Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 13, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights leg free press printed and published Dally except sunday by the company limited Street authorized As second class matter by payment of r. S. Malone paid Lasher and i John Sifton president Shane Macka aim v associate Western Peter Mclintock Winnipeg tuesday August 13, 1963 expectations and problems harvesting will soon be general throughout Western Canada and although crop expectations have fallen off because of recent dry weather on the Prairies a seems assured. In Canada More than 27.5 Mil lion acres have been sown to wheat this year the second highest acreage in history. The coming Harvest could approach or even surpass the All time record yield of 702 million bushels set in 1952. A bumper Harvest is always cause for rejoicing in the West but usually and this year is no exception a big crop brings with it problems and difficulties those of sales deliveries and Price. It is estimated that when the Harvest is added to the present carryover the country will have a billion bushels of wheat on hand. In a Normal year canadians use about 150 million bushels of wheat at Home and sell from 300 to 350 million bushels abroad. If these figures Are maintained in the coming year the wheat sur plus at. The end of that time will be about half a billion bushels. This is a situation with which Prairie Farmers Are All too painfully familiar. It Means a continuation of the quota system of delivery it Means plugged elevators and granaries it May mean a drop in the Price Farmers receive for their wheat and the handwriting Here is already on the Wall. Nor is the expected surplus without political overtones. It was or. Alvin Hamilton the minister of agriculture in the Diefenbaker government who farm ers to raise All the wheat they could and the government would sell it for them. The High acreage figure this year May be partly the result of or. Hamilton s irresponsibility. Fortunately for him however he is no longer in a position where he has to make Good on his promises. The govern ment which inherited the problems left by its predecessor is less optimistic and More realistic than or. Hamilton. The wheat Board continues to work hard at sailing wheat and As the Extension of the chinese agreement and other sales indicate is haying considerable Success but it will take vastly expanded sales to make a significant Dent in the expected surplus. Or. Sharp the minister of Trade and Commerce warned some months ago that if permanent wheat surpluses Are to be avoided Farmers will have to sow less wheat and turn instead to growing feed Grain for livestock. Farmers will find this advice much sounder than that Given them by or. Hamilton. Dissension in the labor party three men at Odds silent Spring when Rachel Carson s Book. Silent Spring first appeared the author was accused of greatly exaggerating the detrimental effects of pesticides on wild life. Directly on All life Mankind included. But As further Evi Dence continues to come in miss Carson s statements appear to be less exaggeration and More fact. Only this week three separate news stories featured the harmful effects of pesticides. In three far mers were convicted of Selling Cream containing a Poison Ous substance and four others pleaded guilty to the same charge. The poisonous substance was dieldrin which is used to control Grasshoppers and which is not supposed to be used in pastures or on forage or other crops with which cattle May come in Contact. S in the state of Washington 38 men women and Chil Dren were sent to Hospital and a number of cows were killed when they breathed a pesticide being used for crop dusting. Instead of settling on the crop the insecticide remained i the air. The Spray was poisonous and affected the nervous and respiratory systems of those breathing it. These Are alarming incidents. But of much greater significance is the request made this week to the United states Congress by the Secretary of the Interior or. Stew Art Udal that the present limit on appropriations for pesticide research be lifted. The Secretary s request for More Money was the result of a new report on the apparently Complex effects of pesticides on wild life. The report notes that samples of adult and Young ducks As Well As eggs were taken in Canada North of great slave Lake and More than a Hundred Miles North of any known area where insecticides Are used. The eggs and immature ducks contained More pesticide residues than did any of the adult ducks. The scientists making the investigation have assumed that the adult ducks were exposed to pesticides on their Way North and passed the Poison along to their progeny in some Way not yet explained that concentrates the chemical residues. The report also claims that contamination of wild life is widespread in spite of a report by the entomological society of America that 75 per cent of the United states has never been treated with insecticides at All and Only five per cent is treated each year. Yet 25 out of 26 Bald eagles examined had insecticide residues of specimens of Birds and animals taken in 22 states and three provinces 75 per cent contained some insecticide when Analysed. Birds and animals in even the most Remote areas show traces of the Poison and Marine fish from Dif Ferent oceans have been found to contain Dot. If his report is accurate and or. Udal con Vinced that it is it is cause for grave and immediate concern. If pesticide residues Are so widespread when Only a Quarter of the United states and a much smaller percentage of Canada has Ever been treated with insecticides it seems Plain that the incidence and