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J.ETTERROX WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1953 Leader-Post Editorials Leader rt publiiired by Tlie St Refute. D. Rueer. IiLtor; Party Mambar The Canadian Readers 11 ritOF. VV.

11. HARVEY comment LederiPot Ltd, i3 Hamilton B. K-fer, Canaial M-iujer. Praia. Our hie of the Btory 4 0 Democratic Manifesto needed How well is welfare? only In case of slander, libel, obscenity or sedition.

In Russia absolute government monopoly extending to, science and the arts millions spent jamming our radio messages, J. Migration and emigration: With us complete freedom. In Russia Deportations of Balts and otheis with cruelty approaciiuig genocide, Barbed ire and floodlighted boundaries manned by guards with machine guns. 4. Political opponents of the government: With us freedom to organize parties, payment to those elected.

In Russia Debasing confessions of guilt, death by execution or in the long agony of the slave camps. 3. Manual workers: With us right to bargain collectively and right to strike. In Russia strikers shot or sent to slave camps. The conference proponed by Mr.

Diefenbaker can be a major contribution to winning the cold war for the minds of men In Asia and Africa provided that participation in it is limited to countries that embody the ideals of democracy in their daily life and that the declaration proclaims not only freedom's Ideals but freedom's practices. those who do not become Communists, is to create the ini pres-, non that no government statement reliable that we are just as hyprocntical in our talk of freedom and equal right as are the Communists. People the non-industrialied countries do not see the advantages in terms of freedom that are the fruit of democracy. They may submit to a Communist dictatoi ship if they conclude that it is the way of rapid advance tn industry and power. It follows that a declaration of freedom's creed which confined itself to a statement of the ideals of liberty and democracy would be shrugged off by many of the most enlightened Asians and Africans.

What we must do is to assert the liberties that our citizens in fact enjoy. Without laying any cl a I to perfection, we can paint a persuasive picture of the contrasts between the practice of the free world and that of thq Soviet empire. 1. Person accused of crime: With us free trials In open courts In which the accused has the right to question his accusers. In Russia execution after confession eecured by torture and brain ashing.

2. Freedom of speech and press: With us limited for freedom and the evidence tiiat only in demon aiit-s is freedom safe? Naturally. But more important would be the allirmalion that those ideals are realized in the countries making the declaration. Mr. Diefenbakrr is right when he says that the word "democracy has had its meaning distorted by the Communists; but the sam true of "freedom, "peace and all the oilier ideals for which we stand and which tie Communists consistently ignore.

The result of Communist misuse of language has been create more cynics than the world has hitherto known. People everywhere have heaix) the Communists talk of peace, freedom and democracy; but many of them know that Khrushchev denounced Stalin as a cruel and conscienceless tyrant; they know that freedom in Hungary was crushed to death beneath the tanks sent in by Khrushchev. Unfortunately, the Communist propagandists have convinced millions of non-white people of the world that the democracies violate In practice the ideals to which they subscribe in theory. The Communists gather up every minor case of discrimination, every restriction on immigration, and give it a distorted publicity through the length and breadth of Asia and Africa. The result, even in the case of Prime Minister Diefenbaker's call (or a statement of the ideals of freedom should find a ready response throughout the free world.

The suggestion that the statement should come from an international conference is a mark of statesmanship. We have had Socialist Internationals and Communist Internationals; it is time we had a Democratic International. The Communist creed is in circulation throughout the world in Marx's Communist Manifesto. It should be met by a Democratic Manifesto, It is true that the ideals of de-mucrary have been stated again and again by apostles of freedom from Pericles to the present; It is no less true that they are still unknown to more than half of mankind. The value of an international conference lies in the attendant publicity.

