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Wonders Of Science
In future, tactics similar to the
use of artificial mating calls in wild
game hunting may be used in the
fishery industry. This prospect was
held out at the second world fishing
gear congress in London this week
by Dr. Donovan B. Finn, fisheries
director of the United Nations Food
and Agriculture Organization. It is
all very tentative, for much has still
to be learned about the behaviour
patterns of fish. But progress is
being made. Discovering the sounds
that fish make when they are feed-
ing or mating is an aspect now under
study.
Dr, Finn mentioned special sub-
marines and diving equipment as
being used for this purpose. Sub-
merged in these devices, scientists
are listening in to a lot of gossip
that was not intended for their ears.
The problem is to interpret this fish
language intelligibly, identify the
mating calls and develop equipment
that will produce these calls arti-
ficially with sufficient accuracy to
fool the fish.
It seems a rather mean way of
showing manâs supremacy in the
scale of things; but duck hunters
have been using the strategy for
years and getting away with it. No
one has ever bothered about the out-
raged feelings of ducks when vie-
timized in this fashion. Fish are next
on the list, and their love urgings
are to be exploited in the same way.
The idea is, by artificial mating
calls, to lure the fish into nets,
herd them there like cattle and har-
vest them at will. But Dr. Finnâ
appropriate name for a fisheries
director !âwas careful to emphasize
the difficulties in the way. Fish can
be unpredictable in their amorous
behaviour, just as humans not in-
frequently are, and it may be some
time before the new technique is
developed successfully.
Meanwhile, deep in their submer-
sible laboratories, investigators are
getting the lowdown on a lot of
things they didnât know before. Re-
versing, in a way, the long evolu-
tionary process that startedâscien-
tists assure usâin a wet environ-
ment ages before there was life on
land and manâs progenitor in the
monkey family learned to swing
from trees.
Mr.. Massey On Unity
Few Canadians are so well qual-
ified, by culture and experience, to
discuss the relations between
French-speaking and English-speak-
ing citizens as the Rt. Hon. Vincent
Massey, former Governor General,
whose voice was raised on this sub-
ject at the convocation last week of
Carleton University, Ottawa. Mr.
Massey felt that there was an
urgent problem here; a problem
which was everyone's business, but
most particularly the business of
young Canadians preparing to enter
the professions.
âTf you have not learned your
other language,â Mr. Massey warn-
ed the graduating class before him,
âyou have not fully entered into
your heritage; and you are not
equipped to improve and adorn it as
you should.â All young people who
complete even two years in high
school, he said, should be able to
read simple French, and to utter in
the language at least a few sentences
Dat once correct and comprehensible.
Everyone planning to enter one of
id apes (including teaching)
the civil service, provincial or
â
âprofessional, technical, adminis-
trativeâshould make himself thor-
oughly competent in French, both
written and spoken,
Mr. Massey said he was talking
âas an English-speaking Canadian
++. Very conscious of our errors in
the past and in the present.â He
recalled several instances to show
that while in theory at least we are
a bilingual country, in practise
bilingualism is marked only by
certain moderate guarantees of
French, such as apply to Parlia-
ment and the Federal courts. âEvery
measure leading to fuller bicultural-
ism in Canada, such as the use of
both languages on our currency, or
stamps, or government cheques, has
been attended by long and not al-
ways harmonious discussions and
the decision to use French in this
way has often been finally accepted
by those of the other language re-
luctantly and with little grace. That
is not the way unity is achieved.â
Much has been said about wh at
could be done through official en-
quiries, through legislation, and reg-
ulations of various kinds, Mr.
Massey did not decry these efforts,
but he emphasized that it is not in
documents that the fundamental
solution lies. âWe will only achieve
a full measure of unity when the
people of Canada understand what
it means and desire it,â he de-
clared. âIt will come as a result
of what you and I and 18,000,000
other people think and do, If we
have the tolerance, the imagination,
the foresight, we require, then light
will shine on the road ahead.â
A helpful beam of light
has been thrown on this road in the
thoughtful remarks above quoted.
Embarrassing Questions
When in opposition, Mr. Pearson
and his colleagues had occasion fre-
quently to complain about the lack
of information available on matters
relating to defense. Now they are
finding merit, not infrequently, in
the old adage that silence is golden.
In the Commons on Monday
the Prime Minister âdeclined to
commentâ on a statement by Mr.
Justice J.T. Thorson of the Execu-
tive Court of Canada and a former
Liberal cabinet minister that the
Government has âno mandate to ac-
cept nuclear weapons.â Mr. Wool-
liams, Conservative member for Bow
River, who raised the question, also
asked about a newspaper report that
nuclear warheads would be supplied
for Canadaâs anti-aircraft Bomare
missile this fall. Mr. Pearson said
the question didnât deserve a reply,
since the matter could be discussed
by the Commons defense committee
which would be set up soon.
Then External Affairs Minister
Paul Martin found it necessary to
decline twice to say whether or not
the RCAF CF-104 bomber would be
armed with a one-metagon bomb.
Opposition Leader Diefenbaker rais-
ed this query, and Mr. Martinâs only
reply was that the Liberal govern-
ment was merely living up to the
nuclear commitments made by the
Diefenbaker government.
The Canadian Press supplies, in
its report of this incident, the in-
formation that a one-metagon bomb,
equivalent to 1,000,000 tons of TNT,
wouldâ be 50 times more powerful
than the bomb which destroyed Hir-
oshima in 1945.
If this was a Diefenbaker gov-
ernment commitment itâs surprising
we haven't heard about it till now.
EDITORIAL NOTES
A suggestion that motorists
drive with headlights on during day-
light hours has ben endorsed by the
Canadian Association of Optome-
trists. The idea is that even during
periods of good visibility it is easier
to spot an oncoming vehicle if its
lights are on. Numbers of bus and
truck firms in the United States
have found the practice of head-
lights on during daylight hours a
valuable safety factor.
Cea
Of the 13,410 immigrants enter-
ing Canada in the first three months
of 1963, only 3,901 were from Eng-
land, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and
France, the latter sending 364. Most
of the newcomers were from Europe,
from countries ranging alphabetical-
ly from Albania to Yugoslavia and
including seven from Iceland and 2,-
661 from Italy. It is recalled that in
1901 no less than 87.7 per cent of
the population belonged to the
ethnic groups labelled in the census
papers as âBritish Islesâ (including
Treland) and âFrench.â
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âOLD CHARLOTTETOWN
Prince Edward Island battery readying ancient cannon for action, 1875
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OTTAWA REPORT by
Patrick Nicholson
| Can We Afford To Be Complacent?