concentration of pesticides in wildlife will increase As greater use is made of these insect control poisons. This danger is not at least not yet a valid argument for the Banning of All pesticides. In the Case of the Manitoba pesticide was wrongly used in the Case of the Washington Spray a Freak weather pattern was to blame. Pesticides properly used have been of immense Benefit to Mankind in enabling him to increase agricultural productivity greatly. But if the report of the department of Interior is Correct the Price that we May be paying for this increased productivity May be too High. Certainly much intensive research into this Complex prob Lem is not Only warranted but absolutely necessary in the interests of the health of ail life on Earth. London the disarray i the conservative part Here is Well enough known tory maps whose desire for new Leader before the election increases steadily with the relative youth Are at Odd with the follow the leade tradition of the Christ Ituen organizations and with Ali significant Rise in Public sym Pathy for or. Mac Iuan steadfast reaction to his Tribu lations. And the opposing forces Are contending in t h absence of a7, recognized sys Tern of leadership de Terraina but spare a word for the labor party. A is not Well there either. Leadership is not the problem or. Harold Wil Abji is there to stay until disaster strikes. Unlike the conservatives labor has coherent system of selecting a Leader labor maps elect the party Leader annually by Clear majority vote with Tail end candidates dropping out in each successive ballot if no Overall majority is at f i r s t achieved. Unless there is party upheaval elections Are virtually no contest except following death or resignation of a sit Leader. Or. Wilson then is technically secure at least until saddled with the stigma of a general election defeat he has generally fulfilled his function ably. His incisive acid brilliance shines in Parlia ment where he is the Debat ing adversary Par excellence. His intellectuality some times reflects less Well off working class audiences in the constituencies where Earthie colleagues sometimes have to Rescue rallies from lethargic response. And his attempts at homely sincerity on television though Well spoken seem More calculated the prime minister s his great Success is that he by Richard Purser has so far. Fulfilled the late revered Hugh Gaitskell s role by preventing the right and left wings of the party from flying apart. During or. Gait skell s reign or. Wilson s equivocal behaviour ingratiate him with the left Wing and he was elected with its support. But he has hardly budged out Gaitskell s j footsteps arid has. Neither Kow towed to the left except to deliver the occasional platitude nor Given the suspicious right a Chance to jump him.? the labor party s problems Are so far More Subtle. They Are problems of individual personality and the three chief problem makers Are or. Wilson the Deputy eader George Brown and he front Bench airs spokesman Jim Callag Ham who was the third candid ate in this year s Wilson Brown leadership contest. Or. Brown a Complex Man on the surface erratic simple honest and outspoken it with often unappreciated intelligence and ability under he surface. While the Darling f the labor right and the Trade Union Section of the arty for his unswerving Loy Alty to or. Gaitskell through it or. Wilson s onslaughts now unmentionable past his and an w increasingly ble parliamentary performer ratio. Researches his speeches carefully he still comes under fire for his personal quirks shaken by his defeat arty leadership after or. Although observers he Dis speared from circulation of r the election. He eventually Gaitskell s death Veri the greenest and predicted it Street names remembered words from father William by Lewis Carroll you Are said the youth and your jaws Are too weak _ for anything tougher than suet yet you finished the Goose with the Bones and the x beak Pray How did you manage to do in my said his father i took to the Law and argued each Case with my and the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw has lasted the rest of my the., potentially confusing subject of Street names in the metro area has come Winnipeg s Public works com Mittee wants the City to have full Power to name and re name streets within the City at present under the metro act a municipality May not change a Street name if metro has named the Street but if the municipality itself had named the Street then the municipality has the right to change the name if it wishes. Surely this is a matter that should be handed Over entirely to the metro government As the senior municipal govern ment in the area and the administration which has the welfare of All local municipalities at heart. Much Progress has been made in the past few years in eliminating duplicate and confusing Street names in greater Winnipeg. But if the individual on naming and renaming streets within their area conceivably we could re turn to the confusion of past years. T recommendations ing or renaming streets would be entirely appropriate com ing from the municipality con today s scripture Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be. Cae sars and unto r the things a Fitch god s. Luke corned. But the Imp Leme Nta Tion or rejection of these recommendations should be the Job of metro. Reappeared to accept the Dep Uty leadership Only after an agonizing conversation with his old foe or. Wilson. The detailed substance of that conversation is not known but Assurance of a top Job for or. Brown in a future labor government was part of the agreement or. Callaghan who in his important position confers frequently with leading