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PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1963.

Obnoxious Measure

Responsible voices in this prov-
ince and throughout the country
have been raised in protest against
the new 11 per cent sales tax on
building materials in the Gordon
budget. It has been indicated by
Revenue Minister Garland that un-
der long-standing exemptions the
tax won't apply to materials used
in building hospitals and old folks’
homes, to certain municipal pur-
chases and to farm and fishery
machinery and equipment. But ap-
parently there is no exemption for
schools, universities and publie
buildings, or cooperative housing
projects.

Groups planning housing de
velopment programs are seriously
concerned, and with good reason,
about the effects of the new im-
post. At Ottawa, Opposition Leader
Diefenbaker predicts that the meas-
ure will have “a colossal effect” in
restricting production and economic
growth, and NDP Leader Douglas
agrees with him.

Why doesn’t Mr. Gordon recon-
sider it? He has already withdrawn
one obnoxious feature of his bud-
get, under pressure from financial
interests. They put up such a howl
about his 30 per cent “takeover”
tax on large Canadian stock sales
to foreign investors that he prompt-
ly reversed himself—so promptly
that his announcement hit the stock
exchanges before they had closed
for the day and caused quite a
scramble. Why should he not be as
much concerned about the avalanche
of criticism in this case?

Mr. Kennedy's Tour

As originally planned, President
Kennedy’s present 10-day European
tour was to be a series of state visits
with Mrs. Kennedy, but it has been
reduced to a program of “working
visits” in which the President is
devoting most of his attention to
underlining two aspects of American
foreign policy. One calls for effective
military defense in an integrated
North Atlantic alliance and for an
Atlantic trade partnership. The oth-
er accepts “peaceful coexistence”
with Soviet Russia, plus a “peaceful
competition” which excludes any
forcible change in the status quo.
Inevitably, he is taking issue with
the disintegrationist policies of
President de Gaulle.

As the New York Times sees it,
Mr. Kennedy’s first task is to con-
vince Europe that the fears raised
by Genersl de Gaulle that the Un-
ited States might abandon the de-
fense of Europe and retreat into a
Fortress America are absurd. But
he will convince Europe only if he
meets not merely its fears but also
fits determination to have a larger
share in nuclear arms control as the
key to political independence. He will
not do so by trying to placate it
with inadequate schemes, such as
the mixed-manned nuclear naval
force, valuable as that may be as a
first step. He will do it only if the
United States shows some willing-
ness to share {ts virtual nuclear
arms monopoly in the West with its
allies in mutual accommodation
without domination.

Apart from this, the President's
tour requires some exceedingly care-
ful navigating. He will be in Eng-
land over the weekend, for example,
and will spend Saturday evening
and Sunday morning with Prime
Minister Macmillan at the latter's
home in Birch Grove, Sussex. This
‘will probably be the least public and

“most controversial day of the entire

The stop-over in Britain was
the last item placed in the Presi-
dent's ininerary. No sooner had he
committed himself to it, then the
British government became em-
broiled in the Profumo scandal of
sex and espionage that almost led
to Mr. Macmillan’s downfall. Op-
position Laborites have questioned
the propriety of the visit under the
circumstances; but embarrassed
Washington officials decided that a
last-minute cancellation would cause
even more controversy. At any
rate, they hope Mr. Kennedy’s cour-
tesy will result in slightly greater
Conservative enthusiasm for the
formation of an allied nuclear force;
though that remains to be seen.

Italy, too, is in the throes of a
political crisis and Mr. Kennedy will
have to tread warily on his visit to
Rome, where he is scheduled to meet
President Antonio Segni on Mon-
day.

For The Handicapped

The Berlin crisis, the Common
Market, racial unrest in the United
States, the fighting in Laos and
Vietnam—these and other political
and economic issues are taking a
back seat in Copenhagen these days.
More important in the minds of the
1,400 delegates attending the Inter-
national Society for Rehabilitation
there this week is the physical, emo-
tional, social and vocational out-
look for the world’s handi

[ze

JOAN OF ARC AND THE VOICES

This is the ninth world congress
of its kind, and it is fitting that it
should be held in the Danish cap-
ital. The Danish Society and Home
for Cripples, the host organization,
which was founded in 1872, is the
world’s oldest voluntary agency
serving the handicapped.

