Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed and Dally except sunday by Winnipeg free press company limited 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba. Authorized As second class matter by the past office department. Ottawa and for payment of postage in Cash. P Shane Mackay president executive editor r. S. Malone publisher and vice president associate Western. Winnipeg thursday August 8, 1963 provincial understanding the fourth annual meeting of provincial premiers ended in Halifax on tuesday on a most encouraging note. In the past few months because of the problems arising from bilingualism and the country has been Given dire warnings that confederation is tottering of the Brink of disintegration. This gloomy View apparently is by the provincial premiers. Or. Bennett of British Columbia declared after the two Day talks had ended that confederation has never been in better or. Stanfield of Nova Scotia called the meetings a unify ing or. Rubarts of Ontario credited them with building up an understanding that can t fail to help the other premiers commented in similar vein. T the provinces have of course Many problems in com Mon and these Are of sufficient importance to override political considerations. Four political parties were represented at the meeting but politics does not seem to have raised its head. Among the problems on which provincial agreement is desirable and which were discussed Are the co ordination of standards of education legislation covering sales taxes and the collection of these taxes reciprocal recognition of truck licences uniform Laws in various Fields including financial responsibility the welfare of indians Canada s Centennial celebrations in 1967. In discussing these problems the premiers demonstrated a commendable spirit of co operation among them selves. It is therefore to be hoped most earnestly that this same feeling will be present when the same premiers go to Ottawa in november for further talks with the Federal government. It has been said that the real opposition to any government in office in Ottawa lies in the provincial governments. Certainly there is always a certain amount of pulling and hauling Between the provinces and the Federal administration. The Liberal government is and will continue to be under heavy pressure from the provinces for a larger share of tax revenues a redistribution which in Light of the nation s present financial situation May be difficult indeed if not impossible. It is True that a spirit of Goodwill and co operation marked the Dominion provincial conference concluded Only recently at which the operation of the municipal loan fund was discussed. But As was pointed out on this Page yester Day the provincial premiers could afford to be co operative because in effect they got everything they asked for in the Way of provincial Auton onry in administering municipal Loans from Ottawa. That will not be the Case at the nov Ember meeting when a re division of Revenue is considered and the government s proposed pension plan which will Cut across some proposed provincial plans is on the Agenda. Then conflicting demands will run into each other head on. For it is quite Clear that Ottawa at the moment is in no position to answer any provincial demands for More handouts either in the shape of direct Grants or As a giving up of Revenue Fields. The provincial premiers Are reasonable men and undoubtedly they recognize the limitations imposed by circumstances on the Federal government. At the close of the premiers talks or. Stanfield said that there was no ganging up on Ottawa by. The premiers and no conspiracy against the Federal if this attitude is carried by the Prim hers Tes Ottawa in november con federation will indeed be in Good shape. Far from comic or. Herter s chickens play or pay it is difficult on the surface to see Why controversy continues. L to surround the subject Olf High school football. In practical fact the argument has already been won the questions answered. Further conflict Between members of City Council and the school Able at the immediately Adja cent Winnipeg enterprises. It is not known yet whether the Omand s Creek property will lend itself to development for use during the pan Ameri can games. But there is time enough to build the extra facilities needed when the games committee s plans be come known. Meanwhile City Council can safely ignore the pressures to provide costly Board serves merely to blur the facilities to serve High school larger recreational issues still unde Alt with in Winnipeg. The stands situation As it now is Plain enough. Thi help that High school f Ortbal earlier this year needed it has now received City Council has allocated to make necessary improvements to exist ing school and Community club facilities which the High schoo teams use. With these in the High schooners for Ordinary play Are adequately looked after. The sum of which the school Board wants from Council is needed solely to provide uniforms extra equip ment and to pay referees Council can hardly be blame for taking the position that these minor provisions Are the affair of the schools or of the parents. After All there is a limit to the number of things the aldermen can be expected to Load onto the Mill rate. The truth of course is that the High school football de Bate is no longer simply an argument about Money. It has become an Issue of principle. The question As Aid. Mark Danzker succinctly defined it recently is whether the Pur pose of High school football is to provide recreation for youngsters1 or to make Money. Most parents will agree that it the former that professionalism preoccupation with the Gate take the shift of emphasis from the Benefit of the players to the amusement of the spectators has no proper place in teenage sports. It is True however that Winnipeg