Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 19, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed ind published daily a Cpl sunday by the Winnipeg press company limited 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba. R. S. Matone 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 saturday february 19, 1972 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights journey to peking the next few Days will in some ways resemble a re run of the time of the Moon landings. Television sets will shimmer late into the night bringing images of an setting foot on unknown territory. China is not the Moon but until recently it was to americans every bit As strange and forbidding. Predictions a year ago that a . President would soon visit there would have been dismissed As science fiction. Whether president Nixon s first step tomorrow will Mark a giant leap in the affairs of Mankind remains to be seen. As the chinese regime Learned Only too painfully great leaps Forward can end in disaster when too much is at tempted too fast. Certainly the Story of sum Mitry in our time is not encouraging. John Kennedy s encounter with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961, to take the worst example sowed the seeds for both the soviet nuclear adventure in Cuba and major . Involvement in Vietnam. The successful Summit meeting is usually one which confirms1 agree ments already arrived at. That will not be the Case when or. Nixon meets the old philosopher Mao tse Tung in hang How or dines with Premier Chou in Lai amid the gleaming Marble of peking s great Hall of the people. There Are few areas of agreement Between the . And China and no one should expect their leaders to shift position overnight after a dinner of peking Duck. The chinese will not modify their rigid insistence that taming scientists a Rothschild among men in White Ondon one of Bri i i Tain s least known but most interesting government personalities stands at the Centre of a whirling scientific controversy which could have a considerable Impact on Ca Nadian opinion. Lord Rothschild top ideas Man in prime ministered Ward Heath s 19-month-old conservative government has set the test tubes top pling by calling for a new concept of research and development. In a sentence he wants less pure research and by Alan Harvey Taiwan is a chinese province which peking is determined to nor is the . Likely to abandon its commitment to defend the Island from attack. Hopes for a magical solution to the conflict in Indochina Are also unrealistic China has Long indicated willingness to fight to the last vietnamese and Premier Chou rejected or. Nixon s new proposals for me Paris talks almost As soon As they were made. China is suspicious of . Aims in Japan South Korea and Thailand among others but or. Nixon will be careful not to say anything that will cause these countries More jitters than he already has by the simple fact of his trip. Peking and Washington will not be establishing for Mal diplomatic relations. Indeed the overt result of the peking talks will Likely be no More than a general state Merit favouring motherhood with perhaps some agree ments on scientific commercial cultural and journalistic exchanges. But does this really require or. Nixon himself Why is the president placing himself in the position of a bearer of tribute to the Middle kingdom a cynical answer is that it should help get him re elected. The american people have already indicated overwhelming support for the opening to China. In the coming week attention will be focussed in their president Man of bold initiative sealer of the great Wall explorer of the forbidden City. Members of the China lobby bitterly that their supporters once included a Young politician named Richard Nixon but there is More to this than electoral politics. On More customer directed work. Does that sound Unsen National not to British scientists. It represents a startling departure from a 54 year old tradition fostered by Britain and faithfully Fol Lowed by Commonwealth countries like Canada Australia India and new Zea land. Lord Rothschild s Radical views have scandalized Brit ish scientists. Day after Day the men in White have loosed angry thunderbolts in the correspondence columns of serious newspapers in medi Cal journals and on television. They say. Any move to bring research and develop ment More tightly under the control of British government departments would throttle research and kill off the kind of revolutionary discoveries that tamed tuberculosis and other diseases. Search is relevant his key word and consumer oriented. Similarly senator Lamon Tagne has been highly critical of the Lack of direction and concern for real needs shown in Canadian scientific re search. The British debate has Many facets. A torrent of abuse has rained on lord Rothschild. Or. T. W. Meade director of a medical Cai e unit in London s North Wood District wrote to the new statesman Magazine pointing out that what some regarded As useless curios Ity by scientific researchers led 15 years ago to the virtual elimination of poliomyelitis in Many countries the Immi nent control of Rhesus Haem Lytic disease and prospects for the in Uteri detection of Mongolis and other genetic disorders. The Rothschild proposals were put Forward As a Preli misery to legislation expected by Midsummer. They Are the first real fruit to scram ble a metaphor of the think tank set up by prime min ister Heath to work