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3hr Earns Examiner Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus DM Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Saturday Oct 17976 Antiinflation program merits general support If the call of the Canadian Con gress of Labor for one day strike on Oct 14 is intended to be inter preted as protest against wage and price controls it is hardly sur people find it prising that many difficult to understand There undoubtedly have been cer tain justification for some of the complaints about various aspects of its enforcement but overall the wage and price control program have helped to check the pace of liv ing cost rises for many people who would have been most seriously af fected movement for stronger control measures toward maintaining purchasing value of the dollar would hvae been more reasonable But if the demand to lift the controls were successful it couldnt help but stir widespread apprehension and price control program mig have been more effective if pro cedures of the wartime prices and control measures were followed This would have limited exemptions and would extended the program to include excess profits An exemp tion to the latter for investment in business or industrial expansion which would create needed would be practical at the present stage of the economy The criticism of the MP5 who voted themselves helathy pay and taxexempt allowances just before adopting the control program also has been reechoed many times Variations from the controls allowed certain groups were not without resentment But granting all this the fact re They mains that the rate of increase in the cost of living has been curbed much more effectively since con trols were introduced than before were adopted at time of ac celerating inflation and have slowed down the trend But the battle is far from won since prices of homes and other the commodities have been going up even if at slower pace Rising gasoline and fuel costs and pro spects for even more tax increases also are bound to come back to the comsumer and shopper Some think that not enough stress There are those who feel the wage has been given the prime im dards jobs portance of high productivity for healthy economic climate Inflation in itself is threat to such produc tivity and also endangers economic growth job creation and living stan The main case for fighting infla tion rests on the fact that inflation threatens what most people want The sensible approach then is to co operate to help make the anti inflation pro ram work even better benefit YOUR BUSINESS Inflation said creating crisis for pension plans By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Inflation its said is creating crisis for pension plans The elements of the crisis are these If pension benefits are fixed in dollar terms inflation will render them totally inadequate by the time of retirement If the pension plan at tempts to protect the pur chasing power of the benefits to be received ultimately the em ployer and maybe the em ployee could go broke trying to put aside enough money Solutions have been sought in such concepts as in dexingthat is increasing the pension benefits in proportion to increases in the cost of livingand in having the government take over all pen sions and administer them But the real problem isnt pensionsits inflation Solve that and the pension crisis would be over As long as inflation con tinues even at the current levelmore than six per cent yearplanning for an adequate pension is something like trying to bail out sinking ship INFLATIONS IMPACT Take the case of 25yearold currently earning $10000 year If that salary were to be in creased only eight per cent yearan makin the unlikely assumption that worker re ceived no merit increases dur in the next 40 yearsthat sa ary would rise to $217274 by age 65 according to the calcu lations of pension specialist Thomas Delaney of the Cana dian Association of Consumers No employer nor employee could reasonably be expected to 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investment results of pension trustees The average yield on all trus teed pension funds in Canada was only 514 per cent at the most recent calculation The highest figure attained was 812 per cent late in 1974 Pension funds must be in vested prudently and trustees arent likely over the long term to earn yields high enough to match the inflation rate PENSION INDEXING The 400000plus federal civil servants to ether with mem bers of Par iament have the problem solved Their pensions rise automati cally in proportion to the in flationrate The plan isnt actuarially soundit doesnt have to be because the pension benefits come rimarily from thegoven nmen general revenues Many senior civil servants are retiring at age 55 because indexing can increase their in comes by more than the $2400 ceiling permitted under the an tiinflation rules But to take more typical CAVEAT EMPTOR Help Wanted By LEONARD NOBLE Mr Earle McLaughlin chair man and president of the Royal Bank of Canada has done nothing to endear himself to the womens liberation movement Sometime earlier in the month at bankers meeting