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“PAGE - 4 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1966.

-What A Leidownl

_The mountain that labored and

brought forth-a-mouse-had--nothing—>

on the Campbell government when, after its executive council huddle the other day, it came up with the mo- mentous announcement that the

~— Shaw Centre, so named by the out-

Ristory,

“AO Te

going administration two months ago.. should henceforth no longer carry a ory monicker but would be dubbec,

i@fficially, the Provinciat Administra-’ #ive Buildings. And since the historic , building which. houses the Legislative

‘has. since’ Confederation

, embly ; n known as the Provincial Build-

ang, it-was decided that henceforth | d for all time this structure should - called ‘Province House.” = Here was our government sitting @fter the province. had just passed _-$hrough 4 crisis_in its transportation when newspapers across -

Canada were deploring the violation

pt. our constitutional rights to un-

interrupted traffic with the main- Yand; and this was.the kind of thing dt. was spending {ts time on' Not a

“thought. apparently, given to insisting

that Ottawa take action to prevent

“a repetition of this outrage in future.’ .An announcement of government

concern at this time would strengthen the recommendation of the Canadian

-Prucking Association that the-federal |

government, through fts department

sibility for the Borden-Tormentine service. But that didn't seem to me

“Important?

SPELLING IT OUT ~— Here, in ‘ease our provincial’ solons haven't yet got the point, is how the Halifax Mail-Star, in its issue of Sept. 6 puts

———the matter in-a leading editorial com-—

mending the, Trucking Association's resolution: eo,

* “At, present, the ferries are de- partment of transport property, but their operation and maintenance are entrusted to the Canadian National Railwavs on a contract basis. One. of the stipulations in the agreement is. of course, that the service be con- tinously operated. Since the CNR throuch no fault of its own, was un- able during the past week to fulfill its obligation to the people of Prince Edward Island, and since one:of the

"conditions under which the Island

province joined Confederation in the first place was that a permanent transportation link would be main- tained. it is now the responsibility of the federal government to arrange the operation structure of the ferry service in such a way as to remove the possibility that a future railway strike will again break an essential “Nifeline :

“The take-over would not involve any added burden on the federal treasury. the ferries‘ are already owned by the government and, pre- sumably. the department of trans- port could operate them with the monev it now pavs to the .railway for doing the job. The alternative—

“to maintain the status quo and accept

the possibility of another disruption at some future date—is too serious a k.to be entertained by anv govern- nft- conscious of the gravity of its re-ponsibilitvy to the people of Prince Edivard Island.” ; OPPORTUNE TIME — This is in accord with a unanimous resolution adopted by our own Legislature 16 vears aco. following a rail strike which tied our ferries up for a week, At that time we had little outside> support for our demand, and,the St Latirent. government was able to ig- it Today, our predicament is fresh in the public) mind across Canada. and there is no doubt as to the public support we would ‘get in pressing for this requirement, It is the husiness of the Campbell govern- ment to take the lead in this matter. and of our members at Ottawa to give it their wholehearted support.

r

ahs

We had expected, following Wed-

r nesday's cabinet meeting, that there

would be a resounding call to arms from Premier Campbell and his col- leagues on this vital subject.. Instead —-a piddling exercise in semantics, a wretched exhibition ef: petty parti-

sanship which, if it gets any publicity .

abroad, will. make us the laughing- _ stock of the country.

They savy people get the kind of government thev deserve. But who ever thought, from their high-sound- ing: promises, that it “would come to this so quickly!

Stalling For What? .

lver argues, that his* plan for un- ification of the armed forces cannot | be accomplished until the National | Defense Act is: amended. But his

| | It is. true, as Defense Minister Hel- }

critics complain fhat since the Com-.

mons adjourned on July 14 he has

| been going ‘faster and faster along. '. the road to unification” without re-::

gard to parliamentary legislative authority; and it was for this reason they. asked that Parliament do not

ity being provided for full deliber- ation and discussion of the situation. Their motion for an emergency de- bate has been ruled out of~ order, and they will have to wait until after another recess for the amendments that are to be introduced. These will then—and not before—be sent to *the’Cémmons defense committee for study.

