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Iteviewiing the N llastrSessittrt fiiiiiiiii"i The Ontario Legislature ad- journed for the summer recess on Friday. July 3. During the tr-wee) 8935 session. some 30 pieces of ie tion received final reading. in u normal session, approximately so Unsure usually passed. but there was a late beginning to legislative business due to the March " provincial election. . In addition, business was further delayed by Opposition fitibustering aimed at Oettario's ad valorem gas tax, which is tied to the retail price of gasoline. Liberals and New Democrats pro- longed debate'dozens of hours by sending up about 30 MPPs to complain about the bill, arguing that the rising tax is an undue burden on the already-high price of energy. Nevertheless, using the weight of their 7o-seat majority. the f,ttser"tives pushed through the ill. ' Among the legislation passed dur- ing the session was a bill to empower the health ministry to appoint a supervisor to run any public hospital, as was done in the case of Toronto East General Hospi- tal. There had been some criticism as to the wide scope pf the pill! sayipg it should have only applied to the hospital in question since an inquiry into the situatinn at East General has prompted the introduction of such legislation.' There was even a suggestion that the legislation had been prepared before the inquiry and criticism that there was undue cause for the province to legislate themselves that broad a power of interference. The Minister of Health has flatly denied any such suggestions. The Earth almost died in 1450 B.C. A near collision occurred with the newly born comet, Venus and the results were catastrophic: tidal waves, earthquakes, meteorite showers noted by the Bible in Egypt & Palestine, and other disasters in places as divergent as China and Mexico. COMMENTARY: In 1950, a Russian-born psychiatrist, Immanuel Velikovsky, documented histor- ical and physical evidence for these events. His book, Worlds in Collision was an immediate best seller. However, Vali- kovsky incurred such anger from the scientific "establishment" that his pub- lishers were blackmailed into dropping the Under the legislation the Ontario Cabinet will have the right to appoint one or more inspectors to investigate the quality of adminis. “This book is a heresy", Velikovsky admitted, “it Newton and Darwin are saerosaetet". Hmver. he expected that science was open to question - a vital, changing body of ideas rather than static dogma. In this, he was wrong. Why was there such a violent reaction by scientists? In spite of earlier 20th century revolutions. many scientists were still committed to the ideas of Newton and Darwin. These theories had provided a stable view of celestial mechanics, and this stability was threatened by Veli- bwstry's new view of. things. Velikovsky) rattles establishment By Dr. Robert E. Alexander nation and medical care at any one of the province's 250 hospitals. Once the inquiry is under way, no person may "withhold or destroy, conceal or refuse to furnish any information or thing" requested by the inves- tigators. After receiving the report of the inspectors, the Cabinet can decide whether to appoint a hospital super- visor who would have the power to order the hospital's management or board of directors "to do any act that they have the authority to do and must approve any act of the board in writing before it is valid." Also passed before the Legisla- ture rose for summer recess was a bill to create a new portfolio, the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. It was the new Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing who asked for govern- ment money to help with his household expenses after be has repeatedly refused to take any action to assist in alleviating the serious condition of the housing market making home ownership almost impossible for a great many people. He was quoted " saying, “not everyone is going to be able to afford his own home." It is difficult to understand how as a Cabinet Minister with a yearly salary of $63,300 excluding allow- able expenses of $10,000, he can justify asking the government to assit him in the cost of upkeep of his own home. The implications of his hypotheses were simply, staggering for many disciplines. Velikovsky theorized that, after erupting from Jupiter, the comet that became Venus moved in front of the,Earth's orbital path in 1540 B.C. For the days that followed, this conflict of forces wreaked havoc on the Earth, havoc which appears in Biblical records. Entering the tail of the comet, the Earth was first pelted with red dust which poisoned all surface water. A shower of hot meteorites and blazing petroleum fol- lowed. During the intense darkness that descended. the only light came from massive lightning between the two bodies. Velikovsky also said there was a radical change in the direction of the Earth's change in the direction of the Earth's rotation, causing earthquakes and tidal waves, and moving people to terror by the sight of the sun rising in the west. Velikovsky's researches turned up sur- prising confirmation of several biblical events. He said that, during a 50-year interval when the disturbances caused by Venus subsided, those who had survived were supplied by a honey-like substance that condensed like frost. After this, Venus made another close pass. causing earth- quakes which were [3%ny the historical basis for the deatruc of the walls of Uni are all too " not 0 t to tight injusti so much us they re out o carve out as big "ch carget their hands on. _ It's a "me-first" attitRias carried to the extreme and which often causes tremendous