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Economic Revolution ls Quietly

Taking Place In Irish Republic

AROL KENNEDY

after the stormy one in which Sinn Fein nationalists w r e s t e d power Britain. This time it’s economic. not political, though Irish politics are. taking on e. new look in the process_ e new revolution may have even more lasting effects than lie old one. because it has bro- ken the stifling bonds of' pov- erty. a dwindling population and ‘all the de fens ve attitudes ‘summed up in the slogan Sinn

Miran—“Ourselves Alone.

Ireland isn't alone any more. Psychologically. she is part of the new Europe. though her trade links with Britain mean she cannot join the six-nation Economic Community u n til Britain does—~probably not be-

e 1.7. French President de Gaulle's rebuff to Britain in January. 1963. was a hitter blow to Irish hopes. but the now—dis- tant aoal still beckons brightly.

Garret I-‘itzGerald. economic pundit of the Irish Times. says “the exercise of looking ahead ~00 1970 has already proved a

port trade. this on cattle to Britain. tries like tweed and linen.

scientific instruments to proc- essed turf fuel: high - fashion clothes to farm machinery: cars pets to chemical products and confectioneryLemass has sent so high-pressure sales- men around the world that recent cartoon in the humorous journal Dublin Opinion showed a newly ﬂedged Irish ambassa- . dor wheeling a trolley of export ‘ samples into a room full of for- leign diplomats.

the new Europe. Ireland's place will depend on industrial prod- ucts. To achieve a 50-per‘cen

rise in gross national product. her industrial exports alone must rise 150 per cent.

Since they have already soared some 700 per cent in 11 years

and now form more than quarter of total exports. the target is regarded OECD

but until recently! rested almost exclusively

Now she is in everything from

a the social

In the competitive hustle of

Shannon

.‘ies; lowering emigration to a maximum of 10,000 a year and h a l v i n g unemployment. now seven per cent. Most of the sur- plus labor will be drawn off the land into industry as agricul- ture. too is modernized.

It Is also planned to improve services. described now as being "a poor imitation of what existed in Britain be- fore 1948."

STUDY FRENCH METHODS Irish planners are picking the brains of Europe. France is ad- mired for her "concerted econ- omy"—state and private indus- co - ordinating for mutual benefit which has doubled production in 10 years. The me- chanics of the French Commis- sariat au Plan are studied by Dublin experts. who have al-

8 ready forged one of Europe's

most advanced instruments for

and doubling electricity produc-i tral Statistics Department. food andftion tram the mighty . drink and a few cottage lndus- , Scheme; redeveloping Irish cit- . economlc program was the ore.

l Another brainchild of the first

ation within the finance minis- try of an economic development trends. seek suitable projects ifor state investment and esti- zmate the best ways of tapping 1 their potential.

1 Far from being the sinister phrase it is in some English Tory ears. economic planning division to forecast mar et to (the Irish is seen as a vital weapon to complete the revolu- ;tion that was begun in military land political terms

‘years ago. 'ether Ireland joins the EEC or not. the chal- lenge is basically one of sur- vival as an economic unit. Pat- rick Lynch. economics lecturer at University College. Dublin. has said the alternative may be "disillusion with Ireland’s ca-

” no Guam.0harlotteﬁown, Mon. Mauls“.

Crash Program Being Tested For Speedy Language Study

MONTREAL (CPL-An exper- iment concluded here show

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bands of religious foundations-I economic planning in the Cen- : may be possible to learn a new

pacitiy to re la-te its own eco nomic affairs and indeed gov- .ern itself generallv for the re-l

jexperts as realistic.

valuable stimulus to Irish indus-i FM hlsmnciﬂ and 901m” ’1”. makim hithpm, M[Remutreasons the industrial revoluo “g”, Hm“ growthmnsriou‘ n iion bypassed southern Ireland. A A ” :Development was set back dcc-' varies by the treaty of partition

