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PAGE 6 1963.
Some Fe daeee houahts

Prime Minister Pearson has

acceptance of

atressed that Canada’
nuclear warheads will not inhibit
Canadian efforts for international
as the weapons will

disarmament,
control.

vemain in United
What is hard to understand, how-
ever, is why the pact’s details in re-
Jation to Canada’s role cannot be
made public.

As the Ottawa
out, this nuclear weapons issue has
been at the heart of domestic polit-
fecal conflict in Canada for several
years. It is absurd to pretend that
with the announcement of this de-
cision the matter will now be accept
ed as finished business

Very real and legitimate curios-
ity attends the nice legal and tact-
feal point of how we may have the
weapons and yet not have them. A
more forthright announcement on
this part of the arrangement would
hardly enhance Russia’s knowledge
ef this continent’s war posture.

Another thing that puzzles us is
the unqualified satisfaction Mr.
Pearson has expressed about this
agreement. We were under the im-
pression, during the election cam-
paign, that he disapproved of it—
that it was merely to honor a Con-
servative commitment that he pledg-
ed his party to signing it, and that
after it was signed he hoped to re-
open the subject at Washington and
negotiate a new and different agree-
ment. He seems now to be content
with finding a nuclear role
for our armed forces, and letting the
future take care of itself.

Once brought into Canada, will
these warheads stay here as a monu-
ment to his regime, or will the real
achievement of Mr.
ernment consist in taking them out
under another agreement mutually
satisfying to both countries? That
was what we thought he was aim-
ing ai, but he hasn’t said a word
about this since the votes were in.

Perhaps we've been reading the
wrong texts of Mr. Pearson’s cam-
paign pledges. He revised them more
than once, and it may be that we
missed the final version. Perhaps
when Parliament resumes he will
go over this whole nuclear weapons
matter again, slowly and carefully,
so that even the most backward of
© us can get an understanding of what
‘is policy really is.

Friendly Visitations

The current issue of Soviet Un-

fon Today, published by the USSR
Embassy at Ottawa, devotes a fea-
ture article to the friendly coopera-
tion between Soviet and Canadian
scientists and engineers, effected in
_ the form of exchange of delegations
of experts, of scientific discussions
and contacts over the past few
» years. It is a story well worth tell-
“ing, for it fs another indication that
the Russians are coming out of their
hibernation and becoming more and
* more interested in what is going on
4n the world at large.

Beginning from 1958, says the
‘Soviet publication, the exchange of
techni¢al delegations between the
“Soviet Union and Canada has be-
-eome “a good tradition Canadian

and busi
“men are now frequent guests of Sov-
industrial enterprise and research
es, and during the same five
period 105 Soviet industry of-
and technical experts repre-
various research institutes
trial enterprises came to

ates

Journal points

has been paid by there

visitors, says the article, to the hos-
pitality of their Canadian hosts, and
the prospects for further coopera-
tion along this line are “steadily im-
proving.” This year the two coun-
tries will exchange delegations of
railway transport, chemical, build-
ing and agricultural experts.

It is noted that the Soviet Union
has signed agreements on scientific
and technical contacts with Britain,
the United States, Federal Germany,
France, Italy and Finland, and hope
is expressed that Soviet-Canadian
cooperation will also develop in this
way.

Premier Khrushchev
that “the essence of the policy
of peaceful coexistence lies in that
countries with different social sys-
tems seek and find such ways of co-
operation which will bring benefit to
them.” There is no reason to dis-
pute the merit of this statement
simply because we are at variance
with other views he may held.

has said

A Long, Long Time
ia old

is farming? Scholars
s from four countries
have organized a year-long interna-
tional expedition to find an answer
to this intriguing question. They will
work in Southeastern Turkey, the
headquarters region of the Tigris
and Euphrates rivers where, ac-
cording to tradition, man first sow-
ed and reaped. It will be a journey
into the prehistoric past.

