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The Ottawa Citizen An independent newspaper since 1S44 R. W. SOUTHAM M. D. YARROW F.

G. SWANSON Publisher Editor Associate Editor Published every day except Sundays and holidays at 136 Sparks Street, Ottawa, Ontario, by The Southam Company Limited MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1958 In Hussln The Tragedy Afll ui asiernaii By Jack Stcplrr Southam Ne Services LONDON Russia's reaction to Boris Pasternak is almost as tragi-comical as an elephant's frenzied fear at the siyht of a mouse. One can but marvel at the sight of hysterical vituperation heaped on one man with ideas t(, because he I i st 1 i-, cately won a I 4 Nobel Prize 1 for literature, i 1 The Sov- mm Lraw The Anti-Dumj: exporters would like to see it more Letters To The Editor Ottawa's Gift To Springhill Editor, Citizen: The donation of one thousand dollars to the Springhill disaster by tlie city of Ottawa reminds me of a quotation I once read ia one of Jack London's books, "When God "Don't throw a dog a bone, but lay down and share the bone with him." The upheaval of suffering humanity during the past few years in Springhill is beyond one's imagination, and the heroism and endurance of these ponple Wi nothing short of marvelous. The brotherhood of mankind in this community stands out in all its glory as a shining pxample of what true Christianity implies. A blush of shame must steal across our faces at the poor contribution by our capital city.

No doubt the federal government will take steps to create some other form of industry for the survival of these brave people who are still fighting hard to keep the name of Springhill on the map. J. FITZPATRICK Ottawa. clearly worded." Japan has reason to feel anxiety, because there has long been a body of opinion in Canada that would like to exclude the products uf that coaiitxjr altogether, and in particular textiles The trade agreement reached with the former Liberal government here a few years ago contained safeguards to pre vent the unloading of Japanese goods in such a way as seriously to damage Canadian industries, and the Japanese themselves fully concurred in these pro visions. But now their export prospects are thrown into a state of uncertainty.

No measure passed at the last session cf Parliament has aroused so much uneasiness in other countries as the new anti-dumping law. The latest expres-, sions of concern come Irom the Japanese trade mission which Is now visiting Canada and the United States. Their criticisms, however, may have. ho more effect on the present govem-, rnent than has the formal protest lodged by Washington against this same measure. For on Friday it was disclosed here that Canada has rejected the U.S.

protest. The Japanese, who are looking for more business, are disturbed by the thought that instead they may be getting less, for the legislation put through by the Diefenbaker government gives the cabinet such apparently wide powers as to leave a foreign supplier virtually at its mercy. This was the criticism voiced by the opposition as the bill was pushed through in the closing days of the session, and it Is a feeling obviously shared by many outside this country. As one member of the Japanese delegation put it: "We have had complaints that the anti-dumping legislation Is ambiguous. It's very difficult to know what the limits are, and Japanese In the end, Canada could be the chief loser should the present government use the sharper anti-dumping weapon to reduce Japanese imports.

For Japan is an important buyer of Canadian wheat, barley, iron ore, asbestos and other pro ducts and, while the trade position Is not Quite so lopsided as before the agreement was signed, it is still about two to one in Canada's favor. As the Japanese have repeatedly said, they want to carry on a two-way business with Canada, believing it to be in the interests of both countries, but they need to earn more dollars in order to continue to buy from Canada. The Heroes Of Springhill They continued their frantic efforts Bomarc Missiles Editor, Citizen: The press reports that Ottawa is thinking second thoughts about the Bomarc give hope that Conservative commonsense is beginning to penetrate the mists of unreality which have long surrounded Canadian national defence. These mists' rise from a fever-swamp of conflicting interests. Among the many crocodiles remaining in this swamp is one known as the anti-lCBM.

Its jaws are fully open and As throat is distended ready to swallow our defence dollar whole. We should realize that it is actually a stuffed crocodile. Although it is ingeniously designed to swallow and digest dollars, it can do nothing else. In spite of its massive financial appetite and the nuclear fire-power it breathes from its nostrils in mushroom-shaped clouds, it can do nothing to defend Canada. The only kind of defence research which today can be expected to really pay off in terms of continued life and freedom is research directed at escape from the bankrupt policies of threats and bluff which are rapidly leading us to final ruin.

JOHN B. WITCHELL Quebec City. Schisms On The Eve Of Voting There are many inter-party splits on both sides which are bound to have a profound effect on the outcome of lUQ's presidential race By J. R. Walker Southam News Service! two miles beneath the surface of the earth, without pause, throughout the weekend.

