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Hot Political Issue

The Liberals have been looking

for a good live federal campaign issue and it would appear that General A.G.L. McNaughton, retir- ed chairman of the Canadian section of the International Joint Commission, has handed _ it to

them on a plate. General MacNaugh- ton’s career as soldier and scien- tist is an outstanding one, and his complaint is that he has been re- moved from his job on a decision “arbitrarily made by a dictator.” He named no names, but the political jmplications are obvious.

The General charges that Can-

ada was “sold down the ‘river’ in the Columbia River Treaty which was signed between Canada and the

United States in January, 1961, that. his opinions had been ignored in the making of this treaty and that he

had sought, unsuccessfully, to bove the whole issue aired hefove a (-m- mons committee.

Justice Minister Fulton has

fssued a statement to the effect that General McNaughton had never pro- tested against the signing of the treaty in its present shape. This, it must be said, has been the prevail- ing opinion. He is credited with hav- ing helped negotiate the terms on a better basis for Canada than were originally outlined.

It will be recalled,’ back in 1944, that General McNaughton after stepping down as commander of the Canadian forces overseas, became involved in the conscription issue. He was at odds with the Defence Minister, Colonel J.L. Ralston, who was fighting for conscription, and following Colonel Ralston’s resigna- tion he was invited to take over his portfolio by Prime Minister King.

The General tried to make the voluntary of recruitment work, but his appeal for volunteers failed and the government was fore- ed to send over some 16,000 troops that had been originally conscripted for home defense only. In February, 1945, when he sought election in Grey North, he was defeated. He tried again in the general election the following June, this time in Qu’Appelle, in his home province of Saskatchewan, but again with- out success. Since then he hus ser- ved as a delegate to the United Na- tions and as representative on the International Joint Commission, which is concerned with water and other boundary problems affecting this country and the United States.

At 75, General McNaughton is still vigorous and combative. He is hardly the kind of old soldier the Government would care to tangle with at this time, but it looks as if # will have no choice.

The Commons Speakership

Soon after the Conservatives won the’1957 federal election, Prime Minister Diefenbaker wrote to Mr. Stanley Knowles, CCF member for Winnipeg North Centre, to say that if Mr. Knowles were prepared to serve as Speaker, he would be “most happy” to nominate him. Mr. Know- les declined the offer with regret, and the Prime Minister decided on the nomination of one of his sup- porters, Mr. Roland Mitchener. With Mr. Mitchener as Speaker, he ap- pears to have shelved the subject of giving permanence to this impor- tant office in the Commons.

Mr. Mitchener| has been so

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spect, ana apparentiy none nas veen sought. Yet a reform of this kind would have very definite advantayes.

One result of the present unsat- isfactory system is that the Speak- er graduates to some other post, or is defeated at the polls, just when he is beginning to grasp the rules and practices of the House over which he presides. Another, and more serious one, is that the system effectively tags him as a partisan, at the beck and call of the govern- ment which procured his appoint- ment, and whose party allegiance he shares

Some who are otherwise friendly to the permanent Speakership pro- posal submit that it is not quite fair to the Speaker’s constituents if they are to be denied the right to ex- press their opinion on election day. This objection has been met in a new suggestion, offered by Mr. Frank McGee, Conservative mem- ber for York Scarborough, to the effect that a new. constituency he created for this purpose. It could be called Parliament Hill.

Under Mr. McGee’s plan the Speaker, once chosen from amorg the House membership, would re- sign the seat for which he was elected and occupy instead the symbolic one of Parliament Hill. His former riding would then be open for a byelection. Whether or not the Prime Minister will accept this vro- posal, and put his influence behind it, remains to be seen. The fact that it comes from a private member, it is argued, does not necessarily im- ply lack of interest either by the government or the opposition lead- ers. Indeed, it points up the fact that the Speaker is not a goyern- ment hireling but the servant of the House as a whole.

April Observed

We are now in that season of the year “when proud-pied April, dress- ed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.” Shake- speare’s praise has been echoed by poets of lesser note, and prose writers and even editors and news- paper commentators have been touched by the same breath of in- spiration, and pounded out their tributes to this “fair daughter of winter’s discontent, mother of spring, and sister of tomorrow’s summer.”

