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    Che Guardian

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    AY, OCTOBER 16, 1963

    > Welcome Visitors

    + Welcome visitors to the Province
    today are the Hon. H. J. Robichaud,
    Federal Minister of Fisheries, and
    ‘Mr. J. B. Hstey, president of the

    Fisheries Council of Canad: who
    are scheduled to speak before the
    Prince Edward Island Fisheries
    Federation at its annual meeting
    this evening. Other prominent offic-
    jals will be present at the meeting,
    at which plans will be discussed for
    the national convention of the Fish-
    eries Council to be held here for the
    first time next April.

    Meanwhile, the industry is fac-
    ing serious problems at the local
    Jevel, and we note that a brief is
    now being prepared on this subject.
    by the provincial authorities for
    presentation at Ottawa later this
    month. This will come before Mr.
    Robichaud in a formal way, and we
    have every reason to expect that it
    will be given due consideration.

    Our problems, certainly, will not
    be new to him. We may assume that
    he has studied the comprehensive
    report of the Prince Edward Island
    Fisheries Development Committee
    which was prepared a few years ago
    under the chairmanship of the Hon.
    Thane A. Campbell, Chief Justice
    of the Province. This report was
    pased on a number of surveys and
    reports of various aspects of the

    industry, and emphasized the need
    r remedial measures in terms
    yhich, to a considerable extent, re-
    ain applicable today.

    Mr. Robichaud is himself a
    laritimer, and was a fisheries in-
    tector and later Director of Fish-
    ries for New Brunswick before
    mtering politics. This early experi-
    mee has served him in good stead
    grappling with the responsibili-
    ies of his office. We feel that he
    concerned about our
    fishermen and will do all in his
    ower to aid them in solving their
    nt difficulties. It is a privilege
    it us along with Mr.

    the

    is genuinely

    ur
    to have him v
    Estey at this time, when Parliament
    is in session and there are many
    chores to be attended to at Ottawa.

    The Wheat Sales Row

    The House of Commons received
    with applause last week the an-
    nouncement by Trade Minister
    Sharp that there will be no change
    in Canada’s wheat policy, despite
    United States threats of retaliation
    if this policy is continued.
    What is all this row about, and
    why has it stirred up so much
    anger at Washington? Ostensibly
    the reason is that we are selling
    wheat at an agreed-upon price—a
    policy that goes back for many
    years. The buyer undertakes to buy
    80 much wheat over a period of
    time; the seller guarantees to sell
    the wheat at the price agreed upon.
    If, while the agreement is in force,
    the price goes up, the buyer is pro-
    tected against the rise. If the price
    goes down, the seller is protected
    against the drop. Apparently our re-
    cent agreement to sell 39 million
    bushels to Japan at a set price put
    the skids under U.S. plans to sell
    to Japan at a price higher than the
    Canadian price.
    This is how it is interpreted by
    the Winnipeg Free Press, which
    speaks with authority on the sub-
    ject. At the moment, because of

    harvests elsewhere in the world,

    Âą United States and Canada have,
    pfactically,.a monopoly on wheat.
    The United States would like to have
    Canada “co-operate” in setting a
    “wheat price as high as the traftic

    |

    will bear. Ine U.S. an in-

    crease of 15 cents a bushel, on the
    assumption that under the laws of
    supply and demand the world price
    would go up by this amount.

    Canada, however, refused to go
    along. The Canadian price has in-
    ed by eight cents a bushel in
    —and could go up more.
    But the wheat board wisely is look-
    ing past the present temporary
    shortage. It believes that our tradi-
    tional customers should not be
    charged sky-high prices merely be-
    cause there is, temporarily, a sell-
    er‘s market in wheat. It believes
    that future sales of Canadian wheat
    should be protected, even at the ex-
    pense of a quick profit today.'There
    is also the danger that if the price
    of wheat were permitted to sky-
    rocket, farmers might be induced
    to grow more wheat—wheat which
    tomorrow we might have difficulty
    selling.

