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‘Before Parliament recessed, Prime Minister Pearson made an an- nouncement which received less pub- licity than its importance warranted. © He agreed to consider adopting as a

government measure a private bill | _ introduced by the veteran NDP mem-

ber for Winnipeg North, Stanley Knowles, which would raise the quor- um in the House of Commons from - 20. fo 50 members.

Heretofore Mr. Knowles seems to have been the only parliamentarian

“concerned about this matter. For

years he sought, through a private member's bill, to have the quorum in- creased to 30. Last year he upped the quota to 50 in the hope of achiev- ing a compromise perhaps at 40. Each time the Knowles bill was presented it was talked out without coming to a vote. It looked as if_his latest effort, which was initiated with the presentation of:yet another mem- ber’s bill at the opening of. the cur- rent session, would meet a similar

a government meastre it would in- all likelihood go through. .

‘It is hard for the taxpayers to un- derstand why the business of Can- ada’s Parliament Should be legally

' possible with only 20 out of 265 elig-

able members present. The 20-mem- ber quorum is a relic of pre-Confed- eration days, when the combined Leg- islature of the two Canadas had only 130 members. It should never have been carried into Confederation; but at Jeast there was more excuse for the—) practise then-than there is now. ¢ Two main arguments are advanc- by opponents: of increasing the rum. One -is that members have © much other work to do to always in the House; the other is that mémbers are burdened with commit- tee work. “Both of these arguments are phony,” Mr. Knowles maintains. “Kirst of all, there are no committee in the Parliament buildings capable of accommodating more than 75to 100 members. Secondly, sitting in: Parliament is our major function. There is no valid excuse for not being there. It is a full-time job and we are paid on a full-time basis.” — Yes, indeed. It will be recalled at when the members of the Com- voted. themselves an $8,000 raise two years ago, they justified it on the ground that being an MP is now a full time job. Yet on many oc- casions since there has been scarcely more than the 20-member minimum

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If Parliament’s image is to be re- stored to some measure of public esteem, a good place to begin would be with the Knowles motion.

Habitat “67

One of the striking features of

*67—the 1967 World’s Fair at Montreal—is to be a unique project designed ‘by a 25-year-old Montreal architect, Moshe Safdie. Known as Hibitat'’67, it is claimed to be the most advanced experiment in high density urban housing ever devised: It’s got, as they say, “everything.”

_ In effect the project is a collection of ‘prefabricated bldcks of houses pil- ed on top of each other, each destined

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-handful of officials will live in it dur-

‘the fair. It will later be sold to interests for about $8 million

and opened as @ housing complex. "Mr. Safdie is quoted as saying that his intention has been to come up with “the best formula yet” for mak- life livable in the heart of a teem-

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ing city. “Suburbs,” he says, “aren’t the answer. The first basic concept in the evolution of the contemporary - city is the need for integration into

j«one complex of all the facilities of

the city: housing, commercial areas,

| offices, light industry, parks, recre-

ational facilities and the like.” He is quite obviously a man of no ordinary

| imagination. His project has already

captured the fancy of the public and driven one magazine writer to suggest that it will make the Eiffel Tower “seem like a collection of gird- ers leading up to a hot-dog stand.”

It is recalléd that when the Eiffel Tower was built for the Paris World’s Fair in 1889, most persons, including

“many newspaper editors, saw it as little more than a startling folly. Only a few, far-sighted builders and architects recognized@t as a signifi- cant breakthrough in the use of structural steel. ‘ It proved that tall buildings could be _ constructed around a steel frame. The result has-been the modern skyscraper. _

The design for Habitat '67 looks even-more fantastic than the Eiffel Tower must have looked when it was built. If it justifies the high tributes it is receiving, it will soon become a commonplace feature of big city plan- ning. A safe bet.is that the Japanese will ‘lose no time in adapting it to

largest arid most densely packed in the world. :

Looks More Promising

A stream of West Berliners flow- ing eastward through the Iron Cur- tain at.this season signals an apparent end to the latest Berlin crisis. This is, of course, not the first time that such visits have been permitted by the Communist authorities, but it is significant following the recent trou- ble on the access routs to Berlin.

Both German governments, at Bonn and East Berlin, continued to mutter at each other last week, about

_ Feprisals stemming from that danger-

ous clash of wills—a clash precipitat- a sessionxef the West German Par liament, and by retaliatory blockades of western traffic through East Ger- many.