'EXPORTS HIT RECORD Bv

imainder of this century." 1

lemurs FOR Fonniomaus 1“ Prairie MP5 Reveal .- Over Form Interest Rates

bounced rou ghly Feena

gees the role of government, as y

That's something at an under. in 1920. which severed the in-j

_ DON HANRIGHT OTTAWA (Cpl—Prairie Con-

statement. With the completionidUSll‘laliZPd- shipbuilding north: senvanves have revealed in the of his fiveyear First Programl from the underdeveloped. agn-‘cOmmons mat in 1939 H, e y

for Economic Expansion. Prime Minister Sean Lemass saw the Irish economv enter med almost in boom condition Annual

growth been raised tn astories

steadv four per cent and ex: portswkey to Irish survival in the new era boosted to 8 rec-’ ord level in 1063 of nearlyl £l96.000.000.

In a recent report. Europe'S‘ Organization for Economic Co-l Operation Development l the plan "highly cessful” and expressed mism about

cultural south.

Now the revolution roils along with exhilarating speed. The government tempts foreign fac- with substantial cash grants. a surplus labor rce and additional subsidies to firms prepare to open in the backward rural west and north. Investment is rising and since 1955 nearly 190 new plants with foreign hacking have opened.

The Second Program for Eco-

suc.‘;nomic Expansion aims to bring on”. r about sweeping changes in Irish the second pro- “f9. 9 X P a n d

i n g seconda

ram. an ambitious six-year‘SChOOIS —‘ “0W largely in the

l wag d — and won — a “terrific llflglli" against the finance de‘ lpartment. then headed by Don- iald Fleming, to get farmdoan 1 interest rates stabilized at five I per cent.

l Disclosure of this battle "both 'in front of and ind the‘cur- tain" of the Commons. as one MP put it, came as the House .debated details of a Liberal lgovernment bill to double the {lending limit on Farm Credit ‘ Corporation loans. The bill la- ter was given third and final reading.

The government proposes to keep a five-per-cent charge on loans up to the existing limits of $20000 and 527.500 under two categories of corporation loans. Above those levels, however. it plans to charge a variable rate set high enough to recover costs.

Alvin Hamilton (PC—Qu'Ap- pellet. former Conservative ag- riculture minister, recalled that a variable rate or all loans was proposed by the Conserva- ‘ve government in 1959, when it had the biggest majority of any Canadian government in

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istory. However, he said the princi- ple of a stabilized interest rate

of four per cent—plus one per cent to cover costs and reserves against losses—was won Conservative backbenchers. ar- ing in both caucus and Com- mons, succeeded in getting an amendment.

Mr. Hamilton said the Con- servative opposition ~now in- cludes many of the men who scored that victory. and don't want to lose that ground. They feared that variable rates roposed on upper portions of the loans would open the door to changing rates on the amount below the existing lim» its

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Agriculture Minister Harry Hays. when pressed for a com- mitment that the five-per-cent rate would not be raised in fu- ture. said there is no intention

now of changing it. But Mr. Hamilton sought "strong assurance" that the

rate would not be changed in even the distant future — even 10, 15. 20 or 30 years from now.

Mr. Hays indicated he could not go that far — though he thanked Mr. Hamilton for his confidence that a Liberal gov- ernment. would still be in power then. However. he said that as agriculture minister he would ‘0 p p o s e vigorously." any change in the five-per-cent rate.

And that. replied Mr. Hamil- ton. is what he wanted to hear.

Mr. Hays explained that un- der today's conditions the rate to be charged on the portion of loans above the existing $20,000 and 527.500 limits would be about 5% per cent plus about .87 per cent for costs. Thus it would vary between 6% and 6% per cent.