âAny day of the week you can)
stand in any Canadian groce-
teria and watch Canadian house-
wives buying cartfuls of food;
and from each cart there will |
be wasted more food than many
an Asian family will have to
eat in the whole week.â
Bob Thompson, leader of the
Social Credit Party, made that
statement in a private conversa-
tion at a purely social gathering.
One of his hearers was Mr. H.
0. âHerbâ Moran, the dedicated
chief of Canadaâs Foreign Aid |
Office - and he agreed. I call}
Herb âdedicatedâ becat he is
more than a competent civil ser-
vant doing that humane job; he
was formerly Canadian High
Commissioner to Pakistan, and
while living in that country he
was able to see what a huge gulf |
there is between the Canadian
| way of life and the Asian strug-
gle for existence. |
What Bob Thompson express- |
ed so dramatically was the same
thing that another Canadian
said not long ago on Parliament
Hill, in equally graphic words. |
As guest speaker at the Senate
and House of Commons volun-
tary committee on health, Dr.
Brock Chisholm asserted that i
eighteen million Asians were t |
be picked at: random to be per-
mitted to scratch a living on the
garbage dumps at the eighteen
million inhabitants of Canada,
they would improve their lot.
That complacency - shattering
remark is the most sensational
single statement I have ever
heard on Parliament Hill.
SO WHAT?
âThis line of thought was awak-
ened by a remark made by Miss
Pauline Jewett, the newly-elect-
ed Liberal MP. for Northumb-
erland, Ontario, in her speech
moving the address in reply to
the Speech from the Throne at
the opening of this Parliament.
âPeople talk about the afflu-
ent society we have," said the
brilliant University Professor -
iss Jewett is a professor of
political science. âIt is quite pos-
sible there are a few members
of our society who are sate
ly affluent; but with very lars
numbers, T should think close to
| a third, this is certainly not the
| ease. Many of them live in
conditions that should not be tol-
erated by any decent, thought. |
ful_societ
âThree - quarters of Canadaâs
trivial and criticised foreign aid
PUBLIC FORUM
âThis coumn is open to me discussion
regard. |
NO PLANS MADE |
Sir,âIn the May 27th issue of |
your newspaper you published
a news story entitled âPolitical
Rumors Are Prevalent
which the writer states:
âThe Premier was undoubt-
edly headed for the higher: post
prior to the Conservative elec- |
tion loss and it is understood lo-
cal party plans for the naming
of a new leader of the govern-
ment were well advancedâ.
The responsibility of arrang-
ing and holding a leadership |
| convention within the Provin- |
cial Progressive Conservative |
Party rests solely with the Pro:
vincial Executive, of which
am President. I wish to inform
you, Sir, that no plans of any
nature were ever made to
choose a successor to Premier
Shaw, either formally ot infor-
mally, by the ee Execu-
tive of this Part
T wou! âlady have informed
your reporter of this
seen fit to contact me, rather |
than speculate.
Yours very truly,
GERALD R. FOSTER
| Prince Edward Island Progres- |
ive Conservative Association. |
| later,
is directed through the Colombo
Plan. Last year, pleading finan- |
Ifelaleatinceniey fect! government |
| slashed our yearâs contribution |
from $50 million to $41.5 million.
âThat is approximately half the
figure which our government
contributed to help finance the
operations of the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation; it is
slightly less than was spent on
various forms of alcoholic drinks
in the province of Saskatchewan
alone last year; it is equiva-
Tent to less than one piece of
bubble-gum per Canadian per,
day; it is peanuts.
DON'T PLEAD POVERTY
Whatever else we may give as
the reason for our contemptible
measure of aid to other count- |
ries, we should not plead that
we cannot afford to give more.
âThat is the worst form of inter-
national public relations.
Miss Jewett's remark certain- |
ly has validity within the Cana-
dian context; but here again, |
measured against the interna- |
tional picture, we must question
whether it is a decent complaint.
Even our unemployed - and we
must feel ashamed for the lack |
of jobs for those who really seek
them - enjoy a cash income from
the Unemployment Insurance
Fund in one month which ex-
ceeds what most
earn in unCanadianly long work-
ing hours in a whole year.
In the âhave - notâ
99 per cent of the people live, to
borrow Miss Jewett's words, ââin
conditions that should not be tol:
erated by any decent, thoughtful
society.
Canadaâs population alone ts
far too small to be able to solve
this world - wide problem, But
Canada's voice should be rais-
ed, and Canadaâs example should
be set, to urge world - wide com-
mon sense. Collective security
| in the long run will be best
achieved, not by nuclear bombs,
not by tariff walls, not by sel-
fish luxury, but by helping the
underdeveloped nations of the
world to approximate to the well-
fed disease - free technically-
trained standards which even
Miss Jewettâs unaffluent one-
third enjoy.
Lure Of Buried Loot
National Geographic Society
Desolate and inhospitable, |
tiny Cocos Island in the Pacific
Ocean probably is one of the
most dug up bits of land any-
where in the world.
For more than 150 years, the
10.4 square-mile Costa Rican
Island has been wishfully re-
garded as the site of fabulous
buried wealth, In that time, the
island has been probed, scoured
blasted and bored by countless
treasure-seekers, the National
Geographic Society says.
Estimates of treasure buried
there by assorted buccaneers,
privateers, corsairs, and pi-
rates range from a paltry $20
million to comfortable $500
million,
Not a single doubloon has
been recovered from the hoards
of Benito Bonito of the Bloody
Sword and renegade Captain |
Shrapnel, or the loot of Lima, |
| hijacted by one Captain Thomp-
son, master of the Mary Dear,
Mary Dyer, or Mary Read, de-
pending onâ the account one
| reads.
| BIG NAMES
Some famous names have
been associated with the Cocos
treasure hunt. In 1904, the se-
venth Earl Fitzwilliam, then |
| England's richest peer, landed |
with a party of nearly 100. The ,
| lateâ Sirâ Malcolm Campbell, au-
| tomobile and hydroplane speed |
king, visited in 1925. Ten years
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt stopped off at the is- |
land during a. fishing trip
abroad the cruiser U.S.S. Hous. |
ton. With » "go ahe
âand fisd theâ treasure,â boys,
Roosevelt reportedly | granted
the erew shore leave.