It Is unlikely that any statement made by a conference would equal the eloquence or logic of Pericles, Mil-ton, Mill, Locke or Jefferson, but what Pericles said twenty-three centuries ago is not news a declaration of an international conference is. Newspapers will carry it wherever the press is even partly free, and radio will carry to the darkest corners of the Communist empire. What should go into a declaration of freedom's creed? A statement of the ideals of democracy? Of course. The basic arguments The question just written is not meant play upon words. It is stimulated by the reading together of a speech by on sociologist nd an article by another and then trying to reason out just wheie the ordinary citizen stands, untrained in either economics nr sociology.

For it is tha ordinary citizen, multiplied many million times, who makes up a nation and who makes up Canada. Wa hear a great deal about prosperity, and at the same time a great deal about the perils of prosperity, inflation being one and extravagance and indulgence another. Those and they are many who are so busy working and playing and rushing about that they say they don't bother about thinking, need sometimes to have some plain facts put before them. After all, experts are often right though aome experts seem to live in a dream world of Utopia. And Canada is not Utopia yet, not by a long shot.

Writing in the Business Quarterly of the University of Western Ontario on 'The Design of Social Change, Dr. Albert Rose lays some home truths on the line. Some are cheering, some depressing. Take these: "Canadians have per capita more goods and services than the people of any other nation with the exception of the United States. And he goes on to tell of automobiles so numerous they almost strangle traffic in urban centres; of homes In which hardly a one is without radio, TV, washing machine, refrigerator, and appliances and gadgetry of every types of food and clothing in abundance; of high standards of medical aid and public health.

And our average income is high. Sounds good. But with all this out ward prosperity, are we Canadians happy, ere these modern homes stable in respect to family life and contentment? What about breakdowns at the very roots of our social welfare? This-is the other side of the coin: "Canada leads the world in drug addiction and tobacco consumption our prosperity and high standard of living appear In no way to have diminished our demand for sedatives. Recent studies in the field of alcoholism confirm this view Half the hospital beds in Canada are occupied by mental patients Working wives make up at least 8 per cent of the labor force And more and more evidence of social changes at the very base of ociety. No longer In this country is it taken for granted than the "man of the house is the breadwinner, with the wife at home with her children.

Often a family has two breadwinners, sometimes more working together because they need the money to keep up with the Joneses and have the aame luxuries their neighbors have. And if things get too bad and unemployment strikes well, philosophically, there are A quiet scene along the Sea of Galilee then two instead of one collecting unemployment insurance. How well is welfare? Is this welfare? Are those who "never had it so good any happier than their grandparents who probably worked twice as long and twice as hard with half the luxury but with houses that were homes and not overnight shelters for rushabout parents and young people who rarely see them except at mealtime and not always then? There was a speech on welfare made in Regina the other day by an expert in that field, Mr. Norman F. Cragg, president of the Canadian Welfare Council.

He talked to a group of welfare woikers and businessmen, and he was concerned with various forms of social security. lie said that the National Welfare Council is urging a general program of social security which would eliminate such categories as old age, blindness, disability and mothers' allowances and combine them in an all-embracing system based on the fact of need rather than on the cause of need. He would like to see an employment program which would include training and rehabilitation, a contributory insurance program for old age security pensions, cash sickness benefits and survivor benefits, and a needs test program with assistance on the basis of need covering blindness, disability, and mothers allowances. How well is welfare? All this sounds excellent. We can inyigine countless people reading it and saying to themselves, "Thank God for the welfare state! But a careful reading of history seems to suggest that those who have spoken in God's name on social science, in such textbooks as the Bible, have sometimes taken a sterner view such as "If a man will not work, neither let him eat! And that is not being unmerciful to those in genuine need, though it does have some bearing on those who prefer living on the state to earning their own living.

There was a time when a needy man or woman was looked after his own family or kinfolk; it wasn't always easy, but the thing was done. Now for many a mirage is set up: the welfare state. No more worry, no more care. Go to the government or the city hall or the agency. But the one unanswered question is: where does the money come from? Not as manna from heaven.

