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Good Place To Start
Some Opposition members in the House of Commons have raised the question of the high cost of farm ma- chinery, and have suggested that a royal .commission.. be appointed to probe into the matter. The subject has been before parliamentary com- mittees, off and on, for quite a while, but the results have been negligible. Machinery prices haven't come down, and figures were quoted in the House to show that they have indeed ‘been increasing at a disproportionate rate. One reason for this was. em- phasized by Harold Winch, NDP member for Vancouver East.
“If hon. members sincerely want to reduce the cost of farm machin- ery,” said Mr. Winch, “they are going»
: to have to decide to accept standard-
ization. based on the most efficient If that were done, carburetors. transmis- sions, gear boxes and so on would be interchangeable between various ma- chines.. If we continue to. have six to a dozen different types of machin- ery all designed to do the same job, whicl> means suppliers have to thave the spare parts for all these machines, we will never get the price of farm machinery down to a.level where it
--.Will: not bea major factor in” the ~
“farmer's costs‘ of production.” That-makes sense. And it should be within the competence of the gov- ernment, starting on‘ this basis, to work out a solution that would be ac- ceptable to Parliament and to the country at large. No heed of a com- mission to start the ball rolling, if there was a real desire at Ottawa to effect a reform in what is becoming, in the opinion of many farmers, a downright racket in connection with an essential phase of their operations.
UN Prospects Glum
American and Canadian spokes- men joined in lauding thé objectives of the United Nations at the special session in San Francisco last week, marking the 20th anniversary of the
signing of the.UN Charter. President |
Johnson flew there for the occasion, and made an appeal to the UN to help promote peace in Southeast Asia and establish an “alliance for man” to fight poverty, the arms race and the population explosion around the globe. Mr. Tremblay, Canada’s permanent representative to the United Nations, said the or- ganization had “proven conclusively” that international cooperation can grow and establish pacifying links between nations; and Prime Minister Pearson, from London, said the UN
had “become essential to peace in:
the world.” Nevertheless, its : pros- pects for survival are not bright. The crisis is of many months’ duration and stems from the refusal of the Soviet Union in particular (but also France) to pay their shares of the assessment for UN peacekeeping operations in the Middle East and the Congo. The US. tried to force them into line by invoking article 19 of the charter, which would deprive them of their voting rights in the
General Assembly; but the Soviets |
refused to capitulate. A showdown was avoided at the last General As-
sembly meetings by the transparent |
device of not allowing any substan- tive issue to come to a vote. Mem- bers are acutely conscious that if the UN is to survive in any meaning- ful way, this farce cannot be allowed to repeat itself when the Assembly ‘peconvenes on Sept. 1.
Canada has sought to break the
deadlock by-joining Britain and The |
Netherlands in pledging a donation to relieve the present financial crisis, and by announcing that it will no
pay off the. $50 million it owes or its voting rights in the As-
anxious than the Americans to see the UN fizzle out, and that if they
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are allowed a bit of face-saving, a formula can be found. But there has been no indication that this lead will be followed at Washington.
In his: speech in San Francisco on Friday, President Johnson did not even bring up this* controversial question, nor did he raise specific arms control gr disarmament issues. It was definitely not ‘a major policy speech, and left- the basic problem precisely where it was.
~ Comedy At Cairo
An Associated Press dispatch tells how India’s Prime Minister Shastri
-whose-countries have battled over disputed Himalayan territory, snub- bed one another at the Cairo airport on Saturday. It would make a good theme for a comic opera.
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Nasser, hurried back and forth be-
| tween the two rooms where each of his distinguished guests sat separate- ly, trying to do equal_honor to both. Then, to make a sticky diplomatic Situation stickier, Indonesian Presi- dent Sukarno flew in. His supporters demonstrated at the Indian Embassy in Jakarta last week because India
| wanted to invite Malaysia—w hich
Indonesia has sworn to crush—to the
| now-postponed Afro-Asian summit conference in Algeria.
When the Indonesian leader's plane touched down, Nasser left Shastri, joined Chou and the two went to the tarmac to greet Sukarno.
| Then Nasser rushed away again to
rejoin Shastri.w hile Sukarno and
Chou hobnobbed in the other lounge.
After an hour and 25 minutes Shas-
tri’s plane t6ok off en route:to India
and the other three drove off to
Cairo for a quiet conspiratorial chat. - Nasser is a master at playing both
ends for the centre, but this must
- have been a tiring session for him.
