Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday March 23, 1968 Britain v Savage budget wins Praise for Jenkins by Alfred Friendly London Roy Jenkins budget for Britain looks like a deft deed in an All thumbs world and the Man himself Sticks out like Cellini in a troupe of itinerant tinkers. For today s crop of Bri Tish politicians among All parties Are As politicians and policy makers As Clumsy and uninspiring a group As the country has been plagued with in. A Long time. The new Chancellor of the exchequer May not be an other John Maynard Keynes but compared to his con temporaries he appears As a giant. The budget he made Public tuesday in effect the operational plan for Bri Tain s Economy for the next 12 months has won remarkable Public acceptance even though it is the most peacetime history. It claws almost ?2 billion out of the Economy in added taxes and prohibits All but a minimal 3.5 per cent increase in wages and dividends. But with few the first 24 hours of criticism have been confined either to the roars of those oxen that have been gored or to arguments about an Only scattering of its multitudes of individual items. 1. But Over All from the Swiss Bankers Tif the daily Mirror there has been n e r a 1 a claim and acknowledgement that its approach Basic philosophy and expected brutal Impact on Consumers Are right. Or. Jenkins May not deserve All the Praise that has been heaped on him in the sense that. He had no other option economically and politically than a mass ively deflationary program. Nothing less Given the shaky recent history of the Pound no budget less severe would have satisfied the world s financiers who by moving their thumbs up wards or Down can Render a non appealable verdict on it. Given also the shaky status of the ruling labor party its Only Hope for re elections two or three years hence is that by then Britain s finances will be healthy. And the conditions of life will be seen to be moving upward after a period of painful deprivation. The alternative of encouraging growth resulted in repeated past crises and whatever May be said for it As a theory it cannot be tried again at this moment of Britain s Travail. But it has no mean trick to convert necessity into a virtue As or. Jenkins seems to have done. And beyond that the details of his budget showed skill and courage. There have been some complaints that the budget is. Too severe and will result in if so the error has probably been on the right Side and is easily remedied in any event. The government has available two or three Quick acting measures to increase de Mand if necessary. Events Are key granted that the budget gives credibility to the Pound s immediate future will it also accomplish the equally necessary goal of increasing exports other things being equal it should but other things never Are equal. The answer depends in broader events elsewhere expanding or contracting economies in Europe and americ world monetary stability or chaos continued free Trade or reversion to protectionism. But perhaps the most serious question is one that almost no one Here the guardian excepted both ered to pose wednesday is beating inquiry promised Toronto Toronto police commissioner Charles Bick announced he will personally investigate a claim by a hotel waiter that he was beaten by police for More Thano four hours tuesday night. Gerry Harding 35, is in Seri Ous condition in Hospital with a possible ruptured spleen bruises to his shoulders and upper arms and eight stitches to a Cut on the Back of his head. Harding was arrested late tuesday night and charged with assaulting police following a Brawl in a downtown hotel. Hos Pital officials said a was not to the emergency department until about . Wednesday. Acting Deputy police chief Adolphus Payne said Harding May have suffered the injuries during a struggle in the police car while he was being taken to the police station. Roy Jenkins a deflationary budget for Britain and by Extension for the United states As Well. The right formula for a world that needs the guardian noted that if the United states does follow the recommendation to outline a program similar to Britain a then both coun tries will find themselves moving to limit each other s exports. France Germany and Japan could Well be frightened into following suit. Limiting our ability to produce extra wealth in Britain As the guardian wrote carries the risk of increasing social conflict at Home and econ Omic anarchy abroad. In treading this or. Jenkins has taken big to . Meanwhile it was announced that or. Jenkins will come to Washington for talks with . Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler on april 4 and 5. The visit will presumably be Given Over to discussion of this month s great Gold buying Stampede. And Mea sures to put Back together an International monetary system that May be coming part at the the visit will follow a crucial meeting in Stock Holm on March 29 among representative of the group of 10 leading financial nations with the objective of perfecting a system to supplement world Gold re serves with credit managed by the International monetary fund. The creation of the de sired special drawing rights has been steadily opposed by France. The resistance of Paris was reinforced wednesday by French president Cle Gaulle s condemnation of the present International monetary system. Or. Jenkins will also address the world affairs Council in Boston on april 5 and the pilgrims dinner in new York on april 8. In Washington he is expected to Confer with Robert Mcnamara new head of the world Bank and Pierre Paul Schweitzer managing director of the International monetary fund and other financial officials. Market gains Market reaction wednesday indicated that the new budget had maintained Confidence in the Pound. In London Sterling Rose wednesday one cent above its official rate of in Early trading and held at at the close in contrast to a Price of less than on occasions last week. The Stock Market also responded happily to the budget even including securities serv ing Domestic demand. Trad ers were apparently relieved that the new taxes heavy As they Are were no worse. But the Long term future of the Pound is closely tied to the increasingly suspect american Dollar. Uncertainty about its future and its relationship with Gold persists despite the temporary solution to the great Gold Rush worked out last weekend. School grading syst termed relic of past Toronto up report cards and Marks Are useless and a relic of the past an eng Lish educationist said this week. Or. Mary Waddington senior lecturer at the Institute of Edu cation of the University of Lon Don told the Ontario principals association that an a proves to a child that Success comes easily. An a labels a child As she said. As if lie were not Al ready dealing with More Trou Bles than he can Bear we make him give up Hope. The child decides he cannot succeed and learns not to or. Waddington recommended instead two interviews a year with parents one in the autumn when the Parent explains his child to the teacher and one in the Spring for the teacher to Dis sask. Amnesia victim reunited with family Saskatoon c p Charles Randall fell asleep in Hydesville calif., Jan. 13, puzzled by a mental Patrick Brennan Bible verses make Points Ottawa up Isaiah read the Tele Gram to the external Aid office from a teacher seeking to go abroad on a foreign Aid project. Replied external Aid. The teacher s Telegram refers to an old Testa ment passage also i heard the voice of the lord saying whom shall i Send and who will go for then said i Here am i. the reply refers to the new testament verse for Many Are called but few Are the teacher recognized the verse an external Aid spokesman said Friday in reporting the Inci Dent. No formal application has been received. Image of the letter s. When he awoke he realized the s stood for his Home town of Sudbury ont which he had not seen for More than 40 Yea Sand that his real name was Lawrence Patrick Brennan. Reunited with his family in Saskatoon the 65-year-old Man told of groping for his missing past since he. Suffered an attack of amnesia after falling from a freight train near Indio calif., in 1924. It has been an awful he said. Or. Brennan and his wife Hazel arrived this week to stay with Niece and her family and meet other relatives including his brother John 67, of Prince Albert. Or. Brennan said the amnesia itself contributed to its own cure. His uneasiness in january was caused by concern for his family be cause of his failing health and ineligibility for govern ment benefits because he was unable to prove the Date and place of his birth. When he became aware of his identity he kept the news from his wife until later in the Day when he had investigated methods of establishing it. Or. Brennan said he spent his boyhood in Sudbury enlisting at the age of 14 to serve two years overseas with the Canadian army during the first world War. After the 1924 Accident As Charles Randall he had dried from Job to Job in California before settling in Hydesville 10 years ago. Besides his brother two nieces and a Saskatchewan he has two Sisters in Ontario mrs. Tom Chappelle of Scarborough and mrs. Ross Cormack of Sutton West. Cuss the child followed by a written analysis. To Mark a child in Reading is unfair and humiliating she said because his Reading ability depends on his Width of experience his intelligence and the wealth of his family. The age at which the child s Mother left school largely deter mines How Well he will read she said. Or. Waddington said adolescents children our gifted have forsaken the concept of grades. In an interview later she said childhood is disappearing. The rend is toward three stages of life Babyhood to the age. Of seven