Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 24, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and published daily except sunday by Winnipeg free press company limited 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba. R. A Mai oni publisher and Tinoi Iii chef purer Mclintock executive editor Maurice Western Otiewa editor r. M. Milli Ord Winnipeg free press Wetie Canada s notional newspaper Winnipeg tuesday july 24, 1973 Freedom Trade Gibeily of religion Equality of civil flights controls rejected the new democratic party National convention in Vancouver ended with the delegates rejecting Price and wage controls. The convention approved a Resolution saying that the answer to rising food costs lies Pri Marily in increasing food production in Canada a statement with which few people nip or otherwise would disagree. Indeed it is almost precisely what the Liberal government in Ottawa has been saying. Beyond that the convention advocated the setting up of a new and More powerful Board to review prices on a selective basis and to impose ceilings or Roll backs but nothing was said about controlling wages. But Many delegates and surely Many canadians would agree with the views put Forward by two nip premiers de Schreyer of Manitoba and Allan Blakeney of Saskatchewan that some form of mandatory control Are necessary. When or. Schreyer was shown the Origi Nal Resolution on inflation saying that across the boar wages and Price controls Are not the answers to the present Rise in living he commented that this implied that the movers of the Resolution Felt that inflation had not yet become intolerable. This he doubted he Fel that inflation was close to the intolerable Point ant added that bringing in temporary restraints even they Are not effective cannot be worse than no restraints at this is a valid Point. Opponents of Price and wage controls have been pointing to the failure of president Nixon s phase 3 program and the need of the . To reintroduce tougher controls in phase 4 to get things under control again. They argue that a Price and wage freeze must in the Long run be ineffective. That is at least debatable. But even if a Price and wage freeze were to end in total disaster As far As keeping inflation in Check would it be any worse than a continuation of what we Are having now in this country a Rise in the general Cost of living at a rate of ten per cent per year a Rise in food prices at a rate of 24 per cent per year controls for a Short or longer period of time surely should be Given a Chance. They cannot be worse than what we have now. Testing the nuclear test series begun this week by France in the Pacific has Given Rise to a number of protests including an expression of regret made by external affairs minister Mitchell Sharp. No similar protests were made with regards to the chinese test. However it will be claimed that France is exploding her nuclear devices Over somebody else s Homes whereas China is putting the Poison into the atmosphere right in her own backyard. This is a valid Point. Each period has its own moral taboos and our times will no longer condone what is basically a Stark disregard for other Peoples health. That world mores had condoned nuclear testing in the Pacific Only a decade ago the nuclear test ban treaty was signed in 1963 is not a valid excuse. Times have changed and moreover we have become far More aware of the Universal effects of pollution. Whatever precautions the French have taken the nuclear explosions will produce harmful effects. Even though the extent of the harm is beyond scientific proof there is by now enough pollution around us without any need to add to it. The French argue and it is an argument that cannot be lightly dismissed that the effects of their testing Are negligible and that some Price has to be paid for the prevention of nuclear massacres that could arise were there no Power in Europe to dissuade the soviet Union from employing her Mas Sive array of weaponry. Since Australia and is new Zea land would be among the first victims of any action by the soviet Union to implement whatever Long Range plans she might have in the Pacific their protests sound rather hollow in the French ears. The ringed by the armed might of the soviet Union with nuclear missiles trained at chinese cities will should they deign to take note of any protests equally argue that a Price has to be paid for their survival. France is about a decade behind Britain in her development of nuclear weapons and she will not have a nuclear operational warhead available for her Fleet of nuclear submarines until 1976, when her missiles Are scheduled to come into service. Even then France will not have the multiple warheads As employed at present by Britain and the superpowers. Indeed the French determined to do everything on their own without any out Side help will not have such warheads until about 1980 and until then the tests Are liable to go on. It will be difficult to dissuade either the French or the chinese from testing in the atmosphere unless a reasonable offer is made to them. It has been suggested that the underground testing grounds in Nevada be made available to the French and that the United states Congress drop its objections to nuclear co operation be tween the United states and France. This indeed would be by far the Best Way out of the present impasse in that it would also remove a Good Deal of the latent hostility towards the United states that continues to Cor Rode the Western Alliance. A european nuclear Force with Britain and France pooling their