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the weakest link” PAGE 6 MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1902.

A Universal Benefactor

The Hazen Argue case has en- tered the realm of high comedy. It will be recalled that when Mr. Argue effected his hasty departure from the New Democratic Party last month to become a new Liberal member, he was denounced by his former colleagues for his “betray?t’ eof party and principles. They felt that they had been knifed in the back, and even Mr. Douglas showed a trace of bitterness in discussing the matter at that time. But as the days and weeks passed, it becaine easier for the New Democrats to see that this was a blessing in dis- guise; a “good thing”, which, as Mr. Douglas says, has given the party a “shot in the arm” at a time when it was badly needed.

The Liberals, too, are happy in having acquired Mr. Argue in this odd fashion, as their spokesman on western farm matters and their only M.P. from a riding west of Ontario. Indeed, Mr. Pearson has pointed to the Argue shift as evid- ence that his party will win the next election.

And the Conservatives? They too are happy.’ For, as they see it, the only result of the affair will be that Western voters will turn in disgust from both the NDP and the Liberals to their own true blue party.

So, Mr. Argue’s defection has brought joy to all three parties. How the electors of his constituency will react we don’t- know, but Mr. Argue is convinced that they, as well, will show by their votes that they are tickled pink.

It is unprecedented, this political performance which has left every- one wreathed in smiles. Which leaves us with the conviction that either somebody is lying, or there should be more defections of this kind to enliven the tedium of life and keep eur minds off its cares and dis- appointments.

Confusing Statistics

According to the Financial Post, #ome current Liberal propaganda affords a “prime example of how vo get the most out of statistics with- out actually lying.” Its reference is to a chart of gross national product which claims the fast growth be- tween 1947 and 1957 as a Liberal achievement and labels the slower growth since 1957 as Tory stag- nation. This it describes as a ‘‘mar- vellous capitalizing on coincidence.”

It just so happened, says the Post, that the Liberals left office at exactly the poin® when profound changes in the world economy were taking place—and not even their own Gordon Commission foresaw those changes or anticipated the damage they would do to Canadian growth. It.is now clear that 1957 marked the end of the postwar boom and a slowdown in Canadian growth occurred for three basic reasons that not.all the poohbahs of politics could alter.

These reasons, according to our Toronto contemporary, were: Cana- dian exports began to bring in a smaller proportion of national in- @ome because industrial capacity had been built up by then through- out the industrialized world; the rate of Canadian family formation fell off because the few and far be- tween babies of the 1930s were reaching marriageable age; the pace of ¢a pital investment in Canada manufacturing resource capacity had been

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The Government, for its part, is charged with specializing in “sins of statistical omission.” The Post in this connection cites a stat nt by Prime Minister Diefenbaker ‘to the effect that corporate profits rose $1.4 billion during his tenure in office. This, as a bare fact, looks good, concedes the Post. But, even if the figure could be substantiated, what’s more important in assessing the health of the economy is what the PM didn’t say: Profits as a pro- portion of sales have been decl’ g for a decade—down from 8.2 per cent in 1950 to 5.4 per cent in 1957 and to an estimated 4.6 per cent in 1961.

Which adds up to the fact that you can’t believe anybody these days. What with an “election com- ing on, and all, the old stati-tics are taking a bad beating. What’s needed, says the Toronto paper, is not electioneering in this phoney way but “a bold program to put this country back on the pa’ cf progress.” Ah, that’s it! But haven’t we heard that before, too?

Perhaps He Means It

While prospects for agreement at Geneva are dim, and a Canadian call to ban nuclear weapons from space has been brushed aside by both the big nuclear powers, there remains the hope that space activi- ties in other directions will lead to more satisfactory results in promot- ing peace aims. Premier Khrush- chev’s latest letter to President Kennedy has prompted the latter to designate a high-ranking aero- nautics official to take the lead in technical talks with Russian repre- sentatives on this subject.

Mr. Khrushchev agrees that it would be fine to pool efforts in de- veloping a satellite communications system, establishing a world wea- ther service, tracking space shots, charting the earth’s magnetic field and exchanging information on space medicine. In addition, he sug- gests that search and rescue pro- cedures be worked out for the re- covery of spaceships and astronauts forced to earth by accidents. He be- lieves the time is ripe, too, to settle legal problems arising from man’s invasion of space. Among other things, he suggests that celestial bodies be made accessible to all countries for research and be de- clared free from annexation.

As with all Soviet proposals, of course, the proof of sincerity will come when negotiators sit down to work out the details. First conver- sations will take place at the current meeting of the United Nations space committee. If Soviet actions are in keeping with the cordial tone of the Khrushchev letter, there could be a co-operation in space that might in time bring more co-opera- tion here on earth.

