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TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1959.

Fie! Premier Frost’ - Premier Frost has turned down a

challenge to a three-way debate with

the CCF and Libera! leaders in the Ontario election campaign. The

Fesults on Thursday may justify his

refusal on political grounds, but we

deplore the manner in which he |

couched his reply. “This suggestion,” he said, “is the oldest dodge in the

_ political book for those who cannot

draw ¢rowds themselves.”

Mr. Frost rejected the debate, chal- i

lenge in a statement given to report- ers at Timmins.“‘This would not be a debate,” he argued; “it would simply be a political encountér which could add nothing to this compaign or the publie life of this Province.” Why a “political encounter” in a_ political campaign should be undesirable from the public standpoint we do not know. In all our legislatures, and in the Commons itself, the quality of debate has greatly deteriorated since the old- time joint political meetings were dis- carded. Those meetings were the proving-ground for fighting candi- dates. They had to show their capac- ity on the hustings, and this provided a good test of their ability to handle themselves on the floor of the House.

‘Today politicians talk about “de- bating” an issue at their own party meetings, or in solo radio or television appearances, when they are simply giving prepared addresses, with or

_ without the aid of a manuscript. De-

bate, it is worth remembering, comes from the old Latin ward “debatuere”, to beat down. It is akin to the English word “batter” and its primary mean- ing is to engage in strife-or_contest. Later it came to designate verbal battle and now it has been watered down to mean, simply, “discuss.” In the process a good old democratie e=stom has been scrapped, and the glectors have lost much innocent en- tertainment as well as the opportun- ity of hearing two, or even three sides of a question debated fully be-

. fore they voted.

- Premier Frost is himself a good de- bater and we do not think it is due to any fear of meeting opponents on the same platform that he has turned down their challenge in this case. No doubt, as he says, they had hoped to capitalize on the publicity that such a meeting would provide. But what of it? The crowds that would attend would be an index of the public in- terest in the performance. That used to be part of the return the taxpayer got for his money. Today alk he gets is an exhibition of shadow-boxing that oldtimers in the political ring would snort at with disgust.”

We remember the good old days in this Province, when champions like the late Premier Lea and the late

John H. Myers would square off in bouts that rocked the whole constit- uency. On occasions, perhaps, more

‘heat than light was generated at such ’ meetings, but they were never dull.

We still have a few sturdy hecklers who enliven political performances, even in these degenerate times; but their number is getting fewer and soon they, too, will go the way of all flesh. We hope they are not yet ex- tinct in Ontario!

: The Friendly Approach

Canadians who make it a na- tional pastime to criticize the Amer- ican way of life are usually oblivious of the fact that their ammunition comes from the soul-searching an- alysis of Americans themselves. It was this American capacity for self- criticism and, ultimately, for hum- lity, that Dr. Claude Bissell, presid- ent of the*University of Toronto, singled out in a recent speech to the -graduates of Wayne University ‘n Detroit.

“I suspect that this (the post-

war period) will be known in Amer- ican history as the decade of criti- cal self-assessment, as the time when Americans became aware of the’ lonely crowd, of the organiz-

~ ation man, of the affluent society,

of the hidden persuaders, and of the waist-high culture,” .Dr. Bis-

‘sell said. “Surely there is no sug- gestion here of flabby degeneration —

or of easy self-complacency.” Dr. Bissell’ ch to his sub- one. Americans,

hectoring tone, causing only re- sentment or amusement; “a little,” as the Toronto educationist put it,

speakers before Canadian audiences. In this case the fault tends to super- ciliousness rather than to criticism per se, but it can be just as Irritat- ing. We could do with friendlier apptoaches on both sides.

Space Traffic Problems _ This poor old world, unable to settle a comparatively simple prob- lem like the division of Berlin, is now being called upon to draft a set of rules for outer space. This in- deed, was mooted as a matter of urgency the other day before the U.S. House Committee on Science and Aeronautics. Lunar probes and satellite launchings have reached a point where East-West agreement on the use of space is badly needed. If none is reached, unwritten rules may become established that would be hard to change.