scientific know How could not come into effect without United states agreement and such an agreement has been Long Over due. This would not solve the problems of chinese tests. Any United states offer to China even if feasible within the still Uncertain climate would probably trigger an explosion in Moscow although there has been talk in Washington of offering the chinese sophisticated United states communications devices. However with China alone continuing to test in the atmosphere pollution would be halved and politics after All is the Art of the possible. A no win situation Trail of broken fixes by Kraft Washington in fact merely designed to raise Money for lawyers and bail. After that White mouse special counsel Rich Ard Moore testifying on his own motion raised doubts does watergate keep going on and on and on How conic it does t fit the neat by ginning Middle and Ond pattern of the six crises the president made famous in the past or. Trudeau s wild surmise a yes the West is different covery what Hose past few Brilliant new Light the latest of Many has pierced the eyes and inward mag Nalion of prime min Ster Trudeau. At Van Couver not Long ago he thus announced his dazzling Dis i really in Days have begun to understand is that Here is a different culture n the West than there is in Central Canada than there s in the Mari times it is not a different civilization iut certainly it is a different orm of How the word culture is by or. Trudeau possibly the most cultured Man in Canada i do not know because it can mean most anything now a Days. Rom the culture of the arts and sciences to the culture f drugs hippies and crime. It is also impossible to know How much of his real noughts the prime minister has been revealing to the Vest or whether his recent philosophical arc intended less to improve the general culture than to Dis act the Public from such crass and mundane ques ions As the Price of grocer is. By Bruce Hutchison anyhow to an uncultured i and deepest impulse of the Man his discovery that the j Little Western town deter i direction straight toward the ghastly megalopolis like Moths to the flame. How then does or. Tru West is culturally quite Dif a mined to become a me Crent from the East must a propolis. Cau plan to reverse the direction discussing the Multi b c surprising because comes so late from a Man so intelligent Loo late to avoid his electoral Blunder As the whole world has suddenly begun to realize that instinct is nut Only wrong but impossible on last autumn. Besides the planet already overcrowded discovery is still incomplete i and Short of life s Necessia or. Trudeau docs not under tics. In the boundless West stand the Western culture of Canada however the old and that is nut in the least myth Dies hard and perpetual mate social Nightmare Al ready past the Point of no return in Many nations he says that what people must understand is that if we just let the natural forces work this is what will happen. I " hat is surprising when no one understands it not even the natives. All we can say for sure is that the West docs not seem to Trudeau or be what anybody or. Else growth is still generally sired and assumed though not. I suspect by or. Tru Deau. As to or. Dean s assertion j that the president had known about the watergate cover up for months. At that Point watergate had become a matter of or. Dean s word against the word of or. Mitchell and or. Moore. It looked like the tile answer is that the stopper cannot be applied because the watergate corruption runs too deep and involves too Many men with Well founded suspicions o f each other. Nothing shows that better than the Trail of whole Case would turn around broken fixes which led directly to the most recent big development in the scandal the revelation of taps on the president s phone Calls and conversations. The first fix Effort came hours after the arrest of the Tanir Glass at democratic a t i o n a 1 committee head quarters. Two officials of the president s re election Campaign Gordon Liddy and Powell Moore went out to burning tree Golf club to see attorney general Rich Ard Kleindienst. Their Pur pose was to free the one prisoner who connected the burglary with higher tames Mccord. But not or. Trust Fine issues of judgment. N those circumstances the staff of the Senate water Gate committee began Pok ing around for evidence to support one version or the other. Alexander Butterfield a former White House aide who had gone on to head the Federal aviation administration was asked almost casually whether he knew if any of or. Dean s Conversa t i o n s with the president might have been recorded. The question put or. Butterfield on the spot. He did not know that his immediate Boss Lawrence Higby had told the committee staff there were no recordings nor that or. Higby s super them so or. Mccord stayed or. H. R. Haldeman had in prison and eventually withheld comment about the tapes. So or. Butterfield Cal. Social and economic went on trial. A second cover up Effort came with the trial. But unlike the other six defendants. Or. Mccord would not take a dive in return for Money Anil promises of an Early re lease from jail lie provided the first big break in the Case by making Public the efforts to have him take a Funt 4hat from dive. In legend and stereotype the typical Westerner is a j reckless gambling fellow. An untamed individualist the freest of free enterprises. The natural conservative regardless of his parly Label. The Sun tanned Denizen of Broad Plains and High Moun immediately afterwards the president s men went t left in the dark