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Publish br Tha Journal Puhlutilnf Co of Ottawa. 1.14 il1Qun III 134 Spirit ClUwl. OnUri FRIDAY. JUNE A Political Speech With a Budget Tacked I On It Is not easy quickly-tn anaJySe the statistics and inner significance of a budget. But we must hopelt will bear' up better! than the archly political nature of'tlu? speech the Minister of "Finance felt to be appropriate, to the occasion last night.

In recent years dccadvs---the' presentation of a budget has done honor to Parliament in that parliamentary game was left for lesser, occasions. Mr, 'Walter Gordon, it seems, could not restrain himself. In his opening paragraph, he staked an exclusive claim on righteousness: "We on this side of the House take the Budget very seriously." But having thus implied that nobody else took a budget seriously he went on tomake oLifc.a political speech. Observe this: tirwiXA on nn In acrpika nup tiflRf.ll. ties and ha Live propose to do about them strictly in terms of economics.

But perhaps honorable members will i i me i speas: in more numan terms tonight, and about, the human tragedies that' Inevitably result when economic conditions are unsatisfactory and our national affairs mismanaged." The House then heard not about a 'budget but about lives warped by un- empioyraeni. lira jiouse lira neara not any -very real measures to cure unemployment but this extraordinary promise it a budget speech: The prevalence of unemployment is a wrong that must be righted. Any Canadianyoung or old, who wants a job must be able to find one." If there were some unemployed in the galleries and probably there were for certainly their number is too large in 'our country they must have thought the Finance Minister was confusing Budget Day with Convention Day. And so it went on, this politicking, his remarks dignified with such "serious" observations as saying the Dawson City festival was an unwanted baby left on his doorstep. It seems a delinquent previous Government had accomplished little but neglect and mismanagement.

But this charge of the light brigade puljed up with amazing suddenness when he began to approach the matter at hand the Budget. The trumpet became uncertain: "Our opportunities -for manoeuvre are severely limited. We have no alternative but to look at our tax structure not only with a view to providing incentives' increased employment and industrial growth, but also in a search for additional sources of rev-venuE" What a new mart' is When faced, with facts he's talking not of every Canadian having a' job but of "looking at a tax structure with a view to providing incentives for employment." The fact is MrrGoHDON was not car ried- long or far by his bombast. Once within sight of the field of facts this nation has dealt itself these last decades he was balked by the same unavoidable expenditures his imme- the sum of them will hardly alter the (,.. Via Mnnlrw -Vi i fr flBrwMtf wrote a book about: "Troubled let's glance at his ideas.

Mr. Piarson accused the. fives of mismanaging the economy and suggested stern measures would be taken to put it right. In consequence of these dire warnings, taxpayers will be surprised, perhaps, that there is no increase in personal or corporation-income or estate taxes. Extending the sales tax to manufacturing and production machinery and building materials, and to biscuits and cookies which simulate chocolate bars or candjes, is not the stufT-ef a brave new fiscal world.

By changing the date on which corporate taxes are payable the Government will get some revenue more Mr. Gordon commits himself to end ing unemployment. But bonuses for employment of older workers, tax incentives to industries in areas of high unemployment, and encouragement to housing, are out aimaent steps to tne solution and their cost is uncertain. Taxation changes will encourage the retention of Canadian ownership of companies and the tax collectors have keen given new encouragement to hunt dowrrthowe guilty of "ejrfnse arrotmt living. Among the meHsures to "close loopholes" in which Mr.

Gosdoji appears to have pride is the one -which stops capital cost allowances being granted JTrr-n ttiuti YXtttt BTrpnPrcrt costing li.TTii, jyumiHb This may diitress captains- of finance and comfort poorer men who suspect accounts, but it wilMnrrtfty rhange the. Government accounts substantially, i These ccointss remain depressing although Mr. Gohdon anticipates the deficit will be reduced by almost The dismal fact remains that his anticipated deficit nf $585,000,001) on Budget 'account will increase the national debt to $14,522,000,000. The interest on that debt will take per cent of the expenditures, "sec ond to Defence at 23.7 per tent and far above the 7.9 per cent requjred for family allowances. As we have said, a more careful examination of the Budget proposals may throw some of' them in better or in poorer light, but in the main they may' do something to throw, a check into our extravagance and to increase our economic independence.

