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Geneva Failure

On the 22nd of this month, min- isters of the NATO countries will gather in Ottawa for one of their regular meetings. They will be dis- cussing one of the most publicized problems in recent years—that of the spread and control of nuclear weapons within the alliance. Prime Minister Pearson may be right in assuming, as he stated in London, that this meeting will not material- ly affect Canada's strike-reconnais- sance role within the alliance. In any case, it is pretty certain that it will have little, if any. effect on a much broader nuclear issue—that of preventing further nuclear tests.

No progress has been made in the test-ban talks at Geneva. A recent British-American note to Soviet Premier Khrushchev on the subject met with a negative response. There is speculation that this pre- sages a Soviet walkout from the negotiations. and a resumption of testing.

It is also reported that the American Chiefs of Staff, and the Secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force, have all stated that fur- ther testing by the United States is necessary. For the moment it seems likely that the Kennedy ad- ministration will postpone a re- sumption of testing, for fear of the international reaction. But the So- viets have shown themselves rela- tively insensitive to such considera- tions. If they feel that further tests are militarily desirable, they will likely hold them; and if this hap- pens, the United States would prob- ably feel justified in holding a new test series of its own.

This suicidal race for bigger and more devilish devices for mass slaughter will go on, contaminating the atmosphere and p o i s o n i n g people’s minds as well as bodies, until a breakthrough is achieved in the test-ban deadlock. The Western powers must try, and try again, to reach a compromise on this issue. Whether they like it or not, the spectre that the Geneva conference failed to cope with will be sitting in on NATO's Ottawa deliberations, casting its shadow over every move.

Trade With Japan

From Mr. Alfred Bissonnet, Canadian trad e commissioner in Tokyo, comes word that Canadian exporters may some day look to Japan for overseas sales as large as the present $1,000 million export market in Britain. Few Canadians, he says, realize that Japan already has become Canada’s third-largest overseas market, after the United States and Britain. Some $230 mil- lion in Canadian products went to Japan last year, and the prediction is for a considerable increase over the rest of this decade.

Moreover, future prospects don't lie only' in industrial raw materials and wheat, which now make up about two-thirds of our exports. Mr. Bissonnet’a hopes are bright for sales in specialized manufactur- ed products; also in agricultural exports as a result of a gradual switch in the diets of the Japanese rm fish and rice to bread. meat and milk.

‘ one big reason for this switch is: the fact that all Japanese school chlldrg nod" free lunches that milk and bread. This has h“ to boost Canadian wheat ‘1“ to around $100 million a year. laaddition there are prospects for

. June.

increased Canadian atlas of ouch items as powdered milk, oilseeds, purebred livestock for the develop- ing Japanese farm herds, and for- age crop seed 3 to provide fodder supplies.

First, however, we must come to u more equitable trading ar- rangement with Japan. Mr. Bisson- nett didn’t mention this in his state- ment; it has too many political im- plications. But Japan has been ask- ing for increased quotas on its tex- tile and other items. It wants a re- duction in the so-called “voluntary restrictions” which Tokyo has had to impose on a wide range of exports to this country. Negotiations to this end were initiated some weeks ago, before the accession of the Pearson Government. They are now nearing completion and actual quota levels may be announced within a few days by Finance Minister Wal- ter Gordon.

It would be paradoxical if the first concrete trade deal by the new Liberal administration—seeking now to align itself with American and British efforts for a trans-Atlantic tariff slash and for freer trade—— should involve further Canadian restrictions on Japanese imports.

Red Shield Campaign

The Salvation Army’s a n n u a1 Red Shield campaign is being held during the current month. The pro- ceeds will make possible the continu- ance of Salvation Army services in the community for the next year. The national objective will exceed three million dollars and is consid- ered essential to meet operating def- icits on the Army's social service institutios caring for all kinds of human need, and sheltering thous- ands of less fortunate Canadians.

There are few organizations in Canada, or for that matter in the world, that have done more for people that need help most than the Salvation Army. Its trained officers know and understand the hard knocks that life can give a person. They are hopeful people; they de- spair for none and because of this attitude of mind they are singu- larly capable of inspiring hope.

