_ maging Sitter Published every week day morning (except Sun helideys). ef. 165 Prince Street, oa | ae is bigger and greater than the leader, then why doesn’t it concentrate on policies that are of national concern —Policies on trade, defense, welfare, pensions, transportation, labor, agri- few—that would be advanced as | alternatives to those now operative or proposed? It may be that the Camp group regards Mr. Diefenbaker - as an Obstacle to a policy realignment on these issues,-or some of them. But if such is the case, their real. objec- tives are being concealed and the real power -play transcends the issue : - A furore has been raised about a “smashing victory” for the anti-Dief- enbaker faction at a pre-conference executive meéting on, Sunday night, which boiled down to the fact that the election of officers had been re- scheduled from late Wednesday to 2.30 p.m. today. This change of culture and education to name but a | ahead. before claiming victory. To ba thig-end, the Christmas. Seals on our ee cards and parcels will help materially. It is a campaign in which _ we-are all vitally interested, and to which we all have the privilege of Much Ado About. What? “As an Ontario commentator re- “marks about the Tory conference <mow in session at Ottawa, the more ~~ must wonder'why it is taking place: “Phe delegates have not gathered to Angar learned papers as at the Liberal Sotiference of a few weeks ago, or “$o--chart a‘new course for their “party. Some of the resolutions, no doubt, make good sense. One calls for. diplomatic recognition of Com- munist China, ariether would increase funds-for- medical_research, a third would extend the grounds for div- orce proceedings, etc. But the tad thing-about all of them is that they ~—could be-coming,-as- easily; before_a— convention of the New Democratic Party or the Liberals.; Nowhere’ is there any distinguishing mark of Conservative thought, of Conservative ‘philosophy. Nowhere are» there any - clear alternatives to what already governs in Ottawa. Nowhere is there a Conservative choice for the people The whole interest of the. con- ference has beer focused on a dis- sident group led by the party’s na- tional president, Dalton Camp, which _.. » 48 concerned with provoking—not a reassessment of party policy and: program, but another harrowing con- troversy over the leadership. The Canip-Maloney battle for the presi- dency, with this issue to the. fore, ” could rend the party asunder at a fime when it .was never more: im- no that it. should stand four- \\ square behind its spokesmen in Parliament. co If, as Mr. Camp asserts, the party —}-the party's parliamentarians are be “{s hailed as a wonderful achievement. **| - »jome ponders over it the: more one | agenda would enable delegates to vote by secret: ballot on the presi- dency before the usual vote of con- fidence in the leader, and would make it awkward for Conservative MPs to participate because they have a duty to attend the House of Commons. Think of that! Since the majority of But as another commentator points election of Mr. Camp and his winning the day for a “reassessment” of the leadership before a full-scale national convention some months. hence, what then? In the meantime, nothing would have been contributed towards’ healing the party breach. Mr. Diefen- | baker still would be leader: Mr. Camp | still would be the dissatisfied national president and still, presumably, would continue to snipe from the sidelines. Depending upon the date ACHE TWEEDLEDALT AND TW en THE OTHER'S N Lee ul) ae , THEY WERE STANDING UNDER A‘TREE EACH - Ec King - GLASS EEDLEDIEF - has begun in ther election conceivably could inter. vene—would.any potential successor be prepared to splinter the party fur- ther by attempting to oust Dief at such a convention? Can one imagine Messrs. Robarts, Roblin or Stanfield —or for that matter any party mem- ‘ber in or out.,of the Commons—bat- tling their leader on the floor of the No Limitation “ALBERTA'S BONANZA. -..: ¢ Geographic tural gas. Edmontonians joke meated by natural gas that you world of the space walker, more valu- able data is being gathered on the mystery of weightlessness’ and its impact on the human system. Even before the flight of Gemini 12, how- ever, experience had dispelled mych “|-of the concern which was felt on this . a Centre in Houston, Texas, are convinced that man can now be safely exposed for up to 30 days in orbital flight, and that the outlook for still longer space _ flights is good. To the general public, the concern about weightlessness may seem to have been unwarranted’ from the start. Astronatilts. themselves have expressed nothing but.delight at the sensations of floating freely, -all heaviness of body having vanished. But the experts were thinking in . terms of more subtle effects. They ‘wondered, for example, if astron- auts would become disoriented with. | the loss of the directional clue given- by the downward pull of gravity; if