Some treasure hunters have
returned to Cocos despite re-
peated failures, convinced the
treasure is
Tout lovatv ot. Coe ites
land gold-seckers was August
Gissler, a German, who lived
on Cocos with brief
tions for about 20
sler_ became a naturalized Cos-
ta Rican citizen and got him-
self named governor of the is-
land. Despite his lengthy stay,
Gissler accomplished no more
than other searchers.
Late in 1962 a party of
ârenchmen went to Cocos,
mainly to look over the place,
but admittedly enticed by the
many buried wealth.
Only one of the party survived
the capsizing of a boat. He
spent three harrowing months
on the lonely islet before he was
| rescu
Cocos Island lies at about La-
titude 5 degrees 32° North Long-
tude 67 degrees 2 Wee, site
of Puntar-
ound. nats Rica, Share are tal
two landing, places, Chatter
Bay and Water Bay, Elsewhere
the
the
al-
cliffs rise abruptly from
ocean. It rains nearly all
time. Inland, vegetation is
most impenetrable,
An account of the trip to Co-
cos by William Beebe relates
with ironic amusement:
âWe imagined the Mary Dear
and her crew during the weary
work of disposing boatloads of
specie and bullion. Anyone who
has ever scen the place fecls
exhausted at the mere thought
of their labors after the booty
was landed. Of
would not He it on the beach,
so they must have transported
it painfully, a very little at a
time, up the slippery hillsides
and across the chasms with
which the {sland {s rent. And
no one would envy them the
task of excavating, in the root-
filled, stony soil, a hole large
enough to contain millions of
dollars worth of precious _me-
fals."*
PE. Cleator sums up the
question of Cocosâ treasure in
his book Treasure for the Tak-
ing: âIn short, failure to locate
the treasure has been attribut-
ed to every conceivable cause |
except one:
found.â
AIDS SURGERY
VANCOUVER (CP) â The
general hospital here has in-
stalled a_new $21,000 heart-lung
machine that will reduce the
| cost of ag rhe using it by
about: is the only one of
its kind i Weaen Canada, The
machine takes over the fune-
tions of the heart and lungs dur- |
ing open-heart surgery.
Asians Âą an | oF
nations, |
course they |
âhat it may not be |
Doctor Ponders
Action To Take
When Festus Dies
By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen
A CHICAGO woman no. Io
er could feel life after the six-
th month of pregnancy. She
writes: âThe doctor, could not
detect a heart beat and told me
the child was dead but to let |
nature take its course. The ba- |
by was delivered two months |
later and I was told that the |
placenta was too small to_pro-
vide oxygen and proper nour-
ishment for the growing fetus.
In addition, the cord was
around the neck."
This misfortune occurs occa-
sionally and â reading between
the lines â we sense a doubt |
about whether the â physician |
*| handled the problem properly. |
In our opinion, he acted accord-
ing to standard practice. He
âlet nature take its courseâ be- |
cause interference by inducing
labor prematurely may lead to |
infection or other complica: |
tions. âThe exceptions are when |
a mother has a blood disorder |
or had a cesarean section pre--|
viously, and it is safer to
delivered again in this way.
The wisdom of permitting
pregnancy to continue after the
fetus dies is a question that of-
ten arises. "Many pressures
are put upon the ol n 'to |
| do something about it But, as |
| we said, it is better to rely|
| pon noninterference and con-
servative management
In many instances the preg-
| nant woman becomes suspicious
| that not all is well when no
| movement is felt. These fears |
| often are confirmed when the
physician cannot hear the heart |
tones. But he must be certain |
because it is a shocking exper-
fence to be told in the sixth or
| seventh month of pregnancy
that the baby has expired.
a result, the obstetrician is cau-
tious until there is overwhelm-
ing evidence of the loss.
The most frequent cause of
this type of fetal loss is lack of
oxygen and nourishment due to
a disorder of the placenta or
the umbilical cord. There are |
| various possibilities. The blood |
flow from the mother to the |
placenta or from the placenta
| to the fetus may be inadequate
blocked âcompletely. |
May we suggest to our read-
er that she take this catastro-
phe in her stride and try again
NOTES BY
THE WAY
An eccentric is an individual
whose idiosy: evasion ate differ.
a ladas yours. â Galt Report-
Who says thereâs not profit to
be made from idle money? An
1875 Canadian dime in mint con- |
dition brought $700 gto a an
auction here on the
âOttawa Joural, |
The gap between the number
of world problems arising and
the number of solutions being |
found for them is becoming in- |
creasingly wider. â Sudbury
ar.
âThe man who feels like a hig
toad in a small puddle at the |
wheel of his car is a big splash |
in a small puddle to the pedes,
trians he passes, â Stratford
Beacon-Herald.
The gopher, which used to out. |
number the Saskatchewanlans
1,000 to one, has all but disap-
peared. He can't really be blam-
ed for leaving Saskatchewan.
But even if there was a mass
exodus, it seems that they should
have turned up somewhere else,
âTt used to take only a pair of
horses, a walking plow and a
milk cow for a young couple to
go into the farming business. To- |
day the investment average:
$22,000." â CM_ Ferguson, - or |
Wisconsin University.
tn onl ne 2
one wi
ving by leting ings i
London Free Pi
The chap who always
best foot forward isnt seni
Jy to stub is toe. â Toronto
âAn increasing number of peo-
ple are learning to play the
harp,â says a musician. Prob-
ably some of them should be
learning, instead, how to dodge
the betty gg a pitehfork.âCha-
tham News
âMy Dad,â said the swee
young thing, âis
takes things apart to see why
they ant Bo."
demai
belier le _ omilton Spec.
tator,
We think itâs about time some-
one took an editorial stand
against the practice of taking
pictures of a hippopotamus
every time he opens his big
mouth in search of food or air.
