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W A Good Example

"in contrast. to the bitter political feuding that is going on at Ottawa. particularly between the leaders of the two major parties. comes an an- nouncement indicative of a more praiseworthy state of affairs in this Province. It has been made by the

FRIDAY. JUNE 26. 1964. i

Spehker of the Legislative Assem— ; bly. Hon. John R. MucLean, intimat— I ingvthat Opposition Leader A. W. ; Matheson. QC. is to be Prince Ed- ‘

ward Island's official representative

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at the 10th Commonwealth Parlia-

mentary Association Conference in Jamaica in November.

Undoubtedly the Speaker‘s an- .

no‘uncement has behind it the full approval of the Shaw Government and its legislative supporters. as well as Mr. Matheson’s colleagues in<the House. it is a gesture which reflects credit on both sides: it can be interpreted both as a signal tribute to;' the Opposition leader’s experi- ence in parliamentary affairs. and tothe lack of partisan bias on the part of the administration in sig- nalling him out for honor in this ma er.

here is no doubt that Mr. Math- eson will represent the Legislature and the Province worthiiy on this occasion, also that he will appreciate the courtesy thus extended to him. This doesn’t mean. of course. that he will—or should—be any less ac- tive in criticising what he believes to be the government’s sins of omis- sion and commission; but it does serve to keep such differences of political opinion in their proper place. That place is within the framework of a larger concept which assumes that all our elected repre- sentatives have responsible duties to discharge. and are equally con- cerned about maintaining the pres- tige of the House and the interests of the state.

US. Court Ruling

Widespread concern is felt in rural areas of the United States at a Supreme Court ruling last week. which decreed that state legisla- tures must be on a “one person, one vote” basis, with each legislative unit “substantially equal” in popu- lation. Under this ruling, more than 40 of the 50 states may be required to reapportion their legislative dis- tricts. Urban and suburban areas, for the most part. will gain strength at ‘the expense of r u 1' a1 districts. thus possibly shifting control of the legislatures in a number of states from one party to the other.

The legislatures affected by the decision are made up of two cham- bers in all but one of the 50 states. Their powers—taxation, p u bilc works. education, penal and civil codes, licensing of a broad range of activities. etc—a f f e c t virtually every aspect of the citizen’s life. The typical formula calls for at least one representative from each coun- ty, regardless of how sparsely populated. while placing a maximum on the number of representatives from any one county, regardless of how densely populated.

Some weird disparities were brought to the Court’s notice in this connection. In Nevada the popula- tion epreod between the smallest and largest election district for the onset house. each with equal repre- eutation, is 568 to 127,016, and theoretically 8 per cent of the voters could abet a majority in the chamber. In Connecticut. the range £316 lover house Is 191 to 81,089, ' 12.. pm: cent able to elect a

.11: NW'York in the Ewes- .lt II to 814,721, with for s minority. 5' Uncle atete'where a

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majority of the votes in required for the election of a majority in either house.

Two years ago the Supreme Court for the first time ruled that legislative districts were subject to judicial scrutiny. in last week’s decision, the Court majority applied the same principle to apportionment for the state legislature. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice War- ren summed up the finding in these terms: “Legislators r e p r e s e n 1‘. people. not trees or acres. Legisla- tors are elected by voters, not forms or cities or economic interests . . . To the extent that a citizen’s right to vote is debased, he is that much less a citizen. ,The weight of a. citizen's vole cannot be made to de- pend on where he lives.”

As the New York Times points

out. this judgment will fundament- ;

ally affect the structure of Ameri- '1

can government. The weakest point of its p0sition is that it rejects as “inapposite and irrelevant" the analogy with the Federal system in which each state has two Senate seats regardless of population. The thirteen original states were sover-

eign when they formed the Federal {

Union and obtained a binding com- mitment to this effect. “It. is hard." says The Times. “to grasp the rea- soning under which a Constitution containing this promise can at the same time outlaw state legislatures on the same model.“

Hard indeed. and we may expect to hear more of this complaint as the ruling becomes operative.