at Winnipeg he stated that the Bank had not been able to find woman who could dualif as director of theRo Not to be un one by this statement Robert Maclntosh executive vice president of the Bank of Nova Scotia stated that the Scotia had been looking for woman to sit on its board of directors for some period of time but as of yet had not been able to come up with anyone can just imagine Earle of the Royal and Bob of the Scotia talking to one another as result of their aforesaid statements HelloBobEarle here Hello Earle how are you Fine Boband you Not bad Earle What can do for you dont want to take up our time Bob however cou dnt hel but notice our comments respect tof ndin woman to sit on the board directors at your bank Yes that has created bit of stir Well Bob want ou to know that youre not one in this thing As you know went through the same old hooplah last month when the press picked up my innocent remarks about the inability to find woman to sit on the board of so that in end everyone will case if civil servant retired at 55 on pension of$20000 and inflatiOn were to persist at 10 per cent year its been cal culated that pension benefits would total $1146000 by age 75 Without indexing of course the total would be $400000 GOVERNMENT ROLE Civil servants might argue that they have right to have the purchasing power of their pensions protected against in flatlon If the government were to ex tend that right to all other working Canadians it would have to take over the pension business and pay all pension benefits substantial part of the cost would have to be met out of general revenues Employers and employees couldnt afford to fund it entirely The effect would be to divert virtually all of the countrys fi nancial resources to pensions and to starve the economy of the capital needed to maintain and expand what we now have The only approach that makes sense is to redouble the effort to check inflationand to scale down the giltedged pub licservice pension plan directors of the Royal Earle how did you straighten things out with your wife Well Bob as you know the little woman is bit of tiger when it comes to thin like that Needless to say told me that if couldnt find woman to sit on the board of directors of the bank that she would apply for the job per sonally Good heavens Earle what did you do did the only thing could do told her that had no ob jection if she wished to apply for thejob Youre not serious are you Earle Put it this wa Bob didnt want her on the ard of direc tors but had to play the bluff through Well dont leave me in suspense Earle what hap pened Nothing much Bob She came down to the office in troduced her to the members of the board and told them that my wife was desirous of holding down seat on the board of directors Goongoon The conversation turned to whether or not the Bank should invest in bodyrub parlor Of course there were the usual jokes about getting to the bot tom of things and lets turn this thing over and look at it from all directions And your wife Earle She hasnt bothered me since then Through the Seaway by Windjammer By JOIIN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service TORONTO High above me the sails of the windjammer bend to stron 30mileper hour wind The ip heaves as sevenOct waves swell under her broadside The air is flecked with spray Grey clouds scud all over the sky And in the officers mess on this cold morning one of those lar and filling Norwe gian brea fasts is being laid out by the captains steward We noticed the ships heaving during the night from our pre carious but temporary beds on the circulzirfEhiplength sofa in the mess We slept there be cause there wasnt enough cabin space for guests when we went on board the previous night The famous Norwegian sail ing training ship Christian Radich was beginning another day with hands off duty to breakfast Our table of boiled eggs tasty hard biscuit cream cheeses ickles and steaming black co fec awaited hungry ships officers Sounds like dream come true if you love ships and the sea For me it was as guest on board the Christian Radich few days ago We had left To ronto harbor Friday night fol lowed by fleet of small and large sailboats We would arrive in Montreal at quiet berth Sunday night in sight of the sad and decaying buildings remaining from Expo 67 after sailing through the St Lawrence seaway From Montreal this beautiful sailing ship would sail back to Oslo after five months in North American waters which in cluded stay in New York Citys Operation Sail last July when the last of the worlds sur viving tall shi sailed together up and down Hudson River LAKE ONTARIO ROUGH Nevertheless those seven foot waves and 30mileltper hour winds and the ships dip ping into the swells were all true and real even though they took place in the middle of Lake Ontario out of sight of land Have you ever been on one of our Great Lakes in stormy weather with Force winds and rolling swells For moment at the early morning hour did lose my appetite just bit squeamish so long since had good sea legs The winds and swells re cecdcd as we approached Cape Vincent near Kingston Ont the entrance to the seaway system of locks