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“The strongest ‘memory is weaker than, the weakest ink”

PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1966.

~ Liberals Follow Suit

They say a lot of oldtimers are still muttering in_their beards “Shaw Centre” when the new provincial

_ building complex is mentioned, not-

withstanding the government ukase . that has gone out, obliterating the

~ Tory-associated name from the mem-.

“ory of man. It keeps cropping up at the oddest moments, sometimes embarrassingly on the lips of those. who hadn’t meant to use the tabooed term in mixed company, not knowing whether there were any spies around who might report their misdemeanor and get them put on the black list. The nomenclature reformers may have to wait until the present genera- tion dies out altogether before they can be-quite sure that the effects of the original christening have been eradicated.

‘In the circumstances, perhaps it would be better to let stand the name the Pearson government has bestow- ed on the great dam on the South Saskatchewan river near Outlook, Sask., which has already given rise

-- to a political-storm-involving all ‘three.

~-hiere would seem-to be-more justified: |.

major parties. Yet a-re-christening |

than in our case. - The dispute springs from the gov- ernment’s decision to name the dam

other two (2.84 per cent against 2.07 per cent and 1.9 per cent), but a list of comparative prices of this company and the other two (plus one more) showed that it sold a quarter or more of its merchandise at lower

‘ prices than its competitors.

_ So it would appear that food stores do not; after all, have to give trading

the arguments of Frank Howard, NDP member for Skeena, who has before the Commons a bill which would make it an offence for stores to issue trading stamps and similar coupons. Mr. Howard estimates that trading stamps add approximately three to four per cent to the cost of articles and commodities and that their elimination would thus reduce the price of food by three to four per cont ee:

A similar agitation, we note, Js under .way in several American cen- tres. The Federal Trade Commission has been asked to look into the mat- ter. Certainly the subject is important enough_to_warrant_the closest_scru- tiny by legislative authorities, on both sides of the line.

Factory-made Homes

across Catiada. Perhaps the real solution lies in an inquiry-the Ontario Housirig Corporation has undertaken, with a view to getting manufacturers. of building materials together to find ways of ‘producing prefabricated homes and factory-made components. ‘The difficulty heretofore has been to ~ provide mass produced houses which are cheap yet varied enough when in humbers to escape monotony., But it should not be an insoluble problem.

ves in this connection, it has become extremely difficult ‘for people of -modest means to make an ambition of owning their own home as _ they did until a few. years ago. The price of a lot today very often exceeds

spiralied. Under such conditions, home ownership for people of small means_becomes impossible and public

officially the Gardiner-dam, in honor ~ of the late James G. Gardiner, long- time Liberal minister-of agriculture

gt Ottawa and before that twice pre-

“decision” was taken, andthe Tories ~|-eimpse_of “1

thier of Saskatchewan. It is unques- tionably true that Mr. Gardiner fought, and fought hard, to have the dam built; but it is also true that the “ government of which he was a senior ° member steadfastly refused to build the dam. It was under John Diefen- baker’s administration that this

claim that ‘the project should be named after him. meen ? At the same time, the cooperation of the government of Saskatchewan sat that time headed by T. C. Douglas—was necessary, both in sup: plying some provincial funds and in. agreeing to have the province operate the dam after it was built. There is 4 case for Mr. Douglas being honored. : It will be noted, from the above, that the Pearson government hasn’t profited by what the Campbell gov- érnment claims to have been a faux pas on the part of the Conservatives in naming a political figure for honor in matters of this kind. It went ahead and did the same thing, despite the tival claimants for recognition. Imi- fation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery. Rone

: Why didn’t they just call it the South, Saskatchewan dam and be done With it? A good question, this, for Mr. Campbell to ask Mr. Pearson in a gently chiding manner, when he gets the.opportunity. ....-...-_-

Those Trading Stamps The present inquiry into food prices has brought out some interest-

g

~ ing facts about trading stamps. The

‘y

vice-president of merchandising for the largest food chain in Canada told the parliamentary committee that — trading stamps had cost his company more than $1,500,000 in each of the last five years, and that they had beet, forced on his company because . competitors offered them. The presi- dent of another large food chain said it would be fatal for a company not to give trading stamps. It would thus appear that chain grocery storés do not want to be in the trading stamps business, but are forced into it be- cause their competitors use this kind of sales promotion and they must fol- .

» low suit.

