Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 30, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed ind published daily except sunday by the Winnipeg free Prew company limited. 300 Carlton Street. Winnipeg Manitoba. R. S. Malone publisher and editor in chief Peter Mclintock Maurice Western executive editor Ottawa editor r. H. Shelford general manager Winnipeg free press Western Canada s National newspaper Winnipeg thursday december 30, 1971 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights health by compulsion the new year will undoubtedly see a further Advance towards the concept of Community health centres so Dea to the heart of the present Manitoba government. Their purpose is allegedly to bring about a reduction in the Cost of health services. However As Derek Mazur member pro Tempo Rem of a committee for the establishment of a Community and health and social development Centre in North described it on the letters to the editor pages of this newspaper the Concep has at far wider scope. To h e or. Mazur wrote could pro vide a full Range of social services including Menta health programs preventative and Public health services family counselling Day care centres programs for the Young and elderly Legal Aid and ultimately full Denta this in addition to a 24-hour, seven Day week medical service As Well As cheap drugs optometric ser vices and Laboratory and a Ray facilities. The mind boggles at the Cost of such a project. First of All it would require a huge building Complex with a very expensive administration. Because doctors would be working in three shifts their number would have to be triple the number of doctors now serving any particular Community. An average general practitioner in Manitoba cams a year. A specialist earns an average go the working time of the average doctor is about 80 hours a week. Doctors Are available on a 24-hour, seven Day week schedule As everybody who has fallen ill at night or on weekend Well knows. The hospitals outpatients departments operate on this schedule and when a patient who has no personal physician is brought there and when the illness is beyond the scope of the resident present a specialist s services Are obtained at Short no Tice at any time of the Day or night. These Are facts. Obviously a number of Manitoba doctors would be Only too pleased to secure a position probably paid at comparable figures that would provide them with a 40 hour work week no night Calls no overhead and no troublesome patients calling at Home. They too would become civil servants. A member of or. Mazur s clinic would go to the clinic one Day and be seen by or. X who May Tell him to come Back in two weeks. But in two weeks or. X is on another shift and it will be or. Y who will see him. The personal rapport will be gone. The patient will be come a number. Or. Mazur or. Tulchinsky and the rest Are pretend ing they have invented something new. But theirs is the utopian concept Long applied in All the that is communist countries in Eastern Europe and they can ask any of the refugee hungarian and czech doctors How it works there. Even the idea of a Board of directors representative of the members and staff of the clinic and directing the clinic s affairs exists in one refugee Prague doctor has told his colleagues Here How his old clinic had surplus Money with which it wanted to buy an Iron lung. But the medical staff was outvoted by those who wanted a vacation Home in the mountains instead. The trouble with All these utopias is that they Are based on social engineering and not on human nature. One can envisage All the Beautiful blueprints As they now exist in or. Mazur s committee. When transformed into reality they will turn the citizen into a faceless number shuffled across Long corridors from bureaucrat to Bureau crat a social worker bureaucrat a medical bureaucrat a Legal bureaucrat. One can imagine the poor woman drag Ging her child from room to room where impatient officials try to be rid of her As indeed happens in every Utopia every social blueprint once put into effect. As was said by a British political scientist you can not have Utopia without compulsion and in the end it s Only the compulsion that remains. Or. Mazur assures us that there would be no compulsion. But How Long could such an expensive project operate on a voluntary basis before the government found it necessary to make it compulsory indeed to follow the path of the communist regime that too started with the self same utopias and the same Rosy visions of the future. The British health service organized on far More lib eral lines is in shambles and its costs Are still rising. The question of health costs is indeed one of the serious questions of our limes. But it will not be solved by introducing Here bankrupt concepts that have Long proved unworkable and that would quickly wreck the excellent medical care now enjoyed by a Large majority of Manitoban. Reprieve in Middle East president Sadat s decision to extend his deadline for War with Israel