Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 12, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and published Dally except sunday by the Winnipeg free press cum Piny limited so car item Street. Winnipeg. Manitoba. John Skiftun or went Shane maracas executive editor r. S. Ma10nb publisher and vice president associate editor Maurice Western Peter Mclintock Winnipeg free press Winnipeg tuesday july 12, 1966 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights the Bank act or Sharp s revisions to the Bank act Are a substantial improvement Oyer the version proposed by his predecessor and in the course of time should give the country As the Porter Royal commission and the economic Council recommended a considerably More competitive banking system. The commission it will be recalled advocated total removal of the statutory six per cent ceiling on Bank loan interest arguing that if the Banks could compete freely with near Banks and finance companies the letter s loan rates would be brought Down. The Best that or Sharp has been Able to wring from his colleagues is a Compromise formula under which the ceiling will fluctuate Semi annually on the basis of a per cent margin Over the rate on Short term government Bonds but will be freed completely when the Bond rate comes Down to per. Cent. In View of the political difficulties he faced the minister deserves full Marks for his achievement particularly for his insistence that the Bill contain a provision for eventual automatic removal of the ceiling. Equally Welcome in the Bill Are a series of regulatory measures designed to assure full Competition Between Banks. Agreements on interest rates for example Are to be prohibited interlocking directorships Are to be forbidden and the Banks in future will be required to disclose their traditionally secret inner reserves. A More doubtful proposal is the plan for insured deposits. Such an arrangement undoubtedly has the Advant age of enticing incorporated near Banks to come under a degree of Federal regulation and inspection but it is questionable whether the older established institutions should be required to share the Cost there have been no Bank failures since the Early and the present Reserve requirements Are such As to make one unlikely even in a Small or new Bank. A better arrangement might have been to require Only the new or smaller institutions to carry Deposit insurance until their reserves meet a certain Standard. But or. Sharp has won his Point on the main problem of removing needless rigidities from the banking system this Reform alone will have enormously beneficial effects on the Economy in the Long run. Blimey mate we be dug too presi Dent Johnson not Long Ajo. Recited approvingly a general Mcnaughton general a. G. L. Mcnaugh a Canada in the midst of the who died on monday at conscription crisis the age of 79, wrote his name when the conscription crisis Large across the pages of broke open in 1944, general modern Canadian history j Mcnaughton was called into Andy Mcnaughton As Cabinet by prime minister was known to everyone was a j King to replace colonel ral Soldier Diplomat Public ser a Ston whose resignation As vant scientist statesman. He was Tough shrewd forthright defence minister had been forced when he insisted on a and aggressive to the Point of j policy of conscription. General being in his critics eyes j Mcnaughton failed to make egotistical. He Way his Volunteer system work. He on a matter of principle Heiran twice for parliament and always spoke his mind letting the chips fall where they might he never shirked a. 1945, was Defeated both times. He resigned from the Cabinet in fight. And it is a measure of his greatness that although he lost some of the most important fights of his career his failures in no Way diminished his reputation As a truly great Canadian. Born in Moosomin in .1887, he trained As an Engineer at Mcgill University and Rose to become commander of the Canadian corps heavy Artil Lery in the first world War where he put his scientific knowledge and ingenuity to Good use. By 1929 he was chief of the general staff. From 1935 to 1939 he was president of the National research Council. When the second world War broke out he commanded the 1st Canadian division and took it overseas in 1939. His dream was a Canadian army and this he built so that in 1942 the 1st Canadian army was established in England with himself As commander. His wartime career was Stormy. He broke with his government and with his allies Over the disposition of the Canadian army. He wished it kept As an entity and opposed the sending of canadians to Italy without adequate Assurance that a canadians would be together nor but that was far from the end of the Road for a Man. Of his abilities and Energy. Soon he was Canada s chief spokes again to fight in the Mandy invasion. His differences with the War office on of command As Well As ill health led to his resignation and return to Man at International meetings on atomic Energy. The was appointed Canadian chairman of the joint Canada . Defence Board. In 1950 he was appointed