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Subscripfien rete: ¢ Net ever 40c per week by carrier. ““F $12.00 @ year by mait-en rurel-reutes and arene met serviced by carrier. - $15.00 « year off island and U.K. $20.00 per ved in U.S. and elsewhere omit. ne Com menwealth © Not ever 10 ssgie coy Member Audit Bureau “a ‘Civeutation. “The strongest 1 memory is“ weaker than the weakest ink” / . MONDAY, JULY 4, 1966. - PAGE 4 ‘Sound Advice Good advice to Manitoba politicians after their close electoral battle is of- "fered by the Winnipeg Free Press. “After a long period of political stability.” it says, “the province may be heading into difficult times. With @ margin of only two or three seats, the government will be exposed to constant harassment and the threat of defeat on trivial issues. The opposi- tion parties will be wise, however. if gtaces of the new -legislature. The public by and-large has had enough of elections in the past few years and it is likely to deal harshly with those fin the government or opposition par- and the King of Denmark was se pleased with his stockings that he forebade anyone else in the land to wear hose so fine themselves into guilds, whiclracted rather like trade unions The widows of master knitters were the only women allowed to knit for gain in those times, but gradually -| sex discrimination vanished. When the hest stockings ame those “in the English stvle.”” made in the York- shire Dales. men, women and child- ren—-even the shepherds on moors:..all knitted awav'to meet the demand Actually, wars--the Crimean War, took three and-—-two hawever, it | World Wars with their big Red Cross knitting campaigns.—to convince men- folk everywhere that women were ‘fine knitters after all. : » Opportunity Waits Let's hope that our farmers won't sell themselves short -bv neglecting the opportunity for worldwide publi-. city at Expo 67. The federal minister of agriculture, Mr. Greene, has called attention to this matter-and has com- plained of a disappointing lack of in- Cahadian agriculture, dairy and food p ing industries andthe farm machinery industry.- While it was originally intended to devote $5.5 mil lion toward the “Man the Provider ex- hibit.” the plans have had to be scaled down to about $4 million: and | the minister stated that even this modest figure mav be too high For an industry that directly con- tributes an average of $2.2 billion to the gross domestic product of Canada == en) -who-take--an—trrespantibie-—at-—|_etety.vetr. this is sntely an'example_) Ae st uae to the same advice. Both —S -———Geavor-te-do-so—But-thev_will need * | t ' "forward to after July 11; there is a” am _ fitude toward the conduct of its af- fairs.” ‘- With the prospects of an even — tighter margin of victory for the gov- erning party in this province to look ° deal to party leaders have. indeed. indicated their desire to work as cooperatively as thev can in the public interest. and we have ‘no doubt that they will en- the mee of _— on as well; lit 3 “fre and while the battle is still being waged on party lines, for all concern- €d to keep the above warning in mind. » Tt should serve as a check on the kind of bitter campaign feuding that leaves . fasting animosities in its wake, and would get us nowhere after the con- test but in a very bad pickle indeed. We do not suggest that the cam- paign in First Kings should not be fought as vigorously as possible. But there is an added responsibility on “hoth sides of keeping the blows above the belt. A Man’s Business! Recently in England the result of a nounced. The winner turned out be a man And we are reminded by an English correspondent in the Chris- tian Science Monitor that this is not #0 surprising as it might seem. For the first knitters of all were men, and for at least half its history knitting; was a man’s job. The women just sat _ at, home, and spun ‘the wool. < -= This it was in the sandy. wastes of ancient Arabia some 3,000 years. ago, where men took red and tan wool to _ Make robes, scarves and sandal-socks, and knew how to turn a heel, divide stiches for the big toe, and work to a tension as fine as 36 stitches to the inch..In Biblical times, too, knitting was a common masculine pursuit. First little circular knitting frames of copper wire were used to make rather loose work, then twin needles with “hooked ends (like today’s