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iMonday0ct291979 CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 What about cure the examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Baytield Street Barrie Ontario UM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher COMPOSING ROOM Published daily except 5070 ADVETSN BUSINESS Jack Kerney loreman Sunday and Craig Elson managing editor Len Sevrck manager Maran Cough accountant Gm Km rem Mum Mia Stan Didzbalis city editor SALES of ponSaunders EEK mm Bill McFarlane wire eaitOr Aden Smith VikkiGrant Lame YC REPORTERS wayne Hay Cmnie Hart Wm cm Scen Stephen Nicholls Steve Skinner YEARLY by carrier servmg borne and simcoe county Dennis Lemmy Mam Hardy amflflm Nancy Figueroa Calvin Feteocnuk Ron Gilder BY MAIL Barrie Lori Cohen Peter Clark Ea Auenby Montreal Tony Panacea CIRCULI Jons Hm SIMCOE COUNTY Richard Thomas CLASSWED 59 Susan Kitchen 00 Stephen Gauer Chapel supervisor AMY Woman assistant manager ymm 519m Sue Bowen camera operator 999 DOW Bonn SROOM Moron THROWOFF Freda 5mm Alva LaPl 22 32 Janice Morton Lisa Ways Al Hanson toreman 50 Y9 ADVERTISING SSIFIEDS BUSINESS Marv 093 Ian MacMurcnv Elam 3mm Max159 foreman 00 year 7266537 7266537 09 MW 7282414 for poverty war Once upon modern time the world got together and beat scourge that has killed millions Smallpox The disease for which cure was never found has been eradicated by vaccination and other methods in concerted world effort It is indeed triumph for the medical care field and no doubt those involved will turn their talents to something else worthwhile There is lesson here somewhere It shows what can be done if the effort is made by all the nations of the world if all the power of caring and determination is brought to bear on one scourge Other diseases of course con backgrounder tinue to plague the earth and some say that when one disease is beaten another takes its place Be that as it may What about other maladies which beset the world war and poverty No real concerted worldowide effort has been made there Selfishness extreme nationalism and ego have seen to that Will remedy ever be found for these two scourges Will future children of the world ever be able to say what it war what is poverty If ever concerted effort was needed in this sphere it surely is right now Smallpox now eradicated international effort pays off By JOHN WARD UNITED NATIONS CP Smallpox one of the great scourges of mankind for thou sands of years has been wiped out by concerted international effort The World Health Organization has cer tified Djibouti Ethiopia Kenya and Somalia as free of the disease the last four countries in the world to be cleared Friday marked the second anniversary of the last reported case of natural smallpox which occurred in Somalia There were two cases reported in Britain last year but because they were contracted after smallpox virus escaped from laboratory the health organization considered them anomalies Announcement of the eradication of the disease followed worldwide 12year campaign that concentrated on vaccination and isolation of diagnosed cases Doctors say the virus that causes smallpox cannot live long outside the human body or travel far in the air Each case of smallpox resulted from contact direct or indirect with an infected person While some diseases like bubonic plague have animal carriers smallpox is uniquely human disease N0 HUMANS INFECTED While the plague bacillus survives today in rodents in Central Asia and even midwestern areas of North America the smallpox virus must infect humans to survive and there are no infected humans The only existing smallpox viruses are held in storage in seven laboratories around the world Scientists say it is necessary to keep those stocks in case similar disease breaks out The laboratory specimens might be valuable for research The World Health Organization discounts any major threat but about 200 million doses of vaccine are being kept on hand just in case Smallpox was one of the most contagious diseases infecting mankind Some historians say smallpox devastated North American Indian tribes and made the European conquest of the continent easier smallpox epidemic in India from 1926 to 1930 killed more than 400000 people While cure for the disease was never found the technique of vaccination in troduced by Edward Jenner in 1796 proved effective That combined with isolation of the sick and careful public health measures were the tools that led to the present success As recently as 1966 smallpox was endemic in about 30 countries and international trav ellers were required to have proof of vac cination Only few countries still maintain that requirement and the World Health Organization says it might as well be dis carded Japanese exports growth spectacular over the years By TERRY ANDERSON TOKYO AP Pick up camera or calculator look at television in any American home The chances are good it will say Made in Japan In the last 20 years the growth in quality and quantity of Japanese exports has been spectacular And that growth has helped boost Japan from one of the poorer countries in the world with percapita gross national product of $300 in 1956 to nearly the richest with percapita GNP this year of $10000 roughly equal to that of the United States countrys gross national product is the sum of all its goods and services In the 19505 and early 19605 Japan was considered the junkman of Asia place where cheap labor produced vast amounts of cheap goods In the late 19605 and 19705 it became the craftsman of the world dedicated educated and hardworking population backed by an exportminded government swamped the world with TVs radios autos steel and other products piling up billions of dollars of surpluses PRODUCTS POPLIAR No matter how the US or British or French governments complained about trade deficits their people kept buying Japanese products because they were good and inex pensive major factor in Japans sprint from junk to quality goods was the necessity of re building an industrial base destroyed by American bombs in the Second World War What it rebuilt was new and modern Then came the Korean War and US help in the rebuilding process But Japans export dominance is being threatened now by rising labor energy and capital costs warnings of