But what an anti-climax to six months ormore of gloom and doom talk about a country whose general prosperity in most of its aspects is the envy "of- almost -every, other country in the worlds No Michelangelo Here The British High Commission build-fng rising on Elgin! Street in Ottawa no evidence of "the slightest eccentricity or originality and we regret that Canada did not pose a challenge to British architects comparable to that of -Rome. In the Italian capital the new British Embassy building has been designed JLtx fit "in with the Porta Pia' gateway designed by Michelangelo and" the ancient castellated Roman city wall which are its neighbors. The design, we are pleased to read, leaves much of the six-acre site as parkland. The building of two storeys is raised on columns and beneath it on the East and West will pools of water with jets playing into, the ceremonial approach to the building will be across a causeway over the water. The hope is that the play of light and shadow on the building will give it an appearance of floating above the water.

would be pleasant to have something as imaginative as that on Elgin Street, butthen' the British can jay that Ottawa had no Michelangelo to encourage them to special efforts That of course is true but we remain with the sinking feeling that Canada and Ottawa expect no one to be other than practical and that, in contrast to Rome, we will eventually have a collection of shiny boxes hot in the least designed to fit with what we consider the dignified Victorian appearance of Parliament Hill, Senator MacTavish, CM Some people outside Ottawa who do not know. Mr. Duncan MacTavish may think his appointment to the Senate, is but a reward for hishaving been President of the National Liberal Federation from 1952 to 1958. Ottawa knows-much better. Here is an Ottawa boy, now Senator, whose good Mature and intelligence, both of high order, have enriched this community for years.

Scarcely a good cause but knows his support, scarcely a man or organization serving the com- munity has not on occasion been helped diate predecessors had pundjhe coun-'-ni I heartened by.trim. In larger try demanded. Only with them it was vl mismanagement, with Mr. like regard by those who know hirn but t. nf a-vitircA it i in flttaua that nnuiiAOO vjORDON Tnereiy umiiea ppponunuy ior o- manoeuvred best known- Had he not announced the battle with A1 there is one thing more.

Dun-such a shout what followed after might CAN MacTavish is a civilized man This have been reasonably acceptable. Soma may seem urious tribute it is i il it in nnlv because so manv of us oi iqe measures may near nun, per- haps all of them have some merit. But re becoming uncivilized. It is a qucs- haps 1 tion of manners, of kindness, of breadth of interest; it is a question of working for community arid country; itJs a question. of imparting cheer to hfe and those in it with him though, professionally back-slapping is no part of his make-up.

There is a lot to be said for a civilized man, before the species be-, comes extinct. Senator Duncan MacTavish, CM. Notes ond Comment -What Father wants is a Father's Day he can afford. The foreseeable future is rarely A business that could start on a shoe string and prosper would be the manufacture of unbreakable shoe laces. quickly than it otherwise would arST companies will lose interest money, "After hearing the budget.

Prince This is a new departure but its benefits fhilips remark seems truer than ever: expire after two years. money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury." The more we hear-of the dangers of tobacco, aspirin, liquor, too many vitamins, city air, treated water, sugar, tranquillizers and cholesterol, the more it seems that the only thing left to take is poison. Many man who used to" breere through "antidisrtablishmentarianism" arid "tintinnabulation" in tho old-fashioned spelling bees has trouble remembering whether there should be one or two Ts in benefited. The Oncoming Tide -In East-West Relations By WALTER LIPPMANN only recently in an address which has, quite evidently, been maturing for a long time in his mind. The President must have decided quite some time ago that it would be use- to make a fresh statement of how the United States is now thinking and feeling about its relations with the Soviet Union.

