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It is disturbing to realize that while milâ€" Hons of people throughout the world are hovering on the brink of starvation, North Americans are paying fifty dollars for mink capes to drape about the shoulders of dolls (the ones little girls play with). Also on the Christmas shopping list for the people who have everything are a genâ€" uin¢é mahogany yoâ€"yo and mink covered wastebasket. Is the yoâ€"yo for the executive who has his ups and downs? Certainly this insanity will not remain a permanent fixture at a time of the year when we celebrate the birth of the Man who preached brotherhood and died for the Christian religion. CARE, the organization which provides for needy people in other nations, plans to help feed 35 million people in 33 countries around the globe in 1964. While it is difficult to shop for a gift for the man with everything, it is extremely simple to do so for the man with nothing or practically nothing. CARE says there are 1.5 billion of them in the world this Christmas. If the average North American found a 25â€"pound package of milk powder, spaghetâ€" ti, flour, butter and corn meal under your Christmas tree, he would think someone was pulling his leg. It was horrifying to read Mimico Mayor Hugh Griggs recommending the use of the strap in punishing hoodlums. A few weeks ago society was crying out at the assassination of President Kennedy; erying out at a society where such violence was possible and yet today I read of a man, a public figure, who is still after all that has happened advocating violence. To the father of a family in Greece this might be the greatest gift for the incredibly low priee of one dollar, through CARE of Canada. Similar one dollar parcels can be sent to Men who Have Nothing in Afghanâ€" istan, Colombia, Cyprus, Haiti, Hong Kong, He says, and I quote: ‘This type of culprit is a coward at heart." Can you imagine anyâ€" thing more cowardly than strapping a man who is in no position to defend himself? Mayor Hugh Griggs ends his remarks "I suggest the strap, discreetly applied, will end such tactics once and for all." What a beautiful naive idea! If violence was the answer, In the case being discussed by Mayor Griggs he was reâ€" fetring to the theft of some Christmas gifts. Is not the act of strapping a man much worse than stealing some gifts? The word pacifism frightens society, because to most people it holds a picture of a passive fanatic or at the very least, of w e a k ness compared to strength. And yet how true is this picture of the pacifist? Are not most of us pacifists at heart? To start with the last thing a pacifist can be in this day and age is passive. To be passive one must "act without resistance"; one must submit, and the very thing a pacifist is not capable of is submission to the general and popular trend of violence as an answer to problems, If it is not worse, why are we giving Christmas gifts? If the gold, frankincense and myrrh had been stolen I very much doubt if the Three Wise Men would have wielded a strap, however discreetly. Passiyity and pacifism are mere words but perhaps their derivatives show not only their LAÂ¥ /7 & ADVERTISER â€"â€" Tuesday, Dec. 24, 1963 â€" Page 4 30 Spanich ce 4. A slight offense 9. Groek lomar L. Hewaiisn Corefith * VUNGENT _ rOoST The Mahogany Yoâ€"Yo EDITORIAL 9° lief that on using his recipe of violence we would "end such tactics once and for all". Probâ€" ably for the whole of mankind! A pacifist is not one who sits back and waits for peace but "one who urges peace". He is not likely to say "history reâ€" peats itself" because he beâ€" lieves that man must have learnt something through cenâ€" turies of evolution. He won‘t say "history repeats itself" beâ€" cause he does not intend to sit back while it does. The strength of the pacifist lies in what he has learnt from hisâ€" tory: That jealousy, greed and hate and their children misery, violence and war have not proâ€" duced anything worthwhile and is therefore proven unâ€" practical. The strength of the pacifist lies in the fact that there is strength in the belief in kindly feeling and veracity. He has his money on the outâ€" sider perhaps but this is one race where the favorite canâ€" not win. The masses have lost many times following the wrong horse. And so I would say that the pacifist is not pasâ€" ext India, Iran, Italy, Jordan, Korea, Macau, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Sierra Leone, Turkey, Vietnam or Yugoslavia. All packages made possible through the generosity of Canadians carry the donor‘s name and address and a green Maple Leaf to mark it as a gift from someone in Canada who CARED. The doll‘s mink stole would provide 50 such food packages for starving people somewhere in the World. And the other status symbols like the yoâ€"yo and the mink wastebasket which no doubt are costly, would far better be dispensed with in favor of feeding the hungry. Surely we have lost all sense of proporâ€" tion when we fall under the spell of the