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That Student Loan Plan

Provincial governments have been asked to inform Ottawa before the end of the month what authorities they are designating to issue eligi-

Monlague, Alber-

bility certificates under the Student .

Loan Plan. According to an Ottawa correspondent. of th e Financial Times. failure to make these desig- nations is holding up machinery for getting the plan into operation.

If this be. true. it shows a lam-

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ho is embarking on a dangerous course.

The strongest argument of all against the course is France’s total inadequacy to build a nuclear force that would save it from annihilation in the event. of it becoming involv- ed in a nuclear war. It would be just as dependent as ever on Amer- ican nuclear strength for its ulti- mate security. and it would have increased the chances of a resump- tion of nuclear testing by the Sov- iets and perhaps of a decision by Moscow to arm its European satel- lites with nuclear arms.

That would be a pretty stiff price to pay for French entry into the big power league.

Blow To Complacency It is generally assumed that de-

spite the time-wasting that has been ‘ going on in Parliament. Canada is ‘

doing well economically. Even with- I

' out a wheat sale to Russia. it should still end the current crop year with ‘

exports substantially above 350 mil- lion bushels, a level which has been reached on only three occasions in the postwar period. Other signs of economic gains are cited to show that we are headed in the right di- rection. and that there is no need

. for concern in this regard ‘ This is not the view of Mr. John =

entable incapacity to co-operate in ‘

a measure which most of the prov- inces profeSs to regard as pressing importance. The chartered banks have already ironed out de-

one of ‘

tails of the complicated plan. includ- ing the form of application that I

students will be required to fill.

With the possible exception of Ontario. with its numerous and spread universities. the l e n din g authority will probably be vested in provincial loan boards. Quebec is continuing its own plan outside the federal machinery.

Provision must. also be made for students moving from one univer- sity-to another and borrowing from more. than one bank. With each bank the student will leave what amounts to an ICU. Six months after he has finished his course. his various bor- rowings will be. consolidated and he will sign one note with one bank pro- viding for payments of principle and interest over a period of from five to 10 years. The initial rate of in- terest to be paid by the government. during the student's interest free period will be something under the

Deutsch. head of Canada's Economic Council. Mr. Duetsch addressed a Canadian — American assembly in Harrison Hot Springs the other day, and his statements were disturbing. to say the least.

(‘anada's rate of economic devel— opment. he said. has fallen 10 years behind the rest. of the western world. Our scientific and technolog- ical skills are 25 years behind those of the. United States. We have not yet begun to overcome the problems of unemployment. automation, and education. or the threat of synthet- ics to our natural resourses-based economy. A “vastly revised outlook" is needed. he warned, if this trend is to be reversed.

Such an outlook appears to be

1 conspicuous by its absence at OI-

5.75 per cent that is being set. nomin- ‘

ally as the interest payable by the recipient.

The Student Loan Plan is an en- tirely new venture. and federal of-

ficials will need the co-operation of ‘

the provinces in the fullest, extent.

For one thing. it is pointed out. the ‘

payment of interest to chartered banks covering thousands of small loans across the country is going to

require the establishment of a large~ ?

scale and widespread audit system to check on both banks and prov- incial governments.

French Brtnkmanship The United States and the SOV- iet Union have together set up safety rules for the power struggle in which they are still engaged. If these rules are to continue to have effectiveness. both Washing- ton and Moscow have a common interest in preventing other pow- ers from getting their hands on ‘ nuclear weapons—and members of their respective alliances from pursuing independent policies which might too radically upset the status (1110. This doesn't seem to worry Gen- eral do Gaulle. who is bent on France having her own nuclear woopons. and is preparing to estab- lish a nuclear testing centre 15,000 miles from home in the far Pacific. It- fl intended to make this base operational by 1966. After which Franco will devote its efforts to exploding its first hydrogen bomb. ‘ Ifde no detailed inform- ,btiofl about the mof the base , has released. but it is known *3 ’ rho-mm heat and lack of

have proved greater

laws. But surely it, is a matter about which there should be a great deal

of concern in that. quarter-and on

both sides of the House.

Why Not, Indeed?

