Che Guardian Covers Princes Edward tsiand Like the Dew Publisher every week-day morning at 165 Prince Street Mbariettetown, P.E.L,.by the Thomson Company Ltd fan A. Burnett, Publisher: and General Manager : Frank Walker, Zditor . Member Canadian 'Daily Newspaper Publishers Association Member of The Canadian Press Member Adu Bureav o: Circulations ‘trae oftices at Summerside, Montague and Alberton Sepresented Nationally by: Thomson Newspapers Advertising Service : @ King Street West, Toronto, Ont, 640 Catheart St, Montreal ‘ 1030 West Georgia §t., Vancouver. || #y Cartier Charlottetown, Summerside 30¢ per week. || By Mail elsewhere in P.B.1. $9.00 per annum, Other Provinces and United States $12.00 per annum, PAGE 4 TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1958. No Assurance _ Commenting on President Kisen- hower’s address to the Canadian Parliament, the Manchester Guard- jan—a paper not given to wild ex- aggeration—called it a case of “rub- bing salt in the wounds”. That just about sums it up. yo ae As far as can be seen in any pub- lished statement, the President pro- mised nothing, except to “consider’’ i, further Canadian complaints as they | arise. Despite this, Federal Govern- | ment leaders are going out of their way to try and convince the Com- mons and the public that from now 4 on there will be no such thing as an | American boycott on Canadian sales to China. There is no warrant for this whatsoever—assuming,; of course, that the official statements which came from the talks mean what they say. : ‘ - According to the Prime . : the President “expressd the view be applied in any way to the disad- ! | No doubt, he did. But “expressing a ‘| view” is not at all the same thing as || making a commitment; and what the - President may regard as “no disad- . may, in fact, be a blow to it. The only faint hope in regard to U.S.-Canada trade relations, espec- ) jally as they concern American sub- i sidiaries in Canada, is that in the future American “consideration” of 4 problems may be a little more fav- ourable than it has been in the past. i | There is no assurance of this, how- ever; and it is idle te pretend that | there is. i Flying Farmers | Canadian farmers are taking to the air to keep pace with the times. Today airplanes are used for many things, from chasing ducks from swathed grain to making a quick iq a5’ i trip to. town. for implement parts. } Yet the first flight for agricultur / purposes was made just 88 yeurs i ; | ago at Lake Timiskaming, Ont., the same year as the first plane flew from ‘Halifax to Vancouver, . Since 1920, agricultural flying has Hi i snowballed to the point where last: | year 208 eraft logged a total of 15,- is 435 hours, according to a study con- j i ) goes further—much further. 5 4 A unique mission saw planes fly- i ig ; j i A oe is jing low over flax, vineyards and j / atrayed and injured cattle were spot- | ted and other cattle counted and ij rounded up. Fences, windmills and p other facilities were checked and | repaired if needed, and salt blocks dropped for grazing livestock. A eheck was made on watersheds, tun- j off conditions, flooded areas and | drainage and irrigation systems. i Weeds and erop. growth, crop dam- poem ene | age, pasture conditions, orientation — of field layout, and, general field ,gonditions including the time for | seeding and summerfallowing, came | under survey. Other purposes includ- _ed hunting coyotes, foxes:and other ‘predatory game, timber § cruising, surveying farm land before purchas- jing, watching for fires, and taking | photographs. \ ean transport workers to remote farm. areas; and even supply them with meals by air. They can fly to meetings of farm organizations that previously they didn’t have time to attend. And they can go hunting, fishing, visiting, or sightseeing. Vet- erinarians use aircraft in some areas, particularly in the winter when #roads are blocked. Some farm mach- @ inery salesmen make the rounds by | air. Even clergymen and missionar- 4 ies use this method to cover quickly rural parishes and circuits. i In the Prairie Provinces last year, 4 399,148 acres of grain were sprayed f or dusted for control of weeds, buck {brush and insects. In Ontario 22,- #800 acres of tobacco were sprayed # and 1,050 acres fertilized; 2,200 acres of spruce trees sprayed; many Minister, | that the U.S. regulation should not ‘ | vantage of the Canadian economy”. | ) vantage< to the Canadian economy — | spraying and dusting. But the story _ Many farmers now use the airplane | | in‘place ofa car or small truck. They © * Christmas free plantations dusted; and thousands of acres sprayed. for control of flies and mosquitoes. In New. Brunswick, 3,300 acres were sprayed for bush control, The Department of Agriculture re- port, first of its kind, shows that indirectly World War II spurred ag- ricultural flying, as young airmen left the R.C.A.F. to swell the ranks of flying farmers. Also. the report gives credit. to the Department. of Transport for allowing greater. scope to farmers» who owned private air- craft and thus giving the mushroom- ing business a further shot in the arm. a Agricultural Matters — Col. John A. Macdonald, M.P. for King’s, has done well to call the at- tention of Parliament to the inade- quacy of the Federal Farm Load Board under. present conditions. The