Preceding this week's confer-
ence was the fourth congress of the
World Confederation for Physical
Therapy, also held in Copenhagen,
at which it was announced that the
confederation, in cooperation with
the World Health Organization,
would hold a one-year training
course for potential teachers of
physical therapy from the develop-
ing countries. The course, which will
be given in Britain, will start in the
summer of 1964.

The greatest problem in physical
therapy throughout the world, it
was emphasized, continues to be the
shortage of trained personnel. Even
Denmark—which has one therapist
for each 2,000 persons, the highest
ratio in the world—has difficulty in
staffing hospitals and clinics in rural
areas,

During this week's rehabilita-
tion congress, emphasis is being
placed on prevention of accidents,
which are a growing cause of dis-
ability throughout the world. Im-
portant as the exchange of profes-
sional information is at meetings
such as these, however, the primary
value is in the opportunity for pro-
fessional workers and volunteers
who are interested in the disabled
to come to know each other. Theirs
is a comparatively new field of
scientific endeavor—and certainly
one of the most rewarding in terms
of human welfare.

For Senior Citizens
Charlottetown Kinsmen are to

OTTAWA REPORT by

Patrick Nicholson

Canada’s most dynamic and |
enthusiastic, provincial premier |
has been enlivening Parliament
Hill with one of his periodie vi-

sits,
The Hon. Joseph R. Small- |
wood, premier of Newfound-
land, now rates as our second
senior premier with 14 unbro- |
ken years in office; he is ex-
ceeded only by Alberta's Prei
fer Ernest Manning, who has
Just celebrated his 20th consec-
utive year in office with another |
electoral triumph. But despite
his record of political durabil-
ity and administrative achieve
ment for the 10th Province to |
enter Confederation, he is still |
the driving force which Ottawa
first _knew as ‘The Happy Lit
tle Guy with the Big Bow Tie”
who mainspringed the 1949 ne- |
| gotiations for that entry |
| His hair has greyed, but his |
girth has not greatened; and |
his brain churns out ideas and |
comments and quips as
strides up and down the room |
like a restless 62year old

Puma,
PUT NEWFIE AHEAD 1
The great project taking
shape in his mind now is to
create in Newfoundlang a

world — beating premiere,
School of Fisheries, Navigation,
Seamanship, deep-sea Engin-
eering and Electronics.

No country has yet had the
{dea of fully training its fisher-
men to take full advantage of
Newfoundland, whose shores
border the greatest fishing
ground long known to western
civilization, should lead the way
in exploiting the new aids.

“Newfoundland’s School shall
have the reputation of being the
Jast word in everything to do
with fishing, teaching the latest
techniques Known in the world,
and never one month out of
date,” Joey promised, when de-
scribing his plans to me.

Why is this up-dating neces-
sary, when Newfoundland has
for five centuries been the suc-
cessful base for fishermen us-
Ing handlines In emall_dories?
I aske

Sra andlisel ie) exeetied by

PUBLIC FORUM

‘Tois cowumn ts open to me

be ded on the ini they
have taken in acquiring a commod-
ious dwelling house and converting
it into a senior citizens’ recreation
centre. The opening ceremonies at
the centre, on the corner of Queen
and Fitzroy Streets, take place this
evening and climax many months of
hard work by club members who
have spent between $25,000 and
$30,000 on the project.

The first of its kind in Char-
lottetown, the centre will be open
to all retired or semi-retired men
and women and will be equipped
with such facilities as cards, tele-
vision, reading materials, kitchen
equipment, etc. It is hoped that
eventually it will be operated by the
senior citizens themselves, but until
that stage is reached the activities
will: be supervised by Kinsmen
members.

In other cities, these recreational
centres have proven a great boon to
older people, who like to mix with
others of their own group, to come
and go when they please and partici.
pate in games and other pastimes.
There is no reason why the Kins-
men Club centre will not prove
equally popular here. It is indeed
a generous gift to a class of
citizens most deserving of con-
sideration, for which the whole

tie be i

iseussion
St qhenioon, oer
st, ‘The Guardian does not neces
the opinion of corres

ere.
te
omitted,

STEPS COMMENDED

Sir,—We feel that Mr. Gledhill,
Director of Music in the Schools
of the Province is to be com-
mended for taking steps to en-
sure that piano “technicians”
are readily available.