to the inter National joint commission whose Job is to prevent and mediate disputes Over Boun Dary Waters. He served As chairman of the commission for ten years retiring in 1962 and in this capacity he was As outspoken As Ever. He condemned the Columbia River treaty As a sell out to the United states and said it would be ratified Over his dead body. More recently he was equally critical of proposals that Canada sell Large quantities of water to the ., on the ground that the ., having polluted its own water was now trying to plunder Canada s. In. His Long and distinguished career Many honors were heaped on general Mcnaughton indicative of the High respect in which he was held in his Many areas of Endeavor soldiering science diplomacy. He was held in equally High regard by All canadians who knew him or of him and his work even by those who opposed him fiercely. He will Long be As. A colourful Canadian who remembered controversial left his Mark on his times. Tax inequity elsewhere on today s Page in an article outlining some of the arguments in favor of single Board control of Educa Tion at the division level the statement is made that such i Over All control would mean a greater measure of equalization of school costs. To equalize school costs across the province of course would mean a Radical change in present government policy. It would mean the implementation of the recommendation of the Michener report calling for a set Mill rate across the province with the provincial Treasury making up the balance. But in the absence of such action by the government an birthdays Isabelle Betteridge Minne dts Man. Bom Blueville july Peter Tan Chuk. Portage la Prairie Man. Born West Ukraine july 12, 1882. Tom Casey Winnipeg born Brantford ont., july 12. 1886. Today s scripture the kingdom of god is at hand. Mark Lyndon b. Johnson and the world by Richard Purser passage he Learned As a Schoolboy who Cluj said that the actions. Thus his tendency to the blk finest sight an american traveller can Hope to see is the american Flag in a foreign land remarks like this Are All too readily recalled by foreign correspondents Here who Are unable fully to shake off the feeling that an undercurrent of jingoism runs through present a m e c a n foreign policy. I have never looked upon any faces that i did t think would like to Trade citizenship with the president once said of his visits to More than 30 coun tries. Johnson watchers have Wor and White terms of appease ment versus military preparedness i thinking in analogies to Munich his fear of Domestic political reaction to another Cuba or another a frustrated foreign Ambas Sador told or. Geyelin of or. Johnson that Only a feature of International affairs that has import on the Home front might engage but is the president truly chauvinistic the answer is no. He can utter simple american patriotism for a it i son in Secretary general Johnson condolences Over the death of president Kennedy. In the foreign Aid Field or. Mrs. Noggins the patriotic spender by Hutchison when i met my neighbor mrs. Noggins in a travel Agency today she was arranging a lengthy european tour. I Figger we might As Well j decided they Vead enough and called their own convention Saskatoon to re unify the party with a. Swift Wick in the proper place. They weren t use our Money while the Gover mint of Worth so me she course Only its policies. We explained. Besides like the see nothing wrong with the Gover mint says it s the Cabinet says Thatcher except Otic thing to do. Pearson As the men in it and wot they do. Set us a Good example by Raisin wages and Perdu Tion costs All along the line of i Tell you e s a great Diplomat our Mike. Yes e wins every argument by the other Side Eyer think they ask. That takes courage. Poor old Sharp is thrown water on the fire of inflation and yells Fer Elp and Mike rushes up with a bucket of gasoline kindly supplied by the Quebec longshoremen. And then Larry Mackenzie a sturdy Liberal always ready to Rescue the Gover mint that put in in the Senate throws a stick of dynamite into the St. Lawrence Seaway for Good measure though it was t exactly what Mike intended. The railways will get the same treatment. Everybody la we re devoted As. We can be to Pearson and merely seek to change is character. We re determined to stay in the party pervaded that Walter Gordon is politely invited put. So Gordon welcomes the mrs. On a grand tour of the flesh pots of Europe of fers same parting com ments on the current Canadian scene. Prairie revolt with a Brave Ollow cheer because it proved that liberalism enjoys free Dom Fer every kind of opinion if it s the same As is own and e started writing another Book Thant and the late prime accept abuse in return minister Shastri of India. He he of Noi to demand self thinks in Hel and a dec t rather than in j in return for these Are. My. Geyelin a american Beneficence distinctions he alone is my mrs neither of. The ultimate position of Lead no. Pessimistic. He can Reship in the Conict with conclude Onty that mid. Called the winning of the West a fairy tale of sheer and so they should