| ‘y Covers..Prines Edward The Bow ’ wee oe W. J., Hancox, Po Z 4 Wallece Ward — uc? Frank Walker } Managing Editor Editor Souris Advertising Services: Toronté 425 Uni ty Empire 3-8894;. Montreal 640 Ca’ Represented nationally by Teen eee ve. Street Uni- versity 6-5942;-Western Office 1030, West Georgia Street Vancouver MA 9007 "= Member Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers - Aasociation.and The Canadian Press: The Canadian Press is-exclusively entitled to the use for repub- lication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to itor to the Associated Press: or Reuters * and. alto the local news published herein. - All fight or republication of special dispatches. here, In alsé reserved. Subscription rate: * Not’ over 40¢ per week by carrier. $12.00 a.year by mail on rural routes and areas fot serviced“hy: cartien,. - $15.00 a, year. off: Island and U.K. $20.00 per Not over 10c single copy. . : Member Audit Bureau of Cirtulation. fol PAGE 4 AY, NO "-yedty in U.S. and elsewhere, outside British Con, Optimism In The Dark | ' ‘We are still pretty “much in the | _ dark as to what went on at last week’s closed ‘conference on fiscal affaits at Ottawa, but we are assured that as a‘ | in finances.” Instead of the $200,000 } “gunk bounty” offered as an in- | efease under the new equalization /. igguls at the September conference, Premier Campbell figures we'll get a $4,600,000 boost in unconditional '. tion of vocational training centres. | ” This is not as much as.we should be getting, he says, but it does provide more leeway than we had before. |. “Tt-enables the Premier to.give as | surance, for example, that the Con- - federation Centre definitely he closed, | tenance, operation —tion’”’ of the centre as a will not ~ ding that Ot- '. tawa’s proffered assistance-will fall + —~ far short of the total needed for an- nual operation and maintenance. On the Preitier’s own showing, from an __erder-in-council dated Nov. 1, 1962, | bone. Confedera- tion’ memorial; in which cease, one * ean only ‘wonder what all the uproar — has been abou. = says “the Tryst was well aware of the legal ility” implied in this agreement, “but it never was in- _ should bear the full burden.” Then - what was the intention, and why this _ whole agitation to foist the full responsibility on Ottawa under threat of closing the centre down this week? The public is entitled to more en-— lightenment on this point than has heen forthcoming. 5 Perhaps, too, we could be told ‘more about the mysterious fransac- __tions under way between the provin-.. - edai government and the Georgetown ~ §ndustries, Gulf Garden Foods and Bathurst Marine Limited. As a result of a five-hour meeting Saturday ~ ‘night, it is expected that “new f cia] arrangements will result in the néar future which will resolve the - existing problems of the company.” - gut it is not stated precisely what these problems are,.let alone wha’ solution will result. dase.” What do the “pfillistinés” know about art, here or. in Toronto ; where they raised such a rumpus over sculptor Henry Moore’s $100,000.“Three-Way Piece No. 2.” |-whatever that means, which was un-_ veiled last week in front of the city -hall?-The-civie authorities regarded | it with disfavor, and refused to pay ‘for it; but it was purchased by /*- anonymous donors as a_ gesture “toward an ideal higher than utili in our architecture” 5; ‘In a way, our plaza piece has it over the’ Toronto masterpiece be-. weighs only two and a half. Quality and quantity combihed, so to speak! should present a harder surface than be able to sneak up, some dark night, _| and carve “Shaw Centre” or other such opprobrious words surface. a sei : The Toronto sculpture is all sen- suous curves, with bony. otitcrop- , pings; ours all flat surfaces and angles. But both achieve the modern- istic aim of being completely in-, on its virgin comprehensible to: the “uncultured” - multitude. As their admirers. proud- ly explain, they are “abstract forms, reaching down into exper- ience for shapes of unive signifi- cance, and -emerging as. works of grandeur.” Look on them, ye un- sophisticated, and despair! At the Toronto unveiling ‘cere- mony, the chairman of the civic art “gommittee said in his speech that this was a moment of triumph. “The ~“philistings;” he chortled, “have re-~ tired in disorder.” - But -not all of them, it turned out. One young man Moore’s view of man, “then he ‘be- longed in a mental. hospital.” A woman said, “It looks like an old | bone.” Others it resembled more a headless | dream. = _ : __ And just as the chairman was say- ing the creation would enable Tor- ./ place with London and Paris and New York,” some students, 15 yards ers scurried in their dirertion; every- -men—nine of them, by a¢tual count —wheeled in perfect formation and _ advanced on what seemed to be an uprising. The junk sculpture vanish- ed and the ceremony was resumed. |. Later, when the Mooré work was’ displayed, the students raised their sculpture again. It turned out-to be a collection of bicycle tires, old shoes, a bedpost and a piece of chair. They. a kind of