Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 12, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed Publ Iod Dally except sunday by the Winnipeg 1 Ico Pioss company limited 300 Carillon sural Winnipeg Manitoba. H. S. Malone publisher and editor in Chlof Peter Mclintock Maurice Western executive editor Olla a editor r. H. Shelford general manager Winnipeg free press Western Canada t National newspaper Winnipeg thursday july 12, 1973 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights a question of definition when is a minister not a minister appears to be the important Point at Issue in the dispute Between Premier led Schreyer Anil his Defeated conservative opponent Alfred Penner. Or. Penner is claiming that the election in Rossmery constituency is void because or. Shreyer appointed As returning officer George Epp a minister of Springfield Heights mennonite Church and the election act states that among those who cannot be appointed returning officer Are ministers priests or ecclesiastics under any form or profession of religious Faith or Wor or. Schreyer has replied that or. Epp is not re ally a minister inasmuch As he docs not have professional status As a Clergyman and so no wrong has been done. The Issue would thus appear to revolve around the definition of minister. The act is no help As it provides no definition. Or. Epp has said that he is merely a Lay minister unpaid. He earns his living As a teacher. There Are three Lay ministers at the Church and also one paid minister. Or. Epp cannot perform functions usually performed by clergymen such As conducting weddings signing Legal documents Etc. Or. Schreyer Lias likened or. Epp s position to that of a Volunteer worker in any Church. On the other hand or. Epp has said that he does not like to be called reverend but finds it difficult to Stop people and the Media from doing this since he says tile people of the Church recognize him As a min ister. This could be a crucial Point if the dispute were to reach the courts. What is the purpose of excluding ministers and judges maps and others from the Post of re turning officer and other it would appear to be that the experts who Drew up the Law Felt that such people might have undue influence on certain voters ministers on their parishioners for example and for that reason they could not be allowed to act in an official capacity. If this is the valid reason for the exclusion then the recognition of a person As a minister by his parishioners even though by other standards he was not legally a minister would certainly be a Factor to be taken into account. Or. Rumor tries again Mariano Rumor of the Christian democratic party was sworn in this week to head Italy s 35th Post War government a coalition of the Christian democrats and socialists. Italy has thus returned to a Centre left re Gime after a year of unsuccessful experimenting Wilh a Centre right government under Premier Giulio Andreotti. Or. Rumor will head his fourth government and the seventh to be based on the Centre left formula. Officially he should enjoy a massive parliamentary majority one that would bring Joy to the heart of Many a Western prime minister. Unfortunately the roman corridors of Power Are teeming with cloak and Dagger men poised to drive their factional Poniard into any politician Friend or foe the moment his Back is turned. The majority is thus on paper Only. The Christian democrats and the socialists Are engaged in fierce fratricidal Battles each harbouring under its Broad umbrella a whole spectrum of opinion ranging from the right among the Christian democrats to a Wing that would like to Sec the communists in govern ment and among the socialists from old fashioned so Cial democrats to out and out left wingers to whom the italian communists Are old reactionary fogies. Or. Rumor is a former school teacher and he will have his work Cut out to maintain order in the Cabinet class and keep the government going until 1970, when the next election is due. At present Italy is passing through a bad economic Patch uie lira being the Only european currency to have followed the Dollar on its downward path. Unemployment has grown and there is both Lack of Confidence and Lack of incentive largely due to the sagging National discipline. Inflation has caused havoc among those on fixed incomes while workers seem to be on Perma nent strike All of Sicily staged a general strike this week. There arc Many Able men in the government in particular Ugo la Malta the Leader of the tiny but highly intellectual Republican party. Or. La Malfa has been the chief financial critic of the government and has now taken Over the Treasury assisted at the finance ministry by another Able politician Emilio Colombo. However he and his colleagues will have to Battle the twin perils bureaucratic inertia despite the countless commis Sions and inquiries nobody has yet succeeded in Reform ing the sprawling octopus like Bourbon bureaucracy and the Lack of Confidence among segments of the pub Lic that Are becoming disenchanted with the slow demo cratic processes. The italian communist party the largest communist party in Western Europe is a Power unto itself and is now being confronted by an ugly violent right Wing that Hopes a Man on a White horse will Gallop into the Square and Sway the masses. The army however has remained aloof from politics and violence