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PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20. 1963.
Living In Fear

In his forceful address before

the Charlottetown Rotary Club,

Rt. Rev. Dr. Mutchmor, Moderator
of the United Church of Canada, re-
minded us of what living in the
Thermonuciear Era means. This era,
he said, “marks for the first time
man’s achievement of the power of
complete destruction of himself and
his world. It is this terrible fact
which underlines the truth that
man today and tomorrow must ‘live
in fear of a handful of dust’.”

By coincidence, on the very same
day, U.S. Defense Secretary Me.
mara announced that the United
States has 400,000,000 tons of nu-
clear force in Europe, ready to be
used in whatever quantity needed
And the U.S. has in stockpile or
planned for stock “tens of thousands
of nuclear explosives” for tactical
use on the battlefield, in anti-sub-
marine warfare and agaii air-
craft

The timing and tenor of those
statements, says an Associated Press
report, indicated that they were in
response to recent truculent talk by
Soviet Premier Khrushchev.

So, despite a general easing of
world tensions following the partial
test ban agreement, it is evident
that we must go on living in fear
of what our scientific age has
achieved in nuclear destructiveness.
It is a monster that we can keep
in check only by sleepless vigilance.
Nor does truculent talk on either side
warrant a forgetfulness of that fact,

if only for a moment.

Surely it must be evident, both
at Moscow and Washington, that
national survival in an age when

each nation can destroy the other
with nuclear weapons many times
over, doesn't depend on building
more nuclear weapons. Wouldn’t
that have been the proper answer
to Soviet rantings at this time, if
indeed they required an answer?

Back To The Stone Age

How prehistoric man succeeded
in ting on this inhospitable
planet until his better equipped
successors came along has always
puzzled. us. Some explanation of the
been supplied by a
tory students from
Moscow and Leningrad who estab-
lished, last summer, a camp in one
of the most inaccessible regions of
Central Siberia. There they lived
as “Stone Age men”, using only
stone implements, lighting fires by
friction and hunting animals with
only the crudest of weapons.

An archaeologist who led the ex-
pedition showed the students work-
ing methods which are believed to
have been used by early man. When
they had mastered these ancient
techniques, the jobs they did were
timed, and the experimenters were
surprised to find that they did not
take as long as they had expected.

It took three hours to light a
fire by rubbing two sticks together,
nine days to make a flint knife, and
eleven to manufacture a stone axe
with a primitive handle. Only half
an hour was needed, however, to fell
a large pine tree, but the work had
to be done by frequent, not very
heavy blows, since it was found that
the flint axe splintered when swung
at arm’s length.

It took ten men no more than
four days to clear a forest area for
primitive farming. They dragged
away the felled trees with stone
hooks, burned the undergrowth and

hed over the fresh ash with a

wood scarifier. Three days were

exi:

required to make a covered dugout
| dwelling such as people used in the

Neolithic era (8,000-4,000 B.C.) A
raft was built in a day and a dug-
| out canoe in a week,

The experiments showed that in
the earliest times man was not help-
less in face of nature and that he
was capable of doing a great deal
with his stone implements. Indeed,
when we think of the misuse to
which many of our modern inven-
tions are put, in preparing for the
kind of warfare that would leave the
survivors in a more hazardous pos-
ition than even their most primitive
progenitors, we can only wonder
whether the evolutionary process
has carried us forward or back.

Dangerous Presticides

One piece of legislation which is
likely to pass unopposed when the
Legislature meets in February is the
bill Agriculture Minister MacRae
plans to introduce, banning the use
of all potato top killers containing
sodium arsenite. Mr. MacRae’s rev-
elation that at least 75 cattle are
known to have died in the province
this year as a result of eating forage
or swallowing water contaminated
with this poison is surely enough to
warrant legislative action. Countless
game birds and other wildlife have
died from this cause as well.

As Mr. MacRae points out, other
top-killing chemicals are available
to our farmers, at a slightly higher
cost, which do not have this harm-
ful effect. To say the least, it would
be false economy to continue using
a pesticide that is so destructive to
farm life.

