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Too, Much Secrecy ° |

One result of the Ottawa tax con-

A this week, as announced by .. Finance Minister Sharp,: is that the federal government will have to in- crease taxes to pay for a $300 million- plus. jump in its “equalization and educational payments to the prov- inces. What this means-is that it will have to ask Parliament to vote this increase occasioned by ‘commit: merits the government made at a closed . conference with provincial government representatives to which . the majority members: of Parlia- ment—those not on the Liberal side of politics—had né access whatever, and about which they have no know- ledge except from statements hand- ed out to news reporters.

"It was, in effect, to divide up the

. dollars individuals and corporations send-off to Ottawa every spring that __the Prime Minister¢and_ his finance

premiers and their provincial treas- urers, sat-down, in secret, to’ do. . Parliament will be expected to rub- ber-stamp their proceedings, and that _ will be that. In this case, Prince . Edward Island will be getting more”

_ from. Ottawa than we have been re- ~ + ceiving heretofore, but.that does not

“alter the fact’ that the principle of these clandestine conferences, from - which not only the rank and file of citizens but their elected represent- atives‘in Parliament are excluded, is ¢ boasted : principles of parliamentafy govern- _. ment. The situation lends itself to all kinds of confusion and bewilderment, which will be reflected in the forth- coming provincial legislative sessions, where again, only those on the gov- ernment ‘side will be able to speak from knowledge of what went on when vital decisions affecting our. tax | dollars were taken.

In this case even the premiers are at sea as to the contents of the Carter commission report on taxation, which bears directly on their negotiations _ this week but on which the Pearson government is still stubbornly sit- ©

ting. Parts of this report were receiv- ed last January by officials in Fin? ance Minister Sharp's eee yet they have not been rel is impossible to tell whethe bb week’s proposals bear any relevance

to the report or whether they-are in-. : inquiry into food prices has been to .

tended to kill its intent before. it is even published.

~ It is high time there was a ‘change in this method of doing things, and for Parliament to make its voice heard in no uncertain terms to this effect:

A Basié Problani

An Ottawa dispatch in yesterday's Guardian said that “all” the prov- “incial premiers have demanded that the federal government turn over considerable portions of its tax re sources to them. If this means more taxing powers, surely it didn’t form any part. of Premier Campbell’s ‘presentation at this week’s con- ference. What we need is not more leeway in this regard, but more con- sideration given to the fiscal ability of all the provinces to maigtain a national standard of servi

This has been stressed rep atedly In the briefs we have presented to Ottawa, and it goes to the root of our disagreement with the wealthier provinces, who want more and moré of the tax revenues which we main- tain should go into the federal’ pool. The result would be just a throw- back to the old system of each one for himself, and the devil taking the

* aindmost. | A timely warning has been sound- ed in this connection by the Montreal Gazette, which maintains that even if a reallocation. of tax sources is made, it would not solve our problems as a nation. The fact of first importance, it says, is that the tax resources of.

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the country will have to be allotted more nearly in accordance with needs. It is very true that all govern- ments in Canada need money. But there is an imbalance between the

needs and the means of meeting. |

them. And this imbalance is bound to become worse unless a deeper adjust- ment is made.

The obligations that are ‘falling upon the provinces have come about not simply because the country is growing. There has ‘been a shift of emphasis within the country, as the Montreal paper notes. Such prov- incial matters as. education, health and welfare, and roads, and the ser-. vices provided by towns and cities, were not great matters at the time of Confederation. But they are to- day, as was evident at the conference discussions. There has obviously to be a reallotment of tax sources in

better relation to tax needs; but this |

at hee; raises the question of how much the. great sources of personal and’ corporation income taxes must Ottawa retain, in order to control the whole economy, as any central

. government must do. The conference, while it brought this issue to a head, showed how .

little agreement there is on the subject. s

Computer Teaching

’ Recently, in California, a sizeable group of people concerned with children—teachers and librarians mostly—spent three hours discussing the possibilities of computer teach- ing. Some interesting arguments, pro- and con, were advanced. It was ,gen- 4erally agreed that computers have several near-human characteristics making them an .“‘exciting potential”

_ 80 far as-children are coricerned.

For example it was noted that at

':}-Stanford University, teaching of spel-—

ling by computer to ‘sixth-graders | who were backward—in an experi-~

mental program—advanced :' the

group to sixth-grade achievement in

’ just one semester. The computer had

the capability of telling Johnny he

had spelled “house,” say, correctly.

