TE LTE Aa eee

aR

Che Grrerdiens |

Covers Prince Edward island Like The Dew W. J. Hancox, Publisher Wallace Ward Managing Editor Editor Published every week day morning (except Sun dey end statutory holidays) at 165 Prince Street, Charlottetown, P.E.!., by Thomson Newspapers Ltd. Branch offices at Summerside, Montague, Alberton and Souris.

Frank Walker

Represented nstionally by Thomson Newspapers |

Advertising Services: Toronto 425 University Ave. Empire 3-8894; Montreal 640 Cathcart Street Uni- versity 6-5942; Western Office 1030 West Georgia Street Vancouver MA 7037.

Member Canadien Daily Newspaper Publishers Association and The Canadian Press. The Canadien Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repub- lication of all mews dispatches in this paper credited to it or to the Associated Press or Reuters and also to the local news published herein. All fight or republication of special . dispatches here In also reserved. Subscription ate: ~ Not over 40c per week by carrier.

$12.00 @ year by mail on rural routes and areas fet serviced by carrier

315.00 @ year off Island and U.K. $20.00 per Year in U.S. and elsewhere outside British Com monwealth.

Not over 7c single copy.

Member Audit Bureau of Circulation.

+PAGE 4 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1965.

At The Crossroads Britain’s attempt to declaration of independence by Rhodesia’s white-dominated govern- ment doesn’t seem to be getting any-

| | |

ead off a |

' |

where. Prime Minister Smith doesn’t |

want a Commonwealth premiers’ mis- gion to come to Salisbury in a bid to fYesolve the crisis. He has rejected a ‘British proposal to this effect, an- nounced that his government has made up its mind on the subject, and arrested a former Rhodesian prime gninister who favors Negro-maiority ‘rule as he was about to leave for ‘Britain. - Technically, of course, this is not Commonwealth affair since Rhod- esia is not strictly a Commonwealth

country; it is a British colony. But #}-

the consequences of an illegal seizure of independence by the Smith govern- ment are so grave that not only the Commonwealth, but the United Na- tions is solidly against any such move that would deprive the Negro ma- jority of a responsible share in the government of their country. ©

So solid is UN opinion that Great Britain has been asked to use force if necessary to defeat Smith’s plan. But it is Britain which must make this decision, and there is no evidence

‘that the British government ‘has any

intention of going this far. It has, however, indicated that if the threat- ened action is carried out it would be obliged to declare the Rhodesian government a rebel government.

- What would this mean?

Britons. Smith government to heel, a second consequence would be a British

initiative of some kind in the United Nations. Rhodesia, now a strictly ‘British concern, would have. declared itself to be outside the British sphere

and thus have taken itself into th

In the first place, it would automatically cut Rhodesia off from financial, econom- ic, political, and other support from the British government and all loyal If this did not bring the

<

The comissioner will investigate and report his findings to Parliament which will then decide what redress, if any, should be made. Also, his powers will be limited to grievances against the central government. He will.have access to departmental files and minutes and will be able to sum-

| mon witnesses. The minister involved

will have tightly restricted rights to block the commissioner's activities “in the national interest,” or for security purposes.

Public and press reaction to the proposed appointment is most favor- able. Where there is criticism, it is not of the ombudsman idea as such, but of what is termed “red tape” limiting the commissioner's sphere of action. But there is-no doubt that if the new official gets results, his position will be strengthened. Also the field may be extended to local administrations. It is here the citizen most often comes into conflict with authority.

Bond Interest Rates Amid the spate of election prom- ises it is surprising that taxpayers’ grievances with respect to the finan- cing of Canada Savings Bonds hasn't

come in for attention. It is claimed

in this regard that the interests of those who work for and sdve—their money, as against the beneficiaries of the welfare state, are getting a raw deal.

For example, as protection against inflation, the Canada Pension Plan provides that pensions under the plan and Old Age Security pensions ‘‘will’” be increased in line with increases in the cost of living. No such protection, however, is afforded purchasers. of Canada Savings Bonds, nowithstand- ing that the ‘purchase of these bonds is represented not only as an act of patriotism but as being of great bene- fit to the purchaser.

Mounting living costs are due to inflation. In public, politicians de-

seems based on continuing it. It is the erosion of this inflation which af- fects the value of savings bonds; yet the state—which is the chief culprit -in-inflation—insists_that.the b on d- holder pay income tax on the full in- terest rate, regardless of whether he receives it as rental or not. | As a spur to economy, the savings bond idea is fine. But if the savers are indeed the salt of the earth, as we are told at Canada Savings Bond time, they are surely worthy of as much consideration as other segments of society. This ought to be enough to warrant a pledge to look into the matter and introduce a more satis- factory system, in keeping with the trend of the times.