People got that as a gift What they get in handouts today from government agencies civic, provincial, federal comes eventually from taxes. And the more peopl want this way, the more they must pay for and it can mean, if spending goes on unchecked because of a popular demand for support from the public purse, that we collapse in national bankruptcy and economic revolution. How well is welfare? The Editor: In a previoui letter it wa shown that production of good i subject to law stat log. wage remaining constant, the output of good im easing one hundred per cent over previou output will result only In a decrease of wage cost of fifty per cent of each previous cost. Thia means that with an original wage cost of 23 cents to make a pair of shoes, you can increase your production to 128 pairs a day from four pain a day and you have increased your output 3,100 per cent and have only reduced your felling price by a wage cost of 24 cents a pair.

Now, any Increase In production automatically increase all supporting Industrie. Taking the railroad a an example, we find that increasing the flow of good mean increased rolling stock. It doe not necessarily mean Increased employment, as longer trains offset this. However, rolling stock ha to be paid for. The increased profit from the extra business usually pay for the extra equipment.

Therefor 1 1 does not follow Uiat Industry wiU automatically reduce it cost because of Increased business. When industry ho to employ extra people, then tlie direct cost of the increased business i up. Actually, industry does reduce extra profits made, but there still remains the extra production to get rid of. So we export Exporting is a complicated business involving money. It gets very complicated when the countries have set up in business with our exports start to sell goods back to us cheaper than we can make them.

At home, the worker look at the Increased production and at his own standard of living and asks for more wages. Increased wages increase costs, and i n-dustry attempts to offset this by increased production. We now run into the fact that beyond a 'certain limit Increased production docs not reflect wage savings in cost, and so we end up with more production that no on can purchase and with price outstripping purchasing power. Our machine have solved our production. They are great inventions.

But no invention is as great as our money which succeeds in completely off-setting our production by forbidding us to consume what wr produce except within the wail of our pay cheques. E. LVON Moose Jaw ATTITUDE CRITICIZED The Editor: Re the two recent editorials entitled "Immigration helps us all and "Canada cannot be neutral. These are two example of the attitude that prevails in Canada among the soaiied leaders and intellectuals of our nation, that must sacrifice ourselves on the altar of internationalism, that must lay down before our neighbour to the south and let him wipe his feet all over u. Do not think of Canada.

Never. Think of toe western alliance. Think of the poor peoples of Asia and Africa and the oppressed people of toe Communist world but never a thought for toe nation of which we are a part. Let the immigrant flood this country. Yes, let us give the Immigrant everything.

After all, the Canadian was only born here. Small reason to expect consideration from his own government. Small reason to expect to be employed In his own country. Let him stand in to unemployment line to collect hi meagre allowance from the government of Canada while toe immigrant thrives and prospers from the job to government ha g.ven him at toa expense of a Canadian workirg-man. Let these people then defend toe immigrant and fuppnrt hum; let them place toe world end the great powers ahead of Canada to the detriment and perhaps ultimate r-ucid of tons, our nation Let them pl-ad meay-rooctoed bumanrtariani'm and perhaps, they jl discover why Frirt Castro shoots people CREGORT MeLEAN Wryberi HOPEI FOR CHANGE The Ed.

tor: I hope when to rext provmrjd elecLon rolls ar.id toil rt a charge, as tt is high tone for a charge, trier tils admmirtra'ion our province gradually goirg under dictators'-p; everytoirg is bw-trorf Tie CF need not Llarow toe Ottawa govern it for toflaLon, a tv7 tomelm art nor to blame. They hare beeq In of Lee too lorg. aid have began to thick tVy oa toe prwjKt, as eta do as toiey Lite Th'jvaids of dollars of L- taxpayers rr.oiey has bees warte-d ci project vtirt here lopp'd, Lrt us return to dm-ocrary rd froe individual. nark vjt eert for froe rorpr.e cv d.drtef, t-rf grt wry from to.e-e ides of tow CKT. JULIA DUNCAN E-pw FAVORITE HVM'VV Te Editor; I am opposed to r' t-r old yroa tier Ter 3i tiCtog -rrorg with "Fgt to good Tt'f aid "Frov tofuBt" I am a iii-y roas aid have a Mrt.ioc.st IssJr, but no rw, I have tow krs.fj Mg'rsm Fy-e, "Deroti'e.