    It is not desirable to get at cross
    purposes with Washington on this
    or any other subject, but there is
    a limit to which Canadian acquies-
    cence in American demands can go.
    The limit seems to have been reach-
    ed in this case. The government at
    Ottawa, having made this decision,
    will be expected to stand firm on it.

    A Point Well Taken

    In the acrimonious debate on the
    status of the New Democratic Party
    and the divided Social Credit Party
    in the House of Commons last week,
    one speaker was singled out by the
    Otawa Journal as contributing a
    useful and sensible point. He was
    Mr. Heath Macquarrie, junior MP
    for Queens, who maintained that
    the Social Credit problem should
    not have been brought before the
    committee at all, but left to the
    divided members to settle as best
    they could.

    Mr. Macquarrie recalled to the
    committee that there is provision
    for facilitating the work of Parlia-
    ment and ensuring that the House
    is not occupied with petty matters.
    The assumption is that parties will
    make their own decisions and then
    use “the usual channels” which are
    in fact the private meeting between
    representatives of the various part-
    ies to allocate seats and rooms, de-
    cide on spokesmen to be recognized
    and arrange the business of the
    House on amicable lines.

    Without these “usual channels”
    Parliament would be bogged down
    with trivia. Intra-party feuds are
    not the business of Parliament but
    the “usual channels” of amicable
    discussion behind the scenes are
    neglected by those in search of
    privilege—and $4,000 extra a year.

    Our junior member for Queens
    had indeed a good point here, which
    the Government would do well to
    bear in mind in future. Unfortuna-
    tely, in this case, it committed it-
    self to a course that gave noisy
    party disputants the leeway they
    were looking for, and created a
    squabble that nearly brought the
    whole session to a standstill.

    EDITORIAL NOTES

    The Senate has now given third
    and final reading to the Govern-
    ment’s bill increasing old age pen-
    sions by $10 a month to $75. Royal
    assent is likely to be given this week,
    making it possible to include the
    inerease in the cheques to be mail-
    ed to nearly 1,000,000 pensioners
    later this month.

    ee

    Improved health facilities now
    protect pilgrims to Mecca. Hospitals
    in the area have iced water tubs for
    cases of heat stroke, and there are
    mobile health units, emergency phar-
    macies and even a modern ice fac-
    tory at the foot of Mount Arafat.
    More than a million Moslem wor-
    shippers from 60 countries journey~
    ed to Mecca this year, yet the pil-
    grimage has been free from quaran-
    tinable diseases.

    PANG AAR

    It is encouraging to note that
    Canada has sold about 5,500,000
    pounds of butter to the United
    Kingdom in the first major export
    sale of this kind since 1959. The
    consignment, to be delivered before
    Nov. 15, was priced well before the
    prevailing export level of about $2
    cents a pound at Montreal dockside,
    The butter is one or two years old
    and the sale was under keen com-
    petition with the United States
    which is believed to have obtained
    tights to supply an equal amount
    at higher prices, with fresher but-
    ter involved,

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    GUESS WHOSE LAWN IT'LL SETTLE ON

    Three-In-One
    Oral Vaccine

    By Dr. Theodore R. VanDellen
    Another milestone was passed
    with the announcement that the
    live oral poliovirus vaccine now
    contains: protection against all
    three strains. Two doses are re-
    quired, eight weeks apart, and
    immunity reaches, ts peak in