A special committee of the House of Commons is reported to have de- cided that wine and possibly hard liquor should be served with meals in the Parliamentary restaurant. It also is reported to have decided to

recommend to the Speaker that re— .

porters in their privilege of eating in the rest- aurant—presumably because of its concern to keep temptation away from the news hounds. or perhaps as a gesture in the way of saving

the press gallery lose .

some of the taxpayers' money that

goes into subsidizing of this rest- aurant.

There is no reason why reporters should be specially privileged. of course. and we hold no brief for them in this regard. But we agree 100 per cent. with the Edmonton Journal when it. says the committe’s recom- mendations do not go far enough. MPs receiving the equivalent of more than 520.000 3 year are well able to pay for their own meals. The committee should recommend that the cost of meals be raised to a level where the restaurant would not be a burden on the taxpayers at all.

“At the same time." suggests our Edmonton contemporary. “it might consider whether MPs should not pay what other Canadians pay for haircuts instead of 85 cents in a subsidized barber shop."

EDITORIAL NOTES

Thank goodness. our big centen- nial year ddsen’t inclu de a visit- ation from the Beatles! After what happened in Vancouver over the weekend. we’re glad the program committee settled for Wayne and Shuster instead.

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It was a woman—tho fair Helen —that caused the Trojan War; and now the Manchester Guardian sug- gests that the next war might be known—if anyone survives to know it—as the War of Rockefeller’s Bride. Had Governor Rockefeller not taken a second wife after his divorce he might have won an extra 1.6 per cent votes in the California primary. If he had done this. Gold- water could acame have got tho Republican nomination and become a threat to world stability.

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NIKITA’S LITTLE HELPER

LOST IN WEST AFRICA

Independence For The Gambia

British Information Services

The Gambia. last remaining British Dependency in West Af- rica. is to become independent on February 18' next year.

Gambia‘s association with Bri- tain goes back to the 16m cen- tury— and delegates expressed by resolution in the G a m b I a House. of Representatives LITE wish to become a Monarchy on independence. with Queen Elir- abeth as their ueen Thev also propose to seek member- ship of the Commonwealth.

The question of any merger between the Gambia and Sens. gal would. of crursc. bc a nu.- ter for the Gambia to decide af- ter independence. Gambia al- ready has initial draft agree- ments with Senegal for cn-opera- tion in defence and foreign st. fairs.

Britain has undertaken to as- sisl the Gambia in carrying out. its development programme over the next three years. and will also help with its recurrent

budget during the same periou. I

NEW CONSTITUTION

The Conference Report. to br- :' Governmem ‘

published . White Paper. states that. the In. dependence constitution should

be based on the present constl- .

tution with entrenched provis- ions relating to fundamental hu» man rights. parliamentary and electoral procedure. the judic- iary. the duties of the attorney- general or director of public prosecutions. and the procedqu for the amendment of the con- siitution.

The constitution will also cm. lain provisions relating to citiz- enship. protecting the ‘ - tion of the chleftaincy and cov- ering the appointment. of canal:- tuency boundaries before lne

next. general eleciion. Universal -

adult suffrage will also be writ- ten into the constitution.

The Gambia Government have produced a development program for the period 1964—- .lune 30. 196? involving expendi- tuce of $13.2 million. Britain has been giving $2,400.000 a yes from Colonial Development and

Welfare Funds. and some $225» I

000 a year under the Oversea. Aid Scheme. In addition to grants- in-ald still running Is about $1,500,000 3 year. Dewx lopmenl plans have been con- centrated on agriculture. veter- lnary and educational semen. and communications.

The country has few natural resources. and virtually no In» dustries. Almost all commercts? activity centres on tho cultiva-

0: any significance. Total value in exports in 1962 was 810.71 mil- lion. while the value of Import.- was 813.92 million. The adverse balance was largely offset by Informal trading arrangements with neighbouring countries.

