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PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16,1966

_A Good Investment?

Dr. Hugh Horner, Conservative MP for Jasper-Edson, is concerned about the unhealthy lives our parliamen- tarians lead, and would like to do

something about it. He's

thinking

about bringing in a bil] or a resolution providing for a gym, swimming pool . and handball court at a modest $50,000 investment which would go far, le believes, to offset some of the

‘occupational risks of existence.

parliamentary

The tension and the fatigue of long _ hours and late nights, the strain of ” travel, the heavy food, the cocktails * and the smoking at receptions and the “physical laziness that comes from boredom and confinement—these and — other ills that the politician’s flesh is heir to have never been adequately appreciated by the public. But Dr. - Horner has been keeping check, and

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he finds it-significant that MPs.--tend ‘to die younger than most: other peo-

ple, and too-many of them in recent

years of heart attacks. «°~;

It’s not just the, overeating and

mre aot

under-exercising, or even the drink- ing, he told an Ottawa Journal scribe. It’s sitting around in frustration most of the time, plus late and ir- regular hours that upset the family routine. A physical fitness program - was introduced a few years ago and quite a number of: MPs started this energy-demanding exercise drill; but few if.any finished it. Just too tough,

it ed, for most men leading: a |

= — sedentary life... at _. Dre Horner's. idi s from the fact that Shel thé ment made

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. Hill, the —.---gym,-.-but..nothing.. happened... Now.

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--}their- grain from:-the Prairies; and

products on the metropolitan markets | of Eastern Canada. Outside .com-

- spite of. heavy transportation costs, are better able to compete. The situa- ion is furtHter complicated by lew levels of schooling, the cost of land, lack of mobility within the rural population farming structures v.hich do not lend ‘themselves easil;* to change and a lack of opportunities

| outside farming. It added up to a

| sorry waste of human resources. 3

The speaker showed that in the case of hog carcasses for the Montreal market, Ontario—which ‘is _se!f-suf- | ficient to the extent of 80 per cent of its grain requirements—is in the best position to compete. The Prairies

- come second—that is, even before the

producers in the Montreal district

who have to import 75. per cent of

that in spite of feed subsidies.

The egg producer and broiler. pro- | ducer in Southwestern Ontario, using 80 per cent local grain, also has an advantage over the producer in the Montreal district who has to rely on imported freight subsidized grain. The situation is evén more out of bal- ance for turkey and beef producers, where it is practically impossible to compete: with products from the Prairies and Ontario.

Another discouraging factor Mr. Sauve found was that, under the actual economic conditions prevailing in the East, farming even under. better management is not always prof- itable. “Without too much risk of erring,” he said, “we can state that ~

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ture has limited more the opportuni- ties of ‘going out of it’ than the possibilities of ‘earning a good living from it.’ To abstract’ the full potential, of longer years of ‘schooling and adult education in farming, the whole economic fabric of eastern agriculture — must be wovenanew. Education in rural areas is a must, but let us not count. on this’ one factor to revitalize _ agriculture.” | te

The minister struck a hopeful note in conclusion by stressing that .gov- ernments, federal and provincial, are no longer relying on half-measures in meeting this problem. ‘They have now come to realize,” he said, “that parity of opportunity for our rural communities can only be achieved by | well considered legislation, concert- ed thinking and action leading to in- |

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there is a second chance, with the old East Block scheduled-in the next couple of years for an _ interior - modernization job. For, men of all ages, says Dr. Horner, but especially for those in the higher brackets. ' swimming is the best—the easiest and most effective exercise—a shade better even that walking. oo A pool, he feels, would be a good investment for the taxpayer in terms |

_of the health and efficiency of Parlia- —

~~ ment. A half-well MP, with his flabby chin and sagging stomach simply can’t be as alert or do the job he could if he were thin, trim and in good health. Quite true; of course, But it will

occur to some of the more thrifty of

us that there must be several good gymns in Ottawa, and swimming pools

too, which would not be too expensive.

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for our $18,000-a-year MPs to patron- ize at. their own expense if they felt

the urge to do so. That it would even do them good to have to walk the distance,. back and forth, to such establishments if it’s exercise they” need so badly. : Dr. Horner, however, would prob- ably tell us that this would be beside. the point. The gym complex, he says, could be shoved into the East Block’ for less money than CBC spends, out of the $100,000,000 Parliament pro- _ vides it, for one Sunday shot of ‘‘This Hour Has Seven Days.” payers, it seems,.were born to be mulcted, so why cavil at a little extra ’ “frill like this? :

- Obstacles To Revival _

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The obstacles to rural revival in Eastern Canada were discussed

in’

forthright terms’ by Hon. . Maurice. Sauve, Minister of Forestry, at an Agricultural Institute of Canada. din-

