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2G The Windsor Star, Tuesday, May 1, 1973 mmm mm mmm WBMMMM Federal health department promises Freer flow of information on food and drug products gone down 70 per cent in three months." Some health authorities argue this was good, because there is no evidence that mineral ever did anything good for health, he said. "But people aren't abandoning it because they think it is expensive and doesn't give them much, but because they think they are going to poison themselves and kill themselves." That's the wrong reason, he said, and illustrates how sensationalism can go with only limited information. additives or mineral waters when really the problem is remote and relatively harmless. One of his first announcements, after he was appointed health minister last November concerned proposed new standards for mineral waters. There were two reasons behind the changes discovery of some contaminated mineral waters and the necessity of listing amounts of minerals, especially fluorides, on the labels.

"A kind of panic was raised by a few persons, a very few persons, that if fluoride was terrible for your health to the extent that sales have In the past, this has led to strict directives to public servants that they must not say anything publicly at all. Mr. Lalonde said, however, that he is working on ways that civil servants can be approached for information on a routine basis, about things which strictly are information for the public. "We're looking at this and trying to open up," he said. In fact, a whole new government policy on information might be debated soon in the Commons.

"I'm meeting with the justice department to look at the legal implications of making much more information available than we have in the past," he said. Much of this information will By GLENNIS ZILM OTTAWA (CP) The federal health department is waking up to the new age of consumerism, says Health Minister Marc Lalonde. So he's backing a change to provide the public with more information to encourage people to take more responsibility for being healthy. "The accent is more and more on preventive medicine," he said in an interview. But the department also is aware that responsibility can only be based on knowledge rather than the paternalistic, daddy-knows-best attitude of the past "I've had discussions already with the department about quite a few things to try to get more information available," he said.

However, he said, there are certain governmental and legal barriers to a freer flow of information about health, especially about food and drug products and their safety. "There is a question of traditions, obviously, that have been long established in government and it takes time to change." All governments operate on the "principle of ministerial responsibility," he said, where the minister is responsible for everything done and said in his department, whether right or wrong. Mr. Lalonde also said he comes across a lot of people in his, partment mainly doctors, nurses or other health workers, who believe in the old "tradition of secrecy" when the patient was never told what was wrong with him. Doctors still have this attitude and he finds it hard to overcome.

Another problem concerns his worry that the public might be exposed to sensationalism. He said people might get into a panic about some minor health problem because all the relevant information is too technical. For example, the public may be stampeded by sensational reports in newspapers about food be available on a routine basis, instead of having to be dragged out of the department when questions arise. The legal questions are major ones, especially in areas of food and drug safety. "I am advised by my legal advisers that some of the information I thought could be released cannot be.

In some cases this has to do with patents or trade secrets or it could expose the government to prosecutions for defamation of name or whatever the legal term is in attacking the reputation of the firm." However, Mr. Lalonde said he is more concerned with protecting the public and he still is debating these matters with departmental lawyers. Tomorrow: Canadian standards of food and drug safety defended. MARC LALONDE VXs IODE floundering in its own tradition? S58SSS materials to patients in the North. Mrs.

Dean said welfare state citizens say: "Why bother?" "When we supplied the incubators, some members and others said, 'Why supply them? Let the government do But you can't wait. "There seems to be an apathy because of the welfare state. People say, 'Is there any Our education people say, 'Is there any need to supply scholarships with all the help the students are But I think that bit of money can sometimes make the difference between whether a student stays with it Hor drops out." Mrs. Dean said she thinks the remoteness of some of the IODE's work also puts people off today. "The members have worked as hard as any other group, but one-third of the results went outside the country, and some into scholarships.

This is not one-to-one work. Today people want to see what they're doing. "I think women are busy today. They want to go out and do their volunteer work and forget about the damn thing until next week. They don't want to go to meetings." She said it is slow work, making changes in an organization that has worked essentially the same way for 72 years, and she hastened to add the older members are not always the ones who try to block change.

"We haven't really been trained to go out and see where the needs lie and how to fulfil them. When we were first organized, the problems came to us. "Now we are making more emphasis on working in the community. ways to loosen a rigid, traditional administrative structure. The order's membership has slipped in 10 years from about 29,000 to 21,000 plus 750 members in teen-age junior chapters.