and open water passages The crew scrambled skywards to furl the sails Our long yards were tilted foreand aft so as not to bump ainst the walls of the seaway ocks seven of them to Montreal and in some of which you de scend 40 feet in less than 20 minutes We now were moving entirely under the ships motor The role and function of this particular Windjammer proved as interesting and as exciting as my short trip because the Christian Radich is model if you like of the ability of in stitutions in Scandinavian so cieties to cooperate in joint venture in the national interest Soon on board realized this sailing shi unlike all others in the worl which belong to FROM PARLIAMENT HILL Mr Crowe did not display great deal of judgment By STEWART MacLEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service About six weeks ago Mar shall Crowe the chairman of the National Energy Board spent four days at primative fishing camp in the Arctic as guest of Panarctic Oils Ltd And for two of those days he was joined Energy Minister Alastair Gi lespie and CM Drury then minister of public works You might ask so what Whenever one begins discussing conflicts of interest or potential conflicts there are always wholesale disagreemen tsanyway But this one strikes me as bit obvious As chairman of the National Ener Board Mr Crowe will pro ably occupy key position when Panarctic Oils Ltd asks the overnment for approval to bull $5 billion pipeline next year Mr Crowe is also key advisor to Mr Gil lespie on energy matters Another key advisor is GM McNabb the deputy minister of energy And he was on that fishing trip too along with some ministerial aides Also there were the presidents of Un ion Gas and Polar Gas two companies which may have fu ture dealings with the National Energy Board Mr Crowe who was flown in to the fishing camp by Pan arctic said the trip was essen tially for business purposes and while there he accepted an in vitation to go fishing Appar ently they caught so many Ar ctic Char they lost count GILLESPIE PAYS Incidentally after news QUEENS PARK Possibility of election House concern By DON OIIEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Before too long we will be back in politics again The house is expected to start up about Oct 26 or perhaps bit earlier The sachems will be back from their votegetting sashays throughout the province the se lectcommittee geese will be back from their flights over seas and the party teeth will be honed to take some bites out of each other THE ELECTION The big point of interest of course will be the electionif as and when No matter what particularly burlyburly it may get into at any one given time and no mat ter what particular piece of business may be chewed over underlying this house is the one thing The election When will it be Well when ou go out on the street ask the irst man you see He will probably know about as much as anybody does here There is one somewhat new thought however Stephen Lewis was on tele vision sh0w here recently And the New Democratic Party leader said he wouldnt rcall be su rised if Premier Bi Davis idnt wait to be defeated in the house but called an elec tion on his own He could do this An time he felt like it he coul walk down the hall to the navies or merchant marines is privatelyowned by the eu riously named Eastern Norway Training Shi Society Ostlan detsSkoleski Moreover this ship has its own fundraising organization called Friends of the Christian Radich whose chairman is Crown Prince Harald of Nor way and vicechairman is Ha rald Tusberg one of Norways leading TV film producers The joint purpose of the Christian Radichs man sup porters which include ar med forces private ship owncrs Norwa state school system and pu lic volunteers is to supply the most competent officer cadets possible to Nor ways merchant marine In spite of that countrys huge new oil finds in the North Sea her merchant fleet still ac counts for 40 per cent of this mountainous nations foreign income CREW ALL YOUNGSTERS The biggest surprise on board this ship is that her wman crew are all teenagers hand picked from schools throughout Norwa for this rigorous and oldfashioned training at sea They are the ones high up in the rigging as far as 120 feet in the air who furl and unfurl the many sails and cook the mag nificent Norwegian meals on board And it was such youths sea soned by five months at sea who took the wheel as Capt Kjell Thorsen directed the Windjammer through the tricky navigation of the seaway locks to Montreal Officers and crew are gen uine crosssection ofNorwe ian life every one of them v0 un paper began making inquiries about the financing of the fish ing expedition Mr Gillespie asked Panarctic for bill and he immediately paid for his im mediate party which included his wife He dished out $1000 from his own pocket But at last reports Mr Crowe has made no such move And this raises the question of whether the chairman of regulatory bod should be ac cepting hospita ity from firm under is jurisdiction The view of Ed Broadbent leader of the New Democratic Party is that Mr Crowe acted improperly He was guilty of basic and serious error in udg ment And Tory