does not a peal to the majority of italians. One thus expects the Rumor government to continue to muddle through until the next crisis that a Sale bet this will probably come Long before 197g. Let us Spray whether it will do any Good or not at this Lilic Date Winnipeg s civic works and operations committee h a s reversed its earlier decision and decided to fog the Resi denial areas of inc City in an Effort to control the cur rent Mosquito infestation. As councillor Bill Nome has pointed out the time to have taken this step was a month ago if it was to be really effective and inc off cols of fogging now will be psycho logical Roll ice than practical. The average citizen How Ever will be pleased As in is thai Al. Least a gesture at Mosquito control is being made. Like inc Law which must not Only see thai jus Tice is done bul must make it be seen to be done our cily fathers must not Only seek mrs. Ii. W. Verge Winnipeg Burn gins Gow Locopo with problems of Montana july 12, 1833. Community concern such As Mosquito the must be seen to be coping with Vliem even if the slops Laken Are a Little tardy and May not bring about the desired results. Today s scripture let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in All Wisdom teaching and admonishing one anole or in psalms and hymns and spiritual s o n a s singing Wilh Grace in your hearts to inc lord. Colossi is birthdays demands for a government of t a w a not since Maurici first Days of the Sion has tile Trudeau ment endured anything responses although nun the pressure of the ones sound More week for a change of shopworn and less change in Omic convincing. This in or. V there was some feeling until quite recently Rise to rumours that the ministers Are merely he legislative courage no doubt by for time while some the go published polls that with is the be improvement i n employment the government conservative demand was and is for a Price a Bill for Pas survived its time of by a regime of this look inadequate for an indefinite ill count of the Price surge the strength of As two years. It has not changed in substance the i opposition n sealed in the latest report has become More not statistics Canada has thus on tuesday some ably disconcerted lha speaking but for action in relation Robert Stanfield in parliament has mounted the heaviest attack yet experienced by the ministers. It opened on tuesday and was sustained on wednesday with some rather ominous if and other factors or emergency action for those on fixed attempted to Force the Issue with this question can we expect any action in those directions Hillier by Way fixed must be by sumption to i stars can re and evade the storm i present tree ended assistance from or assistance new democrats. On fixed incomes period often Given Over o r c the government fishing expeditions has to recess come a raging debate with opposition members n opposing the inc w 14, f tempting insistently to shake the ministers from the fixed positions which they have occupied throughout the controls policy the nip has sought to maintain its standing with the consuming Public by emphasizing the importance of the guyanese Washington plane to go trying Wilh votes that review Board and vie at intervals since january Here have been formal a More realistic escalation of pensions also Bun natured an lates on economic but prime r Vone of them was advocated a Hea arly exciting and none Teeth in it and Ter Leared to occasion much embarrassment to the satisfied on that score when it voted with is ers. The current informal crate is different. On the conservative Side John last Spring. It has plainly been disappointed and doubtless in in Lar England c nations of 1 Cuba kor spoke on wednesday of a parliamentary declaration of emergency As to feeling in the constituencies is now pressing the government to or checking to for the re Egal basis for controls Powers to the n o w the mrs. Grace Mac Nils had indignantly demanded the the same time Stanley k n o w 1 e s in his South am Vious Day will it take has been prodding 16, ele Riols to get action from on the subject they pensions still c o 1 1 e c what is different then to the two per at the note urgency in ceiling. The agg Liam entry proceedings. It m r Guam obvious that the parties this up again be from reacting in different ways the Standard cent o a changing mood which the matter involved while discern in the country. Of the provinces Large government is discussions were two a feeling the same this fall. This was arc Cliv but it has not been moved with or. Along Ravs. Farm to to Victory. In Georg North americans Are Beans horse of ably shocked by the to offer greatest with i ening meat shortage. Since they were Lea have lived with a in Canada by psychosis virtually Plant scientist from g Canada and the of Manitoba the 196 states began producing these hit mow these two countries have been grown be Cost the greatest agricultural in Field trials. Of the porting nations Are for this crop Prog supplies to stave off but an intensive vie no shortages at research f however Short lived needed to pinpoint marxist shortage May be it is and disease a to Cal and because of crop has Long been Al escalating Cost of of protein in Gra us Many livestock was while on a Oversea poultry producers could Kenya that or. Evans incur driven out of was aroused in and its the most serious Lack of growing Dillon a necessity