pitchmen peddling these ridiculous items. Sensible children‘s toys or toys that aren‘t even sensible are logical for they should be tailored to awaken the young mind. A mink cape for dolly however, is simply an ostentatious display of wealth and selfishâ€" ness, for any young girl of proper upbringâ€" ing would not appreciate the value of mink. To put this expensive fur around the neck of a doll or around a wastebasket for the purpose of status peddling mocks the prinâ€" ciples with which we should face Christmas. The Man who died on the cross for Chrisâ€" tianity would have had a more gentle attiâ€" tude toward those who ignore the suffering of their fellow man to shower themselves in useless ostentation. His infinite power and rightiousness would undoubtedly have swayed these peoâ€" ple. Let us hope His memory will accomâ€" plish the same. against the waves of destrucâ€" tion and this strength has to be at least encouraged by our leaders. If physical violence is wrong, and the many mourners of Kennedy obviously think so, it does not become right because an officer of the law is holding the strap. sive, is not fanatical and defiâ€" nitely not weak. It takes strength and courage to stand Mimico Mayor Griggs, as chairman of Metro‘s Cenâ€" tennial celebration committee does not want to be pushed into adopting a $6,000,000 z0o project as Metro‘s offiâ€" cial centennial project. He suggested to Metro Council last week that a centennial project should be something Metro was not going to do. In other words, something not already included in the Metro 10â€"year capital budget. A silver tray each, was presented last week to New Toronto Mayor Donald Russell and Mimico Mayor Hugh Griggs for their work as chairmen of the Metro works committee and parks committee. The presentation was made by Metro Chairman Allen. Mr. Russell said 90 percent of the success of his works committee was due to the efficiency of Metro Works Commissioner Ross Clark. Mr. Griggs said with three lawyers on his committee it couldn‘t go wrong. As we begin to move into 1964 Metro will select new committee chairmen for the year and also members to Metro executive committee. The New Toronto mayor disclosed thaot he had been approached by several city and suburbon Metro members and asked to be a candiâ€" date for a $2,000 a year executive committee seat. A little while ago a Scarboro works department truck moved into the Lakeshore municipalities and beâ€" gan to pick up a number of bus shelters a private comâ€" pany had installed. The company had sold the shelters to the township. Federal Health Minister Judy LaMarsh told Metro officials by letter last week that the federal government has not yet formulated a policy on whether it will inâ€" crease its grants to hospitals for building purposes. Metro recently reâ€"entered the hospital building grant field in the hope of increased federal aid. On someone‘s Christmas list this year no doubt was the purchose of an air rifle or air gun. This is no toy and there have been instances where persons have been ‘njured and property damaged by the indiscriminate use of such guns. Etobicoke has received Metro approvel of an $89,â€" 400 expenditure to provide sanitary sewers on Rathburn Rd , Islington Ave. and Wardlaw Cres. as well as road povement on Lothioan Ave. The discharge of air guns is prohibited in a number of Metro municipalities but it is not prohibited in Etobiâ€" coke, Long Branch, New Toronto or Weston. In kong Branch the discharge of air guns, however, is prohibited n parks. The other municipalities, Etobicoke and Wesâ€" ton included, prohibit discharge or use of other firearms but air guns J; not appear to be included in this group. Some suburban civic officials are studying the ideo that a uniform zoning bylaw should be adopted in all Metro municipalities. This would provide standard resiâ€" dential, commercial and industrie! roming categories. As.it is now each municipality has a slightly dl"f:nm approach to various residential zoning categories. What may be allowed in one Metro municipality is forbidden in another. The same problem appears to exist in buildâ€" ing department regulations. Prior to 1962 the Metro chairman "'o".'h“-“by ouncil on an annual basis. counc Metro Chairman Allen will leave by plane on Christâ€" mas day for a trip to Calgary to attend the wedding of a relative. In Januoary the Metro chairman will be startâ€" ing the second half of his first two year term in office. If post tradition stands in 1964 the suburbs will be awarded the chairmanships of Metro welfare and housâ€" ing committee and Metro transportation committe®. These will be the two big committees next year. Lynn Tate Mimico Sliting The Population Cake Means Some Smaller Helpings Report From Ottawa The tweive thousand people in Quebec‘s Iles de la Madeâ€" leine send one member to the House of Commons in Ottawa. Toronto‘s York â€" Scarborough, with one hundred and seventy thousand people, also sends one member to the House of Commons. Greater Winnipeg has 38.3 per cent of