The. government bill also in creases the amount of money that the corporation can lend to 3600000000 from the present loan olume of $400,000,000

blueprint that aims to raise naw tional income 50 oer cent by 1970—019 general European tar-i cat—a: Well as modernize the'

entirt structure of the Iris-h . ’ economy - - The architect of mnder!‘ Ire.

land represents a new breed of j

Irish politician. though his roots t ’i'

go back to the revolution An energetic. voting - looking 64. Sean Lemass took part in the‘

Easter Week risin: of 1916 and L

fought u'ith de Valera's Irish Republican Army in the civill war of the early [9205 Yet his pragmatic. forward-looking ap- proach seems a generation re- moved from the Utopian dreams 1 of the Sinn Feiners‘ even from: his predecessor. the. idealistic; "DPVIID l

GLOSE TO SOCIALISM Lemass has led the

Fail partv_»the

knights of destiny

since 1959. When rle Valera be- came third president of the re public Bv temperament and commotion. he ls a planner who

a "dvnamic instrument“ in the economic and social fields. "Outsiders think of us as a conservative. hierarchical socl. etv because of the Roman Catﬁs-

olic, church" said one Dublin journalist "In fact we’re mov- g the t = something very‘

like a socialist state.’ Most of the Irish economy. ln< eluding fuel. power and trans- rt. is “state-sponsored asi .(ihey call it here. a phrase im- plying cooperation rather than coercion by government In some ways the, national indus- tries are ahead of .elr big brothers across the Irish Sea. Ireland put her own “Beec lag plant—trimming redundant railways to cut. losses—into op: eration while the British equiV-l alent was scarcely out o a stormy national debate. In time. die Irish transport sys- tem may do away with ralI-. ways altogether. except forj commuter line; into Dublin] concentrating instead on tmv proving bus services. 1 Ireland's national adrltne Aer; 'Lingus has a bank account toi jhame Britain‘s mighty BOAC.‘ chronicallv millions in the red.‘

FOREIGN INVESTMENT UP

Among the most impresslvel achievements of Sean Lemass'sl first economic plan was the' stimulus given to foreign in- ves‘ment and to exports. par-_ ticularly exports of manufac- tured . With a cramped Jiome market. - fewer than 13.000000 people—Ireland has al- ‘ways relied heavily on her ex-

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Nobody puts more Into oar-making than

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language in a matter of hours.

But still to be proven is how long the brain will retain.what is taught in a crash program.

Two Montreal reporters—hon already fluent in French and English—learned 1,500 words of Italian in 45 hours of non-stop

two-wee what stnictors say there is no way of knowing i'mmedlatebr how many of the words the reporters will retain. because this depends largely on their using the lan- guage.

M a g a z i n o (Perspectives) writer Jacques Fontaine, 27. and reporter (Montreal Star) Raymond Dionne, 44. ci- pated in the experiment under the supervision of the psychiat- ric staff of the Allan Memorial Institute.

The instructors were provided by a school (Berlitz) specializ- ing in the teaching of Ian- guages. The instructors hope to use a concentrated method to teach English - speaking per- sons French ln two weeks of 14- hours-a-day teaching.

The instructors had set a tar- get of 1.034 words in 48 hours. but Fontaine reached that goal in 27 hours and Dionne in 82

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ours.

Six teachers. working in re- lays. taught the subjects in two- hour shifts and their reactions were recorded in a centre

room.

Dr. R. A. Cleghorn, director of the hospital’s department of experimental theraputics, said the experiment was “ most in- teresting trial." Subjects kept in a sleepless state undergo hallu- cinations if isolated. but the of a teacher in the room apparently prevented this from happening to the two re- porters.

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These two Louisville and Nashville freight trains were scattered Sunday following a collision at the same spot two

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freights collided last Thursday. killing one crewman. A rail- road spokesman said the Mains collided at a place

where the tracks were close together. There were no in- juries in Sunday’s accident. (AP Wirephoto)

system that eliminates

COOKING WITH GAS During 1963. 1,320,000 Cana-

dian households used natural gas.

STRAIN RELATIONS RAWALPINDI (AP)—-Pakls- tani Foreign Minister Zulfikar All Bhutto said Saturday long- term US. military aid to India

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