Energy ritic James Gilles went even fur ther saying he was astounded tohear of the free trip Mr Crowe apparently is look lieutenantgovernor and tell her he felt he couldnt govern prop erly under present conditions and that he wanted to go to the country And she really would have no choice but to go along The advantages of this proce dure would be that it would put both the timing and the issue or issues to be fought over in the govemments hands AN ADVANTAGE The timing could be impor tant If the government felt it was ready for an election and that the opfxxsition parties werent it wou be to its advantage to get to the polls as soon as pos sible And the choice of issues could be equally important teerfrom the captain on loan from the Royal Norwegian Navy to the youngest crew member just 15 Capt Thorsen is submari ner by profession also para chutist cut from the granite of Viking stock since he also is building his own 50foot schoo ner with plans to sail around the world Many of the other ships offi cers are captains in their own right one of the senior mates having been skipper of three masted schooner presently out ofservice The bitter and the sweet are not too widely separated in ship like this Last June prior to Operation Sail the captain was married on board part of the ships ongoing evening en tertainment being home movie reruns of the marine wedding But while approaching Eu rope last week the Christian Radich which is not big ship weighing only 608 tons and 237 feet in ength ran into 70 mileperhour gale and lost much rigging and her main mast She is safe in port at Fal mouth England with no hands IOSt or injured thanks to the skill of her captain and her teenage crew AN OBJECT LESSON In the uiet way of Norwe gians per aps the least showy of Scandinavian races the Christian Radich and her crew briefly in our ports and on our lakes indicated how many na tional institutions can work to gether in common national cause Its not bad message at this time for our country where we are all quickly forgetting how to work together ing at it from the other side Getting to ether with represen tatives of industry is part of his job he says And Panarctic Board Chairman John Taylor takes the same view He Mr Crowe has to go up North sometimes and to say that nobody can give him meal is ridiculous Thats the trouble with con flicts of interest everything is so relative No one would even suggest any conflict over meal drive downtown or good cigar but when you get in to more expensive offerings the issue is heavily clouded BAD JUDGMENT Prime Minister Trudeau pre pared set of guidelines to pre vent the flow of gifts to govern ment officials but there is no way to cover every situation in writing There is nothing about fishing for Arctic Char So it often comes down to question of judgment and suggest there is strong argu ment to be advanced that Mr Crowe did not display rest deal of it The same cou be said for Health Minister Marc Lalonde when he acce ted ride on distilleryown jet in stead of taking commercial flight to Israel As minister of health Mr Lalonde has more than passing interest in the activities of the booze com panies And as chairman of the Na tional Energy Board Mr Crowe has even more interest in the activities of the oil companies Its not that Mr Crowe is go ing to allow future decisions to be influenced by few days of northern hospitality But just as important as being impartial is appearing to be impartial And some of those peo le who will be coming before he Na tional Energy Board to pose Panarctics project mi feel great deal better board members didnt have expensive social outings with any special interest groups It doesnt look good Mr Crowe 055 Whole man appears ffiéiiili in tenors biography By SUSAN WILSON No man is hero to his valet but too many are saints to their biographersespecially those who have achieved their fame in the theatre In telling the story of the worldrenowned Canadian tenor Edward Johnson in The Tenor Of His Time Clarke Ir win 866 pages $1350 Ruby Mercer has done both us and him the favor of letting the whole man appear She neither glosses over the unpleasant bits nor tries to ex plain them away but simply sets them side by side with the rest of his life to paint full length portrait Using Johnsons own letters and the personal reminiscences of many peopleboth friendly and unfriendlywho knew him Mercer has achieved her ho that personality will found here rather than mere recording of dry facts TALENT WORK Remarkably the personality is found just because of the way she uses and juxtaposes the fac ts for she assiduously refrains from editorializing This is the Edward Johnson who emerges hardworking man of tal ent and ambition with great enjoyment of people and neverending gift for making themlaugh social being who never let even his closest friends see when he was lonely or in pain man who inspired life long loyalty and loveespe cially from womenbut who could never bring himself to re marry after the death of his be loved Bebe though he was only 41 when she died An impresario who ap peared at the theatre every night in his white tie and tails but continued to live in