‘he lack of such has been a
r note” on the Island for
many years and some of the few
technicians or tuners were often
inclined to be independent, giving
the impression that they were
doing a favor rather than sup-
plying a service.

Since the advent of the radio,
TV, and the great development
of recording techniques, plus
the phenomenal growth of our
Music Festival, the mass of our
people are music conscious and
actively interested as listeners
or participants and what may

eben jano ser-
Vieing forty or No years ago
will not do t

Many fstand. "Pianos ate dls.
tressingly out of tune and in dis-
repair because of the inability

‘hill there are great hopes of this

“ing changed as we understand

that the public is to be informed

the proj ‘lection and care

of instruments and the names

addresses of qualified “‘tech-
nicians”’.

Let us cooperate with all who
are willing to help bring har-
mony out of discord,

I am, Sir, ete.,
Bi PHLAT

the mechanical trawl, equipped
scanner
ually

with its electronic
which shows the
being caught in the trawl,
| said, The dory !s both dang
ous and uncomfortable, Besides,
| national pride insists that New-
|foundland should not lag behind
the many foreign nations which
send hundreds of efficient mo-
dern fishing craft to reap the
bountiful fish harvest on her
Grand Banks. Russia, for ex-
ample, sends big modern fac-
tory ships, beautiful as ships
and technologically, — which
catch and pack the fish.
MORE MOUTHS—MORE FOoD
As improved medical know-
ledge lengthens our expected

iy faces ‘new problems created
‘the resulting “population ex-

"On a world-wide scale,
Thetinoee dlreigrotiens istisiting
sufficient protein to feed every-
one suitably. Protein can come
from meat, ot from fish. The
greatest increase can ob-
tained most readily from fish.
So the world needs improve
methods of catching fish, and

Newfoundland’s Fishery Training Program

better methods of serving it. As
examples of advanced thinking
on this line, Mr. Smallwood
mentioned that food processors
are contemplating a fish-flour
made by grinding up whole fish
thus eliminating waste; and a
flavoured fish-flour to overcome
the objection some People| hold
towards the taste of fish.

But __ naturally, Newt found-
land's government thinks fore-
most of Newfoundlanders. Tech-
nology, in the form of the pow-
er saw, has cut down the num-
er of jobs in ‘he logging indus-

7 an alternative, New-
tandiendery must look to the
fisheries to provide them with
well-paid, pleasant work. For
this, the quality of the fish in-
dustry must be upgraded by
introducing new methods of get-
ting the out
and into the consumer's mouth.

Premier Smallwood plans to
send a team to comb the world
for ideas, which this Fall will
result in the opening of the
world’s first up-to-date techni-
cal training school for fisher-
men.

Chicken War

With Europe

Milwaukee Jours ~

Selling frozen, ready to cook
chickens to a German hausfrau
‘once was considered almost as
difficult as trying to peddle re-
frigerators to Eskimos.

That was before the United
States Agriculture Department
unleashed a massive promotion
campaign in 1956. To almost
everyone's surprise, Germans,
Jong accustomed to buying fresh
ly killed, unfrozen birds, went
for the iced variety ina big way.
American poultry shot
from virtually nothing in 1955 to
152 million pounds—almost $50
million worth— last year.

It was not surprising, there-
fore, to hear a howl go up
American trade and agriculture
officials recently w the

European Common Market, of
which West Germany is a mem-
ber, slapped a new 1% cent
import fee on United States poul-
try, thus bringing the total

|. This compares with the
tariff of about 4% cents to five
cents a pound West Germany
imposed before the Common
Market's new protective policy
took effect last year.

Christian A. Herter, President
Kennedy’s chief trade negotiator
threatened retaliation on certain
European imports to this coun-
try. Agriculture Secretary Free-
man warned that “‘as poultry
goes, 80 go our overall trade

spects.””

2
3

This may be overstating the
case. While poultry is one of our
most important agricultural ex-
ports, there was never any as-
surance that the European mar-
ket would continue to be wide
open. European farmers have
been modernizing and increas-
ing their own poultry produc-
tion. And poultry provides a
major source of income for mil-
lions of small European farm:

charge now to 14% cents a

ers.

Once A F

C.P.R.