But the evidence didn’t all run in this direction. A spokesman for yet another large food chain testified .that his organization does not use

-- trading stamps. ‘This store’s. profits

becomes more and more of a neces- sity. :

Here again the~difficulty is to bring down costs. The mind turns at

surest way of doing it. At the same time- this produces some dreary mental. images—rows and rows of houses all alike, inside and out, plant- ed on: lots all the same size—like a

pil cerca eas a haat Soe Sa I

It is this image that the Ontario

avoid. It intends to invite manufac- turers of: giass, steel, concerte, wood, aluminum, plastics and other build- ing materials to meet: and put for- ‘ward their ideas. Can it be done? Can an endless stream of houses be produced, all of them more or less individualistic and yet made to a price? They would not, of course, all have to be different. It is repetition that produces monotony, and the solu- tion might lie in concentrating on a fixed number of models in each area —merely enough to provide the needed _ variety. : The Ontario experiment, if it gets well launched, will be followed with interest across the country. Indeed it is surprising, in this day and age, that it wasn't undertaken long ago. -

EDITORIAL NOTES

The European Free Trade Associa- tion reports that since 1959, trade has doubled. In the same period,

trade among its Nordic members has

tion’s'next objective is to remove all protective tariffs on maunfactured goods traded inside the area. This is slated for Jan. 1. It will establish a free trade area of some 90 million persons. eee :

Water and air aren’t the only things that are being polluted nowadays, A writer in an American magazine deplores the pollution of language by pompous television an- nouncers and educators. He com-

placed even that redundancy with “programs for teaching driver educa- tion skills.” Adding substance to this complaint, the New York Times re- ports a school principal who, in obfecting to long-haired/ students, said they were “disruptive of the

after taxes were higher than the

. learning situation.”

stamps to attract business. And if a - chain does not, its profits are higher, ' its prices cheaper. This adds force to

The need to provide more housing

As the Hamilton Spectator obser-.

what would have been the price of the lot and the home on it 15 years - ‘ago. Labor and material” costs “have~|~fency’"of

housing; with its subsidized rents,

--once to mass production which is the -

Housing Corporation is seeking to

among its eight member corntries

leaped 150 per cent. The organiza-_

plains ‘that education has become . “the education process.” Instead of: driving, schools at first taught “driver . education” and more recently re-.

?

MR. SHARP MEET MR. JOHNSON

~ OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

While Parliament was debat- ing the introduction of medicare, a deputation from the Canadian Medical Association very ap- propriately called upon Health Minister Allan MacEachen. Its “purpose was to urge the minis-

"ter to modify his plans for the

deferment of medicare: until July 1968, and to make it avail- ‘able forthwith for the 30 per cent ef Canadians with inadequate incomes.

Speakers in the debate and Dr. ~R.K.C,. Thomson, president

—of the CMA, alike touched on the

weakest point of the medicare

‘.eomprehensive nation-wide med- ical service. Today Canada ranks 12th in

the world inthe ratio of doctors |-

to population. Russia leads the world, with one doctor to every 400 Russians, Dr. Thomson said. Then in order follow Austria,

Norway, Spain — and finally: Canada, with-a-ratio of one doc--

the morning, and to consult with eight in his office between 2 and 6 p.m. Less han 30 minutes per patient is regarded as insuffic- ient; more then 10 consultations during. an- afternoon could be s0 taxing that the patient does not Teceive the optimum examina- tion and advice.

Thus each Canadian could ex- pect to be able to see his family doctor only once every eight months on average. That many enjoy more frequent consulta- tions is a tribute to the unselfish- ly long hours worked by our

|~-Our Yesterda =

(From The Guardian

The abandonment of Stalino, important t basin indus- trial centre, after several days of violent fighting in which Ger- man losses were placed at 50,000 officers and men was announc-

ed by the Soviet information bur _ @au.

. Private business establ is h- ments employing more than 50 persons and building contractors employing more than 10 must pay a oon son bonus to every employee the rank of foreman or lower after Feb. 15, announced Labor Minister Me- Larty. : .

TEN YEARS AGO

. (Cctoger 26, 1956) Violent fighting continued in the heart of Budapest with the Hungarian troops and tanks in some cases joining the side of the rebels in defying Soviet mil-

, itary might.

