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Let's Get It Straight

= »There may, indeed, have been some

~time-wasting in a procedural wrangle in the Legislature the other day in

-connection with the tabling’ of a re- |

port from Ottawa, and perhaps in other matters as well, which drew a strongly worded rebuke from Prem- ier Shaw. We do not. think, however, that a point raised by Dr. Bonnell at the same sitting falls into this cat- egory, notwithstanding that it was dubbed “ridiculous” by Provincial Treasurer Farmer. This had to do with permitting federal money to go into the general revenue of the prov- ince when it was earmarked for a special use—in this case for the use of farmers for crop insurance.

It was Dr. Bonnell’s contention that this money “should not go into the

_. treasury to build provincial buildings

or for ministers to go on trips,’’ but . be set aside for the purpose for which it was received. Mr. Farmer maintain- ed that it is the regular practice for all \monies received by the government - to go into the consolidated fund. If so -it-is-a-practice which is open.to grave objection. — ‘ It will be reéalled that in the brief presented recently by the board of governors. of Prince of Wales College, accompanying the board’s first an- - nual budget to the Executive Council, this same point was raised. The brief complained, not only of the inad- equacy of the provincial grant to the institution but that the government, following a course unique in the administration of public colleges in Canada, kept the fees and the federal - university grant: as well. In effect, - since 1961 the government of Can- - ada has simply been subsidizing the

~ government of Prince Edward Island

by the amount of this grant, and Prince of Wales has received little benefit from it. The brief went on to propose that not-only should the - legislative grant be increased; but that the college in future retain its fees and the federal grant. No doubt it is a great convenience for any government to have uncon- trolled use of funds coming into its _hands. A recent example has been cit- ed in British. Columbia,. where Pre- mier Bennett has diverted his sales : tax—which originally started out as a hospital and municipal aid _tax—to consolidated revenue and—according to the Vancouver Sun—has. consis- © tently shortchanged the hospitals and municipalities since. What is wrong about - these prac- tices, as the, Vancouver paper well says, is that they undermine the authority of the legislature. Control over the public purse by represent- ative institutions is the means Anglo- Saxon nations have taken through the centuries to restrain. the. executive power. It is the Opposition’s duty to preserve this safeguard, and we deem it to be our own duty, as a newspaper,

_ to back it up in its efforts.

Not The British Way

To add spice to the British election campaign which will soon be under way, Tory leader Edward Heath recently challenged Prime Minister Wilson to a television confrontation, and Mr. Wilson said he was agreeable

‘provided Jo Grimond, the~ Liberal

party leader, also participated. But Mr. Heath wasn’t born yesterday, and didn’t fall for this proposal. The Lib- rals have relatively small backing in the country. Such a confrontation, it was felt, would reduce the prestige of the Tory leader—which of course- would suit .Mr. Wilson all right but wouldn't do much to get Conservative votes. Mr. Heath evaded the trap by reminding the Prime Minister of his own challenge to Sir Alec Douglas- Home, who was PM during the 1964: election. There was no suggestion ‘that the Liberal leader should be in- . vited to participate at that time. It was a-good point. But Mr. Wilson has the best of the argumentafter all:

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It ia true that in 1964—borrowing the idea from the Kennedy-Nixon encoun- ter in the 1960 American elections— he did confront the Tory government leader with this challenge, feeling sure that he could demolish him in a television struggle. But Sir Alec re-

plied loftily that. the idea was dis-_|_

tinctly un-British. In effect, *he said, this was not a presidential campaign. The 630 British constituencies

‘House of Commons. Policies, not personalities, were at issue. The

Prime Mirtiister.is the.leader of the |

party that wins the most seats. He” ag Ts

represents a constituency like every: - one else. So rah the Conservative ar- gument at that time; but now that they are out of office, it is they who are “issuing the television challenge. This, of course, is practical politics. The man out of office generally has the most_to gain, a lesson the British learned from the Kennedy-Nixon

the electidén campaigr. and assured a

Kennedy victory. : It is said that in debating skills,

Mr. Wilson and Myr. Heath are pretty

may have a slight edge in the ex- changes over the dispatch boxes in the House of Commons. In any case, the chances .are slim that the Prime Minister will participate in the kind of showdown ° his chief opponent wants. There is said to have been a “flurry of-letter-writing” on the sub- ject, each side setting forth terms unacceptable to the other. The matter is now in the hands of the party whips, where it is likely to expire.

New Safety Move

A new move in the. drive to pres-

sure automobile manufacturers to in-

. Stall more safety features in their product is being considered by the New York State Insurance Depart- ment. The proposal is to raise in- surance rates for makes and models

of cars that are involved in accidents - more frequently than. others. A spokesman for the’ department. says the preliminary statistics are “strong | enough to prompt us to go on with the study.” ..