by men who did not Trust him broke the news of the taping operation. The disclosure of the tapes puts the president More be Hind the watergate eight Ball than lie has Ever been. 11 he is innocent of the Dean charges there is documentary evidence to prove it. So any failure to make the tapes available can Only be seen As a confession of guilt. Even if the tapes did Clear during an extraordinary interview with the Van Couver Sun. He observed that As things were going happening it will mean intervening massively a t i Federal provincial and Mil j Nic pal Levels in areas of growth and that s a bigger the merest hearsay. Evonie of the f Job. I think than people arc Lowell Weicker the connect prepared to i Picut Republican on the a a has erg ate committee who has work on or. Mccord. His Dean evidence was badmouth cd not to out yes. Far bigger. Bigger. Perhaps than or. Trudeau or any government and longer lasting nut is it too big fur Mccord Story might be been so zealous in pursuing inc _ the truth warned that the dirty Lowdown Mck an. Now. Most of Canada s peo the Canadian people of pie would soon live in three 1 other if the tapes did Clear the president everyone would gains who rejects cramped Urban Jungles like new York t Urban life stands independently on his and Kast to understand and or. I Cord s Estimo a want to know Why to manage while there is still1 by led to a White House of i Lowed the country to Tusky Good or bad when labor minister John gets around to undermining Munro was quoted Over the the principle of free Colloq weekend As saying regard t i v c As he ing the threatening rail would describe it until a strike they the railway strike is under Way and the workers Are going to Doi rail system is paralysed some damage hut at what j and parliament then has in stage Flo you undermine the be called into session to pass principle of free collective legislation ordering the bargaining in the Public in workers Back to work. That is a question that or. Surely the time for the government to take action is before this situation arises Munro and his colleagues should to trying to find and hut the government keeps answer to instead of asking right on strike after threat it rhetorically. The fact is Enoil strike plugging away that the government never at the old line. Tariffs arc Good 01 depending on where you sit or on whose of is being ored. So apparently the four Vestern premiers feel. At he economic conference in Algary this week they will a number of position apers. One on economic matters suggests that Ottara Institute selective Tariff Evi Slons to reduce Nequi ies to Western Canadian manufacturers. It also rec m m e n d s that Canada hould seek to reduce High a Riff and non Tariff bar hers imposed by her trading partners on processed and Emi processed natural re sources. In other words lower tar is. Another position paper is n agriculture. Among other recommendations is one that ays that imports of food products from other coun tries be subject to an import surtax when they come in at a Price seriously detriment t a 1 to the Canadian in in other words raise tariffs. Al go i m e though nut much facial Active in trying to through such agony before Anri Vancouver. Win a round that question of i hush up witnesses p r u d u c i n g the evidence own feet Toronto and Montreal h Bill la insensible vol counsel John Dean. Or. Refuses to be fenced m. Would become our Canadian Wisl All vet this mythical being versions of hell on wheels i if will Honce Furth there is enough gasoline to p v v if my turn the a highly. Or. Trudeau sees has made a Good beginning this Prospect As sheer Clini usually inhabits a swarming City. This free Enterprise 1 elects three socialist Provin j Cial governments. This con bad scr Atic except in Albor Cal madness and lie is Deli Tai stands ideologically far to the left of the official con i Sci native party. This individualistic Gambler demands More state services and a More collective communal society than those soft and effete easterners Are ready to accept or pay for. No wonder that like her Nando Cortez or. Trudeau gazes at the Pacific with a wild surmise silent upon a Peak in Jurrard Inlet. A Cul Ture that holds such a diver sity of creatures so Many contradictions and despite All its grievances so much Good Fortune must defy analysis even by the great Canadian philosopher. H e Only knows that it looks Dif Ferent. Well that is at least the beginning of Wisdom. From the beginning or. Trudeau has advanced an other experimental step. He sees that if the West is diverse and contradictory it has one instinct in common along All its regions and classes the instinct of unlimited growth the notion that everything will be bet Ter if it is bigger the oldest i enjoy watching the watergate hearings then i remember these re the men who were running our sovernmentl1 mined la prevent if he birthdays can prevent it he will make himself the outstanding statesman of the age when i All the Blind Anonymous j currents of modern society arc moving in the opposite i july 24. 1884 mrs. J. Stanforth. Winni Peg born county Donegal Ireland. July 21. 