THIS WEEK

AND NEXT

By RAY ARGYLE
At 1s now quite clear that
Ottawa's latest pension and
wer thasing offer to the

Ray Argyle m clear
is the long-term effect
which ene new policy will
have on the strength an
vitality ¢ of the Federal don
ernment,

Prime Minister Pearson's
bold action in reaching a
‘settlement with Quebec on
anational contributory pen-
sion plan more than makes
up for the dismal failure
of the recent federal-pro-
vinclal fiscal conference at
Quebec City.

Equally, ‘the Prime Minis-
ter's decision to increase
by. one-third rebates paid
to the province out of in-
come tax revenues will go
far toward putting the pro-
vincial governments on a

_ More round financial basis.
There is a very real likeli-
hood, however, ‘that taxes
will have to be boosted by
more than $200 million per
‘year to make up for Fed.
eral Government losses,

There is a danger, too,
that these fast-moving ac-

It is-to be hoped that
coming events will not bear
out such a gloomy inter.
pretation. 1 do not share
the opinion that we are
going along with a “sell.
out” to Quebec, but 1 am
concerned about further
weakening the Federal
Government in the face of
increasing demands from
the provinces,

As far “as the Canada
Pension Plan is, concerned,
the new deal reached ‘to
accommodate Quebec and
Ontario is welcome news.
The plan is not as good as
the one Proposed by Que-
bec, but it is an improve-
ment over Ottawa's most
recent offering. By ensur-

pensions up to $104
monthly in addition to the
$75 universal old age pen-
sion, it will bring at least
minimum security to hun-
dreds of thousands of Cana- |
dians who would never
have been covered by pri-.
vate pension plans.

It can be expected that
the nation’s insurance com
panies will continue to op-
pose the plan, but they wil
be able to count on very
little political , assistance
from opposition parties in

. Parliam

The pension .plan wiil
also be used by opponents
of Government - sponsored
medical insurance in their
attempts to further delay
a national medicare pro-
gram for all Canadians, It
will be argued th.t the pen-
sion plan is all Canada can
afford for the time being—
that we can’t possible un-
dertake the costs of federal
medicare at the same time.

This argument should be
disposed of promptly, be- -
cause it is totally false.
Government - sponsored
medicare, as we now know
from the experience of Sas:
katchewan, actually costs
nothing that Canadians are
not already spending pri-
vately to meet doctor's
bills. But by sharing the cost

ally among everyone, 1t
the most sensible

and most humanitarian wav
of protecting the ‘nation’s
most valuable asset — the
good health of its citizens.

A PAMPERED POOCH. Spring may already he here
officially, but Swedish canine actor Max helfeves in a
margin of safety, keeping a big woollen scarf wrapped
sround him. Max performs in Swedish plays and stage
shows,

THE HOME TEAM

“We have rather unique ground rules...”

f THE CHILDREN'S CORNER H

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It Would Be Heavenly!

By BILL SMILEY
What would you like to

find, most, when you go to,

penvent Let’s assume, for
one wild,

e xhilarated -

plump _ for
we? a meeting
with love
Bill Smiley ones. . This
I can never understand.

It's Uke a fellow who has’

served a life sentence wait-
ing to be greeted by. the

warden when he hits the |

| pearly gates.

Others, sad souls, would
be overjoyed if they could
“just be happy.” Not me.
Being happy all the time
would be a real drag. I
thoroughly enjoy being mis-
erable on this orb, so that
when something good hap-
pens, my pleasure is intensi-

ied. :

Quite a few, who stiffer
from physical ailments,
would. be satisfied”. with

peace and comfort. The in- .

somniac imagines days and
nights of solid slumber. The
arthritic dreams of being

able to scratch his ‘opposite

ear without feeling ‘as.

though his arm was being
severed at the shoulder by
a red-hot fron.

. Flat-chested girls would

settle for a mammoth
bosom. They forget that
none of the rest of us would
be interested.

Some chaps I know would

Ona golf course with emer-
‘ald fairways and velvet
greens, 18 holes a day in
which they sliced not, nor
did they hook, and a good
game of poker at the 19th,

_ With the bar handy.

Many sobér’ citizens 1
Know’ would ‘be bappy in

heaven for. éver ‘afterwards,

it thoy'could be guaranteed
(and. vet it in writing) that
their wives (or husbands)
would be in the other place,
permanently,

Alcoholics, would not only
in heaven,’ but the
seventh of the same name,
it thelr cracls Eerustlt oven,
perpetually,‘ and ‘somebody
else was looking after
things.