After all, a hippo is sensitive to
this sort of thing â he doesn't
want toâ go through life thinking
that the only reason âhe's on this
earth is to provide âgagâ shots
for money - hungry photograph-
ers. He may not be human, but
he's got feelings. â Hamilton
Spectator,
African Unity Program
Doug Marshall
By
Canadian Press
The 30 African heads of state |
meeting in Addis Ababa last
week conceived an embryonic
structure that may well evolve
into a workable form of Af-
rican unity.
But Western observers, while
welcoming this progress, will
regret that the negative cry of
anti - colonialism provided the
main touchstone for concord
among the nationalist leaders.
rhe charter, inspired
mtn by the moderating influ-
ence of Ethiopia and her 3,000-
odd years of independence,
calls for an annual assembly of
heads of state and a council of
foreign ministers meeting twice
a year. The organization will be
POTATO
RB. writes: I love potatoes
but when T have them for din-
ner I can't sleep at night. Would
you know the reason why?
EPL |
They may be gas producers
or you may be allergic to or
have an idiosynerasy to them
Forget potatoes for six months.
At the end of this time resume
eating them if you must, but |
take it easy.
TO EACH HIS OWN
Mrs. L. writes: Our child has
pinworms. Could he have |
| Caught âthem from the dog?
EPLY
This 1s doubtful because ani-
mals, ine luding dogs have |
worms of their own, On the
other hand, the pet could carry |
| pinworm eggs on his hair, es-|
pecially if he is owned by a fa-
mily that harbors these para- |
ites.
Our Yesterdavâs
(From the Guardian Files)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO |
May 29, 1938
Maurice Higgins, formerly of |
Kensington, P.E.1. who has_ liv-|
ed in Kapuscasing, Northern |
Ontario for the past few years, |
is leaving by CPR Liner, Nia-
gara from Vancouver, B.C. to
Honolulu, Australia and New
Zealand. He will act in the ca-
pacity of engineer for a_ pulp |
and paper company in New|
Zealand.
Herman G. Bryan was in{
Summerside completing ar- |
rangements for the opening of |
his new tourist colony at Free-
land, Lot 11, which will be open
| to the public on June 22.
TEN YEARS AGO
May 29, 1953
Best possible uses of govern-
ment grants to promote art in
the Maritimes were sought as
the Maritime Art Association
held its annual convention over
the weekend at Acadia Univer-
sity in Wolfville, NS. Art
groups of all major centres of
| the three provinces were repre-
| sented.
| Dr. Hubert MacNeill, Sum-
merside, has taken over the
| medical practice of Dr. Austin
Delaney, who is leaving to take
| a two year post graduate course
in Halifax. Dr. MacNeill is a
veteran of World War Two and
| on being discharged from the
j army took up the study of
| medicine. He is a graduate of
| Dalhousle University.
|
| will include a commission to ar-
imahâs:
| messianic dreams of instant po-}
a
secretariat
On its positive side the Or-
ganization for African Unity
bitrate internal territorial -dis-
putes and committees dealing
with co-operation on all social,
economic and defence matters.
CHECK TO NKRUMAH
Assuming signators honor the
principles âsolemnly affirmed
and. declared,â the charter |
means a victory for the grad:
ualists and a check to Ghanai
President Kwame Nkru
|
litical unity in Africa.
The catch is point six in the
charter â âabsolute dedication
| to the total emancipation of the
African territories which
aun eee K
Staff Writer
and moderate leader alike,
means a program of economic
and diplomatic sanctions
agsinst pockels of white supre-
macy that one London corre-
spondent calls âthe last step
short of war."
Liberal leaders the world over
will agree that the days of white
minority government in Africa
are numbered and that most
newly independent nations can
present a valid case for colo-
nial neglect,
OBJECT TO WAR CRY
The objections, voiced even
by European sympathizers with
the African cause, are that the
current generation of African
liberators remain preoc:
the anti-colonial y
when they should be producing
Positive economic and social
measures to repair the past ne-
glects.
Preparations for war against
the republic of South Africa,
Portugal's Angola territory and
possibly Southern Rhodesia may
be one way to forge a United
States of Africa.
But it is hardly the kind of
co-operation that will eradicate
endemic diseases, cure the il-
literacy problem or provide a
better standard of living for the
average African native.
The West must hope that Af-
rica soon realizes its immediate
unifying factor is social prog-
ress rather than justified but
unrewarding bitterness with ra-
ie enlarged upon by radical |
cial past and pres-
ent.
Kashmir Stalemate
Christian Science Monitor
We have reluctantly come to
the conclusion that ue paneeal
problem cannot be
continued American od British
pressure at this tim
indian correspondent re-
ports that the talks, however
well intentioned, âhave done
more harm than good.â Unless
there is something known to the
Western governments which
does not meet the journalistic
eye â for much of this effort has
been shrouded in diplomatic sec-
recy â it ought to be called o!
We regret this. It means freez~
ing an injustice for a time, and
| trying to live with it. We have
inclined toward the theory that
in Kashmir the wishes of the
people concerned ought to de-
cide their government in a dis-
pute which has become so tanj
Jed with history and national as.
Pirations as this one, To aba
don the effort to persuade In-
dia to permit a plebiscite, or
some form of transitional inter-
national regime, will leave In-
dia in control of the field and
Pakistan on the outside.
Yet we see no reasonable al-
ternative. There is logic in put
ting strings on economic aid â
granting it only on the basis of
mutually satisfactory arrange-
ments, But to use military aid,
by contrast, and especially in
time of emergency, as a meen
of pressing a country to take
political step, has grave Umita-
tions, The United States has
been on firmer footing when it
has based its pressure for com-
promise purely on military
grounds. There are obvious mi-
litary implications when it gives
weapons to two friendly coun-
tries which are in a state of sus-
pended war and military ten-
sion.
But this military tension can
surely be kept under control. The
country which used Americ an
weapons, given for the defense
of the independent world against
Communist aggression, to attack
neighbor who is sharing in the
same defense, would be subject
to the fulf range of sanctions
and would almost surely fail of
its objective.
It is doubly grievous, in view
of the merits of its case, that
Pakistan should be caught in
the grip of this situation and
be compelled to be the one who
waits and refrains from force
while India enjoys the soft airs
of one of the worldâs most beau-
were it not for
the cold war Pakistan would be
incapable of war in any event.
