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Incomplete Answer

Speaking in Halifax on Satur- day, Labor .\Iinister Mach‘achen is tiiedited with saying that criticism of the federal government's selec- tion of 35 "slow growth" areas for special assistance across Canada is unjustified. Apparently he was re- ferring to criticism of the principle iiiyolved in the policy itself, rather than to its application, for he went as to say: “Many hold that. we should concentrate on accelerating growth in existing growth centres. However. such an approach would assume that we have given tip the

areas removed from the growth a rca s . "

Changes for the good in bigger growth centres. Mr. )IacEachen

elaborated. “do not always favor- ably change the economic state in surrounding areas. This is why the government chooses to channel aid into smaller areas. If these prosper- ing centres are enjoying strong growth they will prmide some job opportunities for people round about. Such centres could not. how- ever. he expected to siphon off all those now underdeveloped and Lil]- cmploj'cd in the remainder of the province."

We have no quarrel with this statement. except that it ignores the criticism which has been voic- ed most strongly in this part. of Canada with respect. to this tax in- centive program aimed at. boosting capital investment—namely. th at it, doesn't go far enough in giving relief In those areas “removed from the growth areas." A few of these areas have been designated ill an arbitrary way. leaving others. equal- ly. deserving of consideration, un- provided for.

1' As APEC President. John S. Wright told the Maritime Boards Trade conference here last week. the federal program should be ap- plied not to a few local communities, but to the entire Atlantic area. As it. stands. it provides for seven desig- nated areas in Nova Scotia and none at all in Prince Edward Island.

It is the inadequacy of this set- up that we should like to have dis- cussed by Mr. MacEachen: or. bet- ter still. remedied without further loss of time.

Taking Them Seriously

Perhaps the most valuable by- product of the flag issue, suggests Bruce Hutchison in the Winnipeg Free Press. is the sudden. almost , comical realization that politicians. running for Parliament, are exceed- ingly important to all of us. Once elected they must be taken very seriously indeed, as we have not been taking them in recent years. The politicians. for their part. must take themselves and their duties very seriously too. instead of re- garding Parliament as a popularity contest.

“In the current debate.” says this well-known commentator. “the electors and the elected have learn- ed that the ‘election gun. handed so casually at the polls, is loaded after all. So it must be if we are to hit. any target of policy. We have misa- ed nearly all our targets in the last seven years because we paid lip ser- vice to the parliamentary system on long as it did nothing controver- eial, elected inadequate Parliaments end as now MN a heavy price for our Indifference.

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and complained of the results after- wards. Warned sharply that they cannot escape the results, maybe the people will see that the game of politics is played for keeps. and for the highest stakes. To be sure, the citizen has only one little card to play with. his single vote. but it is a precious card. for which countless good men have willingly died through the centuries. and de- serves far more consideration than a lazy electorate has been giving it.”

This is well said. but it. leaves unanswered the question of why Prime Minister Pearson chose to make this particular issue the cruc- ial one—why he has made it of such paramount importance and urgency as to virtually Commit himself to a non-stop. marathon debate to gain approval of his favored design.

Onlv a few weeks ago he out- lined to the Commons the legisla- tion to which he attached priority of passage before contemplating a summer recess. The so—called Can- ada pension plan was rated as the government's No. 1 priority measure at that time. Mr. Pearson turned aside questions about the possibility of flat.r legislation by pointing out that he had until next April to keep his commitment of bringing in a new national flag within two years of his taking office.

Why this sudden reversal of policy? Mr. Hutchison doesn't say. While we agree with him that it is good to have a government capable

‘ of taking its election pledges serious-

ly. and of making the public take the government seriously. it puzzles us why this particular pledge should become all-fired important so. suddenly.

Assassination Probe

A Washington commission head- ed by Chief Justice Warren has be- gun writing its report on the slay- ing of President John F. Kennedy, and its findings are said to have turned up no substantiation for—or actually to have rebutted or dis- credited—~the scores of rumors and reports which flew around the world six months ago. The commission has still to call more witnesses to round out its six-month inquiry. but basic- ally it has established the following facts:

That Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin; that Jack Ruby. the night club operator who shot Oswald to death 48 hours later and now awaits execution in Dallas. had not known ()5 old and was not. in- volved in any plot to silence him; that no connection can be traced between Oswald‘s deed and any plot: developed in Russia, Cuba or Mexico; that the motive seemingly lay in the embittered, introverted mind of the cit-Marine sharp shooter. Oswald's wife said he had become “abnormal.” and the evid- ence disclosed that his mother had ignored a school physician’s recom- mendation that he be given psy- chiatric treatment.

The testimony of some 400 wit. nesses. plus thousands of investiga- tion reports and at least 800 items of physical evidence, were said to substantiate overwhelmingly the original findings of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Many of the myriad of conflicting reports seemed baseless or fabricated from the start. but the commission check- ed out each one in the effort to erase any doubt that the public knows all that. can be known.

It is expected also to deal with such questions as whether the secret service and Dallas police took all prescribed safety in e a s u r e s ; whether there was laxity. misbe- havior or inefficiency on the part of any federal agents: and whether more stringent safeguards should be established for the safety of preci- dents. Chief Justice Warren has said that no federal official or agency will be spared if censure is warranted.

Barring a sensational reversal of information before the report is completed on June 30, however, it would seem that the basic facts of the assassination have now been established. There will be relief throughout the country at this an— nouncement—end in other countries as well. '

EDITORIAL NOTE It. is appalling to note that at leeet 43 persona died in accident! peat weekend. 36 traffic fatalities wen reported. along with six drowninge.

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NEW AFRICAN STATE

Zambia Will Have Novel Constitution

By Robin Roy United Kingdom Information Service

Northern Rhodesia. Iliat vasi country lying to the North at Africa's great Zambcsi River. is to become independent on United Nations Day —- October 24 -- and the name of the new state will be Zambia.

This welcome news marked the end of yet another success I ful Independence Conference in ' London on May 20.

Northern Rhodesia was. 0 course. a member of the now» dissolved Central African Fed oration. together with Southern 5 Rhodesia and Nyasaland. What '

has been largely forgotten in the tumult attending that din solution Is that. while Southern Rhodesia had complete inter- nal self-government. Northern Rhodesia. like Nyasaland. re. mained a Protectorate of Brl lain.

It, maintained its own separ ate government with jurisdic- tion over all matters which lay outside the competence of the Federal authorities. And as In Nyasaland (which is to become the Independent State of Mal- awi on July 6) constitutional ad

Seci’is Of The Mighty

Winnipeg Free Press

Lasl week's report that the First Lady of the United States. Lady Bird Johnson. sat d and the chair was not there

brings to the mind Queen Vic-

could thus be carried to great

> lengths. but to a laudatur lem- . 3 ports acti —— the one who prala- ‘ es the past — Queen Victoria's

toria. and not only because to- . ever-present chair was the epi-

day is her birthday.

i tome of the comfortable security I

It was said of the Queen that . of those days when a young man

she never looked back before; she sat down - her chair was i always there. And this chair.

embarking upon

his career. knew that he would end it half a I century later with a suitable

forever proffered by willing and pension. with no shadow of the

loyal hands. has ecome the. of regal self-assurance bility of the Victorian era.

One now wonders whether‘

Lady Bird‘s missing chair will unsettled times. with little wars .

one day denote our own era. and whether in times to come. a

chair pushed away just as Pre- " into blg wars. with social rest threatening to rend out so- cial fabric. with violence an

mier Khrushchev was sitting down would become flu symbol I of 3 .peoples‘ democracy. «I: would take. of course. a daring

hatching in every corner of the : globe and threatening to grow

bomb to disturb his sleep. and with throne. ruling over an empire on which the sun never set.

the Queen safe on her

Compare this with our. own: I

Illi-

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uncertainty besettjng every path .

— and one no longe

r eed o. Kremlinologist —-- Isaac Dculs- wonder that the wife of the most l cher. for instance — to reveal powerful man on the earth. un- i whose hand did the pushing.) like ueen ' Victoria. cannot

The symbolism of the c h a Ir

"Gaels Of Laughter

Financial Post

The Irish. too. have a bilin- , they will make music and poc- gual problem and a special gov- ‘ try of it. But the Irish have til- tcll ‘ ways had a lot to any to other

emment commission to

them what to do about it. Its

advice just published. looks dit-

ficult. unprofitable but very ru- ntic.

When Ireland minus the SIX:

corniies became a republic in ‘ Bostonian US. president? Could

I948. it was ordained that Gae- lic. in the Iris h form called Erse. would be the official ton- gue. But today only 20 per cent of the Irish speak it: and these ;

it‘ll? Gaels live moslly in out-ol- ‘ Theatre. how entertain us with

the-way. rural

pa rts.

U nprospcrous

commission w o u Id change all this. It would have the Gaelic t“lhe language". the Irish cell It) chil-

by store clerks and bus conduc ' where the big market for these tore. treated “with respect" by . commodities. all so that eventually it will dis- I be found. Title would make life

place English.

What language the Irish speak to one another at home is their own affair: whatever it in.

Mice And Men

Globe and Mail. Toronto

Scientnsts concerned with the problem of survival in nuclear attack have discovered that in- ebri‘a't mice can withstand radiation better than sober

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even rely on her char.

people. How will they say it in Gaelic?

Could Gaelic-speaking produce lord mayors of gow and Liverpool or another

Irish

as

they continue to keep us all con- stantly In mind of Cromwell's shortcomings and the crime of partition? How would they draw audiences to the Abbey

poems and plays?

The evident truth la that, in the highly unlikely event that Gaelic knocks out English. all the Irish with a talent for blar- ney. tall atoriee. speech-making and literature will go abroad

In English. can

more amusing for the rest of the population: but It would pretty nearly depopulele Ire- land.

Sliding . Hernia

I! Or. More I. Valhalch Hillel hernia bu out» the fashionable diocese. It pro beny Is not on the increase but la detected more frequently More and more people are X-rayed when they consult u physician because of dleestlvv complaints such as heart-burn. upper abdominal pain. or rail- urgltation. Unlike other ber- ulaa. surgery seldom la needed auae the majority reagent. to diet and mdlcluu. The elophlllll carried looil from the throat to the gastric ouch and joins the stomach at the level of the diaphragm. A hernia axial: when this junc- tion occurs above the dlapn ream. Part of the atomac u protrudes into the cheat cavrty. The coalition ls better under. stood by trying to visit: ltze what mllbt happen if the eso- phagus were too hurt in: pulled up a portion of the nu- mach into the c at. Hiatus refers to the opening in the diaphragm through

which the esophagus passes to reach the stomach. A hernia iii ‘ this area usually slides up and down with changes in pots- ture. It also is affected uy movements of the diaphragm. especially during inspiration. ,

The main cause of symptomst la irritation of the lower end. of the esophagus by a backing: up of the acid contents of the' stomach. Many victims com plain of discomfort or burning beneath the breaatbone. parti- cularly after eating. Others have pain while eating or a‘ bitter taste In the throat when acidic water is regurgitated. especially when bending over.

An irritated area may bleed or peptic ulcer or a y form' in the lower part of the esopha- gus. Symptoms are more likely to occur when lying down and less so when sitting or stand- ing. Surgery is recommended only when the discomfort can- not be controled with medical management.

The combination of gall blad-

vance proceeded steadily with. . in the territory. j In 1959 an “unofficial” major ity was introduced into the Ex- ecutive Council and an elected I majority in the Legislative

Council. AFRICAN MAJORITY

By December 1962, Northern Rhodesia, still a member of the Federation, had an elected Arri- can majority Government. It was this government which claimed the right to secede from the Federation, a claim which was recognised by Bri‘ lain.

In January of this year Dr Kaunda‘s party won a sweep- Ing victory in elections held on a basis of universal adult. suf- frage. winning 55 out of the 75 seats in the Legislative Aasem

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The Constitution of Independ- ent Zambia will be a novel one in many respects. As Mr. no can Sandys said at the closing session of the recent confer- ence it. achieves “a very wise and proper balance between the ‘ need to create a strong execu- tive and the need to safeguard individuals and minorities."

It combines Important fea- tures of both the British and United States systcms. ’I‘licre‘ will be. as in America. a Presl- denl, with strong executive po wers; but at the same time. the Zambian Ministers will all be Members of Parliament. which means that in practice the gov- ernment will be responsible to the Legislature. as in Britain.

If the President loses his ma- jority in Parliament he will have to seek reelection him. elf.

s The constitution also contains

provision for maintenance

of an independent judiciary and

for the protection of basic hu-

man rights.

IN COMMONWEALTH

Dr. Kaunde is a firm believet In the value of the Common- wealth and has expressed his country's desire for member- ship. He has also expressed its need for continuing technical and other aid from Britain and other Commonwealth countries. especially in the early years of Independence.

A key question for the future wIll be the relationship of Zam- bia with her erstwhile partners In the former Federation. Nya— aaland and Southern Rhodesia.

It Is significant that some of the major economic benefits of the former relationship —- in trade. hydro-electric power and communications. for example - are being retain .

It would be hazardous to fare cut anything further. but it is obvloua that e continuance of this sort of cooperation cannot but. benefit all three countries.

three and a t million popula- llon of Zambia will Include 76 thouaenud Europeans. Dr. Kaun- da has made no secret of his de- alt-e to keep lineman exper- tiae In the new I

to of Zambia A: a transitional measure. ten of the 75 elec h

Perllament are to be reeerved for European.

It seems certain that Dr Keunda will be, the first presi- dent of the new republic. None of his iiation can be better

It.

1‘» chairman of a great Rho- ileetaa copper uniting «gamu- tion has described him as one of the «stunning men of Afri- ce. He Is dedicated and real» tie. and no one know better than he the opportunitlee and the chafleeaea that lie ahead of tie mm.

der disease and hiatal hernia ls kidely known. It Is not always easy to determine which organ is the primary cause of dis- tress.

HEART DIET J. C. writes: Are there special foods that are good bad for the heart? Y

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any or

Not for the normal heart. 0b- esity Increases the work load on the old ticker. and foods low in calories are helpful in the circumstances. Less fat also helps when the choleste rol level of the blood is high and

the coronary arteries are in— . volv . ; DISK SURGERY rs B. A. writes: Can a

person who has had two lamin- ectomies and a spinal lus ion have children?

REPLY Yes. but pregnancy mizntl aggravate you back condiiwm. ' onsult your physician who has firsthand information on the present status of your spine. DEODORIZERS

A. G. writes; How do .romn deodorizcrs oi the vaporization type

REPLY

They depress the sense oi smell but have no effect upon the offensive substance in the atmosphere.

(Note: All correspondence to Dr. VanDellen should be ad- dressed to: Dr. Theodore Van- Dellen. care of Chlcuo Tri- bune. Chicago. Illinois.)

NOTES BY

Yell can“ Obi-O III! II" ccstors. and probably would not have choull you. St. Catherine: Standard.

Women are rescinded that not only In raising children a full- tlme job but It is unlikely to be ellmlnated by automation. Hamilton Spectator.

A medical practitioner eeye Napoleon's downfall wee caus- ed by glandular obesity a lid lauitude. Winston Churchill Ia an obese slugabed too so we continue to think that Napol- eon's downfall was the Duke at Wellington — Stratford Beacon

Herald.

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Sudll‘enss Sewage

the Free Free.

One of the moat heartening developments In the fight against water pollution is an announcement by United States manufacturers that detergents of the future will lose their foam after gurgling down the sink. Doublless Canadian manufac~ turers. most of them subsidiary to US. companies. will quickly low.