Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 14, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pro nod and published daily except sunday by Winnipeg find Pioss company limited 300 Carllon Sloe a Winnipeg Manitoba. R. S. Malone publisher and editor in clip of pitch mall clock Manilici Western executive Lium Ottawa Idlor n. Ii. Surl Kono Cion offi Winnipeg free press Western Canada s National newspaper Winnipeg saturday july 14, 1973 Freedom of Trada Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights the world Bank Robert Mcnamara has begun his second five year term As president of the world Bank group his philos play having already fashioned the Bank s policies to i Liberal image. It is a strange Bank with no wickets am no tellers yet one that issues Bonds provides Loans Anc is headed by As hard nosed a group of financiers As any Wall Street Bay Street or City financial institution the hard noses however press against economic issues. They Are exceedingly sensitive soft perhaps As some would have it towards the moral issues the ban and its various subsidiaries Are tackling. In addressing a group of Canadian and american newsmen in Washington recently or. Mcnamara observed that during his Days in Detroit he had been an executive of the Ford motor company sales of new cars at about one half of the present rate were considered highly Success Ful and he asked the pertinent question do we really need so Many More cars do we need them More Terai people in the Sahara where the drought has reach i catastrophic proportions need to stay alive do we need them More than people in poor countries need to avoid permanent brain damage by permanent Maln utri or. Mcnamara blamed the mentality of rising expectations of the industrialized nations for Lack of con Cern for tile vast masses of deprived humanity. Today there Are few Homes in the Rich nations that have no in Side plumbing yet we spend on foreign Aid one tenth of what we did 20 years ago. Under the Marshall plan of the Post War Era the United states spent 2.25 per cent of her Gross National product on foreign Aid today the figure is 0.3 per cent. Where the Rich nations enjoy better Homes More Leisure More cars and Gad gets the developing world euphemism Lor poor backward nations has experienced a Stark regression they Are in real terms 40 per cent worse off than they were two decades ago. Ten years ago there were 700 million illiterates in the world today their number has risen by no less than 100 million. This mentality of rising expectations fails to recognize the enormous increases in our Prosperity including welfare. Instead with self destructive greed we want More and More taking no heed of the intrinsic instability of a situation in which 80 per cent of the world s in come is shared by 20 per cent of the world s popu lation. Each North american consumes 25 times As much As an inhabitant of a poor country and the Over All Gap May already have widened with the National in come of the lop industrialized nations being 40 times As Large As that of the neglected parts of the world. In the 23 years of its existence the Bank group has come to realize that it is not enough to pump Money into the poor countries without regard to its use. Most of the troubles that assail these countries Are Domestic caused by wrong food wrong policies Lack of education and Lack of proper infrastructure. It has been proved for instance that despite certain doctrines imported from abroad a Small Farmer produces far More than do big farms that Money diverted to towns creates Urban slums while agriculture is stagnating. The Congo or Zaire As it is now called used to Export food. Now it is a net importer of food. The world is suffering from Many shortages but perhaps the most critical yet the least publicized is the shortage of skilled people. One can build a school or a factory within a few months but it takes ten to 15 years to build up a corps of men and women to teach in the school or run the factory. Thus the Bank continues to experience great difficulties in recruiting experts even for work in Washington let alone in the backward coun tries. Or. Mcnamara s leadership in the Bank group has been vigorous and Over the past five years the Bank lending has increased by 128 per cent with one bad debt outstanding an enviable record. Lending in Afri Ca has tripled and in latin America increased by 128 per cent. The disbursements to developing countries have grown from million in 1968 to an estimated million in 1973, a respectable growth when one considers that much of the Money comes from Bonds and debentures and that most of the disbursements re turn with interest to be loaned again. There Are no ideological barriers within the Bank. Romania is now a full member and Yugoslavia is one of the largest borrowers. Moreover because this is an in dependent group headed by disinterested financiers and experts the