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4 NORSHORE SENTINEL Thursday, May 4, 1961 WE SHOULD HAVE LOOKED AT THE CALENDAR-MOT THE CLOCK!" POLLUTION OF STREAMS A SERIOUS PROBLEM "Flow gently sweet Aftoq among thy green braes. , Anyone who has gone to public school in Canada should be familiar with the melody and words of the famed Robert Bums poems But it turns out that the Afton isn't so sweet after all. In fact it smells rather badly and it's polluted with garbage. The situation has got so bad that police have established night patrols to trap persons who dump trash into the river. We shouldn’t, however, be too quick to criticize the Scots for destroying the delightful image built up by the old song. We've been guilty of pollution ourselves. Canada boasts that it has half the world's fresh water within its boundaries. Perhaps we've got too much of it because we seem to take it for granted. Streams that once abounded with fish have in many cases been ruined by waste and refuse. Sewage and discharge from ships have made safe swimming impossible in some parts of the great Lakes. Experts from Canada and the United States are currently studying the problems of preventing pollution of bodies of water shared by the two nations. Scientists have been working in Lake Ontario for several years aboard a former naval vessel seeking information on which to base anti-pollution programs of the future. Industries which a few years ago thought little of dumping chemical wastes into rivers and lakes are cooperating in the program to keep them from being turned into filthy and dangerous slop basins. But we've got a long way to go before we can be satisfied that we're doing all we can to preserve the natural beauties of our waterways. As individuals, we can be more careful not to add to the pollution. But it's important that we take a personal interest in what our government is doing to solve the problem. Public opinion is a powerful weapon when its force is brought to bear on lawmakers, industrial concerns and others who can make major contributions to the fight against pollution. Our lakes and rivers represent one of our biggest tourist attractions and it would be a shame to see them ruined in the way that the Afton has been. Many individual clubs and sports organizations have I sent letters to the proper authorities complaining of the pollution. Your own letter will help the cause. PLAN FOR CLEAN-UP Other communities in the reach of this newspaper can take a good lesson from Nipigon and its feeble attempt to have a clean-up week. The event was poorly planned and even more poorly publicized. Consequently it was nothing more .than a proclamation and a few dates on the calander. Beardmore is planning 'clean-up' week for May 14-20. Other' communities will be having their cleanup campaigns shortly after. If they want their campaign to accomplish something they will have to plan now. The chamber of commerce can take the campaign as their pet project as they do in many towns. They could ask the help of the' service clubs and the teen clubs. The communities pick ‘clean-up week' as the time when they will have a contest among businessmen to see who can come up with the smartest window. Others enlist the help of the school children to collect ‘rags' or bottles with the money going to some worthy cause. The possibilities are unlimited. It completely depends on how serious the town and the citizenry are about 'cleaning up.’ There is no point in proclaiming ‘Clean-up Week' unless there is going to be a serious effort on the part .of the town and organizations such as the chamber and service clubs to make it worthwhile. TOGETHERNESS' THEME Nipigon and Schreiber are the ‘twin towns' of the north shore despite the 58 miles of rough road which separates them at the moment. They have basically the same character, the same needs and the same background. Because of this mutual understanding they have been good friends in the past. For the same reason, they could become even closer friends in the future, working as a unit for the common good of the area and the new highway instead of each pulling his own load. The reorganization of the chamber of commerce in Nipigon and then the Schreiber district last year was the basic groundwork for what could be a friendly and strong association for the betterment of the north shore area as a unit. Such an organization could speak' as one strong voice for the entire area. It could be joined by the chambers of commerce in Beardmore, and Geraldton in time to form an even stronger alliance of businessmen and citizens interested in the .overall needs of Ontario’s rich pulp-paper ana ore triangle which has Nipigon, Marathon and Geraldton as its three corners There should be, in any regard, a closer liaison between the chambers of towns so close together. This newspaper would like to see more social events, dinners and even projects undertaken on a joint arrangement. We would like to see one of the chambers take the initiative by inviting members of one of their neighbouring towns to a social meeting or even a business meeting. It would be a start in the right direction. NORSHORE SENTINEL The Norshore Sentinel is printed and published every Wednesday in Nipigon. The Sentinel Office is located on 3rd St., in Nipigon,, box 279, phone 360. Authorized as second class mail, post Office