Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 29, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba 20 Winnipeg free press saturday october 29. 1966 is the British parliament losing out Manibo jumbo by Karl Meyer London special tons is Britain really Able to govern herself an Odd question you May say in a country that has perhaps done More than any other to spread the gospel of self government around the Globe. But it is being asked persistently and sharply by unhappy members of the venerable Insti-1 tuition known As the Mother off parliaments. Many complain with a Gallant Candor that the old dowager is overweight inefficient and too Given to Mambo jumbo. Outside critics Are no less caustic. Journalist Bernard Levin an old hand at covering parliament recently wrote the House of commons is today in a state of decay incompetence and fully justified ill repute worse than at any time since the worst Days George i opponents and supporters of the labor government join in complaining of a sense of futility. The Cabinet acts in making a six month wage freeze mandatory and parliament now returned from recess is expected Supi Nely to approve without even an adequate debate. Or so it seems to reflective tories like Angus who has struck this harsh judgment the vaunted British " Constitution which we have smugly tried to impose on so Many other countries is on the verge of decline lamented reformers in Britain look with anxious curiosity at a onetime Oxford Don and. Journ Alist named r. H. S. Who in August became the House of commons. In 1963, before labor came to Power or. Crossman wrote an essay on parliament that lamented its decline and that concluded the House of commons should once again provide the popular Check on the executive. It is my Hope and belief that this will the swing of politics has now brought or. Crossman to a Job where he can generate a Breeze of change in the corridors of parliament Are immediately expect fed. Before parliament i Al e t pals for strengthening t committee system. And before then some time in will be a debate on introducing television an innovation that is viewed with Bleak suspicion by traditionalists left and right. Television in the Laberite Maurice Edelman has gasped. Make up girls in. A Little Pei cil ramps r Erh a a r is speeches b u t j their 1" faces queues for the seats where the camera angles Are or. Edelman answers his own question with a foretaste of protests to come no Peep show in the House for should parliament be the first great National legislature to allow thorough television coverage even advocates concede that a closed circuit Experiment is desirable which is what the government proposed Early next year. Proponents also admit that there Are real difficulties. A Complete report of House debates could be unbearably tedious and any excerpted nightly reports could be insidiously unjust. The camera would discriminate in favor of the photogenic and fluent and against the plodding speaker however valuable his contribution might be. But an objective report should not be wholly beyond the ingenuity of Man. Moreover the excerpted versions could be prepared on alternate night by the bbl and the Independent commercial television authority or. Crossman sees no reason Why television could not be used in Complete hearings a step which in itself would elevate the importance of parliament s presently very subordinate committees. The major objection however is that television would change the character of parliament. As the London times put it in a disapproving editorial television is nowhere a passive observer. It intrudes not just physically on the events it witnesses. The lure of the cameras and their invitation to seek notoriety would be Here champions of television turn the argument squarely Back against opponents. Of course television would change the character of parliament they say Why not Public exposure would be the Best Way of forcing parliament to eliminate the Hundred time consuming traditions that encumber it. And in few Legislatures any where it is broadly admitted do Feudal trappings so gently conceal the Iron realities of Power. Sentences suspended a Young couple charged with abandoning their two children at a Warsaw Avenue address aug. 28 received two year suspended sentences and were placed on probation in Winnipeg magi Strate s court Friday. Or. And mrs. James Wilfred d amour formerly of 537 notre Dame Avenue admitted leaving their children now aged 21 months and eight months on the front porch at 644 Warsaw Avenue. The parents supplied the children with food and clothing along with a note asking someone to care for them. When someone answered the door the couple drove away. They were arrested 21 hours later. Magistrate Isaac Rice hand ing Down the sentences told or. And mrs. D amour the thing that you did you should be ashamed right and wrong Sod Burn ont. Anglican priests plan to open pub near Laurentian University Here next fall to teach students How to drink eng Lish style. Rev. Edward Fuller and Rev. Kolin Clay want an Equi Valent of the famous nag s head tavern in London in operation for the opening of the College next year. V Man gets jail for assault a 22-year-old Man arrested thursday on a charge of being disorderly in a Public place expressed his annoyance by striking a detective in the face and Groin and tearing the seams of his coat. Walter Michael Lazary of no fixed address was later apprehended by three policemen. Lazary pleaded not guilty to assaulting a police officer com mitting wilful damage and being disorderly in Winnipeg magi Strate s court Friday. However magistrate m. H. Carton found Lazary guilty of All the charges and sentenced him to one month in jail. Prices would be the As in local Beer Parlours and cocktail lounges. The big Dif Ference the priests say would be that students would Boen courage to play cribbage darts and checkers and make one. Beer last All evening. Present outlets tend to be booze oriented concerned More about consumption rather than or. Ful Ler Rector at a local Church said in an interview Friday. Since a Large number of students Are going to drink anyway we prefer to provide them with a setting which stresses the moderate and so Cial use of alcohol As an alternative to the current Type of Ontario beverage go. Back to school Montevideo Reuters some school children throughout Uruguay returned to their classrooms Friday Fol lowing a teachers strike which lasted More than two weeks. Primary school teachers ended the strike when parliament approved a request for their Sal Aries to be brought up to the level of those paid to secondary school teachers. Daily Stor. Huh . To 6 . Monday thursday and Friday . To . 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