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“The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink” M PAGE 4 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER. 15. 1964 M

MP5 AncI Automation

The onward march of automa- tion cast a gloomy shadow over the National Conference on Goals which the Conservatives held at Frederic- ton last week. The politicians were reminded that they are faced with the challenge of electronic communi- cations—radio and TV—which are changing, if they have not already changed, the whole character of our society and its mode of thought. Political aspirants must keep pace with the demands of the new tech- nique. One speaker mentioned the Beatles as a striking example of a group which has realized the change and has taken full advantage of it. But it was left for Prof. Daniel Cappon, a psychiatrist at the Univ- ersity of Toronto, to sound a deeper note of alarm.

In effect, he predicted that the day is near when members of Parlia- ment may be replaced by computers as the mechanical servants of the people. A $100,000 computer, like the one the professor uses at his university, can complete six months of calculations in 15 seconds. It could process—in one week—a bil- lion bits of information showing the views of every man, woman and child on the flag issue, for example. That should end all controversary, shouldn’t it? It’s the professor's opinion that government isn’t using computers as it should to find out what the people want and think.

I Then there was Prof. John

Abrams, of the University of Tor- onto’s department of industrial engineering, who told the confer- - ence it is “well within our technolo- gical power to develop a voting sys- tem that would permit a daily ref- erendum of the entire electorate. Technologically, the system would support a form of government in which representatives would hold office only with the daily support of their constituents."

The political consequences of silch schemes are revolutionary, he conceded, "yet the technological potential is with us today."

' No wonder politicians are suspi- cious of computers! And we confess to feeling some grave qualms our- s'elves at the prospect of govern- ment by some pushbutton device that would send waves of electoral r'eactions daily into some huge con- trol room at Ottawa. This could well r_'esult, as one commentator pre- dicts gloomily, in a system in which “the most powerful man in the land wouldbe the electrician who re- phired the burnt-out fuses."

I I Mr. Martin's Defense ; Reporting to Parliament on the

recent Canada-Japan ministerial

fleeting, Hon. Paul Martin offered fso‘mewhat lukewarm defense of a so-called "voluntary" trade re. ctions which the Japanese have n obliged to impose on their tex-

e and other imports to this

untry.

Once a strong critic of Tory

:. tectioniam and champion of

V v .. trade, Mr. Martin is now per-

" .i that in Japan's case. a trade

as Is “not unnatural," in

‘ > of the fact that we export food

raw materials “which provide

" ainewa of Japanese economic

" while they export manu-

' which directly compete

». goods. We do them a favor,

' while they pay us by

' ‘ Cemdlen market.

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Whose

are strengthened when prairie farm— ers find a market for wheat in Japan?” it asks. "Whose sinews will be strengthened if, through the liberalization of Japanese trading policy, we find the increasing mar- ket for rapeseed in Japan foreseen by the Canadian oilseeds trade mis- sion last spring? Who will profit if the Japanese market makes possible the exploitation of the vast iron ore deposits recently discovered in our western Arctic?"

Mr. Martin’s argument, adds our Winnipeg contemporary, “in any case overlooks an essential point. Japan is not the only nation which exports manufactured goods to this country. What of Britain, West Germany, the United States? But Japan is the country which we single out for special, discrimina- tory treatment."

This treatment of our best Pacific customers calls for protest from Maritime as well as Western sections of the country. The second- ary industries that are being pro- tected are already buttressed by tariff subsidies at the expense of Canadian consumers and basic pro- ducers. It is hard to see how they warrant the special solicitude the Government is taking in them.

Still In The Dark

A spokesman for the Interna- tional Railway Brotherhoods has made a good point in suggesting, in connection with the proposal for a no-rail causeway to connect this Province with the mainland, that a full-scale study of the relative costs of handling traffic to and from the Island by rail and motor transport should first bc made.

