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The Ottawa Journal Published by The Journal Publishing Co. of OtUw Ltd. 36S Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa. Ontario TUESDAY, JULY 11. 1972 Twilight Over Ulster, No one knew better than Britain's man in Northern Ireland, William White-Jaw, how fragile was the truce which he had so delicately worked out.

Though the lulling never really stopped, for two weeks there were no bombings and no burnings and no wild shooting. The deaths which occurred were murders or, as each side likes to put jt, "executions." It was possible to hope, barely that somehow Mr. Whitelaw's magic might work long enough to get some meaningful talks going. Now not only has the truce been formally ended by the IRA and the gunmen were obviously looking fort an occasion to justify the resumption of terror but the situation has sunk closer to the depths of full civil war than at any time since Ulster's agony began. The difference is that Mr.

Whitelaw is how confronted with two bodies of ruthless, lawless men. At the beginning the IRA was the only really organized group. The Protestant Ulster Defence Association (UDA) has grown in mili-' tancy, feeding on extremism and fear, so thai it has become force as stubborn and brutish as the IRA. Mr. Whitelaw cannot "deal" with one side and appear to make concessions, however reasonable they may be, with-; out simultaneously enraging the other.

Power may be slipping away from Mr. Whitelaw and the British authorities to the terrorists If-this- happens it-makes little difference whether Britain sends in 500 or 5000 more troops. Civil war will" not be prevented if enough Irishmen want to fight it out. The tragedy is that 85 per cent, 90 per cent, or perhaps more, of Northern Irishmen are moderates who want to live in peace with their neighbors. But as Mr.

Whitelaw said just before the truce was shattered, "the moderates are vanishing just when they should speak out they have no leaders in sight." The courageous Mr. Whitelaw was back in Belfast yesterday after saying to the British Parliament: "I hope it is not too late even for the IRA Pro-. visionals to think again." That implies the IRA has in fact been thinking. If it has, they have been only wild thoughts of the forcible union of Ulster with the Irish Republic; only thoughts of more suffering, more blood-: shed and more revenge. Ulster has had too many such thoughts.

The Celtic twilight which now seems to be falling over Ulster, is as melancholy a time as ever came to this star-crossed land. What's Inside Counts Pollution Probe at the University of Toronto launched a province-wide cam paign last week against the use of two new types of disposable milk jugs. The environmental group offers an impressive argument as to why consumers should not buy milk that comes in I non-returnable containers. It is said that in Toronto alone the new containers would increase the cost of garbage col- lection by more than $116,000 a year. Each three-quart jug would cost the consumer six cents more than the re-i usable varity.

But Pollution Probe's battle of the jug, important as it may be, only touches the surface of the whole North American throwaway packaging problem. The convenience of the flip-top box, I the zip-open can and the shatter-proof bottle moves a product, Canadians and Americans have come i to expect over-packaged wares as a kind of The extra cost, and the waste of resources and the disposal problem have become entirely second- ary to convenience. Environment Minister James Auld now says regulations banning non-re- I turnable three-quart jugs have been drafted. But the whole answer is not legislation, though jn some cases it may be useful. Nor is the whole answer a better system of reclaiming and re-1 using solid waste, though we should be doing much better at that.

What is needed is a basic shift of public attitude, a return to the days when we were more concerned with what was in a package than its shape or color. Manufacturers have shown that will quickly give the public what the majority want. Hijackers Don't Learn It can only be a fond hope that the shooting of hijackers will by itself end the epidemic facing United States airlines. The reverse seems as likely because each abortive hijacking and the attendant publicity around apparently triggers new attempts. Only Israel has succeeded in making its national airline hijack proof but this has taken wartime measures and mentality.

The tough Israeli techniques of repeated and thorough searches would almost paralyze domestic air traffic in North. America. Air travellers would still prefer to gamble that a hijacking will occur on someone else's flight than, to put up with delays and inconvenience. The elimination of sanctuaries for hijackers is often advocated. Perhaps there would be fewer attempts if hijackers knew there was no place in the world they could go where they would not be sent back to their home country; International co-operation eliminated sea piracy.

