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61st YEAR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1964 NO. 75 The Third Column So I Am hi Dief Still The Chief By Doreen Mowerj rKXHOLD OLD-TIME clutter is crowding back. The words fairly leaped from the pages of a recent issue of one of America's leading magazines. I've been in style all along and didn't realize it.

I am one of the avant-garde heralding the newest trend in home-decorating. I needed no urging to continue reading the article. It drew me like a magnet. "Clutter is currently giving some of the most up-to-date U.S. living rooms the air of an elegant Victorian parlor, or of a frantic Far Eastern bazaar." Clutter has been giving our home that look of distinction for years.

I can confirm the fact by glancing at my dining-room buffet: a carelessly elegant hodge-podge of old mittens, school-books, pewter salt and pepper shakers, bobby pins and carbon paper. I read on: "No matter how unlike-lv a mixture of period and place the clutter may be. the one thing it must be is personal." i f- "Could we have that lat bit! again, sir where you do the triple somersault singing, 'Show Me The Way To Go Home? The American-French Argument BEFORE THE Progressive Conservative Party convention at Ottawa, Mr. John G. Diefenbaker gave a masterly performance in his best role, that of counsel for the defence.

In this case, it was in defence of his party leadership. With piercing eye. stabbing finger, wagging head and histrionic flight, Mr. Diefenbaker swayed the jury that was comprised of the delegates at the convention. With the exception of a comparative handful of determined rebels, those who were not already convinced by the campaign Mr.

Diefenbaker has been waging since last fall in support of his leadership were won over. What the result would have been if a secret ballot had been taken, no one can say. Mr. Diefenbaker's closest supporters" made sure that no secret ballot was taken. But he probably would have won overwhelmingly in a secret ballot, too, because the truth is that no alternative to him appeared.

Mr. Hees, Mr. Fulton and Mr. Fleming (who could have been a much better minister of finance than Mr. Diefenbaker permitted him to bel have vanished from the federal political scene.

The wounds suffered in the cabinet debacle of February, 1963, have not healed. Mr. Balcer is not well known outside Quebec. Premier Roblin of Mani Enforcement "THE SUMMER beach industry will 1 come of age in Alberta if the province's new health regulations are rigorously forced, and only if. The past can't be disregarded, if only to emphasize the problem ahead.

For years. Alberta has had on paper a reasonably stringent code regulating the conduct of the commercial beach business. The trouble was almost complete failure to enforce it. Part of the harvest of neglect was a long list of utterly senseless fatalities. If any new-rules are not intended to be enforced, they should be removed.

The government was to blame in part, but so was the industry for flagrantly disregarding rules conceived in the public interest. The beach operators now have to contend with vastly more complex regulations. A Small Start MR. FRED Colborne announced yesterday that more than 200 laborers in the public works department have been released into private employment in the past year. The minister of public works explained that general contractors had made representations to the government asking that private enterprise receive a larger share of government projects.

"And I agreed," said Mr. Colborne. "It is more in keeping with the Social Credit philosophy of private enterprise." The minister also said that his department's architectural staff is "Ominous POLITICIANS on all levels should heed the warning given by Mr. J. T.

Bryden at Toronto this week. The president of the North American Life Assurance Company said that the "frantic scramble" for tax revenues is "an ominous spectacle." It is indeed. Government spending since 1949 has been increasing faster than the rate of the nation's productivity. The total spending on all levels is now 32 per cent of the Gross National Valuable the doors and it does not have that indispensable part of any sound strategy, a fall-back position. This is where General de Gaulle is in fact rendering the United States a signal service.

He is opening the door to the possibility that Southeast Asia can be saved from Chinese conquest by political developments which can be stimulated and by diplomatic bargaining which can be undertaken. It is said in Washington that this is improbable, that North Vietnam which is now under Chinese domination can never be pried loose and will never participate in the neutralization of the whole region. How can those who say this really know it? It is not true that once a country is dominated by a big communist state, it is forever dominated. We have seen Finland and Yugoslavia and in a measure the other European satellites gain an increasing measure of national independence. Who is to say that these motives and impulses will not work on the borders of China as they are now working on the borders of Russia? In any event, the French, who probably know more about North Vietnam than all other Western countries, believe that the old fear of Chinese domination is still present in North Vietnam.