crochet Kooks) producéd better knitting. “The first Christians were ‘skilful knitters. making little round caps with heavy patterning. These were worn by the first monks and mission- aries who ventured out of the Middle Fast to spread the glad tidings. Their Coptic caps! as they were called, at- tracted much attention. first in Spain and Italy. then in France. Germany, and England. Soon folk in these lands had learned how to make them and many other garments with a pair of clicking needles When Spain sent its great Armada- against Elizabethan-Enoland one of its supply ships was wrecked _off > _rocky Fair isle. in the Shetlands aud from the few “survivers who got’ ashore. the islanders learned<to knit ~in the eS ‘Spanish stvie“Hnitat-and— France fhe Knitters— still men heavily brocaded coats and made cloaks, —taps.leggins._mhittens- felted berets. shorts. and. stockings ‘Bluff King Hal loved to boast that Ais sturdy-legs. were encased in ‘brought over { ‘ hose specially from. Paris, ty -of penny-pinching at the wrong end. ~ The farm machinery and repair parts industry annually does some $330 million worth of business at wholesale prices; the dairv industry does -$1 bil- —ion worth- of business each year-and sumers spend close to $5 billion a year on other Processed _ foods and heverages.- It is noted in this connection that certain. segments of the. livestock in- | dustry in France and ‘the United States are recognizing the opportunity at.Expo and are “making” “elaborate~ plans to capitalize on it: Mr. Greene pu ee in this characteristic man- r: ‘For every buck invested in this - exhibit, the investor is going to get many bucks worth back in the kind of publicity and advertising .. . in the kind of image-building that e even poli-_. ticians.can only dream of.” If businessmen in 69 other doun- tries realize this, it's high time that our. food producers were giving it more serious thought. The Kennedy Round Now that the European =< ternal wrangling over a common agricultural policy. hopes are agai being fixed dn the Kennedy round.of . "free world tariff negotiations which. has been languishing in Geneva for more than a year. Canada has an im- portant stake in these negotiations, ' " possibility that the horse trading can be finished by next spring. - Although the’ Kennedy round. has fallen far short of its great advance billing, it can still do much-_to further the cause of freer world trade. Per- - vious Geneva sessions, conducted under terms of the General Agree- ment on Tariffs and Trade, have help- _ed.to double international trade since World War II. The Kennedy round is the sixth world-wide'tariff cutting ses- sion since 1947. In the first five, tariffs were slashed.on some 64,400 products: In the last round in 1961— ‘tali&d the Dillon round after the for- mer United States treasury secretary | ~-major trading nations negotiated 4,400 concessions cov ripe. O70 de | valued at $5.5 billion. i! EDITORIAL NOTES "Development of an effective vac- cine against mumps, which is expect- ‘ed to give inmunitv even into adult ~ years, is reported. Stil? no hreak- -through vet, however. in curing the common.cold i et eee The federal department of industry’ is seeking“to arrest the “brain drain” Lo the U nited- States or rather to counter it, by nifiafing ‘ efforts to lure” _University trained manpower to Can. ada. The need for such action was underlined varlier this vear. when the Organization for, Fcanomic |, Throughout the Middle ton men } knitters handed } the | terest in“the big fairon the part of” @ challenge” nige up to Canadian - in the serious bargaining which s is about to begin. Optimists see a - 4 We | Sanaa SINGING ALONG WITH MI [CH rea chlaniemiata WELATIONA R > pee Mute, C9 AT are | OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson ~ Federal Sales Tax On Sickness. Sitting often long hours all through June, a agg %4mem- ber committee of the House of Commons under the chairman. ship of Dr. Harry Harley h begun its study of drug costs ard prices. #-m-o-n g-the -eomponents of drug prices, the most. obvious _eriticism is certain! | the federal sales tax of 11 per |. cent In a brief to the committee last week, the Canadian Medi- . eal Association. flatly . asserted “This is indeed a tax on sick- | Ress We can find no rationale for this tax.’ Even Finance Minister Mitch \_Sharp ‘ébviously feels -guilty for per cent federal sales tax is py- thus taxing. sickness, for in his - Budget Spgech on March 29 he: —made-this promise——ift— mittee recommends that drugs should be exempt from sales tax p a Comprehensive a ffective program to redace the prices of drugs. then the government would be prepared * to recommend such action by _ means of a special statute cov- ering all the measures required to give effect to such a 2ro- gram."" That was an unusuaily | long and. devious variant to ‘ne more simple statement that the _ government would repeal the broken down by the Canadian Medical Association. was $3.47. This price was detailed for tne committee this way, with frac- ions of a, cent rounded up: anufacturer's price ‘ederal Sales ta Manufacturer's. price $1.0 14 $1.90 Federal sales tax 14 1.44. ; 9g Pri ice to pharmacy i | Pharmacy mark-up 174 Price, to patient - $347 “NOT UNRBASONABLE” This break-down of: the retail price for the average prescrip- tion clearly shows how the 1! ramided at the distribution lev- el and the pharmacist’s ‘level in-the—mar--—abilitv of self-sufficient cit i to pay.” But, the doctors added, —— SANANA-EATER- keting chain take their mark-up on the price which they pay, re- gardiess of whether that price is Wholly represented by mer- chandise, or partly by merchan- dise and partly by tax. “The effect of the tax is there- ~ This explains ty of-the-tax—but -#!s0_at the py- " Asset In _| failed to ask for help. } ; | Those who react in | are good material for left wing. stead of the KFast—ihey Disguise . | By Dr. Theodore BR. Van Delfen. ONLY a big man can admit that he is angry and do some- thing about it. In the circum- stances, anger hecomes an atv | set because its constructive fac- | tors are being utilized. But many adults . behave like children. They are bigger and have more experience but their emotional . reactions are immature. Such a ‘handicap makes. it difficult adjust to ordinary living. An adult may act like a high- strung 3-year-old. One damp a little Mary could not’*open . the door to her room. This made her so mad she started ta cry and kicked the door with. all her ‘might. This senseless © orm She did not try to understand why the door was stuck and she z= Many adults behave the same | Way on confronting a puzzling situation or when they cannot open the theoretical ddors of suc- cess, position, or wealth. Some blow up ahd go as far_as to hurt themselves to ‘‘get even.” Others |mope or bemoan their fate. this fashion groups; they are so frustrated or thods of retaliation even though | it means the ruination of family or country. © Teal- ize how much -happier they would be if they would try - te understand the reasons. for their lack of success. This attitude to- | ward life is an example of poor _ ‘mental hygiene which in turn ~ causes various psycholocical and | psychiatric problems. The seeds | that-are sown ultimately produce ance was typical of a youngster ° Wilson Under. Pressure By Harold Morriston ‘Canadian Press LONDON — (CP) The: United States hombing of North Vietna- mese fuel dumps has resulted in strong repercussions in Prime Minister” Wilson's janet government. ; * The man who earned . vic- tory of sorts in termination of the 45-day seamen's strike had hoped fo appease his vociferous left wing by disowning Amer- can bombings in the suburbs | of Hanoi and Haiphong. In the wWtal struggle over the future _of the: British economy, Wilson must maintain close” rel- ations with President Johnson Britain depends heavily on United States military and eco- nomic assistance JOHNSON NOT PLEASED Johnson, however, too pleased with Wilson's performance. In Wilson's view, Britain must think less of its ‘world role and more of its own national survival--exports “be- fore guns and British prestige in faraway places. © But the. left-wingers will not be put off. They argue that Johnson is a vicious. aggressor and the Vietnamese are inno- cent victims. They tend to vent their anger against the West in- fire Washington their criticism at \ angry they turn to juvenile me- and not Moscow and Peking They have threatened to sage what_ may hecdme an effective House of Commons filibister, to deliy the “passage” or vita wer is reported | Staff, London gislation ymess Wilson agrees ta an immediate dehate on Nam hase@ on their motion 1:1 Britain should seek a