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“THIS WEEK .

AND NEXT
A New

Dominion

By RAY ARGYLE

The dominion-provineiat
fiscal conference in Quebee
City next week marks a
new round in the stiffening
struggle between Ottawa
and the provinces for
supremacy in the cullec.
tion and spending of taxes
throughout Canad

As such, the conference

will touch on the most sen-

rs sitive nerve.

end of the

: entire Cana.

dian Confed.

s eracdon —

more sensi-

tive even

than such

emotion.

charged

issues as

BAY ARGYLE Quebec

separatism

and U.S. contro] of Cana-
dian industry.

The reasun for this is
that while all these tssues
are bound up together in
the general question of
Canada’s future as a nation,
none fs more fundamental
than control of government
Tevenues.

The Confederation that
we know today is not the
Confederation as laid down
in the British North Amer-

* fea Act of 1867. And it is
efforts by certain provinces
to get back to the original
intent of that act which
has caused many of the
current stresses between
Ottawa and the provinces,

Under the strains of war
and the growth of govern.
ment services undreamed
of a century agy, the urigi-
nal spirit of Confederation
has ‘been reshaped until
today provincial authority .
has been eroded almost to
the vanishing point.

Now, at a time when a
minority “government in
Ottawa must deal with un-
usually well entrenched

THE HOME TEAM.

Some of Canada’s pro football players have unusual
occupations for euch rough athletes, Dave Mann, star for
several years in the Eastern Big Four for the Argonauts
has decided to become a musician in the off-season,
Drummer Mann is shown at a night club in Toronto where
his trio opened last week. He showed the same excellent
timing he displays as a halfback,

by Wirth

rations,
complicated by renewed
French-C:

“1 hear she's got a wicked slap-shot!”

for autonomy, the country
is finally recognizing that
the BNA Act 1s-no tonger'a

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THE CHILDREN'S CORNER

The Act has ‘foundered
on two main. obstacles.
First, it reserved rights to
the provinces which the
provinces are today incap-
able of financing,

Education, highways and
welfare, which a century
ago were items of minor
concern or cost,. remain
provincia) cespunsibilities.
The cust ot these services
is ‘today staggering, and
will grow as the country
grows, [his ts why the
wealthier pruvinces, and
not just Quenec alone. are

. demanding wu return of
traditional tax fields to
the orovinces.

_ Che seecund ruck on
which the BNA Act has
foundered is that it re.
mains an act ot a Briush
parliament. uver which
Canada has no vested con-
trol. Until it is replaced by
a cunstilutivn of purely
Canadian origin, it will be
more divisive than unify-
ing as a foundation tor the
Canadian nation.

ts the solution, then,

merely to rewrite the BNA

- Act. with a Canadian con-

stitution and restore to the

provinces such original

rights as the raising of
most taxes?

Ontortunately, no, be
“cause it is only Ottawa's
intervention i. the
field which has held
Canada together, The
principle of provincial taxa-
tion is inconsistent with
federalism, and will ce-
main so despite such theo-
ttes as “cu-uperative feder-
+ alism” now being advanced
by the Pearson govern.
ment.

Canada needs more than
a@ new constitution — it
needs a New! Dominion
which would sumehow
grant tu the pruvinces a
degree ut independence
without baikanizing the
country to the point of
destroying the nationhood
“we are now struggling to
preserve.

CARDBOARD

Here's an idea for Easter. Take a hard boiled egg
and paint a face on it. Paste on long paper ears and make
him some string whiskers. Sct it on cardboard witk
green paper grass,

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Luck To The. Burtons!,

By BILL SMILEY

A great foau has. been —

Ufted from my mand. For
a while there,

not going
to do right

a: And Lae
: rs
sii) Smitey Siac iho
were married’ in Canada.
ven though it teok place
tn Montreal, and every-
body is aware that Montreal
is a wicked, wicked place,
being married in Canada
is a pretty serious propusi-
tion, as we all know,
don't we?

1 wonder if anyone
pointed out to the happy
couple that a Quebec mar-
lage can be dissulved only
by an act of Parliament.
Vhere cuuid be some
mighty exciting times in
the House of Commons in
a couple of years. Or six
months,

Can't you furl hear the
separatistes bellowing: that
the English are trying to
ram this divorce down the
throat of La Belle Proy-
ince, and thereby insulting
her sacred traditions, de-
taining her ancient glory
and honor?