Patience and a return to peace-
ful negotiation at the right time
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Wonders Of Science
In future, tactics similar to the
use of artificial mating calls in wild
game hunting may be used in the
fishery industry. This prospect was
held out at the second world fishing
gear congress in London this week
by Dr. Donovan B. Finn, fisheries
director of the United Nations Food
and Agriculture Organization. It is
all very tentative, for much has still
to be learned about the behaviour
patterns of fish. But progress is
being made. Discovering the sounds
that fish make when they are feed-
ing or mating is an aspect now under
study.
Dr, Finn mentioned special sub-
marines and diving equipment as
being used for this purpose. Sub-
merged in these devices, scientists
are listening in to a lot of gossip
that was not intended for their ears.
The problem is to interpret this fish
language intelligibly, identify the
mating calls and develop equipment
that will produce these calls arti-
ficially with sufficient accuracy to
fool the fish.
It seems a rather mean way of
showing manâs supremacy in the
scale of things; but duck hunters
have been using the strategy for
years and getting away with it. No
one has ever bothered about the out-
raged feelings of ducks when vie-
timized in this fashion. Fish are next
on the list, and their love urgings
are to be exploited in the same way.
The idea is, by artificial mating
calls, to lure the fish into nets,
herd them there like cattle and har-
vest them at will. But Dr. Finnâ
appropriate name for a fisheries
director !âwas careful to emphasize
the difficulties in the way. Fish can
be unpredictable in their amorous
behaviour, just as humans not in-
frequently are, and it may be some
time before the new technique is
developed successfully.
Meanwhile, deep in their submer-
sible laboratories, investigators are
getting the lowdown on a lot of
things they didnât know before. Re-
versing, in a way, the long evolu-
tionary process that startedâscien-
tists assure usâin a wet environ-
ment ages before there was life on
land and manâs progenitor in the
monkey family learned to swing
from trees.
Mr.. Massey On Unity
Few Canadians are so well qual-
ified, by culture and experience, to
discuss the relations between
French-speaking and English-speak-
ing citizens as the Rt. Hon. Vincent
Massey, former Governor General,
whose voice was raised on this sub-
ject at the convocation last week of
Carleton University, Ottawa. Mr.
Massey felt that there was an
urgent problem here; a problem
which was everyone's business, but
most particularly the business of
young Canadians preparing to enter
the professions.
âTf you have not learned your
other language,â Mr. Massey warn-
ed the graduating class before him,
âyou have not fully entered into
your heritage; and you are not
equipped to improve and adorn it as
you should.â All young people who
complete even two years in high
school, he said, should be able to
read simple French, and to utter in
the language at least a few sentences
Dat once correct and comprehensible.
Everyone planning to enter one of
id apes (including teaching)
the civil service, provincial or
â
âprofessional, technical, adminis-
trativeâshould make himself thor-
oughly competent in French, both
written and spoken,
Mr. Massey said he was talking
âas an English-speaking Canadian
++. Very conscious of our errors in
the past and in the present.â He
recalled several instances to show
that while in theory at least we are
a bilingual country, in practise
bilingualism is marked only by
certain moderate guarantees of
French, such as apply to Parlia-
ment and the Federal courts. âEvery
measure leading to fuller bicultural-
ism in Canada, such as the use of
both languages on our currency, or
stamps, or government cheques, has
been attended by long and not al-
ways harmonious discussions and
the decision to use French in this
way has often been finally accepted
by those of the other language re-
luctantly and with little grace. That
is not the way unity is achieved.â
Much has been said about wh at
could be done through official en-
quiries, through legislation, and reg-
ulations of various kinds, Mr.
Massey did not decry these efforts,
but he emphasized that it is not in
documents that the fundamental
solution lies. âWe will only achieve
a full measure of unity when the
people of Canada understand what
it means and desire it,â he de-
clared. âIt will come as a result
of what you and I and 18,000,000
other people think and do, If we
have the tolerance, the imagination,
the foresight, we require, then light
will shine on the road ahead.â
A helpful beam of light
has been thrown on this road in the
thoughtful remarks above quoted.
Embarrassing Questions
When in opposition, Mr. Pearson
and his colleagues had occasion fre-
quently to complain about the lack
of information available on matters
relating to defense. Now they are
finding merit, not infrequently, in
the old adage that silence is golden.
In the Commons on Monday
the Prime Minister âdeclined to
commentâ on a statement by Mr.
Justice J.T. Thorson of the Execu-
tive Court of Canada and a former
Liberal cabinet minister that the
Government has âno mandate to ac-
cept nuclear weapons.â Mr. Wool-
liams, Conservative member for Bow
River, who raised the question, also
asked about a newspaper report that
nuclear warheads would be supplied
for Canadaâs anti-aircraft Bomare
missile this fall. Mr. Pearson said
the question didnât deserve a reply,
since the matter could be discussed
by the Commons defense committee
which would be set up soon.
Then External Affairs Minister
Paul Martin found it necessary to
decline twice to say whether or not
the RCAF CF-104 bomber would be
armed with a one-metagon bomb.
Opposition Leader Diefenbaker rais-
ed this query, and Mr. Martinâs only
reply was that the Liberal govern-
ment was merely living up to the
nuclear commitments made by the
Diefenbaker government.
The Canadian Press supplies, in
its report of this incident, the in-
formation that a one-metagon bomb,
equivalent to 1,000,000 tons of TNT,
wouldâ be 50 times more powerful
than the bomb which destroyed Hir-
oshima in 1945.
If this was a Diefenbaker gov-
ernment commitment itâs surprising
we haven't heard about it till now.
EDITORIAL NOTES
A suggestion that motorists
drive with headlights on during day-
light hours has ben endorsed by the
Canadian Association of Optome-
trists. The idea is that even during
periods of good visibility it is easier
to spot an oncoming vehicle if its
lights are on. Numbers of bus and
truck firms in the United States
have found the practice of head-
lights on during daylight hours a
valuable safety factor.
Cea
Of the 13,410 immigrants enter-
ing Canada in the first three months
of 1963, only 3,901 were from Eng-
land, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and
France, the latter sending 364. Most
of the newcomers were from Europe,
from countries ranging alphabetical-
ly from Albania to Yugoslavia and
including seven from Iceland and 2,-
661 from Italy. It is recalled that in
1901 no less than 87.7 per cent of
the population belonged to the
ethnic groups labelled in the census
papers as âBritish Islesâ (including
Treland) and âFrench.â
canals villain 8
âOLD CHARLOTTETOWN
Prince Edward Island battery readying ancient cannon for action, 1875
Copi
ied By Craswell Portrait Studio
OTTAWA REPORT by
Patrick Nicholson
| Can We Afford To Be Complacent?