If the French are right, it would be folly not to encourage them to see whether they can create in Hanoi an opening to the West. We know that in communist Europe the two countries which have been first to achieve a large degree of national independence are the two Finland and Yugoslavia which have physical contact with the West. Hanoi in North Vietnam is a port and is accessible to ships from all the world. In all this the U.S. should not confuse itself with the notion that General de Gaulle has offered a "plan" for the neutralization of Southeast Asia which it must accept or reject.

It must not be in too much of a hurry. General de Gaulle has not proposed a plan. He has proposed a line of policy and a mode of thinking which the U.S. cannot afford to dismiss lightly. (Copyright) toba and Premier Robarts of Ontario have not yet come to the point of plunging into the federal field.

Outside of the prairies. Mr. Hamilton enjoys little or no support as a potential leader. Who but Mr. Diefenbaker at this stage of the party's tangled fortunes? Indicative of the dissension and division within the party was the action of the convention yesterday in throwing out the tax-cut and tax-incentive resolutions which had been at least partially endorsed by Mr.

Diefenbaker. The delegates soberly heeded the warning of Dr. Clark, an economics professor, that the proposals would mean a billion-dollar deficit. Mr. Diefenbaker has realized his passionate desire to remain the leader of the Conservative Party.

But that does not mean he will achieve his other passionate ambition: to become again the prime minister of Canada. It is hard to believe that the Canadian people would again trust him to manage their affairs which he mismanaged for so long. It may not be too much to say that the Conservative Party lost the next federal election in its vote on the leadership Tuesday. As one rebel delegate put it bitterly: Mr. Diefenbaker led the party out of the wilderness but then he led it right back in.

Is The Key They are necessary. The public demand for recreational facilities has mushroomed. The Edmonton region, rather far from major lakes but surrounded by countless small ones, has proven a lucrative market for enterprising beach owners. From now on, they must provide far more than a man at the gate to take admission fees and someone else to man the refreshment stand. Having obtained the benefits of private enterprise, they must also assume the obligations protection of the health and lives of their customers.

The government would be gravely remiss if it should in any way fail in the enforcement of its regulations. Or permit them to be compromised. And it would be beneficial to add another prohibition: no dogs allowed in water frequented by bathers. But Welcome being reduced by a process of natural erosion: no one is being dismissed but no one is being rehired to replace those who leave of their own volition. It is to be hoped that all the ministers will co.ne to share- Mr.

Colborne's interpretation of Social Credit philosophy. The total of provincial government employees has increased steadily in recent years, and it may be wondered how many of these are doing jobs that would be better left to private enterprise better for the government. And better for the taxpayers of Alberta. Spectacle' Product (the value of all goods and services). How long can the trend continue before job-producing private enterprise is throttled? Not very much longer, we may be sure.

As Mr. Bryden said, we obviously can't do at once all the desirable things we would like to do. We can't go on supporting the politicians' cynical method of bribing us with our own money in order to win our votes. A firm system of priorities on government spending must be established. Otherwise, we are courting disaster.

Agency tended to a new field to lending capital to new industries having proven potential. Governmental ventures of this sort ought to be regarded with a cautious eye and the public interest must be protected. At the same time, the proposal is in keeping with a national trend. And the board's own record in its limited field is probably the best recommendation for its expansion. While changes are being made moreover, surely the board could be given a name suggestive of its function industrial development in Alberta.

If Canada follows President Johnson's example of declaring war on poverty, an acquaintance says his experience in this field entitles him to at least the rank of brigadier. OUR HOME has always had that personal touch. The book-case is a prime example. It is dominated by the home-made sailing boat my husband played with when a little boy, the water-stained and slightly grimy sails drooping gently against a polished piece of cypress wood, reminiscent of a Georgian holiday. An intricately hard-carved figurine of an Austrian burgher adds an interesting note to the decor; and in the foreground stands a pair of brass book-ends that once belonged to my.

grandmother replicas of the Cathedral at Rheims. "Clutter," continues the article, "cannot be purchased by the running foot at some antique shop." I agree. My clutter has been the result of a life-time oi collecting by a person with the instincts of an indiscriminate pack-rat. Sometimes it is piled willy-nilly-onto every handy surface." I asree with enthusiasm. Look at my kitchen: a masterpiece of the "willy-nilly" decorating trend if I ever saw one.

