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fiGE 4 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19. 1964.
Misdirecied Zeal
5; An Ottawa commentator notes that through some strange chemis- try, the flag issue has become for many Canadians a simple crystalliz- ation of the Pearson government's entire national policy. If this be so, it is due to poor strategy on the part of the Opposition, particularly the Conservative Opposition which has most to gain by showing that there are other and more important reasons for the current slow-down in parliamentary procedure.
The fact is that the government has done some remarkable fum- blinl;r in its legislative program. Time and again it has brought its bills into the Commons, then withdrew or revised them, with a minimum of order and efficiency. Even the Canada Pension Plan, the big pol- itical pitch of the Liberal election campaign, is still going through its fourth re-writing. And withai, government members have shown an arrogance all too reminiscent of the haughty attitude taken by the St. Laurent administration in its dying days.
Siren
All too often, legitimate ques- tions have been answered by super- cilious wisecracks or lofty silence by cabinet ministers, as if they enjoyed contributing to the delay and frustration they charge the Opposition with causing. We know, for our own part, that we can’t get a straightforward answer about the latest engineering report on our causeway project; not even wheth- er, as now reported, it is planned to provide for highway traffic only, with no provision for railway lines. This is just one case in point. Numerous other questions. of im- portance to other sections of the country, have been treated, at best, in the same offhand manner.
Even that staunch Liberal ad- vocate the Winnipeg Free Press, while blaming Mr. Diefenbaker for the furor over the flag issue, has the fairness to concede that the government's p r e s e n t dilemma arises from different and deeper causes. "All Mr Pearson’s troubles began," it says, “with the govern- ment’s first disastrous budget and the subsequent retreats from im- possible expectations. He can hardly hope to repair that damage and win full public confidence until he can present a different face to the nation and place our financial affairs in more competent hands."
It is high time that public at- tention was focused on issues of this kind and not on I threadbare controversy which the government cooked up as I smokescreen and in which the Conservatives have in- volved themselves with lamentable ehbrtsightedness and with I misdi- rected zeal that must be highly gtifying to Liberal party strate-
ts
it: The Only Remedy
The outlook in Cyprus remains
fillipromising, with NATO members
of. Greece and Turkey assuming what amounts to warlike positions ' inst each other, and the Soviet ion threatening to step into the Mb. This last development is
’ fiot Archbishop Makarios, the ZmIdent of Cyprus, has been ask-
for, and the immediate problem - is to prevent him from order- a. new attack on the Turkish I. . in the northwestern part ~‘ . island, thus reviving the pos- ' 3 v o: full-scale Turkish inter- . ' under the 1060 treItiII - ‘ ing and guaranteeing the
the
United Nations
Greek
Cypriot I/ttock is more than doubtful in view of its (lo-nothing record. Althoth it was expected to interpou itself between the two communities to forestall fighting. in practice it has confined itself to cations having the consent of both sides. To put it bluntly, the Cyprus force has not taken any action un- acceptable to Makarios, and there are no signs that any change is in the making.
This is the view expressed by an authoritatiVe New York Times commentator, Thomas J. Hamilton, who maintains that increasing the size of the UN force—es UN See. rotary-General Thant proposee— would not solve the problem unless the force is allowed more latitude.
The one-sidedness of the United Nations’s intervantion derives in part from the fact that Makarios’s neutralism has won the backing of most members of the African- Asian group, which has half the votes in the UN General Assembly. More important, however, are the precedents set up by the late Sec- retary-General Dag Hammerskjold when he established the UN Middle Eastern force during the Suez crisis.
At that time the United Arab Republic was given I veto over everything connected with the oper- ation of the force, and thus was enabled to convert a military debacle into I political triumph. The same precedents have governed the oper- ations of both the Congo and the Cyprus force.
Thus Makarios’s insistence that the United Nations, rather than NATO, provide the troops to keep peace in Cyprus has paid off; the Greek Cypriots have been allowed to use the United Nations inter- vention to make the best of both worlds.
Surely, once a government has asked the United Nations to come to its help, the organization itself should have complete powers of de- cision over every phase ‘of the force’s operations. Unless this les-
son is learned the peace-keeping in-
terventions of the UN will, continue to be one-sided, and a promising eXDeriment will be discredited.
Welcome Announcement
There will be widespread ap- preciation of the announcement that scholarships, bursaries and loans will be made available by the pro- vincial government to vocational school students in the province and to Island students taking the diploma course at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro. The fund will be in operation in time for the 1964-65 school year and will supplement the Canada Stud- ent Loan Fund which also goes into effect this year, but does not apply to vocational school students.
Mounting educational costs have made it necessary to impose a $100 tuition fee for vocational school training, and there has been criti- cism on this score from several quarters. It may still be felt as I hardship, but the new provision for scholarships, bursaries Ind loans will go far to lighten the load for students and parents.