    ‘hie is in contrast to the older
    vaccine, which required three
    doses over a 12-week period. on!
    dose contained Type I, the ne:
    Tpe 2, and the last Type 3. Im-
    bed developed after four

    ithe ewoomer ls administered
    Jn a teaspoon or, paper uy Tt
    y be mixed with. sirup or
    milk, or dropped ona lump of
    sugar ora piece of bread or
    cake. At present, the mantifac-
    turers are recommending a boos-
    ter series after tw
    years. Most of the users will be
    children but the product is not
    recommended for infants under
    6 weeks of age.
    The main advantage of the
    three- in- one- oral vaccine is that
    there is no need to-keep track of
    the separate types of vaccines
    given each child. This is a pro-
    blem when millions are immuni-
    zed over a short span of time, If
    anything, the savings in book-
    keeping and other administrative |
    costs will make the simpler me-
    thods worth-while, In addition, a
    single dose of the vaccine should
    confer some protection against
    all types of polio in communities
    population already
    posesses a certain degree of im-
    muinity
    The chief objection to any live
    oral poliovirus vaccine is that
    the virus may regain its strength
    daring its four-week sojourn n
    [the intestinal tract. In the cir-
    e organism might

    INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE

    Are We Moving Out Of The Ice Age?

    It would be just as wrong not
    to recognize the better interna-
    tional climate than to make too
    much of the changing atmos
    phere. Though it is still less
    than a year since the atomic
    showdown in Cuba, signs con-
    tinue to multiply that Russia
    and est are capable of
    achieving more together than
    calling each other names.

    The recent accords become
    the more impressive when they
    are looked at collectively. The

    PUBLIC FORUM

    éiscussion

    ‘This coumn Is open to me

    uoal
    correspondence, regare,
    ubmitted.

    JAIL CONDITIONS

    Sir,It is with deep regret
    and profound concern that I
    read in The Guardian recently
    of the controversial issue, which |
    is taking place. Prisoners walk-
    ing the streets! Queen's County
    Jail overcrowded! What public-
    ity for the finest Province of
    Canada. What a shameful situa-
    tion.

    First of all I resent the state-
    ment made by the Hon. A.W.
    Matheson, Leader of the Oppos-
    ition, in reference to the public
    buildings committee. I have
    been chairman for four years
    and on the committee since 1951.
    This committee is always made
    up of MLA’s of both parties, who
    are very conscientious in the
    duties required of them. Grant-
    ed while serving on several com-
    mittees it is hard to do justice to
    all, but I feel we, of this co
    miltee, have “scratched” much
    deeper than the surface.

    ‘The same civil servant has
    written the report under both
    Governments, and I will say this
    on his behalf, he has never tried
    to influence the committee
    any way or alter the report. Be-
    cause of committee recommen-
    dations the living conditions in
    Queen's County Jail have im-
    proved—in the last 2 or 3 years
    —to such an extent that many
    are committing small offences
    to be sent there, where, to use
    ae own words the 'meals—

    ent resta

    “are out of thls world"
    son for this change was to elim-
    inate the waste we found taking
    place.

    ‘The main reason for the over-
    crowding is that recently the re-
    peat alcoholics have been stop-
    ped from coming to Riverside
    Hospital. As a member of the
    Board of Governors, I might
    point out that we decided to
    admit only those that could be
    and wanted to be helped through
    treatment, but there are another
    class, who don’t want help and
    they are the ones going around
    the streets today. The majority

    of these to my ae are
    “sbakos” from the
    Charlottetown, which Ps hould

    make this a matter of grave con-

    cern to the City Couneil, who
    should work together with the
    Provincial Government, instead
    them entirely.

    of blamis
    opportunities to ob-
    tain liquor are as open in Sum-
    merside as taerterar alin but we
    haven't heard of any over-crowd-
    ing there. The last time Tv I visited
    there, it was just half full, so
    why can’t some of the hg st
    from Queen's serve their
    ere according to fection “10
    The Prisoners Act, Lagi
    can be transferred from
    bens ae to another?
    serious problem
    which shoud be taken into Âąon-
    sideration by all public minded
    citizens of our fair Island, re-
    ffl

    Lam, Sir, ete.
    FRANK MY:

    Crap Ally, B lioy,

    Ottawa Journal

    test ban agreement is, of course,
    the most significant accomplish-
    ment. But some cynics who be-
    littled that achievement said
    there was nothing else on which
    East and West could agree. The
    answer to that has come quick-
    ly: the agreement in principle
    among the U.S., sia

    Pat initaikeen vou clene cee
    off orbiting space vehicles.
    FIRST MAJOR STEP

    By itself that accord may
    not be a major contribution to
    East-West understanding. But
    it is no mere abstraction. It 1s
    the first major step taken to-
    wards bringing the rule of law
    to outer space. Man may yet
    leave his quarrels on earth and
    make of space a zone of peace.

