Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 28, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and published daily except sunday by the Winnipeg free press company limited 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba. R. S. Malone publisher and editor in chief Peter my unlock Maurice Western executive editor Ottawa editor r. H. Shelford general manager Winnipeg free press Western Canada s National newspaper Winnipeg tuesday december 28, 1971 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights school the year round the question of the trimester system or year Roum education for students in Canadian universities is like c float on a fishing line the big fish in the Waters of Aca Demia keep pulling it sub surface but As soon As they be the line go Slack it keeps Bobbing up again. It had its most recent surfacing recently when Prim minister Trudeau intimated that his government is work ing on the provinces to convince them that they should b More and More considering the full year of school ing without a summer his reasoning such a program would keep students off the summer labor Market. Or. Trudeau s remarks Are in line with those of r. W Pollock of office overload who made a similar Sugges Tion for the same reason a couple of years ago. Or. Pol lock advocated year round education for High school As Well As University students and there is some indication that or. Trudeau has the same thing in mind. Keeping students off the summer labor Market is not of course the Only reason put Forward by advocates of year round education though this is the Point now pressed by the prime minister. When the Issue was first raised a decade or so ago this Point was indeed made. But it was Only one of several. Equally important was a desire to make More efficient use of buildings facilities and personnel and thuse ease the financial Burden on the taxpayer. With education costs much higher now than they were then this would still seem to be a valid argument. But has been opposed by the academic and it has not been too successful where it has tried. It. Has had indifferent Success in the United states and though found practical in one or two universities in Canada has become the exception rather than the Rule. Recently there has been a move toward year education in some . Schools. At the moment some 100 school boards Are involved in the Experiment but it is being considered by approximately others. There is the thought in some quarters that if these experiments succeed they will Lead to a greater acceptance of year round education at the University level. Or. Trudeau however does not seem to want to wait for the results of american experiments. As a practical politician he wants year round education now. Concerned Over the country s High unemployment rate and with an election in the not too Distant future he sees year round at both High school and University Levels As a Means of making the employment dark. But his remarks As reported leave some things in doubt. It is not Clear whether he advocates year rounded cation without a break or whether he Stag gered holidays for students at different times of the year depending on the semesters for which they Are enrolled. If he Means that students should stick to their studies on a year round basis without a break he is advocating a policy that could be harmful to health As Well As Educa Tion and by graduating students at an earlier Date than would normally be the Case he is doing no More than put Ting off the Day when they would flood the labor Market on a permanent basis. If he Means year round education As traditionally advocated however it is another matter. On this basis Stu dents would enrol for two of three semesters each year but since not All holidays would come at the same time and graduations As Well As holidays would be staggered the number of students coming on the labor Market on either a temporary or permanent basis at any one tame would be much lower. Whatever the details of his plan it represents a Politi Cal rather than an educational decision. Except insofar As it affects the unemployment problem it does not even represent an economic decision. Economic arguments to the effect that year round education would Cut costs have going the rounds for years and falling on Dea now that the Issue is being faced at the poetical level and. Year round education has the backing of or. Trudeau and his government Jio Wever a new dimension has been added. It will be interesting to see How the prov not to mention students academics and the pub react it May be assumed that provincial reaction will be favourable if Ottawa should make a generous Ough contribution to provincial funds. This May be or. Been going ears inces lie in Trudeau s Ace card. Humane Siberia it invasion Hospital with tubercular meningitis. Eight political prisoners including Nikolaj Bondar. A former ukrainian lecturer of us Gorod formerly czechs and Ivan Kandyba a lawyer from Lvov All sentenced to Long terms in siberian prison Camps for anti soviet propaganda were to stage a hunger