Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 25, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and published Dally except sunday by Winnipeg free press company 300 Carlton Malone publisher and editor chief Peter Mclintock executive editor Maurice Western Ottawa editor Shelford general manager Winnipeg free press Western Canadas National newspaper july 1973 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights threat remains the desert drama of the japanese Airliner had a relatively Happy the multimillion jumbo Jet was destroyed and the effects on the passengers kept cooped up for three Days in the heat of the desert cannot As yet be but we must be thankful that thus far the Only casualty was the girl terrorist who inadvertently blew herself the entire affair remains somewhat mysterious and it is still not Clear whether the pirates were latin americans or a mixed it would How that a new1 organization has sprung up that can re Cruit its members from disgruntled youth All across the world and that the pirates have had no difficulties in obtaining Money and sophisticated until sover eign states band together to Stop this infamous traffic in innocent travellers will continue to be in Jeo Pardy every time they Board a if there is to be any meaning in the policy of then it must be found in an enforceable International agreement on Stop Ping the arming and financing of piracy and murder Are serious crimes and the International Community can hardly condone the behaviour of the Arab states mat fear to Deal with the desperadoes even when the victims Are their own the assassins of the three two americans and one who entered the saudi arabian embassy in Khartoum this March have still not been brought to trial merely because the sudanese government fears the Dis pleasure of Muammar whose Oil riches Are not to be scorned by a poor country such As is the even saudi whose embassy was Violat has not insisted on the trial for fear of appearing this is a strange morality and one that merely encourages similar no airline can afford to drop rigorous searches of the pirates who hijacked the japanese plane would not have got through the Security in any United states and although these screens Are they Are much cheaper than the loss of a jumbo without counting the human suffer ing inflicted upon passengers by the ruthless the hijacking was a new reminder that despite pre Vious despite All the International conferences and draft there is still no International cooperation in dealing with air the fact that the 137 hostages have escaped with their lives should not Blind us to the threat of another tragedy of a frightening on easy Street the written statutes of the Canadian parliament May be broken from time to time but professor Parkin sons unwritten Law is As every scholar of government this Law declares that work will always be found to employ the eve increasing ser vants of the whether their jobs Are necessary or How the Law operates at Ottawa with the professor himself in As an unpaid member of the Cabinet is demonstrated by some remarkable figures published in the Toronto Globe and any taxpayer will read them and or according to his sense of four years ago the government spent billion on the salaries and wages of its last year that item in the Federal budget Rose to an in crease of about 50 per the civil service apparently has increased not Only in but in to judge by its pay for the number of civil servants earning or has risen by 23 per cent in three the scientific and professional receiving from to grew in two ending from to an in crease of per in the same period the administrative and foreign service with salaries from to Rose from to an increase of 21 per this amoeba like multiplication is officially justified by the growth of the nation and the functions of govern but it far exceeds the Rise in the Gross National the Best measurement of economic and in the How can a government which raises its own operating costs at such a rate preach restraint to business management and labor unions at a time of ruinous inflation in Ottawa the Parkinson an Law has its native Cana Dian As the Globe and mail explains when a new mandarin appears on the scene he gathers to him his own with the result that people in the existing jobs Are kicked or or into special they cant be and since their pensions Arent they wont so room has to be found for its called reorganization in Otta then there is which is said to eliminate Many support and what is called the growing need to hire experts so task Force policy evaluators and so some of the experts Are needed to counter study programs studied by experts in other de and to study Long in the forgotten Days of when he regarded inflation As a prime minister tru Deau resolved to deflate the government by holding Down the growth of its that policy was soon re the disaster Clown graded and the growth renewed with extra for several years it was Fin with other by huge deficit but recently finance minister Turner has been accumulating plenty of Revenue to pay his current despite some tax a great North american Boom swells his coffers with More Money than he though the Money is not Worth As much this year As and will be Worth still less next the figures look healthy and reassuring