terms under which loans are granted —when they are—and the qualifica- tions required of applicants are so ° rigid that only those farmers who can get along without credit are in a pos-_ ition to obtain it. The young farmer who is anxious to start out on his own has no chance whatsoever, under the provisions which now exist. What is needed, as.Col. Macdonald — pointed out, is something on the lines of the Veterans’ Land Act, a “well ‘supervised and controlled” agency, ‘but not one that is so rigidly con-"} trolled as to be utterly: useless to the average farmef. It ought to be | possible to work out a plan that would give hope and: a reasonable “measure of stability to young men who are anxious to stay on the farm © or to acquire one of their own but | who, under present conditions, are obliged to-seek other employment, often not to their liking. This is one field, surely, where Federal-Provin- | cial co-operation would pay dividends. We are glad to note, too, that the member for King’s had a word to say in behalf of our potato producers. The so-called “stabilization” price plan offered producers this year was doomed to failure from the start. It. is an affront, to farmers to offer them 36 cents a bushel. for potatoes which cost more than a dollar a bush- el to’ produce and to tell them that only first grade potatoes would be eligible for: payment. Every farmer knows, if Federal agricultural of- ficials do not, that there are few, if any, first grade potatoes at this time of year. EDITORIAL NOTES Senator J.W. de Farris says he has “nothing to retract” concerning his reference to Douglas Jung, mem- ber for: Vancouver Centre, as “this Chinaman”. It is very difficult. to make a man see the virtue of good manners at Senator Farris’ time of life. ae Xe »« «* * Se President Eisenhower made an ex- ception to the rvle when he announ- . -ced his golf score after the. mate with Transpore Muusver Hees and Senate Speaker Drouin. On his home grounds when playing with visitors the score is never announced. Appar- ently, it has something to do with protocol, a word which these days seems to cover a multitude of. in- anities. ine : ee we The tinte to have cut Nasser down, te size—as the British. and French | wanted to do——was when the Suez crisis broke. Now, by a bioody mil- itary coup, the pro-West regime has been ousted in Iraq and a pro-Nasser government proclaimed, According to the Associated Press the coup, if successful, will be the most serious blow to the Western position since the Egyptian. dictator ‘nationaliz- ed the Suez Canal in 1956. It will also knock the keystone out of the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact in the Middle East and seriously endanger Western Europe’s oil supplies. Phe ee Seven parties won seats: in the Finnish elections held last week. Out of 206 seats in one-house parliament, the Finnish Communist Party won 50—a gain of seven—leaving it equal to the largest other party—the Soc- ial Democrats, who also won 50 seats, a loss of four. The remaining | 106 seats were divided among the Agrarians, 48, the Conservatives, 28, the Swedish People’s Party, 14, the Liberals, 13, and the Socialists, 3. A coalition regime must, of course, be forméd, with the Communists fn a sound position to demand represen- tion in the new cabinet, something they have not had for ten years. With a parliamentary strength of less than a quarter of the whole House, they may even be in the do- minating position. A striking illustra tion of the dangers inherent in multi- party systems. members of the House of Com- " fare, and National Defence. There | } ‘times been referred to the Esti- ON 42 : OTTAWA REPORT ° THE CEDARS OF LEBAN | fear that it-may be permitted to Pu blic Health OTTAWA — Welland’s Dr. W. H. MacMillan and Quebec City’s Dr. J. E. Bissonnette and. East Simeoe’s Dr. P. B. Rynard are among the doctors who are now mons ayd who are in favour of setting up a Committee on Health and Welfare. It is a strange thing that there is no standing committee of the House on our two largest-spend- ing departments, Health and Wel- is a standing committee on Ex- ternal Affairs; there is one on Agriculture and Colonization; on Banking and Commerce; on Ve- terans Affairs. There is even a standing committee on-such com- paratively trivial subjects as the Library and the Restaurant. But the Welfare State and the Warfare State have both been overlooked. . In past years, topics related. to Health and Welfare have -some- mates Committee, and sometimes ‘to the Committee on Industrial Relations. Yet, even witha na-' tional hospital insurance plan be- ing set up as a first stop towards a comprehensive national health service, Parliament has never seen fit to take advantage of the presence in it ‘of fully qualified medical men. And Welfare : : By Patrick Nicholson - Special Correspondent for The Guardian There are eight doctors of med- yeine sitting in the House of Com- mons now. They could form. a‘ useful and knowledgable kerned committee studying health mat- ters. DOCTORS ON OFFER Talk in the Lobbies suggests that this long-standing oversight many soon be put right. It is es- pecially significant that mistakes have been found in thé original Health Insurance Bill, passed by Parliament rather hurriedly just _before the 1957 general election. | Three