Two years of negotiation with
the Turkish government preceded
the permission to work in an area
never before systematically explored
for traces of food-producing evolu-
tion. Heading the expedition is a
noted anthropologist, Dr. Ribert J.
Braidwood, of the University of
Chicago Oriental Institute, who dis-
covered in 1948 what is believed to
be the first known village—Jarmo—
on the border of what is now Tran
and Iraq, 250 miles southeast of the
site of the new venture,

Scientists in the party will also
study plant and animal remains and
their modern counterparts, and will
try to reconstruct climate through
pollen analysis and biological study
of fresh water. It is expected that
the analysis of food and human re-
mains and the outline of ancient
settlements wiit throw light on dis-
eases that existed in that dim per-
jod when farming first began.

How long ago was that? Well,
Jarmo—above mentioned—goes back
to 6800 B.C., and there was found
evidence of animal domestication
and crop cultivation in that ancient
village. Now the hope is that the
evidence of the dawn of agriculture
can be dated as long as 12,000
years ago.

One Born Every Minute

The Time of London reports that
another American has just bought
the Colosseum in Rome, or at least
taken a lien on it. This statement
require some explanation. Bu
anyone acquainted with the stories
about suckers buying the Brooklyn
bridge from smart confidence men
will get the drift of what the item
is about.

According to The Times, the
Italians told this American visitor
that the Colosseum was a fine place
for business. Tourists visit it con-
stantly and he could put a restaurant.
on the top floor with a view of the
ancient Roman Forum. The sucker
put up $330 as a deposit and was
to meet the Italians at a hotel to
close the dead. But they didn’t show
up.

No one is sure how many times
the Colosseum has been “sold” over
the years. But it is a matter of re-
cord that a sergeant in the U.S. 5th
army bought it back in 1944. He fell
for a fast talking Italian’s story
that while it was a pretty badly
damaged building, it was on a fino
location and would prove valuable
when Rome got back to normal af-
ter the war.

As the old Romans used to saj
“Caveat emptor!”

EDITORIAL NOTES

Some shocking facts on. farm ac-
cidents are reported in an illustrat~
ed booklet, “Safety on the Farm,”
which has just been published by
the Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce. The booklet illustrates
the “when, where and how” of farm
accidents and is a real contribution
to a subject which has been treated
many times before, but never too
frequently considering the manner
in which farm accidents repeat
themselves, *

may

ANOTHER FORM OF LAMPHREY

OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

Canada’s_prospe
trade 1 jeopardized by
petiy bickerlag’and by lack “ot!
collaboration between our var-
fous levels of excessive govern- |
ment.

Ottawa is enjoying a record |
| tourist year, with the capital's
| 3,500 hotel, motel and tou rist |

home beds filled near capacity
each night, while 10,000 tourists
the city daily,
$1,000,000

jouring well
through the cash registers every |
week.

‘The twin favourite attractions
here are of course the cotourful |

ceremony of “changing the |
guard” on the astonishingly ver-
dant parade ground that 1s the
lawn in front of the Parliament |
Building, and the interesting |
guided tour of this building
Many of the visitors are from |
U.S.A., and the majority of |
these ‘are following Canada’:
most-beaten tourist trail, circ |
ing through ‘Toronto and
Kingston’s Fort Henry and —o1
Cornwall's Upper Canada Vil-

Highway Standards Badly Neglected

ng tourist | ly through Montreal often with |
Quebec | narrov
City. They come in heavily iad- | which bottle-necks over two nar-

an extension through
en station wagons, in packed |
little European cars, and predo-
minantly in North American se-

dans. Many come in chartered | The luckless tourist has probab- |
buses, many bring their own| ly

motels in the form of trailer
caravans running up to gargan-
tuan lengths and breadths.
ROM POTHOLE TO BEND
On at least one of their jour-
neys, these welcome dollar -

| spending tourists drive along |

some crude early Canadian cart |
track which is a disgrace to us
and a danger to them.