Leading citizens of all faith 5 help the Army in organizing its an- nual appeal, and contributions traditionally come from s o u r c e 3 equally varied. This is only natural since the Salvation Army make-s no distinction, religious or otherwise, in its giving and assistance. The whole community benefits from the selfless work of its members, and the community is asked each year to contribute a small share of funds required to enable the good work to go on.

Taxing The Sick

One of the things contributing to the high cost of drugs in Canada is the federal sales tax. The Cana- dian Pharmaceutical Association has done a service to the public by bringing the effects of this hidden tax out into the open, in a presenta- tion last week at Toronto before the Royal Commission on Taxation.

According to a spokesman for the association, the average drug store would lose $1,200 a year if the tax was removed because the normal 40 per cent retail mark-up on drugs is based on a price that al- ready includes the 11 per cent tax. But despite this, the pharmacists are unanimous in seeking the elimination of the tax. They main- tain that “a tax on sickness is im- possible to justify", since it creates a financial burden on a patient “often at a time when his earning power, potential or real, is reduced.”

In this case the burden on Cans.- dian consumers amounted to $11,031,231 in 1961, a figure rep- resenting 8.3 per cent of the total spent in prescription services during the year. The average prescription in Canada last year cost $3.61; of this, 26 cents was federal tax.

The pharmacists also sought elimination of the tax from thera- peutic appliances. Their brief will, we trust. get the consideration it merits from the Commission in framing the recommendations it will make to the federal authorities.

DITORIAL NOTE

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The White House has announc- ed that President Kennedy will visit Ireland on his overseas visit in Mr. Kennedy’s lineage is wholly Irish on both the paternal and distaff sides of his family, and this will indeed be an occasion for Old Erin.

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Firing a salute at Fort Edward, Victoria Copied by Craswell Portrait Studio

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OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson “Backroom Boy” On Job Lookout

“Mel i0 "

That is sensational news to the many denizens and visitors on Parlirmcnt Ilill. to whom Mel is known personally or by repu-

tation as far. far and away the d

m 0 s t cl'l'cr'tivc “backroom boy" He is the superb example of that adviser. workhorse a n d protector. without whom every Cabinet Minister, from Pr i mc Minister downward. will sooner or latcr take a pratfall

During the past six years. Mel has b:cn Executive Assistant to George flees In that time, Hon George developed from w h at Right Hon C D Howe once call- ed “that playboy from Toronto into the acknowledged heir ‘ ap-

parent to the Conservative lea- I

dership. and the Minister direct- ing the most successful and most glamorous Department of whole Conservative government. Without taking anything away from the successful politician which George Hees has become. it is only fair to Mel Jack to de- scribe him as "The Hess th at Jack built" OTTAWA VALLEY PIPPIN Melville Rait .Iack was b o r n l years ago. at the little Ottawa Valley lumbering town 0 .-“n- prior Bcfore his 20th birtl‘nday. he became an active politician; as a student at Queen's Univer- sity. he was thrice elected to the Ontario Boys Parliament meet' ing in Toronto. He was success- i\ely MP. Speaker and Prime Minister

Then followed five years as‘

executive assistant or private se- cretary to premiers, party lead-

ers or ministers in the Ontario ‘ Legislature His first job was<

with Hon. VA Dunlop. whosc

daughter “ruith lz‘ter married »

a star on the Toronto Argonauts

Grey Cup champion team. nam- ,

ed George Hccs. Then with Pro- mier- GS. Henry. Then with Hon.

Earl Rowe 3 now Lieutenant Gov- ‘ ernor - who with Mel's aid just ; nosed out his rival for the lead- l

ership. George Drew. In the on. suing general clcction. Mcl was given the spcclcl assignmcnt of ensuring that the indcprnd e nt Conservative candidate at Guelph was beaten by the offi. cial Conscrvativc candidate. . as -always. carried out his orders: the mavcrick's namc was George Drew.