on the if Turner finds himself on easy Street for the time that is not the position of Many provincial governments which remain in deep while the municipalities Are worse off and must squeeze their Home owners under almost confiscatory real estate but even if the Boom continues at its present rate a highly dubious Assumption Turner is unlikely to remain on easy Street much the regardless of their party Are All United in a demand for a larger share of the nations total the municipalities must be relieved somehow from burdens far beyond their a Federal now living in Brief financial euphoria and spending More recklessly than the most Drunken Sailor though not enough to suit its nip will sooner or a moment of truth and professor Parkinson will not be around to help at the Calgary conference a Basic transportation conflict Canada used i to be a country of Royal in the last few it has become instead a country of although the format has the reason re Mains the to Canad nationhood is a con Stant it has never Een and never will be what it Hast meant for the West and what it must Start to mean for the West is the reason for the Western economic opportunities conference which opened Here the prime minister Trudeau idea and announced in the speech from the throne opening parliament last received an impressive and Vance a Peculiar combination of circumstances gave the con Ference its the fed eral liberals had just received a severe electoral rejection from Western canadians and they mend wanted to to Many it was purely an act of political but the political expediency of a party anxious to recoup losses can still work in the Public British Columbia had decided spiritually to rejoin in particular West Ern and threw the weight of its economic Power and political influence behind the aspirations of the considering the emphasis Given the conference and the High Hopes raised by that fortuitous combination o f the first Day had to be judged disappoint while the Federal govern ment had determined the four major Agenda the provinces chose which item went the Prairies selected transportation and that problem that has become a cliche of Western freight agriculture and regional development Are All to the Daylong Haggle Over freight rates and the opera Tion of the National transportation act gave the Prairies a piece of their de mands and that was they Are to on a confidential All the Cost disclosures they want from the railways concerning the setting of freight they will then be Able to see for the first time and judge for themselves the reasons and the Validity behind railway freight All their other transportation proposals Are to be examined by a Federal provincial the freight rate disclosures were a significant because the provinces have never had Access to them when they wanted to fight a particular discriminatory they had in Federal transport minister Jean Marchands go before the Canadian transport com Mission with one hand tied behind their but whether the simple fact of disclosures will work remembered words from the Tusk by William Cowper sum up half and add two thirds of the remainder and find the total of their Hopes and fears empty by Frances Russell swiftly and effectively to end the ancient discrimination against shipping processed goods out of Western Canada remains to be it will be subject to a number of incalculable will the knowing the provinces have All the be willing to Settle quickly and on Broad rate areas or will they attempt to fight every rate to the Ful lest possible extent of the first Many of the barriers to the devel o p m e n t of secondary Industry in the West will be removed easily and fairly if the last the provinces will be put to much litigation expense and extensive the recent Etc decision allowing rape seed meal but not rapeseed Oil to travel for the same Price As unprocessed seed took three years and nearly to will the cts proposed new faster procedures really Speed up its decisions and will the Etc use a few rate decisions As precedents to determine quickly All the other appeals it a real Vic tory for the the Federal under the skilful bargaining hand of gave away nothing of real substance that the Prairies the provinces wanted Ottawa to set firm guidelines re moving freight rate inequalities in the but Ottawa instead remained firmly wedded to the concept of Competition Between carriers As the Best Way to create transportation this Competition concept is imbedded in the National transportation act and As Long As this is both pre Mier Allan Blakeney of Saskatchewan and premiered Schreyer of Manitoba claim the West will always be at a Competition in transportation Doest exist in simply the land locked Prairies where the railways Are the Only realistic vehicle to carry most Large in order to create the provinces must spend hundreds of thousands of dollars building roads to Force railway rates a today scripture the world pass eth and the lust thereof but he that doth the will of god Arideth for John 2 its a new i Dea to foil vie Send everybody air glaringly unproductive and inefficient Money in View use of Public schreyers redress transportation inequities in the West would have had great symbolic in what the first Day of the conference showed vividly was the not so the Federal