Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and published Dally sunday by Winnipeg Frea press company 300 Carlton Malone publisher and editor chief Peter Mclintock editor Maurice Western Ottawa editor Shelford general manager Winnipeg free press Western Canadas National new paper july 1973 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights to keep prices High environment minister Jack who does not re Gard the doctrine of Cabinet Solidarity As holy told the recent Western Liberal party meeting in Vancouver that Canada should return to the old Liberal policy of or at least As reported by the Canad an he said that tariffs ought to be abolished Al together because they undermined business Competition and raised the Price of goods in the Domestic beat protectionism Down and everyone East Erners and westerners Davis of he does not expect the government to Fol Low his advice literally when Many of Canadas largest industries have accustomed themselves to some of the worlds highest tariffs and the Liberal party electoral strength is concentrated in the manufacturing area of the Laurentian but if he Hopes even to reduce the Tariff somewhat he has not made the Best of a Good for two in addition to All the old and valid the argument for a Broad Tariff reduction is now stronger than in the first the Canadian Cost of living has reached an Al time High and in the last month of was increasing at the annual rate of per almost under these the Cost of imported goods is artificially raised by the Tariff and behind its shelter the Cost of domestically produced goods is raised Many people do not seem to that lately Canada has in creased its unwritten but effective Tariff by something like 25 per against imports from most major a except the United this is the result of a Canadian Dollar devalued As fast As its american to be almost three quarters of Canadas imports come from the United states and Are unaffected by the devaluation but the Cost of the remainder has greatly As any Pur Chaser of european or japanese goods already while the government made some minor Tariff cuts this year and hastily promised to reverse them if they should injure Canadian production it has not attempted to use this Quick and natural method of holding Down prices including those of american it says that the High Cost of living is due mainly to food prices and that in Are due basically to a world food shortage though the minister of agriculture insists that they Are still a if they must re main for whatever that is All the More Rea son to curb other but the government refuses to consider any method of curbing them by Broad Tariff reductions or by direct the second argument in favor of reduced tariffs at this time is More in the Long than the in september the signatory nations of the general agreement on tariffs and Trade will meet to revise the whole trading Structure of the no communist no nation is More deeply concerned than Canada with the Success or failure of the Enterprise since the Canadian lacking a mass Market at depends Pri Marily on the external Market for if the Gatt negotiations succeed that Market will continue to if they and the world returns to the Folly of self containment which mainly produced the great de pression of the then the same result will with Canada As a special before the negotiations for lower Trade barriers begin the present Structure of Gatt has been shaken by events unforeseen when the existing contracts were signed in the Kennedy when the United states and Canada have restricted some of their chief when their devalued currencies have suddenly erected new invisible tariffs against the rest of the and when the european common Market is tempted to real the prospects of Gatt Are ominous As one of the worlds largest with the most to gain or Canada should be taking a right toward lower tariffs and higher Trade throughout the evidently an economist before he was a understands these problems but can he persuade a government based or imprisoned the protectionist Belt of the Lawrence if a Man tapes for history by Shaun Herren a dimpled Waters Gerry Cairns a product of the american system what made watergate possible on the rails undoubtedly from a ratio Nal standpoint the View of the railway expert that the place for a Vintage Loco motive is in a museum and not puffing across the Mani Toba Prairie is the Sensi ble but it is a View that will not be shared by those people for whom nostalgia has a stronger Appeal than so it would be regrettable indeed if the Prairie dog Central were allowed to Molder in a its boiler its smoke stack its wheels silent a dead relic of a past How much has it added to our puffing across the Prairie to a reminder of happier at least in retrospect Days that used to it looked As if the Prairie dog Central had made its last run last because rising costs have made it unfeasible to con t i n u e the sunday tourist but the people of car Man apparently Felt other Wise turning out Strong to Welcome the old As a the Vin Tage locomotive society will try to keep the Steamer in certainly this decision will be shared by Many Manitoban and Visi tors to this nor is this View based Only on the Prairie dog Central is As picturesque a tourist attraction As this part of the prov Ince could