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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-11-13, Page 38l Page 8C -Crossroads -Nov. 13, 1985 THE TASK AHEAD Nearly 40 million people are unemployed in the Western World, including about one and a half million Canadians. Few are willing to forecast much improve- ment over the next five ygars. Yet the task ahead must be to find some way to reduce unemployment. Strategies for lowering the jobless figures are quite similar in many nations. They start from the premise that the best way to "cure" unemployment is to choke off the supply of labor, Can usin a's ss by Bruce Whitestone primarily ks' shorter hours or forced retirement. Attempts to ,,,,reduce the supply of labor by s'hariyig work in one way or another will entail lower /per capita incomes and sluggish growth. It is much more important to focus on ways to boost'em- ployment. These must in- clude measures to sweep aside restrictions and regu-, lations which inhibit market forces and to encourage greater flexibility among employers and employees. Overall government policy must be geared to sustain a reasonable growth of demand. Governments seem to have all but forgotten that they can decisively influence real growth by adjusting the gap between expenditures and revenues. in North' America budget deficits al- ready are at a stratospheric levels, sp there is little room for us to expand outlays to stimulate activity. Rather, we must concentrate on in- creasing demand by re- structuring our economy. Greater emphasis must be given to stimulating exports, NATIONAL MUSEUM science+ technology SIIRGIZI rG NOVEMBER m H m m z 2 0 7J N 0 z NOZIlOH Nd3H1dON U •a N \ / uorbW vsen . doNlw dsdn 7 suelod a-•�• Sn3Hd30 �.� ~ • a Oi • •_ • -• Galax'" Z i • •-�� rcnn : 1 PEGASUS PISCES . I • CETUS • • Fomalhaut SOUTHERN HORIZON )`• S a. w 0 J • a • !.., `•• • O cc 0 S Z w Viewing Hailey's Comet (NCI - At long last -it should he possible to..see Halley's Comet - but oniv with opticalaid. At least a small or moderate sized tel- escope will Ix needed early in November: at month's end, ordinary binoculars should lie adequate. The comet is still far from the sun, it is faint and, fuzzy and .does not vet display a prominent •tail.• The thrill, first of all, will be in •tiieat- ing it. while it is'sti11 very far awav and then, over 'the next few weeks, in watch- ing it move slowly against the background stars. brighten, and grew a tail as it draw's nearer to the sun. Where to Zook Successful viewing oft he comet will require careful planning, both in the choice of location from which to conduct a search. and' in the selection of the hist possible nigh tsand the time of night to i;lok for it. ' Clear dark skies area must. Haze and cloud - and bright moonlight - will nr,lke observing rhtftcult or impossible. The. hest ob- serving sit(' will be tree from the glow• of ;rrtificia 1 lights: Of course, one should also. know where to look. and when. r1 good knowledge of the sky inessential. partic'u• larly when the cornet is far aw;1y and faint, and one should already be skilled in the use of binoculars or a telescope, The following is an ex- cerpt from II(7//ev ;s ('omi't. I>'rrflr'trn .�'n. •1: (published 11V National \luseum of ')lence and Technology): her )<),�:; w;;lt'I� In the (0 (14h1hi(f.,‘'5 f',Inl t is .11 :I5 is the F::Irth and at least :I small telescope )11:1\' ix' rt' (pared At a typical (':Inn (I1a11 latitude it p;15H4S alum fill ahelve` the southern ho runt) Itwn thirds of the way frit-n-httt-i7rrr rrthrr ertli';Iri point some two or three hours alter midnight at the first of the month and 111:4• the startle spot at midnight by. mld•month (h1 the night of the lfith the cornet passe only 2 below' (south nfI the Pleiades. ;I well known clus- ter of bright stars. The ems - cent moon setiearly in dicey - ening and the comet should he visible with hinoc'ular•s as a fuzzy object without any prominent tail. Un No veml)er'.21 the Earth crosses through the orbit planet>fthe cornet and on the 27th we are closer to the comet (9:1 million km) than at an;vother time be- fore the c'omet's closest ap- proach to the tion." The comet vyill hrightccn as it, approaches the sun in the next months, but it will also be moving closer to a twilight sky and the inter- val When it can be seen will shorten. Later issues of Stargazing will describe NA -here arid when to look for it.. The 'Seven Sisters' 1'n mid-November Hal- ley's Comet is near 0 lovely little patch of stars called the PleiadesStar('1uster'.or the "Seven Sisters". The mapshow's the lateevening position of the ('luster fairly high above the eaS er'n ho. rizon. On a clear dark night - one can dist•ingtiish six stars Orr • flipper -shaped formation. When observing cnnd,it irns are less than ideal, or when moonlight washes out the light of faint stars, the clus- ter has a cloud -like appear- ance. The Pleiades ('luster is one of the finest objects for binoculars. Large tripod mounted odes are ideal. but the popular 7 1 ;iO's are Imre than ;ld('(tmit4' (and line' for viewing Halley's. Comet as well). On a ileal' moonless night, the nebul- osity bathing thear'eagives • Aldebaran •• • Hyades • Hyaduml the Pleiades Alcyone • TAURUS PIC ,.1:' ')Q NC . a hazy appearance to some of the brightest members of this dazzling cluster. ' PLANETS: Saturn has moved too closets) the sun to be seen. leaving Jupiter the only planet in the evening sky. 1.ow ted -the south at sunset, it sets in the south• west about > hours later. Mars and Venus. are morn-. ing planets. Mars rises about four hour;s 'before the sun and is high in the east, at sunrise. Venus is very close to the horizon but at Sunrise it is diff'ic'ult to see. METEORS:Two meteor showers occur this month: the S. Tau rids on No- vember:1, and the 1.eonids on the 171 h. Nen her shower is rich - a maximum of 15 meteors per observer per hour can be seen when con- dit ions ,'u'e ideal.' eep ng out imports when we are not given access to ex- port markets, and promoting those parts of the economy which will be of most benefit. For instance if the farm sector were helped, that would mean lower cost food, fewer imports of food items, and greater employment in the food-processing industry. Other nations, particularly in Western Europe, should change their fiscal policies. In Britain the adjusted structural budget was in surplus to the tune of 1.8 per cent of Gross Domestic Product in 1984. In West Germany, the surplus is just under one per cent of GDP. Fiscal relaxation every- where in Western Europe would create more Jobs over the next couple of years. In the long haul other steps must be taken to ensure that wage moderation continues Otherwise, the increased demand would be translated all too quickly into more in- flation, wages which would price many concerns out of the market, and, then again, more unemployment. The answer, even for those who strongly support market mechanisms, must be some- thing other than wage re- straint or even an incomes limitation policy. Every- where we should adapt the Japanese strategy of wage bonuses at the yearend. If a company were successful and profitable, wage bonuses could be distributed. Yet high fixed costs would -not be put in place which would be a burdento the economy. Col- lective action is necessary to implement such a program, but plaintive calls for voluntary wage restraint or mindless hand wringing simply fail to measure up to the needs of the %conorrly, CONSUMING RATIONS A group of American clin- ical ecologists claim that many common ailments - such as migraine, eczema, fatigue and depression - can be caused by food aller- gies. They also believe that finding the source of the al- lergies can lead to a cure. For many years the med- ical establishment ridiculed this idea, but it is fast gain- ing credibility. "The Food Allergy War" examines the latest research, which vindi- cates the earlier claims of clincial ecologists in the 1950s. 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