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Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. 4 PAGE wi “MAI Still Far Behind Among the suppjementarv_ esti- mates tabled in Parliament recently was an additional $3 million grant to the Medical Research Council for its scholarship and grants-in-aid program, to bring the resources of.the Council “in line with its responsibilities.” This organization is the chief agency WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1966. | evitably increase the demand for quate today, with one doctor for each 879 Canadians—a ratio that places Canada about 20th among the nations of the world. Just to maintain this ratio we must somehow find 1,300 new doctors every vear. But our 12 medical schools combined produce a | total of only 859, of which a sizeable bloc-—equal to the graduating classes of the three largest schools—-quickly drifts off to the United States. Unless we want the quality of our medical care to suffer we must substantially | imprové> that ratio, because the advent of national medicare will ‘in- physicians’ services. Certainly the extra $3 million ad- ded to the appropriation in the main | estimates for Medical Research Coun- | cil activities this year represents an | improvement. But it does seem, inthe | circumstances, like a drop in the bucket. ‘fo their credit, it is the younger | generation of parliamentarians who are denouncing most strongly, and- Disenchantéd - | calm death and the second, pain- suffering from incurable and distressing diseases. It is the latter that most of us associate with enthanasia. Some believe in it and others do not. Most of the believers are healthy. Their belief is strong so long as they remain well. One of my patients reminded me from time to time that if he ‘developed an incurable and painful disorder to induce death by injecting morphine into a vein. When he was stricken ith ed for a battery < courenente:: All physicians ve patients who beg for a “mercy ‘killing’ when suffering becomes irtoler- able. The doctor refuses be- cause he cannot play the part of God and decide when death shall] come. Several years ago the brother of a physician was dying of cancer and him to substitute poison for the ceiving. >The medico thought about tt at length and finally handed his brother a small box that suppos- edly contained eriough poison to kill. The cancer-riddled victim thanked him, put the box in the drawer, and died three weeks later. It never had been opened, and the capsules proved to be nonpoisonous. a fatal disease, he promptly ask- |. pain- relieving drug he was re-— |der the stimulus of the Vietna- | mese war. | The-current debate is prim- arily about the timing and whether a tax rise should be part of the restraining package ineluding tighter credit and fur- ther reduced federal spending and other domestic programs. Meanwhile, the president and his advisers continue to argue that both guns and butter are possible. Fowler, in a Feb. 17 statement that still stands publicly, what- ever contingency plans are afoot, said: “We have seen too many ex: pansions turned into recessions by slamming down too hard on the brakes. We have seen far too much unemployment and ‘much idle—productive capacity far too long to countenance needless and drastic cutbacks in private demand—thus deliber- ately creating .idle reserves of manpower and capacity.” | COMPARE VIET NAM-KOREA | Defence Secretary Robert Mc- | Namara, also seeking to keep | the economic * situation - cooled | psychologically, has argued that | the ‘demands of the Vietnamese in the vast Johnson anti-poverty | Treasury Secretary Henry. ings. The first is an easy and | many observers as the Ameri- nomination in 1968, has said: | can economic. book picks up | 8 lessly putting to death persons fresh inflationary features un- | major domestic issue in. the 196¢ “Johnson inflation will be the | (November congressional elec. tion) campaign. : “His itresponsible refusal to ‘face up to the danger of eco. | nomic escalation at home at a | time when we have military | escalation abroad will cost: his party scores .. . of seats." | Assorted difficulties face | Johnson in gauging the tax-in- crease mood at a time when even Dr. Walter