strike to Mark the International human rights Day. Because of the starvation diet in the Camp hunger strike of More than three Days could prove fatal. It is not known As yet whether the strike took place. In their statement smuggled out and published by the times of London the siberian prisoners said dressed in of czechoslovak j Cotton prison clothes with our j , recently in a review published on this newspaper s Book pages the reviewer in dealing with a Book on siberian prison carps ended on a somewhat strange note Siberia too has changed Lor the better. Farley to wat s recent Book Simbir. De scribes the modern More humane Siberia which has emerged since Stalin s Here then is the More humane Siberia which far Ley Mowat has failed to glimpse. The wife of the jailed author Yuri Daniel Larissa Daniel sentenced in 1968 to four years exile to Siberia for demonstrating in Christmas cheer for murder Ira still dubliners Ondon the Ilia Christ a Mas card sold Well in Ireland this year Accord ing to reports. It was incredible enough that while most people prepared for festivities the Ira prepared new explosions to blow up build Ings and kill people. Yet thousands of Ordinary Irish men spent 25 cents or so to support Ira murder As if hey were deserving Charity. The explanation is sad but it tells a lot about the present unhappy Irish prob Lem. The fact that the cards should sell at All reveals the atavistic attitude still wide spread in Ireland. It permits shelter and sympathy for the a that is one of the Obsta cles in the Way of a Settle ment. Although nominally illegal he Ira operates openly in he Republic. A journalist can Telephone a Dublin number and ask the Ira publicity Juneau to read a statement describing in detail How a Man was murdered. Ira readers assemble in four Star Dublin hotels to introduce to he press a Man who escaped rom jail in Belfast. As they did 50 years ago newspapermen and now television Nen can make Contact with the Ira leaders and the sinn fein political Arm while the Security forces appear to be helpless. Unlike Many of his coun ramen. Republican Premier Jack Lynch has recognized he present mess As an Irish mess which the Irish must have the will to solve. Or. Ynch promised in a very Ough speech the other Day to strengthen t h e Republic s aws against subversive by Dave. Humphreys groups which include the Ira. But considering present conditions and the Irish Folk lore it is Best to believe acts rather than even Tough words. The British govern ment would dearly love to see a much firmer line in the South and has pressed that View on or. Lynch. The Christmas card s sentiments also Are instructive. They convey the charming message from Ira provision Al Leader Sean macs Iofin the Blessing of Christmas to All our comrades who Are jailed by the British. It is our wish that they and Ireland May be free by this time next this is quaintly if tragically old fashioned Ireland is in British chains and the British Are to blame. It perpetuates the great convenient myth which John Grigg dismantles in encounter Magazine. The partition of Ireland is seen even he writes As a manifestation of British imperialism rather than As a True reflection of Irish Reali the British Are willing now and were 50 years ago to accept a United Ireland so Lution. But they cannot expel More than a million protes Tant Irish from the United kingdom against their will. Professor David Bates of Queen s University Belfast writes in a letter to the times that Dublin has done Little in 50 years of Independence to make Unity attractive to the protestant minority. He refers to the lower economic standards the religious exclusivity of the Constitution As Well As the re Public s deference to the Ira. Or. Lynch himself has said that the Constitution is Nego private and Public on saturday dec. 18, the times of London still a High y reputable newspaper and a Duragon of journalistic integ Rity carried on its front Page he news Story that Denis Lesley the former labor arty defence minister was subjected to a breathalyzer est after having been in in a car Accident. The Evel of alcohol in his blood was below the Legal limit and no charges were Laid. The fact that or. Healey had Law breaker and Drunken driving is a particularly obnoxious offence in that it poses a serious Hazard to in Nocent Road users has re ally no place among Law givers. A private company would know How to Deal with a senior executive so convicted. The Public which elects its administrators does not have the Means of knowing of such convictions unless this is published in the news. It is up to Are been Ida has been released shaved Bare the siberian Camp where a lick the Public then to judge v r was serving her sentence by i warm blood test was Broad-1 whether the offence was or was not relevant As far As t i a b 1 e he has welcomed most of labor Leader Harold Wilson s proposals Lor a United Ireland. He likes the idea of British subsidies to bring Republican social benefits closer to the British prevail ing in the North but he balks at recognition of the Queen As head