hardship to innocent victims and disruption of good order to society on the whole. Take the striking posties. for instance. I'm sure they could use more.' than the government offer of about $2S,0ttt in annual wages - which they have so far rteeted - but I wouldn't say they're so hard done by. The postal clerks. who require no formal training for Jottquaiif1eatior, would be earning about 87,000 more annually at the. govern- ment's offer than a teacher starting out after at least four years of university education. Most of G coufd use more money ind higher wages. But we have to be realistic as wfll. . And, when the cost of living goes up, the unions march back to the bargaining table to demand more yet. It's what you call a vicious circle. Meanwhile. the unfortunate people who don't have a union to help strong-arm their way into a higher wage bracket. or whose union hasn't The ironic thing is that the more money unions demand for their work, and the more fringe beetettts they extract, the greater the cost of living to everybody as companies try to keep pace with their profit margins in light of spiralling overheads and operating costs. And even as everybody tries to catch up to the Joneses, great inequities in pay scales abound. Society forgets that people should be paid at a level commensurate with their beer? able G obtain as much as others whatever reason, are left in the lurch, This strike business Worlds ln Collision was based on evi- dence largely from ancient cultural re- mains such as paintings, astronomical charts, calendars, and scriptures from Palestine, Egypt, Mexico, India, and China. -- _ _ -- ... . Jéricho. and which slowed‘the Earth's rotation for a few hours during Joshua's battle at Beth-horon. Surprisingly, the evidence from the last 20 years of probes to Venus, Mars, Jupiter and the Moon is more in line with Velikovsky/s predictions than with tradi- tional scientific expectations. Scientists in the "establishment" had predicted that Venus would be about the same temperature as Earth, but Vell- kovsky had stated that it would be very hot since it would not have had time to cool down from its recent life " a blazing comet." Recent tests on Venus have indicated temperatures of over 500 de- grees Celsius. Two years later, Velikovsky re- peated his theories in the publication of Earth In Upheaval. This time, he used fossils, glacial remains, and ehrth forma- tions to prove his case. The scientific theories of Veiikovsky have far-reaching Implications. They have the potential to completely change our rytool MTERLOO CHRONICLE. If PHILIP JALSEVAC for education.‘training. experience. expertise, responsibility of the job and the degree of danger, hardship qr special effort ieteelved, Even at that. a strike would have to be Justified by the most unusual circumstances in order to provide immunity from single or mass firings, 7 . Thire are far too many employers who have lost the normal freedom to say "if you don't like the job. go look for work somewhere else." But labor has become somewhat of a sacred cow and the politicians are afraid to entertain any radical change in restricting unionism. The trouble is, if they don't do something soon, we'll face a general state of legitamized an- archy. That's not heartless. It's what some old- fashioned thinkers would call common sense. qfitGs's got ti) be u better way than the present scheme of things. First off, perhaps the government has to take the necessary action to restore the economy to a healthier state so that there isn't such a frantic demand for more and yet more. Perhaps there could even be a more equitable distribution of wealth, without lean- Ing too far to the left or inhibiting free enterprise unduly. Perhaps the concept of profit-sharing should be promoted more strongly. This scheme involves co-operation, not combat, and in profit-making companies gives the worker a stake in the business, a little more self-esteem and pride in that extra pay cheque that reflects the profits of the company the employee's helped to make successful. More' ridically, t would suggest strikes in essential and 3;? near-essential services be completely ou ed. Further, any other strikes - whether in the public or private sector - should be so severely discouraged ,ts't'o inhibit them to the state of a rare occasion. There is no need for the public to stand by helplessly as police, doctors, postal workers or hospital employees so on_strlke. - 7 understanding of how the world developed. Geological changes, like the ice ages, may have happened in a few days rather than inch by inch over millions of years. How else, Velikovsky asks, can we account for instantly frozen mammoths found with tropical vegetation in their stomachs? in celestial mechanics, the view of the solar system as a series of billiard balls governed only by Newtonian gravity may no longer be sufficient. Not all new theories proposed by those technically "outside" the scientific profer sion can be accepted or tested; time is short, and resources are scarce. But science cannot afford to reject out of hand new ideas merely because they appear, to contradict what is "known". There are no guarantees in science or anywhere else. The establishment's response to Veli- kovstry's theories of natural history was more than just careless and smug. In response to the challenge offered by the two books, many scientists went beyond the ethics of science and partially suc- ceeded In an organized éonsplracy to supbress ve1ittovsky'twtitintps. _ . Shea outrageotis behaviour raises serious questions about the role of experts In conkmponry society, _ .. _ _ (Dr. hiexander teaéhes philosophy at mum Lauder Unlverslty.)