* * *

Anyway, it was a fine
ceremony: the English-
born American film star
of Jewish .aith, married
to the Welsh Presbyterian
stage actor by a Unitarian
ininister in a French-Cana-
dian city. On Sunday,

A pretty select company
at the wedding, too. A few
friends, a gaggle of
lawyers, and a brace of
public relatiuus men. None
ot those: maiden aunts
weeping all over the bride’s
ee

* *
ru bet that. even if the
groom was a tittle rusty,
Liz knew her tines. This
was her fifth oppearance
in that perticular scene.

She'd. scarcely need
prompting.

The groom had . been
through. the ropes only
. once before, This culminat-
e a. Mexican. divorce
last Deceniber, ‘which
reported to huve cust him
$1,600,000, Question: Would
you pay that to get rid
, of your wife? Depends on
whether you had it, you
say? Sorry 1 usked.

TN bet ‘1 know | what
you're thinking. You're
thinking | am writing ths
snidely, with tongue in
check. You're wrung. I'm
just glad things are settled
50 my wife can get back to
the ironing,

A lot of people, includ-
ing some: who wouldnt
give'a nickel to their biind
leper cousin if he ran
around with girls, have
taken a very dim view ot
the behavior of the
glamorous — pair Peuple
have told me, with grent
satisfaction, that Toronto's
upper crust deliberately
ignored them,

Admit it, girls. Who
would you rather be than
Liz Taylor? Four husbands
behind you, four kids, a
couple of million bticks in
the bank, and Richard Bur-
ton and a ring, all at the
~8e of 32, Admit it, chaps.
Where is the hardship in
getting. home from work
and having Miss Taylor
throw herself on your
bosom?

j * * *

They may not be Abe-
jard and Heloise, Charles
Tl and Nell Gwyn, or
Napoleon and Josephine.
but they arve given us a
love story with enough
color, dash and flair to
stir even, Canadians in the
grip of March,

Mr. Burton is the most
electric actor I've . ever
seen. Miss Taylor is a lady
I would definitely. cross
the street: tc chat with.
Good luck to them. And if
it's any help. my wife says.
“This will definitely tast.
She's found the cight
man.” if

LI'L PEDRO — By de la Torre

Canadian social worker Doris Clark invites you to. write
her about your problem. She answers lettars of general
interast in this column but can’t undertake Personal replies.

DEAR DUHIS—Lhis let
ter is In regard to your re-
marks about klasing on the
first date. In our area, at
least, a girl becumes well
acquainted with ‘a, buy be
fore she gues vut with him
(except, uf course, fur blind
dates) and she is already
fond of him. We don't con-
sider it cheap to have une
good night kiss on the

front purch (or back pureh, -

for that matter!) That is
a nice way of saying
“Thank you, 1 had fun.
Let's go out again some-
time.”

Could you possibly tell
us other opinions which
you have received? We'd
like to see how others our
age fee! about it.

TWO MIDDLE TEENS

DEAR r'WwO—It depends.
Your phrase ‘and she is al-
ready fond of him" ‘ts the
crux of the matter. 1 know
many first dates which are
far more casual than this.

Other opintons are invit-
ed. Write to me, girls—
and boys! [ll publish what
T can find room for.

6 ke

DEAR DORIS —1 am a
man 26, Have two brothers
anda sister. Since my first
days at school J have been
very quiet. 1 am almost
always home alone with our
mother.

1 do shopping, belong to
our choir. But everything
else 1 do with my mother;
no one else in -the family
ever takes her out.’ 1 don’t
like it but how do [ tel)
her? And: how do I get
confidence in myself? *

2 TIMID TOM

DEAR TOM — Cut the
apron strings. Every family

member should be helping
you instead of shirking a
share, You need not feel
guilty if your mother is
alone sometimes, as she
tov is-a person with re-
sources, and need not iz-
dulge in self-pity.