Those names. II c e s. R o w e Drcw. have highlighted Mel’s ca- rcor

But The Conservatives lost the election. so Mel moved into bus- iness. working for thc Grcat Lak- os Paper Co of which Earl Rowe was president Then Mel moved to

"Dollar 8 your man" in the De- .

parlment of Munitions and Sup- ply under the great C D Howe His job: to allocate labour for the pulp. paper and lumber in- dustry

When the Conservative party

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Ottawa as a wartime 1

Jack is looking for a i chose a new federal leader, Hon 1

,John Bracken, Mel was drafted l to be his private secretary. And he was still working in the lead- er's office when George Drew 1 arrived in Ottawa as the new lea- er on a sunny Fall day in 1948. ‘ AID SOUGHT BY ALL Through the 1949 and 1953 elec-

_ lions. and between, Mel worked superhumanly and effectively for i the Conservatives, especially for l a backbencher named Diefen- 5 baker. But the echoes of Guelph Ihad not died. In 1954 he was I: thrown out on his ear, with no y'thank‘s from the party the had 1 served well for 22 years, no pro- 1 test from the MP5 he had aided. I and the passed - hat revealed a paltry frrewcll gift of $847 Admiring political foes, Liber- al Walter Harris and CFer 1 Ross Thatcher together negotia- in the civil service here for Mel. ‘ In 1956 the Conservatives had i now federal

ly needed iet. Mel was asked to laccep: the post as national or- ; ganiner But his wife under: ‘ standany protested vigorously regainst Mel leaving the secur- | ity of the civil service to work i for a political disorganization 4which had done him such dirt. i Even one of Mel‘s close fricnds ‘was unable to tempt him with l the offer of a 10-year contract at l $25,000 per year

But when, six months latenthe Conservatives had gained office, George Hees picked up Mel to be his side. His immense value was concentrated for Hess. and scoff- ed at by the Party hierarchy. Thus the writing of history was influenced.

Now Mel is looking for a job in business. Offers have reach- ed 535.000 3 year. But not sur- prisingly the Capital's best back- room boy has had offers here too. The choice of working with

19,, r, w ho l four different Liberal Ministers ! wanted the best help and certain' i has been his this past week.

The letter X. as in exit where many prefer it softbolled like eggs. refutes Sartre's no- tion that there is “No Exit.“ As every writer knows, one way out is to “X it out." Of course. what Sartre meant was that ‘ there may be no X-cape. I

Remember when. in lurid: } news photography. or movies | labout the metropolitan jungle; ix used to “mark the spot"?| I The fashion of using it that way i l is hardly X-tant anymore. Mac-i l Beath still goes on wishing.‘ l l l I

however. that. he Could X out i the spot.

There are only a little more than three pages of words be— ginning with X in the Webster dixionary (phonetically thcrc‘s n reason why we shouldn't spell it that way) and it would ; lake closer research than most of us have time for to find many of them which are not pronounced as if they began with X. One notable X-ccption. Xcres. is pronounced Sherez and some others take off with an H.. but not as in " 'old ycr at!"

Having six sounds to its cre- j (lit the letter has made a mark 00 for itself by coming into the modern alphabet from the Chalcldian and Ionic alphabets with two different sounds. via 1 the Latin. where it also served .the Romans as dispensers of

. ten. much as our own comput- ers serve us as calculators in millions.

Much more c on I d be said on the subject if space permit- ted. But if a writer tried to go further now he would run into

The Real Cuba

New York Times

Cuba threatens to become the forgotten country. even though it has never been so much discussed. Former Vlce President Nixon. Senator Keat- ing. Senator Goldwater. Govcr- nor Rockefeller and many oth- ers are not really talking about

in their demands for stronger United States action. They are talking about a Soviet military base. Russian troops and armaments. the cold war. the threat of Communist sub- version ln Latin America.

It is almost as if the Cuban nation. the Cuban people. the Cuban revolution did not exist. Or as if all Cubans have now gone into exile. There has been a loss of perspective. The So- viet presence in Cuba and the dangers it represents are un- deniably real and important, but the things happening inside Cuba are at least as important. SOCIAL LES

The island is in the midst of a social revolution. Its agrarian program. industrialization. ed- ucation. housing. roadbullding. public health and all the para- phernalia of “Marxism-Lenin- ism" in the labor unions. the schools. the militia and the Go- vernment are going full blast.