A somewhat similar problem, we
note, has been encountered in Man-
itoba, where the insecticides aldrin
and dieldrin have been banned from
farm use. The government of that
province, after an attempt to elimin-
ate chemical residues from dairy
products by regulating the use of
these chemicals, has decided that
the only way is to prohibit them.
The order does not apply to their use
on home gardens, or on horticultural
crops.

In commenting on this move, The
Country Guide says the action spot-
lights the problem that some chemi-
cals pose for the country’s agricul-
ture. It underlines, ton, the fact that
the only alternative to their careful
use may be to have them with-
drawn. This should work no hard-
ship on farmers, although it might
create problems for the chemical
companies, and for extension people,
since it means that regulations
might differ as between one prov-
|
|

ince and another.

In the Manitoba case, other
chemicals are available to do the job
that has been done by aldrin and

| dieldrin, and confidence is express-
ed that they will prove just as ef-
fective.

| EDITORIAL NOTES

West Germany is still going
ahead with its prosecution of war
| criminals. This week, two former
| Nazi SS officers were sentenced af-
ter an 11-week trial on war crimes
| charges in connection with mass
| murders at an extermination camp
near Lodz, in Poland. One was given
hard labor for life, the other thir-
teen years.
‘

eee

Oyster fishermen of Chesapeake
bay are asking the Maryland legis-
lature to please increase their taxes
Really, that’s what it says in the
| Baltimore papers. The state has
| spent a great deal of money over
the years to protect and regulate
and develop the oyster beds, but has
not been taxing the haul. When the
sea food committee of the legislature
suggested an oyster levy of 10 cents
a bushel, the oystermen eagerly
agreed in appreciation for state ef-
forts to increase production. A lot
of legislators, suggests an exchange,
could use some taxpayers like that.

* *

“In the old days,” says the Phil-
adelphia Bulletin, “if there was a
famine in Russia, a committee of
Philadelphians would collect donat-
ions of food, charter a couple of
ships and give their help personally,
on the spot, amid the loud cheers of
all Russians, from the Czar down.
Nowadays, we are careful to make
a big thing out of selling wheat for
hard cash, and no American commit-
tee would be allowed to get within
500 miles of a hungry moujik. It is
this sort of thing that makes it hard
for old-timers to listen with patience
to lectures on the inspiring growth
of internationalism.”

SIR

ALEC CANUTE

OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

Liberal Back-Benchers More Active

“Whatever's happening to the
Liberal Party?"

This was the question posed
by the Liberal national organiz-
er, Keith Davey, when he ad- |
dressed the unusual and decis-|
ive caucus of the party, held
during the week-end immediate-
4y preceding the opening of Par-

Vanier, due to retire within two

Now they are considering aj mentary secretaries to Minist-
successor to Governor General] ers. John Munro (Hamilton),
Dave Hahn, Donald Macdonaid,

years. The name of the famous} both of Toronto, Dr. Harry Har-
Montrealer, Dr. Wilder Penfie‘d,| ley (Halton), Pauline J e wett|
is being mentioned. | ( and Larry}

This ginger group consists lar-| Pennell (Brant), John Turner |

and Maurice Sauve are the best
known.

gely of Ontario MPs and signi
cantly contains several parli

liament after the summer re-

cess.

What is happening, in fact, 1s
that a ginger-group of back -
benchers, who were swept into
Parliament in the tidal wave
that submerged the Diefenbaker
government, are refusing to be
seen but not heard. They are
young, they are new to Parlia-
ment, but they remember vivid- |
ly the situation which led. to |
their predecessors in the Liber-|
al governments of Mackenzie |
King and St, Laurent being de-
rided as “performing seals.”
And they are determined

“Theirs reason
, theirs but to do and die.

In other words, they do not ac-
cept the heresy introduced by

some recent prime ministers,
that power lies in the Cabinet |
by divine right, that members

of the governing party outside
the Cabinet must vote blindly to
support poticies in whose shap-
ing they may have no voice.
OLD GUARD SHUNNED

From many sides one hears
well-founded criticism that the|
private member of Parliament |
has wrongly been stripped of his
—or her— individuality. Only
government proposals are ac-
cepted; the voice of the back-
bencher, no matter how sensible,
is “talked out.” The wrongness
of this undemocratic develop-
ment in parliament is vividly ile
lustrated by two examples.