April, says one of our editorial confreres, “stands afar off, on a long slope of meadow where a_ black horse shines hard and glazed against the fragile green. April is that which disappears among the ruins of a snowhbank in some. shady place. sloshes insouciantly away from you as you follow along the muddy vellow allees of the park. April flies on a gull’s back out over a still wintry sea.”

That’s pretty good. But .we can’t all aspire to flights of this kind, and thank goodness the anthologies provide other “quotes” which we can adapt more easily to our daily thoughts. April poetry is where you find it; and here, to conclude, is an unpolished gem for which we confsss a special fondness:

“Spring is sprung, . The Grass is Riz:

I wonder where The Boidies Is."

EDITORIAL NOTES

An example of what could be done in the way of reforming the Canadian Senate is afforded by the most recent appointments to the British House of Lords. These ap- pointees, nine in number, include a former woman’ sprinter who Ister sat in the British Commons for nine years as a Labor member, a Nobel Prize-winning professor of organic chemistry, a retired trade union leader, and a former British Am- bassador to Washington. The ap- pointments cleary were made on the bases of merit, and without regard to political affiliation.

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It is not surprising, in view of cold war tensions, that Canada’s defense estimates will be reported-, ly higher in the 1962-63 fiscal year than were the preceding year’s ex-

penditures. But the figure for the.

new year on which we are launch- ed is breath-taking—$1,675,729,175, to be exact. This is $43,865,175 more than the total outlays caleu- lated for the past fiscal year; 4,

THE CLOUDED CRYSTAL BALL

OTTAWA JOTTINGS

Fine Asset In Parliamentary Library

By Mrs. Margaret Macdonald, M.P.

There is much to be proud of in our Parliament Buildings in Ottawa: the beautiful circular | entrance lobby with its magnifi- cent stone carving, the wide cor-

en and dignified Legislative |

bers, the fine painti the aiaalive setting overlook- ing the Ottawa River. All these things and many more elicit ad- miring comments from visitors.

These visitors come in great numbers from other parts of Canada and from other coun- tries of the world. In fact, dur- ing the impressive ‘Changing of the Guard’ ceremony (this year from June 30-Sept.) the average is about 3000 visitors touring the ‘Parliament Build- ings every day.

Probably the most effective room, the most unusual and _ the most beautiful as well, is the Library. It recalls the lies by Keats — ‘“‘A thing of beauty fs a

joy forever; its loveliness in- creases.’

A BEAUTY SPOT

Certainly the pleasing circular design, the richness of the carv- ed white pine, the dignity of its height and the valuable para- quet floor, all combine to make the room a work of art. Even the most unromantie would feel this end and at the same time be impressed by the important usefulness of this beauty spot.

Daily, members of Partia- ment, Senators, Journalists, civ- il servants, refer toits shelves for information. Thousands ¢ f others refer to it for study or reading pleasure. There are large collections of Canadiana, law, history, biography, finance and banking, Parliament history and procedure. politics and for- eign affairs. There are also maps, microfilms, the largest collection of bound newspapers in Canada, some 85,000 painph- lets, unique scrapbooks, as well as modern fiction.

The book collection was estimated at This has decreased considerably since the establishment of the National Library in 1952. Ap- proximately two hundred and fifty thousand volumes have al- ready been turned over to ihe National Library, and more are destined ‘to follow once it moves to its permanent home.

21 LIBRARIANS The Library of Parliament is administered directly by the Parliamentary Liawurion, who holds the rank of Deputy Minis- ter, and by the Associate Par- es memad Librarian: both o whom “are responsible for the faithful discharge of their offi- Si ee as those duties are ed by regulations agreed Spon ty tet Gpschern of the tee Houses, and in by the

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mediately, the Govern- ment withdrew its aambassador tions,” and invited the Soviet Wie aes nk es cae involve @ com- bere-cwers Ste. plete break in dipiomatic rela- The singing strings and golden tions, but it does constitute a se- trumpets sweep vere reproof to the Soviet gov- Through my enchanted heart | ernment. It seems to be entirely until, in mute justified. Both France anc the Despair of holding fast such Algerian rebels had agreed that loveliness, during the transition period to a Joy | full independence, France would tears, retain in . Warmth of pure beauty, and For the Soviet Union te. ignore the loneliness this agreement and extend di- plomataic recognition was im-