âAny day of the week you can)
stand in any Canadian groce-
teria and watch Canadian house-
wives buying cartfuls of food;
and from each cart there will |
be wasted more food than many
an Asian family will have to
eat in the whole week.â
Bob Thompson, leader of the
Social Credit Party, made that
statement in a private conversa-
tion at a purely social gathering.
One of his hearers was Mr. H.
0. âHerbâ Moran, the dedicated
chief of Canadaâs Foreign Aid |
Office - and he agreed. I call}
Herb âdedicatedâ becat he is
more than a competent civil ser-
vant doing that humane job; he
was formerly Canadian High
Commissioner to Pakistan, and
while living in that country he
was able to see what a huge gulf |
there is between the Canadian
| way of life and the Asian strug-
gle for existence. |
What Bob Thompson express- |
ed so dramatically was the same
thing that another Canadian
said not long ago on Parliament
Hill, in equally graphic words. |
As guest speaker at the Senate
and House of Commons volun-
tary committee on health, Dr.
Brock Chisholm asserted that i
eighteen million Asians were t |
be picked at: random to be per-
mitted to scratch a living on the
garbage dumps at the eighteen
million inhabitants of Canada,
they would improve their lot.
That complacency - shattering
remark is the most sensational
single statement I have ever
heard on Parliament Hill.
SO WHAT?
âThis line of thought was awak-
ened by a remark made by Miss
Pauline Jewett, the newly-elect-
ed Liberal MP. for Northumb-
erland, Ontario, in her speech
moving the address in reply to
the Speech from the Throne at
the opening of this Parliament.
âPeople talk about the afflu-
ent society we have," said the
brilliant University Professor -
iss Jewett is a professor of
political science. âIt is quite pos-
sible there are a few members
of our society who are sate
ly affluent; but with very lars
numbers, T should think close to
| a third, this is certainly not the
| ease. Many of them live in
conditions that should not be tol-
erated by any decent, thought. |
ful_societ
âThree - quarters of Canadaâs
trivial and criticised foreign aid
PUBLIC FORUM
âThis coumn is open to me discussion
regard. |
NO PLANS MADE |
Sir,âIn the May 27th issue of |
your newspaper you published
a news story entitled âPolitical
Rumors Are Prevalent
which the writer states:
âThe Premier was undoubt-
edly headed for the higher: post
prior to the Conservative elec- |
tion loss and it is understood lo-
cal party plans for the naming
of a new leader of the govern-
ment were well advancedâ.
The responsibility of arrang-
ing and holding a leadership |
| convention within the Provin- |
cial Progressive Conservative |
Party rests solely with the Pro:
vincial Executive, of which
am President. I wish to inform
you, Sir, that no plans of any
nature were ever made to
choose a successor to Premier
Shaw, either formally ot infor-
mally, by the ee Execu-
tive of this Part
T wou! âlady have informed
your reporter of this
seen fit to contact me, rather |
than speculate.
Yours very truly,
GERALD R. FOSTER
| Prince Edward Island Progres- |
ive Conservative Association. |
| later,
is directed through the Colombo
Plan. Last year, pleading finan- |
Ifelaleatinceniey fect! government |
| slashed our yearâs contribution |
from $50 million to $41.5 million.
âThat is approximately half the
figure which our government
contributed to help finance the
operations of the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation; it is
slightly less than was spent on
various forms of alcoholic drinks
in the province of Saskatchewan
alone last year; it is equiva-
Tent to less than one piece of
bubble-gum per Canadian per,
day; it is peanuts.
DON'T PLEAD POVERTY
Whatever else we may give as
the reason for our contemptible
measure of aid to other count- |
ries, we should not plead that
we cannot afford to give more.
âThat is the worst form of inter-
national public relations.
Miss Jewett's remark certain- |
ly has validity within the Cana-
dian context; but here again, |
measured against the interna- |
tional picture, we must question
whether it is a decent complaint.
Even our unemployed - and we
must feel ashamed for the lack |
of jobs for those who really seek
them - enjoy a cash income from
the Unemployment Insurance
Fund in one month which ex-
ceeds what most
earn in unCanadianly long work-
ing hours in a whole year.
In the âhave - notâ
99 per cent of the people live, to
borrow Miss Jewett's words, ââin
conditions that should not be tol:
erated by any decent, thoughtful
society.
Canadaâs population alone ts
far too small to be able to solve
this world - wide problem, But
Canada's voice should be rais-
ed, and Canadaâs example should
be set, to urge world - wide com-
mon sense. Collective security
| in the long run will be best
achieved, not by nuclear bombs,
not by tariff walls, not by sel-
fish luxury, but by helping the
underdeveloped nations of the
world to approximate to the well-
fed disease - free technically-
trained standards which even
Miss Jewettâs unaffluent one-
third enjoy.
Lure Of Buried Loot
National Geographic Society
Desolate and inhospitable, |
tiny Cocos Island in the Pacific
Ocean probably is one of the
most dug up bits of land any-
where in the world.
For more than 150 years, the
10.4 square-mile Costa Rican
Island has been wishfully re-
garded as the site of fabulous
buried wealth, In that time, the
island has been probed, scoured
blasted and bored by countless
treasure-seekers, the National
Geographic Society says.
Estimates of treasure buried
there by assorted buccaneers,
privateers, corsairs, and pi-
rates range from a paltry $20
million to comfortable $500
million,
Not a single doubloon has
been recovered from the hoards
of Benito Bonito of the Bloody
Sword and renegade Captain |
Shrapnel, or the loot of Lima, |
| hijacted by one Captain Thomp-
son, master of the Mary Dear,
Mary Dyer, or Mary Read, de-
pending onâ the account one
| reads.
| BIG NAMES
Some famous names have
been associated with the Cocos
treasure hunt. In 1904, the se-
venth Earl Fitzwilliam, then |
| England's richest peer, landed |
with a party of nearly 100. The ,
| lateâ Sirâ Malcolm Campbell, au-
| tomobile and hydroplane speed |
king, visited in 1925. Ten years
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt stopped off at the is- |
land during a. fishing trip
abroad the cruiser U.S.S. Hous. |
ton. With » "go ahe
âand fisd theâ treasure,â boys,
Roosevelt reportedly | granted
the erew shore leave.