government Between the West and a o t Forth rival to also refused to Bow to heavy pressure from Premier Peter Lougheed of Alberta to make balanced regional development As one the Basic purposes enunciated in the preamble of the National transportation the Federal government Felt it had Good reason to reject Lougheed As it is Federal what Region would this be made to Benefit and if it was purely to Benefit the then that would constitute in reverse the very discrimination complained the West about for has dec but the provinces had an equally valid the acl with its guiding principle off Competition to keep Rales Down is biased heavily in favor of Central Canada where Competition in transportation exists in Abun and a passage in the act setting Forth the need to the Federal government As Between two diametrically opposed views of the use of the instrumentality of the three of the four provinces Are nip and the conservative in its revolutionary proposal to have Ottawa nationalize All track Beds and make the railways operate As a Public Utility at a fixed Cost plus showed itself equally the Federal liberals Are free Market Orient it is Likely that this1 Basic conflict will surface1 again and again As the conference toils on to its still murky con birthdays Andy bran Don born july Roy Brandon born eng july Indian democracy by Arun Gandhi Bombay India is idly heading for Politi Cal anarchy and consequent destruction of democratic in according to an analytical article written by the resident editor of the times of Ajit Bhat he says the unprecedented in the shortage of every essential the provincial armed constabulary Mutiny in utter Dissen Sions in the ruling politically instigated communal and caste haunting of inequality a group of Bombay teenagers spend As much in one evening at a discotheque As could keep an entire family scrabbling in the dirt outside Lor a whole year and the All pervasive corruptive influence of Black Money Are too too to be Over published in the illustrated weekly of India of july the article goes on to say after 25 years of Hope and Confidence that our country will survive and Prosper As a parliamentary democracy a hard unsentimental look at the Way party politics is being and its consequences for the leads inexorably to this unhappy con Bhattacharje has been resident editor of the times of India for the last two he had been a special parliamentary correspondent of the statesman and special correspondent in Washington and the United nations for the Hindustan m r Bhattacharje says the democratic system did work for Many years and on specific occasions does so even he cites examples of by elections in the last two years when the electorate had proved everyone wrong and the Way the nation ral lied around in moments of crisis during the chinese in Vasion in 1962 and the bang Ladesh episode of he it is not the electorate that has failed the system it is the avarice and unscrupulous Ness of its Lead ers in collaboration with the selfish and unprincipled educated he concedes that while politics is not a Lily White profession anywhere in the a democratic system cannot survive without a minimum accepted code of this unfortunately is what India for there is no Law requiring political parties to submit audited election so that massive bribery of voters is the Rule of the unaccounted Money is col 1 e c t e d from industrialists and kulaks encouraging them to keep Black Money for just such re ceiling other considerations in he says the ruling party Congress has been feeding the vast illiterate mass of voters on a diet of slogans and unattainable they blame foreign or Domestic devils when they fail to make Good their prom the article cites growing during 25 years of Independence police have fired times on killing persons and in Juring then there is the increase in the prices of All essential commodities from 15 to 100 per m r Bhattacharje says several ministers have been found guilty of corruption and there Are charges against an equal but All they suffered was a Brief break in their political career before being welcomed Back to the the Only people who get punished for corruption Are the Junior clerks and office in the 1971 general elections Indira Gandhi Congress party was elected with a thumping Bhattacharje says Complete domination by one party is Fine for an but it is not conducive to the Lon term health of the democratic system the True Genius of the parliamentary system lies in the dynamic balance it evolves Between divergent interests and but to try and use it As Camou Flage for authoritarian Rule is to have the worst of both m r Bhattacharje concludes Only the most determined efforts can counter the Drift at this late Many of the remedies Are but the will to impose them without poli tical adulteration has been together with the guts to insist on discipline and hard work from All sections of Frederick Philip Grove in search of the self a in recent years there has been a remarkable resurgence of interest in Canadian and Manitoban Frederick Philip g i o v both As writer and the following is from a speech by one of Canadas Foremost literary critics and poets at the Grove University of May t the Core of every work of literature stands the or the of the author it is the first and most