Making Haste Slowly

Most people will agree with Prime Minister Pearson's statement in the House of Commons yester- day, that it would be unwise for the Government to make any policy an- nouncements on health care until it has a chance to discuss with the provinces the report of the Hall royal commission on health services. He added that. a federal provincial meeting of health ministers has been called for July 20, and we may assume that this will be the first of several meetings at which the im- plications of the report will be dis- cussed.

Once policy decisions have been reached at Ottawa. the Government would call a federal-provincial con-

ference “to discuss with the prov- ,

inces the policy which should be adopted jointly with them." Actual- ly, it would seem, the Government’s study of the report is already in progress, and began, in fact, before the report was formally tabled in the Commons. But there ap- pears to be little or no chance that legislation flowing from the report will be placed before Parliament during the present. session.

Meanwhile. it is noteworthy that the Canadian Medical Associa- tion has. in effect, rejected the plan for medical insurance proposed by the commission. while in Ontario :1 bill has been brought down endors- ing a plan that would be voluntary and would use many commercial car- riers. The Hall report insisted that a medical care insurance plan for Canada must be universal, compul- sory (in terms of enrolment) and run by a public body. It dismissed the use of private insurance car- riers as unnecessary and imprac- tical.

The report raises other contra. versial issues: but there is wide. spread appreciation of its overall importance, and of the need for ap- proaching it in a co-operative spirit. Perhaps the Montreal Gazette is right in suggesting that its recom- mendations might better be put into effect one at a time. according to relevant urgency. Such gradual procedure would at least make it possible to learn what the actual cost will prove in practice to be, and what total costs. of all kinds, will have to be balanced against total revenues, from all sources. by the year 1971.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The population of the United States reached an estimated 192 million people Monday. The popula- tion clock maintained by the Census Bureau reached that figure at 8:35 cm.

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When a US. executive turned bright red while out on the golf links recently, he felt that some- thing was wrong. it turned out that the fungicide used on the grass was related to antabuse——a chemical which causes sharp reactions in people who have consumed alcohol.

IN THE LAND OF THE VIKINGS

_O_TTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholsori Income Taxes And Who Pays Them

Money is always interesting. especially other people’s: so we should be grateful to the Depart- ment of National Revenue which has just released its tabulation: of individual income tax turns for 1962.

The hero of the year is un- doubtedly the worker in Oshawa. In the national list of average incomes. the taxpayer of our Motoropolis has hoisted his city from 10111 place in the previous year to 3rd place in 1962. With an average income of $4.945. the 25.687 income tax payers of Oshawa rated behind only the Sarnians. the longtime best paid workers in Canada, with an average income of $5,125 and the Sootlans from Sault Ste Marie. whose average income was $5,090.

The average income of the Sudbury taxpayer dropped by $3 to $4,779 and that drop. cou- pled with improvements in oth- er cities, made the proud Nickel Capital of the World fall from iird to 11th place in our national ist.

other interesting average in- comes in 1962 were Welland $4,- 665 414th highest in Camden; Chatham $4,485 422nm; Barrie $4.474 ( 24ml: Cornwall and Fort William-Port. Arthur both $4.373 1.28mi; Guelph $4,281 (36th): Quebec City $4.247 (39th) Gail $4.241 14151) and W000- stock $4.233 i42ndl.

BEST PAID JOBS

“Doctors and Surgeons" once again proved to be the best paid job in Canada on the average. Our 14169 medical men—who

had sadly shrunk in numbers from 14,588 the previous year— earned an average income of $18,146. on which they paid an average $4.246 in income tax.

Johnrw Canuck, "employee". was one of 4,090,- 943 taxpayers in his group; he. earned an average of $4,227 and paid in income tax an average of Sam—but he paid the heck of a lot more than that in indirect or "concealed" taxes, to the various hungry tax collectors in our federal. provincial and mu- nicipal governments.

Where did the income tax come from? Why, by far ih e largest contributor was the tax- payer in Ontario. Ontarians con- tributed 47 per cent of all the personal income tax collected in Canada; Quebec contributed 21 per cent; came B.C. thCu contributed less than one-quar- ter of Ontario’s total.