W. Heeller, chairman of the presidential economic advisers for 1961-64, urges swift planning of tem- porary tax increases because - | the “fine mist of incipient in- | flation may be turning into light | rain.” | CONGRESS MIGHT BALK =. For example, Congress might balk at this stage and urge in- stead further pruning ' of the president's domestic program. Or, as argued, too severe a psychological damper might turn boom to mild recession. It might backfire politically .among a public treated to tax cuts only two years ago. | But pressures are mounting for the economy and -for the international U’S. dollar. drain | in these areas: Rising imports, labor’s intentions to seek wage increases beyond v.'untary guide. lines set by the govern- - ment; more signs of commodity of the Government in its support of et ee ee out ine ee eee oe | IB peaceable wee comparatively are less than price increases; and ane = universities and teaching hospitals. | graceful level reached in House of giving them the coup de grace rhb uduntaercaatention 66 thet | wa ee Commons proceedings last week. to end their misery. It also was | yon came during a period of | At least some Democrats, The additional funds will be applied to the Council’s 1966-67 program, for which provision had already been | “Men like Tory David MacDonald, the 29-year-old minister from Prince | Edward Island,” writes Michael Best, - | practiced unconsciously by phy- ‘sicilans prior to the turn of the -|century. There were no specif- ic remedies and_death was in- economic slack and Viet Nam has. pushed demand close to or even past supply, with conse- quent inflationary hazards. speaking’ through the Joint Eco- - | nomie Council of Congress, have | said evidence. increases daily of |.a_need for a general tax in- made in the main estimates for an _ Se ee | ‘i The ar t has. direct crease before the year ends. nuns Tenet: sney sod - ee ARC DE TRIOMPHE? Ee ieee with ptoeoeny rame meaning Ter Cineds, tightly | Republicans agree, but prefer taken, says a news release from the federal Department of Industry, ‘‘as an indication of the Government’s in- tention to give strong support to medical research in this country.” Doubtless the extra, grant will be welcomed. But in view of the federal plans for pushing medicare through on a universal basis, one: wonders how. far it will go in meeting the demands | | Daily Star, who has a feature story on the front page of his newspaper tel- ling how the Munsinger debate—with its implications of vengeance, black- mail ‘and character destruction—left many of these junior MPs disillusion- ed. Two months ago they took their seats in Parliament for the first time, _| filled with vigor and idealism, proud for the hugh crash program that is . needed at time. The Gundy re- port, endorsed by nearly 400 of the country’s top medical educators and scientists and presented to the Gov- “ernment in January, calls for-spend-— ing of $150 million on new research facilities in the next five years and a - 5¥4-fold increase in federal research’ | grants by 1970. And we must give urgent attention now, the report says, to the problem of expanding our medical schools. *“: CAPITAL FUND — Ottawa plans, during the current parliamentary ses- sion, to establish a $500 million Medi- t a ‘0eS ’ i | viet space probes. _ likely a dustbow!. Still other ex- | ises to decrease the size of | keep tt ‘eal Resources Fund with the idea of te foes. If we don't respect ace dari Pear in| On earth, space scientists perts believe that’an enormous « bunion? 5 ce8a It's Peah Gis a our to merit. your providing $33 million annually for 15 people -who hold views opposite to newspaper_ headlines. point out. fish and whales : live ocean envelopes the planet, but "REPLY 4 pest-control eupervieor of the | confidence our own, we're lost.” And he saw no Man is more devil than saint. Suspended in water. On Venus they disagree on whether the | No. Tf anything, the bunion | agriculture department, con. | years for medical school construction. " : It is unhealthy when a_ public b firms it. He keeps But this fund is for capital expenses cheggites = a = the parties figure can be assassinated by — clouds. that completely vee tradi _— {cise unless proper shoes are | patrol at the datrchae un ly. It will not an rt of the | Wn no | opposite views went at each | private slander; when the poli-| hide the planet'ssurface. 