    President Kennedy has propos-
    ed U.S. and Russlan co-opera-
    tion in sending the first mortal
    fo the moon, a scheme appar-
    ently full of technical problems
    but nonetheless hopeful.

    There are other signs of better
    feeling. The atmosphere at UN
    is hopeful. Yesterday Mr.
    nedy announced the sale of US.

    wheat to Russia. The voice of
    America is no longer jammed. |

    That heroie churchman, Arcia-
    bishop Beran, has been rele
    ed in Czechoslovakia after
    years’ detention,

    WELCOME CHANGE

    What we have is a change of|
    stance, at least an emphasis on
    the positive. And who will be
    skeptic enough to say there ts
    not gain in that?

    To be sure, vilatiae
    the Weat's|=cbasie\ chjeslives re
    main, So does Berlin and the
    German question. But now per-
    haps botn sides have finally
    realized their objectives are un-
    attainable with nuclear weavons.

    Lord Home, the British F or
    eign Secretary, is a touth-mind-
    ed man; no naive idealist. Yet
    he stood before the United Na-
    tions the other day and allowed
    himself to hope that we may be
    ‘at the begtinning of the end of
    the cold w:

    With het reason, optimism
    comes hard after these yea
    But we should not become 8
    much the prisoners of the past
    not to recognize the signs of a
    new Spring in the affairs of
    men.

    2

    "Classic In Frustration”

    Los Angeles Times

    The French government has |
    just approved proposals for a|
    vehicular tunnel under the Eng-|
    lish Channel, but the British are |
    balking.

    There must be _ something
    about rapid transit (as Los ‘An: |
    geles has reason to know) that
    brings out the mule in official-|
    dom and delays agreement on|
    expedited travel from hither to|
    thither.

    The English Channel tunnel is|
    a 150-year-old classic in frustra-|
    tion.

    It was first suggested by one |
    of Napoleon’s engineers in 1804, |
    and construction, was actually |
    started in 1882. (A decision on)
    rapid transit proposals in 80)
    years seems just about par,
    judging from local Heer

    After they had dug a mile
    froes Gabi oni) the’ 1082 venture
    was halted by British military
    nen who argued that it would

    facilitate invasion of the tight
    little island.

    Winston Churchill tried to get
    it going again in 1936, but the
    French were cool to the notion
    then.

    ‘The tunnel was revived in No-
    vember, 1961, when it seemed
    sure Britain would join the
    Common Market.

    It would cut freight rates by

    a third, and there were rosy vis-
    ions of brisk and profitable
    | trade,
    De Gaulle, however, vetoed
    Britain's Common Market
    membership.

    So British reaction aga inst
    the tunnel is understandable —
    anything that brings de Gaulle
    that much closer strikes them
    as a dubious bargain these
    days.

    ‘Tunnel prospects are dim.

    Here or there, rapid franiit
    seems to have a hex: on i

    The Moon Declassified

    Christian Science Monitor

    The really significant moves
    by the great powers are often, a
    Dag Hammarskjold once said,
    “wrapped in cotton wool."

    Before President Kennedy sug-
    gested a “joint expedition to the
    moon,” Soviet Foreign Minister
    Gromyko has said his cou!
    was “willing now to take steps
    to prevent the spread of the ar-
    maments race to outer space.”
    This was in his speech to the
    United Nations on the day pre-
    vious. It was in answer to an
    bined Western proposal to this

    ager Kennedy quietly ac-
    the Gromyko hve

    ment in his address. “.,.Encour-
    aged by yesterday's affirmative
    Ponte) to this proposal by the
    F Minister,” he

    eald «..We: must continue to
    seek ment.

    panne table to ‘work
    arrangement

    he end.