For the year 1962. income tax collections from individuals to- taila'l $2.021 millions. This was the last full year of Diefenbaker government. In contrast. total collections during 1956. the iasl

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full year of St. Laurent govern- ment. totalled $1.288 millions. Thus in six years the. collection of: income tax rose by 59 per

‘ cent.

the typical ‘

This is a measure of income

enjoyed also. and it is interest~ in; to note that the two provin- ces which made the greatest ad- vance during those years were Saskatchewan and P.E.1. Sask- atchewan‘s tax payments rose to nearly two and one half times what. they had been in 1956. while P.E.l.'s more than doub— led. A man whose income is at least 5 per cent on $1.000,000 rated a millionaire: by th i 5 standard Canada had a record number of 3.006 millionaires in 1962. Of these 801 were over us years of age. By the same yard- stick. we had 20.718 “half-mil- lionaires" of whom 202 were farmers. 35 were fishermen. 34 were teachers and professors. 145 were government employees 45 were entertainers. 9.731 lived in Ontario. 404 lived in Saskatch- ewan. in PEI. and 109 were non-residents.

German Reunification

By Joseph MacSween

Canadian Press Staff Writer

The preoccupation of Germans I with the reunification of their 1 country is striking to a visitor.

West Germans. whether on the political or private levels. are Inclined to view all differ- ences between East and West.

PUBLIC

FORUM

BASIC PRINCIPLE ' Sir.——When "Observant Obser- ver" shows the courage and courtesy to recognize a basic principle in modern journalis- tic debating by signing his or her name rather than hiding behind a redundant and obscure pseudonym i shall consider drafting a reply. I am. Sir. etc. H. A. STEVENSON. Manager. Montgomery Hall.

CLUBS AND LIQUOR

Sin—I read in the local press an account of a meeting of the members of the Sportsmen‘s Club held during the past week at. which the directors of the club resigned and an election held by which the members el- ected a new executive. I under- stand that resolutions were also passed providing whet ehould be done with any profits which the club might make during the coming year. From your count of the meeting it is hard to see why this club should not receive a license as they seem to have qualifications as good as some of the clubs which have received licenses. for example. the Charlottetown Club or, as it is commonly known, the Gen- fiemen‘s Club.

In case there In any misun- derstanding‘by the public, I think they should be Informed that the Southport Country Club held a similar meeting of its members early in May. before the Commission let it be known first it would not lame licenses o the Cher- loftetown area. It cannot there- fore be said th

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the club had bee in previouer in- formed cheirman of the Commission that he could not see why the club would not be given a temporary enu. At usia'meetlng it was not ne- cessary for the directa'l to re. sign for. by its by-lawa, the Board of Directors is elected for a period of only one year and the members of the club must

elect new directors each year. It was steed it“ the last! out!“

use of the club swimming p 0 ol free of charge for the purpose . of holding their summer life saving classes and the grounds of the club he again of- fered for use of the Char- lottetown Flying Club. the Char- lottetown Model Airplane Club. the newly formed Charlottetown Sky Diving Club and that con- sideration would be given to re- quests of any other clubs which die directors thought were worthy of encouragement. The use of the soft-ball diamond and

swimn'ung pool was also ex- tended to the children of the Southport area.

Although the club has operatv ed at a loss in both the years it was in operation, the members

agreed that should the c l u b 1

show a profit this year then that profit would be used for the ad- ditionof such other facilities as would add to the enjoyment and entertainment of the members. The club has already built a golf course. swimming pool. ar- chery range. stable for riding horas. a softball diamond. and a gymnasium eq pped with bar bells, welflsta for Weight lifting exercises. spring operat- ed muscle building apparatus. etc. and an aeroplane landing strip.

The by-iavrs were also chang- ed to provide that all members must buy a bond in the club in order to retain or obtain mem- bership.

I was not preaent at this meet- ing but have been given this in- formatic- inembes-e who

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were meets! and in - tion was included in the appli- cation by the club to the Liquor. Commission for a license al- though this application was re- fused without .1 reasons being

given. ‘

Richard Mechnnon also wishes it known Ila! he does not many moreeftnlselub than

axiom be

' iii-cm Isms-and

that it be spent in providing use club with the realities m1! mentioned. not received any pay. ei a inter

in the context of lhe German and Berlin problems.