third floor walkup flat CAREER ABROAD Edward Johnson was born in Guelph Out in 1878 He left Ontario in 1899 over his fa thers strenuous opposition to study singing in New York and shortly made name for him self in concert church and re cital work In the summer of 1903 he went to Europe for the first time the expedition became an annual habit that lasted most of his life In Paris in 1906 Johnson met Beatrice dAmeiro talented pianist who became his accom anist his mentor and in 1909 is wife She made him believe in his dream of singing grand opera and used every ounce of her considerable strength and musicianship to make it come true CANADAS STORY Scots tried Panama zone By BOB BOWMAN If it hadnt been for hostile mosquitoes and natives the Re ublic of Panama might have called Nova Scotia It was the dream of group of Scottish pioneers to establish the colony of New Scotland Nova Scotia at Panama after the Act of Union in 1707 The practical Scots could see the advantage of having one coast on the At lantic and the other on the Pa cific But because of the mosquitoes and natives they had to abandon their colony and one of the leading spirits Samuel Vetch went to New York and married daughter of wealthy Robert Livingston Samuel Vetch was great salesman He drew up plan to capture the entire North Ameri can continent or Queen Anne of Britain and went to London for support In order to attract in terest he and his colleagues took along four Iroquois chiefs who were dressed in magnifi cent robes by London theatri cal firm Vetchs plan was adopted the first step being to capture Port Royal An expedition of five warships and 30 transports sailed from Boston on Septem ber 18 1710 and arrived at Port Royal one week later The French governor of Port Royal was Daniel dAuger Su bercase brave determined soldier who had beaten back other attacks This time his DO THE PICK OF PUNCH In 1908 she nearly lost hingto the lure of Broadway when he became the toast of New York as the hero Niki in Oscar Strauss The Waltz Dream Only Bebes earnest transatlan tic pleading got him back on the right track Johnsons life became in creasingly eventful Yearstof study in Italy the birth in 1910 of their daughter Fiorenza who became Mrs George Drew his operatic debut in 1912 billed as Edoardo di Giovanni to immediate and unending praise Bebes tragic death in 1919 at the age of 46 and his return to the United States and his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 1922 SECOND CAREER He remained leading tenor with the Met until 1935 when he became assistant manager of the company But the newly appointed gen eral manager dropped dead of heart attack after only few weeks in office and Johnson found himself catapulted into the top job He held it until his retirement in 1950 Although the Italians thought he was Italian and the Ameri cans assumed he was Ameri can Edward Johnson consid ered himself Canadian Except for few years after he first went to New York he went home to Guelph at least once year and never stopped trying to figure out how he could make it the singing capital of the nation He was passionately inter ested in getting musical educa tion into the schools and spent his own time and money mak ing it possible GUELPH FESTIVAL He tried to establish music festival in Guelph in 1929 The Depression killed it after few yearsbut the reincarnatec Guelph Spring Festival began again in 1968 and celebrates its 10th anniversary next year Johnson was sufficiently con cerned about young Canadian musicians to accept the chair manship of the board of the Royal Conservatory in Toronto In places where there are conflicting versions of who saidwhattowhom Mercers itinerarystyle of presentation which occasionally seems my furiatingly superficial comes into its own The choices are presented without bias and the reader is trusted to draw his own conclusions The Tenor Of His Time is the first biography of Edward Johnson and includes 44item discography Susan Wilson is an Ontario based musician singer teacher and critic Thomson News Service sition was hopeless He had 250 men to oppose nearly 2000 Brit ish troops Port Royal was sur rendered on October as the British allowed Subercase the honors of war and agreed to send him and his men back to France It was this successful attack that led to large part of Acadia becoming British terri tory called Nova Scotia The name Port Royal was also changed to Annapolis Royal as it is today OTHER EVENTS 0N OCTO BER2 lassCartier landed at Hoch elaga Montreal l758First parliament in presentday Canada opened alt Halifax ISMTelegraph service opened between Montreal and Quebec 1900Sir Wilfrid Laurier laid foundation stone of Quebec bridge fa BIBLE THOUGHT3 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these1 things shall be added untO you Matthew 633 Simply put Jesus makes it plain that all our needs are metf as we make Him first in omfi lives Delight thyself $150 in the Lord and He shall give theg the desires of thine heart Nh and to paraphrase the Lord said Listen folks Im goingf to lay it on you You cats are strung out on bad stuff You shape up or theres going to be earthquakes and towering infernos