    " was ben ago this teed
    ground, that Mr. Kennedy mi
    his dramatic

    be

    ‘This does not mean that the
    military use of Tatehites and
    oes pi tforms car be wr't'

    knows what the Russians might
    attempt in this region of nearhy
    space and there is no way at
    present of inspecting and sefe-
    guarding any agreement. So the
    United States military must, of
    necessity, continue to press re-
    search and development a a
    field, expensive thou;

    ‘This is being done.

    There has been a considerable
    fear and argument that the
    moon race had to be geared int
    this military contest and was be-
    ing so used. Most of the anoma-
    lies in the Apollo program can
    to this half-

    secret

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    3
    =
    2

    ‘The debate Is over. Phi a fur-
    ther cot nein of
    Teleased by oailtary, eat at
    Teast by the ‘Preritent tn rd
    fully considered the milita
    gles. Manned travel into ‘distant
    be tirely in-

    The
    can do what it needs to do in the
    space around the earth.

    HUNT FOR ARSONIST
    Wf -

    ten
    are not far cut fn
    ‘the ‘moon, Ne one

    work Moprorys =! of an
    officials began an tntensive
    manhunt of the city of 10,000
    ‘in western Illinois

    necessary”

    be transmitted from a vaccina-
    ted person to susceptible indivi-
    duals.

    Polio vaccines are paying divi-
    vidends. There were 3,401 cases
    during the first 33 weeks of 1959.
    The number dropped to 481 dur-
    ing the same period in 1961, and
    to 173 in 1963, Vaccine procedu-
    res should be carried on during
    the winter and spring months.
    (November to May).

    KIDNEY IMPAIRMENT

    .W.W. writes: How does pye-
    lonephritis affect the kidneys?
    Y

    REPL!
    Many kidney units are destroy-
    ved by infection and replaced
    With scar tissue. In the majority,
    this condition starts with a uri-
    nary tract infection early in life
    or during pregnancy. I tends to
    core and go, Unless treatment
    is instituted, inflammation ex-
    tencls into the kidney itself.

    ,RADIUM hee CANCER
    L. H. writes:

    NOTES BY

    THE WAY

    It’s easy to spot the husband
    who won't admit he's henpeck-
    ed. He smokes a big cigar while
    he washes the dishes.—Grit.

    Want your wife to
    you attentively and qu ie e a tly?
    Talk in your sleep. — Windsor
    Star.

    Maybe it’s as hard as ±
    say for a bey man to enter the
    kingdom of heaven, but nobody
    says a word about how hard it is
    for the poor man to stay alive.—
    The Dodge County Independent.

    A sign on a northern Wiscon-
    sin road in’ Sawyer county, site
    of the Chippewa Indian reserva-

    tion, reads: ‘‘Squaws on buffal-
    os have right of way.” —The
    Boscobel Dial.

    “What made you marry Daa.
    dy, Mummy?” “So you're be.
    ginning to wonder, too!”—Mon-
    treal Star.
    lege father feels that he isn’t
    losing a son but gaining’ an auto.
    mobile. But when the bills start
    rolling in he finds he can't af-
    ford the gas.—Door County Ad-
    vocate.

    Two youngsters were seated
    on the front steps talking idly.
    “Sure it's a swell day,” said one
    of them, “But winter's coming
    soon.” “How do you know that?
    the other said. “ "Cause I saw
    Mom repens taking out my
    Jong underwear and looking at

    it. cs — Fort William: Times—Jour-
    nal.

    A faint note of anxiety ac-
    companies the passing of the
    Adeneuer era.

    Is it safe to trust the Ger-

    mans? How will they react now
    that Konrad Adenauer is finally
    taking ‘his frm hand off the

    Ce ttaieig ichenddur a se?
    gap chancellor? Will Foreign
    Minister Gerhard Schroeder
    turn out to be the new strong-

    an?

