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The Larger View

New Democratic Party Leader Douglas struck the right note. in commenting on current political scandals. when he warned against blaming any particular race or re- ligion in this connection. or indeed any particular party. since no party could ever be free from some form of scandal. His deputy leader Mr. Fisher. however, spoke in a differ- ent vein in the House of Commons. He was interpreted by an Ottawa correspondent of the Toronto Tele- igram as hinting darkly at a sup— posed connection between graft in Quebec politics and the Liberal Government's strength in French Canada.

The correspondent, by way of re- buke. recalls the case of a super- lawyer who operated unethically in the CCF setting of English-speak- ing Saskatchewan some years ago. and says Mr. Fisher should have remembered this before venturing into the field of political morality and supposed ethnic and party traits.

Be this as it may. his advice on the danger of fitting one's personal and political likes and dislikes into one's moral judgments is timely. We quote a paragraph of it here as being very much to rhe point:

"Certainly. unethical conduct. in public life deserves merciless pill- ory. But in condemning specific guard against smearing generalizations which tend to foster ethnic, racial and other prejudices. We do not have to go far in our Own history to see that graft and corruption in politics is not. limited to any one party. any one province. any one language or religious group. On- portunities for shady deals exist. in every power structure and there are always individuals who succumb to the temptation. But because there are corrupt. weak or inept in- dividuals. this does not warrant blanket condemnation of the group or organization they happen to be- long to or be associated with." Nor. of course. does it warrant condem- nation of individuals until they are troven guilty.

As a contribution to the Christ- mas spirit. wouldn't it be fine if Mr. Diefenbaker—or Mr. Fisher— were to move that these words of wisdom be placed in a conspicuous place in the Commons chamber'dur— ing the balance of the current ses- sion! In both the official langu- ages. of course. and in type large enough for all to see and profit by.

Soviet Farm Shift

A new turn has been taken in Soviet farm economy that will be followed with interest throughout the world. It started with a decree of the Ukrainian legislature early last month. revoking "unfounded restrictions on private on-the-side occupations" of collective farm workers and restoring private plots to their previous use. Similar meas- ures have followed in other parts of the country. The course now is set toward a mixed farm system— half private, half socialist.

An article by the chairman of the Lenin Collective Farm in Siberia illustrates the new course. A model state farm there delivered this year 5,000 tons of. potatoes and vege- tables, 800 tons of milk. and 150 tons of meat more than in 1963. But; 2.500 tons of milk, 250 tons of meat and 5,000 tons of potatoes and vegetables came from the farm's 1.070 private homesteads. , "It would be senseless to neg- lect web a large output.',' wrote the chairman. “Only Workers (manning officials) divorced from

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reality can assume that private farming is detrimental to com- munal farming. and that the less collective farm peasants engage in private farming, the better for the collective. This is a. deeply harmful mistake."

It was a mistake to which former Premier Khrushchev was addicted. and those opposed to it had to step gingerly under his regime. Only to- ward the end. a few weeks before his fall. did he intimate that it might help productivity if each col- lective farm work gang would be permanently responsible for the same piece of land.

Except for the brief emergency period after Stalin, Mr. Khrushchev never encouraged homestead farm- ing. He always complained that it kept peasants and farm workers from devoting themselves to "social- ist agriculture.” In this respect, at least. he remained a Bolshevik of the old school.

With private enterprise plowing this new furrow in Soviet soil. who knows what political repercussions may follow? It is noteworthy that Poland. the. most progressive of Soviet satellites. has also evolved the most successful agricultural policy. It is run almOSt entirely by private peasants.

In the late fall of 1962 a secret high-level conference at Warsaw discussed the possible extension of the Polish experience to other bloc countries, but nothing came of it. Now the trend in this direction is described as a “revolutionary trans- formation” by Soviet President Mikoyan—thus making it. ideologic- ally palatable for “comrades” everywhere.

The Congo Mess

The six-months long war in the Congo doesn’t show much sign of abating. The Belgian paratroopers have come and gone. leaving the rebel capital of Stanieyville to 1.000 Congolese troops and mercen- aries who stalk through the com- munes. looting and shooting. There seems to be no end to the killing.