If they come from the south,
along the 60-mile route from the
nearest border-crossing point at
Prescott direct to Canada’s cap-
ital, they wind along a road de-
signed for horses travetling at

faced ‘Then suddenly the route |
s into a 2 rack|

row bridges. Traffic crawls for |
eight miles, until part of it forks
south for Cornwal and Toronto,

20 minutes to inch
along the quarter-mile approach
to the first bridge, and another
20 minutes to reach the Toronto
junction. |
The Ottawa road then climbs |
and twists between potholes, |
over hills and through two strag-
gling communities. The long,
trailers and the heavy commer- |
cial juggernauts must swing |
over the double line on the sharp
turns, menacing oncoming. traf-
fic and holding up that behind.
“Why can’t Canadians earn |
that we nolonger use dog
teams?” asked Gary Carter, of |

eight miles per hour, and leave | St. Louis, Mo, after nursing his |

part of their car's
in each craterdike pothole.

If they come from Montreal, |

they drive for 20 miles along
4lane divided highway which is

he following the historical habit
of embracing folly q

turn, to the point of antagoni:
ing former sympathizers and al
lies at a time when the China
mainland is in greatest need of

At the current rate of prog-
ress in technology and educa-
tion as assessed by Western vis-
itors, China cannot hope to be-
come an advanced industrialized
power for decades to come.

This Communist regime,
which favors the use of violence
+ to spread communism through- |
out the world, is chronically |
short of food and there are re- |
curring reports of armed might
being used to crush peasant up- |

zure of farm production.
Yet amid internal suffering |
and slow progress, China per-
in pursuing an ideological
battle with the Soviet Union that
it cannot hope to win.
NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS
I would be a different mat-
ter if China had a huge array

to its views. But so far as can
be determined in the West,
China has none. It would be dif-
ferent if China had amassed
great industrial strength to im-
press other Communis Ie
lites, Even in this ‘el, China
4s leagues behind Rusala.

time India. befriended
the Man Teekay regime and
though India did not have much
to offer in, material things, this

alae against government =

of nuclear weapons to lend force |

lage, then to Ottawa, and final-! well-designed and smooth-sur- |
. ii li
China’s Bankrupt Policy
By Harold Morrison
Canadian Press Staff Writer
Communist China appears to} friendship could have helped

springiness | sedan

| disciplined

along that inadequate |

trail. |

BEWARE P.Q. DRIVERS!
An ional hazard along
that road is the selfish and un-
driver. Ot- |
tawans say: “If you see a Que- |
bee licence, take evasive action; |
but duck for cover if you see a |
plastic religious figure behind
the, windshield!” (This _general-
indicates a French- Canadian |

China obtain greater material | we vividly remember that, after

support from other quarters. In-
stead, China antagonized India

through border skirmishes that | bec driver, his ticence was sus-

gave the Chinese practically |
nothing in food or wealth. Now
the Chinese face an armed foe
on the Indian border.

‘The Soviet Union at one time
gave the Chinese great help in
the form of goods, machinery
and possibly nuclear technol-
ogy, but gradually this help was
|-withdrawn, apparently after it |
became evident that Mao had no |
intention of accepting Khrush
chev's coexistence plan with the

st.

IN ISOLATION
re and more China finds tt |

self in isolation in relations with | efficiently over-

other countries. And yet Peking
persists in tis cleavage wit
Moscow. Khrushchev's current |
visit to Yugoslavia. Is likely to
let loose another Chinese volley
that the Soviet leader is con-
sorting with imperialist agents.
‘The end of this may be to
drive Khrushchev into closer re-
tations with the West. At the
least, the battle provides China
with noting in the form of ma-
terial pi

At tha cell, ie thay ones
China's policy is spiritually
bankrupt and the result of this

bankruptcy may be es ge ag

3
=

gression in
Asian continent that could tae
danger and hardship for the
world but finally may lead to

the demise of Mao's regime.

