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PAGE 4 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1966.

Surprise, Surprise! ‘Liberals reportedly got the jolt of. their lives at their party conference

this week, on discovering they had ©

a tiger in their tank in the person of

_.. their usually mild-mannered leader,

Mr. Pearson. Actually it was at the pre-conference. caucus that he administered his sensational tongue lashing, but the effects seem to have carried over into the conference as well. Uncensored reports of what. took place are still dribbling out, confirming the rumor that it was a performance the rest of the country is very-sorry to have missed.

Mr. Pearson is credited with hav- ing torn “great bleeding strips” off certain cabinet ministers and back- benchers alike for “flouting” the gov- ernment policy line—whatever that is. He called them “malcontents and dissidents,” and warned them they

~~ would: have to: straighten up and: fly--

right “or else.” The “malcontents” were mostly the left-leaning members of the caucus—led by Health Minis- ter MacEachen, former Finance Min-

ister-Gordon and ex-State Secretary -

-Lamontagne—who had been demand- ing bigger and better spending on social security, and whatnot. —

. These were what the Liberals call their “swingers,” and Mr. Pearson

‘made it plain that he had no use for . their goings ‘on. As ‘of right now, he

warned, they would have to stop stumping the country with what he termed ‘divisive speeches.” He told ‘the caucus the Liberals would have to forego the luxury of holding “‘pro-

« 4s a test meetings” like the recent unof-

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ficial conference in Peterborough at- tended not only by a few Liberal MPs but by a couple of parliamen- tary assistants too.

Finally, the Prime Minister lambas- ted the caucus for the absenteeism in.

_ Parliament last week when the vote

was called on the Bank Act. There were only 84 in their seats to support the government and they squeaked by, never more narrowly, the Opposi- tion’s 78 votes. More than 100 MPs, evenly split between government and Opposition, were anywhere but in the House when the division bells rang for 45 minutes. oe

Who did they think they were? their leader asked. He reminded them that when they voted themselves a doubling of their pay, nearly four

years -ago, -from- $10,000-to-$18,000,-

plus all manner of: fringe benefits, they were expected to have a sense of higher responsibility. He counselled » them that theirs was now a full-time _ Job, and if they knew what was good for them they had better make it one. eae It is said that the PM’s anger so shook the caucusing. Liberals that few dared to speak, and the few who did seemed stunned by what had ‘happened. Well, who wouldn’t be? They must have thought for a mom- ent that they were in a Tory caucus; but it is doubtful if Mr. Diefenbaker, for all the complaints about his high- handedness, ever laid down the law as bluntly as this. Perhaps it would be better if he did! ;

The Hidden Cost

One of the most vicious things about modern warfare is the upsurge it appears to give to the national economy, through the boom created in the production of weaponry and of war supplies. Some additional light was thrown on this matter at Wash- ington last week, in connection with Viet Nam war expenditures. Defense

purchases of goods and services, it

was reported,.rose by an annual rate

of $3 billion, or a little more, in the -

third quarter of this year—the largest quarterly, increase since the war began to affect defense outlays in mid-1925—bringing the annual rate

to a bit more than $60 billion. This.

is $11 billion above the “normal” de-

fense spending level that prevailed |

before direct military involvement in Viet Nam began..-_—>ss— oo What is more, Assistant Secretary of Commerce William H. Shaw let slip the first official projeefon of the future trend of war costs. He said he expected the annual rate of defense

lion in each of the next two quarters. Yet top government economists ex- pect the government's over-all budget to be in balance in the current half year, despite the sizeable growth in war costs. The reason for this is the amazing growth in government re- ceipts, in response to the- booming economy—a boom which; in turn, has

in part been accelerated by war

spending. |

It is reassuring to the taxpayer, of course, to learn that the $11 billion cost that can be directly ascribed to Viet Nam, at an annual rate, is only 1.5 of the nation’s Gross National Product, or total output of goods and services. By contrast, the addition to’ the previousiy low defense expendi- tures produced by the Korean War amounted to 7 per cent of the GNP a year after the war began, and later amounted to 9 per cent. This single factor explains why the war has:not= produced any ‘shortages of consumer goods and has caused only relatively

activity.

But as the New York Times points” out, there is another side to the story. The extra military spending came at a time when the economy was nearly fully employed, and helped tip it over from stable expansion to mild inflation. If addition, the added pres-

tributory factor in the hugh demand for credit, and hencé the steep rise in interest rates. Also, the extra $11 billion being spent on war, with more

urgent national needs, despite the ebullient“ revenues.

For the defense industries, how- ever, it’s been “‘the best year ever.”