Space activities are hard to classify since many lend themsel- ves to hostile as well as peaceful purposes. An observation , satellite equipped with photographic, infra- red-or television cells, for example, would lend itself to military re connaissance as well as forest-fire vatrol. But the classification of

proscribed activities is by no means .

impossible.

From Soviet legal sources, the committee was informed, proposals have come that satellites be sup- plied with identifying signs, that there be agreement on radio fre- quencies and the elimination of in- terference, that space vehicles re- main the property of the launching state and that the launching state be responsible for injury or damage caused by such vehicles. The same areas of agreement have been pro- posed in the free world, and could serve as starting points for the rule of law in outer space. -

This would call for a summit conference of a new kind. Mean- while, the Four Power foreign min- isters are still bogged down with

' mundane affairs at Geneva.

EDITORIAL NOTES

To commemorate the 200th an- niversary of the capture of Que- bec, Queen Elizabeth has granted permission for the cloak worn by General Wolfe in the famous battle on the plains of Abraham to be placed on display at Halifax for three months. This was done at the request of Major General Bog- ert, chief of the Canadian Army’s Eastern Command. The cloak, which is mauve colored and big enough to wrap five persons, was placed in the Tower of London where it has remained until now. Insured for $20,000, it was flown to Halifax last Friday.

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The Bluenose has given valuable service between Yarmouth and Bar Harbor but, according to Premier Stanfield, an additional ship has now become “fundamental to the proper deve nt” of south-west- ern Nova ia. The Halifax Chron- ‘ele-Herald expresses the hope that, unless such a second vessel is pro- vided in the meantime, Ottawa’s program of improved _ transporta- tion facilities for the Maritimes will develop in a manner that will make it possible for Nova Scotia to ac- cept the new Borden-Tormentine ferry as a hand-me-down from Prince Edward Island within a few years. That would be fine with us, when we have gotten the causeway !

‘tion time is coming up for many

‘to be near them again.

AND Tus GOVERNMENT

: SANS GOOD LITTLE BOYS HAVE NOTHING “To WORRY ABOUT

HANSARD ILLUSTRATED

OTTAWA REPORT

~ Saskatchewan Ceremony

By Patrick Nicholsea

One of the hoped-for visitors at the official ceremonies marking the opening of construction of the South Saskatchewan Dam was one-time dam-booster Ross That- cher, That newsworthy former M.P. for Moose Jaw was not among the many—Conservative and Liberal and C.C.F. politic- ians who attended, however., Many people were surprised by his absence, especially in view of his rumoured new interest in a political career, since he recent- ly. freed himself of his time-con- suming business responsibilities by selling his hardware stores— for a reported $250,000.

What now are the plans of that, able politicin, who has already sat in Parliament as a C.C. Fer, an Independent and a Liberal? Surely he wont make a third bid to beat C.C.F. leader—and his former parliamentary room-mate | —Hazen Argue, at Assiniboia? Will he “‘retire’’ to Vancouver, and attempt to spearhead a Lib- eral revival in B.C.?

MOOSE JAW SCOOP

The Moose Jaw Times-Herald tertainly won local recognition as Saskatchewan's leading news- paper at Outlook on Dam-Day. Pretty Moose Jaw Majorettes distributed free copies of the Times-Herald to the 200 guests

PUBLIC FORUM

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sarily en“orse the opinion ef corres } pondents.

GOING BACK HOME

Sir, — Now that the summer season is here again and vaca-

of us, what do we plan to do? As one who has travelled and tramped round in the world’s : largest cities and wandered among strangers here and there in the past, one of the things I plan this summer is to go back home; back home to the country where as a bay I learned the way of life, where living was not from a golden plate but from the hands of a golden mother and father who are there no more.

But we will go back to the old home around Fathers’ Day and live again in dreams of another day when we strolled beneath the green of the beach trees and watched the birds build their nest and feed their young. Here we will see again in dreams the family around the dinner table,

at the official lunch, and among the 10,000 spectators at the dy- namiting ceremony. This souv- enir edition contained articles describing the whole history of Saskatchewan's struggle to get the dam, the extent and cost of the irrigation and power pro- jects, and a forecast of what these may mean to the province.