Not so many years ago, the
word “square” was one of the
finest words in our language.
You gave a mana square deal
if you. were honest. And

you

it,
thing else, When you got out of
debt, you were square with the
world. And that was when you
Took your fellow man
in the eye.

Then a lot of strange charact-
ers got hold of this honest,
wholesome word, bent it all out
of shape and gave it back to our
children,” the writer continues.
“Now everybody knows what a
square is, He is the man who
never learned to get bila fet ee
% A Joe who volunteers

e doesn't have to. A guy wae
ae his kicks from trying to do
something better than anyone
hee

re is a boob who gets 4
lost in Ls, Asbrd that he has to

be g0 home.
charnetee Wid who *saeats have &
spend his evenings Legipe ig ie
a orskhop and

band plays “O Car
tribe isn’t thriving well in
the current climate. He doesn't
fit too neatly into the current

ine Word

Spanner

cutters, sharp-shooters and gool-
offs. He doesn’t believe in open-
ing all the packages before
Christmas. He's burdened down
with old-fashioned ideas of hon-
esty- loyalty, courage and thrift.
He may already be on his way
to extinction.

Laughter today is stored in
‘Hollywood in cand It is taken
out as needed and pasted onto
TV films. The laugh track tips

off things are

country discovered, put to-
pl Mesegs fie and saved
easy to prove

that ¢ Champlata, Brock,
der Graham Bell, Bi
. Edward Bani

APPOINTED CHIEF

OTTAWA (CP)—Air Commo-
dore Richard M. Cox of Sioux

pay ir irector of
erations ae NO] me M eggs int

rs in Colorado §;
return to alt cs bent:

group of angle players, corner

quarters in July to sscume his
new duties.

Cancer Hazards
On The Increase

st cancer
ceptible mice have been devel-
oped in the laboratory. It might

resistant animals, especially on
farms. This is not as farfetched
as it sounds, considering the
rise in cancer hazards such as
radioactive fallout, herbicides,
and industrial and urban water

pollution.
We must re-emphasize that
there is no scientific proot that

cancer {s on the increase among
cattle in this country. In Den-
mark, certain cancers in cows
are reportable. They are caused.
by viruses and when cancer is
found; the | onlay herd is
af

Wan th ernment,
pers the ficient for the loss.
ey hope to find the extent of

the Staats in this way.
Body sites affected by cancer
often are the same in dogs as in
man. These include the breast,
skin, ovaries, blood forming
system, and the nervous
tem. Less is known about can-
cer in cats except that it often
is complicated by anemia and

Research in another direction
was conducted in a boys’ camp
by Dr. Otto Klineberg of Col-
umbla university. The aim of
this project was an attempt to
ease global tension. Friction
was incited deliberately among

oups of boys until they hated
one another. Then a series
crises was created to determine
whether they could work toge-
ther. They could and did.

r. Klineberg concluded that
the world needs a super-project

to get the United States and
Russia to work together. Re-
search in space might be one

way. Another would be pro-
grams to promote child health
because Russians and Ameri-
cans alike love their children.
But it will take more than this
because both of these projects
are available in that both coun-
tries are working on space pro-

years in promoting child health.

BRAIN X-RAY
MS. writes: What does a pne-
umoencephalogram show?
REP}

In this procedure, the cerebro-
spinal fluid is replaced by air
to visualize certain cavities or
passageways of the brain. Air
a much darker than the brain
ues when seen on X-rays. It
es an excellent contrast
medium to demonstrate tumors
or other abnormalities that are
hing or crowding the cavi-

Pp
ties.
REFUSES VEGETABLES

B.C. wi 3 ‘hi can
done for a little fellow of three
ho can't be forced, cored, or
to eat vegetables? 1
past eats missing vita-
mins and other food elements
through this abstinence.

REPL

Let him alone, as ail children
go through these phases.
will obtain enough aati
through eating other food. If you
are concerned, give him a daily
vitamin-mineral capsule.

BEE THERAP
W.W. writes: Are ie stings
good for rheumatism?

REPLY

Good results have been noted
in a few victims but the per-
centage 1s too small to recom:
mend the procedure. It might
interest our younger reekerti ©
know that bee venom was
ular years ago but lost out when
{t failed to live up to expecta-

ns.
KIDNEY AND LIVER
C1, writes: Are nephritis and
hepatitis the same?
REI

=

PLY
jo. The first represents in-
flammation of the kidney; the
second, of the liver.