of the common wealth which or. Wilson saw As an important gesture to the Northern minority. Or. Lynch who has been known Lor political survival More than Lor imaginative statesmanship has Little time to lose. An election is due during the coming year. The electorate could pass judg ment on some specific proposals with Irish Unity As the goal or it can vote on the established car taking. The Wilson initiative May or May not form the basis for All party talks Here in the new year. But it was a Brit ish initiative As Are most at tempts to think through to a solution. And As Long As a Mil lion Irish want to be part of the United kingdom the Bri Tish have a heavy responsibility to seek a solution. No initiative from Britain or anywhere is Likely to succeed As Long As Irish will on both sides of the Border is lacking. American senators who ask Britain to withdraw troops or to release a Hundred known terrorists Lail to understand this. Rather they have taken too seriously the message on the Christmas card. West Bank elections by Chemia Meyers Tel Valv the controversial israeli Deci Sion to hold municipal elections Early next year in four West Bank towns Jenin tul karm Kal Kilya and Jeri Cho is a daring move. Should the elections succeed . Should candidates come Forward and voters participate despite dire threats from both the Fatah and the jordanian authorities the West Bank will have taken a major step Forward towards normalization. However should the elections fail local arabs will regard this As a Clear indication that collaboration does not pay. Defence minister m o s h e Dayan architect of the elections scheme has always shown a readiness to Gamble As he did when he opened the Jordan or removed virtually All barriers to the passage of goods and people Between old Israel and the administered areas. But he is not a reckless Gambler. He would not have proposed holding the elections without being certain that he could count on the support of at least some West Bank ele ments. So far most Arab notables have not reacted to the scheme. Among those who have is former Nablus mayor Hamdian an who says that elections Are overdue they were last held in 1962 and that israeli supervision would ensure that they would be fair. Anwar Nuseibeh a former jordanian defence minister who lives in East Jerusalem thinks otherwise this scheme reflects Dayan s View that Israel should assume the functions of a Normal govern ment in the conquered areas. However under International Law she has no right to act in these areas except in the Case of military necessity and elections Are not dictated by military a third group favors elections but does not want them to be held As planned within the framework of the archaic jordanian electoral Law which restricts the franchise to male property owners. Perhaps the most influential exponent of this View is Mah Moud Abu Kalaf publisher of Al kids the highly Success Ful East Jerusalem arabic language daily. One thing is Clear the scheme would have been unthinkable were it not for the remarkable stability achieved in the West Bank thanks to the defeat of terrorism and to the economic Boom. This Boom has benefited almost All sections of the population but workers and Farmers have done particularly Well. Workers Many of whom were formerly unemployed much of the year now earn Good wages at Home and two or three times As much across the old Armi Stice lines in Tel Aviv and Haifa. Farmers now have both larger crops thanks to israeli instructors and equipment and. More outlets for them thanks to israeli marketing facilities. In the Jericho area for example Farmers Are for the first time ship Ping Large quantities of egg Plant to Europe through the Tel Aviv based agr Exco com Pany. The eggplant brings them seven cents a Pound three times what it would fetch in the West Bank or across the Jordan. All towns in the administered areas Are More prosperous but none can rival Bethlehem which is enjoying a Boom generated by a clutch of new industries and a flood of tourists. Christian pilgrims who were few and far Between immediately after the six Day War Are now Back in strength. In the week before Christmas alone 56 special flights brought pilgrims to Lydda from where they went straight to Bethlehem. Israel s Success in the West Bank has aroused the curiosity of some visitors and the envy of others. One of the latter a prominent briton suggested to me at a cocktail party last week that Edward Heath should Swallow his Pride and ask for israeli experts to advise him on the handling of Northern Ireland. Birthdays mrs. Ina b. Mckirvey Boissevain Manitoba Bora Meaford ont dec. Oscar Faaren Brandon born Brandon Minnesota dec. 28, 1891. Executive suite costs to government reorganizing the Ontario Cabinet Toronto the cur rent rage for thinking of government As a super Busi Ness corporation amenable to the decision making processes which characterize the executive suite has now reached the stage in Ontario where the Cabinet itself is to be reorganized. In the jargon of the efficiency experts everything is to be