of in last or. That is in Short Supply enough research where. Canada is in initiated to ensure u r n h a hotter position than crop is a v e Loi countries because of our it could in a the Tensive livestock wipe out agricultural research Reliance on in t concentrated on producing s o y b e a n meal fur have carbohydrates wheat n c 1 a v e Ley Oats and fals May Plant am other Oil of Faba Beans Token attention has car. With enough Campai Given to High protein and proper Wash and this Only and sound Cumbas to prevent a recurrence on cultivation this of in what is happening now could Well be the in intensive Effort is needed a resulting increase m Bass fill n Villa Gap in production of o farm production. At nation that the plans to make amendment he assent Ini present the before the thing could de the new in accordance leisurely time based on ahas that if the min pass. From unlikely. In audition the government May have in creased its vulnerability to pressure in the present House by its own record of accepting opposition policies which it had earlier rejected with some scorn. Even the policy for supporting smal business announced by Alastair g i 11 e s p i e or wednesday bears a marked similarity to earlier propos als of Robert Clanfield a fact which the conservative critic Paul Hellyer Promp Fly noted. How Long the government can resist this pressure re Mains to be seen. Much obviously depends on the Par Lian Centary skill of the conservatives and More Proba Bly on the tidings received b y government member from hard pressed Consumers in the country. The Dewgaw Boom by Christopher Ryphe craze for collecting j. Antique junk has moved nto High Goar and shops All v c r Canada Are being sacked to the Bare Walls by Dewgaw enthusiasts. The fabulous Brucie Youn body for example recently returned to his cluttered apartment in Van Couver s fashionable Ware House District with urn Ful owing a Moth infested easy chair in Gravy coloured Chintz Cir a a Vintage hat band period unknown. A picture depicting the raising of Lazarus worked n Peacock feathers. Two dozen celluloid col a r s without buttons or studs. A 1902 Acme wheel bar Row with one handle miss no. Two and a half pairs of goals Sid Button shoes with Mother of Pearl Eye Hook circa a late victorian chamber pot with the inscription property of mayor and Cor duration of Hove. Not to be taken from Council a 19-12 Orange crush bottle with a Sweet caporal butt in Bottom. A Vintage television set with reflected screen on top not in working a Large hand painted plaster bust of William Jennings Bryan with plinth. A Large Peg leg in varnished Oak believed to be similar to that worn by lore oxbridge after the Battle of Waterloo. Sixteen Large skirt hoops with attached stays circa 1850. A stuffed great Auk with one foot missing. Brucie s friends of course were beside themselves with envy especially when they Learned that he had paid Only for the lot. The new rickshaws will join Brucie s already Exten Sive collection. The apart he cheerfully admits is getting a bit crowded but i be still got room for the Odd elephant s leg umbrella Interior designer Max if Jatree was agog when he Lizard about Brucie s latest sensational buys. Brucie puts us All to he admitted As he looked Wist fully around at his own sadly meagre collection of out of Date calendars nou Veau gauche lampshades and dirty edwardian Post Vaif Flotree Only got the col Lection Bug a year or two ago and he has to really hit his stride. Youn body on the other hand started his collection As Long ago As 1959 when he discovered in the attic a whale Bone Corset that had once belonged to his great great grandmother. He had the Corset made into a lamp and his collection has grown from there. Now every Inch of his tiny apartment is covered with heaps of curious souvenirs from the past. Even the food in his Kitchen cupboard forms part of the collection. Brucie is especially proud of the four tins of sardines said to have been produced in 1908 and the Hardy old loaf of bread that Dales Back to Brucie of course eals out. Brucie Points with quiet Pride to the impressive col Lection of do dads in his Liv ing room. Friends still mar Vel at the end Wall which is completely papered with Vin Tage Beer labels and turn of the Century chocolate Box lids. The big old chair under the coca cola sign was ones the front seat of a 1911 Max Well ear. The apartment is so crammed with wonders in fact that guests Are advised to rope themselves together when passing from room to rum. Brucie s Mother who lives with him has t been seen since before Christmas. Bru Cie is certain however that Shell turn up. She s in there he says hopefully. Max Waffle tree in t so sure. If she wandered in among the plaster elves and storks in the spare to says we can while her Guyana s overseas vote on k Talbut by Nathan a. Hive Srock Board a will ensure an the Good in the world guyanese have set numbers Canada and the their reservations trip. They must he in capital of the an nation by election Day if the the total vote this May not Blacks i they still Cheddie s stupid nce to the St Leader s Blunder in a Law enabling their Homeland of Many of Guyana s sons and Daugh ters who have gone else where in search of economic Opportunity. And re in Ember the embassy spokesman emphasized guyanese earning Money Here in the . Send sub Stantial portions of it Back Home to