Ordinarily, there would be no ob- jection to this procedure; but the cir- cumstances. in this case are singular, to say the least. The minister appears to be using all the means at his com- mand to suppress informed ‘criticsm

own propaganda efforts and keeping Parliament at bay in the process. Characteristie of his tactics was his ambiguous reply when asked, the other day, whether it was correct that a section of Rear-Admiral William Landymore’s previous testimony to the Commons committee hed been censored and rewritten. “Insofar as

|_ me giving instructions,” he said, “it is,

not.” This hedging only lent support to the suspicion that there—was ground for Admiral Landymore’s ac- cusation on this point. Otherwise one would expect the minister to be the

first person to demand that the matter clea up as spe possible.

Simonds Vokes, which—are even more direct and severe than those of the spokes- men for the navy; and they, too, come from sources which challenge public

now take recess without an opporttin- |

of his policy, while intensifying his ~

The same applies to the criticisms

- made by Generals and

ALWAYS Roam For ONE MORSE

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JUST HOW MANY CAN IT HOLD

| line:

usual stress

|-Emotional

Durability - ~

‘Fortunate are those who know how far they can go before rea- ching. the breakingpoint. Our physical restrictions are recog- nized easily, The limitations to

not so well understood

There are millions who ‘are do- | ing more than they are capable of or have accepted more re- sponsibility than they can han- die. An equal. number are an- xiety-ridden from situations over which they have little or no con- trol. Some are parents of a son in View.Nam; others were re- cently widowed or divorced. Un- less they mend their ways or ad-

will “give.” :

After the breaking point ts reached stomach distress, chest pain, palpitation of the heart, or backache may ensue. The blood pressure rises in those with a tendency along this | whereas — others:--develop peptic ulcer or spastic bowel. A few lose control’ entirely and | must be institutionalized.

Some persons fold up. after the slightest adversity. and oth- ers keep going despite over-

~whelming 6dds"The secret is ta”|

know your limitations and stay within them. For some there is |

sume many additional activities

-before coming to a halt

Most of us would profit’ from

fit our work patterns and make adjustments for increasing bur- dens. Be on the alert for. signs of mental strain when under un- *These include an-

a large -box of candy seems to the kids to he~-more exciting than their mother who insists that they eat.a healthy - diet. Yet a steady diet of candy would | destroy their health and hasten death. —

In recent vears, when our po- liticians should have been—con- sidering the long-term health of the nation, they have been seeking popularity by dis- tributing candy. - This is encou- raged by our democratic system

PUBLIC FORUM

This ediunin ts open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of: in terest. The Guardian does not neces- sarily endorse the opinion of corres. pondents. All letters published are snb- ject to editing and condensation where necessary. The Guardian is unable te enter inte any correspondence regaré-

| ing Tetters submitted.

A GRAND EXPERIENCE Sir, — One of vour good towns-

just before take-off at the air- port urged that I set down on paper. for The Guardian some of the reactions of a returned native Islander.

What an exhilarating experi-

‘hen with whom 1 was—chatfing—

OTTAWA REPORT. by Patrick Nicholson | Inflationary Problem Of Major Concern

The wealthy uncle whe brings of universal suffrage, especially 1 bility

‘in. minority situa- | tions.

| Nowhere today Is the disaster ; of thif self-secking attitude more apparent than in Canada's eco- nomy. Three years ago, Cana- da was rated - ‘the country | which mana its economy | best among ait Cue nations; | today the’ ‘‘gnomes"’, the inter- |

government

instead | national bankers and economists has not

irate our performance asthe i third worst.

| RESTRAINT NEEDED NOW

No national economy isan {s- |

Now Macmillan’s succes-

sor, Prime Minister Wilson, aft- er 18 honths of bumbling, has been forced to~ impose tough | measures: more- lenient curhs imposed earlier would have sav- | ed this.