3 contradictory Opinion’ | worn and better walking habits der, since rats infi only. not pay any pa | i fr Ee cae ; ’ Itrate from tical future of even leaders and | , At Presentno one knows if arise not only from the difficul- | are instituted. A well establish-.| schools’ operating expenses, such as | : ‘ +. | there is life on Venus. Skeptics ty of gathering-data, but the am- | ion is best treated ic- | ; The Prince County member is also | {heit Parties can be jeopardis- | ooint out that in 1962 the Marin. biguity of the findings, and the °°" '* ee ts a a teachers’ salaries. And badly as they ‘quoted saving that “ d | ed by the heated hurling of pri- | 2°"Tr ‘space craft reported that numerous interpretations to pay: IMPETIGO ‘| lf It's Fish and can || ‘need more physical plant, the schools q a as Saying that ‘to a egree, | fee cen Treas Ribcqatom tas the surface temperature of Ven- | which the somewhat shaky facts |. 1 4 writes: Is penicillin or be | ht need teachers even more. They are ~ the Liberals may have been right in | Serioerat pig Tommy Doug. us might reach 600 degrees Fa: fan themselves. 'any. other antibiotic helpful in caug i i | hrenheit—hot enough to melt LIFE JUST STARTING? i " , in demand everywhere, arid they must ‘he election campaign when they said | las, his halo set jauntily, describ- | jong. : | Some scientists envision -Ven- | erins up impetigo? WE HAVE IT" | be wooed by the deans. i yp eae government was needed.” | fd as The aia ae ‘heir The finding, based on radio us as a world where life is just | yes. Impetigo is caused by | ; 2") emissions from the planet, arg- beginning. The Venusian atmos- ,. As for medical research, the Gundy | a t ed ae Rectormaee may "| ADMITTED AS SECURE | sas. niet ‘the possibility of life chere’ having ae curhel dad eae Tae. eeninegeer: | Fresh Frozen report figures that to set up one new * Lag. a up another. Parliamen- Pies ier wae -_ P East on Venus, but some scientists less free oxygen than that on 4 vary of treatments er ate Cured Fish i PHARMACY Deeg te . : S yw ess— ~G y in 1929. mar- ans i : scientist in the business and support | sumed dela ple abels sae ne Hage ta Uerusine to a haan a ieee “mimes. The ge cath M “an o nevi: el Pace peeve oe eet him, with his team of assistants and | rarer: is Own | .USA - who by chance played’! face of Venus may not really be | long ago. (NOTE: Ail. correspondence ‘| QUEEN | Dispensing Recents ) - technicians, costs $152,000. Once he’s | [ader. as the “prime exponent” of “| baseball for the old Ottawa Ath- | that hot. Even if it is, life might | One theory holds that life once | 4g 'he Van Dellon should be || ® ST. MEAT | . : ; ae | the courtroom style in Parliament. | [tics -.#4ve her the name Mun- | exist in the*milder atmosphere. existed on Venus and was anni-/| sadressed to: Dr. Theodore | MARKET established, it will cost about $40,000 uit yelereed aoe eee ?-|- singer. \ etimes she was RESEMBLES EARTH hilated. Since Venus—is_some- | yan Dellen, C-O Chicago Trib- Cor. Gt. George gq Kents Sts. a year to keep this scientist in his lab. ut referred to some of his disciples | known a&Qfga Schmidt; when Venus \ remains tantalizingly what closer to.the sun than is mae, Cliteage, Miaels.) 223 Queen St. Dial 4-7336 ||] Open Evenings Dial 4-4219 At the moment, we have 1,072 full- time teacher-scientists in our medical schools. By 1970, the Gundy report says, we shall need to more than _can_believe their opponents can-do double-this_figure, to.2,348, To build _ labs for these new men will cost $93 million, plus ‘another $57 million to equip them. This total of $150 million for new facilities is almost as much as the total that will be available in these five inheritors of its traditions. Their faith _ thas been rudely shaken, and they ‘have searched for the answers. “What disturbed and frightened | me,” Mr. MacDonald is quoted as | saying, “is that people in Parliament only bad, and that they themselves | are the only honest,~true and right- eous.” He expected to find “this black | | and-.white-thinking—among.