adolescence and adult Hood. The principals association is one of 35 sections of the Ontario educational association meeting four Days this week. More than delegates of them teachers Are attending. At the annual sea meeting sir Ronald Gould head of the National Union of teachers in Britain said teacher training is the most important educational question. Everyone thinks i he is an expert on education he said so architects build schools without consulting teachers about their needs economists pontificate on prices without understanding value and researchers advise on classroom practices when they would not know How to handle a group of six year Olds. He said administrators should give teachers More Elbow room in the classroom to choose what they teach. Earlier John Mclnnis director of language projects for the Ontario of Institute of studies in education said teachers Are unwilling to give up their cherished positions at the Centre of the Classi Oom. He Toril the Indian education association that teachers make too Many decisions and talk too much. Their proper task he said is to help children make language meaningful and Beautiful. For a Long time we were very concerned with correcting the child As soon As he opened his he said. We were so concerned about getting the c o r r e c t grammar that we stopped the children japanese eat less fat Tokyo Japan s present annual per capita con sumption of fats and oils is about 16 pounds this compares with 48 pounds in the trailed tates am 56 in wv13 t Germany no leadership vote for Cowan Liberal Ottawa up Ralph b. Owan the Liberal rebel will e struck off the list of voting delegates to the Liberal party s leadership convention senator John Nichol says. Senator Nichol president of Jie National Liberal federation said the Case of or. Cowan will dealt with by the Conven Ion s organizing committee at a meeting monday april i. I anticipate that he will not be a the Vancouver senator told a news conference Bield to discuss details of the april 4-6 convention arrange ments. Or Cowan Imp for York Humber last week was told he would no longer be invited to the liberals parliamentary caucus. In the commons wednesday the government bounced him off five commons committees. He is in bad favor with party officials for voting against an income tax Bill and for various statements critical of prime minister Pearson. Senator Nichol said Conven Tion organizers also Are thinking about More stringent measures to exclude from the official list of candidates non serious contenders. The present Rule is that a candidate can qualify for a place on the ballot by collecting. 50 signatures from among the expected delegates. One Dele Gate May sign More than one set of nomination papers. There now Are 15 men who have declared their intentions of running for the party ship. They include nine major candidates and six comparative unknowns. Nichol said he hoped the voting would begin around 2 . And be completed1 by 8 .- this would depend however on the number of candidates involved. The rules Are that any candidate receiving fewer than 50 votes will be dropped from the next ballot. Also the last candidate on a ballot will automatically drop put. The three Day program will run along these lines t it u r s d a a april 4 a . Opening ceremony including an address of Wel come by or. Pearson running until noon. Leadership nominations close at noon. The afternoon from Abou to 6 ., will be taken up by three policy workshops Ai each candidate will be Given 25 minutes to speak and answer questions. The evening will be Pearson a reception at which or. Earson will make his final major address As p a r t y Leader. Phis will run from 8 to . Entertainment still to be announced. Friday april 5 the morning and Early afternoon will be de voted to meetings of provincial party groups and various party organizations. Candidates will also have an Opportunity to arrange affairs at which to meet delegates. In afternoon or Early evening depending on Low Many candidates qualify there will be speeches by the candidates. Each will be entitled to 30 minutes part of which May be used for floor demonstrations by supporters. Order of speaking will be decided by a draw. April morning free. Voting is expected to Start at 37 polling stations around 2 ., or perhaps earlier. The is to Complete voting by 3 ., but senator Nichol said it could extend beyond that time. The pre pared to beyond 8 ., Start of a Stanley cup hockey playoff that night if necessary. Each ballot will take an estimated 75 minutes. The will entail each Delegate being issued with an ism card listing the names of -All-., candidates. The Delegate inserts this Cairl into a punching device that allows him to Pierce the ballot card beside the name of his Choice. Then the card goes into a ballot Box. When punching at the 37. 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