comp'se separation fram American pei Sone iey in Viet\Nam GOVT. WON'T FALL “Wilson's government is un likely, to fal] on tnis issue put the putcome could prove hich!y embarrassing“ For. next wees Wilson entertains Prime Minis “ter Georges Pompidou and For. eign Minister Couve de Mur. ville of France. It would not ca to haye these visitors, who are led by what a Wilson cabinet colleague called ithe ‘‘had ally”. de Gaulle. witness the turm st in Wilson's own . backyard ‘In former years, Wilson m.zpt have rushed off to Moscow hope- ful of sympathy from Kremi:n leaders. But Presiden: de Gaulle, the more favored Fu- ropean, has already heen there and no Viet Nam solution fas emerged. Wilson cannot hope te achieve more. : His left-wingers demand that he go immediately to Washing- ton and tell Johnson off—a move which Johnson is unlikely to ap- preciate. A Johnson Wilson meeting has already. heen agreed to in Washington at some tinspecified date after. mid-July. Wilson - wants -to: adhere ia that timetable And even if he goes then, he is unlikely te chaiigé Johnson's view. ~ The Road Ahead Theread ahead should have stretched into tomorrow. = tIn- stead, it ended in a car smash New York Times to the mouth, waiting A-osreg sounds in -the distance. Police Flashlight shining on open eves - Nervousness, if not a neurosis. ed violently against a tree-four that do not see. Red “flares in —Anger is disabling when it ts” tert-agersspitied dead ant tty “the Tog” “Keep moving Gs a fore slightly over |! per cent, or 35 cents of that averace retail price, although the yield to the government was only 14 cents. Mitchell. Sharp's complicated statement. if the government removes the sales tax, it.wants to be sure that the — full benefit is passed on to the sick through the removal not on- ramiding The doctor's association went _on to estimate. that the average annual cost of drugs for a Can- adian” ts $9.50-- “This does not seem = tnreasonable,”’ they said “When we consider the level of income and the stan- appears to be well within the itizens — government assistance may well be desirabie for low income groups, and for those sufferers from chronic diseases requiring long term continual drug treat- ment. | Proine Dogs Vanishing. National Geographic Society ; A motorist can ‘drive a hun- | tax, and it has understandably dred miles over the Great Plains eaused much speculation on Parliament Hill. ADDS 11 CTS. IN $1 . But meanwhile, “ that federal i | led by the government at the | thus built into the price at that i | point in the chain of distribu- t teday without seeing a single .. Prairie dog. Only a few dog towns remain, and most are protected as wild- life refuges, Some of these are in trouble. Prairie dogs vanish- Common Market has ended its in- | manufacturers’ le vel, and is ed altogether from the 3-acre prairie dog town in the Wicht- ta Mountains Wildlife Refuge ar Lawton, Oklahoma;. it has the retail level has to i beer. been restocked with 38 of the the’ subject most discussed by rs drug committee. Revenue Minister Ned Benson, whose department collects tax, has insisted to-the commtit- drugs. Both the ‘Canadian’ Med- ical Association and the Phar- maceutical Manufacturers the committee that the tax ac- tually collected by, the govern- | ment amounts to over 4 per cent the tee that its-effect is only to add area of Texas between 1.8 and 3 per cent to the retail price of ‘prescription eq by about 400 ntillion animals sociable. little ground squirrels Perhaps five — billion prairie dogs scampered about the Great . Plains a century ago. A single dog. town in the central plain- covered 25,000 square miles ‘and was inhab:t- A comparatively. modest sev- en-acre dog town still thrives at AS Lubbock. Texas sociation of Canada have told oe AS vests Encroaching civilization has taken a severe toll of prairie dogs. Farmers and i ranchers. | of the price of the average _ have poisoned countless num- scription. But it is naive for Mr. Ben- son or anyone else to presume that the effect of this tax at the . retail level is the same as its | yield at the manufacturers’ le- vel. facturers’ selling price, is course pyramided by the distr!