Working around the clock, they sought still more survivors. Their job will not end until the last body of the last victim of this latest Springhill power and corruption. The presl dent of the United Auto Workers mine disaster i3 recovered. The spirit and courage of the sur is the last man in American unionism who could be proved Union has ex Polled him, The Commu-i nist Party ne sp a p- er Pravda I heaped abuse 'J on him as Stcpler a "bourgeois intellectual" and said: "If there were the presence in Pasternak of at least a spark of Soviet dignity, if the conscience of a writer and the feeling of his duty to the people still lived ia him, he would reject the 'award which is humiliating for him as a writer." And it added that "the puffed-up self-opinion of an offended and angered philistine 'eft no trace of Soviet dignity or patriotism in the soul of Pasternak." Moscow Radio accused him of choosing "the path of dishonesty and shame" and predicted: "An ignominious end awaits both 'Doctor that resurrected Judas, and the author whose fate will be of popular disdain." He is accused of becoming "a weapon of bourgeois faces possible eviction from his "dacha" in the writers' settlement. Even the most cynical observers of Russia, however, do not anticipate that the Soviet authorities would risk making themselves the laughing stock of the world by trying the 68-year-old writer on charges of "treacherous behavior" and "betrayal of the Soviet people." Key The key to the whole Pasternak nightmare is his book "Doctor Zhivago," which has never been permitted to enter Russia after first being published in Italy, and which the Russian Literary Gazette calls an "artisi-cally squalid, malicious work, replete with the hatred of socialism." That the Nobel Prize should be given to an author of such a work has prompted Russia to charge that the award by Sweden is a "hostile political act directed against the Soviet state." The award is the first ever to a Russian author living in the Soviet Union (Ivan Bunin, 1933 winner, had for many years i lived in exile in France.) Russia had long tended, until Professor Seminov won the chemistry award in 1956, to show indifference to Nobel awards.

Is the Russian political "line" which permitted Seminov's award going to do another somersault? For how is Russia going to reconcile the Nobel prizes awarded to three Russian scientists if it forbids Pasternak to receive his award? Is perverted logic going to prevail on them to reject prizes that come from the same tainted sources as Pasternak's? In Pasternak's case it may be recalled that when Ossietzky was awarded the Nobel peace prize Hitler reacted by forbidding Germans to receive the Nobel prizes. Although this was political venom, Hitler, too, feared men with ideas. But even Hitlerite Germany vivors is, of course, beyond praise. It is a reminder of $he heights to which They call them draegermen, and when the final chapter in the tragic story of Springhill is written, no name will shine forth more brightly. These are volunteers, ordinary miners who don the weight of equipment an infantryman carries on extended opera-.

tions. Their battle ground Is in the bowels of the earth, however, and their area of operation often no wider than the tomb. Once again, as they have before in the past, these heroes of the depths have overcome incredible obstacles, great danger and terrible hardships, to bring comrades back to the light of day who might otherwise have perished where nature trapped them. Assisted by bare-faced miners, no less courageous, the draegermen played a major part In the initial rescue of 12 Springhill survivors and later, on Saturday, seven more. corrupt, and his power lies more in his tongue and his negotiating skill.

The unsoundness of this tactic was doubled when the WASHINGTON Both the Democrats and the Republicans, on this final day of the 1958 congressional election campaign, are happily engaged in splitting their own ranks. Some Democrats, confident of seeing many shining new liberal faces on their side of Con-f gress are bluntly alien the human spirit can ascend in the face of the most dire adversity. But without the nearly superhuman efforts of the draegermen and their bare-faced col leagues, there might have been no sur vivors of the Springhill epic. Republicans said nothing about Teamsters' president James Hoffa, who just happens to be a Republican. But the efforts of the national party tn dredge an issue from big Inior is backfiring.

In Michi Their heroic performance once again will be applauded by their countrymen and the admiring world. Like the men I ating the powerful southern bloc of the party over civil rights. Many Re-p 1 i cans, hopeful turning gan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, where unemployment is they rescued, they looked death In the face; and they pressed on. still serious, four Republican senatorial seats are in real dan A Canadian Manufacturer On Foreign Cars ger. In Indiana, Ohio and California, where "right-to-work" laws are at issue, the unions are getting out the Democratic voters in serious fashion serious for the design remains unusual from a North American standpoint, success may be attributed to exceptional engineering qualities.