in i fantasy Fer tiny tots. So Long Rich country. Why sure it j As there s a Market Fer Good lean Well afford a miserable j clean fiction Gordon la never i Little wage increase of Only j be poor thirty per cent or so and if. The tories weren t Idle International communism and his realization of this makes it difficult for him to accept the honest brokerage of a u Thant or a Lester Pearson. Or. Geyelin summarizes or. 1966 Johnson had yet to prove and that the test would surely be Viet Nam. But he demonstrates that or Johnson s Basic approach is determined by the need for Johnson s Law As i . Leadership if the Avo red s Don t tread on Are to have their least effective Way to influx i equivalent of the new Deal enee Johnson was to push him i and if they Are to be pared Home consumption he can ried about the president s i indulge in a Texas hyperbole judgment calling to mind a comprehend to description of South i foreigners he can display a vietnamese dictator nip Dinh Folksy manner that members diem As the Winston Church i of other societies cannot see As compatible with leadership. But this is Only the Way his own Peculiar Brand of sensitivity reacts to the simple fact of life that faces every Day his country is the Leader of the free world and the sole bastion of its defence. His impatience with those who depend on him and who yet undercut him is understandable but it does not make him easy to Deal with. From his Point of View foreigners Are similarly difficult to Deal with. He has passed on to his cronies and to carefully Selec Ted reporters Blunt and often scatological comments on peo ple like prime minister Pear ill of and his administration s Many erroneous predictions of the course of events in that but the greatest worry has been Over failure of the government s words to justify its actions in major areas of foreign the Justice of the american cause in Viet Nam is still so misunderstood that even last week s of state governors treated the War As a hot potato and produced Only a weakly worded Resolution supporting official policy but failing even to mention the bombings of North Viet namese Oil installations. A new Book which has quickly become required read ing in the capital succeeds in a much needed Effort to place the apparent presidential shortcomings in perspective Lyndon b. Johnson and the by Wall Street Jour Nal diplomatic correspondent Philip Geyelin presents the Johnson Ian foreign policy foreign he prefers to Ca l it As a function of the Complex Johnson charac Ter. The president s concept of consensus he writes rests a Good Deal less on Candor than on the capacity to convince by whatever the Art of persuasion As or. Johnson has Long is not necessarily related to the truth. Or. Geyelin quotes an old presidential associate As saying you have to ignore i control secondary education a new Book about president Johnson s for eign policy seeks to place the president s apparent shortcomings in perspective. And Public Chal Lenge Only seemed to Harden his conviction that he had done whatever he had done for the reasons that he said he had done prime minister sir Alec Douglas Home was regarded As complicating or. Johnson s Domestic position when he came Here and. Defended the Sale of British buses to Cuba. Or. Pearson was Sirn Ilary regarded when he came Here and offered Froe advice against . Bombings of North Viet Nam. Pakistan foreign minister Bhutto got a Tongue lashing when he passed a few remarks about . Foreign policy while delivering i understanding. The economic Council is suffering a violent fit of hysterics wot do you expect economists have no sense of Amor. All the country is satisfied except Sharp who As to pay either. They called a Conven Tion Fer the autumn too in the Wistful Ope that diet would take the int and. Relieve is followers of a certain insupportable Burden. But die Only took it As a compliment and assured the party it could depend on in to sacrifice is convenience and carry on forever despite All his the Bills it would be a cinch fagerness to act write the save is memoirs entitled a nest of to manage the Treasury says Sharp if it was t Fer the Gover mint. I ave nothing to fear but my Loyal colleagues. I ave no problem but the a Atajiah people who want More spending and less taxes higher wages and lower prices sound Money and bigger debts. If they think they re goin1 to minister make some me prime Day says Sharp it la be Over my dead body. Tvs a Fate worse than life. But Pearson As bin mis traitors. When Davie Fulton card the news e flashed a ghastly Grin on television and pledged is undying Faith in is Leader but you could ear in on. Is Pillow All the Way to Kamloops and Koblin and Robarts the Young men of destiny wondered if they d get their old age pensions before they saw the first Ray of Light at the end of the Tunnel. Like True comrades they rallied around diet All the from communist oppression in the meantime. If his actions Are often clouded by his Peculiar form of utterance the latter follows from his unique personality and is a fact to be lived with. Those who Deal with him must strive