At present, auto insurance In New York is based almost entirely on the characteristics of the driver rather than of the vehicle—his age, his ac- cident record, how many miles he

_ drives annually, and other factors. The rates for the state are among the; highest in the natfon, but the whole system would have to be changed under the proposed setup. As a first step, the insurance industry officials will be asked to explore a way of collecting statistics that “will corre- late accident freqeuncy and insurance settlement costs with the safety characteristics and features of the vehicles’involved.” _

The logical follow-up to this survey ‘would be,the creation of a list of re- quired safety standards and features for all cars. Owners of automobiles that did not meet such standards would have their insurance rates boosted, or they might find difficulty in obtaining coverage at all, while there would probably be a reduction in rates for those with more safety

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In the meantime, it is noted that all cars registered in New York must now carry a minimum of $10,000- $20,000 insurance against bodily in- jury and $5,000 against property damage. The department has called for the passage of a bill pending in the state legislature that would. more than double these minimums.

Further developments in the new field of safety legislation will be followed with interest not only throughout the United States, but in Canada as well.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Anastas I. Mikoyan has resigned as Soviet chief of state, reportedly on

munism it is much healthier to resign than wait to be kicked out. ** * We hope the British government will turn a deaf ear to the proposal

get to the bottom of the Loch Ness monster legend by dredging the 30- mile-long Scottish lake to find if the monster really exists. That’s no way to treat a profitable legend. Surely no true Scot would subcribe to-the idea for-a-moment:! * * *

‘ The Dominion Automobile Associa- tion has come up with a new bit of traffic information. A survey of professional drivers revealed criticism not for the highway slowpoke but the follower of the slowpoke who refuses

others to pass two, and eventually more than two cars to avoid a monu-

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RACE NOT ALWAYS TO THE SWIFT

OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson » MacEachen Drops Hint Of Pension Policy

The first glimpse of a com- prehensive, fair and economi- cal system of social security has been unveiled by the Minister of National Health and Welfare. This would not be a flat in- crease of $25, to bring the old age pension up to $100 per month for millionaires and medicants alike - as urged by some poli- ticians. Instead,-it would raise the pension of the needy only, to a level permitting adequate dignity in their way of life. © ’ The Minister, Hon. Allan Mac-

_'Eachen, dropped his first hint

of this in a speech to the Coop- erative Insurances Services in Regina. Was he just thinking £ hinting at government plans? BEST OF NOVA SCOTIA ~ Allan MacKEachen is @ re- tiringly outstanding figure the Pearson Cabinet. Modest and rather shy, he yet greatly p careful observers when as a 32-year old back-ben- cher he first ‘sat in the House of Commons in 1953. Deeply im- bued with the Highland Catho- lic’s. respect for learning, this young Nova Scotian brought a massive training in ~ economics to Parliament Hill, for he had sat at the feet of the famous Dr. M. M. Coady, the father of the Antigonish social reform move- ment, at St. Francis Xavier University. After further stu- dies at the universities of Toro- nto and Chicago, and at Bos- ton’s M. I. T., he had returned to St. F.X. to become head of its Economics and Social Sciences

department until elected to Parliament. ; Beaten in the Diefenbaker

sweep of 1958, he was taken on the new Liberal leader, Mike Pearson, as his special assistant and .consultant in- economic af- fairs. In 1962 he was re-elected to the House, and in 1963 his former boss appointed him Mi-

“nister—of “Labour.—Three- months:

ago, he was moved to his ap- propriate niche as Minister of Health and Welfare whilst re-

maining one of Mr. Pearson's |:

closest advisers.

I asked Mr. MacEachen to tell me the background of the tantalizing glimpse given in his Regina speech. As we sat talk- ing in his parliamentary office he revealed his massive grasp of the ‘complicated economic problem of improving the lot of our aged poor without overtax- ing our younger workers.

It is recognized that $75 per

Our Yesterdays

(From The Guardian \Files)

TWENTY --FIVE-YEARS-AGO-_/-

; (March 10, 1941) *

The Greek. High Command said its forces in Albania had seized strong Italian positions and taken 300 more prisoners in

the face of fiercely extended at- |

tacks which cost the Fascist forces a heavy toll. .

_Enteying the City basketball playddwns, were: Camille Peters, Marjotie McCarville, Evelyn

~-Gallant;--Glayds--Chaisson,Pean- |.

ie Peters, Helen Camp bell, Pauline Peters, Catherine Duffy, Melita Crosby, Mildred Camp- Bell and Helen Cahill. The team was 75 and had been ill for ettes Basketball team and was coached by Ted Wilson.

TEN YEARS AGO (Mareh- 10, 1956) = The -Earl of Bessborough, gov-

ernor- general of. Canada from 1931 to 1935 ‘and a man of wide international -business interests died at his home at Stansted Park, Hampshire, England. He was 75 and had een i11 for three months.