Higher resale values in comparison with those of the early post-war Headlines Editor, Citizen: Can nothing be done to improve the method of devising headlines for your feature articles and reviews? I am sure your music critic must have been as startled as I was to read that the Monday evening concert of the Morning Music Club was a "triumph of frivolity." I find myself laughing a good "boner" is irresistible but at the same time I deplore the unfortunate impression such a headline creates. It seems unfair to your excellent reviewer, whose words were taken out of context and badly misused; unfair to the distin Walker Den ocrats against those "Radical" Democrats, are attacking big labor for its power and radicalism, and thus driving labor unionists into the arms of Democrats, while the whole Republican Party is years appear to have been achieved, nd these are no doubt another factor improved sales. This is not to say that every buyer the prominent names in the presidential race. If he can continue to show the skill at political compromise he has in Congress, during the next two years when northern liberals edge in on his territory, he may yet be able to name the candidate in iat0. And two of those close to him, and assured of re-election this year, are the so-called front-running Democrat Sen.

John Kennedy of Massachusetts, and Sen. Albert Gore of Tennessee. Senator Kennedy, who has been assiduously cultivating his southern friends ever since their support for him for the vice presidency in 1956, will be in a choice position by 1960 if this present split can be kept within reasonable bounds. Senator Core, who has refused to adopt the segregationist line in the South and was renominated against heavy white supremacist opposition, after this clcciton will be a popular choice for northern liberals who do not want to drive away the southerners. Either he or Sen.

Stuart Symington of Missouri, a familiar though less effective politician, could wind up on a sound compromise ticket for the Democrats. All this talk of compromise has, according to a New York Times poll, discouraged Negro voters with both parties; they'd rather, as one Negro said, vote for the entire U.S. Supreme Court, which seems seriously interested in their civil rights. The Republicans, on the other hand, have been sucked in up to their ears by the labor issue. It was given its impetus by Sen.

William Knowland in California, who decided to campaign against compulsory unionism and for a state "right-to-work" law. This immediately sundered the ranks of Republicans there, and the senatorial candidate, Gov. Goodwin Knight, severed connections with Knowland. Counting on public disquiet over congressional revelations of union racketeering, but forgetting about the still widespread unemployment, the Republican National Committee plunged in with both fect to make Walter Reuther the prime target for charges cf guished members of the Vienna Octet, who had given a superb and memorable performance; and unfair to the Morning Music Mr. Rhys Sale, president of Ford Motor Company of Canada, has said in a Toronto address that the increasing purchase of European cars in Canada "is a matter of deep concern to Canadian "manufacturers, to their employes, and to the thousands of workers in primary and secondary industries which supply materials and components for Canadian -built motor vehicles." Mr.

Sale has some reasons for expressing concern. A few years ago the imports of automobiles from Britain and continental Europe were negligible, but this is no longer the case. Foreign cars are becoming steadily more popular, and it is significant that the same trend Is now apparent in the United States In spite of an unsatisfactory year fo) many of the domestic makes. Several reasons have been advanced for this sudden climb. Small size and economic operation of most of the imports hardly explain it, because there is nothing new about these features.

It is more probable that overseas manufacturers have at last profited from their earlier mistakes, and are now providing better service and also designs that North Americans like better. Wherp Club, which prides itself upon tri umphs much more worthy than that credited to it by your headline writer. FRANCES BARWICK the Republicans, that is. In New York, the one hopeful Republican candidate, Nelson Rockefeller, running for governor, has had to firmly disown his connection with attacks on labor, whose votes he needs. Improved As a result, one Democratic governor, running for his sixth terrr in Michigan, Mennen Williams, will be in an improved position to contend for the presidential nomination in 1960.

And one other governor, popular in northern circles, and from the highly industrialized state of New Jersey, Gov. Robert Meyner, may be helped in his future ambitions by this apparent return of labor to full support of Democratic ranks. Aside from this the only other place the Republicans appear to be in trouble is la the farm belt, according again to the New York Times survey and that by political forecaster Samuel Lu-bell. The midwest farmers generally Republican, are doing ail right financially, but they're unhappy with Washington farm policy. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson has been stumping valiantly, and if he can help overcome this trend, his hat will be in the ring for a vice presidential try in 1960.

vants a small or medium-sized motor ear. But it is evident that, especially as traffic and parking conditions in the bigger cities become more difficult, a larger number of people are turning to the more compact vehicles. Some North American manufacturers, recognizing the existence of a substantial iemand, are trying to meet it themselves ind are thereby competing with the European products. Others may hesitate to make, the investment required before the trend becomes a little clearer. These are not simple decisions to But it might be better for a top executive like Mr.