1 am a uct rat, age 7f, vji a heart a-rtirt-t K'-re am -r-e "roe that I A remarkable woman Courage for a great challenge It seemed ourselves lorn hope, I thought, we were pi ogreis.rg Income fall behind the rest of the economy. Such realism is never popular, especially when backed by toe authority inch Professor Van Viet offered- Only a veiy mind would dare it Professor Van Vliet trimmed our progress down to size. And without rr.akirg this calami tout. Father, he moulded his facts into a challenge great enough lor that fantastic thirg. courage.

When he had f-mshed, I stared at that barrier across the frort cf the hall aid knew why it had been wonyir.g r. It was very Legs. V.t're goirg into our progress togs need our heals. For courage. Next mormr.g I found acre one had adjusted ue bavT to show the fill portra.t of toe unr.er-s.ty's first to presmects.

And -ev had bn rs on If courage is fantastic, pregres is r.b less so. Out in the Canada Agriculture Research Laboratory on the campus 1 saw experiment after experiment to increase or protect production. "Although other types of studies, such as marketing. have been made. Casually.

Yet production, aid marketing can't be separated in farming! It must have taken "fantastc courage for Professor H. Van Viet to stand up to all the en-tnustasm over fifty years of progress in farrmrg ard state that agriculrure doesn't face "the WiCe-cpen future in demand bo-ca-se "supp'y will cancel out drtr.and in most instances, to c.te tie real threat of inflation that ir.earj agncul-tiro! wil lag end farm right out of the farming oess. "Only the most efficient producer will persist Dr. D.on of MacDonald College. McGill University told us.

He explained that we already had the scientific knowledge, if allied efficiently, to increase production fifty to one hundred per cent Later, Dr. Fredeen. Lacotr.be Experimental Farm assured us our ripply of meat products could be doubled without Farmers please note without any i n-crease ia feeds ctr.sume-d! Hr tot for science and our surplus? Progress in machines. Progto's in plant science. Progress in the sc.ence cf ar.sma prodjrtaon.

In nutrition. Techniques. Management Ever, fo-d preservation to' by rad.atv-, nn In the passing of Dr. Frances G. McGill, Regina lost more than a citizen.

The keen-eyed, brilliant pathologist enjoyed the unique position of being named honorary surgeon of the RCMP, the highest recognition ever given to a woman by this famous Canadian police force. Her shrewd diagnoses in the comparatively undeveloped and baffling field of allergies will be missed equally by the patients ho.n she treated in private practice until her own final illness, and her doctor colleagues with whom she worked in willing and unstinting consultation. These factors, plus the acknowledged fact that she was considered an outstanding Canadian bacteriologist, have gained her a measure of immortality unsurpassed by few Canadian men or women. But there is a deeper and more personal accolade forming perhaps the greatest tribute to this brilliant woman. In her love and Interest for other people she formed lasting friendships with all ages, in every walk of life, and from every part of the province.

Like all true philanthropists her good deeds were her own secret It is probable only now that she has passed on that the extent of her understanding, and assistance, mental and material, will come ta light. Only now will people recall how during the 1911 flu epidemic she worked round the clock ta combat its ravages ar.i relies tired nursing and doctor personnel. They will remember too, another period ef disaster in the province when drought revered the province in the depress mg S3s. Jdar.y a resident found solace from the doctors friendship and understanding advice and actual material assistance in the form of loans, outright gifts and always open-hearted hospitality. Former members of her staff in the Saskatchewan laboratory still recall with a warmth around the heart that it was her idea to adopt schools in the worst drought-stricken districts.