In the British parliament,
was an independent M.P.,
lermined, wise and eloquent,
who finally got his private bill
passed to reform the faulty an-
achronistic divorce laws of that
country. I refer to the man bet-
ter known as a humourist, A.P.
Herbert. In our parliament, pri-
vate members have for years
been advancing private bills in-
tended to break the racket of
money- lending.

it

These were always shunned
by the government. But now, |
fong overdue, this important

matter has been sponsored by
the government. It would have
been wise and graceful for some
earlier government to support
one of the many initiatives by
private members.

The “new Liberals” are deter-
mined that their own i abit
ies shall not be side
that their own ‘litte renteets
shak not be dependent solely
upon the secret conclaves of a
group of cabinet ministers for

whom collectively they do not
hold unqualified admiration.
CHANGES DEMANDED

The first action of this ginger
group was to compel the gov-
ernment to implement its pre-
election promise to them—: to
raise MPs' salaries. Their meth-
od was reportedly the brutally
frank one of threatening some-

Rheumatic Fever
Follows Infection

y Dr. Theodore R. VanDellen
oe several, decades we have
suspected that rheumatic fever
follows an infection with group
streptococci. These micro-
organisms stimulate the forma-
ton of antibodies to which the
tim becomes sensitized. The |
pata autoimmi
is responsible for joint changes
and heart damage. These per-
sons become allergic to sub-
stances manufactured by their
wn body.

The cause of rheumatic fever
is fairly well established but it
took years to prove. It is logical |
because most attacks follow in)
the wake of a strep infection.
iThis occurs 10 days to
weeks prior to the development
of fever, fatigue, and Toss, of
appel

iis during this lull that the
body is manufacturing the all-
important protective antibodies
against the origina! strep infec-
tion, But the immune process |
backfires in youngsters who
have an inherited sensitivity to
these particular antibodies.

NOTES. BY

THE WAY |

Iceland is levying a half-cent
tax on every package of cigaret-
tes sold—to be used for cancer
research Stratford Beacon -
Herald

Home ts the place where dad

is free to say anything he pleas-

0 one will pay the

slightest attention to him, any-
way— Financial Post

cihat’s that piece of cor 4
tied around your finger for?"
“My wife put it there to remind
me to post a letter” “And did
Jou post it?" “Nor she forgot to
give it to me’’— Windsor Star

Mayor Jean Drapeau of Mon-
treal says the Canadian World
ran will be ready for its sched-

1967 appearance If talk will
Fy the job done, it should be
ready by 1965— Hamilton Spec-

tator

A Vancouver paper wel
a trend to “more senaible ar
laws" The better ould
be to more pat ae rie

A menu is a sheet of
which the best meal har ten
crossed out —Toronto Star

Children, who watch television
night and day will go down in

history—not to mention arithme.
tic, geography and English
Calgary Herald

Often sad are te gxperiences

of the newlywed He came home
from his day at the ote She
had roasté his first chick

placed risteaming= on the
table He was about to carve He
forty What did you shal
with dear’ asked

it puzzled “It
wasn't hollow" Galt Reporter

The Plague Of Drought

National Geographic Society

The prevention of ec
[fever is confined — mai
iecsoiatolteretedioceletaee|
| These people are advised to|
take an antibiotic continuously,| | Parts of Asia were hit hardest.
to ward off new strep infec-, More than 300,000 Pakistanis
tions. Throat cultures are| Were forced to abandon their
taken, should a cold develop, to| homes in West Pakistan to seek
determine whether streptococci | food and water as fomine follow-
A are responsible. If so, a large| ©4 a prolonged dry spell.
dose of penicillin is adminis. | Tin mines in Burma and Mal-
tered. In this way we hope to aya were closed because no

‘The rains never came, and
P| drought parched wide areas” of
the world in

power, slowing industrial pro
duction and temporarily blacking
out househol

Drought or near - drought pre.
vailed in the United States
from the Great Plains to New
England, In normally humid
Massachusetts, the reservoir at
Worcester became a dried,
cracked wasteland of mud.