It is the contention of this organ- ization, through its legislative com- mittee, that the increase in motor traffic required to handle our annual crop of approximately 10,000 car- loads of potatoes alone would im- pose a heavy burden on Island tax- payers in the building and mainten- ance of highways capable of main- taining such traffic.

This is one point, at least, which should be clarified without delay. In the private scheme proposed by the Island Development Company Limited the “phasing out” of all

railway operations in the Province

is regarded as a desirable measure “when done in conjunction with the provision of a system of all weather roads and the causeway.” How much of the expenditure for these all weather roads would Ottawa be prepared to shoulder? How much would devolve upon our taxpayers provincially ?

As the railway spokesman says, there are “many other social and economic implication” that should be examined in detail before a final decision is made.

And surely, we should get some assurance from Ottawa that these questions are being carefully weigh-

“SmaII Stutt”

Under the above heading, the Milwaukee Journal notes that a nuclear device of “low intermediate” yield was exploded the other day at the US. test site at Nevada. The explosion was one of a series being carried out underground now that tests in the atmosphere, under water and in space are prohibited by in- ternational treaty. .

"Low intermediate" sounds like small stuff—enough to cause a little jolt and give the atomic scientists some answers, but nothing very serious.

Yet the term as used by the atomic energy commision means a yield of 20 to 200 kilotons, or the equivalent of 20,000 to 200,000 tons of TNT. And it was bombs of 20 kilotons—at the bottom of the “low intermediate" range—t h at devas- tated Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

EDITORIAL NOTE

An editorial in the August is- sue of Canadian Doctor makes this point on a subject of nation-wide interest: "Alarm caused by mishaps resulting from the use of the drug thalidomide has made everybody extra careful about drug usage. This is good, but too much caution may overshoot the mark. Warnings are being issued about all possible ill effects from the use of more and more drugs, and this, in the long run, can do harm. It must be under- stood that every drug carries poten- tial hazards, but this should not pre- clude its use to the point where its potential benefits are denied". '

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SECURITY COUNCIL

Ugly Facts Of Indonesian Aggression

It is President Sukarno's fa- l to the spirit and Charter of the I iation — these would be unreal-

vorite tactic, when taxed with aggression, to pretend that no- thing has happened and that it is all the creation of intrigues or lies by imperialism and its pup-

pets. _

In his recent acts of aggres-z sion against Malaysia, which I are now being considered by the ; UN. Security Council. he ran true to form. Almost to the eve

of the Council meeting, In- donesian Government sloutly maintained that reports of in-

cursions by fully armed Indon- esian paratroopers at Labia, l and of earlier seaborne landings ‘ et Pontian, were an invention or i fake by tile Malaysian Govern- ment. 1 Then. in the Security Council, to which the Malaysians had

taken their complaint ag- gression, the Indonesians, with a magnificent disregard for

consistency, abruptly changed their tune. The Indonesian re- presentative admitted, ' many words, that the infiltration of volunteers into Malaysia had been going on for a long time, and sought to justify this by counterc'larges of aggressive acts by Malaysia —- and Britain.-

CHARGES REFUTED

The charges are, of course. plainly absurd and were refuted by both the Malaysian and Bri— tish representatives. The whole Federation has only one tenth of the population of Indonesia; It has yet to build up its defences If it has now to rely on help from Britain and_other Com— monwealth countries, this help is only needed because of Indon- esian hostility.

In fact, the Malaysian Govern- ment Clea faced Indonesia's “confrontation” with dignity and mesh nt.

Indeed, In the light of Indon- esia’s record over year. if I‘ impossible tnat there should be any genuine confus- lon or uncertainty about Presi- dent Sukarno's actions and aims.

There has never been cause for Indonesia to feel fear or enmity towards the Federa- tion of Malaysia. Neither racial hatreds nor historical rival- ries come into question; there has never been any conceivable strategic threat to Indonesia.

Yet. when the Federation was still being eagerly planned by Malaya — a well-liked member of the UN. —- by tile State Singapore and by the peoples of the British Borneo Territorial. President Sukarno proclaimed the deepest suspicions.