The laboratory sent regular parcels ta these schools and always the most beneficent gifts came from the brisk little doctor herself. War years found her door always open ta lonely service personnel longing for the comfort of a home-cooked meal and the warmth and understanding of a visit in a private home. Even while she entertained them, her busy knitting needles clicked as she turned out dozers of pairs of socks for servicemen overseas. And, l.ke all busy people, she found time for other people and other projects. She was an active member of St.

Paul's Pro-cathedral congregation. She belonged ta Me Business and Professional Women's club, the Soroptimists, and the F.egina Women's Canadian club. Her contribution ta science will be long-remembered and appreciated, but her best tr.emorium Les in the hearts of her former business associates, her patients, co-club members, a sister, Margaret, in Vancouver, and two brothers. Dr. Harold McGill, Vancouver, and EL R.

McGill, cf Brandon, Man. In these human, everyday contacts, is ta be found the essence cf the real, warm-hearted woman that she trulv was. Bv STANLEY BURKE After Mikoans iit Press relations for study It was the opening day of Farm and Home week at the university and my first experience with this innovation of Saskatchewan people where they use the university as they once used the little country school house as a meeting place for everything. The banner worried me. So much, in fact, I don't know what was printed on it! All I could see was legs.

For the banner bad been stretched across the front of Convocation Hall at a he.ght which completely obscured two portraits except for legs. Judging by them appearance they belonged to important personages. I had an irrcr.statle urge to go forward and look behind the banner, but proceedings were starting so of course I coudn'i. In view of ail the intorr.aLzn and the wisdom, ail toe friendliness and what Professor Oliver bymes called an "ur-iercurrert cf spurt found only in the College of Agriculture, it may seem irrelevant to rwsstaoa my appreciation cf three specific things. They were a starting on schedule: keeping schedule; (cl bo to the hall "Anything without a history is Lke a man v.toxrt a memory.

Professor Symos began by say. rig, and then launched into the rtartlrg history of pr c-gss is farming. No ct we ail were fart-Lar with th-s progress, but told to Professtr Symes' imit-ab'e way. ft was new. vr.tr and charg'd with nsp.ratnrL 0f could go with hum all the way, even when ms.sted fa-mer should always have a espial He ere a 6-smtug toe co-rage cf htmeslf adrm ho became "Farmers, a-n-g rly to a course they co-id plan a.

to make their cnj tennoT-s Arid hie hold of the courage tooi imerted r.arh.ocs and to meet the seeds of these Farmers. "Courage is a fartastuc tLr.g" declared Praie'ssar Synes. -1 wondered if rune were Jartartic enough ta Lkw er ha at hag-9g beh.nd that to. i He rn-zl-iuri by rtfcurg that whnto-r we o' we re tiff gang to Appa-crt-5y well k.L Farmer a rap-tai owner, to enoed. tr.j was becarrg a NOT TO BE OVERLOOKED UNITED NATION, N.Y.

Re-pzrters who accom parted Mr. MJccyan on ius Un-ted I vis.t are prf'irturg trat fe result vLi be a shaxe-p in Soviet cgiomatic aid new roperurg wtoch Las teen g.vng an Liarcurate iew of toe United States. At tie fined Nailers, whs Lav been atr'u'g te Rurs-aus at cl-'se Laid hr to 14 yea's say that to is an cf a cess wL-ca has torn -r os J'r were tome. Ia fact re-cero mere is evjyice tret tie a- a roto n-re of 1-1 to-: Ai-erue "Fit. Simu, with pretortoir.s of a F.u; toaa ir.fxmatna sr u.a cp elm's a report Iron Pc.aid Hal Ssiiri autoicr-toes are h.sn-g toctoid toe Er.