' But beginning last week the Com- ‘ munist wall lifted to allow West’ Ber- liners to make one-day Easter holiday visits to their relatives in the Soviet zone. Some 650,000 West Berliners are expected to cross the zonal border between April 12 and 25, under an Easter pass agreement negotiated last September.

Obviously, if the Communists had been really anxious to create trouble, they would have cancelled this agree- ment. The fact that this step was not taken is regarded as a good in- dication that the Soviet Union, through its East German puppet, has no wish to do so. 3

Fifty Years Ago

Fifty years ago troops of the First Canadian Division bore the brunt of the first gas attack in history as the Germans unleashed 160 tons of chlor ine gas on Allied soldiers near the city of Ypres in Flanders. On Thurs- day, April 22, the CBC radio network will present Ypres Remembered, a 90-minute program vividly recalling the horrors of that attack.

ous place in history mainly because it.was the testing ground for this new type of terror warfare. At that time there. was no known defense against gas; yet at the apex of the at- tack, the Third Canadian Brigade held firm. From all parts of the Salient, Canadian reserve units rush-

treating Algerians. They not only filled these gaps, but mounted two counter attacks that night, causing the Germans to overestimate the strength of the Allied troops in the area, and to dig in instead of pressing their advantage.

The Canadians had saved the day, but at a fearful cost. There have

since then, but this one is an imper- ishable part of our annals. It is right that its anniversary should be commemorated in the manner plan-

be hoped that the new generation of Canadians will not miss’it. It will have a valuable message for them, if they can interpret it.

EDITORIAL NOTE

We didn’t know that Abraham Lincoln was an inventor, but he is listed’ as such in the U.S. Patent Of- fice at Washington. He held, the re- cords disclose, a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals with air-

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: . time to obtain desired results. (April 19, 1955) imparting it.

At this incometax time of the | ter of National Revenue can gar-, It is an economy bought too RESISTANCE AND Dr. Albert Einstein, a gentle,| Nevertheless, the conflict of year an examination of some of | nisheé” his wages—not for 20 | dearly. Government should ENCE wispy-haired physicist whose | views continues, and seems like- the Government’s income-tax | per cent of what he earns, or | be prepared to abide by the re- OVERINDULG! studies lifted him to the summit | ly to produce more rather than collecting habits does not dis- oven 0 rat coat, bet ter M0 var eaniiete-& yews upon other Se an is aa of the sclentiic world, died carly | lose agitation in the edscutional close it, to be a very good gov- | cent. can te - | creditors proceed through | dulgence foods when yesterday at Princeton, N.H. | world of the immediate future. ernmetit. payer’s bank and command it | the courts, to accept the fact | has a cold lower the resistance? | 4 uthor of the theory of relativ-| An individual or company that | to extract from the taxpayer's | that other creditors also ha @ REPLY ity and leader in the fields of BRAZIL EXPELS REDS is owed money by another indi- | account and send along the | rights and that the court should | No. Resistance: is difficult to | nuclear fission and electronics, | vidual or co.npany that declines | money to cover the taxes. determine how the available | define and we can assume that | ph. died at 1.15 a.m. in Princeton| RIO DE. JANEIRO (Reuters) to pay it must go to court; prove-|~ Should be so | money isto be parceled among | it is improved with a normal | pospital, | Nine Chinese Communists con- the debt and win a court order | sneaky and rebellious as still to | them, to admit that even 2» | diet, but this does not mean it is a | victed of espionage were _ex- to collect it. If a garnistiee is; evade e Cover: me whe eee met eee orrmiepens ini Fati- | - claims totalling $15,500 have | pelled from Brazil Saturday, necessary the court will-exam- | ment can, if a judge approves, | left with enough to sup- | gue, Overindulgence in aicohol been fled by 13 business Communist —demonstra-___ ine the financial position of the | pack him off to jail. ply his essential needs and that | 2% tobacco, and lack of sleep | and one private citizen against | tors. booed them as they were debtor and limit the garnishee to taxpayer cam, of course, | only the court should decide how | 27* ™0re likely to reduce resis: | the City of Montreal for damag- | placed aboard a plane for Ge- fit in with other debts he may | appeal these various » te | : | tance. _ es incurred during the hockey | neva. They came to Brazil_as owe and with his own basic | tions and try to prove that he enough. (NOTE: All correspendence | riot, March 17th, caused by the | representatives of the New needs. Should he give up his | does not owe the taxes in ques- | A truly democratic Gover®- | t» Dr. Van Dellen should be | suspension of Canadiens’ star| China news agency and the job and refuse to pay, his cred- | tion; but he pays up first, and | ment would be the first body in | addressed te: Dr. Theodore | Maurice (Rocket) Richard by | Peking foreign trade bureau itor cannot put him in jail- should the court decide that he | the country to honor democratie | Vam Dellen, co Chicage Trib- | Clarence Campbell. president | during the regime of leftist The Government does not | is right, the Government will re- | procedure. une, Chicago Illineis.) - of the National Hockey League. | president Joao Goulart. ; bother with all this democratic | turn his money — after months | ; : jazz. If the Minister of National | and without interest. : .