Proper and insulting. = No doubt, Russia felt that by hurrying to recognize an Al- Scand at el wi stand in well with that government, and that the way would be epen for Moscew te ex- ; aaa .

joint committee on the Li- brary.”’ This joint committee is | currently composed of forty -

| four Members of Parliament

and seventeen Senators, in addi-

tion to the two Speakers, who

surgery Needed For Removal:

Of Bone Cancer

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen MOST BONE TUMORS are |

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swelling. X-ra

the defect and lope tl the whether the lesion is |

malignant. The eae of bone oved via

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surgery because thay. do not re- spond to X-ray or to cobalt ra- diation treatments

Removal of the cancer is only

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removed must be replaced with

bone grafts, to correct any ess.

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instances, the nearby glands

so are taken out to eliminate

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from the malignancy. The individual may be Advis-

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balt 60 teletherapy over the

area to destroy cells that may

remain in the neighboring tis-

sues. A lifesaving amputation | Who | were permitted few contacts | with the West.

omer ially i allg- t and there are ed to wien it has soreen to other | parts of the extremity. |

Bone tissue is pind tis- | sue impregnated with lime salts. | Most of the cells that make up the skeleton are capable of song berserk and forming

wths. As a result, there are different kinds of tumors. Some are highly malignant whereas others are

One of the innocent tumors | —_ ° destroy part the

leaving a_ hollow shell. The ‘first inkling that such a lesion exists may be a fracture for no apparent reason. A leg bone breaks when the individual is walking down the street getting into a car.

The osteosarcoma is the most common and most maligaant of all bone cancers. It is partial to the lower legs of persons be- tween 10 and 30 years of age. | In many cases it develops over

may be necessary, a

are joint chairmen. The Library | ; fd | paint the dials of luminous wat- |

staff consists of sixty-two, which includes twenty-one librarians,

Berlin Tension Eased tacanes Pron rei "Writer

‘or some reason which a U.S. | authority says he still is unable to fathom, the Soviet Union has called off its harassing actions | in Berlin, leading to an easing | of tensions and to slightly im- proved prospects for. settlement | of the Berlin crisis.

Though the terms of Russian proposals for settlement of the Berlin issue are described in| U.S. circles as still unaccept- | able to the West, there is an at- mosphere of hope in Washing- ton that further Soviet-Ameri- can diplomatic talks possibly could lead to some form of com- promise.

This hope centres on Soviet | acceptance of the bare idea that the highway linking West Berlin with West Germany should be under some form of | international administration or control, as proposed by the U.S., though the Russians have con- | ditioned this acceptance on Western recognition of Commu- nist East Germany and re-

| moval of Western troops from

700,000 volumes. ,

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West Berlin. BASIS FOR COMPROMISE? The U.S. official says the

West won't remove the 12,000 troops stationed there but there

the U.S.

is some possibility et as in the past, the West might be prepared to offer ra reduce the numbers if this should provide a possible basis for compro- mise.

As for formal recognition of East Germany, the U.S. still is strongly opposed. The U.S. of- ficial suggestions, however, that the U.S. may not be opposed to the inclusion of East German representatives on the interna- tional control team. He says would be prepared to deal with these East Germans as individuals and not as of-

ficial eee aor of the East German regim

U.S. officials chidetein there was nothing in the Geneva ex- changes between Gromyko and Rusk to indicate any basic re-

| visions of Soviet ambitions on | Berlin.

And yet the harassments there have ended. Soviet and American military bine greed in Berlin have agreed to d restrictions on each other's ale itary liaison missions, Russia has stopped oe flights in Western air corr nd has accepted the idea of continuing exploratory talks on the Berlin issue.

U.S. Farm Surplus Problem

Christian Science Monitor

fhe Kennedy administration | reportedly is about ready to on cept some changes in its agri ultural program. These wend | apply particularly to wheat and |

milk roducts in which, the largest and | most rapidly growing surpluses | are being carried by the gov- | ernment. |

T President's farm mes- sage earlier in the year put strongly, as others also have put t, the dilemma of supported prices with rigid controls or un- restricted oduction at low world prices. Geared to “‘parity”’ price supports, American agric-

sought by the _ international Food and Agriculture Organi- zation. But nations whose peo- ple could use more food seem either to have agricultural in- dustries of their own to protect or else lack goods to exchange for grain,