Bank management can talk plainly to the borrowing government without ruffling any diplomatic feathers. The Bank people do what would never get done if they were not there and in this Urey deserve far More support Public and governmental than they live been receiving. Insecure Unity sceptics and cynics have Long wondered How secure european Unity is. The dream that has persisted from the Days of Charle Magne to those of Churchill throughout history has repeatedly foundered on the Shoals of narrow National ism. Today 20 years a Fler 1hc establishment of the european common Market the proliferation of fissile forces within Europe cannot but ruffle the dreams of even the most Cou Eist of optimists. In France the popular front failed to win Ilie Insl general election but by a narrow margin and there is always the next election. The French popular front of socialists and communists looks askance at the european Community. In Nlaly should the communists gain Power in a popu Lar from italian style the results would be the same and Nlaly would leave Hie Community. However inc most serious blow to Europe s future comes from Britain where in a recent poll 23 per cent of the voters were in favor of slaying in the Corn in o n Market on present terms. Thirty per cent wanted to slay but renegotiate the terms and -11 per cent wanted to pull Oul. T Here was an even stronger resistance among the British against the Evolur j lion of the common Market into a United states of Europe with 52 per cent against 27 per cent in favor a n d 21 per cent Don t Young Middle class voters and conserva Tive parly supporters seem to be in favor of Europe and even among the Laller the opposition has grown from nine per cent in Jan uary to 26 per cent at j present. I ii is not a Happy Prospect for the Community or for the West. A disintegration of Western Europe could not but be followed by a Fin Landeza Lon which is what All those soviet divisions in a s s c d around Western i Europe s frontiers Are about. Birthdays Andy Briscoe Belmont Man. Born Renfrew onl., july 15, 80fi. Mrs. Thora Olson Selkirk Man. Born Iceland july 4, 1879, an insipid lot a mass of meal puddings Benjamin Disraeli had Noble thoughts. You should treat a Cigar like a mistress he said. Put it away before you Are sick of it. To a heckler who yelled that Disraeli s wife had picked him out of the Gulini a said if you were in the Gutter nobody would bother to pick you of lord John Russell he said if traveller were informed Ilia such a Man was Leader of the House of commons he May begin to comp Rehem How the egyptians Wor shipped an where Schreyer heard that his opponent in the recent elec Tion was claiming an illegally he said it s beneath but then Ben Jamin Disraeli had no difficulty putting a sentence to elder. Apart from John Dielen Baker s mild invective we Lave nothing in our political life to stimulate a Little wholesome apoplexy in our opponents our enemies nol even in our friends. A Little racist name calling was the Vorst we could produce in the Manitoba election and in Ivas of tie sort that required neither skill nor intelligence. It was Mere plodding Nasty Ness. Sometimes John comes out with a meaty Little monster that has Short horns on it and now and then he reaches for the Throat but for the most part he s Good for no More than a half delighted smile at Good natured waspish Ness. To be anywhere near the rugged standards of the glorious last invective has to draw blood and whoops of Mali Cious glee from the Spectra ors. By Shaun Hytron Cartwright fastened on him i perhaps better suited to the by name and asked him Oxford Union on a debating where he thought he was night. Once when Hugh going. I am going to Gail skill was making an in there Are those who say hat politics Are the better or the meal pudding Atmo sphere that dulls every elec Ion and every session of our numerous parliaments i n this country but dullness is deadly in a democracy and Las probably been response be for More Senate appoint Uenas from the geriatric set ban party loyalty. The uproar in the Manitoba legislature last session were proof of nothing More impressive than the age level if most of our Las even children found them infant Ile. Perhaps Disraeli made he most adequate comment n them when he was asked o explain the difference be when a misfortune and a calamity. He said if or. Gladstone fell into the limes that would be a misfortune. If s o m e b o d y pulled him out that would be and some of the Good stuff rom. The past has so much that even if our politicians borrowed it with it acknowledgement they would make the political Cene much More endurable Myone is Welcome to a few words from Abe Lincoln if be promises to apply it aptly to one provincial Given to Long awk Vard statements at frequent Ress conferences. Lincoln Aid he can compress flip lost words into the smallest fleas of any Man i Ever when he ran Lor Congress