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The Brass Lobby

A report from Ottawa that five nwdor companies in the defense field have hired air force personnel in recent weeks, prompts a critical comment in the Toronto Telegram, The flow from the forces to the de- fense industry, says the paper. is All old and natural one. But the recent acceleration is causing Worry in responsible circles about the character and extent of defense lbbbying, and especially the role of retired brass hats.

f A senior officer leaving the army,

navy or air force is attractive to industry either because he has alecial technical knowledge, or is privy to long-range policy, or has the kind of connections that would be Valuable in the lobbying game. Right now there is fierce competition be- cause the Government is pondeiing its next choice of planes for the RCAF and possibly fol‘ the Navy and for Army support.

These companies. says The Tele- gram, have their high-powered and high-paid: propagandists working overtime in the lobbies of both Par- liament Hill and Defense Head- quarters. And many of these ex- perts in the art of political pressure are former officers of the Crown.

We don‘t know how far our Toronto contemporary is justified in complaining about this practice. But it quotes Defense. Minister Hellyer as saying he sees no harm

in it, and it strikes us we could do .

with some of it ourselves in getting to the bottom of a. statement the minister made in the House of Com- mons the other day.

This was about the closing down of a Charlottetovm plant that has been servicing a type of Sabre jets which is now being phased out of RCAF operation. There has been no complaint as to the efficiency of the plant, but Mr. Hellyer told Mr. Heath Macquarrie—regretfully, of course—that “in spite of all our efforts" he wasn’t. able to find al- ternative work for it to do.

With all the patronage that the government is dispensing in this line, we find the minister’s state- ment mystifying. Can it be that we haven’t got the right kind of lobbyists at work on our behalf? our Queens representatives are on the wrong side of politics, and Mr. Mchaught seems to view the whole matter with philosophical detach- ment. Why not get one of those "retired brass hats" to work for us behind the scenes, before they’re all snapped up by big interests? If what'The Telegram says is true, a pressure job of this kind would be I cinch for a fellow with the right connections!

More Action Demanded

Time was when the fisheries de- partment estimates passed without much comment In the House of Commons; but this was not the case with the Conservatives under Hon. J. Angus MacLean, and his Liberal successor, Fisheries Minister Robi- chaud, certainly had no opportunity to doze off, even if he had wanted to, during the discussion on his estimates last Thursday.

One Ontario member complained that Mr Robichaud was overlooking the importance of inland fisheries, eepecially in the Great Lakes, where

, .L- , tar efforts were needed to elim- j“ pOIIution and the lemphrey—

who predatory cell—Awhich weme file-toning the destruction of no. ' e. The NDP deputy leader, Mr. - , wanted the fisheries deport- ee a separate entity and ’included in a

t would also include the present de- partments of mines and technical surveys.

A New Brunswick member com- plained that the department knew about salmon and halibut runs but little or nothing about clams and sardines. Two Ontario members

inating against B. C. and Ontario fishermen by making subsidies for fishing vessel construction avail- able only to Quebec and the Atlan- tic Provinces -

Another Ontario member com- plained that Canada was satisfied with operating a few small draggers while other countries with huge fishing fleets off our shores were “sweeping our seas like a great vacuum cleaner.” And from a Brit- ish Columbia. spokesman came the complaint that the proposed 12-mile

fishing limit would do more to pro- tect U.S. fishing interests than those of Canada.

When the minister gets his notes of the discussion straightened out he will find that there is a gener- al demand for action by his de- partment in developing Canada’s hugh fishery resources on a much more comprehensive scale than at present. This demand may not be new, but it has become more insis- tent. It is plain that the time has Come for a truly national fisheries program that will bear some relation to the immense poSsibilities that

3 modern techniques have put within

our reach.

New Farm Legislation

There has been some criticism in Parliament about the scheme which Agriculture Minister Hays has been developing for progressive farmers, but on the face of it the legislation seems sound and reason- able. And if this easier means of financing should prove a. substitute for the extensive farm subsidy plan now in operation, our farmers might well stand to benefit.