ItoTsgs. Smart ofSna. to-r sad ItoT cios knew arvidurg a tout ft out ns one wmild te surpris-i. There ir Into to at i rLtouC atois a jtnrir Er.i es ter: iX rtru to -d oti of te i. -ft i itorrsf-na' and 5-curt Ur.

td Na tom are ar tj Tvy have hra-d rtu-rd is a ti rps-rev at rul pres rtlatkr.s if the fact that Tas. the Smirt new agency. La toitocaud a wtojrgv-si to psrts-epate in U'ev-fx-d pane! aVuw with otoher UN in toe pa Soviet rt a.e3 ra.e raroly. eve-, gartocpeU-d us such il7 pP rrt.aj 4 ciurse. but other rt-caj that r.

was rrtt wo lrvg gn to at roost Urn pip'd roa.de protoce of Laanced jsotoa-cal ropert. it ojt to at vv ars to be factually mtr but to tarts repi'jrtrod d-ct g.e toe rto-cy at Mr. Mt-y tn it a are. cetera on Fuu. at kart urJ rccertoy, au la-d to present a complete r.jry.

Ma rroert wester v-irtjn have sa-d to-z, zacluiig firmer Fitbcnff ILrusor Jaes Srtclax, on? Ki to if mort wnky wertr-ra sir. tom to Busi-a, wes sait bank ia IK to.sl wrt ro.uti ware vp to BurioJ! Te- wci m-w us sic wmJ rs-cert S'-wn r'p r-Cita'c. ton? f. tie ae t-Ci-ug to fg to farts to wt-timm Me I1 is Van of wr ts.vjj op lira it around toe UN. ed ar.d they ILemaelve have been the butt of mary is UN lounge s.

Across the nrert, aictoier remtio r. tie Ass of Captive European t-v tuns has ts enormous bearirg a g.zr.t picture (4 Pat-Itrzis, But even w.tfituf en J.toacv an, to ert ben a rtoady tva-rg wtoch has toes on J-r sirral 13 hit j'U gt ctZ pros ro-Iati'-j as in otrer eart-wert wto- tff.cls aid wio to In in New Vet is a c.aj tow UN tors, ir ts.k rwre toy crr.k aid y.we jmiai-5y w.ti wertorrwrs. Tbey purr? 'jr-itorw pmrd on tie tact, aid rale a pumt tg frrt tane Is ke-'p-r its thru- ze-w of public rrirtxir.s tow Fuiuas brs ar prons er Mi tie Ui-tod Nstotir.s. Bun 13 as j-- Fuss. an is a a p-r y.f ratter of fart bain' iac j.j P-n'-ur to'm- f-it is tut t.r wm-ted fcero rt a aid is ar Ar.Vit sun cf rt ij Pan.es tort rely a form of poLucU ensTpcw far taemsers and tor money cas hardly expect as enjoy wipe jv-yviarny.

axneSMrg: thud Mr. Starky Kvk-s cf to Labor Congress, formerly of axaist CCF party fame, ataxsid hew a red As Mr, Know sre tie new party that 1b Labor C.r.jress, aided and abetted by the CCT, neeis to launch, w.3 derive its fLiaac-ii s.uvxt fn.rn sntrarei worker, a bo wd kVmatuoCy become tojes-members tg party ues Shty aoecdciLly cor.msrt nut Is otber w.vdx. tjro.xUred wicker bo aoesst raw to jxr. re ef party and ear tribute to fa upkeep, m-n sy rw S.rvw fin party be nflsprug LMur aid a-noe trie iop is a oevsze Jar peew-airg rar.k-ani-L weekem to the ec.rts cro lib peers, no Armit Mr. Kaovlet aid others vnerestaJ the ter party Lgre tnaaetrf Li present a Eat, area in She face of proiwr.

pevtozal temsavt if upt to pt rebriLxw Irizrrtre tbit iris a so cvrto Irara Eruan, slier Labor party VvAs to nrjrxre criers far fi tnandal sazewrt, Abxc one riins Erg-sb trade snon-rii ft. "curt-art ei i and the rurop- is ivreasfg try yt tr. Mist pMp d-Oe reCes to "r.rv trsirt fiJi of a pjatcwl iny party 7- or gc-sip or ton-id be a-trej V3.ji layy. Lruer -Review. UMd to play for ry Mder 13 yen' i -d Car? i g-vd to Ntrort cd "Be-an Lutod.

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