Hope if a Small government subsidy is needed to keep it rolling through the there will be few people even those who Are death on subsidies As a matter of Princi ple who would begrudge a few thousand dollars from the governments coffers to keep this tourist attraction on the confirmation whatever the full Complex of watergate and its related crimes and allegations May turn out to it is for All of us a Trage for Over a generation the United improving on the has been the Leader of the Western its prime its de its major value maker and most modern in these anxious Days should be welcomed by no however jaundiced May be some eyes that now View the american this is her Sec Ond moral Divide within a Vietnam was the great external crisis Cleav ing the nation at Home and friends abroad through that quixotic Effort to extend a protecting anticommunist Arm into a far Jun the Domino rationale for that exercise need not again be debated but the bitterness within the Camps of argument destroyed Lyndon Johnsons claims to his own succession and to much historical credit that otherwise he and now when the Viet Nam peace seemed to be ending that lacerating experience comes watergate to create a new kind of crisis of Structure and of soul it it is an extraordinary irony that the president who was rightly to take credit for helping to Windup Viet Nam should find himself involved in and per haps even threat to the Confidence of his their to say Noth ing of his own claims to in no purpose would be served in describing the multiple tentacles now spreading outward from the poisoned watergate Centre the convicted the indicted stans and the discredited inner guard with the Resig nations of Erlichmann and the by Maxwell Cohen ing remembering George Iii and lord were determined to prevent executive absolutism through a triangular Struc Ture that separated and balanced the main elements of the governmental but they Monarch to prime minister in a single thinking that they would humanize the Crown by making him also first minister of a kind and then limit both together by subjecting the presidency to the forces of Congress and yet in working out that Conception history disclosed a grand for the marriage of Monarch to minister often placed an intolerable Burden on the How to be both King and common even though the nations first has been a permanent Challenge for the president and the presi inevitably the answers to this Heady mix of Symbol and politics of ten were Given by the nature of the Man and the situations he this May be readily witnessed both in the Aura and authority of the presidency As it steadily Rose to become the most powerful of the three particularly since Franklin Roosevelt new Deal and and the cold War accumulated such in almost anyone hands the capacity for abuse in the the whole upper Structure of the bureaucracy has been tied to the style and whims of the president of the some important results inevitably have the absence of a permanent White House upper staff has meant that fresh with All of the drive and imagination such newcomers often with no loyalties except to the new president and no tone or tradition except for that created by working for and with similarly the Cabi net members in the system have been Only As Strong or As weak As the president wished to make them for he is the executive in theory and this process has meant that each new president himself had no Opportunity of being guided by Perma nent senior officials to whom he could turn so As to assure continuity of standards and the Haldemann and the Erlichmann were Little experienced and Loyal Only to president As they had to by contrast the Secretary of the Canad an or the Cabi trained for an Loyal to a whole in so much is this tru that in the it is said the Cabinet Secretary would often decide How far a new prime minister should be Able to examine some of the private Cabinet minutes o the preceding government if political advantage could be taken of such no prime minister in can Ada or the can easily escape the guidelines and the ethics that the system imposes on a system re presented by the Cabinet government and per most by the senior officials already there and whom he inherits whether he likes it or yet the effect of such permanency May not Only be a limitation on abuses but it May also be inhibiting on new ideas and for the tenured senior staff often Are in need of outside and competing close to their to assure freshness and new oals in birthdays Ethel Nee born Nee a july lady with a seductive voice keeps calling me to Tell me i am wrong about i am now willing to admit my what that lot Down there were doing was All quite innocent they were preserving the United states for the purposes of like president Nixon secretly recording every phone Call for the historical everyone should have one of those simple devices that attach to the phone and record what is being said so that history May not go Short of think of those so called historians who base All they know about the past on what they read in old they go through old press files and assume that what is pre served there is a True record of what was really going in or 1924 or i read one lately that Drew heavily on the most hysterical sources of knowledge on the mind of the people