the population in Manitob®; yet has only 28.6 per cent of Manitoba‘s memâ€" bers in the Federal Parliaâ€" ment, The other big cities in Canada similarly get the short end of the representation stick. This enormous variation in the population of ridings, the disparity in the weight of a vote depending on where it‘s cast, should be evened out in the forthcoming redistribution of seats and reâ€"drawing of ridâ€" ing boundaries, The next election, unless it comes within two and a half years, will probably be based on a redistributed House of Commons. In other words, it will probâ€" ably be a larger House of Commons. Some provinces will have fewer seats in it, others will have more. Some ridings will have disappeared compleâ€" tely. new ones will have been created, many will have their boundaries changed. No operation is closer to the hearts and minds of politicians than this reâ€"shaping of the boundaries of their ridings. The redistribution of seats, by law, is to take place every ten years, following the year of the census. The general guiding principle is represenâ€" tation by population. One vote should be as strong as another, no matter where it is cast. So many exceptions and compromises have been made to this general rule however, that at best any redistribution merely succeeds in alleviating some of the most obvious inâ€" consistencies. The next redistribution may just change that record. In the first place, it will probably be carried out for the first time by an independent commisâ€" sion, instead of by the fiercely partisan Parliamentary Comâ€" mittees which have done the job until now. Parliament has already passâ€" ed one bill establishing the post of représentation comâ€" missioner, and conferring it upon Nelson Castonguay, the Chief Electoral Officer. If that affable and immensely talentâ€" ed gentleman cannot bring some reason and order into Parkiamentary representation, no one can. A second bill, establishing boundary commissions to carry out the actual work of drawing up new boundaries, it to be introduced in the new session of Parliament. This Commission, however independent, will be dealing with some of the most sensiâ€" tive political problems of the day. Population statistics, for example, make it plain that with the present number of seats, Saskatchewan, Quebec, and Nova Scotia will lose seats This is distasteful enough to the losers, of course, but if there were any tradition of adherence to representation by population, that would be the end of the matter. This admirâ€" able formulaâ€"has never been followed however. Rules and regulations have been pressed into service to make sure that the principle cannot operate at its fullest. No province, for example, can have fewer Members of Parliament than it has Senaâ€" tors. Prince Edward Island shall therefore have a miniâ€" mum of four members, even though its total population is little more than half the ridâ€" ing of Yorkâ€"Scarborough in Ontario. New Brunswick has ten members now, and cannot have fewer because of the Senate rule. British Columbia will gain seats, When the 1952 redistribuâ€" tion was carried out, some adâ€" ditional rules were introduced to protect Saskatchewan. That province, under strict populaâ€" tion considerations,. w ou!ld have dropped from 20 memâ€" bers to 15 members. This seemed to the then Liâ€" beral Government, which hapâ€" pened to hold a majority of the Saskatchewan seats, to be an unconscionable decrease in Saskatchewan representation. An amendment to.the Britâ€" ish North America Act was passed providing that no reâ€" duction of more than 15 per cent at any one time could be made in the number of memâ€" bers assigned to any province. Saskatchewan could lose only three seats under this formula, and therefore got 17 seats in the Commons. It now stands to lose even more. But one of the biggest battles will surely be fought on just how many more it should lose, and how the 15 per cent rule will appiy. Another provision is that no province‘s seats can be reducâ€" ed to a lower number than that given to another province which has a smaller populaâ€" tion. The permutations and comâ€" binations of this almost imposâ€" sible system will be the probâ€" lem of the independent comâ€" mission when it is set up. Parâ€" liament, of course, will have to approve the commission‘s reâ€" port, and every member of Parliament can then be exâ€" pected to make sure that his personal and political interests are not being trampled upon. As always, redistribution is going to hurt some politicians. But it‘s going to make the House of Commons much more representative than it is now, or than‘ it ever has been. It will be some kind of crime if this independent commisâ€" sion hasn‘t been able to carty lout redistribution for the next tlection. Even now the House 6t Commons is composed of constituencies based on popâ€" ulation reports that are 12 years old Parliament should move without further delay to give m independent commission and to let it get to work. Me" \T MAPPENS fi . &VERY VAY &# M