Africa: Tro‘gedy

Canadians are so deeply In- volved In the world's troubles that If is no surprise to find a French - Csna an priest in remote Northern Rhodesia Is one of the victims of tho fanati-

cal bumps So far as is known Father La- Ine of the lie l'a-

harm but in an- article In the London Times a former admin- latrative officer In the Modal! district tolls

roam the . Mr. Paul CIalnnonto. fie wri- ter of the article. says that Lun- dazl was a peaceful place and while this had made great progress Father :Lafoaatlac at his lonely alo- tion had some "laboriously sa- horod" converts and felt he had established contact with If. Africans whose language he spoke fluently“: u of m.

came a a

Alisa . the self.

‘ The first European connexion: , I with the Gambia were in the fit . l teenth century. in 1586 charters . Iwcre granted to English mer-

chanls to trade with the Gan. 1 his and for the next 200 years : there was commercial rivalry ‘- between English and French . merchants for influence in the I area between the Senegal a n d I Gambia rivcrs. Between 1765-178 . 1783 the Gambia formed part of ‘

the British Crown Colony in Senegambia. In 1821 it was placed under I

the jurisdiction of the Govern- ment. of Sierra Lruztc: 2:. years later it was constituted as a sep-

: srale colony and between lflliti-

1888 it was again administered together with Sierra Leone. After the Gambia had finally become a separate colony in 1888. boundaries with Senegal

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were delimited and protectorate 1

treaties signed with the chiefs living along the river. In 1902

ed.

Short of crawling In Washing- I ton on his hands and knees, it is ‘ . difficult to see what more Pre- i micr Fidel Castro of Cuba can

do to improve his country's l strained relations with the Unit- I ed States.

I For the third time In as many

1 weeks there has come an over- ; ture from Cuba. simply asking x that negotiations be opened. In 1 I the official party magazine. Cuba Socialists. Commu n i s i leader BIae Roca says in at V 'agreemem between Cuba and l the United States is still possib- le." This had recently been stat- I ed by both Premier Castro and his brother. Raul. 1! it gives Washington any sat- ; I isfaciion to call this grovelling: llfli is conceded that Cuos is pleading for co- existence out of sheer economic necessity. so be it. The point is that overtures are being made. Castro h a s 1 pledged to cease his Latin Am- . erican subversion: he has offer- ' ed In negotiate every point of

What More Must He Do?

London Free Press

difference that has arisen he-

: tween himself and Washington.

including compensation for seiz- ed U.S. properties.

I passes all understanding that the Slate ‘Mparlment‘s un- yielding stand remains that. the issue of Communism in Cuba is "not negotiable" when the Unit- ed Slates trades and exchanges ambassadors with Russia. th e

‘ greatest Communist power 0 n

earth.

Cuba has become an emotion- a’l Red bogey-man in the Amer- ican mind. the more so because of its geographical proximity to

, the Protectorate was establish- I

the mainland Nor is the silua~ .

lion helped by jingoistic periodi- cals like Time se slanted reporting on Cuban affairs mak- es Castro the eternal villain of every story and dismisses as worthless every offer in case Cuban. American tensions.

No dispute on earth In non- negotiablc: all that's required is some trust and goodwill on the part of allI parties concerned.

It is fashionable today for ad-l mirers of our modern. box- like I buildings to claim that the so I

i . stark pyramids express the spir-

I It of tile age in which we live, i ‘ an modern architecture. freed from the shackles of the y . past. Is only now taking full ad- I . materials available.

he unrelieved plainness. the harsh. straight lines. the mass. of concrete and glass are do- d In such euphemisms as "purify." "lmpllcity". or th at ; old reliable "functlonallsm".

What the Gothic cathedral was i to the Middle Ages or the Wren .- Church to the Reduction. the l apartment house or the office block Is to our own time. we are ' told; arthltccfure has simply

adapted itself to changing needs and materials and these n e w structures are as lovely to the unpreiudlced eye as any pinnac- Ied palace or colonnaded college of the past.

proclaimed prophefaea who has surrendered to authorities after grave disorders. Her creed w that Africans were the chosen people who lacked materlal wealth In this world and would so to heaven: Europeans. wli had the good things In this life. would so to ball. As this creed of Ira ao-callcd Lumps mus-ch took hold.