Canada's overall wage In- creased this vear- may exceed | Britain's disastrous 9.8 per cent Yet Prime Minister. Pearson

even publicised any guide lines; in fact he has set an example of 30 per cent wage in- Lcreases in specific cases FUTURE THREATENED

Canada's economy is under

land; but any nation can erect | seige. To pay what. Finance Mi-

| breakwaters which will modify | | the world-wide economic storms: In his Budget Speech on 29th March, Finance Minister Mit- | chell Sharp referred to such eco- nomic storms threatening Can- | ada: "This is a ree wren al

-weanadians

itraint in both ‘wage dommaiids ‘and business pricing polities’’

| Failure to. do so. he warned, _ would slash_our_living standards- cause tnemployment. erode the purchasing power of _pensions | and savings, and cauSe crises in our international payments.

“Action should be taken now.”

| That was the most {mportant

“Ting prices te

| xious to take a holiday,

| nister Sharp. rightly called ‘‘our ‘very heavy obligations in res- pect of interest ‘and dividends | payable outside Canada’, we need. to export goods worth one | billion dollars in excess of our |imports each year. Yet our ris- ‘o our 18 | surplus of only half a_ billion | dollars s_being reversed to a de- | ficit of one-fifth that amount in +4965. 3

| Parliament, ‘waced to the trl- vial in debate and always an- has - up to this writing - failed conspicu-

ously “to examine Canada's cri- |

sis and the cure which the doe-

attention and respect: These men

have asked that they be given the opportunity to discuss their views with the members of Parliament; but Mr. Hellyer does not think that would be “desirable or in the public inter- “est at the present time.”

One wonders whv! But it Is use- less looking to the Pearson govern- ment for an answer. When the Op- . position leader sought to do so on

bate the matter was ruled out, He was roundly rebuked’ by Transport Min- | ister Pickersgill for being “arrogant and insufferable.’’ That must have given even Dief a jolt. accustomed as he is to being abused from that quarter.

‘EDITORIAL NOTES

While the stage was being set for the Commonwealth premiers’ conference in London this week, the Geneva dis- armament conference was in process of dispersing to the accompaniment of ominous offstage noises from Pak- istan and India. Pakistan has formally accused India of using the Canadian- supplied reactor to prepare for the | manufacture of nuclear weapons. India has retorted that Pakistan has entered into agreement with China to produce nuclear arms. As one com- mentator remarks, the issue of non- proliferation which the Geneva con- ference failed to solve, could not be more starkly illuminated. e °* -@«@

Heinz Arntz, a German pianist who claims the world's. record for continuous piano playing, is now try- ing to break it. He. chalked up. a score of 1,003 hours, or 41.8 days, last time. Now he is engaged in his new effort in Dusseldorf. He will be tfucked to Bremerhaven on Sept. 15, plaving all the time. He will then be lifted aboard the S. S. United States, lifted off in New vor and taken to the Long Island fair, still playing. Two young ladies will take turns mas- -saging his hands. “All ‘this,” com- ments an exchange. “is interesting

but not overly impressive, A boy up.

our block got’a trumpet last Christ- ,. mas and hasn't put it down sinte.’**~

Wednesday when the motion to de-,

iy

One cometh and another goeth.

ence to leave behind Cleveland's sizzling nineties, on a July morn- ing, in exchange for your re- freshing seventics in the late afternoon! A rental car await- ed our arrival and very soon we were enjoying the homelike ac- commodations of one of your splendid motels. eMy_ travelling companions were my daughter and her hus- hand: Prof. Daniel Guy of Ohio Northern University and their | little 2-vear old son | first visit to Prince Edward Ts- land and for me it was an even sixty years since I had seen my. homeland in the summer sea- son. There had heen other visits, the last one thirty-five years ago As we toured through the attractive countryside over your th hard surface highways T cbuld not but reflect on tremendous progress of recent jvears, recalling in contrast the \elay and mud roads in the horse- “and-buggy days of my From every hilltop the rolling —landseape.-with its fine’ farm | homes and barns. colorful -flow- | er gardens and lush crops pre- | sented a pleasing panaroma ° of | prosperity. {

Everything on The Island we _found excellent; eating places,

good food tastefully prepared

and graciously served with

smiles; the relaxed friendliness | for which P. FE. 1. is famed was | surely much jin evidence on all |

sides. Your superb beaches from to Cavendish were a

thrill for all of us and so enamor- | ed and captivated were my fa-

mily. they are already plan-

ning their next trip.