protectionism around the World and severe competition from rapidly developing countries like South Korea Taiwan and Brazil The Japanese responded to inevitable rises in the ycns value against the dollar mostly by belt tightening cutting costs and profits we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let ters but it you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verily letters Because of space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condense or reioct letters letters to the Editor are run every day on the editorial page Send yours to letters to the Editor the Examiner Post Office In 370 MIRIE OM NM to the bone to keep from raising prices too much on their products But theres limit to how much belts can tighten and Japanese and foreign economists agree that theres not much Japan can do to stay competitive in manv of the industries it now dominates ADJUSTMENTS PLANNED We know we cant compete in some areas with countries like South Korea where labor costs are onethird to onehalf Japans one government economist who asked not to be named said in an interview Our textile industry has been hurt badly The Koreans are even taking shipbuilding contracts from us Hong Kong and Singapore are making cheap electronics So the gov ernment has decided we must move out of those areas and concentrate on the ones where we can stay ahead The ministry ol international trade and industry has mapped out blueprint for the 19805 calling for complete restructuring of Japanese industry It says Japan must stop exporting the products of labor and start the exporting of products of knowledge It forecasts that the core of Japanese exports in the 1980s will be knowledge intensive and high valueadded products like computers other electronic goods based on integrated circuits industrial plants and fine chemicals MAKERS SlBSIDIZEI This is not to say that the Japanese will give up on automobiles TV sets steel and shipbuilding at least for the foreseeable future US officials in Tokyo said But the fastestgrowing field is likely to be computers Two years ago the government began giving direct subsidies to Japanese computer makers and funding research in the field Already they produce machines judged equal to those of US companies that were once far ahead Japanese companies have taken over half the domestic computer market 20 30 per cent of the European market and have even sold computers to the National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration in the United States Japan also is making rapid progress in the development of integrated circuits chips for other electronic products They have already shown their ability to apply new technology rapidly and efficiently to mass production and are concentrating on many new consumeroriented high technology items like videotape recorders microwave ovens electromagnetic stoves facsimile transmission and fibreoptics One of the most lucrative and fast growing new fields for the Japanese has been building entire industrial plants for export on tum key basis That is the whole steel mill or processing plant is built in Japan and shipped to another country set up and the key turned over to the new owners Plant exports have leaped from $965 million worth in 1970 to $48 billion in 1975 and $98 billion in fiscal 1978 Shoddy products spotted in important lab tests By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Picture pair of womens winter boots that look like leather but are made of syn thetic that breathes and is impervious to water Salt wont stain them and their price is well below that of leather Sounds great and the boots look great But outside on winter day the synthetic material would make the wearers feet feel as if they were packed in ice and the material would become brittle and crack at tem peratures of about minus eight degrees Celsius Thats an example of the problems that retailers face in dealing with their suppliers and it illustrates the importance of product testing if consumers are to be adequately protected Product recalls cost fortunes in lost profits and increased costs irritate customers and erode the precious confidence that retailers have worked so hard to develop says Shirley Dawe purchasing executive of Hudsons Bay Co Noting that more complex technology is leading to more complex products she said that we have no choice as reputable retailers but to get professional evaluation of products before we offer them in our stores PRODUCT TESTS Mrs Dawe was speaking to the first North American conference on consumer product testing held recently in Ottawa under the sponsorship of the Consumers Association of Canada In the case of the boots customer would have had every reason to buy them if they were on display in store It was only through the Bays regular program of product testing by an in dependent laboratory that the imported boots were found to be impractical in Canadas climate Without such advance testing consumers would have been dissatisfied and the retailer would have lost money In another example described by Mrs Dawe it was found that the thermostat on frypan offered by domestic manufacturer YOUR BUSINESS needed to be calibrated more accurately even though it had met the manufacturers standards The manufacturer agreed to improve the calibration not only on the frypans bearing the Bays private label but on the manufacturers own line as well The result Mrs Dawe noted was an im proved industry standard and better product at no increase in cost to the con sumer Its much better to recall poor product before we ever offer it for sale she told the CAC conference BUYER BEWARE Fortunately that approach is shared by flowing number of businesses Fewer and fewer respond to consumer issues any longer by issuing blanket denials trying to discredit the critics hiring public relations agency or blaming others Governments in recent years have been taking more positive position to the benefit of the consumer Dr Emmanuel Somers of the en vironmental health directorate in the federal department of health told the CAC confer ence Our approach to product testing is related more to the negative aspects the adulter ants contaminants weaknesses faults or failures rather than their quality On the other hand he warned the public should realize that nothing is perfect and