needs a second stadium. And although the High school teams should certainly have the use of such a stadium pm special occasions its Pri Mary function should be to provide for the teams the juniors the intermediates that. Now have no reasonably facilities at All. The City has Lithe land for such a stadium rat Omand s Creek. The location is Ideal and All the necessary equipment supervisory personnel maintenance and adn ministrative facilities Are ready and Avail-1 football alone. The High school teams should have and soon will have adequate facilities for . They do not need to play under lights. Rpt Ashington in Almos w every sense the fuss Iver . Chicken exports o Western Europe looks like misfortune. It is so easy to ridicule the whole business Here we Are talking about an economic partnership with the common Market and suddenly. A quarrel Over chickens darkens our purpose. The scale of values seems almost comically wrong. But things Are not always what they seem. One can rest assured that or. President Kennedy s chief Trade negotiator would never have made a test Case out of chickens. The United states had no Choice in the matter. The Issue was not forced by or. Herter or the state department or senator Ful Bright or any other senator from the 22. States interested in these Chicken exports. The common Market created the problem. It refused to Budge even though the United state s tried for Many months to avoid a Public Challenge. That is the origin of the present trouble. The common Market has nearly tripled its charges on american chickens. They have risen from 4% cents to 13 cents a Pound. No Trade can Flou Rish under this discrimination. Exports have fallen from about million to about by Max Freedman million. In another year under these conditions the Trade will be dead. The american poultry Industry does not want a privileged or protected position in Western Europe. It expect the common Market to encourage the production o More chickens. But there i a. Vast difference Between fair arbitrary and invidious discrimination. Under the terms of the treaty of Rome which created the common Market i was reasonable to expect tha seven or ten years would pass before Western Europe applied an agreed farm policy no one could have foreseen that the common Market would have agreed so soon on would have set such for if the same principle is extended to american cereals the annual loss in exports May be at least million. Work has just begun on an International cereals agreement for both wheat and coarse grains. The Shadow of the poultry dispute has already fallen Over these Early talks. It is no exaggeration to say hat All american agriculture Las an interest in the outcome of this apparently trivial Dis Ute. So indeed has every ranch of the american econ omy. For a severe shrinkage n farm exports to Europe Ifould place new burdens on he balance of payments. The stability of the Dollar in the West Pemmican has a visitor informing on an informer reports that Joseph Valachi the Man who Sang to the Fri about the great american crime Empire was hiding in manitoba1 left citizens of West Pemmican gasping for breath this week. The fact that similar reports had appeared in newspapers All Over North America claim ing that the informer was hiding in cities As far Apar As Mossback Iowa and pres ton s Plains Nevada did Little to Calm the jangling nerves of West Pemmican residents. William Makepeace Copper founder of the West Pemmican theatre league and spokes Man for the town on cultural matters told the whole Story in a breathless phone Call to Winnipeg this week. The whole exciting Busi he began to develop with the arrival of the flying Harvester 12 hours Winnipeg late wednesday. The train which usually. Thunders through West without so. Much As a toot of its whistle ground o a shrill Stop at the West Pemmican station and a Swarthy gentleman was seen o get off he carried a Fawn Lastic Raincoat Over one Arm. In his hand he carried a violin Case. Genial station Raster Obadiah Prestwick looked up from the. Times crossword Puzzle in time to see the Warthy stranger accosted by free members of the. West Pemmican Branch of the mafia chess and Tood expressionless on the. By Christopher Dafoe gravel platform and made the familiar chopping sign with their hands. The Swarthy gentleman glared at them pinched the lobe of his -ief1 ear Between thumb and fore Finger and climbed into a cab. The members of the West Pemmican Branch of the mafia chess and social club headed for the Telegraph of fice at a dead run. The Swarthy stranger later checked into the West Pem Mican Hilton owned and oper ated by breweries where he identified himself As concert violinist Al Ramsbottom of Topeka Kansas. He was visited later hotel by members of the West Tammi can women s cultural and nutria society who asked him to play a few selections at their get together August 13. Or. Ramsbottom declined and mrs. Lem Goody Hothead of being a Prima Donna. Ramsbottom promptly made the familiar chopping motion with his left hand and the women fled later that Day a symphony orchestra and a string quartet arrived from Chicago. West Pemmican music lovers of course Are delighted today s scripture behold i set before you this Day a Blessing and a a Blessing if be obey the commandments of the lord your god which i command you this Day and a curse if will not obey the commandments of the Tord your god. Deut. 11 26-27-28. And the Iode Hall has been booked for saturday night. West Pemmican mayor Alf Muldoor was beside himself. He said can keep its orchestra. Victor Feldbrill would t come out Here when we invited them two years ago. Now we Don t need them bar sales at the West Pem Mican Hilton have increased tenfold since wednesday and the chamber looks Forward of to Commerce a bang up Long term May be involved in the Fate of these