Our. slide cameras were kept | In action, ranging from the mag- | nificent new Confederation Cen-

tre in Charlottetown to the oldest

lighthouse at’ Prim Point, from

beautiful Victoria Park to the

lobster traps at North Rustico,

and enroute the endless potato |. fields in blossom and the Hol- steins grazing on the hillsides: then! of course, Green Gables and the Woodleigh Replicas and on and on. But let me inter- ject here that the ‘‘Anne of Green’ Gables'’ production Is theatre, at its best and should he om the must list of every tour- ist delightful, wholesome art- ista — a joy from. the opening to the last curtain reall.

We are grateful that It was our happy privilege to visil ‘The Garden of the Gulf’. We | left reluctantly wishing we had | allowed ourselves more time to enjoy its beauty and the unsur- passed hospitality, of kind, rela- tives and friends who contribul- ed so much during our brief so journ, memories that will linger alwavs—nine enchanted days

T am. Sir ete L. C. BRYENTON Lakewood, Cleveland, Ohio.

| Dalvay | | |

*

It was their: yernment upon its own employ-

the-;

youth. |

part of his speech. But it was. not played up in the press: nel- ther. management nor © labour |

have observed it; _ Cabinet -ignored it - for no action -was taken.

‘When boom conditions heat a national eeonomy, -urgings are: ineffective. President Johnson has

that his unenforced ‘‘guide lines’ remain unobserved. Even the “‘pay pause’, imposed in Britain by the Macmillan. go-

over- pious USA found

ees, Was nof emulated in private fields; the result was that, last year, wages rose thére by a stag gering 98 per cent, while pro- ductivity rose by less than 4 per cent. A national work force can- not take out its economy more than it puts in, hy wavy of increas ed productivity, without upset- “fing the apple- cart that is the de- licate balance of economic via-

impose a_ standstill and incomes;

for prices perhaps unpopu-

and. even the ‘lar with businessmen and wage-

trade” how pa you” abe.

xiety, frustration, insomnia, loss of appetite, and a ‘host of hypo- chondriacal. symptoms. The en- ergetic ‘‘doers’’ must be_ parti- cularly, on’ guard as well as the >

| ovetly- conscientious and unus

ually rigid person. Such. person- alities do not tolerate changes or adversities. They are easily frustrated or discouraged when annoyed. delayed, or prevented from finishing a task. Such in- dividuals are most susceptilNe to

| mental stress

|

| other.

If the breakdown comes: er symptoms. of nervous origin ap- pear, there is no need to look elsewhere for the cause. The fault ‘lies with the individual and | he need not feel ashamed -or |

guilty. Every one has his troubl- es and those who are able to “take it" tougher nervous system.

CAGED MYNA BIRD

“A> reader. writes: A friend of mine has a myna: bird in his home. He keeps all the-windows closed. Both he and his wife have one siege of-virus after an- I think that the=bird in his large filtv cage is the cause of these attacks. Please advise.

havin ~

‘that colds are caused by.a virus or

| that the bird is responsible? _

earners, but certainly popular with their wives. | In this inflationary. and self--;

{ish situation of ‘I'm in the boat, shove off!’, restraints are essen- tial. Only legislation will effect them.