stand on guard itself No place this side of the grave is entirely safe There will always be some importers and manufacturers who prefer to cut comers on quality and safety and there will always be vendors to whom sale means everything and reputation nothing Consumers obviously cant conduct their own laboratory tests But they can and should deal with responsible retailers who stand behind the merchandise they offer Explanations of economic problems often confusing By STEWART MaclEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service dont know about you but have this nagging feeling that when it comes to economic matters particularly inflation and energy costs were being given the royal runaround In fairness perhaps its my own inability to gasp economic problems shortcoming cheerfully acknowledge but even allowing for this surely our monetary and fiscal mas ters could do better job of explaining the problems confronting us Its bad enough being confused over minor issues but here we are being told that we are threatened by an economic and social breakdown and we still are being fed distorted versions of whats wrong And cant even give my undivided attention to the interestrate problem because of my contin uing confusion over the alleged necessity of increased fuel costs Everyone seems to agree that Canadian oil prices should rise closer to world levels well nearly everyone does but even on something as basic as this we are being given variety of confusing and sometimes conflicting explanations TWO SIDES Higher prices are needed to encourage conservation we are frequently told At the same time we are hearing about many hard pressed Canadians who by necessity are already conserving every last ounce of heating oil We are also told that higher prices are needed to encourage exploration And at the same time we are told that every available piece of drilling equipment is already in use and that exploration companies at prevailin prices are eagerly tackling every highris venture Furthermore most oil companies are reporting enormous profits If this isnt confusing enough the govern ment keeps reminding us we must face up to the reality of the situation while federal and provincial representatives meet in pricefixing seSSions behind closed doors If they would just come out and tell us what the realities are it would be much easier for us ran into one highlyplaced public servant who even dared to suggest that the prime pur pose of higher oil prices was to raise more money for the cashshort federal treasury But that proposition never seems to emerge at the political level CONFUSION WORSENS But the confusions surrounding energy costs are mere childs play compared with my troubles over interest rates and related economic problems And my problems in these areas go back five months when Pierre Trudeau said Canadians must lower their expectations while Joe Clark said on the contrary we should have higher ex pectations Prior to the May 22 general election Liberal finance minister Jean Chretien patiently explained that Canadian interest rates whether we liked it or not were permanently pegged to American interest rates Joe Clark said that if successful at the polls it would be the policy of the Pro sive Conservative government to gra ually bring these interest rates down Interest rates of course have soared since the and the Liberals are screaming at the Tory government to do something about the problem Now we seem to be offered choice of explanations We are reminded as we were under the Liberals that Canadian in terest rates must follow the American rates while we are also told by Finance Minister John Crosbie that the present rates are due to mismanagement by the previous Liberal government The government would like to reduce rates he says but what prevents us now is the record left by the Grits Kim Pattenden tisement ls member at The Canadian Preu CP and Audit Bureau at inflnmAegt Only the Canadian Press may republlsh news stories ln this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence FrancePresse and local news stories pubth in The Examiner gt The Examiner claims copyright on all orlifnal news and advertising may created by Its employees and published In this Wt Copyrlaht realstratlon 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were educators bureaucrats and social workers exactly the people who drain off in big salaries the largest chunk of the money that government allocates to help people Heres some who were there Association of Professional Social Workers Ontario Public Service Employees Union Canadian Union of Public Employees Metro Social Planning Council and even something called the Youth Action Network They came to the Queens Park front door in loose coalition with the catchy public relations title Cutbacks Hurt Ontarios Children CHOC NO GOOD That was their claim The tykes of Ontario are being hurt by the govemments restraint program because it is cutting back on ser vices to children The English language however is fairly precise and cutback means reduction In fact in the area of childrens services government expenditures this year have risen $29 million or almost 10 per cent CHOC claims Childrens Aid Societies are receiving only five per cent increase and while this is true of some the provincewide average is more than 12 per cent Those are not cutbacks they are increases exceeding the rate of inflation and frankly are probably too high considering some of the FROM THE LEGISLATURE drones employed in the social services field WHO ARE THEY But facts have never been CHOCs strong suit anyway The nameof the game is pro paganda The aim is to get more money for themselves not improve services for children And any tactic is acceptable In Toronto the CHOC campaign reached the depths of involving school children as messengers for their literature handed out by teachers for delivery to parents N0 EARS Community and social services minister Keith Norton and education minister Bette Stephenson made the mistake of trying to reason with the crowd They assumed falsely that the demonstrators would listen Instead the CHOC people preferred the boorish route of hissing booing catcalling and chanting to drown the ministers words out The real nature of CHOC was made clearest at press conference here when one of