“Not So Successful

pared for discussion: at the Liberal conference at Ottawa dealt with a theme remote from party politics, '

concerned in agriculture and rural development. It had to do with the fear, which has been expressed~ by many, that the technological changes in farming industry, the great need for capital and the need for know- ledgeable management will result in giant corporations gaining control of our farms and that the individually operated family farm will pass out of existence. Others there are—a few ‘only—who think that this would be a desirable thing and would result in much greater efficiency. The farm problem would then disappear, they claim. :

The author of this paper, A.W. Platt, executive secretary of the United Farmers of Alberta Co-opera- tive Ltd., points out that there is nothing to prevent any corporation

(+ from setting up any size of farm in

Canada, in the United States and in, many other Western countries. Some have, but there have not been many nor have those that have been estab- lished “‘been all that succesful.” ~--There-are, he says,.two.reasons for... this, The cost-price squeeze is just as bad for the corporation farmers as for the family farmers. The rate of return from farming is low for every- body. and, as a result, most sensible corporations build an apartment house instead of buying a farm. The second reason is that farm employees are difficult to supervise. They are scattered, and routines are almost- impossible to establish because of weather and other uncontrollable factors. As a resu]t, corporation farms are high-cost operations with general- ly even lower returns than the family farm. Corporation farms are common in countries’ with centrally planned economies, “and you all know their

, At the present time, such farms are not a threat in Canada. “It is hoped,” adds the writer, “they never will be because if they become our main . source of food their built-in in- efficiency will result in higher food

over-all economy.”

EDITORIAL NOTE

It is reported that as part of their campaign to eradicate “bourgeois habits” from mainland China, the militant Red: Guards issued an edict outlawing smoking and drinking. But after a few hurried conferences the declaration was rewritten. Now it reads: “Old revolutionaries are allow- ed to smoke and drink.” Among the old revolutionaries is dictator Mao

Tze-tung, a 72-year-old chain smoker.

spending ‘to rise by “‘at least” $3 bil- -

modest-disruption of normal! business .

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sure from war spending was a con-- |

to come, has obviously meant less.to -/ _ spend, by the government, on other |

‘One of the background papers pre- |

but of considerable interest to all |

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at least one other troublesome problem relating to Cuba.

The problem is how to get some 2,700 stranded yankees back to their homeland.

American citizens stranded in “the pearl of the Antilles” are mainly American women who

married Americans, and retired businessmen and teachers who once nursed dreams of spending their «declining years in the de- lectable tropics.

There are some 800 of these,

plus families, making a total of around.2,700.who want out... - But getting out of Cuba {s not so easy as getting out of jail. An American citizen must wangle a Cuban exit permit, a Mexican visa and have the transportation fare home— in dollars.

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sible. But that may not be very fast,

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For Americans wanting out, Washington aid can be secured in. two. ways. Relatives in the United States can secure a li- cence from the treasury to send up to $1,000 in repatriation do- lars to Cuba. Of those who have

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procedure is tedious.

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that does not change the that the state’s share continues to fall, and that the lottery is not,as once again has been pro- ved; the easy. answer to govern-

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By Dr, Théodore R. Van Dellen |

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hard. A Hoosier writes: ‘‘If the ‘| ed into the healing, and especial-

something.”

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A Bostonian found an amus- ing, but embarrassing, misprint in my column dealing with fib- rolds of the uterus. We stated

that ‘‘a pelvic examination is |

needed to make the diagnosis.”

examination,” a far cry from the original. ' Hand-me-dqwn remedies die

medical profession has not look

ly the pain- killing properties of the green leaves of the lowly: ragweed, they. are overlooking

A few years ago I was asked whether vinegar was good for sunburn. I said ‘No, because vinegar is acetic, acid and there

tender lesion." A woman from

with ‘Whenever someone in our family gets

burn product we have ever used. It also prevents freckling and peeling, even though~it makes you smell like a salad.”’

My opinion is unchanged, but ies want to spend a few millions:

is-the green light. The oldies have considerable competition from more modern pain killers and sunburn remedies. j We often talk about-‘‘the hu- man machine,” but thereis a,,

limit to how far we ¢an ¢0..4m};

our comparisons. m. Corpus Christi, Tex:, we learn that “Drinking cold water after stre- nuous work has proven near fat- al to at least one man where I work, It seems that their insides erack in much*the same way as

you pour cold water into the ra- diator.”” Our reader may ,have obtained this idea from an artic- le I wrote on the headache that develops when guiping large mouthfuls of ice cream, especial- ly when the body is sizzling hot.