‘EDITORIAL NOTES
It is shocking to note that an estimated 450 people may be injured, and 15 killed, on the single day ob- servance of Canada’s birthday on July 1 This is the warning issued by the Canadian Highway Safety |-Council, whose estimates, in the past, have erred rather in minimizing than _ in exaggerating.the actual count. Let us hope that in this case it will be
support demands that Russia
the other way about. me
Canada’s gross national product the first months of 1965 rose to an nual rate,of $49,676 million, re- ports the Bureau-of Statistics. This was 3.5 per cent above the rate at which Canada was producing goods and services in the last three months of 1965, 5.8 per cent above the GNP for the whole of 1954, and 8.3 per cent higher than in the first three months of last year. 5 Ld s td Canada appears headed toward an- other large trading deficit, largely on U.S. account. Although there was a small surplus in 1965’s first quarter ($4.7 million), an increase of almost onethird, in U.S: imports in March and 13.5 per cent for the quarter re- veals a trend toward another troub-
is true that sales to the U.S. have also risen (12.3 per cent for the quart- er and 23 per cent in March) but the
That Beatle Beat
The Beatles may not be every- body’s idea of fitting Members of the . British Empire but as far as the British Motor Corporation is concern- ed, Beatle music is just the thing. To keep drivers alive, that it. The com- pany claims it’s the type of music that makes drivers stay alert, and’ points out that the type of music a driver is listening to can be a matter of life or death.
The wrong sort of music, just like the monotonous swish of a wind- shield wiper or the glowing taillight of a car ahead, can throw a driver into. a trance. The result can be deadly. Highway hypnosis or turn- pike trance can send a car rocketing off a good straight stretch of road for no apparent reason.
Therefore, says the British Motor , Corporation, “to the adult driver the jungle rhythm of (Beatle) music bor-
ers on aggravation and is noisy ‘enough to keep you awake behind the
wheel without disturbing concentra- |
tion on the road.”
This borders on psych and could be a profitable field for dis- | cussion by the Canadian Menta] | Health Association now in annual meeting in Charlottetown. We are | aware, however, that this admirable | Organization has matters of more | pressing concern to deal with. We
mention it only to show how broad are the ramifications of mental health problems and how intimately they concern all of us.
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OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson ?: Book Gives Lowdow n On Tax Collections
How are the nilgnty fallen! How are the industrious reward- ed' 0 Ried
The Hon. E.J. Benspn, Minis- ter of National Revenue, has just published his department's annual .:“‘Green Book,,’ listing the tax collections from indivi- dual income tax payers and re-
* lated statistics.
I have compared these figures with those for the year 1956, which might be described as the which might be described as the last year before the series of election auctions, at which . the taxpayers have been bribed by the electioneering rivals out of their “own pockets. Bribed? Well, Canadians paid. about one billion dollars more in personal income tax in 1963 than in 1956:
“the actual figures were $1,290 million in the former year, and $2,243 million in 1963.
One of the most interesting tables in the Green Book is that listing the average income of taxpayers in different cities. In 1956, of the 68 cities in which there were more than 5,000 tax- payers, The Pas ranked first in average income — $4,279. But in the 1963 list, it is not méntioned and the place of honour is taken over by The Soo with*an aver- age income of $5,314. Sarnia ranked second both years, with an average income of $4,221 in 1956 and $5,300 in 1963. Oshawa has jumped from llth place to 3rd, as its average income rose from $3,905 to $5,260.
GUELPH’S BIG CLIMB
An outstanding improvement in those seven years was re- corded by Guelph, whose aver-
age income rose by $1,066 to,‘
| $4,402, lifting it from 62nd place } to Camada’s 37th highest aver- | age figure. Nanaimo, starting in 16th place, climbed to 7th, with an increase of $1,016 in average income to a new ‘otal of $4,885. But Kamioops, reported to have Canada’s 15th highest income in |-1956, drops out of the list—per- haps on account of its modest | number of taxpayers rather than through a low average in- | come, <! The past seven years have | been good years for Canada’s | doctors. In,1956, 11,868 doctors | reported an average income of |
$13,053, which rated them our |
ers, after consulting engineers | and architects. In 1963, 15,019 | doctors reported an average in- come of $19,433 which put them top of the heap. | But whatever happens to Que--| bec’s farmers? The 1961 census | farms in that province, yet only 1,601 or. 2 per cent paid income tax — the lowest percentage of any province except P.E.I.; and: those paid an average of $299 in income tax, also the lowest fi- oy except P.E.I.'s average of
At the other end of the scaler, 44 per cent of Saskatchewan's 82,285 commerical farms each paid an average tax of $472. Bri- tish Columbia and Alberta rank- ed second and third, then came Ontario, 25 per cent of whose farmers paid income tax, at the average rate .of $375.
