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ME DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Thundey, Mey 1, 1958 27 N.Y. Experts Hired To Streamline Government By DAL WARRINGTON CRITICIZE PROJECT One thing the experts will Canadian Press Staff Writer The complete job will include tackle is the use of floor space HALIFAX (CP)--The Progres-|an evaluation of civil service|in the Provincial building, the sive C vative gov of |positions and salaries, an analy- government office building across Nova Scotia has hired a crew of (sis of work in every department, [the street from Province House, New York efficiency experts toa study of how the government seat of the legislature. streamline the provincial adminis- uses its office space and stores' "Nobody is saying we can tration, |its mountains of records. double the effective use of that The legislature has voted] The government has committed building, but indications are that $260,000 to help pay for the job. |itself only to part of this work so the crowding there is due to poor Premier Stanfield says that if a far but already the efficiency layouts and storage of old rec- complete overhaul is done it will men have criticized the method ords," said Premier Stanfield. take more than a year and re-|of preparing the budget and they "I emphasize that this firm is quire even more money. He!say controls over finances, per- here only to suggest and advise," hasn't said how much, sonnel and office space are inade- he added. "The field of general Opposition leader Henry Hicks quate. government policy is outside says he is startled by the cost,| Mr. Hicks accuses the govern- their jurisdiction. These consult but the Liberals did not try to/ment of pinning its hopes on the nts are concerned only with the block the appropriation. Premier survey to solve its financial prob- mechanics of government, and Stanfield said the money would lems. then only as advisers." be well spent. He said, "I was somewhat BIG BUSINESS startled to see the proposal for The New York experts (Jerome |some quarter of a million dollars Barnum Associates) told the pre-/to be given for study of some mier that streamlined operations vague nature." He saw no evi- could save the province more dence of streamlining; every de- than $1,000,000 a year without partment was spending more laying off any civil servants. than ever. Premier Stanfield says govern-! The premier said the govern- ment today is big business and ment is prepared to answer for should use big business methods. the success or failure of the pro- "I don't know that any provin-|ject cial government has ever used a PRELIMINARY STUDY firm of business consultants for. The New York consultants were | a general overhaul," he told the legislature. "I do know that large and efficient businesses use these consultants all the time. "If highly trained business ex- ecutives need outside help, the need applies at least as much to government administrators "Any money spent in fees will be more than saved in one year and a better service provided. We regard this project as a very good investment." first hired to overhaul the Nova Scotia Power Commission under the former Liberal regime headed by Mr. Hicks When that job was done the Lew Conservative government asked for a look at all govern- ment operations "This survey has been com pleted," the premier said, "and it has confirmed previous indica- tions that a thorough overhaul is desirable." House To Attempt To Define Obscene By DON PEACOCK Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP) An attempt to insert a clear definition of "ob- scene". into the Criminal Code may be made at the next session of Pailiament, The session, opening May 12, likely will study the word as ap- plied to books, pictures, phono- graph records and other com- i, ch material as is suitable for| adolescents or those adults ab-| munication media. Justice Minister Davie Fulton previously expressed his interest in this matter and officials of his department currently are under- stood to be studying the problem. They likely will come up with a two-part definition in an at- tempt to solve, or at least allevi- ate, the age-old and exceedingly difficult problem of moral censor- ship, The double-barrelled definition of obscene for legal purposes would have one part apply to) materials considered obviously | lewd and indecent--the sort of | thing that finds little controversy | in interpretation, such as smutty | post cards, fil movies and pornographic art. TO LESS OBVIOUS CASES The other section would: apply #0 the less obvious cases, where opinions might differ sharply. It would leave the final decision open to interpretation and judg- ment by the courts, This would] apply to such articles as books and magazines. Possibly with something of the difficulty of this type of censor- ship in view, the obscenity sec- tion of the Criminal Code now in- cludes the exception that no per- son can be convicted under it "if he establishes that the public good was served by the acts all- eged to constitute the offence." This side of the censorship question was explored at some length in the recent ruling of the tariff hoard on the American no- vel about sexual idiosyncrasies of a New England community, Pey- ton Place, by Grace Metalious. The book last fall had been ruled inadmissible to Canada on grounds it was obscene under tar- iff law. But the publishers and distributors appealed the revenue department ruling and the tariff board, in a 3-to-1 ruling, allowed the appeal. NOTED DEFINITION The tariff board ruling by vice- chairman W. W. Buchanan and member G. A. Elliott noted that the usual definition of obscenity in criminal court proceedings is based on this 1868 definition "The test of obscenity is this-- whether the tendency of the mat- ter charged as obscenity is to de- prave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands the publication of this sort may fall." Mr. Buchanan and Mr wroie "We are not entirely clear as to the meaning of this test. More- over, we believe that an examin- PICKERING BEACH Elliott ent at the Community Church on Sunday were the Rev. and Mrs, James Hicks. Mr. and Mrs. Hicks are missionaries who have just returned from Africa, and besides telling of their work they had in- teresting slides to show. After the evening service a reception was held in the basement. Re- freshments were served Mr. and Mrs family of Marmora visited Mr. and Mrs, W. Seymour on Satur- day. The school trustees have been busy planting trees around the school. The school board purchas- ed 500 white spruce, which should make a nice border if the chil- dren give them a chance to grow. Mr. and Mrs. G. Parker re- ceived a pleasant, visit from Mrs er, Mrs. F. Thomson, of Toronto A. Guest visited Mr. and Mrs Al Anderson on Saturday to help celebrate the birthday of T. C Tedd, whe is Mrs. Anderson's father, D. Kelsh and unexpected Parker's moth- ation of cases decided on the avowed basis of this criterion in- dicates that it has not always ap- peared to mean the same thing to different judges." At another point they said they could not believe that Parliament intended literature available to Canadians through normal distri- bution channels "to be restricted normally susceptible to moral corruption." "Indeed, a stricter standard might well be applied to publica-| {tions directed to the adolescent |reader." 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