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TeveunentetnenenteDeCntedenennancerece onl According to Dr. Barry Commoner, director of the Centre for the Biology of Natural Systems, Washington University, St. Louis, the nitrate level in one brand of Canadian bottled baby spinach was over twice the acceptable safety level for babies under four months old. Dr. Commoner says that when babies have diarrhea, nitrates can turn to toxic nitrates and seriously impair health. Why is it that the Yanks always have to lead the way? Why can‘t Ottawa acknowledge that U.S. scientists are right in contendinpg that billions of cubic feet of4{eadly auto exhaust fumes are a real menace to«the North American urban dweller or that high concentrations of nitrates may, in fact, be a health danger to babies? â€" Just one smidgen of evidence whidh tends to disprove the overworked brain drain theory. the Globe report has a moral surely it is that &hen nadians can‘t find real problems to worry about,*they icah always dream up some imaginary ones.. Dr. A. B. Morrison, research head of the National Food and Drug Directorate, on the other hand, claims that high levels of nitrates in baby food are not toxic. Reporter Kelsey claims that almost half of the university professors teaching on (anadian campuses are either U.S. or European imports. At York University right here in North York, the statistics are even more startling he claims. The sociology department has six Americans, nine . assorted Europeans and (only) one Canadian professor. ( â€" John Kelsey, in Monday‘s Globe and Mail, wrote an expose on this matter which is so earth shaking that it may make many of those who expound the perils of the Canadian brain drain tear out their hair in despair. Was Dr. J. L. Sullivan of the National Health Department serious, or did a senior official order him to make the statement to pull out the rug from under those who Contend that deadly poisonous gases from motor vehicles in urban centres are a grave health menace? s In any event, we now have another Ottawa bureaucrat attempting to allay public fears on the question of baby foods. 14 On October 10, this newspaper remarked that we didn‘t know whether to laugh or cry over the weird and totally incorrect remark of an Ottawa bureaucrat that air pollution from auto exhaust systems is not a health hazard to the urban dweller in Metro and other high density Canadian centres. Everyone has heard a thousand and one times about the brain drain in this little country but how many â€" even once â€" have heard about the brain invasion? We leave this question, dear reader, for yoix to answer. Published at 2159 Weston Rd., Weston by. Principal Publishing Ltd., every Thursday W. K. w_lhon, General Manager + Stewart Castle, Manager B.M, Holmes, Editor Advertising $. Castle â€" A. Bullen â€" R. Thornton The Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept. Ottawa, Ont., and for payment of postage in cash. ___ SUBSCRIPTION RATES $7.00 per yebr in advance to any address in Canada Other coumvm o W ecotou _ wl iT Mer HAteH? Toxic baby «food ? Telephone 241â€"521 1 AH, ~<Re Dec. 27â€"68 Times story (Page 9) of the opening of the new St. Philips Rd. Bridge. LOUIE‘S LOUSY LIMERICKS St. Philips Bridge is open at last A brand new link with an age old past ' On a cloudy day in December : ‘Twill be hard for you to remember Fanfare, Hoopla, Strangely Bereft Says Horton to Mould ' "It‘s pretty damn cold" So they jumped in their cars And they left. i0 | â€" > All this, in your own excelusive (the house next door is also an exclusive, the ~agent Said), suburban (miles from anywhere), splitâ€"level (those stairs slim your legs, lady). (AnTeLeSeTeSeSee AnteteLeRhT+26 Te TeTeTeTeTaSeZaTa®otete taPa Pate o Pats Pate tota o t P Visualize yourself, the ‘now, or today‘ person, career womanâ€"wifeâ€"mother, s#Fvinging out of your Chevvie‘ in front of your miniâ€"palace, ready for yout afterâ€"five fun and games (dishes, ironing, mending; whatever). | Conjure up a ginghamâ€"aproned you exchanging heavenly gourmet recipes and/or childâ€"oriented intelligence with a neighbor in the. local laundromat. M You‘ll never see this particular advertisement running in any of the big dailies or their little weekly sisters either, for that matter. But that doesn‘t mean it won‘t grab the houseâ€"hungry folk who read Weston Times and dream about their instalmentâ€" plan dwellings materializing miraculously out of the blue. "Gracious living" copy is not that hard to come by. In fact there‘s a world of ad agency acumen in the following italicized comeâ€"on propaganda. Redloss Land Enterprises knocks together berry boxâ€"type Aouses for home makers â€" for you there â€" with the small but growing family of kids and a couple of senior relatives thrown in for ballast. Picture a _ radiant you, participating in a weightâ€"reduction â€" program _ of _ museleâ€"toning activities (stooping and bending to clear up the toys and coats and other assorted junk scattered every where.) Saunas and massages are solely for lazy doâ€"itâ€"yourselfers, madam. St. Phillips bridge Sir: Berry box or dream house? by HaANNAH BEDELL __. AND MANY HAPPY RETURNS Louie Every petty detail (mortgage payments, utility bills, snowâ€"removal charges) need not concern you â€" too much. Some are taken care of ‘at the source‘» and you don‘t have to soil your hands counting all the leftâ€"over filthy lucre. 3 Remember. Redloss Land Enterprises has a : name for it. ? But this is a family newspaper. More and more wouldâ€"be homeowners are moving into the Redloss (you can say that again). But what â€" the heck. You only live once â€"â€" and why not do it graciously, prestigiously, where it‘s at, like it is. i Tell Redloss "Ft‘s on the house." (For 30 years or more.) Our answeri'ng service will be pleased to take the message. Our personal representative ditto the cash. A word of advice, here. Keep a sharp lookout for the tax assessment notices. They keep you up to date on your current contribution to the borough‘s coffers. - e Your roundâ€"up of "happenings in Timesland during ‘68" could have included the fact that grownâ€"ups by the hundreds flocked to night school in York and North York last September. While "collegiate students don‘t like the idea of extra school days at end of spring term", the older folks are certainly making up far lost time. Besides, it‘s the overâ€"30‘s who‘re paying the shot for the lot, so why optâ€"out? You‘ve got it made; wish I could have stayed. That‘s why I sign off as j _ Which is what dropâ€"out students today may have to face tomorrow if they even want to Keep the lowliest of menial jobs in our casteâ€"ridden society. * i When they are out earning a living, as most of them will have to do, it won‘t be very much fun, picking up their own tab, doing the threeâ€"eveningsâ€"aâ€"weekâ€"at _ theâ€"localâ€"fountâ€"ofâ€"knows ledge bit when they could be taking it easy. The demands of the work day are heavy cnough without stretching it to the preâ€"union 12â€"hour routine. Get smart. Get an education. Even if it isn‘t all you think it should be. You can‘t make improvements if you‘re not in touch with the operation. You can learn now or you learn later FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1969 Perennial Pupil, Toronto 15.