For while there has not been, as the President said, any change in the American resistance to an expansion of com- munism, there have been changes in the American estimate of developments in the Soviet Union end in the Communist world. Yet most of the language -the Cold War'has remained unchanged, has become stereotyped, and official end popular reactions to news from the. East have become mechanical. We on our part and the Russians on their part have raised higher than the iron Curtain an impenetrable fog of This shuts off any serious effort to use a diplomacy which is adjusted to the great changes on both sides of the Iron Curtain, THE. President's address more than a talk.

It is a wise and shrewd action which is intended1 'primarily to fan-prove, the climate of East-West relations. He I believe, moving with the oncoming tide in human affairs. The tide is bringing in a generation which is losing interest in the post' war conflict between the crusading Communists and the crusading anti-Communists who reacted to them. For Kennedy and for Khru shchev the notion that either of ment now about the cnmmi and the belong. MOPSY SURE I LIKE YOUR NEW WIG -YOU THE President's -announce- conference in Moscow.

do mem at American Univer- not know what has been pass-sity of a meeting in Moscow to Kig to and fro which has per- discuss nuclear test ban suaded the three governments be achieved by a meeting at a high level, indeed, just under the summit If, as is conceivable from the report of Mr. Harold Wilson's talk with Chairman Khrushchev, some. kind of partial moratorium 'may be negotiable. Defence Department f)cersloced With CommUies Too? J. I.

Pigeon (CJollette-VAssomption Morttcalm) tpeaklng in the debate on the establishment of a special parliamentary committee on defence. it would come as a great relief J641, 2043 was found in the to the whole world. The Soviet view is that underground testing is of negligible significance. There are some American rw- clear scientists, but by no means all of them, who think the underground tests can be of decisive significance. These underground tests are different from all other tests not only because they do not contaminate the air but because they alone cannot always be detected without on-site inspection.

But the Soviet government has a deep hatred of on-site inspection. Might it then be possible to make en agreement ban aM tests which can -be detected without on-site inspection, and then to permit a limited number of underground tests which the Soviet government does not take too seriously? This may be a pipe dream. Indeed, I do not dare to believe in it because it seems too good to be true and because it is too sensible to be practical. fE HAVE all noticed that Mr. Khrushchev has set the date of the meeting for July.

That will be after the Sino-Soyiet talks have taken We can make a guess about the the two rival nuclear powers meaning of this and we can. can bury the other has become make several guesses. For ex-nonsensical. All that is left of ample, if Mr. has appeased the old slogans are the tired the Chinese in order to heal a old words themselves.

In the little bit the rift in the Coinage of nuclear parity there is munist movement, he could no alternative to co-existence, balance it by appeasing the In effect, Jhe President has United Slates a little bit. Or, said to Khrushchev that since if Mr. has had a still bigger in the nuclear age we have to quarrel with the Chinese, the co-exist, crusading which might time ill have come nearer many committees at the na tional defence headquarters. In fact, there are 350 committees there and more than 200 inter-arm committees. And, according to the Glasses report, a stock of woollen socks that would last until the warehouse or our military en force; and we know that it was bought by the Liberal government was in office.

And what about the 20,652 suits of Winter underwear in stock, -when the army requisitions only 18 a year? The navy has such a surplus that it would need 1,000 years to get rid of them. A supply of aircraft electric bulbs that will last for 170 years was also found. i ne supply of cotton overalls embai wilt last for 197 years and they from ment. The same government ment. ine same govemmmu abandoned.

If both powers are some day when the Russians duty to buy to live, they will have to learn will fulfill Gen. de Gaulle's Mr. Speaker, this is another to let live. The President's way prophecy by re-enteting Europe instance of the' way public of stating these governing truths was admirable. It was not only lucid and untimoroua but it was couched in the kind of language which ought to be.

used in talking to and about the Russia, it was the. language of ell-confidence and self- respect, of resolution and magnaminity. pOR the outsider It is impossible to make any. Judg West to which they moneys ,1 mean the taxpay- WRONG STUNT Cleveland Plain Dealer Remember when boyi wert warned against smoking cigarettes lest they stunt their growth? Now husky athletes nearly seven feet tall am piped into the boys' living rooms to tell them-which brand they consider best. LOOK AS THOUGH YOU SACRIFICED YOUW CLOTHES BUP6ET FOR PTC are managed.