-children,. or perhaps in wartime when you've got to hate the enemy,” but not in Parliament, “‘among the supposedly mature men who lead the nation.” Politics, he maintained, must be based on “a certain basic respect other's throats. as having “gone beyond Diefenbaker | In viciousness.” This rates full marks for outspoken- ness; but it leaves unsaid what-the | Star's Ottawa editor. Peter C..New- ~man;-places:strong-emphasis-on-in-the--+- _ same issue of the paper—namely, the responsibility of Lester Pearson: as well as John. Diefenbaker for turning Parliament into a feuding arena. Also. as Newman points out, in view of the * the most ‘sensational |. ing his public duties, I OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson ' Readers may ask why tawa Report’ never reported story to: entitled to rely on that govern- ment judgment. break in Ottawa since Gouzenko’ DEATH OR DISHONOUR fled the Russian Embassy. True, on September 30, 1959 I could have reported: “Tonight I had dinner with John Diefen- baker. -and Ricky Munsinger.” | And so on, until six years later I could have reported that the-Li- berals. were considering the use of the Munsinger story as~a sec- ret election weapon. But “‘Otta Report” never —mentioned the gossip because quite simply, as long as a pub-_ lie figure is adequately perform- believe that his private life is his own business. This used to be a healthy Canadian tradition; none thought the less of Sir John A. | Macdonald because he hugely | enjoyed the national drink of his Native Scotland; none respect- ed less Sir Wilfred Laurier be- | cause there were suggestions of an illegitimate child; more re- cently, whispers of sex and evid- she came to Canada, her friends in Montreal called her Ricky. | That was no doubt. why George Hees could not at first recall | meeting a woman named Olga Munsinger. Gerda Munsinger stepped a- shore from the steamship Arosa Star in Quebec City on August” ~Firthermore;-no~other—pianet-—-ing—Stan—and-.the.Evening. Star, | 7, 1956, a welcomed immigrant | whose passage was assisted by | the Liberal Government with the taxpayers’ money. As an immi- grant from behind the Iron Cur- tain, her background and secu- | rity were presumably, thorough- “mies, and- I have just read ‘“‘The Last Battle’’, describing the capture of Berlin in the Spring: of. 1945: This enthralling book was writ- ten by Cornelius Ryan, thé aut- hor of “The Longest Day” a- ~bout D-day. man doctors warning their pa- tients of the fate worse than death which awaited every. - fe- male between 8 and 80.years old in-the-path of: the Russian ar- | tablets or even rat poison for use in that emergency.- Gerda Hes- He describes Ger- | | What's Become Of Our Old Tradition? “Ot-, dians; and all Canadians Were fore escaping, undergoing se- veral operations and perman- ‘ent health damage, she says. | This also deserves to be remem- | bered when considering later events. Did-Dief and_I_ really. dine with her? Yes -.we and 3,497 other people. The occasion was a din- ner -at- Montreal's Show Mart, following the Quebec custom, to honour Pierre Sevigny just af- | ter he was appointed to the Ca- | binet. Most Quebec Ministers | and Tory MPs bought tickets to seers. I believe the Party Lea- der and the Press were invited attend; so did thousands of Tory: | j “giving them—cyanide-|-supporters_and friends and sight- | “BOURBON AND WATER A reader writes; I enjoy a cupping, and what not. This was Lettsom (1744-1813). was sald to have written the following: “When any sick to me apply, I physicks, bleeds, and sweats ‘em; ; If after that they choose to die, | What's that to me, I. Lettsom.” STREP THROAT | K. R: writes: What would {cause five bouts of strep sore : throat-in.