Such a mammoth edition, devot- ed entirely to the dam, certain- ly stole the show from the Regina newspaper, which was nowhere to be seen, and from the Saska- toon paper which only had a snippet on the front page to the effect that Prime Minister Dief- enbaker would officiate at the opening ceremony.

I heard many guests express their admiration for the fore- sight of the Times-Herald in is- suing such an interesting edition; and I noticed that it was favour- ite reading among the Cabinet Ministers ud M.P.’s flying back to Ottawa after the ceremony. I was given my copy by pretty Vickie F~' s, whom I later saw chatting to two old timers: Mayor J.C. Carter of Outlook, who homesteaded nearby in 1904, and someone whose parents had brought him from Ontario to homestead further north a year earlier than Mayor Carter: John Diefenbaker.-. . \

With the Ontario election enter- ing its final week, many M.P.’s of all parties are now away from Ottawa, helping provincial can- didates. Immediately after the opening prayer, when the attend- ance in the House of Commons is normally at its peak, on a re- cent day I counted only 124 out of 207 Conservatives present, 4 out of 8 C.C. Fers., and a mere 14 out of 48 Liberal M.P.’s. _.» POLITICAL WRITING POPULAR

Since it was disclosed some months ago that I had started work on a biography of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, sev- earl other typewriters have started clacking as writing books about Canadian Prime Ministers has developed almost into a mass movement. Former Prime Min- isterial secretary Jack Pickers- gill has started work on the third | volume of the life of his former boss, Mackenzie King. Former Cabinet -Minister Jack Pickers- gill has begun thinking about a biography of his ‘former boss, Prime Minister St. Laurent.

Former Prime Ministerial see- retary Dale Thompson has like- wise begun gathering material for a life of .Mr. St. Laurent, which however the subject has not yet authorized. And Mari- timer Lord Beaverbrook has launched a biography of the man who once shared an office with him at Chatham, New Brunswick, and later became Ca- nada’s llth. Prime Minister, R. B. Bennett—this latter has evid- ently been a case of a sponsor in search of an author.

Equality In Danger

Montreal Gazette

The current visit of Premier Nikita Khrushchev to Albania to enjoy ‘“‘the beneficial Albania mountain air” is expected to have considerable political _signifi- cance. It is thought that Khrush- chev may use the visit to make final arrangements for setting up missile bases in the little Com- munist state. Such an arrange- ment would be in reply to cur- rent NATO negotiations for plac- ing missile bases in Italy, to the west of Albania, and in Greece, to the easst.

This'is their secondary goal: to revive old suspicions and divi- sions. It is all very well for the Americans to shout encourage- ment and supply arms, says the Soviet propaganda, but you will be the ones to die first if a war should come.

NO LONGER TRUE

This argument is no longer true. In the past, even as _ as the Beneva conference of 1955, it did have sufficient truth to be of use to the Kremlin.

Since then, however, the inter-

with those golden parents at ei- [é6ntinental ballistic missile has

ther end. We -will drink in their smiles and wonder at the serious moments of their lives. We will walk with them again and again in dreams along the highway. and through the fields of another day, when country life was so won- derful and plain. Our footsteps will lead us to the church yard where they sleep in peace, know- ing that not for one moment are they forgotten by their very own who will one day rest beside them in that country plot. We will also visit around the district and the old school and meet again those of another day who are still around. Many of our good neigh- bours and friends are at rest and we will visit their resting places | With Fathers’ Day coming up why not scores of us go back home for a day or two and live ; again in memory lane. There are scores of homes where fath- ers and mothers who are in the twilight of their life wait for us to come home. Why not go this summer on vacation time? Ancther year there may be a va- cant chair; that silver haired mother may be gone and dad may not be in his chair any more. No matter who we are or

where we are there is no place

like that old home to visit again. I am Sir, etc., WALTER A, |

Charlotieiowa

become a reality. The American Atlas has flown its pre-arranged 6,000 miles in test flight and its nose cone has been successfully recovered, meaning that a nu- clear warhead could be landed on target. Absolute precision and reliability are still to come but the major development problems have been solved.

