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PAGE 4 A Hollow Sound It would seem to be a little early for political parties to be making pro- mises on the Federal level. Apparent- ly, though, Mr. Lester B. Pearson made or implied at the recent Liberal Council meeting would do credit to a politician with only a few weeks in One of Mr. Pearson’s promises is of particular interest to people in the Atlantic region. “A Liberal Govern- ment,” he said, “would put the annual $25 million Fereral grant to the Atlan- tie Provinces”—provided by. the Con-' servative Governnient—‘“on a more permanent basis.” By this, presum- ably, he meant that the grants would become a fixed annual disbursement. pluses amounting to hundreds of mil- | | lions of dollars, it was virtually im- _ possible for the Atlantic Provinces to _ squeeze an extra dollar vut of the Fed- | eral Treasury during the many years _ of Liberal rule. Even the so-called “tax-sharing’ payments were appar- ently given grudgingly; and, on at _Jeast one occasion, when a few hun- . dred thousand dollars more than the allotted amount was inadvertently _ forwarded to this Province, their re- ‘turn to the Federal Treasury was. | firmly demanded. After a lot of palav- er back and forth, during which the | Legislature had to be adjourned, it ; | ‘was finally decided that the reim- _ bursements could be made on the in- _ stallment basis; and the Liberal Gov- _ the special problems of the Atlantic region would appear much more con- _ vineing if there were any precedent, for it in the days of Liberal domina- tion. As it is, his words-haye a hollow... a - sound—something like “sounding ‘brass and a tinkling cymbal.” Fear Predictions — Gordon C. Rupp, a safety expert - in Des Moines, Iowa, has suggested doing away with predictions of how many people will be killed on the high- ways on various holidays and week- are likely to plant a “death” thought _ in the minds of motorists. ‘“Wouldn’t — it be better”, he asks, “to reverse our _ eommon practice of publishing a fear _ prediction by adopting the positive policy of predicting no deaths at all?” We think it would. Apart from the psychologically gruesome aspect of these death predictions, they do not appear to have any practical value. There is nothing to show that they have ever prevented accidents; and it is just possible that they have help- ed to cause them; for the power of suggestion is great. In any case, it seems inappropriate _ $0 predict that so many people will be killed in a given time: almost as though nothing can be done to prevent it: ; West Indies Trade What Canadian exporters can ex- pect in trading with the new West Indies Federation was outlined by Mr. R.G.C. Smith, Canadian Commission- er in Trinidad, in a recent issue of ‘Foreign Trade”, As far as the immediate future is concerned, Mr. Smith says that “the act of federation changes nothing in the problem of the easier movement of people and goods. Canadian ex- | porters contemplating this old and familiar market will continue to deal with each isiand as in the past, tak- ing into account the respective rate of duty levied by each and considering the exchange problem as it is handled by each.” _ Concerning long-term prospects, when the proposed customs union will have been put into effect, this’ says Mr. Smith, “wil! give Canada a larger, more uniform and easier trading area. The people of these is- lands have been familiar with Canad- ian goods for a long time, and with the easing of inter-island eommerce and the resulting benefits to foreign trade, Canada cannot kelp but secure her share of an already well establish- arcdian “The strongest memory 3s weaker than doesn’t think so. The promises he- _. which to persuade the electorate of _| his good intentions. We say that this is of particular — | interest because, despite annual sur- ernment thought it was doing us a | great kindness. ae Mr. Pearson’s present. interest in . | no way deny or car nip th . year. . important not only to the farmers eq market. Problems arising from the vast distances bevween 41 ederation members mus first be solved, how- ever. Shipping services are constant- ly being improved, and through the offer of two ships as part of the aid program Canada is playing a direct part in transforming the Federation into an economic reality”, Life On Other Planets It there life on other planets? That question, not so long ago dismis- sed as mere nonsense, is now regarded seriously by the scientists In a recent address, Dr. Melvin Calvin, University of California chem- ist and researcher in photosynthesis, stated that in his view “millions of planets” in the known universe are capable of supporting life similar to that on the earth. “Chemical knowledge is now such,” said Dr. Calvin, ‘‘that