passion of the Arab masses, but
the movement toward that goal
has now struck a snag that has
led to savage infighting among
the Arabs themselves. A new
strong man has taken over in
Syria, and revolutionary courts
and firing squads are working
overtime there and in Iraq.
tri gt this turmoil are many
violen| -currents. But the
Brinelal factor is President
effort not only to build
te Arab empire stretching from
the Atlantic to the ian Gulf
but also to rule it on the basis of
his own authoritarian brand of
“Arab socialism.”
hn bro! is bared he pr
ises rgd rab. with =:

mi
fo iberate' palestine and de-
ey Israel.
But his plans meet potent op-
ition. The Arab states are
pa AR to join an Arab federa-

= ‘on the pens tinn Ae Oe and
- gov
willing to

New York Ti
‘The unification of the Arab
“nation” is still the dominant

The Arab Cockpit

es to Nasser or accept his uni-
tary governmental system.

The Baath regimes in Syria
and Iraq, which agreed to a fed-
eration in April, reject Egyptian
domination and are liquidating
all Nasserite elements trying to
impose it by force. The Kings of
Sea and Saudi Arabia still

him; Yemen is in the thro-
@ ‘of continued civil war despite
armed Egyptian intervention
and American and United Na-
tions — ee efforts, and
North Af 's most vocal advo-
cate of wa bayer Premier
Ben Bella, pays only lip service
to it. Meanwhile, Russia seeks to
Hapnd its leverage by backing
the iraq.

cava and they are wild). Here | |

an Ottawa driver was the third |
fatal victim of a 24 year old Que- |

pended for
Quebec court.
ie guess those fur traders
layed it safer by using canoes,’
Fran Lorraine, of Virginia, told |
me iat the death ride fr 0m |
Montre:
And aie is Canada's much-

eainted Trans Canada High
yt

only 5 years by a

not course it is suddenly mach
improved when it crosses the
frontier into Ontario. But the

roads become shameful inside
the Ottawa city limits.

Canada is expensively and in-
governed, with
responsibilities jealously farm-
ed out between federal, provin-
| cial and municipal governments,

That the three levels cannot even

| matter as the nation’s pride, the

| Trans Canada Highway, is a
scandal and an eloquent bad
omen for other fields. Traffic
deaths are up 15 per cent this
year, Tourism could fall even
more sharpl

Our Yesterdays
(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO
August 23, 1938)

EDMONTON, Aug. 18 (CP)—
Work started in Edmonton today
on the first Mohammedan mos-
que ever built in Canada, Th
¢ about M
(Moslems) in
350 in Albert

ar ns
ada, including
and 150 in Edmon-
ton alone, members here said.

Professor Harry Gomez and

family who have been residents
Chi for

time, are leaving the city next

| week to reside in Vancouver,

TEN YEARS AGO
(August 23, 1953)

Residents and visitors alike

of the Provincial Building have

8 profusion of beautiful. blooms
Geslgned to show ‘what an art
gardening may be.

Miss Margaret Patricia Mac-
Kinnon, Portage, formerly ag-
sistant matron at Falconwood
Hospital, has resigned her post

to re-enter
‘as a lieutenant in the medical
Lieut, MacKinnon served

| among victims

Chance Plays
A Vital Role

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen |
Chance plays a role in surviv-
al. Dr. Eugene A. Hildreth tells
of a 4-year-old boy who wa
Dlaying in the var when a dog
Walked by. He called to the ani-
pe Aitoeai icity
the child became frightened and
began to run, The dog knocked
him down and bit him on the

An 11-year-old boy saw the in-
cident and identified the dog as
belonging to a neighbor. This
‘animal was put under quaran-
tine. Meanwhile, the physician
cleaned the child's wound and
suggested that the vaccine be
withheld pending — determina-
tion of the Gog's condition. ‘The
animal remained healthy and
the mishap was otten. But
one month later the bitten child |
developed rabies and was dead |
within a week.

does this have to do
with chance? The parents
learned after the boy's death
that a stray dog of the, same |
breed as the neighbor's, but of
diferent color than the accused
nimal, was reported to have
hed rabies, It had been picked
up by police and destroyed on
the recommendation of a vet- |
erinarian.