While this is a government meas- ure, we note that the scholarship fund has been made possible through the generosity of Mr. Rob- ert L. Cotton, of Charlottetown, to whom the province is indebted for many acts of philanthropy. This is indeed I fine example of good citizenship, on invostment in the lives of our younger generation which will pay dividends not only to them but to the province and the country for many years to come.
EDITORIAL NOTES
Three MPs at the recent Couch- iching Conference argued that back- benchers “should be given more voice in the House of Commons af- fairs". What nonsense! As the Qt- tawa Journal well says, they were all given I voice in Parliament when they were elected. It is up to them to use it.
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It is disturbing to note that Il- most as many Canadians are leav- ing the country as are coming in. The curtailment of immigration from its high point of 282,164 in 1957 was It first deliberate Cane-
- disn policy, the outcome of the slow-
down in the economy. But there has been no slowdown the last few years. And yet the flow of immi- gutlol too not recovered.
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OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson
.Und'uly Modest About Our Charms?
"Having I great time down here in P.E.~I. The swimming and golf are wonderful." That cheerful report was penned on I postcard delivered by our friendly neighbourhood letter- carrler this morning, I postcard picturing “Cavendish Beach -— Prince Edward Island National Park, showing the beaut and d u n e l stretching for miles along the North Shore."
That postcard was written to my daughter by one of her teen - age boy friends now on holiday. I mention this to em- phasise that, not only aged squ- ares like myself can dig Spud Island.
The same ma'i‘l brought me I welcome letter from ath Macquarrie, the prominent MP from P.E.I., who is one of those comfortable men, comfortable in personality with nothing ab- rasive nor meretricious about him. “I have just read your delightful article on our ‘mod- est eyot‘ in ‘ ardian, he wrote, adding his hope and intention to visit the “deer isle" for the week-end,
Yes, I did describe P.E.I. Is “that modest eyot”. And my words intended in kindly spi- ri'i boomeranged upon my head.
HAPPY DAYS IN P.E.I.
Describing the surprised ple- asure recounted to me by a prominent Ottawan holiday- ing in P.E.I., I recently Mote in this column: “The Prince Ed- ward Islander is unswervingly loyal but needlessly modest about his home province." Thai.
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BICYCLE PARADE
stn— You are fImillI'r with the laying: “He tells some tell stories". Well: Here goes I story about ill! bicycles. The older folk will remember when they were in vogue. It was be- tween 1090 Ind 1895 that the writer remembers seeing t he first one of the high type. I am prompted to write this by the fact that our young people did I fine job of decorating their bik- es for the Centennial bicycle parade in the city and towns.
The high bicycle consisted of one high wheel of IomeWhIre in the vicinity of 5 feet in dinner“.
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went down at the rear high wheel with I forked end to which was affixed I email wheel between 12 or 15-inch“ in diam- eter. It took I good amount of skill to mount one of those con- crepiions. If the rider fell from one of them, he would surely come to grief. It was I boon when the safety bicycle wII h-
mIn) whom the writer first saw riding the safety, low two.wa- ed kc. He was home on I visit from Afflebom, Mum. where he (offnontbegmndfloorln the Iu I . I where be operated one of the first senses in thf ItIle.
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ED. Montague.
I believe is true: absence of braggsdocio is the hallmark of P.E.I.’s natives — bilegged not- bivalved. But that's another important story: the very suc- culent native oysters, the Mal- peques, are alone sufficient to spread the fame of PEI around the globe.
I mentioned in my writing that my friend bad so enjoyed his charming and unusual holiday in the tranquil island that he had become, in con- trast to the natives, “an effec- tive saleman for that modest eyoc in the St. Lawrence."
Forfhwith I was taken to leek by ‘The Guardian’, which claims that I am a stranger be- littling P.E.I. from Ottawa’s Olympian heights.
“Perhaps Patrick Nicholson had better speed up his plan- ned visit to this province, to discover-for himself that it is neither quite so small not quite
odesf as it appears to him while sitting in Ottawa." it do- claimed.
Perhaps my column gave P.E.I. more friendly headlines in newspapers across Canada than anything else last week. But. with apologies where they are due, I shall put the record
raight.
BLOW YOUR TRUMPET!
.I did not refer to P.E.I.'s size as it appe a r s from Oil! w a , though of course we know that it could be comfortably submerg-
ed without trace even in Georg- ian Bay, which is I more ap-
ndage of one of the four Great Lakes forming the south- Western border of this pro- vince. Much of P.E.I.’I charm seems to me to elem from its consequent trim huabandry, in contrast to Ontario’s prodigalify of unkempt some.