Some treasure hunters have
returned to Cocos despite re-
peated failures, convinced the
treasure is
Tout lovatv ot. Coe ites
land gold-seckers was August
Gissler, a German, who lived
on Cocos with brief
tions for about 20
sler_ became a naturalized Cos-
ta Rican citizen and got him-
self named governor of the is-
land. Despite his lengthy stay,
Gissler accomplished no more
than other searchers.
Late in 1962 a party of
ârenchmen went to Cocos,
mainly to look over the place,
but admittedly enticed by the
many buried wealth.
Only one of the party survived
the capsizing of a boat. He
spent three harrowing months
on the lonely islet before he was
| rescu
Cocos Island lies at about La-
titude 5 degrees 32° North Long-
tude 67 degrees 2 Wee, site
of Puntar-
ound. nats Rica, Share are tal
two landing, places, Chatter
Bay and Water Bay, Elsewhere
the
the
al-
cliffs rise abruptly from
ocean. It rains nearly all
time. Inland, vegetation is
most impenetrable,
An account of the trip to Co-
cos by William Beebe relates
with ironic amusement:
âWe imagined the Mary Dear
and her crew during the weary
work of disposing boatloads of
specie and bullion. Anyone who
has ever scen the place fecls
exhausted at the mere thought
of their labors after the booty
was landed. Of
would not He it on the beach,
so they must have transported
it painfully, a very little at a
time, up the slippery hillsides
and across the chasms with
which the {sland {s rent. And
no one would envy them the
task of excavating, in the root-
filled, stony soil, a hole large
enough to contain millions of
dollars worth of precious _me-
fals."*
PE. Cleator sums up the
question of Cocosâ treasure in
his book Treasure for the Tak-
ing: âIn short, failure to locate
the treasure has been attribut-
ed to every conceivable cause |
except one:
found.â
AIDS SURGERY
VANCOUVER (CP) â The
general hospital here has in-
stalled a_new $21,000 heart-lung
machine that will reduce the
| cost of ag rhe using it by
about: is the only one of
its kind i Weaen Canada, The
machine takes over the fune-
tions of the heart and lungs dur- |
ing open-heart surgery.
Asians Âą an | oF
nations, |
course they |
âhat it may not be |
Doctor Ponders
Action To Take
When Festus Dies
By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen
A CHICAGO woman no. Io
er could feel life after the six-
th month of pregnancy. She
writes: âThe doctor, could not
detect a heart beat and told me
the child was dead but to let |
nature take its course. The ba- |
by was delivered two months |
later and I was told that the |
placenta was too small to_pro-
vide oxygen and proper nour-
ishment for the growing fetus.
In addition, the cord was
around the neck."
This misfortune occurs occa-
sionally and â reading between
the lines â we sense a doubt |
about whether the â physician |
*| handled the problem properly. |
In our opinion, he acted accord-
ing to standard practice. He
âlet nature take its courseâ be- |
cause interference by inducing
labor prematurely may lead to |
infection or other complica: |
tions. âThe exceptions are when |
a mother has a blood disorder |
or had a cesarean section pre--|
viously, and it is safer to
delivered again in this way.
The wisdom of permitting
pregnancy to continue after the
fetus dies is a question that of-
ten arises. "Many pressures
are put upon the ol n 'to |
| do something about it But, as |
| we said, it is better to rely|
| pon noninterference and con-
servative management
In many instances the preg-
| nant woman becomes suspicious
| that not all is well when no
| movement is felt. These fears |
| often are confirmed when the
physician cannot hear the heart |
tones. But he must be certain |
because it is a shocking exper-
fence to be told in the sixth or
| seventh month of pregnancy
that the baby has expired.
a result, the obstetrician is cau-
tious until there is overwhelm-
ing evidence of the loss.
The most frequent cause of
this type of fetal loss is lack of
oxygen and nourishment due to
a disorder of the placenta or
the umbilical cord. There are |
| various possibilities. The blood |
flow from the mother to the |
placenta or from the placenta
| to the fetus may be inadequate
blocked âcompletely. |
May we suggest to our read-
er that she take this catastro-
phe in her stride and try again
NOTES BY
THE WAY
An eccentric is an individual
whose idiosy: evasion ate differ.
a ladas yours. â Galt Report-
Who says thereâs not profit to
be made from idle money? An
1875 Canadian dime in mint con- |
dition brought $700 gto a an
auction here on the
âOttawa Joural, |
The gap between the number
of world problems arising and
the number of solutions being |
found for them is becoming in- |
creasingly wider. â Sudbury
ar.
âThe man who feels like a hig
toad in a small puddle at the |
wheel of his car is a big splash |
in a small puddle to the pedes,
trians he passes, â Stratford
Beacon-Herald.
The gopher, which used to out. |
number the Saskatchewanlans
1,000 to one, has all but disap-
peared. He can't really be blam-
ed for leaving Saskatchewan.
But even if there was a mass
exodus, it seems that they should
have turned up somewhere else,
âTt used to take only a pair of
horses, a walking plow and a
milk cow for a young couple to
go into the farming business. To- |
day the investment average:
$22,000." â CM_ Ferguson, - or |
Wisconsin University.
tn onl ne 2
one wi
ving by leting ings i
London Free Pi
The chap who always
best foot forward isnt seni
Jy to stub is toe. â Toronto
âAn increasing number of peo-
ple are learning to play the
harp,â says a musician. Prob-
ably some of them should be
learning, instead, how to dodge
the betty gg a pitehfork.âCha-
tham News
âMy Dad,â said the swee
young thing, âis
takes things apart to see why
they ant Bo."
demai
belier le _ omilton Spec.
tator,
We think itâs about time some-
one took an editorial stand
against the practice of taking
pictures of a hippopotamus
every time he opens his big
mouth in search of food or air.