is either a deceptive stratagem to Lull foreign Public opinion or indicates experts what have Well informed argued since the egyptian president s last visit to Moscow that for the time being the soviet Union has placed a veto on any egyptian military activities. It sounds probable that the soviet Union planning for a european ence has no ister Indira Gandhi. That was As Safe an adventure As any warlike adventure can be. But the Middle East is different and while the United states mood is now strongly against any intervention in foreign wars developments in a full scale conflict Are unpredictable and so Are shifts in Public Opin Ion. For the time being it s Back to the negotiating table. Stand Israel s policy cannot to see Canada on sidelines europeans gird for Trade talks Ondon with the cur l Rency realignments set tied the first sign of Progress has appeared in Rade negotiations Between the . And the european c o m or o n Market. Canada Matching carefully on the sidelines stands to Register some modest gains for Grain exports. After the first negotiations before Christmas on . Re quests for common Market concessions in Trade both sides were talking More Posi ively than before the cur Rency settlement. It now books As though the Europe ans will agree to stockpile about 110 million bushels of surplus wheat for a one year Experiment As a direct result f . Pressure. Any further stockpiling would be subject to negotiations for a common approach to Grain surpluses Vith other exporters including Canada. The . Is also e e k i n g european conces ions for exports of Citrus suits and tobacco. Negotiations will resume on january 14 in Brussels with he . Hoping for Quick Progress although there is some doubt that agreement can be reached in time to go o the . Congress immedi a t e 1 y when it reconvenes january 18. The . Requests Are Only he first item on a Long Agen a of transition and hopeful by Dave Humphreys 1 a integration facing the common Market. During the coming year the eco moves towards three major develop ments. One is the enlargement of the Community from six to ten countries with Britain Den Mark Norway and Ireland scheduled to become members at the end of next year. A second is eco s ten year plan for monetary and eco nomic Union sidetracked in 1971 by thu currency prob lems. The third is the question of a major International review of Trade barriers and adjust ments to which outside coun tries including Canada Are entitled As a result of the common Market s enlarge ment tonal bringing countries four Addi under discriminatory common tariffs. In his Christmas press con Ference in the full flush of Success if not outright Victory for France s Long standing Campaign for . Dollar de valuation president Pompidou was cautious and firm. In a reference to the . Demands he said everyone talks to us of integration Union yet in the Only Domain in which we have realized this Union agriculture they want to weaken it. Well let me Tell you that if the com Mon Market for agriculture is weakened at this moment there will be no Hope for eco nomic and monetary Union and there would be no fur ther perspectives for political because the . Did agree to the devaluation some Short Range concessions Are most Likely. And since the americans deny despite european suspicions that they want to dismantle the whole common agriculture policy there Are reasonable prospects for Progress in a More fundamental Long Range re View of agriculture Trade problems. The problem for the common Market is to safeguard the principle of a single agriculture Market while abolishing or control Ling surpluses that must be financed or sold on world markets at subsidized prices. William Eberle . Chief negotiator has recognized this As the problem indicating that a reasonable solution should be possible. A series of top level meet Ings is being arranged for the new year to set sights on several objectives for com Mon european policies and to keep up the momentum. Both or. Pompidou and West German Chancellor Willy Brandt have agreed to con sult British prime minister Edward Heath in London. This process will culminate is air pollution serious f the last few years have the environmentalists exaggerated the dangers of pol ution in general and air pol ution in particular what re the standards by which the danger is measured and of can we truly measure the effects of Man s latest on Laught on the environment he last question is perhaps he hardest of All to answer or the massive invasion of or environment is a relatively modern phenomenon and we Are the first real group to have been affected n other words the whole Story can t now be told. Is he worst yet to come what ver the answer enough Gen ral and specific information s already in to raise Many agent questions. In my View the most in ence As to Esir Assumption portent health problems in torpedoed an Natche world today have their e the to j say the opposite of what they origin in Man s total re mean and that when they spouse to his total Environ St