A fearful mess has made of the economy. but Cu- be is a fertile island with a mild climate. so nobody starv-

es. Fidel Castro still raves at great length over the television a few times a week. but most of his time and that of his asso- ciates is spent in running the Government and the revolution. however badly they do it.

According to the latest gures. there are about 200,000 Cuba n exiles in the United States and perhaps 50,000 other places. The population of Cuba. if they remained on the island. would be close to 7.000.- 000. This means that about per cent of the Cubans are still in Cuba. They should not be forgotten. no matter how justl- fiably great our concern is over the presence of armed Soviet inter-leper: in Cuba. AGONIZING PROCESS

In an interesting study just published, "0n evolution", Hannah Amndt makes the point that. since it is unthinkable to permit a nuclear Armageddon. the most important political fec- lor in the wor y la not war but revolution. Cube in going through the agonizing process of a social revolution which. like all similar revolutions in modern history. is making a permanent imprint.

American concern should be as much to help achieve a free I democratic. socially progres- l slve Cuba as it is to get rid of

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The Uses Of X

Christian Science Monitor

whole phalanxes of editorial X’s. Which reminds us that most other letters. the ambivalent silent H's. Gh's. and so forth. are vehicles of sound that are silver. But straightforward, well paced X

ways worth its weight in gold.

REMOVES SAFEGUARDS

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) South Africa‘s drastic “no trial ' bill aimed at suppressing Negro sabotage and terrorism became law Thursday with the assent of President Charles Swart. The act gives the justice minister power to detain a political pris- oner indefinitely when his prison sentence expires and enables police to hold suspects without warrant in solitary confinement for ays, introduces the death penalty for South Africans who leave the country to learn sabotage and those who advocate the forceful overthrow of the regime from abroad.

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Jimson Weed Can Be Killer

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Della

TWO children were polsohed after eating the seeds of the Jlmson weed. One was a boy of three who because markedly confused and disoriented. came into the house reeling like a‘ drunk and then had con- vulsions. Illa sister, aged six. exhibited the same symptoms except for convulsions.

The specific remedy for this condition. which resem- bles belladonna poisoning. This means prevention is imperative and we wonder why so com- mon a plant is not eradicated completely. Jimson weed. annual, grows in most parts of the United States. It is dubbed stinkweek or thorn apple and has been a problem for de- cades. _

The poisoning is called milk sickness because many people encounter sym oms after drinking milk that comes from sick cows. The animal eats the Jimson weed and develops the trembles. Some of the poison gets into the milk and anyone who drinks this liquid is likely to become i

In the past, farmers often peddled their own milk and left a trail of milk sickness along the route. Many of the cases were fatal. Nancy Hanks Lin- coln was the most celebrated: she died of milk sickness when Abe was a small boy. The dis- ease is not common to.dsy be- cause mosl us buy from large dairies. The milk is pour-. ed into vats and any that might be contaminated is so diluted as to be safe.

Learn to recognize this plant and destroy It immediately. It is found not only in pastures but in back yards. playgrounds. and public parks. Little chil- dren will eat anything in sight and weed poisoning must be considered whenever a young- ster develops a sudden baffling illness. There are more than 50 varieties of weeds and other plants in the United States that are risky or poisonous when squeezed or swallowed.

MOON LIFE

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J.A.Z. writes: Do you think that when the astronauts reach the moon and return to earth, they will bring new types of

germs back with them? REPLY

Your gu e s s is as good as mine. We are told no one lives on the moon and this might in- clude all germs. 0n the other hand. we might find an advanc- ed civilization and our astron-

Noriss BY THE WAY

"Daddy." the Ila-M I»: asked, “before you men-lad Mommy, who told you how to drive?" -. Globe and Mail.

"What are you studying.» University now?" asked the loud newrich English mother of h e_ r Idn. _ “We have just taken up molecules." “That's lovely. I hope you like them. I tried to get your father to wear one, but he couldn't keep it in his eye." -— Montreal Star.