against the hell rising preacher cart fright he went to one f the preacher s meetings. Cart Riglis played that old be on his audience All Lincoln said. He did. Lincoln said of Genera Cass that he is a general of splendidly successful charges charges not upon the Public enemy but upon the Public i wonder whether anyone has thought of using this useful notion against whoever in the government is air marshal in charge of Mani Toba s air Force is it really True that the government of Manitoba owns and operates 26 air planes what does it use them for Are there contingency plans Lor the escape of the Cabinet in All directions should or. Penner succeed in his efforts to have the Rossmere elec Tion ruled null and void whoever thought up the no Tion of an air Force Foi Manitoba might Well come under Lincoln s other com ment on general Cass. Lin Coln said of Cass s appetite for the fruits of the Public Treasury that if he were placed Between two stack of Hay a thousand Miles apart he would eat them both at once. He was telling the Story of the ass that was placed Between two such stacks and starved to death because it could t decide which one to Start on. By All said or. Lin Coln make him president gentlemen. He will feed you bounteous by if _. If Here is any left utter he shall have helped himself. We could use a John ran Dolph of Roanoke Virginia who described one political opponent As a Man who rows towards his objective with muffled and if that does t describe one of our loftiest politicians in this province Randolph died in vain. But he May Rise again on the strength of his refer ence to Ben Hardin of Ken Lucky or was it to the Semi vacant incumbent of the attorney general s office did i phrase that quite proper Brick he is like a car i suppose Churchill Lias one of the brightest reputations for verbal massacre. He was t above Little ploys portent speech Churchill sat suddenly upright and began to search his pockets frantically. When whatever he was looking Lor was t found there he searched the floor. His behaviour was so Odd that the House stopped listening to Gaitskill and gave All its attention to Churchill. When Gaitskill had been demoralized enough to Stop speaking and give his own attention to Churchill the old Man looked up and said innocently i was look ing for my for those you who never knew the Joy of the Jujube or As we called it where i came from the Jub Jube it is a Little chewy Sweet considered harmless to Chil Dren but All these Are from the gentler record of political invective or disruption. What i should like to see is a return to the sort of thing John Wilkes handed out. I doubt whether Canadian parliamentary democracy or Ca Nadian journalism could sur Vive them for we Are an insipid bread. But one Day when the Earl of Sandwich had told Wilkes he expected him to die on the Gallows or of venereal disease Wilkes said gently that depends my , on whether i embrace your principles or your but i Hope in vain. In Sipi Dity is a cult now far stronger than Good Strong old time religion. Mental Ages that vague entity known As the people is said to have the mental age of a child of 12. Those who watched the Lor in e r . Attorney general John Mitchell testify at the watergate hear Ings could scarcely escape the conclusion that he puts the mental age of the Amer ican people at something Well below that level. President Nixon and or. Mitchell have been close friends for Many years. T h e y have been Law partners for Many years. They phone one another at Christmas have dinner Par ties of a non political nature at one another s Homes yet when the papers were full of the fact that employees of the Republican committee to re elect the president were grabbed by the police during a break in at watergate or. Nixon went dutifully Abul Liis presidential chores and never once said to or Mitchell what s going on it is without question one of the strangest stories Ever told. That girl who talked for a thousand and one nights to keep her head on her shoulders has had no rivals until now and Here All in one Day we have the Story to put her efforts in any sort of Back Seal anyone cares to mention. Not did the president not ask what was going on when Bis organization staff began to end up in jail and on the front pages of the National press but it seemed Wise to tie attorney general not to Tell him. It would or. Mitchell testified have an noyed the president to know the truth and he would have fired everybody. It would also have lost him the elec Tion the chief Law officer of the Republic decided. And the most important thing about the time of Day it was m a Law and order admin is f ration was not Law and order but Victory at the polls. And Brutus is an Honor Able Man. Mark Antony thou shouldst be living at this hour. Nixon hath need of tree. And All the president s aides and executives were honorable men the pres ident said. If All this is to believed