Sale to state the problem in such terms rather than to suggest to Canadians, none too subtly, that they are doing something unpatriotic when they buy a motor car not made in Canada. Ottawa. at odds on the issue. These political schisms will all have some effect on candidates whose ears are now to the ground, not only, to catch the forecasts of tomorrow's results, but to hear those which relate to 1960's presidential conventions. The Gap Actually vhf gap between the northern and southern Democrats is neither so serious nor so immediate that it will damage the party in this election.

But it may produce trouble for 1960. The Democratic gap has been present for some time, but with the prospect that a fair number of northern DemocaU miy enter Congress this fall, the party leaders are accenting the positive, the liberal face of the Democratic Party. When the chairman of the national party committee, Paul Butler, recently invited those who can't support the Supreme Court's desegregation decision to step out of the party, he rubbed most southern conservatives the wrong way. But although Mr. Nixon and other Republicans jumped on this as another example of how those No Accusations Editor, Citizen: I heard Mr.

did not embark on the paroxysm frenzy which Moscow Bessin in his radio address Oct. turned on Pasternak. Strange 22. He a no accusations whatsoever against the Mayor or members of the Board of Con This is all the more strange trol, or City Council. What I clearly heard him say was that because of the rumors going around, the Mayor and Board when one observes that in awarding Pasternak the prize "for his.

important contributions both to contemporary poetry and to the great Russian narrative tradition" it is the author's poetry that is mentioned first in the of Control should take steps to Carelessness With Fire In The Woods investigate whether civic officials, whether they be members of the School Board or otherwise, have made money on land deals where schools have been built citation. In this regard The Times ob serves: It was as a poet that or services extended. he originally became known, even I remember clearly the broad As Others See It cast that Charlotte Whitton made before the First World War, and his reputation as a poet will stand even without his prose." the previous Sunday in which she asked why a school was being built ou the Base Line Road only 150 feet from the city lim The Times, however, also re Too Much Leisure From The Reglna Leader-Post gards Pasternak's "Doctor Zhi its and she suggested that an in vago" as "almost a great archaeological discovery. Here is the true voice of Russian vestigation be made as to who owned the land. It is my con tention that when two people It is calculated that man-caused fires make up about 85 percent of the total outbreaks, or a slightly higher proportion than In 1957.

Looking over the records, forest projection authorities note that the average 'ire size (down to 24 acres in 1958) is howing a gradual decrease over the years, and some of them are Inclined to think that progress is being made in prevention, detection and control. This is heartening, but on the other side there is the fact that the sense of responsibility doesn't show too much sign of improving. "The extent of human culpability," says the forest protection division at Toronto, "is seen as proof of need for continued and expanded education of the public generally and the camping, fishing and hunting public in particular in the Importance of using utmost care with fire in all forms at all times in the wooded areas." The official report on Ontario's 1958 forest fire losses Is that they were less than last year's, in terms of acreage burned over, and far below the 10-year from 1947 to 1956. The fire season Is reckoned to run from Apri 1 to Oct. 31, although it can be extender if circumstances warrant.

Preliminary figures show 38,700 acre; burned by 1,529 fires, compared with a 10-year average of 204,807 acres and 1,388 fires. Thus, while the acreage figure is sharply down from that 1947-56 average, the number of fires reported this season is actually greater. The fires were numerous but small, and it is apparent that few of them got out of hand. For this a relatively wet season must have been largely responsible and this is taking nothing away from the vigilance and efficiency of the provincial fire-fighting organization. I The weather co-operated, but human Carelessness was as pronounced as ever.

literature, long buried or muffled, brought suddenly to light." icinuviauv; inuaaia nui update, the South is not going to break away over this issue. Militating against a third party right now, is the fact that any southern congressman who joined it would lose his seniority rights on the major committees they now control. Besides, the Senate majority leader, Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas, wants the split mended for 1960. when he will be one of ONCE OVER LIGHTLY By T.D.F.

such as Miss Whitton and Mr. There is little doubt that Pas Bessin have suggested that an ternak will remain a Russian investigation be made as to own prisoner in body and intellect, ership of land that something should be done in this and only an unlikely Khruschev-ian miracle would ever permit I read in the Saturday Even One economist has predicted that in less than 20 years a worker will be allowed to work as few as 10 hours a week to prevent an army of unemployed from walking the streets. At first glance the 10-hour 'veek might appear to be a wonderf il prospect. But a second gltnce has the experts worrying about the problem of what people do with all the time on their hands. Doctors watch the growing shadow of leisure time, overtaking man's working hours with apprehension.