out Broad new concepts for Cabinet consideration and to advise on the feasibility of complicated projects coming before Over worked government ministers. It s an entirely new wrinkle in modern government and or. Heath picked an intriguing Man for the Job. Nathan Iel Mayer Rothschild third Baron of his line Heads the banking family in Britain but takes no interest in Bank ing affairs professes socialist principles but is working for a conservative govern ment is one of the world s leading experts on Trout sperm and has been called the rudest Man in England. As everybody knows Money s no object for the roths Childs. Yet when his appoint ment was announced in october 1970, the top fish in the think tank said he was glad to get the Job my pension s not so maxims of Power by Flora Lewis entering the White House or. Nixon decided that the absurd estrangement Between the world s most powerful nation and one Quarter of Mankind had to end. He began a carefully escalated series of moves to remove restrictions on dealings with China. The eventual response put the word Ping Pong into the diplomatic handbooks. Now China is no longer the rogue dragon. Direct . China dealings make even More sense for both sides than during the years peking was isolated by both american diplomacy and its own iras ability. China has the bomb and is rapidly developing its capacity to deliver it. No at tempts to slow the world s mad arms race can make sense without the participation of peking nor can at tempts to achieve relative stability in the far East in the coming decade. China feels the need to treat with the world again after its withdrawal during the cultural revolution. It needs for one Access to the technology of advanced coun tries to Speed its own development Trade with the United states will come slowly but it will come. China must also consider Russia. The presence of nuclear armed divisions on one s Borders can be a great Spur to win friends and influence powerful people. The new balance of Power possibilities disturb the soviet Union which knows that there exists a Basic fund of Good will in both the american and chinese Peoples for each other. A disastrous conflict of views in peking next week could set things Back badly. It is unlikely to happen. Both or. Nixon and or. Chou caution against inflated object Tives and expectations. Or. Nixon Calls his trip a Neces sary part of the move from antagonism to communication to the meetings will be an opening of dialogue. Understanding will take some time. But the simple fact that the . President is going to China is a psychological leap Forward of tremendous significance. Once or. Nixon comes Down the ramp at peking Airport things will never be quite the same. What about Canada scientists at the National re search Council in Ottawa Are watching the British debate with interest. In. Fact the Rothschild proposals Are in close Harmony with similar ideas proposed in Ottawa by senator Maurice Lamon Tagne. Indeed some scientific experts Here take the View that Canada s slavish Pursuit of British scientific principles has been a major Handicap i d go further and that following Britain s Lead has crippled scientific development in i was told by Nick Valery a Lead ing writer on Britain s new scientist Magazine. The principles under which Britain operates and which most advanced common wealth countries follow were Laid Down by lord Haldane in 1917. In the View of some Cana Dian experts in London lord Haldane s ideas were All very Well half a Century ago. But things have changed. Canada adopted the Hal Dane theories said a scientist whose experience straddles the at lactic. Then his ideas were perfectly valid. Now the world has moved on and science has become too big to be left entirely to the boys in the Backrooms and development milk quotas governments like to claim All they can in credit for themselves. So there was nothing unusual in the announcement by Premier Schreyer last week of a new Deal for Manitoba s milk producers involving a recovery of lost subsidy or in his statement that this Happy state of affairs had been brought through the about largely efforts of his minister of agriculture Sam Yuskiw. With the first part of this announcement no one will quibble. The recovery of approximately half of the prov milk quotas represent As in tying themselves Down to a business that operates seven Days a week. Another is that the quota system with most of the Large quotas located in the East has not encouraged milk production in the Prairie provinces. Today the. Results of these factors Are making them selves Felt. Canada s current milk shortage is apparent in a number of areas. For exam j p 1 e since mid december some four million pounds of american butter have had to be shipped in to Western Canada. And for the first time since 1957, the Canadian government has not a single j n be s Tost which could much As s1.5 million to Mani j bag of milk powder in Stock Toba is Good news 1 this More than or. Yuskiw s indeed. The second part of j efforts May be the reason his statement however is j Why the Canadian More open to . The i commission is looking for recovery of quotas one sos More milk from Manitoba j sweets May have been due to and restoring the Tost quotas. Cre efforts of or. Yuskiw bet it is a simple Case of ice also to the fact to fact Canada jaw of sep pay and demand today is severing from a today s research can t be kept isolated from the rest of a Complex