Mrs. Dean, 43, says she believes the reasons lie both inside and outside the organization. Much of the IODE's energy goes into raising nearly $100 million a year. For years, much of it went overseas, in one form or another, to other Commonwealth countries or to countries such as Korea to alleviate suffering in the aftermath of war or natural disasters. The IODE has maintained scholarship funds.

In recent years, the national office has supplied 15 incubators to northern nursing stations, and they now are trying to get toys and craft TORONTO (CP) The state of health of the IODE depends on where you are. Its president, Mrs. K. J. C.

Dean, of Toronto, acknowledges that in several provinces it threatens to flounder in its own traditions, faced with welfare state attitudes and volunteers looking for instant results. But in the Maritimes, the Imperial Order, Daughters of the Empire is attracting young members who are into with-it activities such as day care, pollution and safety education, self-help projects with Indian reserves. In Ontario members are also working with Indians, and are startling people who think old orders never change by manning VD information centres. Mrs. Dean, the youngest president in the Order's history, says the national office is also struggling to find "I'm convinced what we do is important.

I'm also convinced we're a group of women willing to step in and do a job, a tremendous volunteer force. "We haven't made a definite program, but if we don't make these changes, we're not going to last." Mrs. Dean said the order still definitely supports the monarchy and has put together a school kit for the visit of the Queen this summer. But she laughed when asked about the thorny question of whether to change the IODE name. "This name keeps popping up absolutely endlessly.

We asked members, do you want to change the name, and the few who answered didn't give us any alternatives. It doesn't seem to be a burning issue in the chapters." 0 For U.S. metaphysicist, it was no contest positively, such as mental telepathy and healing. She said documentation for her accomplishments in prize winning are on the public record in the form of publicity over the winning of individual prizes by the sponsors of the contests and publicity her "WISHcraft" has achieved. "Anything the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve" is her catchphrase.

No people are such a thing as she said. They win at contests (even at the horse races) because they have learned to pick out something they truly desire, concentrate on that object and eliminate any doubts that they might not win. Dr. Hadsell was granted her degree in metaphysics after four years of study at the Brotherhood College in Sedalia, Colo, and is a graduate of the Institute of Psychorientology at Laredo, Tex. She is lecturing in Windsor this week.

The ability to win contests is all done by projection of the energy each person possesses, she said in an interview. It's this same "auric energy" that enables communication between individuals through mental telepathy, allows medical cures to happen that seem to be miracles, and even has something to do with sex appeal. "Everbody has an auric field of energy around them," said Dr. Hadsell, who lives near Dallas, Tex. "This energy field can consciously be directed to achieve whatever goal you want." There are five areas of the body that are centres for the energy field each person possesess, she said.

They are in the heart, forehead, throat, stomach and loins, she said. Those with sexual energy that has lead to publication of a book as well as her lectures and research programs in 1959, after reading Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking. She applied his principle of being convinced you can do anything you want with her own experiences of concentrating her mind's auric energy on a goal. Her first goal was to win contests. She won her husband an industrial engineer an outboard motor on her first try.

She went on to win trips to Europe and all over the U.S., virtually every appliance for her home, and trips from dude ranches to Disneyland for her three children. The highlight, however, was the new home. She stopped entering contests when she had won everything she possibly wanted, she said, and turned to studying other effects of the power of concentrating By JOE FOX Helen Hadsell was one of two million people who entered a contest in 1966 at the New York World's Fair for a new $50,000 home. She then went out and chose a lot and, along with her family, had plans drawn up for their dream house. Helen, you see, knew she was going to win.

The only question was how long the sponsors would take to notify her. In fact, she has never yet failed to win a prize she wanted by entering contests. Now, equipped with a Doctor of Metaphysics college degree, years of study and research in North America and Europe, and hundreds of appliances and free give-aways in her possession, she is going around telling people how they too can get anything they want through positive thinking. TRAINING OFFICER AND CADETS Lt. Eddy Plante (centre) training officer for the branch 2861 Royal Canadian Electrcal and Mechanical Engineers Cadet Corps gives a lesson in radio communications to cadets Lt.