to get behind the _ words. This is a Bleak Cinelu in a few very special cases Are mucin taxes and loosen a the tight Money a Brand new ideas stolen straight from Tommy Douglas who was pushed Clear off the left Side of the Road. And trampled under the juggernaut of the understood from the Start. The same in is crusade to save the wage increases ordered by the i Public from inflation by in Gover mint e says is Only i creasing e x p e n d i c h u r is Sion. But the Only course for and no one else should imitate foreign the United states is to seek to understand its president. Petulance is no solution. Mightily or. To Geyelin works overcome the petulant mood that creeps up on those who write about or. Johnson. Instead he contributes strongly to the needed pm. Like Uncle Erbert said when e. Finally married one of his girl friends and made an honest woman out or or this in t to be taken As a precedent but e was forced to marry All of pm in the end before a preacher and a shot new conservatism. Gun. Well the Western liberals in search of order in education t t n d e r the legislation a still known to most Manitoban As Bill 16 the Robl i government is making its most recent attempt to streamline the administration of Public school education throughout the province. The legislation makes possible the provision of a single school Board to look after All Educa Tion from grades one to 12 in by Tom Saunders and that any approximation to standards and allow for the the Ideal of Equality of Educa creation of Junior High tonal Opportunity schools where this was found the province is impossible feasible. Without it. Under the new set up Educa each of the 37 Manitoba where divisions in such a sys tem has not yet come into being. The new set up however does not mean that the division boards which attempt should still be made to equalize school costs within divisions. This can Only be done through single Board control which would assure that All ratepayers within a division had the same Levy. Under the present set up the Levy varies considerably As reference to a single typical division fort la Bosse will make Cleat. All ratepayers in the fort la Bosse division pay in school taxes a general Levy of 9.6 Mills and a special Levy of 10.7 Mills for a total of 20.3 Mills. But the levies for local schools which must be added to this vary All the Way from nothing in districts like Cromer and Lambton to 17.1 Mills in Sinclair in Between come Butler 5.8 Sanderson 6.9 pipe Stone 8 Belleview 8.2 Reston 10.1 Woodnorth and Virden 10.3 and Eupr 16 there is no justification Lor this inequity. The children to All of these districts Are receiving an education and common sense suggests that the costs ought to be Distri buted equally. This will never be done As Long As elementary education is on a District rather than a division basis. The. President s own account of Why he does things or even what he has this disconcertingly oblique approach toward a foreign policy consensus has been less successful in achieving a under standing than has his similar approach to Domestic affairs. Possibly this is because of or. Johnson s tendency to see for eign policy As Domestic policy writ Large. Or. Geyelin s Book is filled with examples of a Strong emphasis by or. On Domestic reaction to foreign got indigestion trying to Rush through lunch before the Price got will automatically take Over primary education As Well. Where a division opts for single Board control All exist ing boards in the division both the present division Board and the multiplicity of elementary District boards will be done away with and will be replaced by an entirely new Board at the will of the electors. This is a Point that the special committee set up jointly by the department of education the Manitoba association of school trustees and the Manitoba teachers society will have to emphasize in the Campaign it is planning for this fall to persuade the people of the province of the advisability of single Board control of Educa Tion at the division level it is a Point that needs to be emphasized not Only to gain Public support but to Sta the approval of elementary Bofird members who May resent a take Over by the existing division boards. But it is not the wily Point that needs to be emphasized and certainly not the main on. The main Point remains what it has always been that it is Only through single Board control that Many of the problems which beset education in Manitoba today stand in any Hope of solution As for divisional control of school buildings this is a single Board control could go a Long toward removing Many of the serious problems faced by Rural schools at All Levels. Tion is envisioned As a continuing process and not As a compartmentalized system. It will mean among other things a More uniform Stan Dard of teaching and an Over All control of school buildings. On the need of uniformity in teaching standards perhaps one illustration will suffice it involves the important step in a student s life when he from elementary school into High school. Under the present Dispensa Tion there is no uniform