Seven states canceted hunting
seasons and banned fires in the

se
eliminate the causative awe nt, Water was avaitable to wash the
ore - bearing mud. Fertile ia
growing provinces on Chin
southeastern coast suffered tne
worst drought in centuries.
RESERVOIRS DWINDLE
Hong Kong reservoirs almost

from the life of a person who
has had the disease.

Can the first attack of rheu-|
matic fever be prevented? This
is a moot question but the possi-
bitity exists. Research is being |

powder - dry woods.

New Jersey firemen fough! a
forest fire with water drawn
from an abandoned mine shalt
and pumped through a half-mile

done to find a vaccine or blood| emptied during seven months of
| gr other test to determine whe-| subnormal rainfall. Housebold
ther an individual is suscep-| water was severely rationed, and
| tible to rheumatic fever. If suc-| the entire economy of the colony
| cessful, we can follow the same | suffered. Devout Chinese releas-
prophylaxis as is given those| ed fish and turtles in the sea
who have had the disorder. and turned loose pet monkeys,
STIFF SHOULDER | deer, and birds on land to pro-
T.F. writes: Is frozen pitiate the spirits.
der a condition that
women get as they start
the menopause?
EPL

shoul-
only
into

‘The worst drought of the cen-
tury in Brazil shrank river
levets to dangerous lows. Hydro-
electric plants had to ration

| jathere sno
iieeabibesiupeeantan inate
If there were, we might say) Our Yesterdays |
facetiously that the hot flashes | AeA
would melt the frozen condition, (Broa) Hie Guataian tes

some instances, negtected| TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO | |
| bursitis of the shoulder leads November 20,

| everything. We get to keep the

of hose. They had to bypass a
more convenient water supply in
a nearby, but ebbing, reservoir,

In Williams, Arizona, where
fn normal times stockmen b uy
water for their herds from a
coin - operated dispenser giving
250 gallons for 25 cents, the se
ere drought reduced a quarte:
worth to 90 gallons.

Texans, who have learned to
live with’ and laugh at droucht,
revived the wry story of th
rancher who said, “Welt, the
wind blew the ranch plumb into

Old Mexico, but we ain't lost

mortgage.”

| RAINFALL “MIGRATED”
Many farmers who originally

settled in Texas and the G re at

Explosive
Winnipeg

What with Churchill, Mani-
toba; Churchill, Gordon; and,
oh yes, Churchill, Winston—stout
Randolph has some competition
in getting his name into the
news.
ecb over the years, undaunt-
ed by the handicap of his name,
through his waspish tongue, acid
pen, and choleric temper, he
has managed this feat.
Not for him the retiring role
so common to scions of the fam-
ous,

ne

ince the war, in which he in-
dulged with all the courage and
exuberance typicel of the fam:
ily name, he has concentrated on
refining his image as a profes-
sional controversialist

Many regard him as a nuis-
ance with a penchant for juven-
ile antics.

In this he at least shares in
the family heritage, for his fa-
ther, too, until Hitler appeared
as his foil, was regarded by his
opponents ‘as a perennial boy.

Of late years, Randolph has
been a political columnist for
The News of the World

This paper ate “hls oplalons
a vast circulation, far beyond
What his tether ever enjoyed
when he was an p

Randolph's explosive writings,
Involving him in controversy and
litigation, have not displayed the
fine rolling Churchillian phrases

of his father, but as awrite
Randolph is no slouch, and as
scholar and historian his final
reputation will rest on the bio-
graphy of his father.

In this project he alone of all
writers has access to all the
papers accumulated by Sir Win-
ston in 70 years of history-mak-
ng.

Comment
Tribune

But Randolph himself has at
last taken his plece as one of the
perceptive observers who notes
the changing world about him.

When the News of the World
wouldn't print his article recent-
ly without tempering some of his
violent opinions, he bought a
page in The Tribune, a London
far-left weekly, and paid to have
his original article published.