chickens. Far worse than the reluctance of american opinion to place the poultry a Broad context has bees the utter failure of european opinion to understand its Lar Ger economic and political meaning. Architects of the common Market like Jea sonnets of France have d pored a this blindness. By their criticism has not prevailed. There Are farm lobbies i Europe As Well As in America and their political strength re Mains immune As yet to the logic of economics. One particularly disturbing development of recent week has been the Complete failure of the economic commission to adjust policies to meet Nev american proposals. T h europeans listen but they frequently have no mandate to negotiate. The discussions Over poultry have revealed unexpected weakness in the machinery of consultation Anc negotiation. These defects must be removed before any impressive Progress can be made to the goal of partner ship. For some strange reas he idea has taken hold that he Kennedy administration Las made a serious Blunder in not asking for compensation rom the common Market for to discrimination against american poultry. This argument rests on an absolute mis Conception of the Geneva Rade system known As gait general agreement on tariffs and that system requires the country guilty of the discrimination to offer compensation i other Fields. There is no obligation on the country that Las been Hurt by the High duties to propose a system of compensation. The duty of ranging compensation rests the common mar it evaded this obligation and then completely shirked to even though the United states with great patience want to Transfer to my school kid gave it every Chance to Honor its commitments to the Gen Eva system. It is the common Market that is in default under Gatt. The United states has committed no breach. It is not generally known that the United states has offered to review its entire farm policy including subsidies and prices if the com Mon Market would make a enter into reciprocal negotiations. This american offer has been spurned and ignored. The Kennedy administration believes it has been patient and conciliatory. Now it thinks it has no alternative except to apply Industrial reprisals to change the policy of the common Market the discrimination on poultry if left intact could harder into a general policy that would inflict arbitrary injury on Many american farm exports to Western Europe. Birthdays a. R. Henson Minnedosa Man. Born Totnes Devon Shire England August 8, 1884. A political Issue in Norway Spitsbergen in the spotlight by Rowend Hurford 0 Islo Spitzberger the bar Ren group of islands which has Long been the Nurs Ery of Arctic explorers is today a cause celebre. In norwegian politics. A Coal mining Accident there has created a parliamentary crisis while the rejection of russian Oil claims has once More emphasized its strategic importance. Last summer an Accident in the Coal mines at icing s Bay in West Spitsbergen resulted in the death of 30 miners. The pits Are state run and a preliminary report indicated tha the government department concerned was partially to blame. This though withheld from the storting Parlia was soon discovered Anc led to a crisis which is now nearing its Climax and May threaten the government. One of the first results was that the minister of Industry or. Holler resigned. As the Man directly responsible his position had become untenable and he was replaced by or Trygve lie the former us Secretary general this How Ever did Little to Dampen the storting s Wrath. The govern ment was accused of deception and the Issue accomplished what Many had thought impossible the unification of the parliamentary opposition. Norway is ruled by the workers party which despite to name is a respectable so Cial democratic party of the Normal scandinavian pattern. It has been in Power since 1939. The opposition com rises four parties conserva Ive Radical. Centre representing the and the Christian people s party who advocate prohibition. They have hitherto fought each other almost As hard As the government and by refusing electoral pacts have helped keep the workers party in lower. The King s Bay Case changed All that. The position parties have now announced that they Are prepared to form an alternative government. Of the 150 seats in the Stor Ting the governments and of each. The e i Alaric is yield Jay Bers of the socialist people s party who Are National communists. Their dislike of social democrats is equalled Only by heir scorn for capitalists and when the storting shortly interrupts its summer recess or a debate on the King s Bay ase they could topple the government. Even if they did there is Little doubt that they would soon do the same with an alternative government the Prospect of Power How Ever is no longer an opposition Mirage. They Hope for a parliamentary majority after next year s elections by Mak ing full use of the Spitsbergen Accident. Whatever the political implications of Spitsbergen Coal its commercial significance is very Little. Since 1946, the pits have lost million and it is admitted that the real purpose of the mining is to maintain norwegian sovereignty. Al though Spitsbergen technically belongs to Norway anyone May exploit its Mineral de posits. If the norwegians were to desert their mines the rus sians who Are already present in Force at Barents Burg where they have their own Coal mines would very soon take Over. There is also Oil on Spitz Bergen and both americans and russians have been prospecting. The norwegians recently rejected out of hand russian encroachment on american claims on the grounds not Only of insufficient geological evidence but scanty prospecting activities. In Many cases the russians simply staked their claim to american Fields. They have done this during the Winter for they have taken to work Jig All the year round