_A few milllionaires, once
they had admitted they
couldn’t take it with them,
“would be serene in a place
where there were no, taxes,
no labor movements, no
wages to pay, and nobody

ig them to donate to
bee th every 12 minutes

My personal fantasy is a
simple one. I’d go like a
shot if ' someone would

promise me, ‘unconditional- .

ly, a dark, ling trout
- stream, impregnable to in-
vasion by women,’ tele-
phones and other nuisances.

1 can see it now. Swift,
deep, crooked, ending in a
vast, silent, mysterious
beaver pond, loaded with

However, Bees my
thances of getting to heav-
en are Pea about as slim
as my chances of a pergonal
trout ‘stream if 1 did ‘get
there, 1 guess I'll settle, on
Opening Day, for’ my ‘old
hatin, | th
‘Where ‘The Big Ones ‘Are.
Not a ‘soul knows about it,
except me. d the 900
noisy characters who have
heard about it since last
year.

eeate thou ‘art distant,
1 Soula work like heck to

get-

There, if thou could
condone |<

A stream for me—and me
alone.

OUR. TOWN — 4 oo

the Secret. Place ‘

DEAR DORIS: I am a 17-
year-old — girl,” 5
normal, have dates, ‘go to
school.

Four years ago, in grade.
eight, I had a lovely woman
teacher... I absolutely wor-
shipped her. I four~ my-
self. rushing to’ school,
early, so that I might
catch a glimpse of her as
‘she went into the school,

Well, I suppose that was
a reasonable form ‘of hero
worship, but to this day I
actually love this Jady. 1
serve her sometimes in my
part-time job at school, ana
nearly go crazy when I do.

Why do I have such feel-
ings? :

DREAMING OF HER

DEAR DREAMING: She
is meeting a need you have
felt for someone to idealize.
Be reassured.’ You are not
homosexual.

As you mature more you
will come to recognize that
this woman is human just
like the rest of us, and that
a human-type, companion-
able regard is more flatter-
ing to her than cloud-nine
heroine worship. -.

koh

DEAR DORIS; 1 have
been having ‘a’ half-hreed
boy—in ‘early twenties—at
my home. He ‘is a talented
artist and 1 have been try-
ing to encourage him,

Now J have been warned
not to have him around
because he has. been’ in
serious trouble with the
law. 1 made inquiries and
found that he has‘ been in
jail three times, He always
seemed to be respectable
in every way.

Please advise me.

UNCLE BILL

DEAR UNCLE BILL:
What's the rest, cf the

“tory? T'd want. to, know
- when, ‘and for what, he

served jail sentences,

“If ‘he has served his
time and bas turned over
a new leaf,-his past record
should’ not hang over his
head ‘for the. rest of

life,
that’s different.

You could * get sowid
advice about this young
man by going to the near-
est branch of The John
Howard Society, a" Cana-
dian ' organization ’ which
helps to rehabilitate ex:
prigoners,

* * *

DEAR DORIS: My
trouble..is mostly money
and a domineering hus.
band. He is full of self.
pity because of an .opera-
tlon he had, yet there is
crear I can do that satis-
fles him

He has run up debts
until there is no money for
decent clothes, yet he won't

If he is unrepentant.

‘let me ‘accept a job I've

been ‘offered. We jump
when he says, He is very
sex inclined and [ have no
inclination, s0 he ‘accuses
me of having someone else.
1 never have.

I am’'so fed‘ up that
many times Pve gone ina +
corner in the basement and
erled.

". SICK AND TIRED

DEAR SICK: Climb up
out of the basement and
turn your tears into con.
erete action,

* Your husband is a bully
—and should be'stood up
to! If you ‘can arrange
about your School-age chil-

baer Rk SERIOUS,

ANY Fests

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incidents which occurred in’ 1958
during the Suez crisis, when Cana-
dian troops were mistaken for
those of a foreiga country?” to

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be any difficulty in recognizing a

Canadian contingent if one is sent

under United Natlons auspices to
: 1

+ Recontly a television picture,
over CBC News, showing the Van
Doos camp in Cyprus flying: the
Canadian Red Ensign under the
United Nations flag gives strong
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