anti-Moore; titled “Archer Tester.” They held up a sign: “Six out of ten pigeons prefer Archer Tester.” — That’s another thing, too, about our wonderful new plaza decoration! . It provides. ample accommodation for the pigeons, and its critics will be hard put te disparage it on ‘this cause it weighs four tons and theirs |- Ours is made of cast iron, too, and | stone or marble. No-miscreant wil] elephant, or a bad |. one turned and suddenly the white’ | tectural students and their piece was‘| | _. AERIAL VIEW, GEORGETOWN: 4 3S i ; iy i : @ 3 8 z F re Th pre h OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson = Drug Industry Under Committee Probe T ! ; ~< ar r NOTES ae i! g i i 3 i ul 3 : jit i ara : ily £ te IH £ it ; # ® it : : a? flr z s 2 F- ix <# f i £ i i ie & » a gui a Fe. Ee Fit #4 i & t i i Ev a3 e% f a“ a ih th inl i i $ i ) 5 4 g 2 Py Ei § s = | Fue ¢ ; i Z 2 ii ‘ i + offspring)}—harbors-the causative — in the spring the mos-_ Our Yesterda 1 @rom The Guardian » : E H g ie rf af a] | | | t fi i i i UF REET S i is a LF f i | i = a i § g i i! fg3 | | Met i : i : + ; Re; he g i 7 ewe the provincial government _ $9,000,000. But according to Gulf - ent William Bennett in an. , ce-president —aagervien tp the Toronto Star, this | % excitement, notes | $e. ment.is__ misleading. Bathurst |. * °°" *€W B0vCt eee ~~ Marine was commissioned—to—hbuild — to. x nine steel-stern fishing trawlers vn ge, h $7,800,000; but-half.| Woeful contrast to its. ~ of this amouiit is in federal subsidies. “This official claims he ‘knows tHe ditt yh ~~-Guilt ata egst-of ~ source from which the press misstate- ment. originated. He wouldn’t say if said the source had “a definite _.reason for starting the rumors.” The = $tar also quotes Bathurst presidént Thomas Sanderson as denying his company .was_in-.any_financial .diffi-. culty. Government auditors, he main- tains, had scanned the books of both. companies and had reported that 3 troubles. If there is any truth in these state- tr: ing all right. But we would appreciate neither firm was in financial x, Setting, maze” daylight into ‘the *S pictene as well: Art, It's Wondertull - ings plaza is intended, according to its Montreal creator, to “depict what- a Billions At Stake — Our the thinking and policy ‘making. taxes, in short, may depend ’ on ' quality of DBS figures.“ lion a year to operate DBS, yet the . flow of statistical information -pro- most of the major economic decisions mental in deciding how the $9,000 - million a year of federal spending is to be divided up. Business manage- , ments also use DBS figures as the jumping-off spot for their own. fore- _ casts and budget plans. - Canada and the Royal ‘Commission on Government Organization have in recent years recommended ‘substan- tial expansion of the bureau, and to : ".. some extent the call has been heed- The new sculptural adornment to . the- provincial administrative build- ever the viewer may see.” He calls it “Paulia,” which is a Greek word’ meaning “birds.” There will be some * , eritics who will say that it is strictly hensible piece of extravagance. for the birds, and. that going so far for such a monstrosity was a repre- you, and all stich comments are “de- ncaeateas eee o bless} ed. But a still greater exploitation of many .technical improvements in statistical analysis’ would be! possible if DBS had more staff and the money, .An increase of between million ~and $5 million a year {ofthe depart- ment could, it is claimed, produce benefits far in excess of their costs. . ‘duce¢is“# prime determinant “fur { | | | : E i pleat goths nEFES 99 ~ PUBLIC FORUM - by correspondents of questions of in- The Guardian 3 herest.. other : a -imals. The shooting of these) “‘nirds should thus be cordemned, : not praised. ; May we add that eagles are on the List in. this sanctuary in Canada. , Now there's a cause g Canadian Statute Why just draft. dodgers? What a kooky .crew of profes- sors (or are they junior instruc- This would seem reasonable enough, where so many billions of dollars are at stake. There seemis no justification standard of economy. 4. OA és a a = 1 “for—penny-pinching tere, by any} ~ Province; their. destruction is ‘ours truly, . Rev.)-5.. Cheverie, Ass’t Prof. : (Biology) — - LG. ‘Ass't Prof. (Biology) Sonus wasn G pes ic Sgeenalginstnapinaall eee for you! wer. ent & professors. go the ~wayand pot up a criminatory, not liberal. Get the Americans t@ open their jails. to | | : Aa ! i SPER z E ga if FF ff - eis | ! gif2 pave F ES 32 ; i £ ; i | | E ae : : i i a i § it cf i H ae i in iF E E ni > i pap chewed like gum g J & i s ¢ a Ey E3 conscientious objector. The Quaker or anyone else whose. conscience opposes war is not compelled to fight. There are other ways to serve: ‘Welcoming these fugitives is dodgers during the years before the United’ States came into the last war. vs ‘The U.S. draft dodgers are no. herees—in—Canada; except —per=" haps to a,few fuzzy liberals, who | ‘wisdom and who find anti-Amer- committee to aid Canadian draft . seem geady to.take dissent for | | icanism— the anti. 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