- ner.in Montreal this week. The minis- ter observed that in spite of its tre- mendous services to the population, the contribution of Eastern agricul- ture ‘‘is not overly appreciated in the market place, particularly when you

cgnsider the production

olved:”

Emphasis was placed on the fact;

‘that national ‘competition, ,

costs

and in the:

“ease of Certain products international competition, sets the price of farm

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_ A Sobering View

As the Viet Nam ‘war escalates again there are American politicians —Senator Stennis of Mississippi for one—who favor stepping up U.S. ‘ground forces to 600.000 men to _“win” as soon. as possible. That such escalation would increase the risk of war with Communist China doesn’t.

a of our rural populations.”

view comes from General Matthew B. Ridgway, former supreme com- mander in Korea and army chief of staff, who made a study of this matter and writes about it in his book “Soldier”:

“I challenge any thesis that de- stroying the military might of Red China would be in our own ~ long range interest. We could create there, by military means, a great power vacuum. Then we would have to go in there with hundreds.of thousands of% men to fill that vacuum—which would bring us face to face with Rus-. sia along ,a 7,000-mile frontier. If we failed to go in then Russia herself would fill it, and the threat to our own security would not have abated one iota... .”

He adds a sobering conclusion: “In all the history of the world no civiliza- tion based on conquest has long endured.”

EDITORIAL NOTES.

We all have to economize these “days. The Amir of Kuwait has cut his salary by six million dollars a year, leaving him with only a stipend of $24

million a year to get along on. . - “* *

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Of course, it may not have been entirely a coincidence that our cause- way project was started—not on the~ Prince Edward Island end but on the New Brunswick end, where they. happen to have a Liberal provincial government in power’ and: where $8,500,000 of the $10,000,000 set aside for the project in the fiscal year starting April 1 is to be ‘expended.

But the important thing is. that this ¢ great undertaking has really gotten “under way and will ‘be prosecuted

the low level of schooling in agricul- |

tal‘agreements and the |_|

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‘WHY DON’T WE GET AN ANSWER?”

AUDITOR-GENERAL'S.REPORT

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departments and agen- io was ee $1 bil-

Today it is $1.2 billion, an in-

crease of 20 per cent despite the

implementation of about one- | quarter of the Glassco sugges- tions. :

PUBLIC FORUM |

‘This’ column ts open te the discussion

terest. The Guardian. does not neces- sarily endorse the opinion of corres. pondents. All letters published are sub- ject te editing and condensation where neeéssary. The Guardian is unable te enter inte any correspondence regard- ing letters submitted.

POTATO PROBLEMS

_ Sir,— As a tablestock potato grower I believe it is to my ad- vantage to plant small seed. It has many advantages: it goes farther, a better stand comes- quicker; there is less disease and less cut surface to rot. If I have to buy certified seed every year, I am almost sure to have a lot of disease around my place if I don't disinfect. I don’t have the equipment to do a thorough job of that and the Department won't do it for. me-for love: or money unless I am on contract.

Seed growers should be com- pelied to clean up every year if they want to sell seed. There is the most danger selling seed from contaminated property, because if they change their “seed every year or so they might go a long. time before being de- tected. Ow, i

There is a very, limited mar- “ket for seed; mostly contract, and when that\is filled, that is about it. With. ‘tablestock you can Jet them grow (ff you aré’ not too big a grower) and have very few small potatoes—just about enough for your seed.

What is being done. about .a disease-resistant variety or strain, as some varieties are more susceptible than others, leads one to hope for progress in this- direction. | :

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‘Reason In Retreat’

Toronte Globe and Mail

Rhodesia’s: self. --imposed |:

siege: mentality drives reason steadily into retreat. The capac- ity for self-delusion which help- ed to produce the tragedy of un- ilateral independence has now led the Ian Smith government to ship Soalling tao th ;

, prope: ong e same | ~ path . followed

‘The rules are sweeping: in ef- fect they put the censor in the composing room, enabling him to change stories and to say on what page they should be pub- lished. It even becomes an of-

fense to indicate that. publica-

tions are subject to censorship. Editors are being obliged to fill the white spaces which they had been leaving to indicate where

the blue pen¢il had been at work, Yn “a tighting war, 11m i ted

censorship can be condoned. It is doubtful, however, whether the Canadian people, even dur- ing the, Second "World War, would havestamely submitted to the draconian laws Salisbury has now applied. Having don- n d blinkers, a gag now is indis- pensable for Mr. Smith's gov- ernment.

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November, shortly before the illégal seizure of independence. One month lat

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OFFICER ACQUITTED

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