comforted by that recognition by the church that temptation is not easy to.

- | reject. But lo and behold what

| they’ve done to the line in Aus- tralia: ‘‘do not bring us to the ordeal.””

This is about as pompous and thoughtless a tinkering with simple language as can be im- agined. It.is also missing the point. When the lure of sin of one kind or another is subtle and seeming small it is easy to yield to temptation. ‘

When it is big and dramatie

| (and obviously dangerous; it be-

CLAIMS AIR VICTORIES

MOSCOW (Reuters)—A Soviet Magazine claims that two Viet- namese pilots trained in the So- viet Union and flying Soviet planes have each shot down an American’ plane. The journal Ogonyok was quoted by the So- viet news agency Tass Saturday as saying that many of the Vi- etnamese pilots, who graduated from one of the Soviet Un- ion’s best flying schools, re-

. Ottawa Journal

comes not temptation but an or- deal. Many of us can face up to an ordeal for we are frightened of the consequences— but tem- ptation is another thing altoge- ther. /

Ah well, other lands other

ways too, and may all their or-

bread arrive on time.

~-REPLY—__-

Let me know what brand this

is because anything that an’ 85-

year-old healthy person eats or drinks must be good.

addressed to: Dr. Theodore

deals-be small ones and all theif"| “Vi Deflen, co Chicago Trib- : )

une, Chicago, Ilinois.

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THE “DREAM TRIP”, the cruise south, the new car, the faraway skiing vacation. You can have them. By saving. Start now. Opén a Savings Account at the Royal Bank. Interest will fatten it up. And the Royal is the con-

also develop traumatic cataracts | -

him he has a beef tongue. What |

E:H. writes: -Is--one quart - of -}-

"NOTES: BY

r THE WAY

There are too many people who think they have quiet nel- ghbors because they can’t hear them over their own hifi stereo.

The economist who predicted three cars in every garage has never told us what we are going to do with the bicycles, baby car- riages, lawn furniture, lawn mowers, and garden tools that are in there now. — Brandon Sun.

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ordered a student to cut off all _ of his beard and some of his hair so he can see the expression on the student’s face during class- es. What makes him so sure

A British school teacher. has |.

ter Gordon has decided that he “will not be a candidate for the leadership of the’ Liberal Party. He has announced the fact to Mr. Pierre Berton, which’ is just a shade less official than notifying the Governor- General. Mr. Gordon’s decision narrows the field considerably. There are only 129 Liberal members of Parliament §$ctively after She job.—Globe and Mail.

A Montreal electrical repair. man who charged $57.40 for re- placing a $2.60 switch on a ree frigerator was sentenced to one _month in jail. That’s a real anti. inflation meastre— Ott awa Journal. ,

there is one? — Ottawa Journal

If we were as hungry for sweets as the pioneers, chances are that more men and boys would go afield on a mellow day and attempt to track wild bees to their woodland home.

In the days when many gener- .al farms kept afew hives of the social insects, a queen would lead thousands of bees from a hive after a new queen hatc froma queen cell. The 01 queen and her retinue swarmed in a nearby tree. Scouts located a.new home in a hollow tree and the old queen led the group away. The newly- hatched queen took her mating flight and re- turned to the hive. ;

In the new woodland home worker bees built combs; they gathered pollen and nectar. The queen laid several hundred eggs -day..and._soon there was ’a thriving colony. By September, a, goodly supply of ~honey~ had been stored for winter food. It was this honey that a bee-liner wanted. 8

A special committee appoint-

ed by the National Research Council to study the care of ani- mals used'in laboratory has come up with some humane re-. commendations in a- report. Whether any action will follow this report is something else again. “One -of the recommendations ~was-that-all.animal.dealers.‘who. supply laboratories with subjects for experiments should be con- trolled by licence and inspec- tion throughout: the province. -

It is astonishing to think that there are no regulations on the book now to govern such deal- ers. There have been some ugly cases of cruelty and of course

Among all the African nations which achieved independence in the last decade Nigeria seemed to have the best chance of suc-' cess. It was the largest, the richest and apparently the most stable of the former , colonies. Already. I_had_experi@nce with a considerable amount of auto-

But all those hopeful signs were wrecked on the rocks of

the .populations of the v.

ous regions, and bitter jealousies.

Wild Bee Lining

Hartford Courant

A small glass-topped box with

a piece of comb filled with sug-,

ar water was the equipment. A’ bee or bees from a goldenrod or

aster was brushed into the box.

When the bees had taken a load

the box was opened and one

watched the line of flight. If for-

tune smiled, the original bees

came back with others and the

process was repeated. Each

time, with bees in the box, one walked closer to the bee tree be-

fore releasing the bees.

It was fair sport. Oftentimes hive. Often one could not find

reward was a pailful or two of honey. One had to expect a few Sharp stings when the bee tree came down.

Bee lining .isn’t a popular sport. But it is pleasant, pastime on a sunny day when one can harvest the feeling of fall along with the possibility of the best of

sweets. e

Compassion For Animals

Pembrooke Observer

some dealers have been engaged in the shady practice of stealing family pets and selling them’ o laboratories.

The licensing of animal deal- ers, and their control and inspec- tion, is a provincial concern, but it will be of little use unless all the provinces step out together. These animals deserve consid-

way... :

When ft comes to cruelty to animals, a great many people are inclined to be-emotional-e2d swamped with in ation: This

is not a bad thing. There is too ‘

little compassion in the world to- day. 2 :

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themselves “peacefully than it~ was to live under British rule. In spite of all that has been col prevent blood-baths of tri bal warfare. It may be some time before the African peoples deve- ‘lop the self-restraint and toler- ance for others that will enable

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