Get into the passing pa-
rade by juining the activi-

ties which are going oa-

around you. One learns te
mix by mixing.
* * *

DEAR DORIS — Next
month my husband and &
are moving into a new
house. We would like to
have a housewarming.

Could you suggest some
simple refreshments that
wouldn’t run into a tot of
money?

TWENTY-THREE

_ DEAR TWENTY THREB
.~:You don’t have to break
the ‘bank to have a good
time. I have just the ticket
_for ‘you: a’ leaflet called
Party’ on a Shoestring.
Write to me in care of this
newspaper, enclosing 10
cents and a stamped, self-
addressed envelope, and tt
mailed: to. you.
(Note ” to - readers: . This
helpful pamphlet ‘is avail-
able to anycne writing in
as indicated, x
* *
Confidential to Dis
tressed : Husband — By im
dignant outbursts in which
she criticizes’ you, your

wife shows just how im- ©

ferior . and hopeless’ she
feels underneath. Your pas-
sive, analytical ‘response
doubtless infurlates ° her
further. £

:- spring ‘from tensions re-
lated “to “emotional dis-
order. Do try a psychiatrist.

: good coating of a leather preser- age of enthusiastic goal-tenders, E
vative or boot polish to keep thé |-however we are'not alone. Thers

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“WOGKEY.
CHATTER:

By ‘GEORGE JACKSON

By now a a Iot! of skates and | of ‘squeezing a sponge rubber ball

pads hoye been thrown in ‘the base.| with one hand and then the other |

t Mom will] will-develop the wrists and result
meat pate we thet in Jao and truer shots for more
Players’ who do respect, their | goals. _ ?
gear will put’a light ranged of oil Goal.tenders should do knoe
or. grease on the skate blades to} bends and skip every day to de-
prevent, rust, they'll ‘pack the] velop strong leg muscles, A goalic
skate boots tight with, old news-| depends on‘Jeg movement for 75
papers as this will help keep the| per cent ‘of his job. This past
boot in shape and then after :ay season we ‘suffered from a short-

leather’ soft, the skates will. be] is a constant demand.-for good

hung in a‘dryjcool place, “> goal-tenders everywhere, especial-
Pads shouldbe‘ Rried ‘and air- in Europe with good pay Plus

ed thoroughly and the ‘felt parts} expenses.

cleaned with a stiff wisk‘or vacu- Bruno Forlin, spare goalie: of

um, ‘repair ‘or renew ‘where né-| the Nelson Maple Leafs is in hopes

cessary the stitching and elastic, | of going to Holland this fall ‘to

the leather parts’ may be treated | play, ¥

in’ the. same way ‘as. the skate- While players give up skates

boot. Now place all padding equip-| ond schedules for: marbles and '§

ment in;a large plastic bag and} hoseball the executive camp breaks
hang it-in the closet, step.from the normal’ routine of

Oh yes, it’s good insurance t0| operation and go into extra mect-
put a fow mothballs ‘in the -bag} ings to raview scason reports’ and
with your pads, Competitive play-| compiled. list of beefs, The out-
ers. will waste little time getting | come of these spring and summer:
in shape next season {f they spend | meotings will set policy and pro-
10 minutes each day throligh 8uM~| Hobly' make some changes in’ our
mer doing simple: oxercises lke! toca) ‘minor hockey system.
akipping ‘and push-ups. ,The habit |. ponte intent on staying young

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Your executive, who’ generally

yers, are sometimes called on to

| efal rules, such was the unpleasant
task last Saturday. when the.spe-
cial meeting: had. no alternative
but to hand out a one ‘year sus-
pension.

. Minor Hockey’ banquet tickets
will be available at the rink on

key VIPs including Father. Bauer
have. been invited for this grand
‘finale and presentation of, trophies.
will be: made ‘at -this Ca
banquet | is. on» April

‘Also. on’ Saturday the Mite
Mites, will play’ their last game of
the season at their regular times,
All, Mite Mite sweaters are, to. be
handed “in after:this game. °-“..\¥

Now. that’: our’ playoffs draw.
to'ta- close we° can. report. Seeing
Bantam “C” win the league cham~
Pionship on Monday last.. Midget
Playoffs terminated last Saturday
!when “B’ team forfeited the se-
Tiesto Midget “A”

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