As early as last year, Khrush- chev declared that Societ missil- es of such range were already perfected and in “serial produuc- tion.”” ‘

The reality of the intercontin- ental ballistic missile (ICBM), drastically changes the charac- ter of the NATO alliance. If should have a profoundly unifying effect on the lliance and this should be, but is not yet, relfectéd in the manner in which the NATO allies negotiate with the Kremlin.

IN FRONT LINE

Today, we in North America, “the arsenal of democracy," are in the front line just as much as the people of West Germany, of France or Holland or Italy or Great Britain. The ICBM has destroyed the sanctuary of oceans or of distances. Missiles launched simultaneously from Russia toward Birmingham and Detroit would crrive over their targets — unless destroyed on

| the way—within 10 minutes of

each other.. _ Britain was the prime target

of Nazi air power during the Se- cond World War only because North America could not be hit. A massive Nazi effort was made to cut off North American sup- plies in the Battle of the Atlantic. Even then, ~ itler had dreams of giant V-weapons which could : cross the Atlantic and strike ‘‘the arsenal”; he dreamed of U-boats armed with missiles which could lie off the Atlantic coast and blast industrial targets well in- land.

These dreams have either come true or are very close to it. In the world of the ICBM, Bri- tain remains a target, but not the prime target. It is a target, one of dozens, because it contains U. S. missile bases and U.S. Strat- egic Air Command bomber bas-

es. PRIME TARGET

The prime target, today, is the Florida and Vandenberg in Cali- “arsenal” itself, the missile launching sites at Canaveral in Florida and Vandenberg in Cali- fornia, the home bases of SAC, the industrial centres.

This is a vast change in world strategy which has taken’ place only in the last couple of years. It ig not really appreciated yet.

It is nat a comforting change for North Americans to think about, but it has some compen- sations which should be develop- ed to their utmost.

It means, for instance, that in negotiating with the Soviet Un- io, the NATO allies on both sid- es of the Atlantic negotiate from the same position, the front line. The Americans can no longer be suspected of taking a remote iso- lationist view, protected by their oceans and their distances.

It means there !s fo longer any strength in Khrushchev's at- tempts to divide the allies into | two camps, the Europeans at his mercy and the North Americans he cannot hit. Le

With the ICBM, all NATO Is open to attack. This thought, grim as it is, should bring the NATO allies closer together. It should enable them, under the common threat, to forge a more unified organization for both defence and negotiation. '

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OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO June 9, 1934) Sergeant Major H.B. Collins,

tion work at the Kensington Rifle Range, received orders yesterday to proceed with the construction of four more targets, which will bring the total up to ten, the or- iginal number. At present there are thirty-eight men employed on the Range, and it is expected the work will be completed in ten days. ;

The Second Charlottetown Com- pany of Girl Guides presented a delightful and varied entertain- ment in St. Paul's Parish Hall last evening before a capacity au- dience. The youthful entertainers displayed the high quality of lead- ership of their leaders, Miss Dor- othy Reay, Miss-Margaret Large and Miss Olive Thornton. .

TEN YEARS AGO (June 9, 1949)

Work on, the new Gloria build- ing is progressing and should be completed early in August, de- signer and construction engineer, Cyril J. Arsenault, stated yester- day. The building will house two stores on the ground level and will have officcs on the second and third floors.

On her first trip to Newfound- land with a general cargo of Is- land produce for the P.E.I. lit dustrial Corporation, the M. V. Eskimo makes it possible for an Island well-drilling firm to ex- tend its operations to the Buren Peninsula. Today Douglas Bros. and Jones are shipping one of their three well-drilling machines to start work in the town of For- tune in Newfoundland.

THE WOOD

Some day will bring Destruction to this gentle soli- tude;

Some day the axe will swing

And the hungry saw.whine in this little wood.

Already eithe: side,

The candy-coloured houses, jeal- ous-eyed,

Elbow it, grudge this space Filled with small branches deli- cate as lace.

Some Spring will see the last

Of the benediction these tiny clois- | ters give.

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