Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 7, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and published Dally of Copl sunday by Ilio Winnipeg 1100 pics Cuni Pany limited 300 Carillon Sli ool Winn Poy Muni Loba. N. S. Mai out i Uliuli Nykl i Flefil us War wg81ehn sex ulivo editor h. H. Sii Elfonzo general manager Winnipeg free press Western Canada s National newspaper Winnipeg saturday july 7, 1973 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights frightening report like most of the world s great trading nations can Ada has Long been a member of the Bank for International settlements in Switzerland. Unlike the governments that compose a the Bank is not concerned with partisan politics has no need to win elections and can afford to Tell the unvarnished truth. Its latest re port therefore is impartial realistic and frightening. Jelle Zijlstra chairman of the Bank sums up its lat est conclusions by saying Fiat the current rate of inflation in its member states could increase two or three times in the next because there is nothing to halt it. The nub of the he warns is that the Power of particular groups and interests to push in comes and prices up has exceeded uie Power of govern ments and Central Banks to Stop them doing so. There is Only one Way in which this balance of forces can be re versed and that is by Public opinion backing up anti inflationary policies not fitfully and partially but strongly and having no obligation to any of these Power groups the Bank adds in its annual re port that excessive wage increases Are the Core of the inflationary pressure. Canadians will see at once uie obvious conflict be tween this warning and the official View of their govern ment. Just before the Bank published its report finance minister John Turner said that wage increases had not been a significant Factor in Canada s rapid Price in crease. Reversing his earlier statements and blaming inflation primarily on a worldwide Rise in commodity prices or. Turner rejected any attempt to control it within Canada and predicted that such a policy must fail. At uie same time however the United states government was for Cpl to impose a temporary horizontal Price freeze and plan a new system of mandatory controls for later enforcement while the Canadian govern ment itself accepted that principle in controlling the exports and hence indirectly the Price of Petroleum products. Apart from this one exception to the Rule or. Turner refuses to consider any direct attack on inflation though his government is attacking it gingerly slowly and ineffectively through increased interest rates and somewhat tighter Money. The United status government has Learned by bitter experience that there is no practical alternative to direct controls. The Bank for International settlements believes that Cost push inflation is running wild. But the Canadian government proposes to do nothing effective about it and will not even discuss much less curb its Root cause the spiral of wages profits and costs that inevitably drive up prices. This Lack of official Candor is another Price that canadians Are now paying the Price of a minority govern ment dependent on the new democratic splinter in parliament which in turn is dependent on the labor unions for votes. Only the conservative party has dared to urge any limit1 on wages and profits and it has made its Case so clumsily and inaudibly that most of the Public still does not understand it. Canada is thus a classic example of or. Zijlstra s warning that the Power of the pressure groups to push up prices exceeds the efforts of governments and Central Banks to discipline them. Nor has any political party in Canada accepted or. Zijlstra s advice by appealing candidly to Public opinion for support in Strong anti inflation policies. As the United states government found such an Appeal brought in Stant support from the american Public including the labor unions whose wage demands have been much lower ulan those of the Canadian unions. But the Cana Dian government is afraid to act or even to speak out lest it antagonize the nip and pleads that it lacks any National consensus to make a Price control system work. What else could it expect when it gives no Leader ship has no coherent economic policy and thinks that Canada must live with perpetual inflation How Long will the Canadian people tolerate the Timi Dity of their politicians the Rise in their living costs and the erosion of their savings probably until they have been sufficiently Hurt to grasp the True nature of their problem As their american neighbors have grasped it already. Meanwhile they Are getting no help from their government and not much from he fumbling official opposition. In the present circumstances of Canada and the Western world at Large the late Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin would see one of his Basic dicta vividly confirmed. The surest Way to destroy any nation s strength he said was to destroy its currency. As inc Bank for International settlements has warned that process is Well under Way among the great nations of the West. Give me Liberty or. 