~ But if Johnny spelled it “hous,” the

computer could also'tell him he was

wrong. And quite literally, it could calling him by

name. vet

Even more exciting was. the .ad- vance by the group in arithmetic. The Standard experiments used de- vices that adapted themselves to the

‘ conceptual ability of the child. They

worked on five “tracks” or levels of conceptual readiness. The computer could respond to the child’s rising or declining ability. In a single semes- ter, this program raised the group one standard deviation above normal. - But this kind of teaching, it was pointed outyamounts to conditioning. It leads the pupil, pats him on the back when he is right, gives him more chances when he is wrong. It doesn’t make him, though, an explorer. It doesn’t set him to asking questions. It teaches him that there are “right” responses; which of course is very important. But it raises serious ques- tions about the futute of a society based -on- training ~ of this--kind::~-

Not Responsible

‘\ One-result of the parliamentary

show that the farmers, at least, are~ not responsible for the current high” costs. They are, according to the testimony of agriculture department witnesses, getting a smaller share of _the consumer. dollar now than

_they have at any time in the recent “past. Other testimony has been to

the effect that while farmers make up 10 pe! t of the population of Canada, they receive less than five per cent of the nation’s income.

But even: this figure, which -is corroborated. by Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimates of net farm in- come, does not givé a true picture of the plight of many of our-farming communities. As pointed. out in a Toronto exchange, farmers are thriv- ing on the prairies, thanks to huge wheat sales to the Communist ‘coun- tries. That raises average farm in- come without putting an extra dollar in the pockets of cHronically depres- sed farmers in the Maritimes, Que- bec; and sections of northern ‘and eastern Oritario. Big, heavily capital- ized farms are flourishing while many small farmers are scratching for a bare subsistence. More’ than — half of Canada’s farmers sell goods worth less than $4,000 a year, and “they have to pay operating costs and family living expenses out of that.

How. to prescribe general prosper- ity for an industry which exhibits such vast regional and even local differences in size, efficiency. and market opportunities, isa problem that baffles all governments.

A

ist Geotge HLT. Kimble,

or

YOUTH MOVEMENT

People don’t just talk about the weather. Inadvertently. they do a lot about it, too. -

drives his car, lights a me

adjusts the thermostat in? hits house. He alters the weather very slightly when he chops

down a tree or seeds his lawn. In building a city, man caus- es enormous changes in the loc- ai weather. A large industrial ._ city in the United States may have —25— per -centless- wind;<up to 1 percent more rainfall, and twice as many winter fogs as the surrounding countryside. The mean winter temperature will be perhaps two or’ more

* degrees higher. ‘ Large industrial elles like London and Manchester have as much as 30 minutes less day-

light, 45 minutes less sunshine, and. 50 percent less ultraviolet radiation than the , open coun-

try nearby, ~

FORESTS.SLOW* WINDS... ae

A onetime forested region in southeastern Tenressee became barren due to toxic fumes of a copper smelter. Temperatures in the denuded area averaged

surrounding ‘lands. Winter winds in the man- made wasteland blew seven to 10 times harder; summer winds were perhaps 40 times stronger.

Smoke, soot, and gases pour- ing from factories do more than feed sun-dimming smog. Thev ~also provide particles around which raindrops can form.

Man's inadvertent. alteration of the weather is speeding up. The world’s, smog belts have _ grown more. during the past 20 years than in the previous 200, .scientists report.

“Already, ” says -me ore f

4“. s “easier to get ‘amoke-cured than sun-tannéd in: most of our big city parks.” }

urban areas has been compared to the effects of an active volca-

~ no. Pollution from burning of

gas. oil, and gasoline in one

American city, alone: has been

aainiated at about 50,000 tons a ay ’ Authorities wonder chat will happen when developing nations contribute their share to the- -polliition. féar that, at the present rate of “increase, the world’s atmos- phere may become so polluted in a century that human ‘life will no longer be able to survive. Even more serious in the long run could be the growing amount

Our Yesterdays

rom The Guardian’ Files

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (October 29, 1941)

jan Red army announced ev-

ation of. Kharkov but claim-

éd 120,000 German officers and

men were killed in fighting for the Ukraine industrial city.

Voelkischer Beobachter, Hit- ler’s newspaper, sought to “ex. plain” the reign of terror impos- ed upon Bohemia-Moravia by references to the ‘‘scale of anti- German activity which * Ges- tapo had to cope with”, ed the British Broadsacting Cor- poration. -

* TEN YEARS AGO (October 29, 1956)

Isaeli. armed forced struck deep into Egypt's Sinai Penin- sula and were unofficially re- +} ported 184 miles from the Suez Canal“and about 120 miles inside Egyptian territory. War fears rose around the world.

Defence Minister Mar shel Georgi ukov said Soviet troops intervened in Hungary’s unrest’ “‘in the spirit of the War- saw Pact’ and could be witt- . drawn from that country only

by-.common agreement , among members of the pact.