the menial age of the Amer ican people keeps falling at a frightening rate. Remembered words from ode on lire intimations of immortality by William Wordsworth the Clouds that gather round the setting Sun do take a sober colouring from an Eye that hath kept watch o or Man s Morlai ily another race hath been and Oiler Palms Are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live thanks to its tenderness its Joys and fears to me the meanest Flower Fiat blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Today s scripture 0 lord our lord How excellent is Illy name in All the Earth who Hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the Mouth of babes and suckling Hast 1 lion ordained strength. Psalm x 1-2. Hose who want to go to leaven stand up. Some did. Those who Don t want to go to hell stand up. All the rest did except Lincoln. Rail in 1 site fragmentation of Ery where and a civilization on Edge society the breakdown of Law and order the eco nomic and physical uncertainties the utter Lack of cd v i 1 i z e d Intercourse in England became the customary prefix for anyone below the rank of Knight 300 years ago about n Hundred years later than Monsieur in France and about a Cen Tury ahead of the Lerr in Germany and Signor in Italy to disappear almost completely in our times All these disturbing phenom Ena Are being subjected to analyses in books periodicals and newspapers As the characteristics of our Post Industrial society. Every Learned writer has ills own examples and his own cures but the Mere Reading about it can never bring Home the reality As vividly As does a Short trip South of the Border. Perhaps it is Irtie As so Many claim that the fragmentation affects now All developed societies that the traditional values have disappeared eve by f. S. Manor them have vanished the respect for authority the regard for one s neighbor the physical Security that was the Mark of victorian. Wilhe minian and other 19th-Century eras whose mores lingered on Al beit interrupted by two i had la change planes three sures have come into effect and hijackings in other parts w a i k the Short distance. When i asked the hotel receptionist How Long it would Lake me by cab she repeated hat it was a Short of the world have dropped drastically. A be searches Mew new Yolk world wars Well into first half of our cedi airy. But nowhere is this disintegration More in evidence than in the limes and was Ali roughly searched four limes Are thus a measure of the to in which we this Ali ii was Iho first time other Ihan in War Lime Algiers that i have been to a place where 1 times could not roam through the live. A found new yorkers polite and helpful. I was there Dur ing the heat wave moved about during the quite unbelievable Rush hour traffic jams but never did i find a surly cab Driver an unpleasant waiter or Bell boy an in different store clerk. On my Way to tile opera the cab Driver asked what was on. Cavalleri rus i replied. Of Fred Nossal of the world my cultured cab Driver honest no criticism of the postal service it intended just because i mail Christmas packages in had no Mca lives until to has Buck with Moon naval Jet planes and rapid Urban Iran those who travel in Canada do not realize How fierce justifiably fierce have become the precautions taken against air piracy. We arc right Back in the Early Middle Ages Wilh Iho armed thieves of All Baba delivered in jars a not so unique feature of our times. The customs men May wave you on but the Security men will take out every item in t h c hand Luggage open Hilink p o o h p o o h c d my j Guage underwent a dras qualms. Having that a Coul c Hango. The following Plo of Canadian newsmen re in the tollway to gently roamed the so roots of Laguardia the Black guard i Washington until two in he perhaps the editor i f the Portland. Oregon j newspaper who took part Lili me in the world Bank seminar believed him. Me no denoting not tha deep cleavage within Sod his hiking Are placed in a area patrolled for 21 hours o my satisfaction other limn sinus lie was nol hurl whereupon you Are carefully in Point to the constant relatives York y if a i v i t n i i no luit m i Oik Silv i i skirt for Ful damage done to subway Ihan hair an hour to arrive i would not to live Bilges. No More a last trains. Shrugged in off. else. Everything mule Rush for the plane. In now York i stayed in a theirs was a modern could Ever want is i no searches Lake Lime hotel a few minutes walk Lack of civility that has be the Mel is magnify tin you had better be on time. There have been no hijackings in the United slates since these draconian Mca i from the Lincoln Centre but1 come so Ippun real in the nol con the Broadway plays on the night t went to the longer Covert Battle be amusing the stores opulent opera my new York born Iwen Black and while tin and the locks and safety de Cousin suggested i do not like Many visitors i mostly burglar proof ;