Jumbled there in careless splendor is an old jack-knife, a silver bowl of artificial fruit, a book of games my daughter borrowed from her CGIT leader and neglected to return; a sad little notice that we are overdrawn at the bank again; a wrist-watch, and the inevitable collection of bobby-pins and one forlorn mitten. I returned to my magazine, confident in the knowledge that I am completely in line with' America's newest home-decorating trend. "What folly to gather objects because the sight of them pleases us and then to conceal them." Exactly. My battered Indian brass inkstand, brightly enamelled in vivid blues, yellows and red, contrasts pleasantly with the Eskimo carving my husband brought back from the Arctic. Plus the trio of English figurines, Mother.

Father and Baby Bear, holding their bowls of porridge. I hoard old buttons, old mittens, pewter and brass, bobby-pins and early Canadiana, with an incurable passion. rlE WHOLE family helps Chris collect pretty stones on family fishing trips; and presses wild flowers. Anne collects plastic discs from jello packages, and pheasant's tail-feathers. Franky collects odd bits of boards, rusty nails, bits of string and marbles.

My husband brings home elk antlers, and bears' claws, fishing reels and guns. Everybody at our house collects everything. Or as the article states, our home is "a mixture of memorabilia." Maybe the living-room doesn't burst with "precious Eighteenth Century maybe our rocker is made to seem busy," with an artlessly tossed ski jacket draped across it instead of "throwing a fringed rug over one arm." But we live in our house, and we like it that way. I'm truly grateful to the author of that magazine article. I hadn't realized I was leading the trend.

And I congratulated myself for not being fooled for a moment by "modernism's clinical clean sweep." I survey my home with the professional interest of someone who suddenly realizes she is not only "with it," but was actually years ahead of it. "Dedicated clutter-bug," said that magazine. That's me. Catastrophe Evening Standard, London At the same moment, three drivers near Maidenhead saw a black cat run across the road. Since all three are English and therefore animal lovers, they tried to avoid hitting the cat.

The first car hit a bridge, the second hit a wall, and the third hit the second. But the motorists accomplished their mission: the cat, safe and found, promptly WASHINGTON A STUDY of what General de Gaulle said last week, shows, I believe, that the crucial difference between the U.S. and France is about the realities in Asia. They do not differ about ideals and ideologies, or about aims, purposes and hopes. The U.S.

is not build a new American empire on the mainland of Asia, and France is not trying to recover the empire which she lost. The two nations differ about how to deal with the facts with the fact that the Red government in Peking rules over the 700,000,000 Chinese on the mainland, with the fact that the neighboring countries in Southeast Asia are weak and vulnerable, with the fact that Red China is an expanding and aggressive power. These differences come to a sharp focus in the immediate and practical problem of the civil war in Vietnam. But even here, the U.S. and France are agreed in their purposes.

France and the United States are both concerned to save Southeast Asia from a conquest by the Red Chinese. The crux of their differences is how, not whether, to save Southeast Asia. The American view is that Southeast Asia can be saved only if there is a strong government in Saigon which is able to win the civil war. Only after military victory can any larger negotiated settlement be talked about, in fact even considered. For any suggestion that the United States is considering negotiation will destroy the fighting morale of the South Vietnamese and precipitate in the whole region a general collapse of all resistance to Red China.

On the other hand, General de Gaulle's view is that there cannot Letters To Margarine Color Sir: I should like to add my complaint regarding coloring margarine differently from butter. What is the matter with the government? Do they think the other provinces, which sell it colored, are queer? One can go there and buy it anytime and I can't see where it hurts anyone. Those who are able to buy butter do so. Those who cannot afford butter don't have to be humiliated by having off color margarine on their tables. I trust our government will decide to have it colored properly or else leave it as it is, or else give way to a new government.

User of Margarine 93rd Street Voice Of Youth Sir: There has been much discussion recently about giving the vote to eighteen-year-olds in federal elections. We believe that this wouldn't be in the best interest of our country, because most teenagers are too immature to understand the complicated issues involved in elections. They seem to be more naturally interested in dancing, parties, dating and cars than in the serious problems that face our country. Would they suddenly change when given the privilege of voting? Teenagers, we think, are too easily impressed with the habits, dress, fads (beatle haircuts, for example), and opinions of others. Also they are much too concerned with other people's reactions to their own viewpoint.

