Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 8, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed ind published Dally sunday by Winnipeg free press company limited 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg. Manitoba. . Malone publisher and editor in chief Peter Mclintock Maurice Western executive. Editor Ottawa editor r. H. Shelford general manager Winnipeg free press Western Canada s notional newspaper Winnipeg monday october 8, 1973 at thanksgiving and to give thanks is Good Algernon Charles Swinburne Crown d with the sickle and the wheaten sheaf while autumn nodding of r the yellow Plain comes Jovial on. James Thomson the Happy autumn Fields Alfred lord Tennyson autumn evening and the my err when the Golden mists Are born Percy Bysshe Shelley come be thankful people come raise the sprig of Harvest Home. Henry a Ord the kindly fruits of Earth Book of common prayer the leaves fall Early this autumn in wind. Ezra Pound behold congenial autumn comes the sabbat ii of the year. John Logan Les san lots Longs de Auto one Blessent Ripon Coeur d Une Langer Monotone. Paul Verlaine thick As autumnal John Milton the swallows veering skimmed the Golden Grain at midday with a whig slant and Limber and yellow cattle browsed upon the Plain. Trumbull Stickney be thankful unto him and bless his name. Psalm 100 the thirsty monsters Edwin l. Dale economic correspondent of the new York times in Washington describes himself As a con Sumer Choice and free Market Man from Way Back but he confesses to a reluctant the United states he writes is scandalously wasting gasoline when the Supply is Short and becoming Shorter simply because automobiles Are too big too powerful and too thirsty. Last year 83 per cent of All new american cars had eight cylinders and travelled Only 12 Miles or less on a gallon whereas the Small minority of cars with four cylinders could double that mileage. If All or nearly All cars were limited to four cylinders or. Dale observes the saving in Oil and foreign Exchange would be enormous the same is roughly True in Canada. Arguing for some Legal limit on the size and fuel consumption of motor vehicles or. Dale notes certain statistics of our mind boggling Oil consumption More than 15 million barrels a Day in 1972 and growing some 40 per cent in gasoline the great bulk is for Automo by less if nothing is done me More than six million barrels of Oil a Day now used for gasoline will Rise to More than 10 million5barrels a Day about ten years from to meet Feis demand the United states would have to spend by 1980, compared with billion last year though Al ready its balance of payments deficit is whole monetary system of the Western world. Despite these worsening physical and financial prob lems or. Dale complains president Nixon recent message on the Energy crisis proposed no effective method of conserving Oil no suggestion that the cur rent waste be curbed. Nor has the Canadian government yet proposed any such measures. All the official poli cies so far Are aimed at increased supplies which clearly will be needed but governments in North Ameri Ca have made no attempt to reduce total demand or even limit its astronomical rate of growth. A continent driving More than 100 million automotive vehicles every Day most of them at about 12 or 13 Miles per gallon and Many carrying Only one or two passengers is a spectacle to Comfort no one except the Oil Rich sheikhs of the Middle East until their huge supplies finally run out. Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights stretching the food budget a hostess copes by Christopher h housewives and others Are grinding their Teeth pulling their hair and stamping their feet these Days Over staggering increases in the Price of food. Cries of despair Echo along the aisles of super markets and tears and heartache flourish at the checkout counter. The Price of meat of course has already gone sky High and May go higher but now other food items Are becoming More expensive and gloomy observers pre dict that the hapless House wife will soon pay Asj Nuch for a single Ono cube As she used to pay for a Large sir loin tip roast. What can be done to bring Sunshine Back to the checkout counter very Little i fear. The government appears to be powerless. The merchants blame it All on the Amer leans and the americans blame it on president Nixon. President Nixon i suppose is it All As an act of re god. Season of mists and Mellow fruitfulness ack to the ill fated Mission f Ernest Che Guevara in 967, when the prominent figure in the cuban revolt Ion was seized and killed by bolivian troops. Or. James Hebe Geof Georgetown University s Institute of strategic and International studies says the soviets continue to see Bolivia As an opportune t a r g e t because hey recognize that the Banzer regime is internally weak and unstable and they believe that it can be further weakened by terrorist and guerrilla last year two soviet officials were declared per Sona non grata the Boli Vian government for subversive activities and 23 others were asked to leave. The total russian exodus amounted to 119 people including officials and their families in Bolivia. . Officials familiar with the details of the bolivian expulsion and the expulsion of five soviet Diplo Mats the previous year by the mexican government say that the incidents pro Vido a sobering base for scepticism about the genuine Ness and durability of the much trumpeted climate of do tonic Between Washington and Moscow ;