given the start- ing materials of the primordial earth, the source of chemical evolution from inorganic materials up to and through the formation of a living cell was pre- dictable and inevitable. The evolution of higher forms of life could also have been predicted, but the precise path- ways could not be predetermined. Thus, plants ana animals were inevit-. able developments, aithough their physical appearances were not.” Dr. Calvin quoted scientists at the Harvard College Observatory, that _ there may be as many as 100 million earthlike planets in the known uni- verse. be eet Should all this be confirmed by further scientific knowledge, it will in interfere with the spiritual destiny of man. Nor will it | bring into dispute the moral interpret- ation of the universe. On the contrary, it will emphasize it and suggest that the Psalmist was speaking the litera] truth and not merely dealing in poetic fancy when he wrote: “The Heavens declare the glory of God, and the fir- mament showeth His handiwork.” EDITORIAL NOTES The Federal. Government is -hinting at reductions in price sup- ports for farm products. This is a far cry from the stand taken by Consevative spokesmen in the last election. At that time they called for higher supports on everything. It a gratifyingto learn that the « Provingial, Federation of Agriculture showed'a ma inerease in member- ee Tae Laan ee, pas _ strong federation is themselves but to the entire popula- tion, since it helps to strengthen the agricultural economy, in which we al! share, directly or indirectly. : * * * Canada is giving $196,000 worth of books to medical schools in 10 Colombo Plan countries, it has been reported by the External Affairs Department. This will be one of the most valuable contributions that Canada has made to the organiza- tion, : The political situation in France, on the occasion of the first election under the Fifth Republie is not quite as confused as it used to be. But the change is one of degree rather than essence. Before General de Gaulle started his reform, there were 20 or more parties. Now, there are about a dozen, * * * The testimony presented to the: Commission on Price Spreads is of ‘such a jumbled character that the Commissioners will do well to shift the genuine from the spurious. And they will work a miracle if, out of all the confusion, they can really deter- mine whether the spread from farmer to consumer is too great * * * Mr. J.W. Pickersgill told the Lib- eral Advisory Council that “the Con- servative Government has no real policy for the Atlantic area.” Mr Pick- ersgill is noted for a keen sense of humour. But this was really carrying a jest too far, considering the great improvement that has occurred in Federal-Provincial relations since the Liberal Government, of which Mr. Pickersgill was an influential mem- ber, went into exile. : * * The United States has made plans to step up its program of bartering surplus farm products for strategic materials. This is the part of the dis- posal program which Canada has ob- jected to streruously in the past, and further complaints can be expected. U.S. Agriculture officials say that the move is the resulc of repeated Congressional demands for more bar- ter sales. Whoever is to blame for it, it is not going ‘to be liked in Ot- = tawa, @ programme of indoctrinating American businessmen with some _ dience in Chieago last week, same old cliches which have ‘permanent worry to any Cana- ‘bers of the Nova Scotia Bar- . eouldn’t imagine a good Parlia- i (National Defense Photo) OTTAWA REPORT H.M.C.S. ORIOLE 4 Mr. Churchill’s Warnings By Patrick ‘The Honourable Gordon Chureh- ill, our Minister of Trade and Commence, has embarked upon of the facts of Canadian life. In a) series of clearly-expres- sed, friendly but hard-hitting speeches, he is repairing the er- rors of omission by our govern- ments over the past twenty years, and explaining that we wish and intend to be a free people, not an economic satellite of the U. S.A; 4. “The United States and Can- ada are each other’s best cus- tomers,’’ he told a business au- “Sixty per cent of Canada’s en- tine export trade crosses the bor- der. Seventy per cent of our im- ports come from your country. Measured in dollars we buy four billion from you and you pur- chase three billion from us.” So far, so much the same; the been proclaimed from so many platforms for so many years. But here Mr. Churchill adds a new punch line of his own,.a sig- nificant hook from which to hang explanation of a fact overlooked by Americans but a source of dian who troubles to ponder our future. : : ‘Tt is that difference of one billion doliars in your favour that causes some concern in Canada,” continued Mr. Churchill. “The i Nicholson question that arises in the minds of Canadians is