a RS interesting facts. born in the U.S, a modest standard of living, of public welfare help. adequacy of diet. per thousand births. Zealand and Czechoslovakia. berries and bread. Where other not. . ployed nation did not exist. . IN THE WORLD’S RICHEST LAND 33 million live in poverty In his State of the Union message, January 8, President Johnson called for ‘‘unconditional war" on poverty in the U.S. It would come as a surprise to many both here and abroac that 30 million Americans live in families with yearly incomes below $2,000 and another three million unattached individ- uals have annual incomes below $1,500. The Detroit Free Press, January 5, anticipating that the president would deal with this issue, carried a detailed article by its Washington correspondent which reveals some One of every five Americans lives ina‘*pocket of poverty’’. This fifth American gets little or no preventive medical care. He doesn’t have enough to eat. If he lives in a city, he has the added burdens of crowded housing, lack of privacy and no proper place for children to play. According to the Free Press article, ‘*the average resi-. dent of Yugoslavia eats better—by at least one standard of measurement, protein intake—than the average American.*" A baby born in one of the Scandinavian countries has a 50 percent better chance of surviving his first year than a baby Of the 33 million Americans who are too poor for even Using the protein (meat, fish, fowl) intake in the diet as the best way to tell whether the people of a nation should be classed as rich or poor, the U.S. ranks 11th among nations in The average American eats less well than the average citizen of New Zealand, Argentina, Iceland, France, Canada, Finland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Denmark or Australia. ‘ Another indicator of poverty is the infant mortality rate. Here the U.S. ranks 12th, with adeath rate of 26.4 infant deaths This puts the U.S. behind Sweden, Iceland, Holland, Nor- way, Australia, Switzerland, Denmark, Britain, Finland, New “There is a world inside the United States where the American dream is dying. It is a world where, when it rains at night, everyone gets upto move the beds away from the leaks. Where there is no electricity. Where regularly at the end of the month whole families live on things like floors in burlap bags, and their lung X-rays at age 12 look like old men’s. Where students drift hungry and apathetic through school and their parents die 10 or 20 or 30 years earlier than their countrymen!” BEN H. BADKIKKIAN, in an article “The Invisible Americans’’ in Saturday Evening Post. ‘*The USA is becoming two nations, one employed, the . The employed nation is scarcely aware of the unemployed and makes its plans as. though the unem- DR. ROBERT HUTCHINS, former chancellor of University of Chicago. less than a third get any kind —UAW-LOCAL 444 NEWS children in winter sleep on a9 ‘ 40,000 LEAVE FOR U.S. YEARLY Greetings from 31 parties Cont’d from pg.-3 of world communist unity, stated a resolution adopted by the con- vention, ‘‘it is necessary not only to cease public polemics, but that the leadership of the Com- munist Party of China desist from its splitting policy and agree to a patient discussion and re- solution of differences.’’ Claude Lightfoot. US fraternal delegate, received a standing ovation before and after his hour- ‘Enjoy Good, Home-Cooked) Meals at Jennie’s Cafe 335 Main St. @ Modern equipment @ Dining room service ee Se SD |] ||P] | =| ROOFING | & SHEET METAL | Reasonable Gutters and Downpipes Duroid, Tar and Gravel QNickBITZ 277-3352 \ a ee SP a SD SD SD thin, Efe A AR AAS EN A AT TT long speech to the convention— regarded by all delegates as one of the most stirring moments of the meet. _ He appealed to the Canadian party to ‘‘marshall the working class of both our countries onto a common battleground ag- ainst’a common enemy—the rul- ing class of the U.S.A.” He offered severe criticisms of American foreign policy, par- ticularly as it relates to Viet- nam, Canada, Latin America, etc,. and pledged the Communist Party of the U.S. would do all in its power to ‘‘rescue the honor of our people and our nation.” He said those who live with history—in its unfolding and mak- ing—do not always grasp the full significance of events as they emerge, adding: ‘‘We stand today on the brink of the ppssibility to put an end to the cold war.’ The Three-Point Program For Canada for the 1960's, approved by the convention, was ‘‘in full accord. with the main trends in world development,’ Lightfoot said. ; PRIOR GARAGE & SERVICE 219 Prior St. MU 3-2926 COMPLETE AUTO SERVICE & REPAIRS Auto Body -Work LEE, Proprietor . _ What is the reason for — Canada’s ‘brain drain’? By BERT WHYTE Why are so many of our young engineers, teachers and scien- tists going south every year to find: jobs: in the United States? Some are lured by money: oth- ers by an opportunity to use their brains in research work in well-equipped labs denied them by an unimaginative Canadian government. For in many fields of endeavor, little basic research is being done in Canada and jobs simply aren’t available. The House of Commons was told recently that in the 12- month period ending last June, a total of 1,583 highly trained persons — engineers, scientists, university teachers, physicians and. surgeons—left Canada for the U.S. It's nothing new for Canadians to emigrate to the U.S, — some 40,000 do it every year. But the fact that many of our best- educated citizens are joining the annual trek is cause for alarm, Last month Prof Norman D. Lane, chairman of the Ontario Council of University Faculty Associations, told Premier John Robarts that Ontario is suffering from “‘brain drain” that could cripple her universities. He said professors are flocking south of the 49th parallel because-of high salaries and better research fa- cilities. Britain, like Canada, is also losing top teaching and research scientists, though for somewhat different reasons. The desire for status seems to be the pre- dominate one. **In America the scientist is somebody: here he is nobody,”’ is the British reaction quoted by reporter Bill Gold of Southam News Services. Instead of public esteem the scientist is often re- ferred to as ‘‘one of the boys in the stink lab.”’ Many Britons are worried. but some are not. The Duke of Edin- burgh recently suggested that, after all, the brain drain was a very nice compliment to the British educational system. Serious situation Canadians generally take a more serious view of the situa- tion. They are concerned about how to keep Canadian brains in Canada. The solutions advanced are many and varied. The Independent Businessman, a monthly published in Toronto, made this suggestion: : ‘““Why not offer young people scholarships to university with the condition that they stay in Canada for 10 years after they earn their final degrees? By the time a doctor or an engineer or any other professional has been practising for 10 years he will likely be too settled and too prosperous to move and set up a new profession elsewhere. **After the war the government launched a similar scheme and offered it to all veterans of the war. It was very successful. Who knows where Canada would be today if it werent for the con- tributions made by this flood of postwar talent that serves and leads us now?” The Globe and Mail, in an editorial March 9 this year, thinks the answer lies inagreat- er influx of immigrants; “The long-term remedy—the only one which will ever stop the drift — is to increase Cana- da’s population, thus increasing the wealth it produces and the opportunity it affords. To this problem, as to so many others in Canada, immigration is the key. But it must be on a much larger scale than at present. The 93,151 people we took into Can- ada last year were barely enough to replace the 80,000 who left.’’ Maurice Moreau, MP(L-York- Scarborough) thinks the drain could be halted by & ing young post-graduate stu ‘‘tax holidays’’ for tWe or more years, in the manner that new mines 4 empted from paying taxe>: These suggestions may h some merit, but they ala one key point—the high coy a university education ¥ excludes thousands of child of the working class {rom coming scientists, engineet> professional people. Provide opportunil _ Many workers make bié fin cial sacrifices to enable children to get a college © y tion. Many more find it imp sible to send their childre™ university. The universities thems®™ show a reluctance to tae thousands of new students- of educationalists still expoul i untenable theory that highe? fe cation should be for the not the many. ‘*Fducation costs are soa! ing’? we are told in bié lines. True enough—but coml the small amount of money on education as a whole come ed with the billions spem armaments and ‘defense. Let Canada get out of | armaments race and use so of the money now wasté fa ‘defense’ for educational Be poses—buildings, teachers: ap scholarships for students" young people wouldn't be anxious to leave this cou” AND NOW.,,“IHE STUDENT 4 fraction of the money! VOTED MosT LIKELY To FIND A Jos! being spent on Bomar = and other useless arms © provide our young enginee!® scientists with better wo!” conditions, first class equiP™ higher salaries and the °P tunity to carry out the res projects they are eager to tack If Ottawa would take 4 along such lines young 9?” ates would have the indell to stay in Canada, where — are needed, andthe ‘brain aral exodus would end. Classified Advertising COPY — DEADLINE FOR AUL ADVERTISING. All copy must be in the offices of the PACI- FIC TRIBUNE no later than 12 Noon on MONDAY. 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