With Stanleyvillc’s fall. the rebel regime c 0] la p s e d. But in their haste to free the last remaining white hostages in rebel hands, the victors left many a town unguard- ed as they raced on. lnevitably, the rebels moved right back in be- hind them. At Leopardville air- port. plane after plane winged in bearing hysterical refugees. From Bunia came the bodies of three priests and a nun. raising the total death toll of foreigners slain by the rebels to 88. Of Congolese civ- ilians over 100.000 are believed to have lost their lives at the hands of rebel execution squads. and this is given as an “extremely conser- vative estimate."

At the United Nations. a group of 15 African states and two other nations have called for an emerg- ency meeting of the Security Coun- cil to protest Western intervention in the Congo. At best the West appears in for a. bitter propaganda onslaught.

Western officials believe some form of military or police action is imperative since they see little point in negotiations with th e rebels. It would he better to have the peace—keeping force composed of outside African troops; but in view of the hostile attitude of the African leaders toward Tshombe, it is doubtful if he would accept such a plan. And the odds are against his being able to restore order on his own account.

If the turmoil deepens. there is no doubt that it will be exploited by leftist and Communist groups in a bid for power in Africa’s larg- est nation. It. is not a pleasant pros- pect for the months ahead.

EDITORIAL NOTE

You may have been suffering from goop or seep. or even both, without having found words to lie- fine them. The British Standards Institution knows the words and what they mean. "Goop" is the "build-up of surplus ink on the lip of the ball housing of a ballpoint writing instrument when in use." "Seep" is “leaking of ink through the ball housing . . . when not in use." According to the Manchester Guardian, a committee of 10 has been at. work on performance re- quirements and tests which will en- sure that there should be no more seep or goop from pens which come up to the proposed BSI stand- ard specification when it is pub- lished probably in the middle of next year.

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NATO WAR GAMES

OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson Parties Concerned About Ethical Deviation

While an honest Prime Min- ister has written shockedly to urge honesty and no patronage upon his cabinet ministers. the Conservatives believe they have struck a lode of rich pay dirt - and dirt is the operative word. Centred on Quebec Province, it appears to involve an all - star caste of Liberal Ministers and top party officials.

Canadians obviously deplore any political deviation from the straight and narrow path. so the Tories must bedelightcd to be playing tit - for - tat after Liber- al patronage probes caused a Dicfenbaker - appointed senator from Quebec to resign.

Two weeks a g o. the drama centred round a bribe of $20,000 allegedly offered by Liberals to the Crown Prosecutor in Mon- treal. Last week the Tories put Ihe opener to another can of worms,

The Liberal Party has been here before. and if Prime Minis- ter Pearson has a good memory for political history and govern- ment geography. he no doubt recognizes this “Valley of Hilli- iliation."

CAHPAIGN FUNDS The new bombshell came in

the form of a question asked in the House of Commons: “Aris-

i lng out of the investigation into I

l bankruptcy frauds now in pro- gress in Montreal. has the gov- ernment secured any informat- ion showing that the records and documents connected with bank- ruptcy proceedings by Max and Adolph Selfklnd and —— or their

. companies disclose contribut- ions for campaign purposes In any Cabinet Ministers or other Members of Parliament. and.

‘ . to whom and In what

if the answer is “Yes”. 6» what? Campaign contributions ‘properiy made are not illegal. ‘ The Liberals might equally ask: 3 “Did a western construction company make contributions to any Conservative politician bet- ween 1958 and 1962. and if so. to whom. in what amounts and for

l what purposes?"

. As the Sefkind (not Selfkinci brothers were active in the Lib- eral cause. the c a s c has been discussed with animation in

I Montreal for the past ten

l months. and the alleged details are what might be described as

i ‘_'uicy". So the simple question asked by the dila - Tories comes

Living Standards Compared

Milwaukee

The best test of an economv'a worth is the standard of living it provides. A meaningful way of measuring this is to cler- mine how ions: an average in- dustrial worker must foil to ac- quire the necessities. and luxur- ies. o ' . _

Radio Liberty. a privately sponsored freedom network. has published a revealing index of average work time required to purchase the same goods and services in New York and Mos-

lt takes the Russian more than seven hours. for example. to earn enough to buy one kilo- gram (roughly 2.2 poundal of sliced bacon and more than 15 hours for the same quantity of salmon. The ’ w Yorker can earn the bacon in 28 minutes. the salmon in 51. One small lem-

on can be earned in 1.3 minutes .

in New York; 30.2 minutes in Moscow.