T find-@ number of MPs who iare seized of | scope of Canada’s crisis, and | several who. believe that medi- cine should be administered | This medicine. 1 suggest. is the

the nature and

HUNGER PANGS N. R. writes: Are hunger pangs an indication of ulcer? I have these feelings even: after I | eat. REPL Y The pains of .peptic ulcer may indistinguishable from hung- er pangs. Furthermore, distress in both conditions appears

when the stomach is empty’ and |

relief follows the taking of food. FREQUENCY OF ULCER C. writes: How

ipeptie ulcer?

3 REPLY ~WlePRimated that 14 million persons in the United States, or seven per cent of the population

‘have or have had an u'cer.

' creation of a National Prices and |

| Income Board. | freeze prices, and incomes of all | kinds: wages, dividends, rents ‘and fees. Exceptions should be

which would |

| mate only in.cases of extreme ;

| hardship or sound justification, and later where productivity is substantially increased.

The increased output ‘at the cow is something for the hovine population fo moo about. Tt doesn't take nearly s9 many cows. to supply milk, cream, :cheese, cream as it used to.

and

This is fortunate because over as

the last two decades there been a fairly steady drop in the ' number of dairy farms and mil- ch cattle, The number of work-, ing cows fell off 25 per cent in the two decades, 1940 to 1960. Rut over the same period each of the remaining cows turned

out so much more-of her-famous | >

product that. the total- national production went up 10 percent. This story would be a pleasant pastoral if this was all there were to its fewer cows. more , milk. But it hasr economic and political angles: As a British writer ohserves in The Econom- ist, ‘American. cows do not (s0 fdr have the vote. But Con- | gress looks after their interests as if they did.’ He referred to the number of--acts Congress has -passed to maintain milk | prices, : Consumers’ cannot be expert- led to be enthusiastic about such legislation. They would. | pay less for the cow's product. | But thev also want a steady supply of it. If they are tn con- /tinue to get it, farmers mifst find it worth while to keep their milch herds. Many don't one recent four- year

in thé number of Amer farms selling milk of the larger dairy farms expan- ded.) i And the cows increased their volume of production This has j been the. main factor in uphold-

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the nation with | 1C1@; |

like to -

During | period, | there was a drop of 40 percent |

(Rit many |

~ Kedos For The Cow

Christian Science Monitor

| ing output. ‘ture, says the National Commis- sion on Feed Marketing.

The cow can take a bow.

RESERVES CLIMB

TOKYO (Reuters) Japan's i serves at showed an increase of $9,000,000 ifrom the previous’ month to | reach $2,063,000,000, the Japa- ' nese finance ministry announced Wednesday.

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300 DIE IN FLOODS RANGKOK- (Reuters). — Flood

No milk’ stiietaue fs") expected in the foreseeable fu- |

TODAY'S HEALTH HINT— Swim only. im ateas ‘patrolled by a lifeguard :

Our Yesterdays

(From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (September 9, 1941)"

Italy is near the famine stage and the winter will bring hunger riots, predicted’ a Seattle tenor returning from a three-year stay

\in Italy. “All the food is being shipped into Germany ‘in. ex- changer for coal," he declared:

i *The people are at the arenas

point.”

Prime Minister Churchill ex- pressed the wish that the Unit- ed States naval forces already patrolling

be of even “greater to Britain in the battle of

might help”

the Atlantic.

gold and: foreign exchange re- the end of August

.

TEN YEARS AGO

“ (September 9, 1956)

The keystone brief of the na- tional engineering manpower | conference points to a loss of | Canada's prestige as an indus-

_trial power unless.steps are tak-.;

waters of the raging Mekong |

River have drowned about 300 persons and made 70,000 home- less in northeastern Thailand, it was estimated Wednesday. -

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Stationery, invitations,

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en for more effective training of | |

the nation's engineers ‘and scien- | tists.

_ American archaeologists have discovered the Biblical Israel- iste city of Gibeon near el- Jib

eight miles nofth of Jerusalem.