But even if all nations did agree to return all political hijackers to fate trial, only part of the problem would be met. -The major threat is from crackpots and sick minds, demented or twisted persons seeking a moment in the sun, revenge against real or imagined wrongs, or a platform for a cause. Until some better method is found to spot -them on the ramp or at the ticket counter a modified application of the Israeli system appears the only Certainly the worldwide pilot strike and some pious talk from UN haven't helped. Fischer vs. Spassky -At Last What a spectacle Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky have' made of their world chess championship series even before the first move.

The little war of nerves and diplomatic one-upmanship they have been playing for almost two weeks now might be something we'd expect in advance of the Russia-Canada hockey 'series but never, never to be connected to the medieval gentleman's game of chess. Of course, there's nothing traditional about this series of chess matches. World-wide publicity, television lights and rights, a quarter of a million dollars in prize money and even bookmaker's odds (5 to 2 in favor of Fischer) have rocketed chess into the "big league" of sport. Those of us who have only a passing primary knowledge, or none at all, of the game will probably find ourselves following the 24-match series with uncommon interest. Despite his typical prima donna performance, our heart is with the young Mr.

Fischer. Besides, we've got a hot tip from a chap who plays the game and says he knows a man who knows a man who once saw Fischer play and a cinch to win! Notes and Comment "Jazz is not a What, it's a How. If it was 'a What, you could teach 'em a What; but you can't teach 'em. a How." Don Burrows, dean of jazz in Australia, explaining why jazz is more readily caught than taught. The Thunder Bay News-Chrom'cie wonders why some don't "gain fame and fortune by teaching cutworms to like dandelions?" It's not safe to put old furniture on the verandah anymore.

Garbagemen might mistake it for junk. Mayor Benoit isn't just saying he's "superman." According to Alderman St. Germain, he's demonstrating it by heaving telephone poles and sawing logs in ceremonial duties. Maybe he'll apply some of that muscle to the tax bills. A word of caution to women seeking their share of executive jobs: The U.S.

Heart and Lung Institute says that an 11 per cent increase in heart attacks among women in the past seven years can be partly attributed to the increase in the jobs they have taken from men. An elderly friend says that when fie was a teenager he knew what life was all about "but somewhere along the line doubt reared its ugly head." To some sport js business. But then to others business is a sport. McGovern Doesn't Need Threats To Win Nomination MIAMI BEACH. JN HIS interview with Rich-ard Meryman in Life, magazine, George McGovern says he 'thinks be has "earned" the Democratic Presidential nomination and adds that if the old estab- lished politicians gang Hp and deny it to him, "I would run an independent or support somebody else on an independent ticket." Well, it's easy to understand the Senator's anxiety about all the last-minute manoeuvring here to stop especially after the Supreme Court refused to hand him all 271 Cali- fornia, but this is nothing less than a threat to throw the election to Richard and it should be withdrawn.

First, McGovern has been the leader in arguing for a more representative and open convention to pick the candi- public life and a better chance than most of narrowing the serious gap between the generations and between the rich and the poor. It is true that he has put forward proposals for cutting defence expenditures, ending the war and redistributing the wealth of the nation that have turned off many voters, put his party on the defensive and date, but nowthe's trying to bag the prize before the. dele-made his policies, rather than gates can even answer the President Nixon's, the domi-roll-call and threatening to nant controversy. -bolt the party if he doesn't get his way. Second, McGovern's chances of winning.

the nomination by a fair and open vote of the are very good, and his chances of winning the election, if he threatens and infuriates the Meanys and the Daleys and the other old pros, are very bad. prNALLY, the main pur- pose of the Democratic party assembled -here in convention is not to, reward McGovern for winning primary elections, which do not necessarily represent his strength in the nation as a whole, but to pile the man who has the best chance to win in November. This is obviously a matter of opinion. My own is that the Democrats cannot win unless they manage to organize, reg- By i I James Reston gUT this Joes not prove that he has lost more voters than" he has gained Jy insisting on fundamental changes in the allocation of the nation's resources. He has been sloppy with his arithmetic, but he has fore-'seen the coming issues of tax and welfare reform, defence expenditures, unemployment, inflation, health Insurance and education, and even if he loses by facing these hard and fundamental questions, an election fought out on these realities will at least clarify the problems and purposes of the nation.