I believe that the Islanders are, as tourist operate", unduly modest about the charms of their island —- and of themsel- ves. ln thll spirit I described it Is “that modesteyotln the . Lawrence." An eyot is "I small island in I rlver": if I term as river the mighty St Lawrence, which debeuches to a width of over 300 miles in its gulf, it does not strain the meiosis to describe "The Gar- den ofthe Gulf", “lob is over
00 miles long, an In "islet" In that "river." .
It was many years Igo when I first succumbed to the charms of the red - soiled islet. I might aptly recall! mot another jour- nalist, when he visited P.E.I., also marvelled It "as pretty I country as you ever put your eye upon." ’l‘hIt was George B ro w n, editor of the Toronto "Globe". setting first eyes upon P.E.I. shortly Ifter sun- rise on let September 1m. Is the ship “Queen Victoria" eI- rried him and his fellow Felli- ers - of - Confederation - to . be, including Sir John A. Meedon- ald, towards ChIrlothfown.
Pension Plan In Focus
London Free Press
The federal government's White Paper on pensions. while introducing little that is n e w about the forth- coming Canada Pension Plan, does serve to put the whole discussion in better focus, and will clarify personal Ind corporate retirement plan- ning involving millions of Cl!!- adians.
One thing the White Paper does do is set out with more ex- Icfness the starting date of the plan. This is now put It JInuIry 1, 1966 instead of Iomedme In 1965 as previously estimated.
The nsions proposals as they stand are the product of long, Ind it II obvious, useful ,debste. There are still questions to be anwened about fh econ- omic impact of this legislation. But it does provide I piss which is noticed in scope I M! will cover both employed I n d self-employed persons. Matters relating to the integration of this program with private pins have been more l y unused.
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Of Liberty.
Following vigorous repress» cation by some provinces. I funding feature bu been celeb- llshed which It is ouimefed will build up I reserve of four bli- lion dollars in I 10-yeIr frIul- tion period, viii. fund to be Ivsil- Ible to the provinces for then: public needs.
Regulations (overall! current flat rote pension of 875 per month will be Imended so that this will be IveiiIble It on 85 but It I ndu rm. falling by $4.80 for every you below 70.
The plan will have In effect on the investment Ind IIvingI patterns of CI'nIdIIns. With
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throat. Weakness, loss of spec- flte, night sweats, and backache He sermon.
Chest X-raye usually reveIl fuzzy shadows shnuar to those of mild pneumonia or tubercu- losis. Skin term become posit- lvebytheendoithefiret week and most victims Ire well on the road to recovery by the end of the second week. The skin test remains positive thereafter as telltale evidence of bovine been I victim. The disorder is not con- tagious and one attack confers lasting immunity.
Amphotericln B is the only sntlfungal remedy of value In this disease but it seldom is needed unless the fungi spread from the lungs to other parts of the body, This disseminated form is not common but occurs occasionally and is most serious when the brain is involved. Less than one in 1,000 victims of coc- cldioldomycosis becomes ser- iously ill.
Skin tests for this condition are done routinely in all tub- erculosis institutions because the two illnesses are so famil- iIr.
MESS AND CHOLESTEROL
W. M. writes: Could you please tell me if tension could raise the cholesterol level in the bloodstream?
L Then is some scientific evi- dence that this can occur,
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wry going into the us. Democratic party's nominating convention next week at Atlantic City.
But while the selection of the vice - presidential nonuuoe Io
. I matter 1 pm: identlal candidate, in feet John- son's hands are 1m free than he might like.
There misht be I genuine sun pri in store, however. for those observers who have set- tled on either of ' ' two masters, Hubert Hum phroy. 53, and Eugene Mean- t , 48.
e very fact that so much prominence has been given these two names might explIm why President Johnson would choose somebody else on the theory that this Would be less disruptive for party unity. KENNEDY 18 OUT
The vice-presidential sweep. stokes no considerably when President Johnson re- moved Attorney-General Robert Kennedy II I runner. That was done before Kennedy's backers really had achieved much mo- mentum. Politically, it had merit been use the Kennedy name is mud in the south where Senator Barry Goldwater's Re- .p u bl i c a in following outstrips Democratic strength.
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hrey’s supporters have been building up I study heed of steam for the liberally-minded man who suffers from some of
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nightly 81?. it is Is- gamed by many here that left to his own devices, President Johnson would choose Senator McCarthy without hesita- tion. McCarthy is I Roman Camellia, and would strengthen the Democratic party ticket.
He is on old and good friend of the president. a supporter in the 1960 nomination fight wnh
rs who View president as I men witlr an abundance of ego Ind I desire to run his own show, Senator McCarthy is a quiet but effective operator who probably h closer to the type of vice - pmsident Johnson
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