Worthily Honored

It is with pleasure and appre~‘a- tion that all our citizens will have learned that doctorate degrees are to be conferred by St. Dunstan’s University upon the Hon. Thane A. Campbell, LL.D., Chief Justice of the Province, Sister Frances Loyola, C.S.M., Superior General of the Sisters of Martha, and Dr. A. A. MacDonald, who this summer will observe his 60th year of medical service in Eastern Kings County.

We have many distinguished Is- landers abroad, but fortunately we still have them at home as well; and it is in keeping with the grand traditions of St. Dunstan’s that it should be vigilant in searching them out, and in honoring, at this time, three of our citizens whose service, in their various fields, have been of value to the whole community.

EDITORIAL NOTES

All our citizens will regret the indisposition of Opposition Leader A. W. Matheson, and will trust that after a few days rest in hospital, he will be fully restored to health.

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We are all acquainted with the remarkable industrial and economic recovery which West Germany has made. Less familiar is the role which women have played in this recovery. According to an official publication, 200,000 women in the federal republic of Germany today own or manage a business averag- ing 200 employees each, nearly all men. This means that every fifth undertaking is headed by a woman, that more than 3,000,000 are in “he employ of women and that 25 per cent of the national production is amassed by female enterprise.

THE NON-CHEER LEADER

GUARDING AGAINST ABUSE

Principle Of Closure Defended

Prime Minister Diefenbaker | and Mr. Pickersgill agreeing on anything is in itself surely a miracle

The curious thing, as Journal sees it, is that they may be agreeing on the wrong thing, namely, that closure is bad for Parliament. “No Government in its sanses’’, said Mr. Pickers- gill, “‘would ever use it again.”

What Mr. Pickersgill should have said, and more accurately, was that no Government in _ its senses would ever again dare to misuse closure as he and his colleagues once misused it. As they misued it when they ought to cut off debate not on a single clause of a bill but on a | whole series of its clauses at one fell swoop.

That was not use of closure; it was abuse and perversion of it; the sort of thing which Arthur Meighen, the author of closure, said he could not ima- gine as possible in a civilized Parliament. |

Because there is a wide dif- ference between closure and the abuse of closure, Mr. Dief- enbaker is to be commended for referring the matter— the mat- ter of whether closure should be repealed outright— to a com. | mittee of the House for study.

After all, what is closure? Closure is nothing more than a rule, or device, by which Parlia- ment may control its own pro- ceedings, by which under cer- tain possible circumstances it may prevent itself from being reduced to impotence by the irresponsible faction.

n we be certain that such a cjrcumstance may never come to the Parliament of Canada? That there can never come here what came at Westminster when under Parnell and Biggar obstruction was reduced to a science, compelling clos- |

PUBLIC

LIVESTOCK PRICES

Sir,—As a farmer's friend | and farmer I would appreciate | knowing when the politicians of | the Province are going to ee beating around the bush and once and for all do something | for them on behalf of the mon- opoly that exists in the meat packing business,

What farmer to-day can af- | ford to lose from $25.00 per head |

of beef to a. as much | t

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Sound Wave Tranquilizer Calms Infants

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Delien SLUMBERTONE is a_ small,

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by a self-containing

battery. It produces a constant

work if th by is ill, wet, or hungry or in infants more than 7 months old. The unit has been used by two nents oe Dr. Jay R. Olsen and Dr. ward Nelson, to relax and a

when put to bed. Calming usual-

is us and sleep fol- lows in 30 seconds to 5 minutes in 90 per cent of the babies ex-

plan tends to take the heat off exasperated parents who are unable to cope with the situa- tion.

The gadget is not Md a substitute for holding, rock- ing, cuddling, humming,

r| walking the Aer On the other

| a limit of 40 minutes on the

tain to this day Mr. patcnewe said in the | House on Tuesday that ‘the.

principle of closure need n ger be accepted under our

system”’,

Is ACCEPTED

With respect, as they say in |

the courts, the principle of clos- ure is accepted under our sys- tem. What is the principle of the Speaker’s power to accept a motion “that the question be now put’ — a motion which eas debate to a conclusion and compels the House to de- cide upon the matter under dis- cussion? What is the principle of

Dickens Too Brutal?

By Doug Marshall Canadian Press Staff Writer

utal murder

scene |

A br | screened by the BBC at Sunday tea-time three weeks ago ‘has | launched a government-backed | inquiry into violence on British |

television.

The scene was from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist.

Millions of Britons watched the enraged Bill Sikes pull out a lead-handled pistol and blud- geon to death a pleading Nancy. Blood ran across a = and dripped onto the carp

The scene, the tith ‘alente of a children’s serial dramatizing the novel, was later praised by some critics for its vivid real- ism. Others thought it to vio- lent.