representatives of business Trade and finance reasonable right to expect a big. Job in a future labor government. That Job must be Chancellor of the or else his present grooming seems Point less. Or. Wilson has meanwhile been looking into the administering of labor s economic priorities by a potential labor government. He has reached a tentative conclusion that the encrusted traditions of the old school tie Ridden British Treasury must be bypassed by a new ministry of production or economic development. This ministry would set Britain s economic goals and sort out the relations Between the Public and private sectors of and probably also the relations Between Domestic consumption and inter National Trade. Or. Huson is an articulate Man who enjoys Lively intellectual exchanges. In regard to his plans for British econ Omic expansion he has talked at length with a number of people. Too Many. The news of two. Wilson s ideas has leaked and with it has leaked a possibly Distor de idea of a who will head the new ministry and b what will be the relative roles of the new ministry and the Treasury. Among those who have least fully been brought into the discussions Are or. Brown who has fallen under the impression that he will head the new ministry and or. Callag Han who has thus seen the Chancellor of the exchequer reduced to the1 role of fiscal situation has brought about a three Way clash Between the loquacious Leader the hopeful or. Callaghan and the Ultra sensitive or. Brown. The violence of that clash is Uncer Tain but it appears that or. Brown upon being brought Down to Earth with the news that the identity of labor s economic Pooh Bah would re main unsettled until after election Victory blew his top. The upshot is that none of the three leaders is on decent terms with either of the other ers at the moment. The Only question is How violent and irreparable clash Between them has been. Labor cannot afford Public Intra party strife. The present labor party Lead is not due to socialist sentiments of the Bri Tish people it is essentially negative due to failings of the present government. It not survive any Public display of immaturity irresponsibility or wholesale disunity in t he labor party. Or. As much As or. Macmillan faces acid pre election tests. Reflections of an sex peer hereditary titles outdated by John Griff formerly lord Altrincham by the end of this week the peerage Bui 1963, Shoul have received the Royal Assen should have reverted t my former simpler More Basi name John unde which i shall thereafter b writing. Unlike one or two others we will be disclaiming peerages i shall into the House of. Commons indeed i May never get there though it is where i should like to be. All the same i am Well Content to disclaim my peerage if a vote in National elections and Trif ing privilege As i see it am one to which every citizen ought to be entitled. More , experience lord has tended of being a to convince me that hereditary titles Are on the whole a bad thing. Individually and socially they Are More trouble than they Are Worth. Their effect upon the individual is to typecast him in the eyes of most of his compatriots. If you Are a lord you Are generally assumed to be Rich Stuffy elderly rather stupid and a bit of a Rake t is taken for granted that you Ive in a Large country House surrounded by thousands of acres of Farmland and that you come to London now Anc Hen for sessions of the House of lords. You Are taken too seriously by the parasitic fringe of society and not Seri Iausly enough by people who might otherwise judge you exclusively on your merits. When i took my father s title n 1955 it was my naive belief hat what i was called was of o importance except in a minor Way sentimentally to me. The Only aspect of a peer be which seemed really to matter was the right to apply or a writ of summons to the House of lords. This i Ever have Felt justified in exercising and i have never exercised it though the temp Attoh so has been while remaining sure in my in mind that the to t in parliament matters far Tore objectively than a title and holding firmly to the View that there should be no hereditary Peers in the House of lords Only life Peers and Peers of i am now also inclined to think that hereditary titles should no longer be either granted of recognized by the state they Are picturesque and on. That account one would be sorry to see them but they also contribute to a feeling of out of lateness even of putrefaction which Britain cannot at this time of Day afford. It is argued by defenders of the status quo that any threat to the hereditary peerage is a threat to the monarchy. This is utter nonsense. The Case for an hereditary monarchy rests upon a number of considerations All fairly obvious which do not apply to an hereditary peerage and in practice it has been found quite possible for a monarchy to thrive without an. Infrastructure of nobility. In. The Netherlands for in stance there is no hereditary second chamber and hereditary honors Are no longer be stowed yet the dutch Mon Archy is by common consent one of the most successful and popular in the modern world. I would press the Point far ther and say that the less a monarchy is identified Nowa Days with the hangover of a ruling class the better every country needs to have some system of honors but there is surely to be said for a system in which everyone who bears an Honor is the person to whom it was actually awarded. As one who will be re franchised under the new a i should like to record my thanks to or. Anthony i Wedgwood Benn whose single landed efforts have secured to passage. The Long fight to Stablish a Small principle has temporarily damaged