The Liberal government at that time bought four million 25 Years Ago Other Views THAT $500 BONUS Peterborough Examiner Why not pay people who live in old houses a $500 bonus. money is used for a public capital asset? None of these, except possibly the last, make much sense: a private $500 bonus, however, is the sort of device one would expect from most amateur and cock-eyed device for helping Winter unemployment. Better the Con- Lights- Brand Them Hamilton -Spectator Way out in California, where almost everything that can happen does, a judge has coma un with a new wav to were nought 1954. aim it who are would take 190 years to dispose cjpal judge W. Blair Gibbens, of of the boots.

Santa Monica, will have their Mr. Speaker, those mass cars branded. Pasted on wind-purchases were made by the shields wiB be a six-by-four-former government, when the inch sticker. The sticker says Liberals were in office. They "traffic violator" and wiH remade those purchases care- main 30 days, leaftlv.

Thev merit the tnonev rm- able. Advt in The Times. This televising of a play in which the principal character is a sea-lawyer telegraphist who wins a petty victory over his First Lieutenant, and in which dollars worth of ties. In other ratings openly defy their petty words, there was an average officers, seems to bs In the of 10 ties for each soldier, wont poaaibla taste. Letter which, in 1952, led the Right in Daily Telegraph.

Hon. Louis St. Laurent to state in the House: "I do not know why millions Two-WatJ ConOCTsibn of ties were needed." fnm QNE of the cheerful stories soaring sbova the color bars in the southern states fm tm w- 1 mm it. rw comes from Georgia's Mercer LION. PETER HEENAN.

Mm- University, a Baptist Insutu- ister.of Lands and Forests tion. for Ontario, was appointed Out from Mercer went gra- Labor Minister by Premier H.ml Mobley for mi Mitchell Hepburn. Appointment of a three-man emission to administer red- commission to administer tea- affart wai eral penitentiaries and act as he that one of his converts, a parole board was recom- Sam Jerry Oni of Ghana, decid- mended by the Archamhault Commission. S. J.

Hungerford. president of theHCNR. was opposed to unification of the CPR he told a Senate Committee. It was' reported that 1 50.000 ed to come to the United States to study at the university which had educated MoNey. Mr.

Oni presented a problem. Mercer had. up to that time, been an ali-while institution. But she alumni tnarnzme of Chinese perished through flood rh university put forward a waters of the Yellow River in amplt claim. "Mercer." said, Honan Province.

-j, a Christian Institution. A Lord Austin, British motor Chrietiaa ethic here in- manufacturer, ebjtcttd to vntved." 22 Canadian VC Winners Surviving deaths, during the fir week of April, of (wo ol First World War Victoria Cross winners reduced to 22 the number of living Cana dian holders of the Commonwealth's highest award foi courage, jf Corporal Frederick George Copplns. died on April 1 in Sap Francisco at the age of 73. He served with the 8th Bat- Ulion (Manitoba), Canadian Expeditionary Force, and; was awarded the Victoria Cross for his courageous and successful attack on an enemy machine-gun "nest" near Hackett Wood, eait of Amiens, France, on August 9, 1918, during the Last Hundred Days. Major George Harry Mullin died on April in Rrgina at the age of 71.

He won bis Victoria Cross while a sergeant in the PrinrM Patricia's Cmnmi dian Light Infantry on October 30, 1917, during the Paiachen- daele campaign for his single- properties? This would provide Handed capture of a stubborn a muchemployment as Win- enemy "niH-box." ter house building. Why not give every municipality $100 for every taxpaying citizen on seems to have been inserted that something important might 1S that there are too the understanding that the Between the two World Wars he served with the Canadian Army (NPAM), attaining' the rank of Major, and for six years with the Veterans Guard of Canada during the Second World War. From 1934 to 1 no i. Second World War service, he rriit nrfu sergean-ai-Arms in tne sides being almost impossible, Saskatchewan Legislature. to regulate properly, is me Fourteen of the living VC holders won their awards in the First World War.