their spokesmen was asked where the money would come from to meet their demands Frankly we dont care Were not politi cians or economists was the answer When taken to its essentials the CHOC plea is little more than an attempted raid on the taxpayers pocketbook by selfish group of people looking out for number one It may soon be turn of US to face bilingual issue By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Bilingualism as national problem will appear again soon perhaps in Canada but most certainly in the United States as the number of Spanishspeaking people come closer to being that countrys second largest ethnic community Thats the estimate from various Hispanic groups around the US chiefly Cuban Mex ican and Puerto Rican as they clamor for more Spanish language rights in American public life The date for such breakthrough is estimated to be in the mid or late 1980s with the future of Hispanics in the US already an issue in American foreign policy The largest communities of the Spanish speaking in the United States as this decade closes are the 600000 Cuban exiles mainly based in Florida but also in the northeast an estimated million legally and illegally resi dent Mexicans and MexicanAmericans and several hundred thousand Puerto Ricans Last week in Toronto Keith Spicer the former Official Languages Commissioner bright articulate bureaucrat turned colum nist outlined to the InterAmerican Press Association Canadas desultory record in ad vancing biIingualism The IAPA holding its first Canadian con gress represents all the major newspapers of Latin America as well as most of the larger English and Spanishlanguage ones inside the United States OUR POOR RECORD Mr Spicer told the Spanishlanguage newspaper publishers from the US they could not build on what Canada had achieved so far in working out its bilingual policies for French and English In fact he was honest enough to tell them to arts as Languages Com missioner to see ere Canada went wrong read his annual and that they should not repeat our mistakes This was rather pessimistic stuff if true since the Hispanic communities in the United States are already demanding bilingual public services in many communities without Inter retin thenews the constitutional rights to do so which we have in the British North America Act Under the document French and English are equal and official languages for doing business in federal government agencies and Crown corporations and in federal courts if so requested No such language rights exist for the Hispanics or any other language groups in the United States Yet bilingualism Spanish and English has made some strong strides in California New Mexico Nevada and in Floridas Dade County which contains most of the Cuban ex ile families who came to the United States since 1960 largely resident in the City of Miami By law in Miami and the rest of Dade Coun ty Hispanics are entitled to Spanishspeaking services in hospitals schools and state government of ices In the American Southwest where millions of Mexicans have entered illegally in the last few years after successfully dodging the thin line of border guards pressures are under way to make their stay permanent Some of these are coming from exploitative local employers who like the cheap labor and eager way in which poor Mexicans will work But the Mexican Government itself could soon become involved by asking Washington that it absorb this potpulation overflow from country trying har to reduce one of the worlds highest birth rates MEXICOS WEAPON The weapon that Mexico may wield some day if the US resists is to turn down future American demands for Mexicos oil and gas when laws are proposed or passed to send home the socalled illegals Aweapon fear surfaces with South African incident By CATHY McKERCHER WASHINGTON CP The furore surrounding reports South Africa may have been involved in nuclear test explosion brings into focus fears about the spread of nuclear weapons South African officials have angrily denied US intelligence reports the country may have been involved in nuclear explosion in the Indian Ocean or south Atlantic month ago In Washington senior US defence officials backed away from such suggestions Friday saying they have no independent evidence to link any country with the suspected ex plosion said to have been detected by US reconnaissance satellite But the fact that the report was taken seriously the US went to the extent of notifying Canadian and other officials about it indicates the concern about nuclear weapons spreading to the volatile southern African region and to other parts of the world Six countries have demonstrated they have nuclear weapons the United States Britain France China the Soviet Union and India which stunned the world in 1974 by using Canadiansupplied plutonium in its device seventh country Pakistan is believed by US officials to be on the verge of nuclear weapons capability raising fears of an arms race on the Indian subcontinent The recent publication in the US of ar ticles on how an atomic weapon is built has raised concern of spread of information that might be used to speed nuclear development DENY REPORTS Reports about possible South African plans to develop nuclear weapons have cropped up for several years and have been systematically denied by officials of the white minorityruled country The rumors persist for several reasons including South Africas refusal to sign the in ternational nuclear nonproliferation treaty and reports that pilot uranium enrichment plant near Pretoria could be used to enrich uranium to weapons strength More than year ago the US and Soviet Union detected through satellite photography signs that test structure might have been built in South Africas Kalihari Desert That site now appears to be dormant But the possibility that South Africa might develop nuclear weapons appears certain to increase tensions between the regime and its black southern African neighbors The country is producing conventional weapons at record rates and claims to have neutralized the twoyearold United Nations arms embargo The potential nuclear strategy in South Africa complicates efforts by the Soviet Union and the West to limit the spread of nuclear weapons South Africa claims its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes