PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Monday. July 17, 1978

~ EDITORIAL
Allowable Filth

Canadians like to think of themselves as clean
people - cleaner than most other nationals. -
Canada’s public health standards are
presumably akin to those of the United States.
When Canadians travel in the U.S. they are not
afraid to drink the water or to eat at roadside
restaurants. © Incculations against specific
communicable diseases are not required on
either side of the U.S. - Canadian border.
Presumably therefore, health standards are
mutally acceptable between our two countries.

So, it might come as something of a shock to
look at a few of the ‘acceptable levels of filth’ in
foods by the U.S. Public Health Service.

According to the runaway best-seller “Book of
Lists’’, these are some levels that are permitted
in the U.S. by law: |

In strawberries, frozen, whole and sliced - a
mold count of 55 percent in half of the samples.

In tomato paste, up to 30 fly eggs per 100 gram
(roughly 4 ounce) samples, 15 eggs and one
larva, or two larvae; or mold count averaging 40
percent (30 percent for pizza sauce).

In popcorn, in six 10 ounce samples, either one
rodent pellet or one rodent hair per sample; 2
rodent hairs or 20 gnawed grains per pound with
hairs in 50 percent of samples or 5 percent by
weight of field corn in popcorn.

In spinach, canned or frozen, either 50 aphids,

thrips or mites or eight-leaf miners; tvo spinach
worms or 10 percent decomposition - per 100
grams (about 4 ounces).
- Fish? Fresh frozen, - five percent of fish or
fillets with ‘definite odor of decomposition’’ over
25 percent of fish area; or 20 percent of the fish
fillets with ‘‘slight odor of decomposition’’ over
25 percent of fish area.

In asparagus (canned or frozen) the U.S.
public health service of the Food and Drug ad-
ministration allows up to ten percent of the
spears infested with six asparagus beetle eggs,
either 40 thrips or five insects per 100 gram
samples.

It would be interesting to learn what some of
the “allowable filth’ levels for food are, in
Canada; whether they vary from province to
province, and what are some of the actual counts
that have been made from food stores and
restaurants in the Kitimat and Terrace and
nearby communities. Including our water
supply.

Following..an-all-night: stomach upset after
consuming a ‘“‘chili-dog” at a local fast food
outlet, I telephoned to ask if other customers had
had the same misfortune. The girl. who an-
swered the phone. was very pleasant. ‘I’m
awfully sorry,” she apologized. “But the
waitress who came on in the morning was
supposed to dump out the chili sauce from the
night before, and I don’t think she did.” A check
with heaith authorities revealed that food
poisoning is often unnoticed because people. who
get it sometimes mistake it for a case of 24 hour

u. -

Food. preparation areas and kitchens can
oceasionally be seen by customers in
restaurants. When sanitary practices are ob-
served repeatedly, customers should not be
afraid to complain to the management. Failure
to rectify the situation should result in a com-
plaint being lodged with the public health
department, the chamber of commerce, the city
council - and Consumer's Affairs.
stances, though, the restaurant or food store will
be only too pleased to respond favourably to

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“What? Call a fall election? What's Joe Clark ever done to me?"

By Richard Jackson

- National Unity

OTTAWA OFFBEAT «= A Dead Issue?

OTTAWA - National unity simply isn’t selling
on the political market.

Who says so?

The voters.

Correspondence secretaries in the offices of
Prime Minister Trudeau, Conservative Leader
Joe Clark, and New Democratic Leader Ed
Broadbent all agree that the mail these days
reveals less interest -- never mind concern — in
unity than any time since separatist Premier
Rene Levesque stunned the country by winning
Quebec going on two: years ago.

How time passes — it was back in November,
1976, but it seems like yesterday -- and with time
dies the sense of urgency to do something about
it.

That, anyway, is the explanation the Prime
Minister’s office offers of the lack of public in-
terest.

People in English Canada, report federal
members of all parties, including the Liberals,

poseur that he is, and convinced that nothing
really is going to happen to unity,
Not now, anyway, or even soon.
Perhaps never, as more and more Liberals

from Quebec, and some once-flaming separatist .

enthusiasts from the editorial staffs of the
Montreal newspapers report that Levesque not
only will lose his referendum but even more
surely the next provincial election.

So the public, denied its expected late spring or
early summer election by a Prime Minister
fearful of losing power, have turned attention
away from unity to the more urgent issues of
day-to-day living, inflation and the dollar.

Most Liberals like it that way.

One of them who talked without going off the
record has been Keith Penner, Liberal MP for
Thunder Bay, who'll be running in the oncoming
election in another Northern Ontario riding,
Cochrane. .

Not only weren’t a number of his people not
really concerned any more about unity, he
reported, but disclosed that next time around
they wouldn’t even be voting Liberal because

Other Liberals remain off the record, perhaps
out of fear of reprisal from the Prime Minister
who has made national unity his Holy Grail and
is struggling to make it the one sure re-election
issue. -

But privately they are frank to admit that to
most of English Canada, national unity means
blind acceptance of bilingualism, special
privilege for Quebec and a resignation to rising
French Canadian militancy in Ontario and parts
of the West and the Maritimes.

So in the face of this resentment, the worried
Liberals are quite content to let the barking dogs
of separatism lie as long as English Canadians
seem satisfied that they won’t bite.

Some of that English Canadian resentment is
due, MPs will tell you, to what they are calling
“the Anglo Saxon Uncle Toms” in the federal
bureaucracy. .

-. These “Uncle Toms” in the senior ranks of the

have become bored with Levesque, preposterous: - Public Service, in their zeal to bend the knee and

tug the forelock to Pierre Trudeau, have made it
almost a cult to glorify what they call the
“French Fact” while discounting, denigrating
and discrediting English Canada as insensitive
and even intolerant. Bigotted, too.

These are the people — some of them deputy
ministers, others commissioners and chairmen
of special federal boards, and all of them ap-

’ pointed by and faithful to Trudeau -- who split us

into ‘‘Anglophones’’ and ‘‘Francophones,”’
equating the English majority and the French
minority.

But the quiet on the national unity front may be
deceptive.

For out in the English grassroots things are
stirring: former Liberal Defence Minister

James Richardson and his ‘Canadians for One’

Canada’? movement, the Calgary-based new
Dominion of Canada Party, the Loyalist Party of
Canada which ran some candidates in the last
election and plans running more in the next, and
ahalf dozen variations of the same “One United
Canada’ theme. :

With or without Quebec.

EDITORIAL

_ Rejection

The response to an editorial on a visit to my
son in Winnipeg who had just had a kidney
transplant was quite interesting. I had told how,
during my visit to the large city hospital over a
period of three days had showed a shockingly low
standard of hospital housekeeping and patient
care. Mentioned was a heavy swinging corridor
door that fell onto a cleaning woman when she
was passing through; of dried blood from a
previous patient on the floor adjacent a patient's
bed that went unremoved. Of delivery of wrong
medicines to the patients. Even (as was
documented on a television news item) a dead
mouse and a mouse nest inside a piece of
dialysis equipment transferred from another
part of the hospital. .

Because of the extreme nature of these in-
cidents, I had not expected many of the readers
of the HERALD to believe me. However, the
reaction I received was quite the ‘opposite. Not
only did they believe, but they had additional
stories to tell of other large city institutions.

Well, sadly enough, there is a sequel to this. Of
the seven patients who received kidney tran-
splants the same time, at the Winnipeg hospital,
two months ago, two have died, two more have
had to have the transplants removed, a third - a
young woman, ‘s scheduled to have hers
removed this week. My son is one of the two
remaining - and his is rejecting, also, and he is
loging the normal use use of his legs.

Though he is only a layman (and 32 yrs. old)
his observations appear to bear out what some
professionals have only dared to say “off the
record”: the surgery was excellent. However,
when, immediately afterwards, the surgical
team left for their vacations, the post-operative
follow up by medical staff on call or on roster,
left much to be desired. Some of the assigned
doctors, new to Canda, had difficulty un-
derstanding the language. A number of the
obvious mistakes were actually quite funny -
were it not the consequences could be so tragic.

Having, during the past 8 weeks, watched two
of the seven who received their kidney tran-
splant die; two others have to lose theirs,
another due to have hers removed and to watch
his own rejecting, my son, whu has to drive his
balky car to and from the hospital through heavy
city traffic every couple of days, to be examined,
openly admits he is ‘concerned’ about the
outcome. With a strong sense of humour he used
to keep the staff and the patients around him
chuckling ;and in a happy frame of mind with his
jokes, clowning and repartee.

-“] figured; if my.old car could hang on awhile
Jonge 1 could too, “Dad, - he said on the
telephone. When I got better 1 was going to give
it an engine “transplant”, Now, I don’t think it
would be fair to the car.”

As I said before, in my earlier article. Patients
in the Terrace area would appear to be fortunate
in the quality of care they can expect from Mills
Memorial. However, it should be added, there is
no Renal Dialysis department in any of the
hospitals in the Northwest - Rupert, Terrace or
Kitimat. This might be an area for which sucha
department is needed. We would be happy to
hear from our readers both physicians and lay
persons of their own views and experience in
such matters.

Foreign Investments Costs
Canadians Jobs

TORONTO (CP) — The

legitimate complaints, and clean up their act.

ES,

“they just don’t give a damn about Quebec.”

Parties for Canadians not ‘‘Linguaphones.”

Says Man Must Have Higher Loyalty If He Is To Survive

The following is the text of a
speech given by Winifred
Barton, at Unity Day
eelebration in Madoe, On-
tarlo, on July Ist, “J AM"
stands of Institute of Applied
Metaphysics, which has Its
headquarters in Ottawa,

Being a Canadian citizen
by choice - rather than birth,
I feel perhaps, more sense of
privilege at being able to live
and work here in Canada
than those who were born
here.

Over the past 35 years I
have travelled from coast to
coast in Canada a number of
times, and have visited
every major city; not as a
tourist - but as part of the
job: talking and meeting
people and getting their
views on life.

It seemed evident that
most of these people were
more concerned with
regional than national
issues, almost as if they lived
ina series of isolated groups
rather than being citizens of
thesameCountry. Many feit
a sense of hoslilily towards
the central government - and
used this as a handy scape-
goat to account for all the
difficulties of modern times.

In effect, it is this
separative attitude itseli
which causes many of the
woes Canada faces today.

Slrength comes from Unity -
in predeterming priority
goals which serve everyone,

secondary goals of regional
interest.

Older countries, such as
the U.S.A. and Britain -
recognizing the power of
unification, stress a heavy
national theme from the
cradle to the grave. 1, for
example, was raised on the
Theme - “Land of Hope and

Glory, Mother of the Free -.

How Shall We Adore Thee
Who Were Born of Thee?” 1
think it is this early
development of national
loyalty which spills over to
one's adopted country, In
some way a mystical
transfer is made, Learning
to appreciate is a key to
happiness.

-In recent years however,
thanks to the exercises in
expanded consciousness as
taught by [AM -a new
loyally - and even keener
sense of appreciation has
developed. Exploration of a
new country; a new
dimension: a new concept of
earthlings as a single unified
human race. Which, I am
convinced is what musl
happen if the race is to
survive the next few decades
of its History.

To put it in a single sen-
tence - I met God. {t soon
became clear that here is
where the first loyalty lies;
in the simple law of abun-
dant life - THOU SALT
HAVE NONE UTHER GODS
BEFORE ME.

This is not merely a nice
philosophical attitude -
rather an objective
statement of the key to
human survival.

Early man wandered the
face of the earth in small
tribes, seeking food and
shelter. His dominance over
other emerging life forms
came about because his
reaction to any kind of threat
was swifter, and his survival
instinet more developed than
the others. Anything beyond
his own tribe was considered
a threat to be eliminated as
fast as possible. Then he
came to learn that the bigger
the tribe the stronger its
capacity for survival. Tribes
learned to band together in
loosely knit agreements -
which effectively protected
all its members from foreign
invaders, This his how
provinces and states interact
today, all working towards
the common wealth of the
members.

Bul the way thingsstand at
present - in an effort to gain
the loyalty of adherents - an
attitude of regional and
national paranoia pervades
the planet - with threats, real
and imagined being seen on
ail sides. The stronger the
country - and ['m thinking
now of the two super powers,
the slronger the potential
threat.

As a physical monarch
provides a stability across
tie and potential protection

and communication among
its members, so could the
recognition of a spiritual
monarchy stabilize earth's
affairs so that men could get
together under one common
Commander and get on with
the - now pressing matter of
saving the planet.

By — emphasizing our
common denominator - that
all men are heirs to the
Kingdom of Jleaven, under a
single Master of the
Universe - as we have found
ittobe. And seeking the best
interests of all humanity,’
which in the case of the rich
countries means giving up
some of their privileges to
those in greater need,
nations would no longer
waste precious energy and
resources in warlike
weslures of intimidation -
which is a reflection of
primitive instinct rather
than the evolved mind in
action...

In the thst quarter century,
molecular biologists have
made .¢ many great
discoveries. AMong the
greatest ‘Of these is the law
which demands that earth
species evolve or perish.
From the Lime when the first
single celled bacteria tot-
tered on the verge of life -
this law has never varied.

The application of his
innate intelligence is what
brought mankind to the top
of the evolutionary scale -
while the dinosaur perished.

It had put its life energy
supply into developing bulk
rather than common sense.

The common sense af
jungle law - no longer ap-
plies, and becomes self
destructive if allowed to
persist beyand its time.

The recent war in Viet
Nam is a good example of
this, Thousands of young
Americans, the cream of the
crop in terms of good health
and education, and
presumably with some
religious background,
though doubtless this would
be less emphasized than the
nationalistic loyalties, are
required ta participate.
Training camps designed to
dehumanize, fashion these
lads into professional killers.
All this to the tune of the
U.S. Marine Corps March,
the symbol of social ac-
ceptability - American
mascullnity in its prime.
Then some official conceives
of Operation Phoenix, a plan
of systematic genocide,
crue] and merciless beyond
description, inexcusable by
any remote logic of wartime
strategy. The plan is carried
out,

Today these young men
are Viet Nam Yeterans.
Seventy thousand are im-
prisoned for social crimes.
Five hundred thousand are
in hospital under psychiatric

treatment. All because of
the paranole application of
jungle law - qn emphasis

on the separateness of men,
rather than the togetherness
of all things.

In the higher states of
consciousness a self tran-
sforming perception of one’s
total unity with all creation
is the overwhelming
emotion. The normal ego
boundaries break down - a8
man reaches beyond the
limits of the body to perceive
the Cosmic Plan - the moral
order that makes sense to
the seeming chaos af
separate existences.

1 AM - and other I AM’s
become unified - one in love.
It changes a bleak and

hopeless view of life ta one.

that has joyful purpose. No
more disconnected parts. |
These liberated ones stress
again and again that lip
service is not the answer.
God cannot be known save
through direct experience.
That is what the name of the
game is all about.

By emphasizing this single
common denominator - as
given in the single over-
riding law of life. THOU
SHALT HAVE NON OTHER
GODS BEFORE ME. And
by acknowledging ‘that all
men are potential heirs to
the Kingdom of Heaven -
under a single sovereign. all
may be saved - together with
our beloved planet Karth. To
live and glorify in one voree
in acknowledgment af the
one and only’. MASTER GF
THE UNIVERSE

Sunday Star says a recent
trend of large Canadian
companies buying property
and creating industrial jobs
in the United States may be
partly behind the slump in
the Canadian economy.

The newspaper says
Canadian interests have
bought or opened more than
300 manufacturing plants in
the U.S. and havespent more
than $1 billion on U.S. real
estate development since
January, 1977.

The newspaper quotes
estimates by the U.S.
commerce department that
the total of new Canadian
investment in the United
States enceeded $6 billion
last year for the first time,
probably making Canada the
largest single foreign  in-
vastor in the U.S, |

The largest single deal re-

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ported was a Toronto devel-
oper's purchase of eight New
York City skyscrapers for a
reported $270 million.

Sinclair Stevens,
Progressive Conservative
finance critic, described the
trend as “dramatic and most
alarming” when told of the
newspaper's findings.

“It is one thing for foreign
businessmen to lose interest
in Canada; it is certainly
much worse that Canadian
businessmen are nat only not
taking up the opportunities
left here by foreigners
leaving, but are themselves
seeking to go to the U.S, to
invest,” Stevens. sald,

The York-Simeoe MP
added that the shift of in-
vestment southward reflects

“the very unhealthy at-.

titude’ of Canadian
businessmen toward their
own country,

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