They are: Alexander Pic ton Brereton. servative Winter-works pro- Thomas i esen, Herman Mini. lanhi jmJ Uhh W.I....- IT James Hon. when it 'n 4- Good, Milton Fow ler Gregg, Robert Hanna, Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey, William Henry Metcalf, Coul-son Norman -Mitchell, Hon. George Randolph Pearkes, Thomas Ricketts, Charles Smith Rutherford, Robert Shankland.

Zengel. I The names of the other eight, all of whom won their Victoria Crosses during the Second traffic violators. War. are: David Vivian on. those of them Currie.

Rev. John Weir Foote. vie ted before Muni- John Ketfer Mahony, Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt, Ernest Alvia Smith, Frederick Albert Tilston, Frederick George Top-ham, Paul Triquet. Lei Russians Decide of the Canadian people care- mmd one of the "scarlet letter" On What GlCCS Them lessly and I think that the certain hussies had branded on committee should study that them vears a 20 in rlew Eng- Aid and LomfoTl situation to prevent the party power from repeating the serious mistakes it made when it was in office for so long. There is also-the arsenal at Riviere-du-Loup, built by the government when our friends were in office; an amount of $285,453.50 was spent on construction, repairs and equip -land, it probably is just the -J thing needed to make careless Cahfnraiana careful.

S1r i PRIME MINISTER PEARSON This England had every right to be kri- New Statesmen tated by the of history cvangeutai presenteo oy Mr. justice J. I. men. diversifying, have capital Canadian Cam-' In tut commercial basis with partici- P'" for Nuc4r Disarmament Limited active But Mr.

Pearson went alto- tiTsnn 1 participation considered. Pro- gether too far in his commenta 1 .1. P051 elJ-run in Parliament last week. We Just have to took at the business with good prof its official record of our discus- record wholly-owned by M- rf. skms in the House to realize lo evangelical Christians would ap6 Toronto last May 28, what waste there has been.

In- be welcomed. Advt In Ac- claimed that the'United States" deed, as we may see on page count ant. 4923 of Hansard, dated May 7. 1953, the late Mr. C.

D. Howe Titled ltdlm required at Writ- tated: tn- Weekend School In Elira- If the -services say they need bethan Manor House la Norfolk. involve armed violence must be as almost certainly it is coming" a gold -plated piano, it is our Exciting residential poats avail- was responsible for starting "the madness of the nuclear, arms race." Mr. Pearaon pointed out quke correctly, that it was actually CiwiM Ir-M wtiitfdt timA started the raca in 1946 by rejecting U.S. proposals' to turn control of atomic weapons over to the United Nations.

But then he said of Mr. Justice Thorson's remark: "Nothing could be said that would give greater aid and comfort to those Whom we consider to be the main threat to peace in the world than a statement of this The Prime Minister seems rather given to this sort of argument. During the eteotiea campaign, in a speech at Saaka. toon on March 6, he declared that the New Democratic Party's anti-nudear stand would serve "the first objective of Soviet policy" by breaking up the NATO alUance. Such charges pre-euppoM a knowledge of the mmda of the Russian leaders which no one in the West ready mania.

Who can say what effect Canadian political speeches or policy statements may have on ttieae men or wnethey they pay any attention to them at ail? It is hard to believe that Mr. Justice Thorson's remarks, for ample, brought Mr. KhnaaV cnev more an ena comiort uii anythjng else he could pnssibry hear aayra report that Cha vrm lands' had at last produced a bumper harvest, or that Mao Tse-tunf had faBm Mo the Tettow mar. But regardless of the theore- purchase of 400 aircraft in the The, point was made. Sam' tjcal results in the Kremlin, tfit United States by the Air jerry bnis application for ad- Prane Mter should ronem- Minlstry.

mission was accepted. And ber that other Canadians havi John Bier, Department of to round out the principle, the a nght to gree with htm or Botany. Experimental Farm, university dropped its barriers foreign and military pniic) received the degree of Ph D. against American Negro appli- without being accused of fr from Toronto University. cants.

aid and comfort to cha enemy.