color coordinated and flow charted. Inputs will be come outputs by passing through a Maze of task forces secretariats evaluation committees a policy and priorities Board and finally the full Cabinet. Instead of the present Cabi net of 24 ministers there will probably be a Cabinet of 20. Instead of the present 20 government departments there will probably be Only 15 a department of finance and intergovernmental affairs a department of Revenue and government services and a consolidation of the remainder into 13 ministries which win be sub cells of one of three policy thus the Field of social development will cover Edu cation colleges and universities health housing and so Cial services. The Field of by Harold cow environment and resources development will include agriculture and food labor natural resources Trade and Industry and transportation and communications. The Field of Justice will consist of the attorney general s department correctional ser vices and Public Protection. Each department of course will be run by a min ister who will also be a member of his appropriate policy yield committee. This committee will have a secretariat headed by a civil ser vant with the rank of Deputy minister and will be chaired by a policy minister having n o departmental responsibilities. The policy committees will evaluate policy alternatives submitted from various quarters and develop recommendations for the consideration of a policy and Priori ties Board. This Board will consist of the Premier As chairman the three policy ministers the minister of finance and intergovernmental affairs and a new minister to be called the chairman of the management Board of Cabinet an Agency roughly equivalent to the present Treasury Board. The policy and priorities Board will then make recommendations to the full Cabi net at which Point All ministers will have the Opportunity to make their views known just As they do now and the result will be not Only a greatly improved effectiveness and efficiency in government but a greatly enhanced Cabinet capability for. Effective policy develop ment and priority setting. That at least is what the businessmen and civil ser vants who make up the com Mittee on government productivity have recommended and that is what Premier Davis has said the govern ment will implement give or take some details another Ontario first or. Davis said in effect when making the announcement. Hardly what the govern ment has accepted is Remar Kably similar although no credit is Given to what the conservative government of sir Winston Churchill tried to be just As pertinent As they were in Britain and perhaps More so. It is accepted practice that the Bri Tish Cabinet does not contain All the ministers of the government but tends rather to be an inner Circle of super ministers even with his tradition however the 1951 Experiment could not be made to work. Or. Davis is deter mined to refuse All suggestions that he is really creat ing an inner Cabinet of super ministers a position that does not lend itself to any Clear explanation on How his three policy ministers or Provin c i a 1 secretaries As he prefers to Call them will accountable to the Legisla Ture. There will be no change insists in the collective responsibility of Cabinet Lor government policy there win be no inner and outer Cir cles there will be no min Sisters with super status and All will be equally account Able to parliament. If this is True it is Only so in a strict legalistic sense. In practice the new Organiza Tion of the Cabinet cannot help but produce in in Britain in 1951 with such i outer arrangement of min Lack of Success that it had to b e abandoned within two Sisters. The key is the policy and priorities Board which is Harold Cardinal i it is unfortunate that the i been rather unreachable not career this was a legitimate news the Man s Public life is con years. To have statutory authority Herbert Morrison the Dis j if this does not become an to anguished Laberite who inner Cabinet de Facto and in spent Many years in the Brit its members do not become ish parliament and govern a super ministers in terms of 1 Only to non Indian observers ment succinctly records the j influence and weight then but to Manv of the More j Experiment in his Book gov. The reorganization loses it rationale. There is no Point in doing it. Why or. Davis should so reluctant to admit this is difficult to see. Perhaps an o f f i c i a 1 Indian Leader indians in Alberta. J eminent and parliament. It should have come to an my. Cardinal was ahead of i failed he writes partly be abrupt end. It is even More j minister he was ahead of j cause the super ministers an Able j the entire White population j or overlords appointed to nip City coun like or. Cardinal i unfortunately he was ahead co ordinate government poll would have difficulty getting tabled War Veteran who was sentenced to five years in a other Camo for that poked at stalinist has served his full term the arc in forced Rescic tace in a St town 120 Miles of cow. Are said to the italians Are wont to the trial proceedings Sai ;