-six. months? REPLY . | I assume that cultures were taken in each attack to deter- mine whether streptococci were /responsible. If not, the sore |throat may be traceable to a | variety of organisms, to allerzy, irritation, or the common cold. shot glass of bourbon mixed sler lived through the Russian | guests rather than cash custo- with a tumbler of water for re- occupation for three years be- - Tantalizingly Mysterious _ | mers: anyhow, we were fhere. National Geographic Society Strange creatures may swim about in the dense atmosphere of Venus, target of recent So- living things may float in the mysterious, though no other planet approaches earth so clos- ely— a mere 2% million miles away.. Like Mars and earth. Venus orbits about the sun in a region where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for life to be a possibility so resembles earth in size and density. These qualities bear on the life question because a very large planet would have such power gravity that living things would be crushed. A mutch smaller one could not retain an :the planet may be covered by jungles of incredible density; others say that Venus is snore sea consists of water or petrol- earth, it has received more sol- ar energy. Thus life could have | evolved earlier and then been | | wiped out, possibly by the-Ven- 'usians themselves through ‘some development akin to the earthly hydrogen bombs. Appearing as both the Morn- -Venus' is the brightest and. most. beguiling of planets. without life, it remains, in Ho- mer’s words, ‘‘the most beauti- ful star set in the sky.” |I constantly retch and “| meal: Why?" > With or | ‘Charlottetown to: \laxation after dinner. Recently lose . my REPLY You may have developei an ulcer é6r obstruction that is unre- lated to the drink. Some persons |also are sensitive to alcohol. BUNION G. T. writes: Are there any will increase in size with exer- the custom of the day. John C. . tied to the U.S. economy. | cuts in federal spending. Alberta Stakes New Claim : Lethbridge Herald Alberta: has many attractions. | Despite periods of ‘‘unusual wea- ther,” it one of the best clima the world. The scen- ery is varied and full of joy. The chinooks alone makes Al- berta spectacular perity, good government and public administration of super- ior quality. No place no earth provides more opportunity for youth. The northern-.:ands are opening up. Educatoin is less | expensive here and of a high degrec of excellence. Social +c!- fare is. making giant strides, .2 certain areas at-ead of any “rov- ince or nation. . Alf this is so well’know1 that dvubtiess repetition is tiresome, but Texas has had that efiect -or-the- natives; --..... But :now Albertans learn that that they have realy been. hid- ing one shining light under a bushel. i Did you know that the prov- ice is rat-free, while other provinces fight desperately to | { | | | The ancients worshipped Ven- | us; Polynesians paid homage to the east. Evidently Saskatche- wan is -unfriendly to rats and they scurry out as fast as they can. . One rat does a damage of $20 a year. In the U.S. damage is estimated at almost four ~pillion- ars annually! Now if re were just some way to keep out those two- legged rats one reads about in eastern crime scandals! LIBRARY BUILDS UP ANTIGONISH, N.S. (CP) — Dr. Malcolm MacNeil of Boston has presented a, large iltumi-—— | mated globe showing’ the latest - frontier changes in Asia and Africa to St.Francis Xavier University here. Another new ->-acquisition--is-.a— dictionary of. | the Scottish language, pre- | sented by Frank Ross, former. lieutenant - governor of British Columbia. We continually endeav- vesia fein tie Medical: Resources behaviour of their own front-benchers ly checked, and she was approv-. atmosphere for inhabitants to it with human sacrifices. Today Montreal : $1 4 0O x the Liberals are only mesmerizing ed by.or on behalf of Immigra-~ breathe. earth's Twin Sister is again ex- s Fund. But that fund must also pay , tion Minister J. W. Pickersgill | No-one knows what lies be- citing the human. imagination for teaching facilities in the expanded schools..The report says the $500 mil- lion in the fund must be greatly in- creased or the spending of the money | must be telescoped into a much short- er period than the 15 years now proposed by the Government. LITTLE INDUCEMENT — Can- ada's top medical scientists now draw their principal support for their re- search: projects from the~ Medical Research Council. But only 46 teacher scientists—or about one out of 25— qualify fof the top MRC rank of re- search associate. These men draw an . th spect's som. ; : average salary of $14.000 a vear, and your houses'” Led by the King and Queen, Vaews athe: tae Hee. auath are allowed to earn no. more than a AEM anh Deived