the body would suffer loss of muscle ‘tone and stamina; if bones would tend to lose some of their calcium. Such changes have: been noticed in people confined to bed for long per- While some of these things have also been observed with astronauts on the longer-duration flights, there have been ho seriou’ consequences. =| _to bring the artificially cramped and weightless living of the astronauts more in line with normal activities, and these have proven effective. “What you’re seeing,” as one expert _ explained it, “is man adapting to this zero G (no gravity) environment.” Still unkiiéwn, he conceded, is. how different people make this adapta- tion, and what form it will take on really long space flights. One puzzle remains in the matter of disorientation. It is said that - American astronauts have had no problem here, while several Soviet _cosmonauts have suffered vertigo. ve" EDITORIAL ‘NOTE “Perhaps the most «unusual offer- ing at the ninth British Wine and Food Féstival Fair is from a Scots firm displaying small plastic sachets of water from Loch Lomond, to soothe the savage breasts of their ex- ‘patriated countrymen who are appal- led by the thought of diluting ‘their native whisky with chlorinated .tap water,” says a report from Britain. t Special exercises have been devised | if i a ! ! i § i i i i eee i cal & i & E} uz E 5 3 & se i E ' try, on P.E.I. dator mean strongly affects the population levels of its prey. , ments are a: waste of money. In fact bounty payments may _be harmful in developing poor atti- tudes and habits as far as con- servation is concerned. - Therefore I believe that tt: is skunks here. I’ would predict that it would be impossible to af- fect skunk numbers seriously, in the same way. it is impossible to ‘ affect the number of mice in an old house with plentiful food and escape structure: trapping sim- + ply lowers numbers temporarily, ‘and causes a readjustment in population. 5 a I believe that the skunk pro- blem on P.E.1’ is not strictly >" biolézieal, but rather psychologr eal: hunters and farmers, having misused wildlife in this Province for generations, are seeking a scape-goat. The general attitude ms to be: “Blame it on Char- He Bartlett, and if he didn’t do it, the skunks ‘did’. While both . Mr. Bartlett and the are well able to take care of selves, this kind of u _ply ignores relevent issues. + hee Biology Department, St. Dunstan's University lic relations’ value) such pay- | | that the water supply is so’ per- |. S them down, nor has it, as yet, any legisla on the subject. Nevertheless, consum- ers can be grateful for the in- formation it has brought to light on the workings of the food in- dustry subsidiaries cerns — to disclose, their profits here. It is rare for a subsidiary to 1 aaa An employer teports being as- tounded to receive from a uni versity graduate a, letter of ap- plication for emp! con- taining 17 spelling : spellers might support instinc- tively whether they can spell it ic view in Canada, although the U‘S. ‘government can get the infor- _ ButCan He Spell? Ottawa Journal ow & = E i ut & John Dos Passos’ in - , Marxist Predictions the National Review in a deceitful smog of prepeg- anda that neither Marx nor En- 2 . io _| gels ever dreamed _ of. Meanwhile the more foPtunate populations of Western Europe and North America have mat aged to ‘produce fairly workab- le societies. In spite of the shortsighted demagogy.of many of the polit- icians in ‘ tneetsthnve aot tees deen 0" far, greatly to hamper the fan- tastic productivity of modern ‘mass production. : ' rel 3 ; 2 Fe il Naming: Diseases sician who initially described them. On one occasion, a condi- tion was named after the first victim in whom the causative or- “| ganism was found. Now and then a city or atea where the condition was first recognized becomes the name of the dis- examples. The same can be said of Malta fever and St. Louis en- cephalitis. ‘ A recently described disease 48 heavy beer consum- bec. Twenty died. By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen | 7 Many diseases and microbes | have been named after the phy- a . NOTES BY we “Mamma, what is a second- storey man?” “Your father is story, he always has another one ready.” — Ottawa Citizen. ' The 12-year drive to improve the lot.of the American Negro, to bring him at last to a tion of equality with eric¢an citizens, has fal virtual stop after the great for- ward surges of 1964 and 1965. This summer an Administration bill to end discrimination housing Was severely emascul-. ated in the House and then al- lowed to die in the Senate be fore a southern filibuster. Dragged down with the. hous ing bill were other measures de- signed to ensure Negro selection on state and stiffer al sanctions against those use violence or intim- idation. others. B Negroes in the sale and rental of to deny civil rights te | THE WAY their wives wear Ain Act OF Courage. 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