Archbishop Makarlos and three other banished leaders’ of the Greek Cypriot Church were

' transferred to a British frigate

near Mombasa, Kenya, for a 1,- 000- mile voyage into exile in the Indian ocean. a

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month, or $900 per year, 1s an inadequate income for our re- tired folk who cannot benefit from the new Canada Pension Plan. A minimum income to provide retirement with dignity. is -now tentatively accepted by the government as being $1,260

person, and $2,220 for a couple But, Allan MacEachen ‘point- ed out to me, there may: be spe- cial circumstances in individual cases calling for more than this minimum; obviously he ex- plained, living costs may be higher in a city than on a farm. ‘In such cases, secondary help in addition to an increase of $30 per month in the Old Age Pen- sion is needed. ¢

TAXES WOULD SOAR ~

We now face an annual tax burden of $1 billion to pay a

or $105 per month, for a single | b

would rise to at least $2.1 bil- lion by 1970, when it would be payable to everyone aged 65 or over. ‘This extra expenditure could only be financed through higher taxes,"* Mr. MacEach- en said. It would he even more on the taxpayer to pay out $30 to all and even more to some, by way of increased Old Age Pension. § -

The simplest and most talk- ed about solution to the income problems of our senior citi- zens is the $25 per month in- crease; but, insisted Mr. Mac- Eachen this is by no means a fully -satisfactory solution, and

maly and waste of paying a pen- sion to persons who don’t need it. .

I will elaborate details of the MacEachen proposal - another

monthly pension of $75. With

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Women long ago won the war of equality with men. One of their most fundamental victories in that war was the right to equality in education.

They now appear to be throw- ing away the peace. .

In support of this charge are three facts., cited recently by Mrs. Leona Murphy, director of

graduation.

There are fewer women earn- ing Ph.D. degrees today than in

1920. The number of women doctors

is about the same as it was. in | 1910, : !

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Waste Of Woman Power

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Many of the others, she says, | are trapped in low-paying un-

| cation. | won her education the hard way,

| at night school — a sad waste of | woman power.

Bs Recently ‘we noted reference | oil was practically odorless and

| to the idea that skunk oil has, or _ at one time was believed to have | medicinal value as_ treatment | for whooping cough. Be this as it | may, in an earlier day in On- | tario-there’ was a market for | sku 1k oil. | *This oil certainly is not to be | confused with the nauseous em- | anation which makes _ skunks | fearsome to encounter. It rath- er is the oil obtained by the ren- | dering of the fat—and skunks | seem always to be fat animals. We recall one farm lac who, in | modern parlance, was slightly | retarded. But he was an excel- lent trapper. His principal ob- jectives were skunks. They had a-dual value. He could get* 50 cents or.75 cents for a hide and, | by rendering down the fat, could ' get something;extra for it, The

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| it was being bought for medicin- | al uses. One had to be very wary, how- lever, in trapping skunks— and |for reasons that are rent. | The trick is to disable them “be- fore they have opportunity to | aim and to spray you. Their aim |cam be accurate and the spray travels quite a few feet. This | young trapper had his system. 'He carried a broom handle. AS the skunk was being pulled out | of the hole he smacked it over | the back. That rendered the | animal's armory ineffective.

fast. | ITALY DRAWS WORLD

A reécord total . - 23,795,200 tounists visited Italy in 1965 and , Spent about $1,200,000,000 while on holiday there,

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tiny blisters (cold sores) | goor last night. Was it the post- spect, monkeys are smarter than tongue, roa, poe. and genital”) — “Was it before eight o'clock Freabolier.

ans. i ‘ the herpes simplex virus have | of, Stee?" —Hamilton Specte- | visiting « critically ill lawyer resisted all the antibiotics end | | dn hospital, his friend found him other drugs. a9 A-parishioner was badly beat- | Propped up on bed, frantically

Flagyl is a specific remedy | ing his minister at a game of |looking through the Bible.

for trichomonas organisms of | golf. ‘Cheer up, Reverend,” |‘‘What are you doing?” the which T. vaginalis is the most | the man consoled. ‘‘Remem.- | friend asked. Replied the law- notorious. These parasites are | ber, in the end you'll win. I ex- | yer: ‘Looking for loopholes.””— giants compared to viruses and | pect that some day you'll be | Financial Post. inhabit the “intestines, bladder | burying me.” ‘‘Even 80," the and sexual organs. One form, | cleric answered. ‘“‘it will be A graduate student doing a T. tenax, inhabits the oral cav- | your hole.”—(Montreal Star. study of juvenile delinquency ity where # ts considered harm- hed difficulty collecting data. less. Now and then the organ- A bank in California is 00 | 5. ject to telephone 10 ism is found in canker sores and | proud of its modern bookkeep- igure pubes. Drs. William F, MeGuire and | ing equipment and sure of its | homes et 9. m. each night and Herbert R. Goldberg sug- | accuracy that it now offers, a | ask the parents if they knew gest that the parasite and the | free dinner for two at a local | where their children were at virus may play a dual causative | restaurant for.any customer find- | that hour. ‘‘My first five calls’ role. Killing the T. tenax with | ing an error in his bank state- |he lamented, ‘were ‘answered Flagyl may weaken their com- | ment. It doesn’t sound like much | by children who had no idea bined attack and hasten recov- | of a deal for the restaurant. —— |.where their parents were.” — ery. | Ottawa Journal. ' | Toronto Globe end Mail.

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