The availability of loans would make the course easier for the am- bitious beginner or for the progres- sive farmer. It would not be a sop to the unprogressive individual who fails to seize opportunities yet draws down subsidies for uneconom- ic production. One measure would make crop loss repayment in larger percentage the responsibility of the whole of Canada, the other would ex- tend farm loans to permit a co-oper- ative effort by farmers in buying and sharing new equipment.

The plan previously had two major objectives: to extend present farms into larger acreages now re- quired for economy and to permit initial farmers to make a progres» sive start. There should be bene- fits accruing in years ahead: due to the cheaper money made available at a lower federal rate.

The number of Canadian farmers necessary to meet our food produc- tion program is being reduced. This is the unmistakable trend, whether we like it or not. To insure that those left are men with initiative would seem to be the best way of safeguarding the interests of the in- dustry. Loans for future expansion may not be the full answer, but it does seem a step in the right di- rection. ~

EDITORIAL NOTES

The United Fund campaign has gotten off to an excellent start. Let’s all give it the support it deserVea‘, making its success one of the high- lights in our big centennial year.

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There is one serious flaw in our public health programs. This is the fact that three out of every four young Canadians who want to study dentistry, and two out of every three who want to become medical men, all of them with proper qual- ifications, are now barred from en- tering the professions in Canada. Universities and dental schools simply do not have the space or the staff to admit them.

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England’s ministry of public buildings and works, notes an ex- change, has struck a blow for pub- lic 'peace and tranquility. It has banned transistor radios from Lon- don’s royal parks, which include such green oases as St. James and Regent parks and Kensington gar- dens. People who live near the parks got fed up with the transistorized gurglee, gargles, moans, screams, thumps and yowls that sometimes pass for popular music in our bright

new world.

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"TRY AND CATCH ME" Enjoying The Best Of Both Countries

One of the oddest things about Hal Banks is that he attained in Canada a legal status t‘J-at made him immune from depor- tation. At the same time, he re- tained in the United States a legal status that now makes him immune from extradition.

Here is a man who once might have been deported from Can- ada, had it been possible: and who now cannot be brought to justice in Canada, because it is impossible. This looks very much like enjoying the best of both countries.

An Order-in-Council of July 6. 1954, which authorized Banks' admission to Canada. was based on the fact that there was satis- factory evidence of his rehabil- itation (though he had a crimin- al record in the United States). He was granted the status of is

But 10, 1958 Banks’ application for Canadian citizen- ship was refused substantially

landed immigrant. is him secure from deportation. APPLICATION REFUSED

Montreal Gazette

on the grounds that on the evi- dence before the Court of Can- adian Citizenship ( some of it re. listing to his activities since the date of the Order-ln-Councll of July, 1954) his conduct indicat- ed that he was rather for from rehabilitation.

Mr. Justice Norris‘ comment in his report is interesting: “There Would seem to be some failure in coordination between the provisions of the Immigra- tion Act and the provisions of the Canadian Citizenship Act in that, as in the case of Banks, a person having the status of a landed. immigrant and having acquired domicile, but neverthe- less having been refused citizen- s‘Tip on serious (other th a n mere technical) grounds (such as general lawlessness), acquire a right to remain in Canada by mere effluadon of

me. CURIOUS STATE

Now, Banks, who was able to attain this curious status— as an immigrant who could not be

Life Begins Any Time

Financial Poot

Colonel M e r v y n (Spike) Sprung is retiring after 25 years in the Canadian Army. But the 51-year-old colonel isn’t going to grow roses or play golf. He’s off to Bena'res to spell a year studying Sanskrit and Indian philosophy. After that he will head the new philosophy depart- ment at Brock University, St. Catharines.

This is more and more the trend in a society where people are staying younger for longer periods. In Shakespeare's time men and women were old (or more likely dead) at 40, and this remains true in many parts of the world. But in Western civil- ization today, people start whole new lives at 40, at 50, at 60 and even beyond. Recently a 71-year old American reached Australia after crossing the Pacific Ocean alone on a raft. d out from Peru 3 year before.

me people like security, and Western governments are giving it to them in broad measure. But those who like novelty and adventure

have no trouble finding It. The Western world is changing rap- idly, and they can change along with it— change jobs, lives, even countries. It offers challenge and opportunity to people of every age— including, and per- haps especially, people whose family obligations are behind em.