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen

emotional and mental stress are

just to the situation something | co!

little leeway but others’ can as---

are endowed -with a.

theiThis money could —have

the Atlantic approa- ches to the Western Hemisphere

| THE NORTH TODAY

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An 8,000- Mile Tour

by Farmer Tissington

| (Thomson Newspapers’ par- liamentary correspondent, Far- mer Tissington, recently accom- panied the Commons’ commit-

tee on Northern Affairs on a |

| tour of the North West Terri- tories and the Yukon. His im- pressions are being published in a series of articles in this news- | paper.) ee

| FROBISHER BAY — Twenty- | two members of the Northern | | Affairs’ committee left Ottawa |

| for Frobisher Bay on Baffin 1s--

jland under considerablé pres- / sure. The dreaded parliamen- | tary word “junket hung over | the group because of the just leted trip of the committee on rans’ Affairs to visit Ca- | nadian war graves in Europe.

| Editorial writers across, Can- | ada had been highly critical ot | the need for this visit to the | cemeteries, but the Northern Af- fairs’ committee was convinced | j that only a@ personal visit*to the north could give members the | | proper background and perspec- tive. Any thoughts that the 12- day, 8-000-mile tour was going to | | be -a pleasant tourist jaunt |

among the Eskimos and Indians .

| was quickly dispelled ‘the very. first night. .

| Weary from the 1,300 mile flight from Ottawa and with only time for a quick dinner, the commitiee was driven to a com- munity hall where a meeting

eal advisory council of Frobish-

. The meeting was presided over by one of the community's most interesting personalities, Brian Pearson, a wiry, energetic Scotsman. It was the first time | in history that a Commons’ com- | mittee had visited the north as a group and Mr. Pearson~is not » one to waste such.a golden op: portunity. With the exception of | one 15-minute break, he kept the meeting humming from 8:30 at night until 1:20 the following: morning as natives and whites

meeting a fresh local team each night. ~~ Canada picked up a tremen- dous bargain at Frobisher Bay when it purchased the main ad- | ministrative 6nd accommoda- tion building there in 1963 from | the- United’ States. The structure | was erected in 1959 at a cost of | some $9 million to serve as a | Strategic, Air Command refuell- | ing base, Canada acquired it for . | $1.00 and it is now used by the Department of Northern Affaire as office space, living and eating quarters. But there is concern about the fact that this large building acts almost as a, town within a town and tends to segregate the “southern” Canadians from ,di- rect contact with the Eskimo, Government workers. tend ~ | hole up in the building and ne Eskimos keep to their own | areas -scattered around the rocky shores of the Bay... f But a sincere effort is made te integrate the community at the ie level. Half of the members | of the local advisory council are Eskimo.: | TRANSPORTATION

Nordair... operates.a——tw bee. weekly flight from Montreal to Frobisher but residents depend for -most of their heavy supplies on the annual ‘‘sea-lift."’ The first ship of the season, the De | partment of Transport ice. brea- ker ‘Labrador’ arrived in the

reorganizing our daily routine to had been arranged with the lo Bay July 2%h, and supply shins ;

were expected from then until ° mid-October: It is not unusual for residents to receive their Christmas parcels in August-- parcels for the preceding Chris- | tmas, that is.

The high cost of transporta-- tion by air is reflected in food prices. Frobisher. housewives were paying $1.25 for a quart of frésh milk, the same for a doz- ' en eggs. Toriatoes were ‘95 cents a pound, head lettuce about $1 each, -potatoes $50 a hundredweight. and bananas 70

discussed a wide variety of ~pro-<| cents a pound

blems with a somewhat dazed | , Ottawa group. : Part of the reason for the len-

gth of the meeting was the need |

| to translate everything. that was.

said from English to Eskimo or. vice versa. Two young and telligent Frobisher Eskimos died this demanding task in a highly competent ‘manner. In his opening statement, Mr Pear- | son spoke frankly. “We are not “this is the first visit of this -committee here. We have come | to accept, the attitude of the ab- | | sentee landlord. The north has been used for a long time as a

han-

surprised that

| political football" Mr. Pearson |

charged. ‘A lot of money -was used to build a new liquor store here. It is one of the sat _buildings ina mmunity desives tittle benefit’ from 4t been | used to better advantage on a | high” power _radio—transmitter.to “cover the whole of the Eastern— Arctic. Radio could be used for | educational courses in the homes of the people.”