The picture is clouded through some farms being incorporated rather than family farms, but there {is a significant cross- check: the 1964 census found 19,934 farms in B. C., of which 5,289 sold products valued in éx-
cess of $5,000. At the same time second best-paid group of work- | there were 95,777 farms in Que- |
bec, of which 15,722. sold pro- ducts valued ii éxcess of $5,000. Yet in 1963, 3,994 farmers in B. C. paid a total of $1,665 mil- lions in income tax, while 1,601 farmers in Quebec paid 479
“commercial farm’ excludes part-time, small scale and hob- by farms whose cash sales are insignificant.
Footnote on where the money goes:. taxpayers paid out $22,- 736,000 in alimony and $26,560,- 000: in. union dues in 1963.
Marcus Van Steen In
There was an odd, historical echo to protest from a few members of the Order of the Britisk Empire about the award- ing of MBE medals to the Beatles.
Seventy years ago, the same things were said with the same
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NO ACCOMMODATION .
Sir,—I,. as a union member, feel it is my duty to let the pub- lic know some of the happenings of the week concerning the men employed in the Borden-Tormen- tine ferry service. On Friday some of the officials of the C.N.R. Marine Service arrived at Borden, and immediately an- nounced that there would be no sleeping accommodations for the unlicenced personnel of the M.V. Confederation. While this ship has been in service in the oast, two pullman cars (Vintage 1900) have been provided for the crew at Cape Tormentine. Now the Confederation is tying up at night at Borden, and we are told “no sleeping cars’’.
As you probably know, unlike the SS. P.E.I. and Abegweit, there are no crews quarters on this ship. The crew could not sleep in the lounges of the ship because this is the time that the cleaning of these lounges takes place. No one could tell us tke reason these cars could not be brought to Borden. We were in- formed, by reliable authority, that they could be hooked up with heat and lights in five min- utes. Quite a few of the crew mem- bers live a good distance from
Borden, some as far as eastern,
angry emphasis when “that ac- tor fella’ Henry Irving received a knighthood and became Sir Henry Irving.
Irving had a big enough fol- lowing to persuade the Liberal Prime Minister, the Earl of Rosebery, to include his name . the Queen’s birthday honors
st.
“Sir Henry Irving!" exclaim- ed the Daily Mail. ‘Surely someone must be joking.’
And the Times, in those days not as staid as it has since be- come, suggested delicately that perhaps Queen’ Victoria was be- ginning to show her age.
The -. opposition to Irving’s knighthood had little to do with the man who had received it. It was based mainly on the strong- ly- held belief that actors were not high enough in the social scheme of things’ to be given royal recognition. .
On the other hand the honor was acclaimed by many who had no use for Sir Henry as an actor but who welcomed this of- ficial tribute to a theatrical per-
An Historical Echo
The Toronte Telegram
low,” exclaimed George Ber- nard Shaw when told of the knighthood. ~“ * Other opinions were express- in thousands of indignant let- rs to the press. The general hue and cry: “What's the world coming to?’’
Indeed, it seemed a sad and strange world to those whe looked back to the safe, predic- table times of that upholder of traditional virtues, Prime Min- ister Gladstone.
With Gladstone dead, Engiand now had to face such strange de- mands ‘as home rule for Ireland and votes for women.
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Ottawa
More power to the Smiths Falls Highbaliers who want to buy an old steam locomotive from the CPR and make it a memorial to a brave era in rail-
What they probably know is that the buying of a fine old rel- fe will be the easiest part.
The complications have been indicated in railway committee sessions of the House of Com-
mons.
MPs who know the number of | people who pas: onately admire steam locomotives keep on ask- ing CNR President Gordon ff. he hasn't an old encine to
Mr. Gordon indicated, espec- ialy just after the diesels had taken over, that he indeed had engines amd, good Scot that he is, would be willing to talk rea- sonable prices
SHOW OLD sports
To promote the 1968 Olymple Games, Mexico plans to issue fivenewstamps<\:) ictingpre- five new. stamp: depicting pre- Columbian Ind. sports.
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TODAYS HEALTH HINT—
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millions of -dollars before Par- a P artiament might question too . | Vigorously some of the
world’s fair; was not told about the call-
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are concerned. The government may argue that no other—action could have been taken, on the 4. ground that Expo is only aewws | ple of years away. But the/ CBC j and the | known about-Expo for some time, and have had ample <
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embark on a little miore em- building, all at the taxpay- expense and, in this case,
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