of Ireland the Irish it at the times in ques Given Over entirely to the passionate concerns of those who put it and theirs were not the concerns of the people in the concern of the people in that period As someone said to me in Dublin the other putting in the potatoes and waiting to see whether they come to avoid this falsification of the history of a moment and the Peoples real con tape All your incoming phone Calls and donate them to the i can imagine a certain minister of the on record of our Domestic lives have you Ever seen a Pic Ture of a Plain woman in curlers in k women Maga Zine int it More like this father is in the Kitchen get Ting himself another Beer from the fridge when the phone yes Char Ley Mabel will you Tell the kids to shut up in on the who is it for Charley in to keep the kids quiet will you Tell them to shut up the kids come storming through the Shaddue cant you see in on the phone what was Charley just the she wont keep them i should drowned them at her Shes All right part of the or whispering is it Safe to talk ten minutes is it Safe now Twenty minutes now when is it Ever going to be Safe i cant Call you at i cant Call you at the when can i Call you dont you want me to Call you in background who is it dear wrong or the premiers telephonic contribution to the historical record Joe Joe who youd like a Safe seat i would have to a say the interdepartmental Tele phone but its the Price of the stuff that bothers the poor cant buy it and were driving them into the arms of the its bad social and Al says cynically now look whats your real reason for calling and the min ister says look i dont want to put it too plainly history is but you know that to commercial for Irish Mist soap theres a girl where sitting in the the Irish trap lout gives his then the girl takes the soap and says but of Iii Loii Miike it do you get Al Al the Domestic scene is never adequately covered in the history its True hat there Are full records from Feudal times of How a Manor was run even expense accounts Are but the Homes of the serfs were not notable for note aking and account keep n g women magazines hardly take care of the in All the cum Stan nation something a have them that a Cir Ces the sit a would be a like the facts As we a Tak ing everything into a consider your options would be a after Allah its that simple perhaps at this moment in history the most interesting record to have would be be tween certain key newsmen at the Csc eds got egg All Over his no sweep the big pro motion falling away there wondering in the National party if maybe Blakeney has More going for its a bad but never were his min 1 s t r y of we have the tools and we can save the old All we have to do is get him to take lessons on talking Quick from that Man Stanfield then we keep him on camera every plenty of pictures of him that sort of can i leave it with you can the evidence is to have the tapes would be Mere the Joys of bilingualism name of necessity would Likely be the Price the nation paid for the new shape of its if Ottawa were looking for confirmation that its Deci Sion to pull out of the inter National commission of control and supervision in Viet Nam was the right the Viet Cong have handed it Over on a the treat ment accorded the two Ca Nadian ices officers taken prisoner by the Viet Cong and held captive for nearly three weeks Speaks louder than any words of the communists intention to make the ices fail in its the capture and mistreat ment of the two canadians was clearly motivated by a desire to Embarrass because of this country efforts to make the ices work it As it was intended it should nobody is going to Swallow the Viet songs excuses that distinguish they the could not canadians from americans and for that reason they were held Pris subject to compelled to make Many forced the Viet songs attitude has exposed exactly How sin Cere the communists Are in their alleged desire to make the truce Canada will be Well out of the unfortunately there Are few nations who have the Cap Abili the or the de to replace Canada on the the out come appears and now the freed what matters is to try to understand How so great a country with so durable a political and constitutional system could find itself in so rancid and disheartening a perhaps the Point at which to begin is a Broad understanding that the doctrine of separation of Powers assumed checks and balances Between con executives and Judi Ciary that would prevent concentration of Power or major abuses of certainly one or two aspects of this historic de sign often have proven to be reliable reins upon the supreme and the Federal judicial Are perhaps the most effective of any in the Western world in the varied roles they play to interpret and manage the rules of the social game in a Complex and free Congress with its formidable its control Over the and its required consent to important appointments and to has provided countervailing weights to the triad of Power that is the american and the presidency has been perhaps the most inter Esting and least predictable two elements must enter into any analysis of water Gate that do not How from some general theory of the potential abuse in a powerful the first is the personality and record of president Nixon for ultimately the