The disparity is noI so great

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for such things as cigarettes. In New York the average indus- trial worker must work 7.9 min- utes to earn a package of 20 cigarettes: in Moscow it takes 16.2 minutes. The gap narrows even more for certain services. 0 earn the best seat in a loeal movie the Russian need wor only 54 minutes. while the Am- erican has to put in 52.6 minut- s.

The most startling difference occurs in costs of a hypothetic- al weekly food basket for a fam- ily of four. containing 20 differ- ent items—mil . cheese. coffee. bread. etc. "This kind of com- parison can be hazardous but. for all the limitations. if rough- ly shows the gulf between So- viet and American living stand- ards. To earn such a basket the American worker would have 1 to put in eight hours 55 minutes: ‘hla Moscow countrepart would have to work nearly 65 hours.

Honors

Ottawa

When a Canadian Prime Min- ister is defeated his power I grant patronage vanishes like the mists of the morning. No more senators. no more cushy jobs on boards. not even a job for the stouteat party centurion or the most loyal office aide.

The British are kinder. In London a Prime Minister may quit Downing Street with the wolves of public disfavor howl- ing at his heels. his party wreck- ed. his influence gone. his care. or finiahed— but still with gift: for hla friends.

These glfta are wrapped up In a delightful package labelled "Dlssolullon and Reslgnatlon Honors List" a respected bundle of privilege with. this year. the addition of a aub- heading which new. "Personal List." The package contains peerages. pri- vy councillor-ships. knighthooda and a galaxy of models. all to be glven people who may anathema to the new party In power.

SENDS RECOMMENDATIONS

Within a few weeks of his de- feat or resignation the departing

ulster sends his mom. W

mendauona for honors along to Buckingham Palace and the Saves-am “raven.

Prime Mlnlater Slr Alec Dou- glas—Ifome drank the bitter tea of general election defeat on 0:- Iober 15 and on December 1 the "Dissolution and Resignatlon Roam " wan announced.

Galore

Journal 1the "Personal List" containing

a names of 12 politicians, civ-

;ll servants. detectlvea and per- ,aonal staff who served Slr Alec ‘durlng his year as Prime Mln- later. or I re

non-personal liat gave .honors for "polltlcal and public service." creating a new via- count. alx barons. two

ll fe peers. a baronet. a Companion of Honor and so on. down the line to an OBE and two MBE's for etralghf "political service."

lno MONEY INVOLVED

l The Tlmea thlnka there is lit- tle doubt that the list now an- nounced would have been far longer were it not for the prac- tical polltlcel consideration that Sir Alec was unwilling to lose

many MPa. Only three Conaer- VIIIIIIIIIIII vellve members. from, aafe ‘ "Mgc'flmn" gleam. age being aenl to the cum 0 Lords and thus cause by-electiona. : This method of rewardl the faithful. from ol'mel' n. rd ‘ “" 3°" T1” N9" cellars to practlalna bul- . lera, caubea the taxpayer in e R paln. There‘s‘no money In hon- ore. Peers get no pay but can

claim for expenaea. if they at— at lea of the slain“. to a maximum of 09 a ay.

' Still and all. as they aay. the ‘ Dluolutiou and Resignation ‘llonon are a curloua custom a characteristic Brltlah blend and some. with

V mirer a touch of Illoglc thrown

| very late. and clad in sheeps‘ clo- ‘. mg.

I Adolph and Max Sefkind. both 1 in their early sixties. became in- jvolved in bankruptcy proceed- ‘ings on 23rd January. connect- ed with three companies. These were all located at 55 Moiliere Street. Montreal: Distributors and Manufacturers. Rec - Stone Corporation. a n d lUnion Upholstering Co. Prosper Boulanger. a Liberal MP. was president of the first company:

i an officer of Rec - Stone h a d I dangerous for a diabetic Levesque. a for-l switch to pills after taking inqu-

Ge ard I mer president of the Quebec Li- lberal Federation: Max Sefkind .was president. of two companies 1and secretary of the third.