integrated society. Applied research must be directed to some useful these Are almost exactly lord Rothschild s words. He does t want science to for get the consumer he wants value for Money. Which is precisely what upsets Bri Tain s five National research councils science agriculture medical environment and social which Are virtually autonomous bodies receiving Grants from the British Treasury totalling More than million. Lord Rothschild wants a greater measure of government direction to make sure the to Barbados one and another some re cent books provoke renewed thought on the dynamics of Power. Power is really what society or any organization for action is All about. The Point in organizing is to produce by pooling ener g i e s and resources the Power to do things that no one of us could do alone. A family a Hospital a school a commune a corporation a nation can achieve by Divi Sion of labor what the sum of their members could never achieve if each acted on his own. And division of labor hand ing out different tasks to Dif Ferent people creates Power relations. The egalitarian Ideal would make sure that the Power is absolutely balanced share and share alike regardless of the roles As signed. Power is needed to get done. But Power pushes people around some times to the Point of utter destruction and it feeds on it self. The problem is control. Roy Medvedev in let his tory judge the origins and consequences of stalinism documents one of the most awful and awesome stories of Power abused that the world has Ever known. The soviet scholar s purpose was to publicize what Stalin was and what he did so that his com patriots would not let it Hap pen again. But the grotesque example of Stalin is also a Case study in the germination and growth of Power. It is not Only a tale of How Power corrupts but of How easy it seems to be for the corrupt to amass and Pervert Power. Reviewing or. Medvedev s Book Harrison Salisbury of the new York times Points out two shortcomings or rather shortfalls in this rus Sian marxist s analysis of his Homeland s incredible night Mare. For All his determination to be relentlessly Clear and honest or. Medvedev could t bring himself to ask How Stalin could wangle his Way to Power and Why he used it As he did. Or. Salisbury hints that he Way end will be even worse than the Means. This principle is reflected More clearly in a Book about science and government by c. P. Snow. The English scientist takes up again his argument that the two Cul Tures of science and the rest of society Are insulated from each other and the Gap must be bridged. His new Book Public of uses the example of Churchill s attempt to win the second world War with massive bombing to show that no scientists Haven t the training to judge the advice they get from their scientific experts. It was f. A. Lin Demann sir Winston s per Sonal scientific adviser who argued quite wrongly As it turned out that big raids would destroy half the workers Homes in Germany and end the War without Long and ghastly land Battles. The sounds of Silt not thinks Stalin was simply mad from the Start though he concedes that Lenin s endorsement of terrorism to save the revolution helped Stalin on his Way. But there is another larger conclusion to be drawn. It is that the use of Power to Hurt people no matter How lofty the cause proclaimed makes it Likely end will be no better than the dirty Means further and most vital that the use of Power but Robert Claiborne com menting on the Book wisely reflects that sir Winston had other sounder scientific advisers whom he rejected. That was t because he could t understand their numerical As or. Snow claims but be cause or. Lindemann was telling him what he wanted to hear and the others were bringing him bad news. That is what usually Hap pens to powerful men or. Claiborne Points out because they Are in a position to at tract and Reward advice which justifies their own de sires. Or. Claiborne suggests that Parkinson s Law should also say powerful men will never receive Good advice. It is probably True. Certainly even the most honorable and. Best intentioned leaders must take great care to pro t e c t themselves from the operation of the principle. And with a the Only Chance of prevention Success is to make the arguments pub Lic. Secrecy serves the pow Erful very Seldom does it serve the purpose Lor which society has granted Power. Even in the United states which proclaims let the peo ple we Supi Nely accept the idea that in Many areas government needs secrecy to operate Well. A closer look at the facts of Power suggests the opposite. Secrecy promotes mistakes sometimes ghastly ones. His tory and current affairs keep repeating the lesson that cannot be said in Public had better not be done. But we never seem to in secret guarantees that the learn. Not with a bang but a whimper has University academic Freedom gone Toronto is academic Freedom disappearing from the campuses of on Tario has it indeed already disappeared silly questions perhaps. No Hitler has burned any books no Mccarthy has hounded any academic from his Ivory Tower. No professor has been told by the government what he can or cannot teach. Not quite True professors of engineering at Laurentian University at Sudbury have been told indirectly but effectively that they cannot teach engineering at that Stit ution. Other universities have been told equally effect t i v e 1 y that they cannot launch various new pro Grams schools and