After all, what Americans are doing in Miami Beach now and in August is picking a President of the United States who will preside over the 200th anniversary or the ister and win the allegiance of 107 1 the vast mninritv nf the 35 1 majority million newly eligible voters and that McGovern has a better chance of doing this now than any of the other candidates, but many more knowledgeable observers disagree. Besides, George McGovern has come to the top of the heap not by issuing threats but by impressing a' great many voters that be is a fair and straight man with a good strong convictions about the need to change the mood and the pre siding issues of America's 25 Years Ago From Tht Journal of July to, 1M7. yHE Commons voted 102 to 69 to defeat a CCF motion which would increase sessional indemnities for government and opposition It was reported that Soviet pressure forced Czechoslova -kia from participation in the European Economic Conference in Paris. George Howard Ellis was appointed assistant director of the Canadian Travel Bureau in Ottawa. A bill was introduced in the Commons to revise the royal title of Emperor of India.

This was to conform to the Indian Independence Bill. Revenue Minister C. D. Howe said that in 194647 83 Few generations of Americans have had the opportunity of participating in a ceremony of comparable historic importance, and there is obviously much to be done and much to be changed in their common life if they are to have a more united people and a more feet union on July 4, 1976. Americans are not united now.

They are divided on the war, on the role of the nation in the world, on the control of their population and the maintenance of their health Then and Ndw Canadians had been given research grants totalling $155,569. With and Today Ben Wicks If you're voting McGovern and I'm voting Humphey, why are we going to the 'and environment U.S. cities are bankrupt and overwhelmed with problems, and it is hard to find any large sector of Americans, rich or young or old, black or white, factory worker or farmer, that is not restless and dissatisified with the present state of U.S. public affairs. This is really the great issue to be tackled in these coming tour years before the 200th anniversary of the Declaration, and it gives Americans some guidance on what kind of lead- ership the nation requires.

Is this a time for innovation or for conservative leadership? So far in this election year, however, and certainly here in Miami Beach, Americans have heard very little about these larger purposes of the election. 1 Instead, what they are getting are arguments over the legalities of the primary votes and the actions of the credentials committee, and, from Secretary of Defence' Laird, the morality of militarism. And now from George McGovern comes threats of an independent race. Well, democracy is not a tidy process, and much of this convention' manoeuvring was probably unavoidable, but Americans have had government by manipulation under bath Johnston and Nixon, and McGovern is not likely to win acceptance of his "New politics" if he reverts to the old techniques. (c) New York Times Other Views PEARSON'S WARNING Kitchener-Waterloo Record When Lester Pearson, former prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner, offered some advice.

to Washington about bow it could improve its attitude to Canada, it was not just another case of a Canadian nationalist giving voice to his frustrations at this country's junior position in the Canadian-American relationship. His summary of the Canadian attitude has that typical blend of Pearsonian goodwill and common and is worth quoting: "We say yes to nationalism and no to chauvinism, yes to co-operation and no to absorption, yes to investment and so to integration and finally yes to independence but no to isolationism." And so say we all. I Letters: 7 "Sorry I didn't see that oil slick!" Tax Judge 'Deprived of Job' Sirs: The recent articles in The-Journal dealing with the Government's refusal to "extend my terra on the Tax Review Board to the normal retirement age of 70 call for some clarification. -Under-the Tax Review Board Act the Tax Board and Tax Review Board are declared to be one and the same body. So, the Tax Ap- peal Board did not go out of existence last December and everything that transpired -during its 22-year existence is relevant to the board under its new I was the only member who, being eligible, did not receive an extension of bis original 10-year term.

The first Chairman withdrew after two years and assumed his duties as a justice. Two members acted, until they' were within a few months of their 75th birthdays. One member, who. is over the normal retirement age of 70 and now bas no duties to perform will be on full pay until his 10-year term expires at the end of J973. Two members served their original 10-year terms plus 5-year extensions.

Three members died in office. Of the three members who were under 70 at the proclamation of the Tax Review Board Act on Dec. 15, 1971, one Liberal appointee was reappointed until age 70, one Conservative reappointed until age 70, the lat-. ter being a French-speaking resident of Quebec and bilingual. being the third mem- ber under 70, was dropped as of March IS, 1972 without any previous warning.

Definitions above statement of facts supports my allegation that Justice Minister Otto Lang and his predecessor in the Justice portfolio, Finance Minister John Turner with -the latter having unquestionably been the prime mover behind the Tax Review Board Act). have both deprived me of my- employment as a tax judge without just cause. In replying to the written question of the Hon. George Hees, Justice Minister Xang stated in part in Hansard' on July 5, 1972 that the new Tax Review Board bad rather different functions than the Tax Appeal Board. I consider that to be a misleading statement.