Whet had irritated Randolph
on this occasion was Labor
Leader Harold Wilson’
tion that Prime Minister Mac-
millan would call an election
when he “had plucked up enough
courage to face the electorete.”

Randolph said this was a lie
This simple declaration added
nothing new to political dialo-

His father has made similar
assertions with more devastat-
ing effect while still employing
parliamentary language

But it was in Randolph's de-
scriptive term of Harold Wilson
thet he made his bid as a phrase

maker of note. He called Mr.
Wilson a “bare-foot dog.
At first this might appear to

the unobservant as a gross mal-
apropism but, indeed, not so.

In Britain today many dogs
Wear overshoes, so to refer to
somebody as a “barefoot dog"
actually does convey some per-
centive connotatior

Tt possibly. means. that Ran-
fact, the maverick
fablishment and that
Mr. Wilson is satisfied with the

allusion to his working- class |

status as a shoeless
the affluent society.

canine in |

On Buying A Ladder

Omaha World-Herald

Our hero was ia the act of buy-
ing a ladder when a friend w
dered up and asked why. A tad.
der, the friend pointed out, is
something no sensible man ever |
buys. It's like a grass sweeper |
or a leather punch — a thing to |
be borrowed and not bought.

Our hero was well aware of
that, he said, but a catastrophe
had occurred in his neighbor-
hood. The man who owned a.lad-|
der had moved away. Like other |
prudent neighbors, our hero had
sat back waiting for some sucker
to buy, but none had done so,
and now, by golly, he really
had to have o1

But why, asked the friend, had |

not one of the brighter neigh-
bors borrowed the departed lad-
der just before it was moved?
Chances were the hurly - burly
of moving would have caused
the departing neighbor to forget
his 4adder, whereupon the entire
neighborhood would have bene-

Our hero said he had not only

thought of that but had so acted |

— but to no avail. At the last
moment, the departing neighbor
had remembered, and had sent
a mover to fetch the ladder from
our hero's garage. A
said the friend. Yes,
| hero. The nerve
people.—

of some

Spending For Eucation

thing tike a walk-out
The next step was to insist| Laweionbeinar4
that the party caucus, rather “Competitive intellectual) material position in the world —

than the cabinet, should be the
discussion group through which
policy and legislative measures
should be sieved. This was ef-
fected at the pre-session caucus

More recently, they have tak-
en up the matter of appoint-
ments, especially oars the
parliamen The
initial Pearson prety — be
purified of its regressive ele-
ment; the political deadwood is
to be gently sidelined or kicked
upstairs, Postmaster Denis to the
Senate, Justice Minister Chev-
rier to our embassy in France,
are some of the proposals. The
wise and unflappable Labour
Minister Allen

Pickersgill as House

power” may seem a strange
phrase, But it appears as the key
words in the report on education
(in six volumes) issued this
week after three years’ study by
a special committee in Great
Britain under Lord Robbins.
The committee toured a num-
ber of other countries to make a
comparison with education in

ritain.

Tt concluded that the Ameri.
can and Russian systems great-
ly exceeded in scope the present
British program.

an essential condition for the
realization in the modern age of

ideals of a free and democra
tle society.”
Only such vigorous action can

=

For ithe ‘second halt of the 20th
century is like

nations, in relation to one anot-

bal according to the emphasis
they are willing to give to “com

petitive intellectual power.”

hoy, report urges Britain to ex-
and widety,

the. ‘sie and number of her uni-
versities.

‘or making better use of the
country’s brains is the “con-
dition for the maintenance of our

EARLY STOVES

Stoves of clay, tile Fn earth
enware were used in ag
heating from Roman

observa: |

ot! » to be ||
marked by the rise and fall of |

tot | ||

gradually to stiffening (frozen) |

| and, in time, the arm cannot) two Prince

be raised
DISCOMFORT FROM
DAMPNESS
W.P. writes: Is there sueh)
a thing as allergy to dampness?
Whenever it rains or gets foggy
I ache all over.
REPLY
Whether affects

the body in) The nurses of the Charlotte- | } Puttir

various ways. Aching prior to| town Hospital Alumnae were | amounts of electricity into the

| rain or on damp days in not un-| hostesses Thursday night for | atmosphere. Thousands of farm-

usual. Apparently damp ne ss| ai enjoyable mixed Bridge of | ers wrote Congress asking th at

causes certain tissues to swell | 20 tables, in the Knights of Col- | all stations be silenced until rain
and the tightness leads to ach-, umbus Hall. broke the tragic drought.

ing. It is not an allergy, in my |
opinion?
INFECTED HEART VALVES |
M.R. writes: After an attack
of bacterial endocarditis clears
up, is it likely to return with
each new cold or other infec: | |
tion?