faculties especially in the Field of graduate studies. Indeed if one does t put Art several for ass else of week met too Sassy wast beam aft tie Fewste of Etfer too Fine a Point on it it can be argued that everything the universities Are teaching or want to teach is dependent o n government approval since the government now provides 88 per cent of University financing. The universities have been free to offer unapproved programs provid ing they finance them on their own and the Odd one has done practically speaking the Power of the purse has led to the fact of government control. There Are Good and sufficient reasons for this of course largely centred on huge costs limited financial resources and therefore the need to prevent duplication and the oversupply of certain University services. The tyranny of economics has forced the universities to surrender their autonomy of the 15 in Ontario not counting the Royal military College at Only Small Waterloo lutheran has shunned provincial Grants and gone its own Way it being a Hirow after but they Are so closely interrelated that one cannot be lost without losing something of the other As Well. The process is a Slippery slope and unconscious As a glance at the Ontario record will show. Thus when the Ontario government decided in 1963 on a huge Long term expansion of government financial support for the universities the then Premier declared unequivocally that there would be no interference with the Independent nature of a such in dependence or. R o b a r t s said was there could be no question about it. The universities went along with it. It was not an agonizing or even a conscious Deci Sion for them to make. After All their governing boards had for years been dominated by the captains of Industry and finance and the production o f specialized manpower had become More and More their main proc signed As or. Deutsch and the commission will be under Strong pressure to change its recommendation before sub mitting a final report to the government. But there will be no satisfactory Resolution of the University government relationship it seems to me until the manpower theory of higher education has been curation the government Laid to rest or at least put in was Only asking them to do More of it and giving them the Money to do it. Under the circumstances it is perhaps not surprising that the commission on Post secondary education set up to recommend where we go from Here now proposes to legalize what the universities have tacitly accepted namely a government appointed its proper perspective. There is of course nothing wrong with vocational train ing. The trouble for Public policy arises when it is equated with education and particularly with higher Edu cation under a system of Public financing. Equity then demands the universities offer All things to All Comers and there is no rational limit coordinating Board to Dis to programs or costs. It is tribute government Grants not efficient As vocational and to establish new faculties and programs and Dis continue unnecessary Fracul training and it seriously impairs the Central function of the University As a place for Only three years later however the then minister of University affairs now pre first condition of government Mier William Davis Deli must not ered famous Gerstein lec ties and programs at both transmitting and extending the graduate and undergrad knowledge. Uate j fortunately there is a asked How he squared this r e a l rebellion underway Ture at York University. It in that speech that he de Grants that one teach religion. But University autonomy. The educationists will con c a r e d University ind Epen tend is not necessarily the Denic to the desirable but no same thing As academic free j Ioniser essential the univer 0 Dom and it is possible to find mechanisms for preserve had to be consistent with the needs of the times and their autonomy was a with academic Freedom commissioner John Deutsch the principal of Queen s University replied not Only that he could not but suggested that the universities had Given up the ghost Long ago. We Are totally dependent on the government for finance he said. We can Only carry out what the govern ment is prepared to pay a s Jawbone dropped he say the times swat in tact period of Gigantic ing the latter while losing the former. By devising an of. Yective formula for distribute 2 they served the total my the government s Money needs i for example and by giving j Tuvae or. Davis did not j added that there was really j each University its share in a j spell oat characteristically j nothing new in what the com i i Lump sum to allocate inter-1 what he meant by the Mission was proposing Hie i Navy As it determines it has j total needs of government already had the j j been possible the keep the Bat no one familiar with the j Power to cancel University j government at Arm s length politics of Ontario or uie j programs and it had exer-1 i if not oot of the Tades of its conservative gov-1 cited that Power in the past. I against it by students professors and one suspects disillusioned taxpayers. Many of the commission s recommendations reflect an aware Ness at least of the prob Lem. Unfortunately the com Mission has not been As co Herent or As consistent As it should have been for the government to get the message. Hair. Inhere is to to acis ar-1 Taejon get Mesa n can Onfry Ontario professions carried so Jar. 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