The government, trying des- perately to end the Hungarian

. Yebellion as it went into its third

night, announced it is ready to seek the..withdrawal of Soviet ~ oecupation troops from the coun-

try.

| ing to equip each carrier with a

vices to citizens.

GPs; it also emphasises the large number of Canadians who cannot afford to see a doctor as often as they should. WILL DETERIORATE

The ‘experience in other coun- tries shows that universal medi- care increases the demands for doctors’ services. With Canada’s present medical staff, today’s problem in general practice would become a crisis under ~ The urgent prior need ‘s a larger supply of doctors. This in ‘turn -is-dependent-upon_m.ore medical schools

chers.

|—Dr; PB: R-y-na-r-d,-MP-from-|+

Orillia, pointed out in‘the House | that it takes eight years to train a doctor, and 16 years to train a. medical teacher. government

and more. tea- | ar

~ Acute Crisis Threatened In Medical Services

planning to introduce medicare thus should have had the fore- sight to inaugurate its plans

fons for training doctors.

We see that postmen out in Vancouver are getting set to give dogs a hard time. Because postmen are favorite targets for dogs— .some 579. Vancouver let- ter carriers were bitten last year— postal authorities are go-

spray gun loaded with an anim- al repellent derived from the

‘pepper plant. The theory, we

_|_suppose,_is that the unfortunate | cial

recipients will be kept so busy sneezing they will not be able to put the bite on the postmen.

It seems a pity to deprive dogs of what may be the only fun some of them get out of life, but the mail, of. course; must go

Dogs Prefer Postme Guelph. Mercury :

dogs prefer postmen in the first place. Could it be they are try- ing to tell us something? We think so. The answer seems. ob- vious. They are mad becatse they never get any mail.

But that’s not the whole an- swer. Dog are funny. We knew one once who received a letter. It announced acceptance of his name“for publication in the So- cial Register. A that was need ed to actually get thé name in print was payment of the cus- tomary $25 fee. But because his master refused to give -him the

A

through. The question that has never been answered is why

During that period he bit postman nine times.

Are We

It's nonsensical that the more prosperous this country becom- es the less it can afford for ser-

Yet that seems to be the way the postal service goes.

The latest proposal to make it poorer comes from the royal commission on post office de- partment working conditions. One of its recommendations {is 2 stop Saturday home deliver-

8.

- There are other recommenda- tions -that Postmaster General Jean-Pierre. Cote should heed— such as measures to improve staff relations. But the govern- ment should not consider depriv- ing people of their Saturday mail.

Even in the thin days of the depression this country could afford...Saturday... deliveries, . as. well as twice-a-day deliveries to homes.

But in the midst of the post- war boom the government decid- ed that two deliveries a day

So Impoverished? —

Toronto Daily Star

second daily round was cancell- ed in 1951, although business continued to get frequent ser- vice. os ea

Now that we are in the most

known, it is proposed to cancel Saturday deliveries, and to close all postal operations be- tween Friday and Sunday eve- nings in most areas. é

Maybe bureaucrats think per- sonal letters aren’t important. They are to the person writing and the person receiving them—. ‘even if they are only ‘‘get-well’’ or birthday cards.

Postal employees are entitled, like most other workers, to a five-day week. Saturday mail doesn’t have to be abolished to provide it.

..... ene only excuse for doing so is. that the country can’t afford it. __.Nonsense. If impoverished Bri- tain can maintain two mail de- liveries a day, including Satur- days, this righ country can af.

were a privilege, a luxury that families shouldn't have. The

Dutch Cows

N may come as a@ surptise to dairymen in Oxford County, . which has boasted of producing more milk than any area of the same size in the world, that Dutch cows are the best: produc- ers. Indeed Canadian bovines are tenth on the list.

The average Dutch cow yields 4,178 kilograms (a kilogram be- ing the equivalent of 22 pounds) per year. Belgian cows come a Close second with 4,042 kilo grams, followed by those of Den- mark, with 3,819; U.S., 3,574; Germany, 3,571; Switzerland, 3,- 360; Finland, 3,228: England; 3,114; Norway, 3,020: Sweden, 2,978 and Canada, 2,886. Of a list of 18 countries included in a German survey, the tows of Greece came last with 1,178 kilo- grams. .

This doesn’t mean necessarily

all Dutch cows are better than the best ef Canadian cows.

ford at least to continue one Saturday delivery.

In The Lead .