1883. Alex Ander r. Gillon Winnipeg born Glasgow Scotland moreover to would still Dean became worried that have to face Iho music on an he was being set up by the explosive charge that has p r e s i d in t and the men come up with watergate around him As a Scapegoat the charge of using Public. So he began to talk. Moneys to build himself a As soon As or. Dean is fancy House in san Cle titled to the Senate water Minto. Commit ice. An Effort us the Trail of broken fixes to put him d o w n was has put or. Vixon in a no launched. Furmer attorney in situation. H is up to him conceal John Mitchell told to find an exit. But until he j the committee that what does one sure bet is that Dean called a move to fix i watergate will continue to 1 the original watergate trial go in and on and on. An Ontario report tinkering with local government Tol w by Harold or car Oronto tinkering Ith 1 h e Structure of i local government has come a political preoccupy acc pliable manner to Orga a nations the need to abolish Tion Over the last several years As a result of executive and administrative local governments Are the municipal councils the Large number of smal the and the chief officers in municipalities the finds thai rapid Pace of urbanization j order that the legislative. I almost half of Ontario s 9-16 these efforts All seem to have two common characteristics they tend to ignore the fundamental problem of the cities which is Money and they tend to suggest that Urban challenges can be met if Only the right organi 7. A t i o n a 1 answers can to found. The latest example of this genre is the report and recommendations of Paul hic key to Ontario s ministry of the Treasury economics and intergovernmental affairs after a two year study of the decision making processes much to be desired. Hut what would the voters understand if the system were simplified and rationalized they would understand precisely what they know now that local government is. In terms of political Power Rol Alively in import Nevils of the municipalities i ply not in favor of May to carried out the larger rationalized units toy would understand word it will be the need to provide Legisla a thai municipal politicians do noted being conspicuous by Tive auth Rily. New lacking. Nol have the legislative and its absence. Still the omis Sion does make fur sum lop sided analysis. Or. Mickey for example so that mayors and Reeves financial clout to Cope with can exercise urbanization. They would in t he requirement that All do stand that the real Power municipalities have a c i i y the provincial and. To notes correctly that no de Fin manager or. As or. Mickey i ext Cal. The Federal hive statement exists either prefers to Call him. A chief Novi is. In the ancient Ontario my administrative officer f the province s local Kov i adopts As a guide the Ilc Fini Orn meals. I on a British commission or. Hickey is expert in the Nic pal act or in declared no Cal government policy As to the civic in Public 1 goals and objectives of local ministration and us on. Government in other words what they arc expected to do. To fill the Gap lie Here is of course. A Veteran municipal Field having been Cummis sooner of finance for the City of Hamilton and an assistant Deputy minister for Munici pal affairs on the provincial of local government namely m Wiur with such ideas in that the pattern and Ohai themselves. Actor of local must be such As to enable it amongst other things i to mum i perform efficiently a wide Many government in Ninny higher Levels Lions have profitably it with some variation of Iho cite nothing important by Way f municipal Reform is going Lappen until this fundamental fact is faced up to. Lias presented the cities with a Host of problems and expectations Hoy do not have the lax resources id satisfy the result has been Mam Moth Grants in Aid from the of govern tie Grants have come directly or Indi ,._________. Anse of profoundly import level. To is also a chartered Lant tasks concerned with accountant. Not surprisingly. Tlle health and Well he likes things neat and tidy and organizationally pure being both material and Cul Tural of people in different which Means he at the Way most aghast of on but there to stops. To larger regional More prerequisites to Tho tonal units of local govern print whore the real deep Mon is Well established Aro being made by the danger is in thinking higher Levels. The of j t h a t reorganization and1 Montial problem of local guv structural tinkering will in therefore is that it Hei Itsell solve very much. Nil self government 1 n r i o s municipalities arc1 floes not detail what those occupation with Structure can am to voters Are apathetic run. Profoundly important become indeed Lias to Hoy know it. His report is nothing if not tasks Are or should he. In come voluminous 501 pages Stead the rest of his report which As a result of his examining s catalogue of belter ways cure. Municipal government i no to perform the municipal or. Hick Western Canada Quebec the function it May a s s e r t s in ipod Stales and in Glam. Be. Apathy toward local govern of municipal and he finds Ontario woeful those belter ways can be , which is indisputable and the pro. By behind he times. Bui fairly summed up in a single from the records there if hardly a word in ill phrase or. Hickey is a caused by a Lack about Tho municipal Money City manager Man. Lie standing of a Complex problem and its political wants a municipal Structure Tern and suggests tax resources to t under nil hem. The difficulty is that this will almost certain i the creation of ramifications. Perhaps this is not or. The politicians stick tothe cured by the structural policy and leave adm Nistra i reforms which he recon Mickey s fault since his Tion and execution to i Ali a mends. N u double the system which is Why the provinces terms of reference directed fied officials. This idea in is Complex and no doubt Are so cont int just to tinker him to identify the most j fuses All of his recommend Public understanding leaves w Ali Structure ;