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This advert Isemena is sponsored by the committee for inc liberation of inc tax payers of Canada. Is Golden one Day a Long time ago i said to myself no More speaking at meetings and thereafter i Cut it Down steadily until Only one meet ing was left to speak to. When that meeting was spoken to i had a letter from a dear Good woman who hears things. She Sale her ears had not receiver w hat i said because i opened my address with a dirty Story about Jesus inc since she loves Jesus Hei ears would not hear and How would i like it if somebody told dirty stories about someone i loved and so she was praying for me and fortunately she does not have to read me because she the other paper. I mentioned Russell Doern in my address he was sit Ting there beside me and d. H. Lawrence and Braham Greene and Charles Dieken and several other men and women of renown but the Best known of them All Jesus Well As they say now and then his name never crossed my lips. It reminds me of the things children hear none of which i can Call to mind like Caesar and Cleopatra seize her and clean up after and when i was Dis cussing the things people hear that you did t say or read that you did t write the Learned professor who shared my bewilderment began searching for the name of Fiat Peculiar liter Ary thing that concerns the hings people do read be cause you really did write hem. This sort of tiring he Tore up the stairs. The professor was swept by gales of As they say and text repeating this state ment he Tore up the stairs. Take it literally. It has a name i m convinced but i can t remember what its technical name is. The real shortage few people today would want our correctional institutions to be purely punitive As they once were but Piliero is growing concern about the laxity of prison standards and the Over indulgence of prisoners. No group is More aware of this than the officers and personnel of penal j institutions. Recently an Anonymous missive Lias been making the rounds among them. H says in lighter vein what others have been say ing in More serious language and is reproduced herewith join a Federal country club. Now i arc you unemployed arc you overworked and under paid Are Bills gelling you Down Why not do As of her people have and join a fed j Oral country club now Ron fits comfortable cozy individual rooms free food free medical care free clothing free denial care free mental health care common rooms equipped with to where you1 can enjoy the company of your Fellmy Orcsi Clenys. Recreation i n c i u d o s Tennis horseshoes softball some b a s k c t b a i i table Tennis Badminton Ham shall and for the Golf enthusiast a nine Hole pitch am put course musical activities. Transportation is provided j or hockey games a maj shows. If you crave female i remember Ivor Brown about 25 years ago in the London observer doing a piece on this sort of thing. He ran his eyes Over her face. Were they Bis eyes on the end of a Long stick if not How did he do it and did it look As improbable As it sounds it s remarkable How often you find yourself trying to describe a perfectly familial action and having to scrap in because it s full of things that Are familiar and make nonsense. Their eyes met. How was it an eyeball to eyeball encounter what did they do with their noses while their eyes were meet ing a very High proportion of these traps arc about eyes. His eyes swept the room. That s a Gritty a scr else. Her eyes burned. Cinder Ella the Odd thing is that you find them in the Best of writers and the worst. Eyes roam about rooms eyes sweep floors eyes bore into faces. The professor however was fascinated by he Tore up he stairs. He had visions of hands clawing at risers and stairs tumbling As he Tore hem up. He caught the bus. He dropped in on them. From what and when he caught the bus could he hold it Hill it fight Hack in Lon Don we took in a play. Through the Mouth nose or what 1 suppose it s All related to by Shaun Herron the old problem of com which is essentially to say what you mean. No essentially it is not that that is the first half of the problem the Sec Ond is that the mind which receives what you say should receive what you say and not what it hears. That is the real problem of communication. And since i am accused of telling stories about Jesus when i Haven t mentioned his name i think the problem of communication is Best illustrated in his own words have i been so Long Lime with you yet Hast thou not known me in Short Are you never going to hear what i actually say is it part of the proof of the insolubility of the problem of communicator that when i say he Tore up the stairs you know what i mean if i offer no further explanation of Why he Tore up the stairs you May take Over and con clude that he is a Young Man on his wedding night his Middle aged wife is after him a bread knife or he needs to get to the bathroom in a hurry. When professors Tell me he Young arrive at University Semi literate and quite unable to write a Complete sentence i More and More ask myself whether it mat ters very much our Lan Guage is becoming a sort of shorthand anyway under stood in each generation by those who use it. Yah for example appears to have an infinite variety of meanings for the Young a group of hem put on a conversation for me the other night in their own Tongue and while line already. I suppose All the words they used were English of a sort the connection be tween them was lost on me. They understood one another and sounded to me like bushmen talking about Ostrich eggs. And if it is True that we ought to talk less to one another anyway what does language matter As one gets older silence becomes More precious. It is in itself a form of communication at a level the Young like strangers in ire land do not know. The longer i live the More i be come convinced that Only one thing is in Basic Short Supply in the world silence. One of these Days and quite soon i am going to impose it upon myself not just at meetings where dear old ladies hear me Tell dirty stories about Jesus but also on paper. 