hai under different; very friendly, - : : heir hea a v 46 $6.009 extra from teaching or medic al EDITORIAL NOTE : defenders and friends, and’ for Cala ware on oak it : prac tice. Thus these top-line scientists earn little more than the $19.000 in- come of the average practising Cana- dian doctor. Actually, most research- ers earn a’good deal ‘less. What disturbs the scientists more themselves with the idea that they could control the House if. they had a majority. Minority governments have been made to work in other de- mocracies. What's lacking at Ottawa is not a majority but inspired leader- ship. é This writer savs that even the most | cynical members of the House have been made aware that their power to influence events is oozing away in an | atmosphere of bitter- ecution and | shrill defense. title wonder that | their junior colleagues’ are. voicing their disenchantment. and ‘crying as it were in chorus: “A plaguéson both and Washington — this summer expect. to open a 4!2-mile- long bridge spanning the Columbia River at its mouth, thus finishing | the Pacific Coast Highway and closing the last water gap left on the coast- Oregon as ‘suitable to become a Cana- dian citizen. In the eyes of the LI- beral Government headed by) “Uncle, Louie’ St. Laurent, as evidenced by the _ regtilations | they enforced for would-be immi-{ grants, Gerda Munsinger. was | judged to threaten neither the se- curity nor the morals of Cana- Our Vesterda s (From The Guardian Files) TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (March 23, 1941) “Jeanette MacDonald and Nel- ._son_Eddy ‘starred in. Noel Co- ward's““Biiter Sweet” at tire Prince EdWard Theatre-in Char- lottetown. ' a speedy victory. neath Venus’s clouds. jinme as- tronomers have suggested that as man reaches out to discover her secrets. ‘Moncton ‘TheStrangeTruth | Saint John A story used to go the rounds at one time of a Hittle ingenious thievery at a giant Soviet indus- trial complex. sg Sentries .were posted. not! so much to keep spies out as to dis- courage light. fingered comrade workers. é One comrade worker passed through the barmer many times pushing a wheelbarow full of sttaw, The comrade sentry al- ways searched the straw, but never found anything in it or on doesn't matter. what were you |, stealing?"’ TEN YEARS AGO (March 23, 1956) : Walter Baker was ee Director of the Charlottefown Protestant Welfare Bureau at a meeting of the directors held at “Wheelbarrows.” But truth is stranger than fic-- tion. Word comes from Castle Air Focce Base, California, of the daring exploits of a’ 14-vear- | In the course of about two‘weeks they came and went as they pleased, getting sharp salutes from sentries. ~ They d@cove off with several thousands of dollars worth of equipment including fo ur trucks. That's an improvement on wheelbarrows. - With that sort © of security. thank heaven their flair didn’t run to H-bombs. ; La We Trade * Forniture * Appliances * Televisions Halifax . Si dne a Corner Brook - Toronto ‘4 “ $ 9.00 - $16.00 “$20.00 SM ET SOT ETAT ITT TA TERT ETT Ta cE Winnipeg ._ $34.00 $56.00 ae f af ‘ : ‘ “, ceaehus ‘the YMCA old and two 13-vear-olds. ‘They ‘the Guridy ‘report. calls it downright ling, between Canada and. Mexico first. Visited. the hase on. their FIRESTONE These are examples of CN's new Red Bargain Fare demoralizing is the lack of mones te Several \ears: in planning, .the $24 THe Alherten.. Regals ‘ham. treveles. Then they were im buaa Home and Auto complimentary meals are equally attractive Call ; ce etd i nered out a streng.2? win over ness I td : . ee ‘ojects hon bridge vy link Astoria, Ore eae PAN s finance their research projec . millio : 4 will ink 1 Ye ae the Springhill All -Stars in the They Wtherated same oni Dial 4-5547. - TT Actually. it seems. there is only $25 and Mercier. Wash.. and will replace Alberton Rink in the opening. forms. The 14-vea-old. donned | million a year available today for all > a ferry that has plied the ceiver fot gare of a twovameé total series that of acheuleaaat eatonel, tus, 4, . ; 3 ‘ , F , tor the PLE Ly Nova Scotia: tn yiniors those of captain or lea ‘Q medical. research in Canada; and | many .years tarniediate “RB title | ‘ ‘ wie ' | tenant as meee then fanew