To overcome them, to concil- Iate Indonesia, and to 11 the Federation the fairest possible start In life, the UN. was II to send teams to see whether the people of Sarawak and Sebah really did want to join In form-

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'10 and declared the whole plan to be an invention of British Imperial- Iam designed to humiliate' and threaten Indonesia.

LATEST PHASE

The latest phase in President Sukamo's programme to "crush Malaysia" has been the landings by Indonesian gust-il- lea In Me a If. These were obviously defined to fit is with large scale pleas for aubvmlon In Malaya and for full scale

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United Nations". I A clear and immediate deci-I

sion by the Security Council is I imperative. Half-hearted at- temp to gloss over the uglyl

facts of Indonesian aggression,I to suggest that both sides are i equally at .fault or that all that I

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A Curious Charge

Winnipeg Free Press

Senator Goldwater in one 01 his campaign documents has undertaken, if elected. to

not engage in direct ne gotiations with the Soviet Un- ion on matters which invalve the interests of its NATO allies. Ther been a tendency even an “eagerness,” in pres em and past administrations to negotiate unilaterally II n (I this must cease, he says_

Just about everybody is on posed in principle to unilateral- lism and the NATO allies will join the senator in condemning it. They will be mystified, how- ever, as to why Senator Gold- water finds it necessary to say such things at all. So far as is known there have been no Inst- ances in which the United Sta- tes has negotiated directly with the R u s sians with o u t keeping its partners informed.

There have been two major sets of negotiations In which the United States has dealt dine- ctly with the Soviet Union —- the Cuban crisis and the nuclear test ban treaty —- but in neither

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Sukarng Gangster

Indonesia. once the great hope of liberal ideallata. has today be- come a world leader In the pur- suit of war and aggression. In the Far East, it Is second only to Communist China as an ex. pansionlst.‘ imperialist power.

Its present target is the eration of Malaysia. Until re- cently, It confined itself to sending guerrillas into areas of Borneo that have a com border with Indonesia, areas which President Sukarno wants to annex, under the pretence of ‘liberatlon'.

Recently, however. Indonesia has four times invaded Malaya proper—the heart land of the Federation—three times from the sea, and once from the air The numbers Involved have been small. There baa been nothing small about their purpose and their method.

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The Inside Story

nclal Peat

There you are at some cock- tail party, innocently sipping a Martini and asking this

doe a living, and what bar telephone number is, a much mon- ey abe has In the bank.

Little do you know that the olive about In the Met- tlnl contains an electronic snow- ing device. that the toothpick serves as an antenna. and that

tronlcal engineering at Mill Uruva . Addressing the civil bet-flee section of the Canadian

ingenious we apyinl people. Be said: “A nutcoaf mfimounnaunmn

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lstic and foolish, as well as un- just. They would give the green lig'lt to President Sukarno to take every risk, to throw all caution to the winds, in his ef- fort to destroy a newly indepen- dent. peaceable stale. recogniz- ed as such by the vast majority of the countries of the world.

its NATO partners' backs.

In the Cuban crisis special and very senior American envoys were dispatched to NATO capil- als ahead of President Kenn- edy's television announcement of the embargo. In Canada’s case, Mr. Livingston Mer- chant flew to Ottawa and infor- med the then prime minister, Mr. Diefenbaker, and though this country’s response was shabbily slow and half - hear- ted there was not the slightest suggestion that it was not kept. fully informed as to the facts.

e nuclear test ban negotl- ations were conducted direct- ly because they primarily in- volved the two principal nuc- lear powers.

NATO governments - or newspapers in NATO countries, for that matter -— have no place in a United States election campaign and should scrupul- ously avoid interceding with partisan comments. It is never- theless simply a statement of fact to observe that Senator Goldwater has not only badly misrepresented his own coun- try’s motives and reliability but also the position of its allies.