- buting mark-up of about 20: per cent, of about 100 per cent; these | mark-ups. ; and the profits of these two es- sential functions - The average price of a pre- scription | in September 1964. as Our Yesterdays (From The Guardian Files) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (July 4, 1941) battle onthe hanks of the Bere- zina River east of Minsk on the road to Moscow, threw. back a rising tide of Nazi soldiers and inflicted heavy lesses on them. Mrs Fred Gates, West Rovyal- ty. was elected president of the Prince Edward Island Women's Institutes at the annual conven- . tion in Charlottetown. ~ = TEN-¥EARS AGO — (July 4, 1956) Rritain delivered a refusal ta Diehnnageneiaeennil South Africa's demands | for sov- reignty over. the three British protectorates, Swaziland, Basu- toland arid- Bec hauanaland { ‘oonera- tion and Development reported that Canada’s average~ annual tosses in scientists to the United. States More than 0. delegates. re- presenting —Women's Institutes from every part of the provinee waS- astembled at Prince of Wales 1,239: thafin 195%. the 1S. attra ted College for the ‘opening. Session 125 re Soe ' aft the 4rd annual convention of i2o per cent of tanddas science -the PEI) Women’s. Institute, tg graduates and'48. per cent of its crad- constuute the largest gathering ek Sa a m the history of sthe organiza~ Yates in egni ecring.: A +tion.- ‘ - For that tax, like every other compenent of the manu- © of and the retailing mark-up include the expenses “ing mouths. Red troops, fighting a major- bers, because the. rodents eat crops and compete with cattle. for grass. Since prairie dog burrows are a hazard both to a galloping horse and rider. cowboys have - shot many of the squirrels. Prairie dogs are gregarious animals and ‘usually tive in col- onies. A dog town isn’t-one bic happy family, though. There are as many social groups as in a city of people. é Each town is divided Into small. coteries whose members help each other build burrows, scratch one another's’ back, playfully chase and fight friends, and identify’ kinsmen. by> touch- They rush at out- siders with teeth chattering and tails raised. A vital | community warning The Power Of PEN. system erosses coterie bounda- | The familiar shrill] bark. | ries which gave prairie dogs their common name, warns of appro When a prairie dog bears an alarm. he sits up, |anks around, runs to the” mound of amount not recognized or controlled. The. tot who injures his finger on 0 toy may throw the toy away or ’ destroy it. Mother often encour- ages this response by ‘remark: ing: “Did that mean old box burt vour hand” anger into an asset. This emo- tion. directed against social and legal injustices, has brought many reforms. If we can learn to laugh at our personal vexa- tions we will gain more than we lose. GROWTH CESSATION. — AG. writes: When a boy starts to shave does this mean - he has stopped growing Please tell me if you know of any other signs to determine this. - REPLY X-ray_of the growing ends of the bones, especially those of the hands, is the best way to make .this determination The dard—of wing -—nt—tanadians— 3¢_ growth of a beard does not al- ways follow the over-all growth: ing. Lives that should have had a= purpose brought: now te pointless end. Not death digni- fied. solemn and ‘respectful as met in a funeral home, out death, raw, brutal, obscene Death that rips and tears to the on, get going.”" ‘Stand back. Put out that’ cigarette.” , Somebody's son, somebody's daughter, has met death on this dark road. in this twisted tance of flesh and metal Somebody's son, somebody's daughter is 4” . Strips away ait thunranit wi that lets loose blood to gurgle and choke in the throat, that leaves one to die alone in the dark This death by automobile - Why* How Was it a piece of rubber that did not held” A twist of the wheel’? Blinding-head- | lights of an-oncoming,car?.Per-. haps a dog that darted-into the road” Did they laugh and joke and did they think that Iffe- impersonal ‘statistic, an entry in a police ledger, part of the am- bulance corps’ record. a name to the morBue, a’ body to the funeral home. And telephones- wil! ring ths night In four homes. “There has heen __ an_ accident. Will come” In four homes, tomorrow will never he the same Four would go on forever oa that looked forward ‘* Was it speed? Did the world 8 new day. This death by aut® go whizzing past the windows” mobile. And for the brief instant was it f ‘there the sickening feeling the MEN READ WOMAN'S PAGE fear that control .was gone” MONTREAL (CP Just a6 Then nothing se a Shades of glass crunching un- many ER OF women reed” ie derfoot. A piece of chrome Trin wera — aca H Beane, of the youngster. en oatat the curb. “What S°™. - Says == appenad:.