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The Long Shot

Congratulations to Dr. Sinnott on “hitting the jackpot” in the Irish Sweepstakes, along with six other Canadians who each won top prizes of $150,000. Windfalls of this kind are scarcer than hen's teeth, other- wise the promoters wouldn’t stay in business. That, of course, is what makes them big news. In this case there is a general feeling that Dame Fortune Couldn’t have smiled upon a more deserving Island recipient, or one who has the gumption to put her favors to better use.

Dr. Sinnott says a large part of his prize money will go to pay off the money he had to borrow to get through medical school; the rest will be divided among his six child- ren and invested for them. Good for him! It‘s a statement that does him credit, and incidentally points} up one reason why doctors are scarce, despite the fact they often get into the big-income brackets in the prac« tice of their profession. What the public often forgets are the long and costly years of study and train- ing that go into the making of a physician or surgeon.

More than that is required. too. Stamina, integrity and dedication of a high order are requisites from the very start. If it could be arranged that all the sweepstake prizes would go to young doctors it would be a. boon to every community; but of course it doesn’t work out that way. When it does happen occasionally, it is by a long shot indeed. It is this extraordinary juxtaposition of the stars, or whatever it is that governs such mundane affairs, that h as prompted our commentary on this occasion.

Oi Doubtful Value

Premier Shaw’s dislike of the reference in the Hall commission re- port to provincial lotteries as a means of financing a health service pro- gram is shared by a good many people in Canada. Note is taken in the Winnipeg Free Press of the “notably unenthusiastic” reaction in the general response across the country. The Winnipeg paper has some further comments on the sub- ject, which are of interest at this time.

First it emphasizes that the com- mission does not. specifically recom- mend that provinces should use lot- teries as a means of raising some of the money that will be needed to finance a prepaid health plan. On the contrary, the report says: "We do not advocate the use of lotteries.” But neither does it condemn. Where a province desires to operate a lot- tery solely for this purpose, it says, “the federal government, when re- quested by a province to do so, might submit to Parliament appropriate amendments to the Criminal Code."

Thus does the commission appar- ently lend its acquiescence to this doubtful method of raising funds. This is regrettable. particularly in light of the preceding statement that it" does not advocate the use of lot.- tor-lee. The mere fact that the mat- ter is mentioned at all in the report will undoubtedly be seized upon by Ithose who favor the system.

Arguments against lotteries as a way of raising funds for social and welfare purposes have been put mm many times. They are based partly on moral, partly on economic made. lotteries would throw the Mnemutheatateonthasideof

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MONDAY. JUNE 29. 1964. ,

that exists in most people. lit has been shown time and again that lotteries are an inefficient and expen- sive way of raising money; only a fraction of the money paid in is available for the purpose for which the lottery is set up. Lotteries also appeal to the people with the lowest income and thus lead to many social evils.

From a practical standpoint, the federal government would run into complications if it undertook to leg- alize provincial lotteries. Some prov- inces would want to run a lottery— Quebec for instance. Others would want to have nothing to do with the idea. How, for example, would the government prevent Quebec lottery tickets being sold legally in prov- inces where gambling of this kind is frowned on?

Our Winnipeg Liberal contem- porary concludes—in full accord with the Conservative Premier of this Province—that “in the light of past experience here and elsewhere, this is one part of the Hull report that Ottawa would do well to ignore.”

Of Real Concern

While Parliament is feuding over such windy issues as flags, anthems and films it is neglecting more im- portant matters. Such as making provision for allowing the Auditor- General to do his work efficiently, for example. Isn’t it scandalous that this official, who has responsibility for checking government account- ing systems, internal control and audit procedures, for ensuring that public funds are adequately protect- ed against misuse, and for making public any evidence of illegality, ir- responsibility or dishonesty in the handling of money, should have to complain on this score?

One would imagine that a mat- ter of this kind would automatic- ally take precedence over every other item on the agenda. In time of high expenditures of public funds, it is particularly important that the Auditor General be given every pos- sible assistance in the performance of his duties. Yet he has been com- plaining about his staff problem for the past three years. The staff is in- adequate, and the result is that the investigations are not as thorough as they should be.