This week in the Commons Postmaster-General Bevins de- clared the scene was ‘“‘brutal and quite inexcusable.” FINANCED BY ITA

Now Home Secretary Butler has announced that the Inde- pendent Television Authority,

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speeches of members? | what is the principle of all the other rules and regulations 7 | its proceedings?

We agree wholly that nothing should stand in the way of “‘full and free debate that is neces- sary in the parliamentary sys- tem’’. But closure, rightly un- derstood, is not a device to de- stroy free and full debate; it is only something to see to it that | debate is not prolonged beyond eason— prolonged to the point where elucidation is subordinat- ed to obstruction, and Parlia- ment is reduced to paralysis.

the governing body of the com- mercial stations, has under- taken to finance an inquiry. He said government officials have already had useful talks

about what form the inquiry should take | The problem is how far the |

inquiry can improve on the sev-

eral previous reports already conducted in Britain and the | United States.

After a 1960 report the BBC e of practice that avoids certain types of TV | violence before the assumed children's bedtime of 9:15 p.m

TWO ARGUMENTS

Some experts argue that vio- lence on the screen is mean- ingless to children. It is all part of a remote and unreal world, governed by conventions, that has no relevance in their ordi- nary lives.

Others are worried about how far, in a violent world, violence can be kept from the screens. On the same Sunday that Sikes killed Nancy, viewers watched a particularly homocidal sectioa of Shakespeare’s Henry VI and a news film of savage riots in Algeria.

Whatever the results of the inquiry, the ‘Cc and commer cial stations are already begin- ning to rinse the blood out of their program schedules.

The BBC has cancelled a last week's match in New York when Cuban

| welterweight Benny Paret was

punched to near death. They are also reconsidering this Sun- day’s episode of Oliver Twist. It, shows Sikes hanging himself

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OUR YESTERDAYS

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He has this tree staked out be fore we came.

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me methods Many infants fall asleep when noise producing appliances (such | as radio or TV) are nearby. The hum and vibration of the car or baby carriage do the same. The tone device does no harm and may be a safer method of relax- ing the tot than the use of seda- | tives or tranquilizers.

Some have suggested that the | tone is helpful because it simu- lates the sound of the mother's heart beat. The unborn child is | subject to a variety of sounds | that provide a background tone | or hum. All of this is specula- tion. The sound probably con- veys the impression that some- one is nearby.

hand, it might work when these | ti

The fussy inf. usually is | one or two oe old and the | parents are likely to be inexper- enced, unsure of themselves or | emotionally unstable. The child senses their tensions and becom- | es irritable. Improvement oc- | curs when the mother and fath- er gain experience and adjust to the responsibility of having a) baby in the household. }

(Dr. Van Dellen will answer | ¢) questions on medical topics if | stamped, self-addressed envel- ope accompanies request.)

PRESSURE REDUCERS

. writes: What are the | mechanics of the action of drugs | that reduce high blood pres- | sure? ” |

REPLY | Some dilate the smaller arter- fes, which reduces the force re- quired to squeeze blood through the arterial system. Many of these products also contain sed: atives or tranquilizers because the size of the arteries is under the control of the nervous sys- tem. Diuretic drugs are useful and lower blood pressure by en- couraging the kidneys to elim- inate more salt, |

one NEEDED rites: I have been now have stiffness. that makes | getting up from a chair diffi- cult. Do I need a doctor? REPLY

No, just a little patience. This sounds like ‘“rheumatics” of the spine and knees, the kind older people get. A heating pad | will do wonders. Stiffness may | come and go and probably will | get no worse unless the back is Strained or injured.

|

| EYELID LESION

. W. writes: I developed a transparent growth on the very | edge of my right eyelid. It does not pain hut I'm worred that it may become larger. Is immed- | iate surgery advised? | EP’

Consult an yon empresa a a diagnosis. It makes good s to know what kind of oer is present before discussing treat-

the Guardian TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Associate Professor in the De- partment of English, addressed Glen Mawr Old Girls’ Associa- tion, yesterday in the Granite Club. Mrs. Kirkwood’s topic was “What should be in the minds of people planning Education of today.” tial

jay, a should con- sider the they that will oak bute to her happiness whether she merase or not, Mrs, Kirk- wood stated during her speech. ry ~ on Club, a. evening Ca J.

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powered | ieoteeee — Galt Reporter. penlight |

tone (B flat, one octave below ound about middle C) and is placed in the es northwest 3 Rome. Se crib or bed to help calm irrit- | we thought the subur-

banite waiting for the bus to the = city was a modern ae ent. — Cleveland Plain Deal:

The package deal has reach- ed Las Vegas, we are informed, and the traveller may have a winter weekend there at $11 a night. This is represented — to | include accommodation at a first class hotel, a mid floor show and “unlimited ac- cess to the hotel's one-armed bandits.”’ At the package price, this last presumably means the guest may go into the room whereslot machines kep! and stand quite close to one, pro- viding he makes no attempt to touch it. — Detroit Free Press.