This tragic story demon-
strates that assumptions and
Ruesses can be dangerous. As a
rule the ci of the

NOTES BY THE WAY

The amateur horseman {s apt |
| to wonder how anything so full |
of hay could be as hard a
horse.— Toronto Star.

According
| le source in Salisbury
Rhodesia, the following
| sement appeared under
| “Club Notices” in the advertis
Magistrate — “You've com: | ing columns of Central Afsicy
mitted six burglaries in a week. | biggest dally ‘news Paper.
Prisoner— ‘That's right. If | Rhodesia Herald
everyone worked as I | club. Jumping at 7.30 a
do we'd be on the road to pros- | morrow. Training later”
"Galt Reporter. | Hamilton Spectator.

Impeachah.
Southern
advert.

peril

Even the most useless husband |
can be helpful to a wife who has |
le with her zippers.—Sar- |

nia Observer.

believe they add

tion of city-bred tourists by hav.
ing a few cows, horses, pigs and

sheep in the village pastures

But they haven't yet thought of

a tactful explanation for the fa.

ther who was overheard describ.
ing the village oxen to his chil.

ven ae te cross between ¢

and a cow.” —
Journal, en

Upper Canada Vilage Officials
to th

Then if love really were blind
there would be no business for
the beauty parlors. a iralloras|
Beacon-Herald.

Gad, Sir! The British men of |
affairs are really going to pot. |
Now a Member of Parliament |

has asked the Minister of Public
Works to install a swim ming |
the
House of Commons. Just like at
.S. House of
Representatives Detroit Free

pool in the basement of

Cliveden and the U.

Press.

Scientists at Ontario's Agricul-
tural College, striving for an ai
swer to the problems of the man
who hates to mow the lawn,
have come a cropper—they seem
to think, They have succeeded

bitting incident are an im
ant factor in determining wheth- |
ie vaccine is needed. A dog
natieteataneriel aieered ice
provoked usually is healthy. In
addition, animals raised in pro-
tected environment, such as in
a city home, are not likely to be
exposed to rabies. On the other
hand, the tyke who was bitten
on the face and the skin
broken had the worst combine- |
tion of all. In some instances,
the antiserum and vaccine are
helpless to prevent rabies un-
Tess ven within 72 hi
Tn 1953 a rabid wolf

ran

lene in Iran and 32 people

were bitten. None was treated
adequately and 15 died. The
mortality per cent |
nipped on the |

per

head and neck but only 10

| cent of those with bites on the

curred in Iran; 29 were bitten— |
18 on the hand and neck. This
time the victims were treated
with the vaccine, _antirabies |
serum, or both. Four developed
pats only one of whom had
rec both treatments. This |
combination of treatments fs re- |
garded as the most effective
preventive but it must be given
ae

rly.

NIGHT | SHAMPOOING

TAVG 13- year- old
daighler, washes ‘ner hale
night and goes to bed while it is |
still wet. 1 tell her she will get |
sinus trouble. Did im
right or wrong?

REPLY

Wrong. Wet hair will do more |
harm to the pillow than to your |
daughter. I assume the room is
not too cold and she does not
sleep in a draft.

RETAINS FIGURE

Mrs, E. K. writes: I'm 65
years old and have weighed
110 pounds most of my adult |
life. Is it unusual to remain the |
same weight for so long? |

REPLY

Yes. I know several _ people
who share your experience. |
RESENTMENT AND JOINTS |
. C, writes: Can strong feel- |
ings of resentment cause arth- |
ritis? |
REPLY
‘The cause of arthritis is not
known but some individuals de- |
velop pain in the joints when
emotionally aisturbed:

STILL USED
writes: Is ether obsolete
as an anesthetic?

