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p 2 ihe tcisuhf tkerujir aocsrf jt rffc editorials no doubt ever left here when new taxes are to be imposed in canada there is never any doubt left in the minds of taxpayers that the proposals will or will not be carried out not so in the united states where the president has suggested three new possible tax proposals over which the congress will haggle the thing seems strange to canadians that although the president has an nounced these proposals for tax in creases nobody knows whether they will happen in the standard american manner the public debate is likely to go on for weeks or even months before con gress decides to accept amend or re ject the presidents tax proposals meanwhile every businessman in the united states is left in helpless uncer tainty similarly every american taxpayer who wonders when to trade his car is statistics not comforting by the look of it we shall have to run a bit faster to stand still in the important area of highway safety there is little comfort to be found in the statistics of highway accidents reported in canada for 1966 as com pared to previous years the national increase in road acci dents was 74 per cent over 1965 with the staggering total of 425237 incidents only four provinces were below the national increase average and of the more heavily populated only quebec was included provinces with the high est rate of increases included new foundland whose rate was 119 per cent higher than 1965 manitoba 106 saskatchewan 174 and yukon and the northwest territories 144 the opening of more roads in these provinces and the increase in tourist travel through routes like the trans- canada highway are possible explan ations every year of course there are more cars on the roads and it is likely that the increase in accidents is about the same as the increase in the number of vehicles the sombre part of the story is that the accident rate continually rising as it does fails to reflect much benefit from the safety programs that are in operation but this may be the negative way of looking at it just think of what the totals might be without the safety campaigns more pay less boredom when a kitchen hand in a factory fin ishes his shour day he can go home take the children to the playground cut ihe grass or indulge in his hobby when the same man on a lake ship finishes his work where can he go un less he wants a long swim he stays right aboard shorter hours to him mean nothing but longer hours of bore dom the strike is on with 5400 men idle nearly 200 ships and numbers of other dock workers off as well the union says it wants a 40hour week instead of the present 60 the do minion government will be drawn in since it gave the ship owners a defer ment until the summer of 196s for a 40 hour week do sailors really want to stop work each week as soon as they have been on duty 40 hours from friends we have tal ked to close to the business we are led to believe that this is not the case what they want is overtime pay that starts with the 41st hour of each week instead of the 61st this would make quite a prize 20 hours weekly at over time rates the 40hour week aboard ship really means more money this really is what the strike is all about prompt cuts only realistic course higher unemployment insurance benefits and extended coverage plan ned by labor minister john nicholson have been put off at least until january or february according to ottawa re ports sources in mr nicholsons office on monday insisted that the proposed amendments to the unemployment insurance act were not victims of the economy drive that saw a number of programs from several departments put off till a later dale but since the cabinet has not yet given a clear go- ahead for the increase it may well be put back even further unless the financial climate im proves drastically it may well be as the financial times stated this week that the proposed increases were one of the casualties of the cabinets axc- vielding sessions more than a week ago the scheme would have added about 100 million a year to both em ployers and employees contributions and would have embraced every em ployed canadian whatever his income ottawa sources said mr nicholson has an understanding from his cabinet colleagues that an increase in jobless benefits is in order but even if the act is amended to allow for an increase to compensate for inflation the last raise was to a maximum of 36 per week in 1959 the grandiose scheme for universal coverage may fall by the way side it certainly doesnt rate consider ation if housing is to feel the pinch of the governments determination to reduce its demand for borrowed funds for the first time in- living memory the government of canada is faced with a situation where it will be un able to borrow anywhere near ihe amount of money that would be re quired next year if the government were to accede to departmental re quests and borrow money as financial intermediary for such agencies as atomic energy corporation and others it is well that the government is recognizing the real limits on its bor rowing power but the only way to keep within these limits next year and in the years to follow is to cut back promptly on many activities which may be economically and socially desirable pea editop- in- chief fcom timetotime you have sucsested that as a change oc pace we peint a cactoom on the style of those games where ouk readers can take a pencil amp fill in lines from mumbektonum6eisortof do ityburself apt good idea foi a lazy summed day you said and while were beiuglazy i think ill uncertain about the excise tax which will be part of the price and about the takehome pay he will have to finance it our canadian parliamentary system of government has merits which show- up in sharp contrast to this kind of thing in canada the prime minister and his cabinet members are in parlia ment not outside and opposing it american cabinet ministers cannot be long to congress if prime minister pearson and his cabinet decide there should be a tax change in canada the policy would be kept secret until announced in the house of commons then it would go into effect right away no one would be left in doubt the canadian way is more sensible in practice extra taxes are bad enough but it must be even worse to be kept in suspense how 0 yotfte so wpp t6vm i hey w0mmw and he y donafo so cartoonist whose work appears weekly in this newspaper was awarded sixth place in editorial cartoon section of the fourth international salon of cartoons for the above cartoon sugar and spice the expo trail well expo is all they say it is its fantastic and fabulous exhausting and expensive its got everything from saturday night in hayfork centre to a roundtheworld cruise