Not every man of 51 wants to study philosophy In India, and not every man of 71 wants to cross the Pacific on a raft. But such thin gs are available to them, more available now than ever before. Most of us live long enough to have two or three different career! to do and see anything we really want to, and in that sense.‘ life begins any old time.

The Boston grandmother took up Hebrew. she expl In so that when she confronted her Maker, she could use the ap- propriate language. But that‘s an outdated story. Today she is learning Hebrew so that she can go and work in an Israeli kibbutz.

Losing Its Veil Of Mystery

_ National Geographlc Society

The wall of isolation has been removed so completely from Katmandu, Nepal. that its one major hotel suggests a minis- ture United Nations.

The Shanng-La capital of the Himalayan kingdom was seclud-

for centuries. Even in 1950 only a few hundred Westerners had ever set foot in the coun- try. After King Mahendra’e cor- onation in 1956. however, Nepal substituted a welcome mat for its old 'Kecp Out" sign.

Nepalese and Indian planes now fly regularly through the high mountain passes with dip. lomats, lncsmn. tourists, and mountain climbers arri via Delhi and Calcutta from a over the world. To accommo- date visitors, the youthful mon- arch encouraged the conver- sion. several years ago, a rambling old palace Into the Royal Hotel.

In the absence of putnic ros- tauranta and bars, the hotel has become a Katmandu institution. Guests in June, 1963, ranged from Americans associated with the Mount Everest Expedition to Philippine envoys, West Ger- man salesmen, English gentle- women on tour, and Japanese lcpldoptcrane who at nightfall prowied like wrattha about hotel's spacious gardens.

care if the ice has run out? But they cope — and never forget to brighten a guest’s room each day thafreohbouquetofflo- were.

Kipling once ‘wrote: "The wildest dreams of Kerr (a uric ate London womb) are the facts of K-atmendu.“

Moat visitors find it amps-lo ingly easy to adjust to the lack of telephones, radios, television, clocks. calendars. newe-

Ot‘lrer race" are chem. Katmandu ls going modern. Boxltke stucco matroaiflee, devoid of charm. are rising alongside the city's handsome ruseet~brick wildfires with oer-

have given way to the widenlu

of streets. Like most capitals, Refinan- ers acute indiu-

_PSYCH|ATRIST URGES TESTS FOR MP’S

deported, even for general law- lessness—is now in the happy position of not even being open to extradition from the United States for his lawlessness (as the charge against him does not happen to fall within the classi- fications for which extradition is permissible l . As a citizen of the United States, he could be free forever. his curious sort of immunity —an immunity from both depor- tation and extradition -— having been possible for Banks to at- tain, should be made impossib- le of attainment for anyone else in the future. It has proved the very perfection of the “try and catch me" technique.

Arthritis . In Knees-

By Dr. need” 3. VII nels- Arthrl‘ tie la the commonest cause of pet Of

the damaged knee. easy to do with a cliff, palnnd

joint.

Rheumatoid arthritis is the most likely culprit when symp- toms begin in the late twenties

This form of

us and req|

skillful care to prevent deformi- ties. The usual remodlea include corticosteroids. eallcylatee, gold and physical therapy. A well trained plurelcal therapist can prescribe exercleee that stimu- late the muscles but spare the joint. In some instances, the In- volved leg must be placed In a plaster caat. until acute pain sub- ld . /

Osteoarthritis is the type of arthritis that bothers older peo- ple and results from slow de- terioration of the joints over many years. Severe pain usual- ly is provoked by unusual stress such as climbing. kneeling, or moving heavy objects. It is less serious than rheumatoid; the joint is not so lnfl m d gross deformities are less likely to occur. Relief usually is ob- tained by injecting one of the corticosteroids into the painful knee.

Again, the leg muecles must not be allowed to atrophy and weaken through disease If the victim is to resume his former activities. Regular exercises are needed but several weeks may elapse before benefits are not- lceable.

How much exercise can an en- thritic take without hurting the joint? The best rule to follow Is to exercise as much as possible, so long as it does not produce pain that lasts more than an hour.

ARTIFICIAL OPENING Mr. . . . Can a r- son who has had a colostomy go in swimming?

REPLY

Yes, but it may not be quite fair to other bothers because of the possibility of contaminating the water. A colostomy is a pro cedure in which a loop of bowel is lifted through the skin of the abdomen and place. An opening is then made in the bowel to allow the intel- tinal contents to escape. This new orifice takes the place of tile rectum.

(NOTE: All (correspondence to Dr. Van Dellen should be addressed to: Dr. Theodore Van Dellen, co Chicago Trib- une, Chicago, Illinois.)

Notes. in THE WAY ,-.

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Although some people

about the Increasing coat of medical care. the feeling is not universal. One Columbus doctor said he was discussing a forth- coming operation with a patient and asked him, “would you like a local anesthetic?" “No re- plied the patient, "I can afford the beat. Give me something Im- ported," — Columbus Journal- Republican.

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voles as who— “lalla. t this the Fidelity Insurance Can; 2” Operator— “Yea. mad. am." Votce— “Well. I want to. arrange to have my husband‘s fidelity insured" anneal Gazette. It seem just yesterday we were teaching junior how to ride a bike and now he's telling us guow to drive a car.— Brandon 1:.

Counting car licence plates from out of the country to a de- cl port. No doubt times are more sophisticated now than when a allfornla licence brou‘ glut joy to a boy's heart. But we

blase that they don't Ibok twice and feel a twinge of pride when any. a Hawaii plate rolls by. —- Ottawa Journal. ’ -’ ‘

A Thorn British Issue

By Marshall Canadian Press staff erler

Britain's small but tough

Communist party is planning a general election gambit that has the big boys cf both major parties nervously seeking legal advice. The threat is to create chaos after the Oct. 15 voting day by challenging in the, courts the election of key Conservative and opposition Labor leaders. Some commentators here think the Communists are on legal ground and could own with it.

“The Queen may find fuel-self on Oct. 17 forced to choose a prime minister from a House of Commons in which none of the obvious candidates has an un- challenged right to alt,” wrote Henry Fairlie in London's Sun- day Telegraph.

The weapon the Communists are using is the complex 1948 Representation of the People

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Act — a 111 that sets out the rules each party must follow during the actual election cam-

paign.

WANT RADIO-TV TIME

The battlefield is the thorny Issue of political broadcasting on radio and television.

The Communists have long complained of unfair treatment under the broadcasting rules. These rules are arbitrarily established after consultations among the BBC, the ind nd cot television authority and the chief party whips.

often vary without much explanation. In 1945 a party had to field at least 20 candidates to qualify for one radio broadcast.

In 1964 the number has been

raised to 50 — effectively ex- cluding the Communists who, a e moment, are putting up only iii candidates for the 680 House of Commons seats.

The essence of the Commu- nist plan is to launch petitions- to unseat successful candidates in constituencies where the Communist candidate has been denied equal access to radio or television.

OPPOSES PM

For instance, Communist poet u MacDiarmid ls contesting Prime Minister Sir Alec Doug- las - Home's seat at use in the Scottish highlands.

MacDiarmld, whose real me ' Dr. C. M. G e. would argue that Doung Home gained an unfair advan- tage over him by his various party political broadcasts to the nation.

In law under the Representa- tion of the People Act, Sir Aleo' Is not a potential prime minis- ter in the next government. He is just another candidate fight- ing to represent Kinrose in the next Parliament.

No one is sure whether such a challenge would stand up In court. But even if unsuccessful, Sir Alec could not be certain of his seat until the court ruled on the matter. That could take months.

The Communist tomes are principally deployed against prominent Labor candidates — men such as shadow education minister Richard Crossman.