REPLY

i
No, It is still used, especially |
when full relaxation is needed. |
‘ODAY'S HEALTH HINT— |
Select a camp that is suitable |
for your child’s age group.

| constituency has
clined.

' of its body,

a bane in gardens, they

in growing a jawn that needs no

to new draw
ing chemicals, But the era
turns purple. —— Winds

The British Medical
has a report from a Surrey
tor who had a four-year-old ‘boy
brought in by his mother who
suspected he had eaten moth.
balls. The doctor washed out the
lad’s stomach and found the re-
mains of several mothballs plus
‘ather damp, but onetles
intact, moth.” Asked what h
happened, the boy captained, 5
had aceldentaliy swallowed
moth and therefore swallowed a
mothball to catch it. Children
are 0 logical that they give thelr
parents butterflies in the stom-
ach, if not moths.— Ottawa Jour.

Journal
oe

Electoral Reform

Winnipeg Free Press

An important item to which |

the Liberal government in Ot-
tawa is addressing itself is the
matter of electoral reform,
is reported that it plans to deal
with the issue (a) by establish.
| ing an independent redistribu-
| tion commission to deal with
the problem of constituency
boundaries, (b) by establishing
a permanent voters’ list, and
(c) by reducing the voting age
to 18 years,

On ‘the first two proposals it
should be eble 0 command, a
good deal of support. The dis-
Sea citeritenaiieler arate
tricts has been unfair since, the
1930s, even although the last re-
distribution took place ay a
little over a decade

‘The fact Is that the vast move- |

cognized electorally in Canada,
and the value of a city vote in
relation to a vote in a rural

| ment of people from rural to |
urban

areas has never been re- |

seriously de- |

we | independent

a 82

It this matter {s to be set
sht, the best and most obvious
way of doing it is through an
commission. Such
a commission, indeed, has been
long overdue.

Equally overdue 1s the move
to establish a permanent voters’
list. Over the past’ six years
there have been no less than
ee general elections in Can-

Without a pecmanent voters
ist, every voter has had to be
enumerated for each election. A
permanent staff to keep a con
tinuous count could not possibly
involve much more expense and
would be much more likely to
be accurate and fair to the vot-

‘Only on the proposal to lower
| the voting age are the Liberals
‘on controversial ground. It might
be well to keep this as a sep-
arate matter, in the interests

| of the more pressing reforms in

the electoral process which are
more likely to get general sup-
Po!

The Harvest Fly

Montreal Gazette

‘The summer Is now at its full- »

ness. One of the surest signs is
not to be found on the calendar.
It is to be heard in the sound of
the cicada, that large noisy in-
sect, sometimes known as the
“harvest fly.”

In these dog days of midsum-
mer it can be heard making its
strange, loud, rattling notes on
the three drumlike membranes
Which are attached to the sides
js not a musical
sound by i standard, but
heard in a midsummer warmth,
in a dreamy, lazy afternoon, it

seems to speak of the pedis

of this phase of summ«

Midsummer has its other
signs. The midsummer weeds
are now full-rising to their tall
growth, And though they may be
have
their own loveliness in the fields
and hillsides, or among the
rocks, or in swampy places. The
milkweed flower is now to be
seen, and the wild chickery with
its blue flower, and the golden
rod. And the bullrushes are ris-
ing in thick clusters.

|s

And on dark midsummer
nights the fireflies sometimes
burst like sparks from a fire-
place grate. These tiny flashes
in the dark, now here, now there,
are part of the warm night air,
and the high dew-damp ened

ras.

The earth is tilting on its axis
All the freshness and promise ol
pring are far behind. Soon the
early signs of autumn will besia
to appear, the first leaves scat-
tered on the lawns, a little red-

i
But in this middle time, de
spite the weary heat, there is

an ease and calm, an opulence
of growth, that makes a glory
while it lasts. And it should be
all the more revealed in, day by
day, for it will not last long

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Forget about gas and brake pedals . . . forget about direction signs and road warnings:
Relax completely in an air-conditioned train with a skilled driver and an experienced

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