Jean Ann Blazek (left) and Capt. Gerald Muren Beeld (right). Lt. Plante's Dasic training was received in the Women's Land Army, the Royal Airforce Motor Transport and the Wil-mott Breedon Co. in England where she was the head metallurgist.

Last summer she received the Canadian Forces Certificate of Qualification in basic indoctrination and this summer will take a special officers' course. DR. HELEN HADSELL have an she said. Elvis Presley was offered as an example. The energy in each of us is very subtle, she said, and she urges the people who come to hear her lectures to become more aware of the energy emanating from those around them.

She started her career Cadet training officer military in he blood 1 r- "-v girls very well-behaved," said Lt. Plante. In keeping discipline, "it's not "you do this and you do that because I say so." You put it in such a way that they retaliate and do it for you," she explained. The cadets range in age from 13 to 18 years and in addition to their Saturday instructions, go on many outings and the boys attend Camp Ipperwash each summer. It is Lt.

Plante's greatest regret that the female cadets are not yet officially recognized and hence they are denied the privilege of going to summer camp as there are no facilities for them. "This is what we're pushing Ottawa for to have these girls recognized and get them uniformed," she said. Lt. Plante took the initiative in putting the girls in culottes, battle dress shirt and tie as a makeshift measure. And she makes sure the girls have the chance to go on some outings to Toronto, Cedar Springs and Guelph.

Sometimes, however, this means she has to stay with the girls in a hotel because they are not allowed to remain at the camp barracks. Yet apart from the cultural expansion of outings and exchange visits (some male cadets went to Quebec and the Barbados last year while the girls are going to Guelph in September), the main thrust of the cadet program is to teach good citizenship, said Lt. Plante. "All cadets whatever they aspire to we watch continually to see if they could become leaders. Some aspire to becoming officers in the Canadian Armed Forces," she added.

Lt. Plante moved from England to Toronto in 1959 and came to Windsor in 1961. Her husband, Roger is warrant officer with the District Militia Band. She has one son, David, 20. Eight years ago, she joined the Royal Canadian Legion.

"I've devoted quite a bit of time to that because I don't believe in joining something and not doing anything for it," she explained. Lt. Plante served two years as entertainment chairman for the Lt. Col. D.C.

Warnica branch 578, is presently second vice-president of the branch and is running for first vice-president in the May 6 elections. Lt. Plante is one of five women veterans in the 400-member branch. Her biggest projects in the branch now are assisting Art Gammon, chairman of the branch's building expansion program and helping to organize a May 20 legion and cadet parade which will proceed from the Windsor Armouries to Central United Church. The Col.

Warnica branch raises funds for bursaries for high school and university students; subsidizes some school sports and gives financial assistance to veterans and veterans' families. By SUSAN VAN KUREN During the Second World War, as a member of the Women's Land Army, she was blitzed in Birmingham then rough-roaded it the length and breadth cf England, Scotland and Wales with the Royal Airforce Motor Transport. Last summer, she reeled over obstacle courses and climbed rope bridges at Wolsey Barracks, London, to receive her Canadian Forces Certificate of Qualification and now she's first lieutenant in the 2861 Royal Canadian Electrical Mechanical Engineers Cadet Corps, at the Canadian Forces Reserve Barracks and a key member of the Royal Canadian Legion Lt. Col. D.

C. Warnica branch 578. Edna "Eddy" Plante, 46, of Ford Boulevard has the military in her blood. "These boys and girls are my life between the legion and the cadets it's closely tied because the legion is veterans and cadets are those coming up," she said. Each Saturday morning, Lt.

Plante runs a total of 56 cadets (40 boys and 16 girls) through their paces in rifle practice, echanical instruction and survival practice. Occasionally, she takes them to Ojibway for map reading instr uction, orientation and a thorough course in bush survival. "I think I have the best cadet corps in Windsor. They're wonderful boys and lllHlpPpilillll irr 41 Photo by Gladys Cada LADIES' DAY The wives of those and Renewal Officials at the Shera- Instead, they are touring the area Mrs. Shirley Robillard, holding a attending the annual conference of ton Viscount won't have to sit to see the sights of Windsor and folder, whose husband, George, is the Canadian Association of Housing around and listen to the men talk.

Essex County. Leading the tour is with the city's building department..