their i guyanese to election Blooper May that Well Cheddie Jagan is Ilion pc party an country like almost All of in getting the out vote lie Wilh it adm Nistra administration d the United itineraries a 1 Anibas the ., inc of York and accomplishments of the Burnham administration to More than guyanese in the . According to an embassy spokesman since most guyanese Here Are married the Newsheller reaches voter strength of at least the official rationale for keeping in touch with guyanese overseas is that by so doing the government either to Narl the paper work involved in working in America or to provide a character reference. Come election time that favor generally translates into a vote for the admins t r a t i o n which made the favor possible. The guyan Ese embassy is estimating that this month ambassador t a i b o t will carry from to votes Back maintains the interest in Home. Some of these Voles have been cast by second or third generation guyanese living in the . According to guyanese Law any person with a guyanese father is a guyanese and entitled to no matter How Long vote that person May have been out of his Homeland. Owing to a determined administration drive to capital the guyanese working Ini on the overseas vote the . Or Canada often global terms that vote could earns far More than he could expect to earn Back Home assuming he could find a Job in Guyana s unemployment plagued Donn go As High As in this election or one fifth of the total Vole in a land with less than one million people. Thinking to reap even administration recently pro posed that the voting age fur guyanese voters at Home and abroad be lowered from 21 to 18 years of age. The popular Appeal of such a measure in a country where youngsters mature Early was obvious. But not to be fooled again Cheddie Jagan and the opposition Rose to condemn and defeat the measure. Within hours Young people All Over Guyana were raising a storm of protest. Once again it was Clear that the easy going Burn i Ham he Man who has con veiled his new nation into the world s first co opera live has not lost his deft political touch. De spite fast accumulating eco nomic woes at Home Stem Ming in part from a loss o investor Confidence because of the Burnham administration s nationalization o the All important Bauxite Industry skyrocketing unemployment and generalized social malaise or. Burn Ham seems still secure in of fice thanks to the votes his ambassadors will carry omy. At some Point he has greater advantage from the Home rum their posts Over had to Call on his embassy. Overseas vote the Burnham Soas. Another View t 1 Tii the following was written by a guyanese who has lived in Canada for the past five years. Am very curious about the forthcoming Gener Al election that is going to be held on july 16, 1978, ill Guyana. The country As it stands is in a very corrupted state. It s a Republic go verned by prime minister Forbes Burnham. After Reading some of the local newspapers from Guyana i have noticed that the government is going to have about foreign votes. As far As the guyan Ese living in Canada Are concerned most of them were never met by any enumerators or interviewed by an official of the Guyana government Wilh regards to registration fur v o i. Ing. Where inc 63.000 proxy Voles Cunic from Only the govern Mcnol ill Guyana will be Able question left to be answered. I where most of the people the people abroad would j work. There is Only one Road like to know who Are casting inc proxy votes. Ninety per cent of the people in Guyana i h i n k that foreign Voles should not be accepted. Although Guyana is such a Small country with just Over that leads from the country to the City causing traffic jams which delay people on their Way to work every states. The is inc focal i although Many guyanese who Are living in Canada Are not on the registration list their names might be listed on the proxy list. Who gets the proxy votes is a big puffing up a Milf a million people it Isi toc f finding it difficult to feed the people. With unemployment rates rising the Cost of Liv ing is going up rapidly. The now the country is facing n shortage of onions Pota other Ilams. Although these commodities Are Short and on the Black Market in Guyana there Are lots in other coun tries where they Are normally purchased. One Pound of onions in Guyana costs about and still they Are hard to come by. There Are people who died years ago and whose names arc still being shown on the p r e s e n t government has banned lots of foodstuff which it has no intentions of replacing. It has scrapped the railway sys tem pulling hundreds of people out of jobs. The rail Way was government Public Utility transportation on which 70 per cent of he poo now revised voters pie depended. Since the Abo Lilion of inc railway on inc cast coast of us Megara soil i there has been no replace election mint. The people who usually look Llu train have no alternative but to take a taxi j would from the country to the City. The Cost of now is twice As much As he railway and it lakes you hours before you can get a for these names would a Lipinn locally be coun cd As ,1 Lily in i Carlo bring you to the cily. Back there arc hundreds of guyanese living abroad who would be willing to return to help build i hair Homi country Bill when you have corruption on the administration Side of the country people arc scared of going ;