voria melted away. wrliae Mr. at his

school hoe'a mo and than was a sum retinal to attend classes to religious

howled“. . Seventy-four Lumen were killed Ia Luadast province by securlty fence to one day to to new Lafon- and to

‘ progress in Africa.lhe rattle of i w has mom an agony of

h vantage of the new methods and l fu

uranium found his emi-~ m

Today’s SouIIess Buildings

Orlllla Packet and Times

This. of course. to utter non- . These vast cartons squat- ting on their beetle- like legs. Ihese staring stacks of glass and chrome. these concrete fil- ing cabinets may be outre. strik- ing. perhaps awesome. but few ofI them could be called beauti-

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The palaces. the cathedrals. the public and private buildings

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of one kind or another which 1

were built In past. ages were each the creation of a single group of men to fashion a build- lng for their own specific use. whether it were as a brewery or a holltower. v

The architect designed a build- Ing for that specific purpose. and the character of Its Intend-

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u was re ec in . o building together with the archi- tect's own striving for effect. Such a marriage of art to pur- pose nesul d In buildings character. often chat-mocca- sfonally. when the architect’s lent versed on genlus. It achie- ved surpassing beauty. Today. with the flowering of the rental empire. tiils simple nonpr of patron and archl~ toot has quite disappeared. To- day's office blocks and apart- ment houses are commissioned by soulless development c o m- panlsa for the use of unknown occupants. and designed by ar- chitectural firms. not an arch!-

Tim! “0101:: and droughts-

me are usual

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Sickle Cell Anemia ‘

by Dr, Theodore 1!. Van Belles

In 1904 an Intelligent Negro of It I a n d e d in ty from the West Indies. He trav- eled west to Chicago to attend one of tile professional schools. But he was not feeling well and consulted the late Dr. James B. Herrick. famous heart special- Ist of Chicago. about his cough. foverishness. weakness. and diz-

ss. . Herrick questioned the young man carefully and learned that over the lost three years he had lost his pep. no longer cared to exercise. and was bothered by shortness of breath and palpitation of the heart. The whites of l eyes were tinged with yellow and he had A) or more rounded or oval scarsmn the legs representing healed ulcers.

Blood studies showed anemia but it was the appearance of the red cells that puzzled Dr. Herrick. who wrote: "The shape of the reds was very irregular. but was especially attracted at- tention was the large number of this. sickle-shaped. and cres- cent-shaped forms.“

This was the first description of a patient with sickle cell am- ‘ emia. Dr. Herrick published his findings in 1910. hoping that oth- er physicians would be on the lookout for similar cases. They were and additional research showed the condition to be here- 1 ditary: it is confined mainly to; the Negro or to those of Negro ‘t ancestry.

per cont of American Negroes and 45 per cent of AI- ricans are said to have the trait. A defective gene is inherited from one parent. These persons carry the trait but have no sym- ptoms of the disease. But when the defective genes are inherit- ed from both parents. red cells are destroyed and their debris clocgs the small blood vessels.

.As a result. there are periodic bouts of pain the bones. joints. and abdomen. alone with a Ien~ dcncy to develop ulcer and Icart disease. They have no rcsistan-i cc to infections. which must be. ‘ avoided at all cost. There Is no specific rcmcdy rxccpt bl o o (I transfusions to tide lh e in over periods of crisis.

SWOLLEN CREEK 3. NP. wrilcs: For more than

been swollen. It gets better and worse off and on. This happened after a had sunburn. Is there any way to restore this check . to normal 5179’?

aponsible. Consult your physic- ian the next time he chee puffs up so 'le can examine the face and the glands [in this area. The sides of the face are not al- . ways symmetrical and as- ‘ sumo you have taken this into . consideration. . SLOW PULSE ! Mrs. N. writes: What Is the reason the heart beats slowly? , REPLY

REPLY ;

'I doubt that, sunburn was re-‘ I

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Many healthy persons are ‘ blessed with a slow pulse rate. Others have a low metabolism. People with rates of 35 be I per minute or less usually have a heart block caused by r'leu- matic fever or coronary throm-

sis.

JAW INFECTION .s. S. writes: What is fh a worst that can happen If a case of Ludwig's angina is not. treat- . ed? .