After all, a hippo is sensitive to
this sort of thing â he doesn't
want toâ go through life thinking
that the only reason âhe's on this
earth is to provide âgagâ shots
for money - hungry photograph-
ers. He may not be human, but
he's got feelings. â Hamilton
Spectator,
African Unity Program
Doug Marshall
By
Canadian Press
The 30 African heads of state |
meeting in Addis Ababa last
week conceived an embryonic
structure that may well evolve
into a workable form of Af-
rican unity.
But Western observers, while
welcoming this progress, will
regret that the negative cry of
anti - colonialism provided the
main touchstone for concord
among the nationalist leaders.
rhe charter, inspired
mtn by the moderating influ-
ence of Ethiopia and her 3,000-
odd years of independence,
calls for an annual assembly of
heads of state and a council of
foreign ministers meeting twice
a year. The organization will be
POTATO
RB. writes: I love potatoes
but when T have them for din-
ner I can't sleep at night. Would
you know the reason why?
EPL |
They may be gas producers
or you may be allergic to or
have an idiosynerasy to them
Forget potatoes for six months.
At the end of this time resume
eating them if you must, but |
take it easy.
TO EACH HIS OWN
Mrs. L. writes: Our child has
pinworms. Could he have |
| Caught âthem from the dog?
EPLY
This 1s doubtful because ani-
mals, ine luding dogs have |
worms of their own, On the
other hand, the pet could carry |
| pinworm eggs on his hair, es-|
pecially if he is owned by a fa-
mily that harbors these para- |
ites.
Our Yesterdavâs
(From the Guardian Files)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO |
May 29, 1938
Maurice Higgins, formerly of |
Kensington, P.E.1. who has_ liv-|
ed in Kapuscasing, Northern |
Ontario for the past few years, |
is leaving by CPR Liner, Nia-
gara from Vancouver, B.C. to
Honolulu, Australia and New
Zealand. He will act in the ca-
pacity of engineer for a_ pulp |
and paper company in New|
Zealand.
Herman G. Bryan was in{
Summerside completing ar- |
rangements for the opening of |
his new tourist colony at Free-
land, Lot 11, which will be open
| to the public on June 22.
TEN YEARS AGO
May 29, 1953
Best possible uses of govern-
ment grants to promote art in
the Maritimes were sought as
the Maritime Art Association
held its annual convention over
the weekend at Acadia Univer-
sity in Wolfville, NS. Art
groups of all major centres of
| the three provinces were repre-
| sented.
| Dr. Hubert MacNeill, Sum-
merside, has taken over the
| medical practice of Dr. Austin
Delaney, who is leaving to take
| a two year post graduate course
in Halifax. Dr. MacNeill is a
veteran of World War Two and
| on being discharged from the
j army took up the study of
| medicine. He is a graduate of
| Dalhousle University.
|
| will include a commission to ar-
imahâs:
| messianic dreams of instant po-}
a
secretariat
On its positive side the Or-
ganization for African Unity
bitrate internal territorial -dis-
putes and committees dealing
with co-operation on all social,
economic and defence matters.
CHECK TO NKRUMAH
Assuming signators honor the
principles âsolemnly affirmed
and. declared,â the charter |
means a victory for the grad:
ualists and a check to Ghanai
President Kwame Nkru
|
litical unity in Africa.
The catch is point six in the
charter â âabsolute dedication
| to the total emancipation of the
African territories which
aun eee K
Staff Writer
and moderate leader alike,
means a program of economic
and diplomatic sanctions
agsinst pockels of white supre-
macy that one London corre-
spondent calls âthe last step
short of war."
Liberal leaders the world over
will agree that the days of white
minority government in Africa
are numbered and that most
newly independent nations can
present a valid case for colo-
nial neglect,
OBJECT TO WAR CRY
The objections, voiced even
by European sympathizers with
the African cause, are that the
current generation of African
liberators remain preoc:
the anti-colonial y
when they should be producing
Positive economic and social
measures to repair the past ne-
glects.
Preparations for war against
the republic of South Africa,
Portugal's Angola territory and
possibly Southern Rhodesia may
be one way to forge a United
States of Africa.
But it is hardly the kind of
co-operation that will eradicate
endemic diseases, cure the il-
literacy problem or provide a
better standard of living for the
average African native.
The West must hope that Af-
rica soon realizes its immediate
unifying factor is social prog-
ress rather than justified but
unrewarding bitterness with ra-
ie enlarged upon by radical |
cial past and pres-
ent.
Kashmir Stalemate
Christian Science Monitor
We have reluctantly come to
the conclusion that ue paneeal
problem cannot be
continued American od British
pressure at this tim
indian correspondent re-
ports that the talks, however
well intentioned, âhave done
more harm than good.â Unless
there is something known to the
Western governments which
does not meet the journalistic
eye â for much of this effort has
been shrouded in diplomatic sec-
recy â it ought to be called o!
We regret this. It means freez~
ing an injustice for a time, and
| trying to live with it. We have
inclined toward the theory that
in Kashmir the wishes of the
people concerned ought to de-
cide their government in a dis-
pute which has become so tanj
Jed with history and national as.
Pirations as this one, To aba
don the effort to persuade In-
dia to permit a plebiscite, or
some form of transitional inter-
national regime, will leave In-
dia in control of the field and
Pakistan on the outside.
Yet we see no reasonable al-
ternative. There is logic in put
ting strings on economic aid â
granting it only on the basis of
mutually satisfactory arrange-
ments, But to use military aid,
by contrast, and especially in
time of emergency, as a meen
of pressing a country to take
political step, has grave Umita-
tions, The United States has
been on firmer footing when it
has based its pressure for com-
promise purely on military
grounds. There are obvious mi-
litary implications when it gives
weapons to two friendly coun-
tries which are in a state of sus-
pended war and military ten-
sion.
But this military tension can
surely be kept under control. The
country which used Americ an
weapons, given for the defense
of the independent world against
Communist aggression, to attack
neighbor who is sharing in the
same defense, would be subject
to the fulf range of sanctions
and would almost surely fail of
its objective.
It is doubly grievous, in view
of the merits of its case, that
Pakistan should be caught in
the grip of this situation and
be compelled to be the one who
waits and refrains from force
while India enjoys the soft airs
of one of the worldâs most beau-
were it not for
the cold war Pakistan would be
incapable of war in any event.
Patience and a return to peace-
ful negotiation at the right time
The z
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