Considering this background, it isn‘t surprising that they heard with keen interest that the United States. Britain and France would issue a joint dec laration scheduled for today —on the Western position re- garding Germany.

This follows the surprise 20- ycar treaty of friendship signed by Soviet Premier Khrushchev and Walter Ulbrichl. East Ger- man Communist prcmier. June lz—the day Chancellor Ludwig Erhard was due in Washington for talks with President John-

n. West. German officials gener- ally dismissed the treaty as a sort of reward by Khrushchev to Ulbricht. who has been con- siderably more faithful to the Kremlin than other East Euro- pean Communist leaders. OWN AGREEMENT

“Khrushchev is simply mak~ in: another agreement with himself,“ was a comment fre- quently heard from West Ber- liners. who express contempt for Ulbricht at every opportunity.

Khrushchev. in this view. wanted to "shore up" _Ulbricht's regime at a time when such countries as Communist Ro- mania were kicking over the traces on trade matters in the Communist world.

Bonn government sources saw the Cuban crisis of 1962 and the test-ban treaty of 1963 as good omens for reunification.

The Cuban affair taught Khrushchev that he could not inflict his will by force. but had to negotiate. Thus if he wants a real detcnie with the West. he will have to negotiate the Ger man problem. ‘

BIG FOUR COMMISSION

The feet - ban treaty arme partly from the iii-nation dia- armament. committee working in Geneva. in the Bonn view, although it was negotiated by 02115.. Britain and the Soviet Union. Some German leaders believe permanent big‘ four commission on Berlin and West. Germany could inch toward re- unification.

- In a nutshell. the Ger-nuns believe reunification will never in the natural

one to Erhard's coalition. summed up this way: "No detenfe with- out reunification and no reuni- neutron without Mme."

BIG rofiiianou

Brazil alone eccwnts for half aim-summit of the South an conduit.

No Diagnosis Through Mail

By Dr. Theodore R. Van belles

Many readers wrlto to us

about their symptom and ex-

poet a disgusts by return mail.

It is not possible to practice me

an on! do ta. including X-ray. only part of the story kn .

It is difficult also for the lay-

man to evaluate the relative im-

ance of his symptoms. Vital information may be omitted. or the emotional aspects of the sul- ment are expanded out of pro- portion to their true signifi- cance.

Several months ago we re- ceived a letter from a person who suffered from “zigzagging in from of my eyes for about 20 minutes. Then I get nausea and headache. I am 37 and in good health. Can you! make any aug-

thls individuai's headache was the key word in the letter. Many victims of raine develop this visual zlgzaggi-ng preced- ing the throbbing pain on one side of the head. If I were ques- tioning this petlen t. I would have asked her whether the vls‘ uai manifestation was more dis- abling than the headache or vice versa.

At any rate. shortly after the reply was published. we re- ceived the following letter:

"You should not have told Mrs. X. that she probably has migraine. My husband went to five doctors with the same sym- ptoms and one told him he had migraine. Finally. a physican suggested a brain wave test telecbraencephalograml a n d found he had epilepsy. It took :10 years to make thi diagnosis. After reading a lot about epil- epsy I am sure there are many undetected cases. My husband had violent temper tantrums before treatment but has been a changed person since medica— tion was started. Telling your reader she has migraine is the easy way out."

This man had one more sym- ptom than the woman with mi- graine — violent temper tan- trums. But his wife failed to te- cognize the importance of the behavioral problem. If often is a symptom of psychomotor epi- lepsy. Perhaps this manifesta- tion was not mentioned to the five physicians be consulted. At. any rate. his attacks of rage dis- appeared when epilepsy w a 3 treated.

DAILY PARSNIPS

J.A. writes: Would parsnips,

eaten daily, shorten life expec- ')

No. You may recall that Louis Untermeyer referred to this somewhat unpopular vegetable as “muscular cheese."

- ' notes BY THE WAY ;

madam”! la a manually mafia. "I'm cared." said the first mouse as they whiucd alone. "This space travel is dangerous." “Yea”. said the second. “but it beats cancer research.” -— Fuenolai