The same Board is still hearing income tax cases brought by taxpayers against the Minister of National Revenue and is still rendering the same type of judgments as formerly. Beauty is a stately word; a wine glass elm With lofty branch green-garlanded in leaf Has beauty's fair proportion; a true measure Of beauty is a full and garnered sheaf. Love has a sound of towered bells Borne on a wind from valleys grown with grape In a legendary kingdom beyond time. Love wears a tossing plume and crimson cape. Grief sighs.

Ah vain regret for the loved lost. For unbound hair that dims in some sea cave; Fleet foot imprisoned deep beneath the fern; voice that whispers still in rain and wave. Age rustles like old keepsake letters tied With faded ribbon; Its voice a -murmur heard Through panelled walls and, windows curtained close. Age flutters stricken like a wounded bird. LENORE A.

PRATT. Ottawa. The substitution of the word "Review" for in the name of the board would appear to be a change for the sake of change. Tn TVnlvmrr tn Mi question, Mr. Lang probably bad in mind that under the former Income Tax Act it was provided that "the Registrar shall, upon the disposition of an appeal, forward a copy of the decision and the reasons therefore to the minister and the appellant, but that under the Tax Review Board Act the members are relieved from giving written reasons" except wnere uie ooara aeems it in the public interest in any particular case that the reasons given by it be in Apparently, the Tax Review Board is now disposing of praetically all of the tax appeals which come before it in a summary manner without issuing written reasons.

nr my lu-ycar Term came to an end I had had more experience to deal with-tax appeals in a summary manner than at least two of the other three members of the Board (and that comment also applies to the two subsequent appointments) because I had put in my apprenticeship over 10 arduous years. I think that I was entitled to rely on -the Government extending my original 10-year term a further five years and four months to the normal retirement age of 70. J. O. WELDON.

Ottawa. juiy scandal' A few points about the of July 1 on the Hill: The sound system was so bad it wouldn't have mattered how much English commentary had been provided. T- Andre Gagnon is probably Canada's foremost popular piano composer, and any claim that the program was not "bi-cultural" is ridiculous. How does one distinguish the "language" of piano notes? For that matter why not do an "ethnic" head-count of the tens of NAC musicians who accompanied him? Probably heavily English Canadian. Mr.

Gagnon himself apologized in advance for not being able to speak in English. Again, due to a poor microphone all of his commentary was inaudible in any case. I feet that much of "scandal" is nothing but pure simple, bitter and French prejudice that, despite all denials and protestations of goodwill, runs rampant through Ottawa and the Valley where I have lived, by the way, all of my life. "The French are quaint, colorful and fine fellows so long as they speak English and keep the places." I am disgusted and ashamed of the general reaction to this incident, including the demagoguery of the MPs of all parties. Where Andre Gagnon is concerned, Quebec independence must make more sense than it ever did, and it is he who merits an apology for having seen a fine performance eclipsed by the foul outcry that a few words of introduction to various of his works went untranslated.

Unfortunately, it's typical. HUGH DOYLE. .350 Chapel Street. Better Forgotten Sirs: Aren't we making rather a lot of fuss over this National Arts Centre concert on Parliament Hill on July I am beginning to feel ashamed about the hullabaloo. After alLgood music knows no language.

My only complaint is that Andre Gasnon prowled while he spoke angrily and obviously unhappily. I found this very disturbing, hilt UfkAn ti nlntr! ma forgiven. For goodness' sake, let's forget the whole thing. DOROTHY KIRK. 67 Fuller St.

Trendy Canada Sirs: It began with Air Canada. Then came Bell Canada, Statistics Canada, and Information Canada. The new names started trend. They made our national march toward bilingualism much easier! Now we have "Team Canada" as the name for our national hockey team. I find the title not only puzzling, but ridiculous.

Before we know it, the lanaaian nag wiu Decome Flag Canada. The CNR should have evolved Into Rail Canada long ago. And why is there so much fuss about selecting a new name for Dominion Day? "Day Canada" is the obvious choice! RON COLDHAM. 34 Keewatin Cresc..