Certainly many Canadian dairy cattle are exported far and wide because of their excellence. But it does seem to mean the aver-" age cow in the lowlands, Scan-

There are many’ farmers who have dual purpose herds which combine good beef with a reas-

onably supply of milk. If these_|j

be included in the above statis- _tics, it might help explain why Canadian cows are well down ‘the list as milk producers.

GROWTH MUST STOP

At the present rate of popula: tion growth, by the year 3600 the weight of people would

g Kj g c 5 = € 3 3 3

4 ple around. However,

prosperous era Canada has ever |“

‘Gebbine Night Out...

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen Hall is a big night for the small fry. Adult. drivers

are difficult to spot, especially when wearing dark clothing and | masks. Pre-schoolers should al- . Ways be under’ the watchful eye ofaparent. =~ . The destructive vandalism of ‘generations ago is passe. Teen- agers will do their contemporar- fes a favor by acting like adults for a few.-hours. pets,.especially dogs, house and leave the porc burning for the safety of cerned. Avoid getting the tation of the neighborhood ch. by. putting away lawn

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If there is a tykye im your household ‘who is looking forward to/‘trick or treating’ make it as

safe as possible for him. ¥ colored costumes and those tape

of cold cream, vegetable dye, mascara, or rouge. A“false face also can be made with eye- brow pencil, grease paint, or burnt cork.

Halloween “costumes can be

garments into three quarts of warm water, seven ounces of bo- rax, and three ounces of boric acid. Flimsy materials, baggy sleeves, and hillowy skirts are fire hazards. Tell the youngsters to stay away from bonfire's, lighted matches and cigarets, fireplaces; and stoves. Almost any cloth, flameproofed or not, will burn to some extent.

Give the children at the door the same “‘treat’’ you want your own youngsters to receive: Pre- packaged candy is available. Small children are not greedy and are easily satisfied.

DIABETES TYPES _

H. L. S. writes: What is the difference between potential dia- betes and active diabetes? eds REPLY

are many types of ac-: tive diabetes. The juvenile type is controlied with insulin; the kind that develops later is. con- trolled with anti-diabetic p 111s. geneticists believe that all | forms are the same and are due to an hereditary factor. Poten-

| tial diabetes is a tendency te |

become diabetic.

CELLS AND X-RAY Mrs. N: W. writes: Does X-ray

.

REPLY

Malignant cells are more sen- sitive to the effects of X-ray but ‘both normal and abnormal cells would be destroyed if the dose were large enough. This explains why-there is a limit-to the |- amount that can be given in the treatment of cancer. : TENDERIZERS IN COOKING

Mrs. F. writes: My ‘husband thinks it is harmful to use meat tenderizers in cooking. Do you

think 80? - REPLY

ing editor will agree with me. If these substances were poisonous there would be lots of sick peo- they should not be used on decaying meat. ANEMIA—IN PREGNANCY Mrs. K. writes: Does preg- Nancy cause anemia?

REPLY Yes, provided the woman bleeds or does not eat a balanc- ed diet. - TODAY’S HEALTH HINT—

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flameproofed by dipping the |

Many a wine drinker

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WASHINGTON (CP) — Inter- national conferences in Manila, Moscow, New Delhi and Europe testify to the currents of change in the established of power. ,

China, more isolated . than ever, is a primary cause.

' The Manila of the ‘Viet. Nam allies represents re- cognition of those allies—what-

t the U.S.

that, the Communist bid for. mi- litary victory in the south has been frustrated. But the Southeast Asian ‘éaty” Organization and the : Euro Treaty Or- ee, put together by the

U.S. more than a decade ago

to contain communism, passe. | Be At Moscow, the Soviet Union conferred its Eastern Eu- la and One man question was

Viet Nam. In Europe, the U.S.,- Britain

Wine that .was bottled at the time of Waterloo was on sale in London last week when the~fa- mous firm of auctioneers, Chris- tie’s, held its first wine auction since the war. There was a bot- tle of Madeira of 1815 and two ancient bottles of Madeira whose exact year is not known. The connoisseurs were also able to taste cognac of the vintage that may have been drunk by both Napoleon and Wellington: It was bottled in 1815, while another, “younger” bottle bears the date of 1820. ;

Clarets of 1945 will delight who may have ambivalent memories of that vintage if he was among those who drank it fresh from the vineyards while in uniform; both the wine and the drinker being then much younger and: with much less body.