Revenue decides that a taxpay- If the perpetrator of these ar-

er is trying to avoid paying tax- | bitrary actions were anybody : es, he can send along to the Ex- | but the Government, he ‘would \ : . chequer Court of Canada a cer- | be denounced by the public and ;

tificate which, without being | his wings would be quickly

processed by a court of law, has | clipped by the courts. But the

immediately all the effect of a | Government argues, when it

court order. bothers to argue at all, that its

With a simple little note to the | methods of collection save the taxpayer’s employer the Minis- | taxpayers money.

Bit In The Teeth

Nobody can say that when the ; pressed to his ear in favor of British people take the bit in | pair of glasses fitted with an her teeth they de not rush | ear plug-much like the bearing ahead at full speed. aids. A radio receiver is fitted

They picked up the American | into the glaSses’ frame. rock "n roll music and out of it | Unfortunately, the aerial on came the Beatles and innum- | these radio specs is directional. merable other musical groups | This means the receiver has to howling the night at a zillion | be pointed partially in the direc- dollars a minute. tion of the transmitter.

The American “beat genera- So now on the English streets tion” evolved in Britain into the | youths and girls may be seen Mods and the Rockers. wearing glasses but with their

Each of these British develop--| heads cocked to one side or ments was bigger, better, loud- | pointed in a direction other than er and more explosive than its | the way they are walking.

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ing the tiny radio he carries | program. - / “ Eire’s Sean Lemass Ottawa Journal :

After having governed Eire | majority of the popular vote, for three years with the shaky | which he lacked before. support of two_ Independents, In such circumstances, -and Prime Minister Sean Lemass | seeing that his main opponents, has led his Fianna Fail party | the Fine Gael party of Mr.

James Dillon, lost ground in ‘the election, Mr. Lemass should be |:

PUBLIC FORUM | seteiy in power for some. time

' to come. is Perhaps a good thing Etre.

This colams ts epes te the discussion

correspondents of questions of t For Lemass, a child of the revo- ak ce umtinn Gen. om seven lution (he was a fighter in it at sarlly endorse the opiniqn of corres | the age of 16) is an exceptional- pendents. All letéers published are sub ly able politician, unchained by fect to editing aBd condensation where secessary, The Guardian ts unable to tradition, and looking back only enter inte corrrespendence regaré- | to look out and beyond. : ng letters cobeniiteg. From the days of O'Connell

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Wee i nies come, | ea ied tastes oan almost every . | Me i rc Agena ~ goin feu anaee less are 5 or Tises Gall of Vorting ore Se. <n plicable to nations as well-as to . : individuals. Let us carry them | A cool pragmatist, looking into every avenue of life, lest fore like an executive of Har- we bang ourselves up against | land and Wolfe in Belfast than the stone wall of futility. The | the legendary Southern patriot, futility of ill planned purpose. he has addressed himself to

Let us take a good look at our- | checking the flow of emigration selves, lest we become too (ot or tee peeing smug. and complacent in a false seen > security. building national income.

Let us look around. for some | The Irish Tourist Department way to make a worthy contribu- | may still deal with the “little tion to the well being of our fel- | people” and leprechauns and lowmen. | the blarney stone, but this is for - Let us listen to the voice of | tourists, accepted only by Le an unspoiled .conscience, @ con- | mam, a8 aide te, Site ws aad science pet soared over 88 WH | i. irish Tetersational Air Lie.

, for our guidance and es; Banshees and the like are

a true sense of direction let us | not for him. listen to the still small Voice of | the spirit of God. GLASSHOUSE PLANNED

I am, Sir, ete., Quebec architects build W.D. JOHNSTON |their province's at

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