    These are some of th
    tions as Erhard, ‘till on the
    sunny side of 70, takes over. to,
    day from the iron-willed man of
    87 who has ruled the Federal
    Republle for the last 14 years.

    Historically, it is a major
    turning point, It ends a virtu-
    ally unbroken 30-year period of
    strong personal rule, first under
    the fanatical Adolf Hitler and
    then under the benevolent, but
    autocratic, Adenaver.

    Erhard, ruddy-cheeked, eigar-
    smoking economist from Ba-
    varia, tends to be played down
    as a “rubber lion’ who will col-
    lapse under heavy pressure.
    Some observers foresee a strug-
    gle for power within a few
    months.

    OVERLY HESITANT

    After Adenauer, What?

    By Alan Harvey
    Canadian Press Staff Writer

    crats, will topple the Christian
    Democrats in the next election.
    Apart from personalities, the
    transfer of power may result in
    fresh questioning about German
    intention:
    ice the Second World War,
    an_ unidentified German poli
    tician has been quoted as say-
    ing, the German people have
    come to realize “they are not
    generally loved and do not even
    Tove themselves.”

    SHOW HOSTILITY
    Some British newspapers,
    headed by The Daily Express,
    have repeatedly, shown hostility.
    is paper has long sought
    to expose, the duplicity of the
    Germens,” The Express sai
    recently. “They cannot be
    trusted

    A much more favorable re-
    port on Germany comes from
    Terence Prittle of the Man-
    chester Guardian, Transferred
    to London after 16 years as a
    correspondent in West Ger-
    many, Prittie seys the old “ine
    ward looking, isolated” Ger-
    many has been replaced by a
    natn that wants to belong to
    the Western community in the
    fullest sei

    Tt may be thet the new chan
    cellor is He
    shown himself patient, Bene
    hesitant, in withstanding a se-
    ries of snubs from Adenauer,
    who would have preferred al-
    most anyone else to succeed
    im.

    But Erhard is the architect
    of the post-war economic mir-
    acle, the free trader who Bt
    a schnitzel in every German fry-
    ing pan, and his Depa wih
    the ordinary voter

    Hime eiolenatien ehitatel that

    A ooh magazine — The
    Spectati a anti-

    German sentiment, that ‘cen-
    sorious chorus in’ which die-
    hards of the left vie with the
    Inow-nothings of the right.”
    nglo - German differences,
    cae eeatia says, are &
    “residue of antagonism and in
    comprehension left by history
    And The Evening News, in an
    article by Charles Curran, says
    hose who repeatedly sal (a
    picion of Germ:
    fogo “on killing’ Hitler” mtd

    Willy Brandt's Social Demo-

    their mouths.”

    is dangerous to te exposed to ra-
    dium. If so, why is cancer treat-
    ed with this substance?

    Because it kills cancer cells.

    This disease is far more danger-
    our than being exposed to ra-
    dium. Rhe rays are directed to-

    ard the malignancy and the
    rest of the body is protected.
    Today’s Health

    Do you \tnqw how to call the
    police and fire departments if

    Our Yesterda

    (From they Guardian Files)

    TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
    October 16, 1938
    London, Oct. 13 (CP-Havas)—
    A Canadian industrial aviation
    commission arrived in England
    today to start .a series of im-
    portant cousrearsy with air sec-
    retary Sir Kingshey Wood on es-
    tablishment ere : Reis aviat-
    fon company in the Dominion,

    Kingston, Ont. eal poll vite
    Lieut-Col. F. of
    Charlottetown Ca aes sec-
    ond vice-president f the Cana-
    ian Signal viagra at hes

    annual meeting here Saturdé
    Major J, L. ‘willis ot Tana
    was elected president.