1 can feel the Healing Balm flowing Over Bombay s collapsing houses by Arun sindhi Bombay residents of old and Dilapi dated buildings in Bombay condemned As unfit Foi habitation Are living on Bor rowed time banking their safety and future on the props put up by the House re pairs Hoard of the municipal corporation. Each year about 20 or 25 buildings collapse under pressure of the heavy Mon soon Rains and Many lose their lives. Last year seven people died and 64 were seriously injured in 20 cases of House collapses. The House repairs Board was set up by the Corpora Tion four years ago when the dilapidated houses increased the owners of these Pri vate buildings Are unwilling to carry out repairs because the tenants Are protected by the rent act so that the owner cannot increase the rents after repairing the building. The rent act pegs the rent payable at the time mount Robson of occupying the building. The owners claim they get nothing out of the building so Why repair them at All in fact secretly All of them Hope that their buildings will collapse As that is the Only Way they can make the ten ints vacate. Everyone wants to rebuild and charge new rents but the rent act prohibits any. One from being thrown out. Even when the municipal corporation certifies the building to be unfit for human habitation a landlord cannot evict the tenants. The tenant won t leave Lor two reasons. First because finding another apartment in Bombay is next to impossible and secondly even if he does find one the rent pay Able would be ten to 20 times More than he has been paying. He cannot afford it be cause the average income of a family living in such build Ings is about in View of this situation the municipal corporation decided to set up the House repairs Board to carry out the repairs. They were to repair All the dangerous buildings id ten years but Lack of finance and abundance of red tape have considerably slowed Down their efforts. In four years they have at tended to Only build Ings and usually All they have done is to place Cross beams propped up by poles to postpone ultimate collapse. Worse still is the plight of the million people who live in hovels in Bombay. These clusters of lean to s built with All sorts of Odd hits of tin and cloth Are mostly in the Low lying areas. During every Monsoon the Waters from the higher Levels accumulate and flood the area. Often the hovels Are in knee to Walt deep water and they Are always Damp and Slushy. For those two million people of Bombay who live in unhygienic conditions the next four months of the Monsoon Rains Are a period of disease and death. Birthdays Alex Johnston Dauphin Man. Born Falkirk Scot land july 7, 1879. Mrs. Liev j. B. Anderson Winnipeg born Mattawa ont july 7, 1887. Mrs. W. J. Kinny Brookdale Man. Born Uxbridge ont., july 7, 1877. George Hamilton Brandon born Wellston Scotland july 6, 1883. How to control culture have Are that principles there Many shades of Grey concern economics a United nations new York the Canadian Public May not be aware of the tug of War being waged with a sort of gentlemanly vigor in the deep recesses of the uni cd nations basement and at Enesco in Paris Over a Mailer that seems both Remote and highly tech Nical and yet is of Villa importance to our institutions about uneasily in these Grey it is the arcane question of j areas Are the canadians Anil broadcasting from satellites swedes the new Combine in orbit an Enigma wrapped Tion of Well meaning Neu subversion from satellites to onanism religion and other aspects of the human spirit that stubbornly persists in confounding the great Eter Nal values which detached from the humdrum affairs of t h e Market place should guide our statesmen. Moving by f. S. Manor in the incomprehensible Jar gon of space scientists which when unravelled re Veals a simple Kernel free Dom of expression Mili Tating against censorship. Between these simple or simplistic at some would Truls who oblivious of the Vansittart dictum that there Are not two sides to As Many questions As we like to he censorship into the free world. In a preliminary skirmish the russians have succeeded in pushing through a Resolution at Enesco that would keep culture Arliss and free expression emanating foundations of local civilization culture Way of life traditions or language. Above All which broadcasts misinform the Public on these and other the technical issues arc fascinating and can be briefly summarized As follows explicable about four fifths of the United states is Cov ered by commercial television networks and Broad casting by satellite would undercut the networks viability. There is thus no incentive to work on a prob Lem Fiat apart from limit f r o m satellite broadcast under strict supervision. But for the time being let us be on our guard wrote or. Ionesco last de a facilities now exist to i e d commercial prospects broadcast from satellites to appears to pose considerable i u g e communal receiving i stations that then rebroadcast the material either to individual receivers or to Cembor. Enesco has am i such bilious and ils Pride makes other demands. Let us reject Liec. Are trying to Bridge All so called cultural policies satellite broadcasts have limited Range and although there Juhe chasm Between Freedom and absolute subjugation. It All began at Enesco where As Eugene Ionesco has described it it has Long our i la n directional something which an International con j broadcast 111 us i ;