| Mr. Pearson believes educa- |‘tion of the Eskimo is the key to the. successful development of the north He points out that young Eskimos cannot turn to their own -parents for guidance and instruction because their parents themselves know noth-

| ing of the big outside world. common ‘Ns _

The Frobisher meeting was | fairly typical of the entire, ex- | hausting tour. At most xtopping places, local community coun-: | cils and other groups were ready and waiting for the com- mittee with complaints, recom- mendations and suggestions as _to how parliament and govern- ment can improve the life of northern residents.

Former newspaper eolumnist and now Member of Parliament for New Westminster, Barry Mather, likened the . committee to a touring | baseball _team,

, Frobisher is an artificial com- | munity in that it does not have. a resource base and depends on the government for its . exis- tence. Some 17 Eskimos have | full time employment but anoth- "70 families: receive welfare assistance costing around $5,000 - ~a month. While most of the Ea | kimos housing is very sub-stand- ard by southern comparisons, not many years ago they were living in igloos in’ winter and tents in summer. And not more than eight years ago, Eskimos | were starving” in the Eastern Ar etic. ;

| NORTHERN NOYES _

Chairman -of the Commons’ committee and. four leader was Fort William MP Bert Badanai. At 71, he was the sieet ere

(ro p ri | enthusiasm put “most ot it is : younger colleagues to shame.

Canada's vast northland repe

_Tesents 40 per cent of_our. land

mass but has only two-tenths of one per_cent-of_ the population

Northern Affairs minister Are -thur Laing told the committee before it left Ottawa that, ‘The north is a part of Canada. If we don't exercise our sovereignty there, someone else might — Mr. Laing says one of the main tasks is to move govern ment closer to.the people and - overcome the northerners’ na- tural objection to being ruled by _legisiators.and civil servants io remote Ottawa. | First election for a seat oo ithe North West Territories Coun- cil from the Frobisher. area is te | \ take place September. 19. The ‘three candidates include a Hud-— son Bay manager. Gordon Ren-_ nie:.-an aviator, Weldy Phipps; and an Eskimo, Simonie Mich- aels. If all the Eskimos voted for one of their own, Simonie would be a sure winner, but most residefits except the. nativ- es will split their vote.

Tomorrow: The Mysterious | Fast.

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~ Alcoholism: Bureau:

Montreal Gazette aie £

Quebec is leading the way in | Canada with the establishment of a new bureau to co-ordinate

(efforts on the fight against al-

coholism and drug addiction The creation of the new bureau will follow action in the Legisla- ture this fall.

“ Both alcoholism and drug ad- diction are health $nd_ social ‘problems which have been. in- j creasing in seriousness in the | last few decades. At the present

time, welfare agencies, the med- ‘ical profession, and many other groups are all trying to deal

with the problems in their sep- arate spheres. The legislation | will make this work much more effective. shies

The latest figures from the | Health Department shows the breadth of the problem. For es- ample, it is estimated there are | 80.000 alcoholics in the province and 40 per cent of them are un-

employed. Therefore, there is a

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|rate of “acoholise and » em ' ployment. as well as welfare.

Dr. R.A. Cleghorn, chairman of the department of psychiatry at McGill and director of the Allan Memorial Institute, prais- ed the idea of a government co- ordination. “Any help in this difficult area will he welcome, especially since nothing much is being done in Canada, let alone Quebec.”’

It_ isa welenme developiient jand all the more so because Quebee seems to be leading the way in Canada.

WANT TO AID NORTH ° MOSCOW Reuters) Mar- shal Ivan Konev, one of Rue _ sia’s top Second World War gen- erals, said Wednesday many young Russians — have volun teered to fight in Viet Nam. Thé marshal spoke at a press con- ference following a series of | visits by Soviet youth. to memo- rials of wartime battles.

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