More surely can be done to solve these marketing problems or to give aid in the form of food without creating depen- a But a major drive is be-

made against industrial ed mn which were the original tification of the “farmer's ad

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these lesions later in life .Early detection and removal of bone tumors are lifesaving measur-

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PLY fist Vitamins are not needed when the diet is balanced but they will do no harm. Besides, taking them will please your husb HOSTILITY AND HYPERTENSION C. S. writes: Are the Freud-

NOTES BY

An explorer was on a trip ot| | Africa. He visited a village of pygmies, and the most unfor- | gettable experience was listen- ing to a pygmy father three teet high lecturing his two-foot pys- my son. He said, “When are you going to grow up?” — Tor-

| onto Star.

THE WAY

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Is there ne other way to ny tional power and the golden tres, sury benches except through tig medium of the tattered promise, the carrot dangled under th, nose of the donkey? — Saska. toon Star-Phoenix.

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| William O. Douglas who

| fond of American music

Journey To

lation of many centuries on ember of the United

Genghis 600,000-square © -mile land in the Asian heart- land was locked in seclusion af- ter conquest by the Manchus in 1691, In time it became a pawn between China and Russia, whose interests still inevitably meet there. Even when Outer Mongolia won independence from China in 1921, its people, now number a million,

coming a member

Outer-Mongolia ended its iso-

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Nations late in ye Khan’

Now, Westerners are occas- fonally welcomed. A recent visitor was Associate Justice has contributed a graphic account of what he saW in Outer Mon-

| golia to the March issue of the

National Geographic Magazine. | The: Supreme Court membe: travéled as a private citizen, al-

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though he was a guest a | prominent Mongolian jurist. MILLING TO F MAKING |

pitable, handsome people, quite unlike the ferocious 13th-cen- tury warriors who ruled from | Peking to the Danube. Present- | day Mongolians are alert to |

Justice Douglas found a hos- |

change. New industries, from flour to ; are attracting onetime nomadic

herdsmen. The country claims | ree literacy for its chil-

Ulan Bator, the capital, was | a huddle of shacks 20 years ago,

ow it is a shining city with | broad avenues and squares lin- ings and apartments. Western dress is accepted for office work though the del, a long coat of wool. or silk, is still conspicu- | ous

English is taught in Ulan Bator’s university. Justice Dou- glas says the Mongolians are which they rns o ver of America |

| via Okina

| airplanes and

To Mongolia a

Mr. ome his wife Merced. es, and National Geographic Piotgrapher Dean Conger were in Mon- is thick with conifers and dotted with blue lakes. The steppes re. minded them of the American west. But it was a trip into the Gobi Desert, which overlies a third of eels country, that prov- ed most .

“This - mysterious land that had long been a magnet to me lay at our feet,” Justice

Douglas wrote. “‘The full moon as just rising; the sun had left a soft aft The Gobi

beauty of that first view was for me the most haunting of the many moods this strange desert land produced during our visit.” PEOPLE PREFER TENTS Gome 85 out of 100 Mongol- jans still prefer to live in gers, or collapsible felt tents,. despite their adaptability to Russian gadgets, British textile machinery, and Czech surgical tools, Justice Douglas said the white rounded domes of gers “against green grass and blue skies make a picture of most of Mongolia today.” The feudal country has been ganized, however, on the Soviet pattern. Every somon, or | county, has schools and a first- | aid station. Many have _hospi- tals. The government controls many aspects of life. Mongolians appear to have open minds, Justice Douglas said, but they “are so far re moved from Western culture, so distant from the influences of Judeo-Christian civilization, so unaware of the West’s great ks and humane letters, that if they long remain in ed pocket between the Union and China, they may evolve into ideological puppets. “Tf that should happen, it would be a tragedy, not only for a warm and stouthearted peo- ple but for the free world.’

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From the Guardian Files

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (April 9, 1937) A youthful Prince Edward Is-

\) Ja composer, William Keith | Rogers, was acclaimed by a | music-loving audience in Mont- |

real, Saturday when two of his compositions were rendered by | Paul de Marky, at a concert gi-

even by the distinguished pian- ist. Mi

r. Rogers received an ova- tion lasting more than five min- utes, when he was called to the stage by the pianist to take a

bow. Mrs. B. W. LePage was enter-

.| tained eg to her leaving for

London to attend Ry coronation, usband, Hon. |

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