wheter or not we are becoming too dependent ec- onomically upon the United Sta- tes. The second. question is whe- ther economic dependence may lead to political dependence. These questions are sometimes the subject of debate in Canada, for historically we have strug- gled for generations to build up | and maintain a country polit tically and economically free and independent.” | HOW TO REPAY DEBT » That difference of one billion dollars is now a regular yearly occurrence. How can we pay that suin«to-thestates 2... The. answer >|: is that we are now accepting eapital investment to that extent each year, so we don’t have to pay for the high living on U.S. luxury imports which we cannot afford to pay for. Mr. Churchill implies the great problem: How are we going to begin to pay in- terest and to repay the capital on all this flood of U.S. invest- ment, so long as we have an ad- verse trading balance with that country? Unless we develop a favourable trade balance, we will not be able to meet those ob- ligations on what is becoming a mortgage on the whole of Can- ada. At tthat time, will the U.S. foreclose on the mortgage, and | absorb Canada as an economic satellite? — Thus Mr. Churchill demonstra- ted that it is essential for Can- ada to diversify her trade, es- pecially by seeking in other coun- tires new markets for those of our products which the U. S. does noi need. The best exam- ple of these is wheat, he said. “And if other countries are to buy from us, we must also buy from them.” ; Speaking recently in New York City as well as in Chicago, Mr. Churchill introduced mito his “Lecture to the Philistines’ eight -suggested rules for good man- ners on the part of U.S. com- panies operating branch plants in Canada. These points all con- tain mere horse sense and good manners; it would not be neces- sary to point them out to any “management which observed the | Golden Rule. 1, Permit and encourage your Canadian. subsidiaries to seek ex- port markets. ae : ..2. Use.as many Canadian ma- terials and components in your Canadian operations as can be ec- onomically justified. 3. Do more processing of Can- adian materials in Canada. — 4. Encourage and train Cana- dians for managerial posts. 3. Undertake more research and development work in Canada. 6. Give local management grea- | ter autonomy within Canada. 7. Offer equity stocks in your Canadcian subsidiaries to Cana Canadcian subsidiaries to Cana- dian investors. ~ 8. Encourage branch plants to participate more fully in the life of their communities. This Churchill rap-over-t h e- kunckles to American Big Busi- ness is a job very long overdue, now being done well by our Trade Minister. Lawyers And Lawmakers Arthur Blakely in the Montreal Gazette In a recent address to mem- risters’ Society, Mr. Grattan O’- Leary, president of the Ottawa Journal, drew. attention to the substantial role which the legal profession has played in COana- dian public life. He cited the distinguished pol- itical careers of such great Cana- dian lawyers as Edward Blake, Sir John Thompson, Sir Robert Borden and R. B.. Bennett, Nor did he neglect Sir Wilfrid Laurier Arthur Meighen, Louis S. St. Laurent and others who, regarded strictly as lawyers, may not have all reached the first’ rank. “In fact, Mr. O'Leary said, he ment or an effective Parliament functioning without the benefit of the services of lawyer-parlia- mentarians. .“Indeed,’’ he is quoted as hav- ing said, “‘the main role of the lawyer in Parliament is to take political thinking out of the heady atmosphere of speculation and philosophic introspection and base it solidly in the practical end of useful laws-good and just that the citizen will understand, ac- cept, respect and obey.” The lawyer-parliamenitarian was, he believed, indispensable, TOO MANY LAWYERS? s Not all observers, of course, have shared Mr. O’Leary views in this respect. A good many dis- tinguished parilamentarians have suggested that Canadian parlia- ments contain too many lawyers for their own good. Understand- ably enough, almost all. of these critics have been strangers to the ‘legal profession. The CCF par- liamentary group, which ‘rarely has a lawyer it can call its own, has always professed to be disen- chanted with the role which law- yers’ have played in Parliament, suggesting that they have been preoccupied with the letter rather than spirit of the laws. But the CCF group has been, of course, open to the suspicion of bias on the general question of the value it lacked members of this class so frequently. Another careful student of Par- liament, Hill and its ways who weighed the lawyer-members and found them wanting in some res- pects at least was professor Norman Ward, of the University -of Saskatchewan, author of an extremely useful book entitled “The Canadian House of Comm- ons.” : PROFESSOR QUOTED “The chronicle of controverted elections and election expenses has been,’”’ he wrote, “‘partly one of evasion of the country’s laws by those who enacted them, and who might on that acount, one might think. properly be found among the law’s foremost champ- ions. “That so many of the regrett- able aspects of Canadian politics have been made possible by legal procedures and devices suggests that the preponderance of law- yers in the House of Commons has not been an unmixed bless- ing. But it would be unfair to legal profession alone has been blameworthy.....’’ COMMONS MEMBERSHIP That the legal profession does dominate Parliament and Govern- leave the impression that the. ment, there can be no doubt. Can- ada’s first Prime Minister was a lawyer, as is the present Prime Minister, and as have been most of those in between. The story of the House of Commons membership is similar. Of the 181 M. P.’s who were returned to the first Parliament of the new Dominion of Canada in 1867, at least 66 were lawyers. There may well have been more. At this late date, the economic and occupational interests of 27 of the M. P.’s of 1867 are in the ‘“mknown’’ category. Over the years since that time, the legal profession has usually accounted for at least one-third of the Com- mons membership. A peak was apparently reached in the 1911 general election, which despatch- ed 93 lawyer-MPs. to the House of Commons. The total number of seats at stake in that election was only 221. R. M. Dawson once explained the gravitation of lawyers to Parliament as due partially to “natural sympathy between the practice of law and politics.’’ But he added, that there was more to it than that. A lawyer with a good practice and a good part- ner could make the temporary withdnawal from his) normal oc- cupation required by the uncer- tainty of political life, more easi- ly than others. This, incidentally, is a theory to which lawyer-M. P.’s have never subscribed. capital, of Paris’s greatest Prussian War, Sevres china, or secondhand false probably. find it in of lawyer Parliamentariang since Paris Flea Market National Geographic Society The Paris Flea Market looks as if all the attics of the world had suddenly been emptied into a small quarter of the French Visitors have called it a bar- gain hunter’s paradise—or a glor- ified city dump. Whatever it is, the Flea Market has become one attractions. Anybody wanting anything — a German helmet of the Franco- a stuffed eagle, a bust of Socrates, teeth—can the Flea} Market, if he looks long enough. Municipal authorities are re- ported planning to take over the market area to build apartment houses, but so far the Flea Mar- ket’s 3,000 shops are still opera- ting at the old stand near the Porte de Clignancourt on the northern edge of the city. FOUNDED BY RAGPICKERS The Flea Market (Marche aux Puces) was established in the latter part of the 19th century, the National Geographic Scciety | tubercle baccilli, parrots gener- Not Likely To Transmit TB By Herman N, Bundesen, M. D. CAN PETS transmit diseases such as tuberculosis? Well, they can, but often the pet is in greater danger of catch- ing the disease from you than you are in getting it from the animal. In fact, even elephants are known to have died from TB infected by the human strain, OFTEN GET TB ; And, according to a recent is- sue of ‘‘The American Review of Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Di- seases,’’ animals kept in zoos frequently become infected w i th tuberculosis. : As far as pets go, TB in dogs is pretty rare in the United Stat- es. It does exist, however, in some parts of the world. When dogs do become infected with TB, the human strain of bacillus is more often to blame than is the bovine strain. Cats, on- the other hand, may become infected by drinking milk of tuberculous cows, but they ap- pear to be very resistant to hu- man tuberculosis. \ DANGER OF PSITTACOSIS Both canaries and parrots can catch TB, but, of course, the real danger from parrots, as far as their/owners are ~oncerned, 1s psittacosis, a Virus infection somewhat similar to influenza. While canaries are more SUSs- ceptible to the avian strain of ally are infected by the animal strain. Monkeys seem to be the most susceptible of all animals when in captivity. In their native habi- tats, however, they apparently never contract TB. RARELY HAVE IT Laboratory animals such as rabbits, mice and guinea pigs might make good pets since they very rarely have tuberculosis. t But foxes and minks are quite susceptible to bovine infection when they are raised on fur farms. Naturally, this doesn’t mean that you can catch TB simply by wearing a fur coat. While some diseases, even TB, ean be transmitted by pets, you really don’t have to worry