-——Thra—aus a ed itor..of.the —Miami__Herald__-- LS writes: My husband tells. past “Are you a = priest ” Interviewed here, he said more: me I eat too many bananas. Is “Here, hold the light.” “Christ' education and“ more women ‘a G@ting one or two a day too “How many are there * “don't. the labor -market brought t>’ many fouch them * “Anybody call the. interests of both. sexes clover REPLY a cops*” “Easy. take easy, & together. He has two men work- Two a day is not too many doctor's coming” ing on the women’s pages of provided they 1 agree with you. rinssou stand helpless, _hands ands hi S paper. the burrow. and joins in the bark- ing with his tail ously All prairie dogs react prompt | ly to the high-pitched hark that warns of a hawk They scurry | at once into their burrows Just inside is a short. where the animal -sometimes pauses to scold: the opredator But the prairie dog isn't a co ward. Short in size (11 to 14-ige ches long’, tall in courage He will snap at a eoyote. if- corner- ed Prairie dog ~burrows go down five to 15 feet deep. At the bottom of the: vertical en- trance a horizontal passage branches off. Short tunnels ‘lead to nests, often comfortably !t- ed with grass. : The burrow’s opening 's gen- erally -surrounded by a crater ‘of dirt to prevent flooding ing a thunderstorm. A fastid!- ous housekeeper, the dog tends his mound by tamp- ing it with his nose Many homes .have escape tun- nels_ascending within a few in ches of the surface for use in the event dikes are breached and the burrow is flooded The animals rest there beyond reach of the water; ean he dug: quickly to the sug face if necessary. Every: day may bring a crisis to the dog town, but there's a! ways time to sun-bathe. flicking furl- side passage — usually: dur- .. to roll | | prairie _ 7 80 RDEN an escape hatch | ms 4 in the dust, play and squabbie_| even to vap an alarm when there really isn't anv sane in o bght. Christian Science Monitor The effect an the world of a sma}! meeting held this week in New York is hard to measure The several hundred delegates to the 34th PEN Congress are few indeed in comparison with most conventions held today, but they include influential writ- ers of many lands. This gather- ing 7s-the meetings piace 0 ft poets.” essavists, and snovelists —hfor-which.the—Jetters._.P dN stand) from far corners of the world Thev have come together to _face head-on the problems of — writers duction. in_an age’ of-mass pro mechanization. and, in some countries. authoritarian governmen: In their . addresses and discussions, they “have en- couraged one another to main tain independence of thought in thes writers changing environ ment Arthur Miller, the’ American ethe group: playwright who !{s president of | PEN. reaffirmed the purpose of “to offer to every mah and woman who writes a neutral ground, a kind of sane- tuary where he will find a sup- port for that vision which is al- ways in danger of being-brought down by. things,- by technology, “hy Suppression. oF -by_sheer .iz- noranée—- the vision of man as the measure and center of all.” “This purpose has heen main tained ever ‘since. John Galswor- fhy. the English novelist and playwright, opened the first -meeting om England more +han— ‘four decades ago PEN -has_repeatediv_tak@n courageous stands for freedom of writers from. political con- trois Its most recent action was its prompt protest against the trial and .sentence of two Hue sian writer Ine publishing 700 a.m. 1.30 p.m. 8.30 p.m. 67 am. 1.00 p.m. 1.45 p.m. Pe 130 am. 1.30 p.m. 7,45 p.m. OM am. 12.15 p.m. 7.08 p.m. a MO i too late to be loaded before scheduled Separture times will - ae? te wait for ahread werks held to be aati-Se i viet 73s 19 Kound ‘Trips daily = 2 Sis o* LEAVE BORDEN B00 am. 85am WOsam NOam WH am ' 245p.m. 4.00pm. 4.15pm. 5.30pm. 6.30 p.m 9.00 p.m. 945p.m. MH. p.m: LEAVE CAPE TORMENTIWE baa S20am Sam Wt5iam HMWam 230p.m. 3.00pm. 40pm. S15pm S45 pm 8.30pm. 945 p.m. 10.15 p.m. 11.00 p.m. ATLANTIC DAYLIGHT Tuses IMPORTANT the. next oe The operation of the ferries demands tight scheduling n there is to be WO disruption im service. 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