TODAY’S HEALTH HINT—

‘The control of air pollution
not only is desirable — it is es-
sential.

U
Our Yesterday's
(From the Guardian Files)
TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO
(June 26, 1938)

BOSTON, June 25 (CP)—Hun-
dreds of pairs of silk stockings
were loaded aboard the Grenfell

Mission schooner, George B.
Cluett to be taken to Labrador,

‘be possible to develop cancer- | aj

Of | seemed to admit he had lost

grams and have been active for | ha

| in the Commons the next day

be| of confidence over the Keeler

NOTES BY

THE WAY

those under twenty to drive ov-
er sixty?

For those that think nothing.
in this world can be counted on
we pass on the intelligence from
marine life authorities that the
horseshoe crab looks the same
now as it did 200,000,000 years
— Ottawa Journal.

Herald: Wives who complain
about the litter left by pipe-
smoking husbands should re-

ey on that man in Wilkes-

Pa., who had collected
2500000 match-books in his
garage. Stratford Beacon.

Junior Partner (to
stenographer): “‘Are you doing
anything on Sunday evening?”
Stenographer [capa tk No,

not a thing.” Juni
"Then try to be ri the vote
earlier on ates, morning, will

— Sarnia Observer.

$

bout is purely
does it have a practical’ vai.

ue?” “What do you mean by
‘practical bhi asked Fara:
day. “I mean,” replied ee
stone, “can it be tax
Galt Reporter.

‘If some of the

other age are doing a ttle
aulet flipping in ‘ts graves,
hey blamed.

can’t realiy be

boys who have gone to their re-
wards must be a little disgrunt-
led at being on the scene about
one century too soon. — Calgary
Herald.

Maairillan Ma

By Clecall
Canadian Press

Harold Macmillan has shown
that although he doesn't know
much about the world of Chris-
ine Keeler he knows a great
deal about the world of Harold
Macmillan.

Only a week ago it seemed
Macmillan was surely finished
as prime minister. Even the
nice things being said about him
sounded like political obituaries.

fe was a man of undoubted
integrity—but unfortunately _at
69 he was feeling his years. a

touch with “young people

was so sad—so fatally sald—
that one of macmillan’s is-
ters had endangered security
by playing around with Miss
Keeler, who also had a Russian
admirer.

Britons — acutely sensitive
about how they appear in
United States eyes—had night-
mares about a broken, impotent
prime minister meeting Presi-
dent Kennedy Me he visits
England next we
HAPPENINGS ‘RANGE

But strange things began to

ppen, Macmillan, alt!
shaken, rode out the initial par-
liamentary storm and appeared
apparently restored to his debo-
nair self.

He made urbane jokes, seem-
ing in a way to live up to Labor
Leader Harold Wilson's jibe of
“indolent nonchalance.” It was
that deceptive old unflappable
Mae again.

Macmillan went about ne a
fairs as if nothing h:

ned, Shrewd party m caren
pind doubts and fears among
Tory rebels, 27 of whom had
withheld support from Macmil-
Jan in what amounted to a vote

scandal.

Tt began to dawn on the hot-
heads that by sacrificing Mac-
millan they might destroy the

kes Comeback

MacSween

‘Staff Writer

whole party, which in any ¢ase
stands a doubtful chance in the
next election, to be held some-
time before the fall of 1964.

‘The idea — which apparently
earries no real weight — was
skillfully planted among back-
benchers that if Macmillan went

might be obliged to
call on Wilson to form a new
government }

Tn any case, the new leader—
and no one generally satistac-
tory was in sight—would be
forced to call 4 bs at election to
clear away mell of the
Keeler affair, ne, [bac kneacters
were told. ®

MIGHT WRECK HOPES

Adding to all this was the
technique by which Conserva-
tives when {n power select a
new leader. It is not done La
party vote or convention. Party
elders make “‘soundings,” after
which the Queen fs advised on
whom to call,

Lord Poole, the party chatr~
man, said that {f Macmillan
were scuttled now the Tories
could forget any hopes of win-
ning the next election, and per-
‘haps the one after that as well.