Standard or control of Stan Dards when a child moves into Grade nine which in the Rural divisions is the begin Ning of High the result is that in Many cases at this Point in the educational process children from country schools suffer in comparison with children from town schools. In Russell collegiate for example where records Reform that has. Been Long. Overdue. Over the past several years the educational system in Manitoba has been plagued not Only by the continued existence of too Many old one room schools but by the building of too Many new Small and medium sized High schools which Are inadequate to t e a c h the diversified curriculum which the depart ment now offers. This is an area in its educational policy in which the Roblin govern ment stands condemned As of today not too Many of these new schools need be wasted they could be trans formed into elementary and Junior High but if More building takes place without Over All control at the divison level the result could have been kept on this be nothing Short of a costly it was found that the failure chaos. Rate in Grade nine for country children opposed to town children was two and a half one it a que be presumptuous to suggest that this is because country children Are intellectually inferior to town Chil Dren. Quite obviously the fault is not in the children but in the system and a system that involves this discrepancy in standards ought to Bee hanged. One Way to change it is to set up a single Board authority which could control a third problem area in which single Board control of fers not Only the obvious but i the Only solution is to the control of new courses and the implementation of special services. The new occupational Entrance course for example starts in Grade seven. With the current authority it comes under the elementary boards for its first two years at which Point it becomes the responsibility of the division boards. A centralized author Ity would mean that it would come under a single authority from the Start. As for special services including education of the ref aided these can Only be handled through single Board control and the sooner this is implemented the better. But single Board control will mean not Only a greater measure of Equality of educational Opportunity for Chil Dren it will mean within each division an equalization to the ratepayers. At the present time ratepayers in some districts pay Little or nothing in the Way of local school taxes while for others in the same division the Levy is High. Single Board administration would level this off by assuring that All rate payers in a division have the same Levy. For a specific illustration of the present Type of inequity see elsewhere on this these then Are some of the main arguments for single Board control of education at the division level. To them May be added the fact that a single authority could make a better utilization of teachers and that in some divisions with teachers salaries going up and the current shortage of teachers Many Small schools no longer have any alternative but to close Down. In most divisions too bus routes which Are now run you can t keep. Or. Dougles Down for Long though. Up e jumps with a still better notion there s no inflation e Only Risin prices and it s a simple thing to push pm Down again without Touchin wages the same socialists done in separately and frequently j overlap could be As the England with such outstand Success under w h s o n v anti labor giver mint. Yes sir life was Goto along smooth and Normal at Ottawa when a funny thing happened to Lesage on the Way to the millennium and the quiet revolution suffered a slight Accident. There la be a Brief pause in the program due to technical d i f f i c u 11 i e s and Danny Johnson who was washed ashore on the wave of the past and an t dried out yet. Never mind says Mike with a straight Frozen face the defeat of Lesage was really a Liberal Victory in disguise because it la be easier to Andle an enemy in Quebec than a Friend. And if there s anything left of the Federal Gover mint by me next elec Tion it should sweep Quebec clean pervaded that Danny boy loses is wits and All is interest in politics which in t quite certain. But i m Orf to said mrs. Noggins to enjoy the effluent society and spend my lifetime savings before a Wise Gover mint takes away the rest of pm Fer my own and in the Over rail picture teaching in the country could be made much More attractive than it is. Whether or not these arguments will prevail when it comes to convincing the pub Lic of course Only time will determine. But they have much to commend them. They demand the serious attention of All who Are concerned with the education of children. And in some divisions at least there Are already signs that they have met with a receptive audience. Remembered words and mind by Edith set Well said the Sun to the Moon when you Are but a lonely White Crone and i a dead King in my Golden Armour somewhere to a dark Wood f. Remember Only this of our hopeless love that never till time is done will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be ;