Department, Ottawa. Charles D. McOuat, editor and publisher. Donald F. McOuat, advertising manager. THE WEEK AT OTTAWA MOST STEP UP OWN ECONOMIC GROWTH OR FACE UNEMPLOYMENT SAYS COYNE Specially Written for Norshore Sentinel By JACK VAN DUSEN Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA, May (CP) James Coyne, the lawyer-banker who has been preaching on Canada's economic ills for months, raised a storm in the Commons last week. Members of the Liberal opposition demanded that Coyne, 51-year-old governor of the Bank of Canada, and the bank’s annual report appear before a Commons committee. The Rhodes scholar, who took over as head of the central bank in 1954, appeared before a special Senate committee the previous day and called for government incentives to expand Canadian production and savings... thus displacing imported United States goods and capital. Canada won't solve its unemployment problem, the outspoken former Winnipeg lawyer said, ‘‘if we cannot give our own producers adequate opportunities to provide goods for the Canadian market and bring about a reduction in our excessive imports from the United States." Mr. Coyne indicated unemployment next winter may be as bad as it was this year unless there are new government policies to step up economic growth. The government refused to have him appear again before a Commons committee. The MP's suggested Finance Minister Fleming, “could not do half as good a job as the Senators did" in quizzing the bank head. “A disgraceful statement," snapped Paul Martin (L-Essex East), sparkplug of the noisy debate that followed-all in vain. UNEMPLOYED MARCH Most of the Commons debate during the week centred on trade and foreign affairs. Unemployment was brought to the fore when a 66 man delegation marched on Parliament Hill; and a Commons committee heard Indians plea for financial help with religious “sun dances." Opposition Leader Pearson, long-time external affairs minister in the Liberal cabinet, said during the foreign affairs debate that U.S. Russian relations have deteriorated and “the atmosphere is now dark.” The Nobel peace prize winner said the Communist summit conference in Moscow last November made it “perfectly clear that we must expect conflict inside coexistence." H.W. Herridge (CCFâ€"Kootenay West) said the U.S. has consistently supported reactionary and right-wing governments throughout the world. He cited, among others, South Korea's Syngman Rhee, “one of the nastiest fascists going," South Viet Nam's President Diem, a “vulgar fascist who rigs elections," and Saudi Arabia's “monstrous" King Saud, who “rules with mediaeval splendor." Earlier in the two-day debate, External Affairs Minister Green said Canada holds huge responsibilities in world affairs and called on Canadians to face problems with “optimism and idealism." DERIDES PESSIMISTS “This is no day for a pessimist in world affairs," he said. “Anyone trying to deal with world problems today who is a pessimist is very likely to wind up in a mental asylum." Added Mr. Green: “Make no mistake, no country in April of 1961 has a greater opportunity to take a part and play a worthy role in world affairs than Canada." A non-confidence motion was moved by the Liberals against,the Conservative government in the two-day trade debate., They lost in a vote of 160 to 45. During the debate the Liberals advocated that vigorous steps be taken to promote expansion in the secondary manufacturing industry and the development of an Atlantic economic community. They said government trade policy is protectionist and inconsistent. But, oddly enough, they voted against a CCF New Party resolution that the Liberal-sponsored. plan is needed to prevent a drastic loss of overseas markets for agricultural and other primary products. The motion was defeated 197 to 8. Six hundred jobless from southwestern Ontario and Quebec converged on Parliament Hill, met with cabinet ministers, paraded on the hill, and held a rally in the Coliseum. ADDRESSED BY MINISTER Labor Minister Starr told them the government would be “foolish" if it did nothing about unemployment. “In time we have to go back to the voters who elected us." Works Minister Walker offered the delegation “pick and shovel jobs." They were, he said, available for anyone who wanted them. Indians of the Poundmaker reservation at Paynton, Sask., asked for federal financial help in staging Indian religious ceremonies. It costs money, the Indians argued, to stage “sun dances and chicken dances." The Qu'Appelle, Sask., Indian Advisory Council of Chiefs Independent, told the Commons- Senate Committee on Indian affairs that the federal government should ban the consumption of liquor by Indians on and off the reservations. “The evil effects of intoxication are no different today than they were in the 1870's" when the Indians were forbidden to drink liquor under the early treaties with the “whites." TAX SHIFT Assisted financing in projects of semi-public and public nature is rapidly becoming the general custom of the land. Some are... wondering if a tax burden is being shifted... from the unorganized area to the municipalities. Duncan (B.C.) Cowichan Leader. COULD END DEMOCRACY We think Canadians realize that should its free press be crippled or cowed into submission, all other freedoms would be swiftly swept away... In effect it would spell the end of democracy. Winkler (Man.) Progress