r your private yacht its true that the lineups are long at some of the pavilion but you can easily get around this some people put on a walking cast and are ushered to the head of the line others use a wheelchair or you can buy a sailor suit visiting sailors march straight to the head of the line wink at the girl and walk in one chap i know spent two hours in a lineup with no strain at all he was organized he set up his folding stool sat down put on dark glasses to make him think he was in a bar and opened the quartsize thermos of icedcold mar tinis which he had prudently brought along ah about him people were curs ing fainting and wishing they were home in bed he killed the quart and never did make the pavilion but he made a lot of lifelong friends when he shared his potion and still claims it was the best party he was ever at another middleaged friend whose only normal exercise is walking out to the car went to expo with his son fif teen the boy is a fiend for organization and had a series of plans and time- charts worked out they covered 57 pavilions in two days thoroughly three weeks later the old man is still limping clutching his chest in the re gion of his heart and you can make him jump two feet straight up merely uttering the word pavilion one way of getting around smartly saving time and giving your dogs a rest is to hire a pedicab this is a rick-shaw- lype vehicle propelled by a youth on a bicycle holds two and its only 25c a minute come now dont be so cheap normally it costs you forty cents just to climb into a taxi and the surly driver cowes you into tipping him for not help ing you with your luggage one thing you can say about expo is that nowhere in the world can you get- so much for so little and so little for so much the first applies to all the wonderful free entertainment the sights and sounds the second applies to liquid refreshment many people feel its a great pity that these magnificent buildings should be demolished when the fair erds some think it would make a fine university other believe it could become a great international centre for the exchange of ideas and cultures something like the united nations without the scabpick ing and backstabbing montreal which had the imagination and guts to create the thing will prob ably salvage something toronto would solve the problem with dispatch the whole thing would be knocked down smartly to make a super parking lot whatever happens i hope they dont take it away until we get there whats that you thought wed been oh no were just gcting packed at the mo ment you dont have to go to expo to write a column about it i could write a book the country is full of expo experts who are only too ready to fill you in on everything about it after spending two bewildered days there weve been hear ing about expo from friends relatives neighbours and casual acquaintances until we have czech blown glass coming l by bill smiley out our ears its rather amusing to have people who have never seen anything bigger than the county fair dismissing the russian pavilion as brittle or pon derous or praising the british pavil- ion as subtle or wonderfully under stated theyve picked up these ex pressions from the critics and are going to use them even if it makes you throw- up everything weve heard about it has been contradictory from the availabili ty of lavoratories to the price of meals however thats life thats people and thats probably expo today we leave were all set my wife hasnt slept for two nights and has a blister on her heel kim has a fallen arch i have a vicious corn on the ball of my foot but never mind that its the spirit that counts and ours are very low this week next vietnam election by ray argyle sot the picture w1u 5jeak gacvn stpttmseegic bright light has gone from the edi torial world with the passing of ai beaton prominent cartoonist we publish here the final beaton cartoon and taken the form of doityourself puzzle cryptically it ayi that he hid gone mhlng editors mail aug 20 1967 dear sir why is it that the grounds near every railway station in small towns such as stouffville do not have any care by the company that owns the prcrty its the same pretty well all up and down the line not only this line but else where at one time when more passenger trains were running some effort was made to keep the station grounds looking attractive since incr however they have become some of the sorriest looking properties in each town why couldnt ihe section men in each division be given the job of keeping things better looking the railway is still looking for freight and express business even if the pas senger trade has fallen off some day we on this line may have go train and things will look better but in the meantime its a sorry sight oscar hulse stouffvil rr the nightmarish contradiction of hold ing a national election in a country torn asunder by 20 years of nearly constant warfare has finally shown itself for what it is in south vietnam elections there sept 3 for president and vicepresident follow by several months the writing of a new constitution but it has been impossible to run a political campaign of any real democratic intent and this has finally become clear in the last days before the voting elections in backward or semidevel oped countries are always given to much doubt anyway the lack of effective po litical organizations make it difficult to involve the average voter if illiteracy is an added burden as it is in south viet nam the use of colorful emblems to iden tify ballots because voters cant read docs little to build confidence in the ability of voters to make a judgment in the campaign but staging of an election in a country torn apart by war where the enemy the communist vict con holds effec tive control over more than half the vill ages and where half a million foreign troops americans occupy the har bors and cities can only be described as an act of either sheer folly or doubt ful courage the us government has undergone a subtle but significant change in attitude toward next weeks vietnam elections when the campaign began the elections were to prove that democracy can be made to work in vietnam but now the campaign is in the homestretch amid all kinds of charges of military interference american spokesman are cautioning that not really much can be expected from vietnam but at least a step is being taken toward democracy the military claque which rules south vietnam will of course be elected premier coa kv ihe strongman of the present government is running for vice president under the present chief of state lieut gen van thicu who is on the ticket as the democratic partys presiden tial candidate it is said that ky took second spot in the interests of military unity but it is likely that