¥ \

-~ atte an aftals ihe Neate -weather.. fee

The modification of air over |.

“Some™ meteorologists |_tal

HAPPENS ALL THE.TIME - Weather Transformed By Man’s Activities

of carbon dioxide in the air. The burning of coal and oil has re- sulted in a 10 to 15 gir in-

National Asceky ‘at Solauses report. During that time the world’s average temperature has increased about a third of a degree, because carbon doxide helps trap the sun’s heat. Over a period of time, a wor- Idwide rise of two to three de- grees could melt most of the large- ice fields-The-melting- of. the Antarctic ice cap would raise the sea level by 400

alone | °

feet, flooding - Virtually - every coastal city u the world.

Since man is aeneey modify- ,

ne

Two influential Conservative spokesmen have colleagues some good advice. It is for the national party to stop | its wrangling and work together.

-| It would be well for the party to

heed them.

Robert C. Coates, member for Cumberland, N.S., has. rebuked Dalton. Camp for his current campaign to unseat John Dief- enbaker. Mr. Camp is not acting in the best interests of the party, he says, and has undertaken his campaign without consulting either the national executive or the party caucus. “I don’t think there should be a leadership convention as long as there is a leader in existence, and Mr.- Diefenbaker is very much in ex- istence.”

Dr. James Johnson, national

director of the Progressive Con- servative Association says: -‘‘we must stop our squabbling within

report of a Senate subcommittee places 10 percent of the nation’s 5-to-17 -year-old school population in a group “worthy of treatment” for men- troubles. It finds also-that ‘10 juven- years)

percent of the c ile court age (10 had. court records.

There appears therefore to be a direct relationship between a child’s mental emotional condi- tion and his social behavior, al- though the Senate study does not claim that all children in need of mental aid. are antiso- cial.

The report of the subcommit- tee on juvenile delinquency headed by Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D) of Connecticut is quite like- ly to be used as an argument for more psychological testing and

isychiatric treatment for the

hoo] population. “Tt is understandable that

mental or em Humanitarian motives of those

amination of school children, should not be compulsory. Par- ents should be informed if their son or daughter he acer to the . teacher to have behavioral ne blems.

But the parent should be pro- tected in his right te decide what type of remedial treatment should be given and whether treatment is necessaty. It is dif, ficult to devise objective tests to determine accurately whether a

offered their |

For Party Ur Unity:

e

vatives would only realize it, their chance to give the most fective opposition. Instead,

by the national president of

ert

“The actions of Mr. Camp sad some of his friends bear this out today.

_ Helping Tr. Troubled | Youth

Ge tak GS Gs io

+ mueh- feith in measures.

And -whatever the measures taken, it is vital that the dis- turbed child be given love and

child is emotionally disturbed or | - _| Just different. I would be easy

~ BEASTS NEED SALT

The 300 animals im the zoo at Africa, U.S.A., near Los Ange-.

les, consume .100 pounds of salt.

a week.

?

‘cent

Rheumatics . In Oldsters.

|» By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen

-Many years ago I was called

“into consultation to express my

opinion about a 55S-year- old wo- man who was acutely ill. Her er was failing but not for the

Teasons at this age. She had ‘acute rheumatic fever and her firm heart muscles were now soft and flabby asa result of the disease process. There was little wonder that the organ

was having trouble delivering

‘blood to the rest of the body. Acute rheumatic ‘fe is

mainly a-disease of and-

adolescence, but this does not mean that adults and oldsters are immune. It occurs. in persons-| .up to the fifth and sixth decade.

-} Many of’ our service hospitals

were crowded ‘with rhétmatic

. fever victims during World War

II. NoW and then the attack rep-

| resents a recurrence~of a bout

that took place 20 years prev- jiously. This is rare, but it does oceur-occasionally.

Certain laboratory tests must be made to distinguis rhe tic -fever from rheumatoid Joint involvement is common in

} conditions. In addition, the

the individual with rheu-

matic fever, the more the joints:

are affected and the less the

heart. Our 55-year-old patient -was_an-exception..

The person who ‘develops rheumatic fever usually has: a streptococcal throat infection 7 to 14 days prior to the onset of the disease. ‘During this period the. victim becomes sensitized to cértain toxins produced by the strep organisms. Large doses of an antibiotic such as penicillin may abort the attack ided the medication is during the first few days of the throat infection. Antibiotics are useless after the joints become painful, red and swollen, and the heart is involved. Aspirin or cortisone,

along with bed rest, is helpful.)

Penicillin is frequently prescrib- ed after the attack as a octeke lactic against a recurrence of the strep infection that triggered _the disease. . KIDNEY DISORDER

M..N. writes: What should be

the th of living of a per-

REPLY «

= assume that you have done everything possible to alleviate the kidney trouble. If not, this should be your first aim. Other-

_ wise, follow. the rules of health

Soe ee ee use al- cohol, spices, vinegar, or other kidney irritants. Try also to avoid colds because with each involvement-

=|-infection-additional-

of the organs may occur. Report periodically to your physician. BURSITIC SHOULDER L. C.- writes: right arm and shoulder bother him so much he has trouble put- ting on his coat and getting his keys out of his back pants pock- * What do you think this could <a : ' REPLY These symptoms have all the

{ earmarks, of bursitis.

KNEE INJURY L. L. writes: What causes wa- ter on the knee ‘after a fall - REPLY At, the time of. the accident, some part of the knee, such as the cartilage, was torn and fluid accumulatedas a response to the injury. : NORMAL DELIVERY. Mrs. K. writes: What is a nor- mal birth REPLY

An uncomplicated’ delivery that proceeds in a normal fash- ion and does not require the use of instruments such as forceps. TODAY’S HEALTH HINT—

A new and absérbing interest gg a@ person a new lease on

Ot All correspondence te Dr. Van Dellen should be addressed to: Dr. Theodore Van Dellen, co Chicago Trib-

PAY WILL BE HIGHER OTTAWA (CP) — ways will include higher pay for. their employees in pay cheques for the current’ wage period, Transport Minister Pickersgill said in the Commons Friday. Replying to questions by Maur- ice (Ind . Sherbrooke), Mr. Pic the rail- ways have.told him that cheques for lump - sum payments of re- wage increases retroac-

-tively--will- be-issued_ during No--|- vember.

My father's |

The rail- |

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Nationalist China’ $ Future -

By Arch

: MacKenzie Canadian Press Staff, Washington ¢

. WASHINGTON (CP). — Mme. ‘Chiang Kai-shek _ has slipped quietly back to Formosa after

14month stay in the United States billed officially as a pri- vate visit. %

But are is little te about why she lingered so long—or. that the excesses of Nationalist China’s implacable foes on the Communist mainland _

Chlens. aot 9, warm velonose

movement towards a

gime of the elderly genéralis- simo can breathe easier for, the time being. i

Flourishing economic- ally. thanks to heavy injections

of American aid, it can con- tinue to count on the U.S. 7th Fleet for any protection it needs from the mainland. -

But its Pe future is indicated- by the consistent re- fusal of the U.S. and its Pacific allies in the Vietnamese war to include Nationalist China.

The presence of Nationalist Chinese’ troops in South Viet

increase the possibility of Pe- king’s intervention in the war.

_View was taking

Communist China holds the key to Formosa’s future. But its

| suet No China Policy.

asians ah

One of the British speakers at the University of Torontos teach- ~in on China, Felix Greene, said he was -sick at heart over ‘“‘the

harsh castigation of old friends as well as_old enemies, and its

rock-like insistence that it isn’t interested in the UN except on its own rigid terms, have worked against it.

This has. provided a founda- tion for the U.S. rejection of as- sorted proposals for shifting to a. more moderate position on China.

WANTS CHINA IN UN

The last,, brushed aside quickly, came from a panel of prominent figures .established by the U.S. United Nations As- sociation, a private organiza- tion. It called on the U.S. government to agree to have both Nationalist -and mainland China at the UN.

_ It followed what became

known as the ‘¢ontainment

without isolation’ doctrine, ‘ad-

vocated by such. spokesmen as

Vice .. President Hubert Hum-

phrey, Senator Robert Kennedy

- leading. academic authori- Ss.

Arthur Goldberg, the U.S. ambassador at the UN, fed speculation that a serious re-

quently deflated such specula- tion’ and it was made -known

last month that U.S. policy

would remain unchanged.

The decision was said to have been based on a reading of the UN membership showing disen-

r

chantment with mainland China —

among the Afro-Asian and even

‘European Communist nations,

im: the past supporting China admission.

The question of Chinese ad- mission requires a. two-thirds majority and the last vote was a 47-to-47 tie. The U.S. fear. has been. that it might find itself isolated, and that the UN might even vote to kick out Nationalist China as bait for mainland

China’s acceptance of member- Nam, it is felt, would greatly | ship :

Red China's continued intran-

i indicate ne change is likely soon, ‘however.

“question remains urgent and we cannot continue to shelve it much longer.”’ Mr. Pearson spoke of the benefits that would Peking were ‘‘

the

supposed to be 100 miles apart, but for some reason drifted toge- ther and crossed antennae. Then they pulled apart and went os

their way, each operating nor mally. :

The reason for the 18 months

silence was given by a U.S. en- .

gineer. It was, he said, the same reason that a wife hesitates to tell her husband about the fend- er she dented. “It was minor, but embarrassing.”

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