amendments are contained in a bill’ before parliament now. But it is as so often happens, a committee of the Senate which has beén thoroughly combing over this matter. _ Thus, some of the doctor m.p.’s in both the Conservative and the Liberal parties have been disucss- ing this, and have made the un- official proposal that a Health and Welfare Committee should be set up, ineluding some or all of their number. Hon. Paul Martin, a for- mer Minister of National Health and Welfare, has endorsed this suggestion in talking to me. And the Liberal caucus has consider- ed the proposal also, and in general expressed its support. Doctors are naturally especial- ly interested in the new Health: Insurance scheme. Many of; them grow into something approaching the unattractivé system of state just. after the war. These hope that freedom of choice will al- ‘ways be retained, through the op- eration of the plan as an insur- ance proposition, which will pro- vide in case of illness the monéy for such services as he wishes to select. — DIAGNOSIS IMPORTANT In spite of the substantial in- erease in the number of hospital beds across Canada there is still believed to be a serious shortage in some areas. British Columbia and Saskatchewan are said to bé among the’ better equipped pro- vinces in this régard, while Ont- ario may be one of the worst. When / the hospital insurance plan is fully in effect, we will perhaps see whether or not there is any justification for the fears that the hospital facilities will be swamped. - : eT tt One important aspect to this is the matter of diagnosis. As the original act stood, diagnostic ser- patients, but not to out-patients. Thus, in order to obtain the ser- vices free under the hospital in- ‘surance plan, a patient would have to occupy a bed. But ade- quate diagnosis, including labor- atory favided for patients’ with- out them oecupyng a scarce bed-on an out-patient basis. This is one of the corrections which is typical of the advantages accru- ing from a Health Committee, such. as these doctors are now privately proposing. ~— The Liberals haven’t yet per- formed up to expectations-in the role of Her Majesty's Loyal Op- position. “sThere are, of course, reasons. The role-is one to which the Liberals had long considered their talents peculiarly unsuited and which they accepted a year ago only because the electors gave them little or no choice in the matter. The Opposition is weak numer-, ically. Forty-nine Liberals oppose 207 Conservatives. Or they would. rather, if absenteeism were 28 thing of the past. Which, of cour-: se, it is not, ‘Further, these Liberals lack op- position experience after 23 un: interrupted years in office. Stil! further, the last two elections tended to wipe the slate cieau of political issues which they would have been able to use to advantage while serving a try- ing and difficult period of ap- prenticeship, But none of these factors, and» no, combination thereof, offers a complete explanation of the rela- tively weak showing of the Lib-: erals in the House of Commons |' up to the present. ' It isn’t easy, of course, for a party to make an impressive |- showing in the Commons when it can count on the services of only 49 M/P.’s. But after the elec- tions of 1935 and 1940, the Con- servatives had to make do as best they could with only 39 elec- ted supporters. In 1949, only. 4! Conservatives. won election. And the PC’s entered the 1943-57 Parl- iament, during which they man- aged to outslug the huge Liberal machine on every occasion when it counted, with only 51 support- . ers. . SUFFERS BY COMPARISON Today’s Liberal Opposition suf- fers by comparison with those Conservative groups of past years. And it is now clear that‘the qual- ity of opposition offered by the Conservatives during their’ long period in the desert, was under- rated at the time. This is all the more surprising since the Conservatives lacked fronthenchers with recent exper- jence in the. administration: of Government departments—an ad- vantage which the Liberals. still possess, though not on the same lavish scale as during the last Parliament, : But it is probably unfair to measure the strengths and weak- nesses of the Liberals in Opposi- The Voice Of The Turtle Arthur Blakely In The Montreal Gazette 3 formance of a party . which -re- mained, in Opposition for so many years that it seemed in some peril of ‘acquiring permanent title. to the post. . Under our system, an Opposi- tion exists to: “‘oppose by all con- stitutional means.” It is expected to criticize, to taunt, to question, to tease, to scrutinize, to admon- ish, to harry, to\inform, to warn and—above all—to oppose. UNLIKELY CONVERTS Assumption is that in these days of intense party loyalty and discipline, it isn’t likely to~ con- vert Government supporters by its arguments and thus defeat the Government in a Parliamen- tary division, But it should, by its efforts, be able to win addi- tional public support, while at the same time keeping the Gov- ernment on its toes, The efforts of the Liberals .to perform these useful functions do not appear to have been notahly successful so far, Their perfor- mance during the Throne Speech debate attracted little attention and suffered, at times, in eum- parison with that of the Hazen Argue’s eight.man CCF group. ing’s recent budget was a