This means that they will very likely vote for the same candidate that their parents or companions choose, rather than use their own judgment. Voting is a privilege that should be earned. One must be well informed through education and ex By Woter Lippmann Lm Angeles Tlmei Syndicott be a military solution of the Vietnamese civil war. This is what he told President Kennedy in 1961. Our answer to this has been that the U.S.

has no alternative but to keep on trying to win the war. General de Gaulle's reply to this is that the situation is deteriorating toward a disaster which will leave the U.S. an intolerable choice between a humiliating withdrawal and engaging in a large war, at least as large as the Korean War. The time to begin negotiations is while the U.S. position is still strong; that is to say, while there is an undefeated South Vietnamese army and while so much of the country is still in non-communist hands.

General de Gaulle's argument is unanswerable unless the U.S. is able to persuade itself that the civil war can be won. The official American view is that the U.S. has to say unreservedly that the war will be won and refuse to think about what it will do if it cannot be won. This is the critical weakness of U.S.

policy in Southeast Asia: not that the U.S. is training and equipping the anti-communists to fight the communists, but that while it is doing so, this is the only policy the U.S. has. If it is not a winning policy, then all is lost. The U.S.

has staked everything on one card. This is a reckless and unstales-manlike gamble. A competent statesman, like any competent military strategist, never locks himself into a commitment where there is no other position on which he can fall back. In Southeast Asia the U.S. has bolted The Editor perience before one has the right to make decisions that affect other citizens.

Education can be gained through books but experience comes only with time, and our answer to' those eighteen-year-old3 who feel that they are already prepared is that they will be better prepared when they are twenty-one. Meanwhile, we realize that there are serious responsibilities attached to voting, and we have agreed almost unanimously to wait patiently for nine more years before shouldering the precious burden of the franchise. Grade 7 St. Edmund's School 130th Avenue Nancy Drew Book? Sir: I should like to comment on the article written about Carolyn Keene's books, the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. Many children in Forest Heights School have read the article written about the books, and are very disappointed in it.

Nancy Drew books are not rubbish, are not boring, and are not distracting children from reading. In fact nearly 70 per cent of all grade four, five and six pupils read them in our school. Has Peggy Paulson ever read a Nancy Drew Book? Does she know what children in Edmonton like to read? Some of our best students read Nancy Drew Books and it gives them great enjoyment. Sharon Charney. 80th Street.

Letter! should be brief end deal with topics of general Interest. The may be puhiithed under a pseudonym but the writer must sign nil name end give his eddrets as evidenr of pood faith. The Journal reserves the right te undent any latter. 50 Years A20 From The Journal Files Skaters on McKernan Lake feel the bite of the city's continuing austerity program. For some time, a band has been paid $30 a week to play at the lake.

Without explanation, the payments have been stopped. The bandmaster says the city owes him $fiO because two weeks elapsed between the city's decision and its communication to him. Mme. Clara Butt, "the world's greatest contralto," will sing for Edmonton audiences next month at the Empire Theatre. Residents of the 142nd Street district are vigorously protesting a cut in street railway service to once an hour.

Edmonton city council decides to push ahead with a $3,000,000 program of water and sewer extensions, even though it has no certainty the money can be raised or that ratepayers approve. The program is designed to provide for a city having a population of 200,000. Ratepayers shortly will asked to approve the appropriate money bylaws. Edmonton is stalled on a street addressing system. Most properties now have been fitted with addresses based on the numerical grid system.

However, the old number-and-name system still is in offrial use. And the city council is undecided whether to call a plebiscite or reject the grid lystem outright. MR. A.R. PATRICK, the Alberta minister of industry and development, forecasts new legislation bringing the provincial Marketing Board Act up to date.

This is badly needed. To make it work, the old act has virtually been turned inside out. Its story began before the Second World War in the hey-day of radical Social Credit. Like the government itself, it has become a model of orthodoxy and has been doing an excellent job. The board's chief function these days is to encourage industrial development in Alberta, even to the point of acquiring raw materials for fledgling industries.

In this, it has been extraordinarily successful and taxpayers haven't lost a cent on its operation. No, according to Mr. Patrick, ths board's operation may be ex.