The Commons public acounts committee has made recommenda- tions to improve the situation from

'time to time, but whatever assist-

ance has been given has fallen short of requirements. Attention was cal- led to this matter by the Glassco Commission in its report on prob- lems of government organization, and it has frequently been cited in the press as an inexcusable piece of negligence.

Why aren’t the rafters in the Commons chamber resounding to this theme? Why aren’t the members waxing indignant and blowing their tops to some effect? If there must be wrangling and feuding on Parlia- ment Hill, surely the fight could be staged over something of real con- cern to the taxpayers.

De Gaulle Won't Like it

What looks like a major blunder in diplomacy has been committed by the U.S State Department in pub- lishing, at this particular time, dip- lomatic papers containing some dras- tic comments upon General de Gaulle by the late President Roosevelt. American-French relations are in a precarious enough state, without pulling these verbal skeletons out of the closet. Here are some ex amples:

“De Gaulle may be an honest fellow,” wrote Roosevelt to Chur- chill in 1943,. “but he has the mes- sianic complex. De Gaulle is with- out question taking his vicious pro- paganda staff down to Algiers to stir up strife between the various elements . . ."

In another message, Roosevelt wrote that de Gaulle should go “to the oasis of somewhere.” “I do not know,” he wrote to Churchill still another time, "what to do with de Gaulle. Perhaps you will like to make him Governor of Madagascar."

Clearly, Roosevelt could not stand de Gaulle. This was known before but not in such detail and with such dcumentation. The pub- lication of the record at this time may have been purely coincidental, but the President of France is not likely to think so. He has a good memory for grievances, and he will suspect the worst in this case.

BETSY ROSS PEARSON

DlVlDING WALLS

Berlin 8. Jerusalem Hod Ancient Precedents

National Geographic News Bulletin

Walls divide two of the world’s great cities today - Berlin and Jersualem.

Ironically. people have been building such artificial geogra- phic barriers for thousands of years, and usually the walls have failed to do their job. They have been penetrated. circum-v

vented. or destr

oy . Precedents for political wall- bujlding go back to almost 8000 B.C., perhaps longer. Near Ariha, the present-day Jericho. the British archeolo- gist Kathleen Kenyon discovery

ed remains of a wall and tower

build some time in the eighth millennium before C ist.

This is the oldest wall know: to man. It existed long before the more famous wall that fell to Joshua and the Isrealites in Biblical times around 1400 B.C Writing of her research, Mi 5 s Kenyon said the Jerichoans of that earlier time "were suffi- ciently organized as com- munity and sufficiently skilled in building in stone to surround their settlement with a massive, free-standing wall."

A parallel to the Berlin and Jerusalem walls existed in Al- exandria, Egypt. during the

Review Of Aid

Globe and Mail. Toronto

It is encouraging to learn from External Affairs Minister Paul Martin that Canada's ex- ternal aid program is to be re- viewed. The review. as he told the Commons. was prompted by the recommendation of the re cent United Nations conference on trade and development that each country should try to ach- ieve a level of assistance as close as possible to l per cent of its national income.

The forei'zn aid givon by most developed countries is Well be- low this levcl and. even then, Canada has lagged behind.

Any reassessment of Can- ada's program must, as Mr. Martin indicated. allow for the difference in aidgiving ability between countries like Canada“. which import capital. and those which export it. It should also be understood that the attempt to measure foreign aid as a pro-

portion of national income has little validity; the form of aid is quite as important as the quan- tity.

Several n e w approaches to foreign aid are now being dis- cussed. Britain is expected to put some new ideas on the sub- ject before the conference of Commonwealth rime Minis- ters in London next month, and Canada may very well be invit- ed to join in some sort of Colo- mbo Plan for Africa. There is also talk of expanding the pre- sent scheme for service by Can- adians overseas into something approaching th e U n it e d States Peace Corps.

Foreign aid requires to r e- thought and planning if it is to be successful. It is one thing to decide to spend more money, and we should be willing to do that; it is quite another to be able to spend it wisely.