Negotiation will do no good: none whatever. It has been tried and it has failed. The only func» tion of negotiation w I t h In- donesia at this time wbuld be to arrange a Malaysian surrender, for at the moment this is all Sukarno wants to talk about. If he is given Malaysia, as he was earlier given West New Guinea. he will no doubt graciously ec- cept: otherwise he will try to take It by war. There is at pre- sent no room for compromise.

The twentieth century has been the age of Gangsters In politics. Sukarno Is one of them. This former collaborator with Japanese Is in the tradition of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin methods are a same. He can be opposed only by force. The sooner steps are taken to curb this Asian dictator-Wetland

a better.

Do not think you can reaolva the problem by eating the ollee (or the onion or the cherry). This will almply mate mailer! worse, because the spy will then be Inside you. collecting and hazmlttlng your lnnermoef ee- cna .

Thus It will be made known Investigators lbet- your c - science Is still being unwed by that expense account you falli- fled in 1953. that you have a ltolcally concealed panics fer one of the girls In the stone pool, and that while you pretend to enjoy being assistant to the assistant to the vice-president (sales), what you really would like to do Is enlist with stombe .———_________.,._____.

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Heart Attacks And Sugar

by Dr. Man I. Veanallaa Is it too much fat or too much auur In the diet that oauua bar- deulua of the arterial? Dr. John Yudklu. professor nu on and dietetch at the University of London. lays those who have heart attacks comma m ore auaar than do the control aub- Jacta. His conclusion: “People who take more new In tea or coffee are far more likely to have heart attack than then who take little." ‘ He asserts this Is the first time the diet of heart patients had been shown to differ to any way from that of normal people. Much research to to an as- aociatlon between the develop- ment of coronary arterioscler- osis and the level of blood chol- esterol, the blood pressure, body welp'n, and clan-at consump-

0n theoth hand, he clalma no specific dietary constituent, including caloriea, miner- als. vitamins, proteins, total carbohydrates, fal.l animal fat. and saturated and unsaturated fatty acid has been proved to

the specific cause of hard- ening of the arteries.

Dr Yudkln'a Project was done with the help of a state registered dietitian, Janet Roddy. on men between 46 and 66 years of age. All bad a rec- ent first attack of coronary thrombosis or proved harden- ing of the leg arteries. Their diets were compared with a group of healthy men who ent- ered the hospital because of accidents.

Half the sugar intake was measured by finding out how many lumps or spoonfuls were taken daily. The rest was estimated from the am- ounts available in readily iden- tified items, such 5 canned

eds. The group with harden- ing of the arteries used nearly twice as much sugar as the con- trol group. A detailed analysis determined that the degree of atherosclerosis was in propon- tlon to the amount of diet a ry sugar.

Dr. Yudkin may have diffi- culty selling his ideas to re. searchers who believe fat cholesterol play an part in the problem and they have the advantage of consid- erable animal research in their favor. Many authorities be- lieve there is more to hardening of the arteries than cholester- ol. And herein lies the fallacy of using one substance such as sugar in a statistical analysis. The least the physician could have done was to Include chol- esterol. weight. blood pressure. and tobacco in the survey.

SWOLLEN JOINTS ,

E.I-I. writes: Why do the joints swell — and then go down — at regular intervals in a person with arthritis?

RE

PLY This may follow exercise In which the Joints are irritated to sue-‘1 an extent that the tis- sues swell. v BUTTERMILK FOR

OLDSTER M.E.L. writes: Would the intake of one quart of cultu r e d buttermilk 3 day induce harm- ful effects in a person 82 years

f age? REPLY No. Keep it u if the bowel does not object.

YEAST AND ACNE E.B. writes: Is yeast good for clearing acne?

EPLY This was a popular remedy years ago. It proved to be unsatisfactory and seldom is

manna!) s'romcn ‘ .N.F. writes: Does gastri- tis usually last one year? LY

There Is no time limit. Some people are bothered for a day; others auffer intermittently for

years. , Today’s Health Hint— Enjoy living. '