REPLY
Tihs heart disorder usually
stems from a strep infection.

Recurrences are common after |
any respiratory or other infec-
tion caused by the same micro-
organisms. Prophylaxis also is

needed when a tooth is extrac- | son MacDougall,

&
2

INFLAMED BALDDER

EPLY

| die, of York, placed second in
Potato awards at the Royal
Winter Fair todey, Mr. Vessey

and Mr. Brodie in Irish Cobbler

| Laura Clapp,
staff of the Provincial Sanitor |
ium, Sister Mary

Miss N. Craig of Prince County
Hospital are among the group

workshop on
ment and clinical teaching at |
Dalhousie University, Halifax. |

bor

| director of the Maine Central
aE Writes: Is cystitis due to! Railroad, Wednesday. Mr. Mac-
erm: | aoe is a native of Alberton,

1938
‘Toronto, Nov. 18 — (CP) —|
Edward Islanders,
Wendell Vessey and Peter Bro-

Plains thought that rainfall was
migrating westward with them
by the good graces of Prov
dence. Others believed plowing
he soil increased precipitation.

je great drought of 1894 - 95
et that bubbie.

in the 1930's, some people de-
| elded that tadio broadcasting
prevented rain by putting large

in the Green Mountain group

roup.

The 1963 crisis has been
blamed variously on nuclear ex.
plosions, sunspots, an increa
| in the speed of the earth's rota-
tion — and the growing network
of paved highways.

Meteorologists explain, ho w-
ever, that droughts 'usualty deve-
lop when a stream of dry air
| persistently pours into a region,
supplanting moist air. But no-
body knows why the air currents
shift, and ‘weathermen cannot

predict droughts.

It is widely held that dry
spells come in cycles. Studies of
tree rings, ol iter levels, his-
torical records, and report ot
crop failures show farge varia:
tions in rainfall but no clearly
defined cycles.

TEN YEARS AGO
(November 20, 1953)
Miss R. Poirier and Mr
members of the |

Hermina of |
he Charlottetown Hospital and

of 25 nurses teking a two-week
ward manage. |

Portland, Me. (AP)—H. Nel-
Canadian-

was elected a

banker,

Ri
Infection somewhere along,
the urinary tract usually is res- |

's Health Hint— |
‘As we age, the slaps become |
steeper, the packages heavier, |
and the cold winds stronger.

AGREE TO CEASE-FIRE
VIENTIANE, Laos (Reuters) |
Neutralists and the pro-Commu:- |
nist Pathet Lao agreed Satur-
jay on a cease-fire on the strife- |
torn Plaine des Jarres, neutral- |
ist commander Gen. Kong
| announced. "The two ‘side
| agreed to stop fighting at a two
iP hour conference between Le and

Pathet Lao Gen, Sing Kapo.
Also present were representa.
tives of Britain and Russia, co-
chairmen of the Geneva confer-
ence on Indochins
India and

| bers of the Intern: al control

Zion Presbyterian Church
DEDICATION SERVICE

Newly Renovated & Re-Decorated
Lower Hall

Wednesday, November 20th.

8:15 P.M.
A cordial invitation is extended to Members
and Friends of the Congregation.

Commission on Lat

FIRE

= BOTTLE BLITZ

Help your local Fire Department by having alll
(mitt, pop, beer] bottles ready te ke piclod
ready P up on

CHARLOTTETOWN

Hours of pick-up—9 A.M. to 6 P.M. Money raised
by this blitz will be used for fireman's tournament and Cen-
tennial celebrations.

DEPARTMENT

by your

Satur-