Rusa Nsouli 1 seem to rattle their rockets j ment. After Over 100 years of Hall. The russians Chuju Iii 1 Dis afford politically yet another defeat and the Al consensus tends to the opinion that the 1 turn. Egyptians would inflict pain j jul losses on the israelis but in the end would be badly they really Are waving Olive i successfully conquering Dis branches. However a new j ease we Are starting to lose initiative is possible and it s j the Battle especially the Bat he word Craf Utcy tons in the lower respiratory areas than children living in Low pollution areas. Or. Bates based his studies on a prestigious United kingdom re search project which avoided the pitfall of genetic patterns among subjects by focussing on children adopted at birth. Another example is a. H. Eisen head of the allergy and clinical immunology department of the Montreal children s Hospital. Or. Eisen has pointed out a High degree of allergic and asthmatic conditions among Chil Dren living in High pollution areas. Lung diseases would be Cut by 25 per cent. All disease and death would be reduced by a 4.5 per cent yearly average with an annual Sav ing to the Canadian nation of at least 52 billion. The following evaluations of the human Price of dirty air based on existing medi Cal knowledge have been made by two Pittsburgh economists Lester Lave and Eugene Seskin of the car Negie Mellon school of Indus trial administration. They were presented before a pol Lution symposium in Washington in 1970. The economists found that merely easing pollution in acute periods would have Little effect on Over All death hopefully in a grand ten nation common Market Summit late next year to discuss Trade and defence As Well As monetary and economic integration. In this Milieu Canada will have to press firmly indeed to win a response for the Spe c i a 1 standing consultation machinery which external affairs minister Mitchell Sharp is hoping to establish the europeans Are not keen on the precedent. If Canada Why not Australia or Brazil moreover As is agreed the mechanics of a standing committee in which one Side represents ten countries would be complicated. Japan s hot Springs Thermal dynamics by Kenneth Matthews Tokyo there Are Many stories about the Lovely habits of the japanese which could use some updating. But the one about personal clean Liness and How hot they like the Bath water is True. One of Japan s few natural r e s o u r c e s is the Thermal Spring. The pleasures of the hot Bath May Well have been Here before fire. In even the wild Mon soak themselves in known Japan keys Winter. Since Japan consists of vol Canic islands hot Springs Are produced in great abundance. An estimated Springs clot the country which is a lot in a nation hardly larger than California. Most of the Springs these Days have been put to commercial purposes a statement that should t Surprise anybody. The Ordinary japanese bathes every Day because he likes the feel of it rather one suspects than because of a dedication to the thing next to godliness. And he must make some Effort to do it be cause even in relatively modern and sophisticated Tokyo Only about half the people have their own Oruro Bathtub at Home. The others go out to a Public Bath in the neighbourhood for which they pay about 15 re valued cents. But the natural hot Springs Are a special treat and statistically every japanese Man woman and child spent one Day in a hot Spring re sort during 1971. They be Lieve As Many europeans do that the natural Waters Are Good for what ails you whatever it May be. Nobody knows when the hot Spring became the in thing but the word Toji meaning Bath was in use Over 500 years ago. And in the Good old Days hot Spring cures seem to have been linked to religious Faith. A Century or two later scientific minded gentlemen tried to find out Why the Waters have curative Powers. And if they did t find out Well the us research must have been interesting for As everybody knows the boys and the girls did t bother to segregate themselves when it. Came time for a Skinny dip in the big Pool size Baths. Some people Clim incidentally that mixed bathing is still a Way of life in Remote areas. It is True at least that hot Spring resorts Are pretty spicy in a variety of ways even if the sexes Are not paddling around together. While the effects of the Baths Are usually Good they Are sometimes disastrous. Because of this the japanese medical association is having a new look As it were. Old people not infrequently go off. To meet their honorable ancestors while trying to steam away some of the modern Industrial grime. Then there Are the com Mercial hot Spring operators who dilute the real stuff from deep underground with Ordi nary tap water. Sometimes reports indicate they re Cycle the Bath water a process which has its detractors. Something about Hygiene. The list of things hot Springs will do for health is Long and reads like a comi Mercial for Snake Oil medi. Cine of the american wild West. But some Springs Are believed to promote Fertility in women