, Drinking cold- liquids when warm is not harmful. The ques- tion is whether warm liquids’ have a greater cooling effect by encouraging sweating. Cold is ‘definitely more helpful when the cooling mechanism of the body is fatigued as a result of overwork.

~~ TEARFUL BABY

Mrs. B.C. writes: Why in the world_does my new baby cry all

the time? y é REPLY -< The tot is hungry, uncomfor- table, in pain, lonely, bored, or. these erigins of crying, be sym- pathetic. Many physicians be- lieve that the only time a. child

when the parents are trying to break a bad habit produced by mismanagement. : LAUNDROMATS AND GERMS G. §. writes: A friend of mine insists that I risk picking up all sorts of germs, especially vener- eal, by doing my laundry in a public iaundromat, I do not agree. What is your opinion? ~ REPLY Of course it doesn't happen. I agree with you, because the hot water and soap are excellent germ killers. COLOSTOMY REPAIR V. S. writes: Is a colostomy a permanent thing or can another operation be performed at a lat- er date to restore normal func- tion? * REPLY The answer depends upon why the colostomy was done. It is temporary when performed to give the large intestine a rest. NODULAR GOITER QO. K. S. writes: What is an ad- enoma goiter? | REPLY Enlarged thyroid containing one or more tumors (adenomas). TODAY’S HEALTH HINT— Maintain dignity and self- re-

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The scene played Monday, in the home of the man the Com- munist world considers the vil- lain. of Viet Nam, was obvi- ously stage-managed by Gro- myko. And he hit exactly. the desired balance of guarded friendship for the U.S. without dending support to China’s charges of American - Russian Collusion over Viet Nam. ~~:

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reporters and broke the secrecy by. telling them

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ving. to reach agree- ton a treaty to prevent spread of nuclear. weapons.

For a man of Gromyko's background, this was a wildly optimistic statement. .

SEES NEW ERA ‘

In fact U.S. spokesmen later sought to dampen somewhat the enthusiasm of observers who suggested the meeting had pro- vided fresh evidence that a new ‘era. of friendly relations be- tween the U.S. and Soviet Uh- fon. 4 The -more optimistic among them had suggested the possibil- ity of an eventual nuclea? non- proliferation pact, a parallel re- duction of American and Soviet forces in Europe and increased -U.S.-Russian. trade. and. travel. ' The American hope, demon- strated. in. Monday’s meeting and the president's earlier over- tures to Eastern Europe. .on trade concessions and other proposals, is that Moscow may be drawn toward the West and eventually help negotiate a Vi- etnamese . settlement.

But there is -no indication this could come about soon. =<"

To dispell over-optimism on this score, the Russians have gone out of their way to assure Hanoi and the Viet Cong that they will not negotiate with the Americans. :

Still the feeling in Washing- ton persists that both the,U.S. and Russia want a VietNam settlement but neither can:find a -way ‘without , appearitié’’to have betrayed their Vietnamese friends.

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iat, headed by Canada’s Arnold a nae been warned to stick : of collecting data; Mr. Smith ‘told to tend shop rather than make public pronounce- ments as to Commonwealth trends. Several delegates to the association meeting in Ottawa, thus .criticized Mr. Smith for warning member-nations against taking Britain too much for granted. ~ . :

The association itself, was

who branded the conference ‘“‘a futile exercise,” an excuse by Commonwealth legislators for a

~-should-be-allowed-to-cry-it-out.is.| Canadian

William ett ca: the "Labor criti’ perhaps was right in,sug- gesting that the conference falls far short of providing a grand debate on the Commonwealth. The chief value of the associa-

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Mr. Smith apparently feels it should play an active, albeit ad- visory part. His speech relfect- ed this. Perhaps he overstepped the bounds. Perhaps he still has

‘to ‘strike a middle course. But it

and counsel rather than merely to dispense data upon request.

It’s a relief to have Edueation Minister William Davis tell the Grand Valley section of the Computer Society, of Canada that the computer will never re-- place the teacher.

The schoolboy may complain of teacher's a _ looks, but they. are infinitely preferable to a machine’s impersonal ones.

With the recent emphasis on computers as teaching aids, it appeared inevitable that a class- room would soon consist of a series of cubby-holes harboring student’s with reactions and re- sponses controled by a complex series of illuminated dials and buttons. —

__ A computer can relieve stu- dents of the drudgery of basic arithmetic and set ther on a spiral toward higher mathema- tics; it can instantly measure a

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It cannot stimulate that insat- fable curiosity young: children display. It cannot nourish zest in personal discovery.

For all these things, the fates be praised, we need a flesh-and- blood teacher, with all his im- perfections, but with the talent no computer will ever possess— to give a child an appetite for learning which will survive schooling.

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