President Kennedy says to. day's s houeewite is “called upon amateur

Not a word about being a cook? —Ottawa Journal,

Policemen became suspicious of a foreigner in local railroad yards who kept hanging around locomotives with strange equip- ment. He turned out to be Peter

hobby sounds of engines. ‘Their puffs and whistles are music to me,” he said. — Paese Sera, Rome,

The French government tour. ist office in New York noted in a recent travel bulletin that “France could fit into Texas and still leave room enough foi a state the size of New York,” We don’t mind France moving

so much, as long as New York stays right where it is —Dallas Morning News.

Immigrants We ‘Depend On

Brit@in’s loss is most os oh ly Canada’s gain in one class of © skilled immigrants. They are doctors, the graduates of Bri- tish medical schools. In five years, 1956-60, no less than 1,071 British doctors decided to prac- tise in Canada; another 2.500

| went to the United States, South |

| Africa or other Commonwealth countries. British authorities were left to mourn that one - third of the annual output of medical schools leaves the Bri- tish Isles

This immigration of doctors, whatever pain it may cause | Britain, is welcome in Canada. | Canadian medical schools are

| not producing enough doctors to

meet the nation’s needs. More- over, there is a loss in emigra- | tion to the United States. In the years from 1955 to 1957, the Im- migration department says, 535 physicians and_ surgeons left Canada for employment across the border. TICKLISH QUESTION Whether the

| Many of them are refug from the compulsory saitant health service in Britain who feel they can prosper more in the freedom of Canadian medi- cal practice

If the Common Market assoc- jations develop as Britain es. economic opportunities for doctors in Western Europe, in- | cluding Britain, will improve and the urge to move overseas

influx of well- | trained British doctors will con- | tinue is aticklish poe asa |

| may decline, Meantime, the doctors who consider moving to

| Canada must read with interest

the arguments for and against a

compulsory health service be

ing heard by the Royal commis-

sion now sitting in Ottawa.

With the help of the immi- | grants, from Britain and from Europe, Canada has been | | |

to maintain what authorities consider generally a reasonable proportion of doctors to the tot- al tion. The trouble is in | maldistribution. Canadians in towns and cities have more doc- | tors available than the rural areas and the outposts of de velopment,

NOT PERMANENT It is too much to hope in these times that many doctors, Cana- dian-born or immigrants, will be cores to spend their lives in devoted service in the back- woods, Indeed, there may not be the same need for doctors in re- | mote places now, thanks to the system of air ambulances to get the sick from remote areas to hospitals where they can be treated most effectively. | By grace of immigration, a doctor shortage in Canada has | been avoided but the statistics invite the attention of govern- ments, universities and medical societies to the question of whe ther the production of doctors | . ae aa be increased. wise to count on | continiation " the flow from Britain.

On A Plain In Iran

Milwaukee Journal

It was a touching, dramatic and, one hopes, prophetic scene on a plain in Azerbaijan near the village of Varjui in Iran the other day

s the sun reflected off the |

melting snow, the shah, Moham- med Riza Pahlevi, dressed in | the uniform of commander in | chief, conducted a brief cere- oa in Persian. He handed

er to 20 peasants, representa- tives of 520 families in seven villages, the deeds to the land they had long worked as ten- ants. As he presented the deeds, the shah leaned over and raised the kneeling peasants to their feet, wishing them happy futur- es and inquiring about their sta-

| tus and families.

CROWDS GATHERED Soldiers, boy and girl scouts and village spectators crowded about. Present also, but not hap- pily, was a group of sadden a who had been he government to sell their wine and land under a 10 year repayment program. No landlord may henceforth own more than one village. What made the scene impor-

The Age Old Story

on hae shall be magnified in body, whether it be by life, or So death,

tant is that it was the first.a in a program that the ish hopes will soon affect almost all of Iran's 50,000 villages and ans- | wer the peasants’ age old dream of land ownership. It is a pro- gram of land reform accompan- | fed by plans for technical train- | ing, that is the shah’s answer | to the social and political prob- | lems that have his country in | ferment and threaten his throne. WELL RECEIVED

| It is a plan well received by almost everyone except the landlords. There are in Iran some good landlords who share fairly the proceeds of their har vests with their tenants. But their are also unfeeling landlords who keep tenant farmers sub jected and impoverished while reaping riches themselves. But few er like to give up’ their holding:

An enstptiad is Jamsheed Is- fandari, who acquired much land through the proceeds of grain speculation during the Soviet occupation of northern Iran in World War II. He told the New York Times the other day that he is delighted with the government program. Now he will tane.4 eG Barone Been ean take a trip to E of all, he dauisinet, he can af-

ford to add three young women he has had his eye on to his pre sent five wives.

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