he will continue to wield ma jor influence after next weeks voting of the various civilian candidate some are outright dovish while others would press the war against the vict cong the leading civilian candidate is tran van huong who has good relations with the military but as the new york times quoted one vietnamese general theres a war lo fight we are willing to go along with the voting but things must come out right the elections are a calculated risk that by going through the motions of a democratic choice the military regime will be legitimatized and the vole will be taken as fresh evidence of the vietnamese determination to press the war against the vict con the 5s50000 eligible voters an in crease of 390000 in a month will have to turn in voting cards when they show up at the polling booths in the rice pad dies hamlets and cities where the vict cong docs not exercise complete control assuming that the military regime is thus given a quasidemocratic stamp of approval the next risk will be that the military group running the country will be able to remain sufficiently united to ensure the survival of the government the several regimes which have taken hold there since the fall of the diem government all came to power by mili tary coup while the elections will not assure po litical stability in the face of military power either will they make the ameri can cause in vietnam very much easier growing criticism at home has plunged president johnsons popularity poll lo an all lime 39 percent low he has clearly exceeded the bounds of the congressional resolution which in 1964 authorized him to take action to defend us forces fol lowing the gulf of tonkin incident the government pleads lack of money for ihe war on poverty because of the war on communism its society ft home becomes sicker its domestic problems more criti cal while international support for ihe american presence in vietnam continues to fall away all around the world established isss c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stouffviue tribune limited at m main su stouftvuje onl tel 6102101 single eopic 10c subscriptions 5400 per year in canada ss00 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mail pott office dept ottawa one in forty working for the government about one canadian in 40 now works for the federal government compared with the ratio of about i in 350 in the early 1900s using figures mainly compiled by the dominion bureau of statistics an ob server can chart ihe slow but steady increase in federal employment as a percentage of the population unfortunately exact government-cm- ploymcnt statistics are not available for any but the most recent years the royal commission on government organization ran into ihis difficulty a few years ago it expressed the difficulty this way lack of historical data based upon uni form and constant statistical concepts makes it impractical lo measure pre cisely the growth of the public service but using the best data available a picture of the growth or the canadian government appears the most recent federal employment figure puis the number in all depart- ments crown corporations on ships and in prevailingrate employment and casual labor as of december 1966 at 363700 not part of the statistical tables but a large part of what chews up the taxpayers dollar is the military est ablishment currently running about 105000 that brings the overall total to about 30000 below the halfmillion mark latest population data shows 20014- 880 persons living in canada as of 1966 the two figures produce the lin40 ratio of federal employees to the popu- lation in 1912 there were about 20000 fed eral employees out of a population of some 7000000 thats the lin350 ratio it didnt hold for long by 1920 fed eral employment had reached almost 50000 the first world war gave the j federal public service its first big boost out of a population of some 8500000 from 1912 to this decade federal em ployment figures reveal only salaried departmental employees thus the fig ures are low none of the statistics in clude the military and the ones being used hero also omit crown corpora- tions casuals and hourlyrated workers however with the exception of the military the great bulk of federal em ployees were salaried departmental workers the crown corporation build up came more recently the figures show a climb in employ- ment to 41800 in 1919 from 25100 in 1914 at the start of the first world war federal employment reached 47100 in 1920 and then due apparently lo a re duction after the war effort ended fell back to 38100 in 1924 canadas population in 1924 was k about 9000000 thus the ratio of fed eral employees to population was about 1 out of every 225 the total canadian labor force at the time was about 3200- 000 federal employment moved slowly upward through the slarl of ihe depres sion in 1929 when it was 42s00 lo 45- 4 600 in 1931 by 1935 il had dropped to 40800 then came the second world war in 1939 federal employment slood at about 46000 bv the wars end in 1945 it reached 116000 and remember the armed forces arc not included canadas population in 1939 was ii- 267000 and its labor force was about 4500000 the ratio of federal employ ees to the population was about 1 in 225 by the wars end the population was 12072000 and about one in every 100 t canadians worked for the federal gov ernment figures soar federal government employment fluc tuated after the war il reached 125300 in 1947 dropped to 118400 in 1948 the theory is that jobs were created for returning soldiers who gradually slid back into the nongovernment labor force by 1953 employment had climbed to 131200 and the population stood at more than 14000000 a fcdcral-cmploy- p to population ratio of about 1 in 107 then came a wave of new govern ment programs and the need to gel the personnel to man them federal employ ment reached 160300 in 1961 the popu lation was 18000000 at this point the conservative gov ernment of the day instituted a hiring t pause as an economy measure employ ment dropped some 10000 until the liberal government took office in 1963 and government employment began to rise again the big federal work force now has a budget of more than 10000000000 to spend and administer a far cry from 1921 when the budget was under 500- 000000 and there were some 40000 fed- eral employees to handle it teenagers vote against pot more than 56 per cent of 800 teenage voters at the cne turned thumbs down on a proposal to legalize mari- jana the results were part of a poll being taken at the cnes teenage fair by the young new democrats just over 92 per cent approved more student participation in setting school study and exam standards and 672 per cent thought americans have too much control ocr this countrys econ omy