while he americans have kept to the traditional practice of working during the summer Only. Apart from diplomatic considerations the norwegians Are interested in the royalties which would certainly be forthcoming from eventual american Oil Wells which would almost certainly not be the Case with the russians. There is More than a suspicion however that both russian and american interest is not so much in Oil As strategy. Spitsbergen lies of the Polar trajectories of bombers and missiles Between America and Russia and would be valuable to the russians As an Early warning radar base or As part of their anti missile missile system. Spitsbergen is thus no lon Ger a lonely Arctic area treas ured by explorers As a Retreat rom a mad world. Snow ice Rock and inaccessibility Are no Onger obstacles to political designs. Observer foreign sen ice copyright Selling the farm to live foreign ownership troubles Australia foreign in Vij. Vestment in Australia has suddenly become a Lively topic of discussion. It All began with two Radica questioning speeches by the minister for Trade or. John race Wen expressing concern a he Pace at which overseas capital is taking control of australian manufacturing. The prime minister sir Lobert Menzies whose Deputy Vir. Mcewen is made a Point n the election Campaign o 1961 of claiming credit for hav no attracted Over Mil Ion overseas capital to aus Ralian industries or. Me Swen s speeches unmistakably critical of governmental policy Lave shocked they have also widened the Ift with the country party related by or. Mcewen s Flat refusal to accept a re Distri Lution of parliamentary seats hat would have impaired country party strength while Tobaly making safer running or the government As a whole. Speaking to a conference of he country party at Orange South Wales or. Mcewen said he was troubled y overseas investors take vers of established australian enterprises. Where invest ment from overseas brings us new Industry or a new skill Ven perhaps Access to mar ets we could not otherwise penetrate it is really and said or. Mcewen but when it merely buys out Well established going con Ern there is Mere substitution f with nothing new added to the Economy. The Short term advantage f addition to our resources of overseas currency does not compensate for loss of aus ownership. When an overseas company of great Mancial strength buys into Australia with a very modest expenditure of its own cur ency then proceeds to draw n australian savings for business expansion the opera on is even less attractive ear by year we Are Selling a t of the farm in order to by r. L. Curthoys about the same time in a luncheon address in new York the Leader of the opposition or. Arthur Calwell said that while Australia greatly needed More american in vestment it ought to Foster development of the australian Economy. He pleaded that australian investors be allowed share of its risks and its profits. His Deputy or. Gough Whitlam and one or two business leaders in Sydney and Melbourne having nothing in common with labor policy promptly came Down on or. Mcewen s Side. In recent years the inflow of overseas capital has aver aged million a year not an excessive amount for a country with an annual Gross National product of million. Much of this investment has come from overseas companies which operate in Australia re investing their profits rather than withdrawing them in dividends. The first accounts compulsorily published by the Ford motor company of Australia subsidiary of the Canadian a new com 3any act show a profit of last year on a turn Over of million All of t left in Australia for expansion. Ford has sunk millions of pounds of per Man Merit capital in Australia while i general motors substantially based the production of its australian motor vehicles on loan Money from he government and has need id relatively Little american capital. Of general motors profit of last year million were left in Australia. And though it has been the one sizable Remitter of dividends to its in some rears All its profits have been invested Here America and Canada have been looking increasingly to Australia As a Field for expansion particularly by those producing motor vehicles electrical equipment and Machin Ery. A great Deal of american capital is engaged in the quest for Oil. Most overseas compan ies have been handsomely re warded for their Enterprise but they have contributed nobly to australian taxation. Last year general motors provided nearly million for company tax apart from sales tax customs duty and other in posts. Country party politicians would rather Square overseas accounts by concessions and incentives to exporters than encourage overseas capital. The realistic View expounded by sir Robert Menzies is that the risks of overseas invest ment Are As nothing to those of failing to populate and develop energetically and that overseas capital has made aft valuable contribution to australian growth since the War. The liberals Are solidly opposed to heavy handed control of foreign which the left Wing of the labor party is predisposed. Nevertheless or. Mcewen s warning is salutary. It is his function As minister for Trade to emphasize Australia s de Indence on exports and re mind the country that overseas reserves Are being sustained by an inflow of capital which will n time necessitate More and More exports to offset service payments and dividends. There need for an expert inquiry into the facts of Over was investment. One estimate of american investment is million. Another is that overseas investors control 25 per cent of australian manufacturing another that their dominant interest is 40 per ent. This May be Mere Guesswork. Remedies for excessive Over was investment if any depend m the rate of the trend. Mean while the state governments re compulsory competitors for foreign capital ;