House Of

Incidents

Montreal Gazette

The expulsion from the House of Commons of Alvin Hamilton, the former Minister of Agricul- ture. is yet another example of the extent to which the present House of Commons is becoming unmanageable.

A Parliament. that has been able to get. little legislation pas- sed. that has seen frequent mo- ments of anger and uproar. that has seen the impartiality of the Speaker brought into question. is clearly not functioning well. in the context of past Canadian history, it might well seem that such a Parliament could not last much longer. and that a gener- al election could not be far

Despite appearances, how- ever, a general election seems unlikely, for the same reason that one has unlikiy since the present Parliament was elected. Flor although the government is i a minority. and although the official opposi- tion acts as though it would wel-

come an election at any mom- ent, the minority parties do not want anoifner campaign, in th near future. and have the pow- er to prevent one.

The result is a House of Com- mons that it is extremely diffi- cult to control; balanced by a government that it is extreme ly difficult to overthrow. It is like a horse that bucks its rider. buff can never quite throw him of .

It can only be wished that House would settle down. a that incidents involving the Speaker. and incidents requir ing the expulsion of members. could be avoided, for these dra- matic happenings receive great publicity that is bad for Can- ada’s reputation. But, the struc- ture of the present House being what it is, only a stern exercise of self-discipline on the part of all the parties will save Parlia- ment from further of these mis- fortunes.

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The DorkepmedJofigundhouse

Changes science has wrought on life in Canada lead to consi- derable pain in the railways commit few years ago Mr. Donald Gordon. giving the Commons his annual account- ing for the ONE, was being ask- ed about the little people at way stations whose jobs were being lost because the new diesel an- gines did not pause for refresh- ment as did the old steam loco- motives. This year Mr. Gordon

as pounded with ques- tions about the larger centres of railway activity now being abandoned.

The member fin-London. Mr. Irvine. was distressed about the closing down of railway shops in remorselesa sentences describ- ing how diesels and modern trains can get along with repair shops only in Monclon, Mon- treal and Winnipeg.

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The steam locomotive was about no miles pan for rebelling and attention while the diesel Vancouver to Rs- with infrequent stops to replenish its tanks.

e We complain about em- ployment lost to their districts and Mr. Gordon is expected to rdlway The industrial revolu- tion did not end with the 19th century and the rcundhouaea made dark and silent are as sad and Inevitable as the graveyards of him-mast“ sailing ships that steam pushed off the sea.

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OLDIOCIETY

Mtale's Royal Society of Medicine was funded in ms un-

name of the Medical son: Chimrglcel Society of Mn-

reign of the Roman emperor Caracella in the third century.

Caraca‘lla. a man of unsavory reputation who murdered his brother Geta. became the tar- get of satirical tales and jokes circulated by bitterly witty Al- exandrians.

Angered by the stories. Cara- calla proceeded to Alexandria. gathered the offenders together, and instituted a terrible massa- ere.

“He caused the town to be d1- vided by a wall. the inhabitants on one side being forbidden to pass to the other." Lady Am- herst of Hackney related in her Sketch of Egyptian History pub- lished in London in 1904.

Caracalla sacked the city. en- acted strict laws, and dissolved the celebrated Academy, a phil- osophical school that traced its origins to Aristotle.

. CHINA'S GREAT WALL

Another emperor associated with wall-building and. coincr- dentally, with aniischolarly ac- tivities, was Ch'in Shi Huang Ti who united China in the th ir d century B.C.

Ch'in linked together the exist- ing walled towns of China's north and thus built the main part of the Great Wall. 3 ramv part nearly 2.000 miles long, winding from Shanhaikwan on the Yellow Sea to the desert for- tress of Kiayukwan.

But the haughty emperor. who wanted history to begin with his own time. burned all classic books and buried alive 460 sch~ olars because they objected to his policies. ,

Ch‘in is remembered in his epitaph for the book burning and burial of scholars and not. for the Great Wall which. in an y event. did not. work. Mongols from the north pierced it at will.

The h i g h 1 y touted Maginot Line in France. a modern ver- sion of the fortified wall. is a re- cent example of the shortcom- ings of this type of defense. Ear~ ly in World War II highly mo- bile German units flanked the istatic line and rendened it use- ess.