about it in the light of our knowledge as to how these diseases are con- trolled. ; QUESTION AND ANSWER A.K.: My seven - month - old grandson has what the physician terms “bronchiolitis.” He said nothing can be done to help this condition. Is this true? Could there possibly be any connection between this ailment of the baby’s and smoking on the part of the mother when preg- nant? ; Answer: Bronchiolitis refers to inflammation of the véry small bronchial tubes called ‘‘bronchiol. es.” It may be due to infection, allergy of an asthma-like type, or may be part of some general disease. In most cases,.much can be done to help this condition. - Smoking by the mother during her pregnancy probably has no relationship to this disease. OUR YESTERDAYS (From The Guardian Files) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Nov. 24, 1933) ‘ Residents of O'Leary are bat- | tlimg one of the fiercest and tory of the province. The fire was discovered at one o'clock and at the time of going to press Was reported to be still raging furiously. Flames had _ already destroyed three warehouses, and three freight cars loaded with flour and potatoes. Also threat- ened were the two stations and a string of freight cars. The mortagage on the Cana- dian Legion Home was burned last evening at the monthly meet- ing of the Charlottetown Legion Branch, The meeting was lar- gely attended, and great satis- faction was expressed by the the northern walls of Paris. Their daily gleanings furnished the mart with its stock in trade, and their reputation as carriers of vermin gave the Flea Market its name. Thrifty French housewives got in the habit cf going to the Marche aux Puces for odd items hard to find in more prosaic shopping centers—a new wheel for the baby carriage or a porcelain doorknob to match the wall-pap- er in the guest bedroom. Foreign travelers discovered the place shortly after the turn of the century. They found it a- musing, and told their friends. Canny Paris antique dealers, quick to recognize a good thing, moved in. Some came first to buy stock for their shops on fash. ionable downtown streets. Soon they had established branches. Now the manket offers what is: probably the world’s foremost single collection of French an- tique furniture, porcelain, and erystal. Rich and poor mingle in the Flea Market, scarcély conscious of one another in the intensity of their bangain-hunting. A wealthy ' American buying Napoleon III furniture rubs shoulders nonchal- antly with an Arab trying to find a thirdhand pair of trousers at a price he can afford. ART OF BARGAINING The thousands of merchants in the Flea Market esteem a shrewd bargainer. Except _ for very cheap objects, a dealer does not expect to- get his ask- ing price. As one merchant ex- plained, ‘‘If I want 300,000 francs I start at 325,000. If I say 5,000 I mean 4,000.’’ But a customer has to be shrewd to get a dealer down to his last price, as an American couple found during their visit. Wanting to buy a Louis Seize cylinder desk, they carefully planned their bargaining strat- egy in pig Latin on the off-chance Hes shopkeeper might know Eng- ish, They got the desk—for about $50 more then they would have says. Ragpickers—who comb the city’s trash cans every morning | —made their headquarters in a ’ gollection of rough shacks inside | paid in the most expensive shop most destructive fires in the his- |} NOTES BY THE WAY Switzerland. with four-and-a half million inhabitants, did xige business with the outside wol in 1957 than the Soviet paske with more than 200 million inhab- itants.—The Outlook It is no coincidence that Van- couver, Seattle and Kansas City all have water polution crises, All are rapidly growing metto- politan areas which haven't de- veloped metropolitan means to meet metropolitan problems. — Vancouver Sun members of the attaining of their objective during a time of de- pression. TEN YEARS AGO (Nov. 24, 1948) The five room Borden _ school was badly damaged by fire last night, although strenuous efforts by the town’s fire departments, aided by the Summerside fire department, were successful in saving part of the building. The one storey frame structure had only recently been enlarged by an additional room. A new hot air furnace with automatic stoker was also recently installed. There was no estimate of the damage, although unofficial reports said the school would Le worth about $15,000. : Mr. Earle C. Baker was elec- ted president of the new P.E.I, Automobile Association at a pub- lic meeting held last night. Other officers include Vice-president, Brig. W.W. Reid; secretary, Mr. ‘Frank Casey. The Board of Dir- ectors include, Leo Doucette, J. Gordon MacDonald, Mayor B. Earle MacDonald, W.S. Stewart, Judge C. 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