    TEN YEARS AGO
    October 16, 1953
    Rev. A. Frank MacLean of
    Trinity United Church beh be

    South Africa’s “Big Hole,”
    one of the largest and most
    lucrative diamond mines in
    history, is going to get bigger.

    Soon digging will resume for
    the first time in years in the
    famed Kimberley Mine, wyhoret
    glittering harvest made
    name Cecil Rhodes a iene
    word in the 19th century. It is
    the practice of major compan-
    jes to alternate production
    among reserve mines,

    The announcement of Kim-
    berley’s revival in December
    by De Beers Consolidated Min-
    es should brighten many a gran-
    de dame’s eyes with beaded
    tears of nostalgia: Between 1871
    en 1914, when the pit was clos-

    for economic reasons and
    Sitneultien caused by water
    seepage, its bluish-green stone
    yielded 14,504,375 carats of a
    girl's best friend.

    In the world of well-heeled
    romance, the gift of a Kimber-
    ley diamond sealed countless
    tender troths — and perha)
    few neither pure nor Taig ee

    icit.

    SIAMOND CAPITAL

    The Big Hole is only one of
    five yawning cavities at the
    city of Kimberley, birthplace of
    the diamond industry, The neat,
    modern city of Sete hate
    stands on open vi
    southwest of ornate i

    Famed Diamond Mine
    National Geographie Society

    Mine is ‘“‘the erase man-made
    hole in the world.

    ‘The crater could easily swal-
    low the Empire State Building,
    Its mouth covers 38 acres
    about the same area as the
    city's blossom-clouded munict-
    pal park. The mine reaches 3.
    601 feet down into stone.

    It was in 1871 when prospect-
    ors began finding diamonds in
    ground quite different from
    their bailiwiick— the gravel
    beds of rivers. This was yel-
    lowish, crumbly earth; beneath
    it lay a strange, heavy bluish-
    green volcanic ‘stone apparent-
    ly forced from extreme depths
    eons ago through fissures
    shaped like iar Such tubes
    lay beneath the farm of two
    De Beer brothers.

    When the word got noised
    around, ships lost crews, shops
    lost clerks, women lost hus
    bands and the church
    may have lost a curate or two.
    ‘The rush came in a torrent of
    men on horseback, wagon,
    cart, and 3
    MADE GETAWAY

    Tents, shacks, and highly
    prized iron how
    overnight in a ‘inter Prailed
    Kimberley after the then Bri-
    tish Colonial Secretary. The
    privacy- loving De Beers sold
    He ge for 6,000 pounds

    ded into oblivion,
    bat ied name was given to

    speaker at the the heart of the Republic of
    a the new Sydney fiver South Africa. great combine formed by
    Church, — recently . | _ Kimberley, a sizable city by ie brilliant young men—Cecil
    ‘This is unique, in that | South African standards, has » yale) and Barney Barnato..
    it has been built amd’ will be | romantic civic peculiarity: It} As in boom towns verywhere
    by denom(na- | Iaunders its dirt. "never a| life in Kimberley was dust,
    tions, Baptist, Presbyterian, | homeowner digs a new base-) mud, skullduggery, hunger,
    Anglican and United Church. ment, sinks post holes, or exca-| heartbreak, and, for a few, for
    vates for any other reason, he| tune. Water was so. precious
    Two Istand students were | has the debris bier washed | that people with means bathed
    al out to see dia- i ae ee Vat ie
    Convoca’ McGill Uni- | monds. jut Kim! prol ne
    ggg ay a gid ‘There is a wider open dia-| er had the hell- for- leather zest
    Dorothy Cox, of Charlotte- |, mond mine— the Premier near America’s fabled, _saloon-
    town, Bachelor of Nursing, and | Pretoria. But none is more fa-| studded mining towns. For one
    Lloyd Beck MacLeod of Grand-| xnous than the Kimberley.| thing, salaried laborers were
    view, Master of Science in| Nourists happily accept the uor and playing
    Agronomy. city’s claim that Kimberley

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