New Diagnosis For Hepatitis

By Dr. 'l‘heodole B. Van Dalian A new ao-second mine test (Ictotest) is now available for viral hepatitis. The procedure is welcome because this disease is common and difficult to dis- cspecially during linear.

bu . is present. But this pigment is found not only in hepatitis but also in the urine of those wi other liver disorders 3 as toxic hepatitis. cinrhoaia. and blookage of the flow of bile by a gallstone.

In this respect,-the teat ie not 100 per cent perfect because false positives occur now and then. But it is worthwhile be- cause it is easy to do, hiexpen- sive, and will insure prompt care of many undetected cases that might otherwise trmamit the disease to others.

Hepatitis usually stuns with symptom resembling the flu- fever, headache, wealmeas, loss of appetite. nausea, vomiting, and genera at achr ing. Children often have diar- rhea. Distress, with the excep- tion of weakness, easy fatigue, and loss of appetite begins to subside in two to seven days. Shortly thereafter, the urine becomes dark and the skin and whites of the eyes turn yellow (jaundice).

This condition is painless ex- cept for itching and nausea. Some patients are depressed and irritable: they have trouble sleeping at this time. Jaundice begins to clear after reaching its peak in five to seven days and the majority of victims re- cover fully within three months.

When the skin turns yellow hepatitis is easy to diagnose. But in most instances this does not occur. The victims have all the preliminary symptoms ex- cept jaundice. Blood tests are needed to find the answer and it is here that the new test will come in handy. Unless the dia- gnosis is made, many of these men and women drag about for weeks not knowing what is wrong and infecting others.

SOUR TASTE ,

EJ. writes: I’m a healthy 88- year-old but am troubled with a sour taste in my mouth. It even wakes me up at night. It there any way to prevent this disor- der?

REPLY

Yes. Your stomach should be X-rayed and its contents ane- iyzed for acidity. in addition, changes in your diet and eating habits may be n .

PROSTATIC CANCER

G.H. writes: Can cancer of the prostate be diagnosed short of surgery?

REPLY

Yes. provided the physician is able to feel a herd tumor during a rectal examination. 0n the oth- er hand. there is no more posi- tive method than removal of the tissue and sending it to the lab- oratory for microscopic examin- ation.

PUS IN CAVITY

L.W.C. writes: Is empyema

curable? REPLY

Empyema refers to a collec- tion of pus in a cavity, such as the pleu r a] space. The most common type is a form of pleu- risy and treatment consists of drainage of the purulent mater- ial and the use of an appropriate antibiotic.

STIFF MUSCLES

P.D. writes: When I was young I had a nervous break- down which caused atiffness of the muscles. The emotional as- pect has been eliminated but my

'muscles are stiff. Is there any

way I can get relief? REPLY

Heat. message. and manipula- tion often he] .

TODAY’S HEALTH HINT—

A scar on an arm does not protect a person against small- pox for life.

(Note: All correspondence to Dr. Van Dellen should be ad- dressed to:. Dr. are R. Van Dellen, c-o Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois.) ‘

Merchant Alorm Plan

Link, Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Seven years ago a need for speedy transfer of information regarding fraud, counterfeiters. bad cheques. and shop-lifting was recognized by the business- men of North Bay, Ontario. The Chamber of Commerce provid- ed the solution by setting up a free “Merchant Alarm Sys- tem" with business members participating. .

The success of the system la proven by its long existence and the increasing participation it attracts each year. No less than 20 people can learn of an ur- gent situation within 15 min- utes. Occasionally, the "Alarm" i used to pass along other Chamber of Commerce matters of immediate interest to North Bay‘s mem

The system is broken down into six business cétegories has-

primarily on common clos- ing hours. There is one chain for banks, one for grocery store one for wholesalers and three for retailers. Approximately so firms are linked up with each of the telephone contacts made by the Chamber office. .

Manager Mel Mellow, or one of his staff. are usually notified of some fraduient activity by e bank. the RCMP. Provincial Po- lice. City Police, Post Office. or