ENQUIRY SLATED

l Quebec Attorney - General .Wagner has appointed Lucien .Mercier to examine the bankru- ptcies. involving an estimated

.$2.300.000. to ascertain if they

1 were fraudlent. Meanwhile one

‘of the Scfkinds. who had left lMontreal. has reappeared in ‘ New York where he is being kept {under police protection as wit-

lness in an alleged bribery case.

jinvolving an aide to New York

.City‘s Mayor Wagner.

i V e. r y interesting rep 1 i e 3 might come from questions much more direct and pungent

; than that tabled by the Tories in

l the House of Commons. And such iquestions might be asked of as gmany as three governments of l the various levels in Canada. It may be expected that the pro- 'secution of the allegations. so

far veiled within an innocuous-i . ‘looking question asked by an TODAY’S HEALTH H

[insignificant back - bench Tory. Tory big guns. such as per- haps the brilliant - booming voi- ced red - haired terror of the Li- berals. Eldo Woolliams Q.C. from Alberta.

Premier Smallwood of New- foundland and Premier Lesage of Quebec are locked in a high- voltage struggle over how best to exploit the vast hydro-electr- ic potential of Labrador‘a Ham- llton Falls.

Negotiations have broken off amid a shower of sparks.

Quebec has decided it can't buy the power at the price quoted by the private- enterprise holders of a 99-year lease on the . the British Newfoundland

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Lesage has suggested that the only way to cut coata Is for New- foundland. as landowner. to pay

nco and nationalize the whole project.

Joey Smallwood blew a fuse and said he would short-circuit Quebec by looping Labrador po- wer across Newfoundland. und- er the Gulf of St. Lawrence by submarine cable. and on to the

NEED ONIONS MOSCOW (AP) — The lowly onion has become ahortale item In Russia. a Soviet farm economist complained Wednea- day. He said Sovlet far-mere have quit raialng onlona be

cause It Is unprofitable.

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Unsolved Viral Hepatitis Problem

By Dr. Theodore 1:. Van Dallas Viral hepatitis continues on tions. yet there Is neither a spe- clfic remedy nor a preventive The best thing we can aay abmt this liver diaorder is that virtu-

ally everyone recovers. , on the

are a aid in diagnoala_ A few y e a r a ago experimenta were conduct- ed on a vaccine but the practic- al aspects of this study never were solved. As a result. good hygiene and gamma globulin re- main our best preventive meas-

ures. The causative virus has been Isolated but the infection could not be transmitted to any anl. mal species except men. Re- cently. typical hepatitis devel- within 48 hours in re monkeys from West Africa aft- er the cauaatlve micro-organ- ism waa injected. viruses responsible for hepatitis In humans are prose t m

u the blood and intestinal tract

and can be transmitted we con- taminated water. food. a n milk. Poor sanitation also plays a role. The agents remain viab- le in the blood for more than a year after the acute attack sub- aides.

Blood from a carrier of in e virus may be infective in inii..i- tesimally small amounts. Physi- cians, nurses. and dentists can develop hepatitis by accidental inoculation of infected material into scratches and other trivial wounds of the skin.

The disease also is acquired after receiving a transfusion or other blood products containing the virus (serum hepatitis). This disorder is similar to the infec- tious type except it develops two to six months after receiving blood or serum. This form hepatitis is said to be more ser- ious, possibly because most of the people needing transfusions are older and sicker.

TAKE A WALK

F H writes: My husband is housebound with arthritis. which makes me nervous. A tranquiliz- er didn’t help. A friend auiggest- I get a dog and daily walks with the animal would relieve my Ienscness. I am 69 and take

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A. A. writes: Would it be to

lin shots for 25 years? REPLY Not necessarily. as many did- betics can be changed from in- sulin injections to tablets. S u c- cess or failure depends upon the severity of the disease. No one ought to switch unless his phy- sician believes it worth the try. MONILIASIS Mrs V. writes: II-IAVE DE taking pills for m0nilia or four months. Why is it so hard to get rid of this infection? REPLY