tone of the office is set by the Man and with All of his Success in foreign policy and in some Domestic economic pro never lost touch with the unpleasant realities of partisan politics himself a rough master of More has been the Basic defect in the system surrounding the president and in deed the executive Branch As a that defect May be described As the absence of some concept of Perma nent executive officials at the highest level by their appointment for Are professionally Loyal to the state and to the system rather than to the political men who come and it is quite remarkable that a pro democratic for so Long should have continued with the general prac Tice of turning out of with each new Al most everyone at or above the rank of assistant Secre tary since these depended upon presidential appoint rather than civil ser a vast sem secret society m1 ont real become a bilingual is a Little like of the for the found1 vice for status and joining some vast sem Secre the further you get with the mor you become aware of vague Heights Aboye still to b most canadians in the Media Here understand a certain amount of i is just one of the things you need to one of the skills necessary for the Job like a Basic for some of us to learn French is a reason people learn any an economic there Are other one person wants to communicate with the people around another wants to appreciate another Cul yet another is a died inthe Wool idealist who is doing it to keep Canada to sometimes it just for most of us it could be a combination of a number of in my it was heavy on the and it looks hopefully like it will continue to happen for a while but perhaps this Memoir will throw some Light on the linguists refer to two kinds of personal Vocab an Active one used every Day in conversation and a passive one which includes those words which you have heard but cannot think of at the i apparently built up a reasonable passive vocabulary at an Early age through contacts with French Canadian summer holidays in Quebec and even through the Ontario school system although my grades by Rob Bull to say the no the first real Call for m passive French vocabulary to activate itself came the i worked briefly on a Verj old and slow boat to Sydney and after visiting such East coast flesh pots As Baddeck and we stopped at Quebec City where i met a quebecois who operated an elevator of an englis Canadian com i said hesitant she replied Point ing to an expensive bar i responded Down she queried indicating a discotheque i that is How it All Starte and it has been downhill Ever since with a few except one occurred when an employer decided to Send me on a total immersion French it was an awful expert the course being run on Basic principles discovered by those same types of psychologists who torture dumb animals to measure heir the process must not be unlike that used by agents of certain totalitarian regimes practise they put us off balance by throwing a test in kurdish at us when everyone thought e were going to learn then they exposed us to a continually develop no meaningless soap opera about a French family while people came into our room and shouted words like Neu at we were a Stout Hearte we reacted with wha our teachers considered dumb but a Chai is Only As Strong As it weakest link and finally on poor a pleasant Typ who Only wanted to Mak everybody Happy with him p n e u he screamed Neu Neu Neu the teacher broke Down in tears As we gazed on in dumb dismay and the poor fellow was later found trying to Board a plane for Saska shortly a new employer asked me if i was i said and after that they sent me to talk to they wanted to Deal with who spoke i met people from Cam b o d i a and the Congo and for them As for French was a second Lan something they spoke As i did with an an other discovery came when i met native belgians and French canadians had agents it was a sudden euphoric great global truth this understanding that nobody is perfect and some of us Are Ess perfect than after that the slide Down the 11 i p p e r y slopes of Bilin dualism there was the Job in Mon real and starting to watch the occasional television pro i Gram in taking in a French newspaper or radio singing a French ordering a meal in French with a certain the air was composed of trying to pull the whole thing off Well while not being entirely certain of what you were going to and there was the ten Dency to talk to people in French because they could not speak English or could speak French better or be cause it was More polite or because that was How the conversation once or twice the conversation went on for five or ten minutes before it was revealed that both of us were Anglo Saxon protes i still have a Long Way to the other Day i startled a colleagues wife with the simple statement that i was living a settled life in Mon t r e a 1 in had moved a Mere Hundred Yards from the apartment building where i had first ived on my it seems i added an 3he understood me to say i had moved a Mere Hundred another Story entire but it is All part of the continual to As the great Moliere once be Mot quil Faut Quad in e it is useful possible so they say and Ven fun at today scripture let us love one an other for love is of god and every one that Loveth is born of and kno Weth 1 John 4 ;