Letters—many of them from
women — poured into newspa-
pers, bitterly denouncing those
so unfeeling as to condemn that
paragon of virtue, iemillan,
1s committed by another

Then, on Saturday, Macmillan
drove to his constituency, Brom-
ley. Followers cheered as he
told how his heart, but not his
spirit, was broken. He would not
lay back supinely and let his 40-
year political career be wasted
either through panic or obsti-
nacy.

Today, there are those who
say that when the Tories go into
election war again, the man at
the spearhead will be Harold
Macmillan.

Letter To A Ca

binet Minister

Winnipeg Free Press

Dear Miss LaMarsh:

Welcome to the club.

It is not a particularly exclus-
ive club any more. And yet the
entrance requirements are pe
tough as ever. But every
more people seem to be willing
to make the not inconsiderable
and sustained effort neces:
to become a full-fledged mem-
ber. A growing number of mem-
bers are medical mé

In proclaiming publicly your
intention to join the club, you
have, of course, put yourself

on the spot. Many a man, or
woman, has quietly resolved to
give up the habit and has failed
But the knowledge of their fail-
ure has been restricted to them-
selves, perhaps their family,
and a few clos
In your case it will be differ-
need only recall the re-
cz se of a provincial health
minister who announced that he

had stopped smoking and who, a
few days later, was seen puffing
quietly in a legislative erie
His fall was trumpeted

y the press —albeit sompaiet
ically since reporters are toler-
‘ant of human failings, having so
many themselves.

&

Nor will you, being a woman,
be able to take the easy way out
that some men tal

hewing cigarett-
chewing snuff or
cigars or a pipe. A cigar-smok-
ing minister of health this coun-
try could, in ordinary circumsta-
neces, accept. A cigar- smoking
female minister of health, Can-
ada is not yet ready for.

‘The way ahead will be hard.
‘You may find yourself sitting at
your desk thinking up all sorte
of completely valid and convino-
ing reasons why you should re-
sume smoking. (There are
probably more and better excus-
es for this habit than for any
other in man’s experience.) You
realize too that the person who
is giving up the habit of three
packs a day may at times ih
rather unbearable, through {rri-

tation. (And when the habit has
finally ‘been licked she may be
equally unbearable, through
smugness.)

But in this case, say not the
struggle naught availeth. The
first six weeks nd say) are
the hardest.—P.M.

It’s Still till Medicine

“'No one would have had to ex-
plain the term ‘Hat Trick’ to the
eas Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Bad

n Engllshman—as

and clothing at the various Gren-
fell posts on the Labrador.

W.T. Bowness and Sons of

Bedeque suffered a heavy loss

bers Friday morning when their
large departmental store, wat

A very successful year a
profit-wise be from the stand-
point of
by Malcolm Reeves a te

th annual meeting of ‘the ea

Services,
sociation Tid held venuniay ti at

the Dominion Experimental
Farr

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new all about cricket, For

those of us who aren't devotees

of the game, however,

trick By it in the game
et when a bowler

takes
three wickets outs out three
batsmen) by three successive
balls, This feat entitles him to a
new hat from his fellow club
members.
We at The News feel Mr. Kip-
Ie | truly scored a Hat Trick
here in Medicine Hat when he
lissuaded the townsfolk of be
city in 1910 from the folly of
tan tee? yet name. (His-
doe record wheth

thee Son oatig Gia
ed Mr. Kipling with a ace tee beh,
ra there can be no doubt now
that they should have.)
How did Mr. Kipling’s Medic.
on Hat Trick come to cua)
Well, Mr. had
the aid in ir and was as Miron
the town and its in-
habitants as they were with
him. So much so, in fact, that,
when three years later the ely
‘was booming and a host of

, opponents of
the move turned for hel to

Medicine Hat News

ake milena ee

The ject up
among. poutine at ‘the, city's
famed (and still y-
These men felt it

\bsurd to even consider
changing the city's distinctive
name. Ways and means were

of defeating the pleb-

iscite which the City Council

had decided “oH be held on
the name

‘Then someone “f the Club re
marked: ‘I wish that Rudyard
Kiplong knew of this; he would
flay the hide off these blighters.’

And so it was done.

Francis F. Fatt, Postmaster at
the time, was selected to write
Mr. Kipling and appraise him
of the situation. So damning
was the author's thas gl “pt the
plebiscite was never held and
Medicine Hat is still Medicine

today.

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