Oh for the days when status symbols were cars, yachts and just plain money. Now, what you can afford to spend on your pooch is the barometer of social success. It is said if you stroll down the main streets of a large sociallyâ€" conscious city, what your mutt wears will be the yardstick by which you are measured. Then there‘s the silly practice of gifts for the dog which has everything. Diamondâ€"studded collars at a couâ€" ple of hundred doljar.a are just what your dog needs to make the chlidren in your block look like paupers. I remember when toys were relatively simple gadgets, which took up a minimum of space under the Christmas tree, and I guess that tells you, dear reader, that 1 am no spring chicken. + Today however, toys are not only a serving the purâ€" pose of amusing the kiddies, they have become status symbols. And many of them are so difficult to master, the kiddies end up with an inferority complex as long as Daddy‘s Christmas bills. I have been at parties over the last three years where host and guest jumped at each other‘s throats over their kiddies‘ toys. In one case the host attempted to demonstrate some electronic gadget his nine year old son used to disintigrate school teachers, but he only sueceeded in curling the edges of the rug. This brought forth loud guffaws from one of the guests who then took the gadget in hand to "really put on a show". He ended up on the floor tangled in the tov‘s wiring system, writhing about like a python. This sort of thing doesn‘t do much for friendship. The dogs however, wouldn‘t know a blue water diaâ€" mond from a hydrant or a vicuna pullover from a sidewalk. * _ Can‘t understand why people insist on making their pets as uncomiortable as possibre. loading them down with junk and turning them into display counters. A ruby studded vicuna waistcoat, imported from the wilds of the Andes is a must for the male hound in the family, while a tiara, inset with a variety of gems is the rage for the female of the species. Even if your mutt doesn‘t have a cashmere vest or a ruby studded money belt, I wish you a Merry Christmas. io o oupmenmnne io s coemerrenser es it To 2 Hbalt ealitorp m Bpionigl coonnmmd ?i)Qtf;’-rf‘ Hagge mullth 17 1 } “g.\ !:*‘33’ :fi; knt :} iamec in n ulgs Andus muke Ap Te t ooo S us * e uinie i dpule 1 was going to forego my annual predictions for the New year. but have changed my mind in deference to hundreds of reâ€" quests. (Yes, Father, I do hear these voices, and the voices are real to me, Father.) Here then are some of 1964‘s events as revealed to the swami: Prime Minister Pearson will announce plans for a national grid system, and nine Canadian pro football teams will promptly apply for federal aid. After gaining ground among the peopleâ€"of the province, the Quebec separatist movement will bog down when it becomes unâ€" derstood that independence can be won without loss of life but not without loss of the family allowance cheque. As another step towards European federation, the British will change to driving on the rightâ€"hand side of the road. In the spirit of compromise the French will continue to drive on both sides of the road. Fashionâ€"wise, women‘s fur coats will go to an inch above the knee. The wearers will go to any length. U.S. electrifal firms charged with priceâ€"fixing will seek to improve the public‘s image of them by putting up a new branch of their public relations department to be calied Collusion Repairs. Britain will also «witch to the metric system. Measuring in centimetres instead of inches will cause considerable hardship until the British worker can visualize a perfect 96â€"60â€"89. / Another museum of modern art Â¥ill discover that for somé time one of its abstract paintings has been hanging upside down, as suits the batty, A U.S. Navy helicopter will pick up ffom the sea a spac# capsule in which a chimpanzee is found to be safe and well. Ther® will be some concern because what was shot into orbit was a man. After the film company has spant $30 million on a picture about Cleopatra, Premiér Nasser will win new popularity with his people by announcing he intends to nationalize Liz Taylor. In Television the networks will continue to introduce more public service programs replecing the more frivolous type of enâ€" tertainment. Ed Sullivan will feature a troupe of German acroâ€" bats who throw each other over a wall.topped with broken glass. At least one university will institute a creative writing course in the bestâ€"seller novel. Top student will graduate as a four» letter man. 2 Brigitte Bardot will also annuonce her intention to rétir®. ‘This will cause the franc to slip into something more comfortable. The best thing the year 1964 can give the world will be 12 Autb manufadturers will improve on the allâ€"welded body but will be unable to eliminate the nut behind the wheel. Canada‘s No. 1 concert pianist will present his first performâ€" ance from & recumbent position, showing music lovers that they must learn to take the bed with the Gould. AND THE WORLD LAUGHS b