rela- tively easy target, marked as it was by a huge deficit and a few minor concessions to the taxpay- er. But Opposition criticisms have not been of a kind calculated to leagues many if nights. : The Hon. Lester Pearson con- tinues to sotind much more like a Secretary of State for External Affairs of considerable experien- ce, than a Leader of the Opposi- tion with or without experrence, His urbane, well-reasoned eontri- butions, to debate’ read well in Hansard. They have not, however; awakened a fierce loyalty and enthusiasm in his supporters. Nei ther do they seem to have irritat- ed, enraged or embarrassed the Government. / TOO GENTLEMANLY Some observers say that he lacks a killer instinct. Some of his friends say that he is ioo much the gentleman, ‘too well- filled with the milk of human kindness, to deliberately wound or maim an opponent with cruel- ly-harbed shafts of oratory. And this may be so. : Quite recently, he was preseat- ed with an opportunity to skewer Prime Minister Diefenbaker for any sleepléss Finance Minister Donald Flem- telling a GBC reporter what ques- tions should not be asked in a ‘medicine introduced into Britain’ with which the patient may pay. vices were to be provided to in-’ cause Mr. Flerhing and his col-. IF YOUR GUARDIAN IS LATE... OR MISSED o DIAL and a missed. ‘ paper will he delivered right to your door. Special delivery service available between 8;30 a.m. fo 9:00 a.m. if your paper is late — or 6561 ED'S DIAL 173 Great George St. dion using as a yardstick the per- For the Fastest Service in Town, Call Ed’s Slogan: “To maintain the goodwill of those whom we serve -- the goal for which we strive!” z TAXI 6561 Charlottetown Watch Out For Summer Pests By Herman N. Bundesen, M.D. JIGGERS, the chiggers! Be wary of these tiny red mites during these pleasant sum- mer days! Trombicula irritans, or chig- gers, as you probably call them, are one of our worst summer- time pests. While they are gen- erally found in tall grass and weeds, they also thrive in short grass. EASY TARGET : Thus, even when you are lying on the lawn in your own back: yard, you may be an easy tar- get for these bugs. Chiggers do not burrow into the skin as is generally believ- éd. Instead, they hook onto the “skin. And, once attached, they feed on lymph or blood. This pro- duces an irritation which is dif- ficult, to imagine. d Within 24 hours the itching be- comes very intense. The inflam- ed blisters which develop make the skin appear as though it has a rash. DON’T SCRATCH! « : Now I have already warned you about thé danger of seratch- ing vigorously to relieve an itch. Scratching the irritation caused by a chigger can easily produce a secondary infection. — Calamine lotion might help ease the itching. If it doesn’t, hetter see your doctor and fol- low his recommendations. He has a lot of anti-itching medications available and can give you one specifically designed to aid such cases. ? Usually, the itching reaches its peak on thé second or third day. ‘Then, it bégins to subside, and in a day or two you can forget about it. X ACT QUICKLY You might alleviate the itching somewhat by acting quickly once you are bitten. Get into the bath- ub right away and cover your .Antire body, particularly the area that was bitten, with a. heavy soapy lather. d : That should get rid of the pesky little bug and any of his comrades which might ‘have joined in the attack.. a chiggér-infested area, it will pay: to take a few. precautions. Sprinkle your stockings, and perhaps your underclothing, too, with flour of sulphur. Then the little fellows will avoid you ' like the plague. QUESTION AND ANSWER. T! C.: Is there any value in eye exercisés of the muscles of the eye in cases of néarsighted- ness? Answer: Although certain eve exercises can train a person who is nearsighted to see a little bet- er, the actual deformity in focus- ing is not corrected. For the which cause I also suf- fer these things: nevertheless 1 am not ashamed: for I know persuaded that He is able to keep which I have committed unto Him against that day. 2 _- GORDON TO STAY don said Monday he has no plans to leave the residency of the CNR. Before the Commons rail- way committee, Douglas Fisher (CCF —-+ Port Arthur) asked whether “‘the president expects to be with the railway through the next year.” “T have -no plans to the contrary at the moment,” Mr. Gordon replied. ; television interview. Mr. Pear- son’s handling of the issue was hesitant, maladroit and ineffec- tive. There can be little donbt that. had the positions of Mr. Pearson .and Mr. Diefenbaker been reversed, the latter would have pursued the matter in his best prosecuting attorney fashion until Mr. Pearson emerged as a ruthless meddler with the news most 15 years in which to dé it — and on their success or failure and views presented by this deli- ate and sensitive Crown eom- _ Mr. Pearson’s/ questions © and criticism have been neither sharp nor ‘provocative. Perhaps ‘thev haven't been intended to be at this early stage of the new Parli- rals are biding their time. If you know you are ‘entering The Age Old Story | Whom Tf have. believed, and' am- OTTAWA (CP) — Donald Gor-. vament. It may be that the Libe- || = NOTES BY THE WAY Telephony recently cropped “P| in a science course, The teacher | asked: ‘Can anyone tell me what | nitrates are?”