a claim which should be Given credence. The evidence is overwhelm ing japanese Citi Zens. Today s scripture inasmuch Asye have done it unto one of the least of these my Brethren be have done it unto me. Mat thew Start of a class struggle unrest in Chile Santiago the Dis orders that have erupted in Chile in the Wake of the visit of Fidel Castro Are seen Here As the opening skirmish in a class struggle that will eventually spread throughout the nation. Although the concept of class struggle is rooted in orthodox marxist doctrine Chile s current ferment is being fanned mainly by the rightist opposition to marxist president Salvador Allende. Shortly before leaving Chile or. Castro observed that the reactionaries have been learning faster than the the provocative activity by the right seems de signed to bring about an open and perhaps final confrontation Between the government and the opposition. M r Castro s month Long Odyssey through Chile seems to have provided the spark that set off a wave of demonstrations and rioting Here. But beneath the unrest Are such festering issues As the loss of privilege by Chile s once comfortable Middle class the deterioration of the Economy and a mounting food shortage and in the lace of such Adverse conditions or. Allende s Ada Mant refusal to slow Down Chile s March to socialism. The demonstrations began while or. Castro was still wandering around the Chi by Nathan a. Have Stock and Richard c. Schmo Cdr meet the greater demand Chile May expect recurring shortages not Only of food but of other consumer items As Well. In pre Allende Days the Middle class Felt the pressure of rising prices and an almost constant inflation but Only the poor had to do any real Belt tightening. In preparation for Fidel Cas Tro s visit to Vina Del mar. Owners of Small and medium sized farms have received Telephone Calls from Patria y Libertad warning them that leftists were plan n i no farms to take Over their armed resistance to such land seizures has resulted in at least two deaths in Southern Chile. Both the left and the right have been involved in violent now the Burden Falls More incidents at the University of equitably on All social Sec j Chile a Power Strug tors. Meat for example is j Between the two factions sold Only two weeks out of j Lias been raging. The Rector the month As an emergency rationing measure. But de spite the rationing More meat per capita is being con of the University is a rightist the governing body is dominated by the left. In one out break Para military forces of sum cd in Santiago this year the right including Patria y than last. Libertad. Occupied the uni the March of the empty i varsity Law school and used it pots and pans was intended j As a base for Rock throwing to bring Home peacefully to j sallies against the Mir and the government the Unap j other left groups piness of the Middle class with their declining status i a month ago. The University Rector Eduardo Boen half Way through the March j anger led a protest March however violence erupted be-1 which concluded by breaking tween extremists of both the j into the office of minister right and the left. Of the Interior past police armed with sub machine guns but under orders not to fire. President Allende is caught in a squeeze As the violence on the right and left Intel the women were escorted Silfies. Within his own popu by helmeted youths carrying Jar Unity coalition which chains and wearing the in includes the communist and Signia of the Christian demo-1 socialist parties and some crat and nationalist parties j non marxist left groups lean Countryside. On dec. 1. Also protecting the women there is heavy pressure to and disease rates. It is the t h e lesser but constant pollution that is important they con party and conservative National were club wielding men in i the left of Centre v i i i a n clothes who were step up the Pace of Reform still More. Among the Christian Democrat party members of the extreme schemes for hurrying Chile canadians should t draw this problem should worry too. Much of their information i about abating air pollution at eluded not the occasional collaborated to organize a i right Wing militant Organiza the Road to socialism is peaks people dealing with March of women through t Ion Patria y Libertad a plan to create a new sin i tie against the diseases of of _ 1 from abroad anyway for we face particular hazards Dur ing the Winter months. First All times instead of confining their concern to increased pollution during inversions. There is the increased Burn they claimed the effects of downtown Santiago to protest j fatherland and Gie House legislature another food shortages. The women the escorts clashed with the i to purge the supreme court including tanned and Well partisans of the left include i and a Broad program to a groomed matrons from the i ing members of the tonal inc sectors of the Echo Best neighbourhoods House j prone revolutionary left omy still in private hands. 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