readily available ground for in the meaning from which All Universal meanings Spring what we have in Grove is a writer who is trying to find this essential self which stands at the Core of his main Auto biography is entitled in search of in finding or suspecting that there May be fallacies and fabrications in this autobiography let us at least be warned by the title it is no Light or enter Taining Book it is a deep and Earnest and moral a search for the True self by Louis Duck even when he wrote a but Grove being the kind of realist he the opposite question May be whether All his fic Tion is not inevitably anchored in fact that whether autobiography is not at the very Root of All his taken too literally this is a Point of View that he would have if realism consisted in nothing but in o r objective reproduction o f that which he tells us in his we might per haps preferably look at life needs to be is limited by the Range of the things to which we react emotional our emotional reactions Are the fundamental re the Only thing which we really know and which at Bottom concerns with this we enter into the novels of Frederick Phi lip Grove As they Are relat e d to his what concerns in the fiction and the personal is the sense of the self which is or in the and itself instead of a work of the intellectual and human realistic components of that the 1 search for ones self is a re it should be theme in Groves it is if pursue this you How i s expressly Graphy but much of Groves writing is or Para or and How this biographical mate rial blends into his actual the dividing line is sometimes difficult to in search of a late published in just three years before his an Autonio so is Over his first published and much of the turn of the his a search for Ameri Ca still another is a work presented As fic Tion in which at the same time the author tells us in the preface that every event in the Story was lived the current suspicion is that Grove wrote Only fic by now in a More Indi rect the author is in deed involved with the characters of his and that this is the first principle of sound literary interpret Grove himself almost says As much in the lec it needs to be when he observes that the artist is omnipresent in his work and by the very fact that he cannot convincingly represent a character or a happening which finds no Echo in he Deli mits his work by his own s o m e w h e r e in the Dawn of history the desire to Tell what happened recently or Long ago and the lie about what happened that the invention of a fiction were uncontrollably one and the same we Are therefore consider ing the origin of fiction As one kind of Effort to Tell the but fiction is also synonymous with telling a telling what is in a lit eral not a literary sense not and the novel has always contained an interesting tension Between truth and untruth it is the truth of reality coloured by another a writers concern i s everlastingly with his he says in in search of his aim in life is but the ultimate working out of what was in yet he is obsessed with a sense of the illusion of the individual he says i have often doubted whether there is anything that i can legitimately Call this brings us to the philosophical implications of Groves for the search for the self must Cul Minate in a philosophical poor a Mode of reflect it is not a collection of pretty stories or a progression of the silly ego without but a vision of ultimate reality and a View of the place of Man in the uni we see Groves philosophical vision a vision of tragedy and cosmic Pes balanced by human courage and a sense of Eter Nal inexplicable and incontrovertible emerging in All the novels and autobiographical books the reality of the but the crucial Book for what we really know understanding the genesis of this says Grove in it Groves philosophical Posi t i o n is the Seriau a search for Here we have the biographical background a wealthy educated scion of the european literary world finds himself in in the new As we have now Learned to read it makes no difference at All whether he was actually whether Castle Thurow whether his father went or whether he himself Ever at tended two or three uni the Only evidence we need is that of his books and they Tell in the sym Bolic transpositions of that the self began As he de scribes s o m e w hat Over aimless and unprepared for All this must be absolutely True it is confirmed by every one of his he is always the fallen Superior Man who has adapted him self in adversity to very difficult this is the True Frederick Philip and that is not in the harsh world he finds graft and corrupt because he has a pietism tic moral nature though Little conventional religion and so he eventually revolts against this condition of modern social and he is he makes himself Over into a new self the rebirth to a new con caption of life and nature that other which is not 1 comes to him but when it is completed he is restructured into a new the diametric Al opposite of his Europe an self this dialectic be tween Groves new naturalistic self and his old Superior cultured mentality is an internal conflict that persists throughout his life it is in All his from Over Prairie trails to in search of myself and consider her it remains the con Stant dynamic of his personality ;