his health and it would surely be generous and seemly on the part As Well s considerate to the voters of Southeast Bristol to allow Lim an unopposed return at the by election which the prom sed resignation of or. Mal olm St. Clair will precipitate. From the Gamulo birthdays mrs. A Jones Pilot Mound Man. Born Liverpool eng land August 13, 1875. Challenge to the Chancellor , communists and Germany of Washington As one w discusses the test ban treaty with various representatives of the communist embassies in Washington one by Max Freedman respect the America claim that an agreement be Short and purple Gerlett Burgess purple Lawn never Hope to one. But if i should the experts say i la never have t6 mow the crop science depart ment of the Ontario agricultural College has come up with the Lazy Gardener s dream of heaven. A grass inhibitor that 3 works. Apply the stuff and the grass stops growing at just 5 the right height no More mowing raking and sweating a there is however effect. The grass turns purple but this should not be considered a drawback. August Days there Are some Green lawns about proud property of gardeners who Reck not the Cost of. The quarterly water Bill. But of us have lawns that vary a Shade fro m Light yellow to Dull broken Here and there by the cheerful Green splash of a dandelion or a sow Thistle doing its Best purple Lawn might not be As prestigious As a Bright Green stretch of Sward. But it the sign of a Man who cares slightly anyway and would make a pleasing contrast to of yellows and Duns. Manipulator while economic and Industrial policy is set above his head. At this Point ascertainable fact merges with conjecture. It is known that the confused finds three facts which done Iween and the Nate the conversations. Pact might certify the Perma in the first place the spokesmen for the communist nations in Eastern Europe the satellite states enthusiastic about the. Treaty. They ridicule the suggestion that the treaty increases their dependence of Russia. They believe instead that the treaty if it leads to better re lations Between Russia and the Powers will Cre ate conditions favourable to a More relaxed policy by the Kremlin. Soviet spokesmen Are prudently evasive on this Point but they say nothing to upset its Validity. Their second Point concerns the argument on european r Usk arid or. Harriman. Compels their respect even though they cannot agree with it. Why can t we rerun editorials in Tjie summer like to programs people Are too buy playing to nent partition of Europe. By they say in reply that the emotion behind this argument is much better than its Logi the division of Europe is a existing fact. The opposed sys terns of nato and the War saw pact confirm that bars reality. There Are Many differences in Pur pose and in Freedom bet Ween these two groupings but the Warsaw pact will no vanish merely because. West Ern statesmen have begun to Praise the Virtues of Europe an Unity. The path to Unity inevitably Long and difficult can never be found while the Warsaw pact and nato Are by suspicion nah let their Niem Bers the communists argue on speaking terms in consider my the Security of Europe. Thus these communist of Licals claim that the search for some agreed formula of non aggression vis in fact a contribution to the Distant goal of a Europe at peace with it self. They confess themselves utterly baffled when they Are asked to accept the proposition that an agreement out Lawing the use of Force will deepen the divisions of eur Ope and harden7 its antagonisms. The. Communist Case will never remove All american doubts and hesitations. All the it is useful to know the direction in which communist thoughts Are now tending. But the dominant Point in every discussion concerned West Germany far More time was spent on this one subject than on the combined time Given to the analysis of rus Sia s relations with America France and China. This distribution of emphasis should not Surprise us. Rus Sia has eared a direct attack by America and Bri Tain. Her concern has always turned on ability to pull1 the Western Alliance 1 towards Eastern Europe in a War. Of revenge or in the Effort to unify Germany by Force. It should never be for gotten that the Warsaw pact sprang into existence As West Germany became an import ant member of the nato Al Liance. Since West Germany in 1355 had no army the communist countries decided to exclude the seven divisions Germany from the Warsaw pact it was not until 1958 that East Germany became a full military member of the War saw arrangement. There is no shortage of statements by the communist governments to they Are pooling their resources against a renewal of the Ger Man threat. With immense emphasis they now argue that it is Ger Man motives rather than rus Sian ambitions that Are in question. They contend that no Progress toward the reconcile Atlon of Europe can take lace unless every important nation accepts a solemn agree ment to avoid the threat or the use of armed Force to change existing boundaries and frontiers. West Germany n the past has Given this times. Indeed Chancellor Adenauer has of in said that the Prosperity and Freedom of West Germany would act As powerful mag nets on East Germany and would be More persuasive advocates of German Unity than any display of Force. Now Chancellor Adenauer being challenged by Russia prove that he meant these words. If West ays indefinitely her signature f the test ban treaty and be omes a most reluctant Inemer of the Western Alliance in exploring Russia s be suspicions of by will not be confined to Ussia. They will affect Many Jer icons and will spread trough the nato Community. West Germany dare not assume this risk ;