They realize that the big problem of the future will be how to turn these leisure hours to healthful purpose. They name boredom today as the number one cause of neurosis ing Post where William Penn said, "It is he who is in the wrong that first gets I am referring to the attack by the Mayor on Mr. Bessin claim ing that he vilified him and was slanderous. This is definitely not the way I heard it. GEORGE R.

GRANT Sports Of Two Continents Ottawa. Over In Yugoslavia, and throughout is a profound gulf between the two Testimony Editor, Citizen: The particular For $125 the insomnia victim can now buy a gadget to reproduce the sleep-inducing sound of gurgling waters. Or who's for picking up a leaky bathroom tank in a junk-shop for a couple of bucks? One of the fans has sent up directions on "How to Start an Amateur Glee Club." All we need now is for some of you guys to tip us off on how to stop one! Any day now, candidates in swarms will be after your "vote and influence." But lacking the latter, your liT ol' vote will do. tail end of the motor car, emerging from the "rooster" which is the forerunner of many ailments. Even today, criminologists insist that increased leisure hours are to blame for the rise in juvenile delinquency and crime in general.

These are problems that will have to be solved in the future. Meantime the treadmill of today's work-a-day world poses fewer problems and may yet turn out to be a paradise unrecognized and unappreciated. Home Standards ad housing, poor environment and poverty do not necessarily produce teen-age criminals. From such adverse conditions have sprung men and women who were a credit to their community and nation, and almost invariably behind each one is a story of parents who, however bitter their daily struggle to make a living, never allowed their standards of right and wrong to be corroded. Brantford Expositor Student's Job It is very largely in the elementary and secondary schools, but also in the home, that the hard truth must be driven home: no one can learn for the student.

The lesson should be confirmed at the university but in many cases it is not; there are university teachers who spoon-feed with prcdigested masses information and exprct this material to return to its original source at examination time. Edmonton Journal testimony to which I was referring (Citizen, Oct. 23! when I staled that Dr. Murray Heit's faith in the integrity of his pro him to step those few miles outside Russia to receive the award In Stockholm and still return to Russia. The Pasternak story is the old Russian literary theme of turning happiness into tragedy the more so because it is real.

But the real tragedy is Russia's. 'the bible MESSAGE (From the King James Version) Woe unto him that slriveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest ihou? or thy work, He hath no hands? Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begcttcst thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brougnt forth? Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Abk me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. I have mae the earth, and created man uprn it: even my hands have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. (Isaiah 45: 9-12.) fessional association would be jolted if he would read the testi mony given to the House Select Committee to investigate the use -1 JhUL cf chemicals in foods (U.S fol lows: continents in a sports sense.

Soccer and track and field sports are trans-Atlantic in scope; so nowadays is Ice hockey. Skiing, swimming, tennis and golf are also popular in both continents. 1 But the great mass spectator sports in the United Stales remain football and baseball, to which Europeans continue Indifferent. And since soccer has now become the most widely distributed of all sports throughout the world, it would seem that in some major sporting respects the U.S. (like Canada) dwells in relative isolation.

So far as Canada is concerned, however, the post-war influx of Immigrants from i'urope may be changing this situacipn, for they have begun to stimulate Interest here in the game of soccer. And perhaps chess as well. All this should do no harm to the cause of international understanding. Europe for that matter, the name of Mickey Mantle means nothing. But the name of Bobby Fischer means much to a good many people.

Even in his own United States 15-year-old Bobby Fischer, now a grand master of chess, isn't a figure of renown, certainly not like the master swatter of baseballs. Of course, the New York Yankees have never performed in Yugoslavia, whereas Grand Master Fischer has, to the amazement of all. His latest accolades were bestowed at the recent International chess tournament held In that country. This is not to suggest that Europeans are absorbed in chess to the exclusion "dt other amusements. But there are a number of sports in which they have little or no Baseball 13 one of these, and football as generally understood in both the United States and Canada Is anotheV.

In this respect there, V. A. Kleinfcld, chief commit tee counsel. "Has any research been done to determine the toxic effects of fluorides on older-age groups?" Dr. J.

W. Knutson, D.D.S., Di- ision of Dental Publir. Health, stage, is beginning to look "pea-cocky!" One can't help wondering how many "little red school-houses" could have been built for the fabulous cost of one of our modern scats of 3-R learning. Night club operators say women are more liberal than men their applause of the scantily-clad dancer. IC 21 Public Health Service.

"No! The studies have been concerned with children but not adults." (P. 1194). II. W. MASON Ottawa.

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