The fate Ian Fleming once dived for Greek amphorae filled with 2,500-year-old. wine’ carried on board a ship that sank in

_United States and its six South

ever their earlier fears about. is. in ‘the struggle .to stay and:

: Currents Of Change.

MacKenzie Canadian Press Staff, Washington

and West Germany are disctis. sing their contributions to the detente. There are likely te be reductions in American and British troop commitments in West Germany under NATO— desirable fore conomic reasons

‘| sand cooling-off of West Ger.

man aspirations for a larger | nuclear role in NATO to fit ite ler-power status. : MUST COMPROMISE : The latter is regarded as es- sential for any nuclear agree-

India, Yugoslavia and th ee sn neni _met na out cau any of the interia- tional ripples

bers of the non-aligned world once were able to create... °

They predictab! ed U.S.,_ to halt pene: Mn a North, VietNam as an essential ‘pre- jude to peace, but this has be

quarters.

The. neutralist world today is di and, without the infly- ence it might have claimed: once. India and the U.A.R. have internal problems; the crusad- ing fervor has left Albania,

classical times outside the Mar-

In The

Tt usedto be, and ~ probably- still. ts, the pleasure of children to build-enormous sand castles at low tide on the beaches near St. Malo, on the coast of Brit-: tany in France.

The children, eternal optimists girdle their__castles _with—sand walls three feet-high, jump in- side the barrier and dare the flood tide to breach it.

But the mightiest sand wall cannot withstand the silent surg- ing might of a flood tide in the Gulf of St. Malo, where the tidal rise and fail may be as much as

Gulf Of St Malo-

Milwaukee Journal

Ghana, Indonesia and - some other Afro-Asian areas, °

In Vino Veritas

Winnipeg Free Press Rene seilles harbor. The amphorse

that lay for two and a half mil- lenia on-the bottom of the Med- iterranean were brought up, the seals brc':2n, and the creator of James Bond tasted. what the Greeks in those far-off days were selling to their well-to- do colonials who -had settled Mar- seilles. Alas, the wine had turn-

ed into pure vinegar, and” we

shall never know the taste of the wine with which Homer refresh- ed himself as he paused in writ- ing his epics, and that inspired i to call the sea ‘“‘wine-color-

It is equally possible that we

ment with the’ Soviet Union, | West Germany may have to ac-. ictures

cent some other strictures as In New Delhi, the leaders of

the leading mem-

come old hat from. numerous -

may never know the taste of the

brandy that sustained, or failed to sustain, Napoleon during his- last effort to regain supremacy in Europe. There, are various explanations for his strange and unaccustomed lassitude . his last battle. Could the secret be found in that bottle that was offered at. Christie's? Here isa - new. challenge for- historians,

scientists and all lovers of the .

grape They should not refuse it, -

400'feet long holds the tida} flood. Built into the dam are 3 French design generator-“‘bulbs”

each 45 feet long and 18 feet in -

diameter: and resembling miniae ture submarines.

The project, begun in 1960, hae attracted Americans and Cana-~ dians hopeful that the same tech- niques can be used in the long planned, long stalled Passama- quoddy tidal power project is Canada's Bay of Fundy.

Proposed as early as 1920 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, found ec onomically feasible by Interior

Centuries ago the French be-

‘gan liarnessing this tidal power,

a gift of the gravitational pull of the moon. Mills were set up on tidal creeks. The incoming tide filled a basin was held in check by dikes and turned a mill wheel. when it flowed out at ebb tide.

month the French are

This beginning full scale operation of the 80,000,000 electricite de France (EDF) project which harnesses the tides in the Rance river. estuary, near St. Malo, to

Everyone has some degree’ of anxiety.

Montreal Moncton Saint John Halifax. Sydne

Vancouver

equal’ the weight ef the earth.

generate electric power. A damand lock structure 2,-

Corner Brook Wy _ a

Secretary. Udall only three years ago, the-proposal has at- tracted a mixture of cheers, Jeers and inaction. A senate cri- tic once called it ‘‘moondoggling on ‘Qiioddy Bay.”

The French feel they have af ‘economic boon in their own “‘moondoggie.”” :

TOWERED HIGH The temple columns of Baah beck, Lebanon, which took 200

years to build, are 7% feet thick and 60 feet tall.

CN travel bargains

Charlottetown to:

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