More: Criticism Now it’s the Inter-American Press Association, an organization repre- senting nearly 700 independent news-

plore it but all government policy.

international sphere. ‘

A third consequence, it is pre- dicted, would be the division of Rhodesians themselves into rebe! and loyalist elements. This could spark action by other African governments, guerrilla warfare along the banks of the Zambesi and wit hin Rhodesia, even intervention by Communist powers and a danger of general war -

or chaos throughout Africa.

A dispatch from Salisbury over the weekend indicated that there is little appreciation among white ‘Rhodesians of the gravity of their position. They went on picnics, watch- ed a tennis match and recovered from their usual Saturday night round of parties, dances and movies as if they hadn’t a care in the world.

In Britain, however, the ap- proaching crisis is being given grave consideration. Significant in this con- nection is the fact that Britain’s Con- servative party hierarchy has given full backing to the Labor government in its efforts to cope with it ;

British Ombudsman

There was some talk of providing an “ombudsman” at Ottawa, to pro- tect the individual from any malad- ministration of bureaucrats, but it

out before Parliament was dissolved and we've heard nothing about it since. In Britain, however, the government has finally announced its decision to appoint this type of of- ficial, who will have limited powers compared with his opposite number in Scandinavia or New Zealand.

He will work only through mem- bers of Parliament. It is they who will decide whether complaints are guitable for submission to the om- budsman. MPs will continue to be frontline watchdogs of liberty in keeping with British tradition. Since the days of the Witenagemot, back in the sixth century, Parliament has had

the duty of safeguarding the rights in this wav,

Fee Serr

. hcinvth-rineupenpnd dibtaperhepeene mannan “et

2 = geen

papers of the Western hemisphere, which has come out with a blast against the Pearson government for its legislation imposing, in effect, a tax on advertising in non-Canadian newspaper and periodicals, primarily directed to the Canadian market. This association, in a resolution passed over the weekend at its gen- eral assembly in San Diego, Califor- nia, says it is “inimical to those great traditions of a free press which Canada has so honorably upheld for

almost 100 years.” It affirms its be- |:

lief that “there should be no restrict- ions on the right of a free person to publish in a free society, and that the exercise of journalism is free,’ there- fore that “prohibitions, restrictions or permits to exercise it, whether

they affect owners, editors, directors,’

contributors. qr employees-of a pub- lication, violate freedom of the press.” The resolution asks the repeal of this “discriminatory and retrograde legis- lation” at the next session of Parlia- ment.

This followed a report by the as- sociation’s executive committee, not- ing that the Canadian Daily News- paper Publishers Association last April voted its “serious protest’’ to the bill and that it also had been criticized by the Commonwealth Press Union, and by the International Press Institute.

This was a pet scheme of Finance Minister Gordon, which was put through with little consideration of the consequences involved. Now it is being made plain to others, at least, in the government that it was any- thing but a brilliant idea.

EDITORIAL NOTE

According to an American ex- change, a whispered joke is going the rounds of the Soviet Union. It is to this effect: “Our agriculture is miraculous—our experts plant grain in the virgin lands and it comes up in Canada ~

| observance of mission Sunday

| was founded 118 years ago.

| Mrs. Leo Gallant, New Acadia, | PE.L, was promoted to the | rank*of Corporal in the Ro yal '» Canadian Air Force.

~ tal Manire-"

apse nae naecbbnl kg Seiten

aaesete

2 St ale le

THE WORLD ON YOUR DOORSTEP

OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson Sees, Great Issue One Of Leadership

Tommy Douglas, leader of | the New Democratic , will

immediately entered the Baptist Ministry. But he had won the Gold Medal for Debating at : versity, so not surprisi 1935 he was elec of Commons as tin, and these two honour of being the ber of our recent Parii that respect. From. 1944 Tommy Douglas was CCF mier of Saskatchewan, and ~ left that post by resignati when he was elected national Jeader of his party, which had | just been renamed and reborn as the New Democratic Party. Tommy still has the facile ton- | gue .of a debating Gold Medall- | ist and the uprightness of a.Min- | ister On account of his small

2

a

= La

F

i i

:

iti

abnevistet gaat

3

Stature, he is often referred to | as the “bantam” of the House | but there is nothing small nor

chicken about his attacks on the | Liberal Government, which | semble a naval artillery bar- | rage, or ‘“‘Carronade’— named

for the world’s first naval ar- | the iseue of leadership. I find as | tionalisation of try

senal at his birthplace, Falkirk, beside the Carron River, in Scot- land. |

Born in Scotland of Scottish | parents, Tommy Douglas is to- |

Canadian of British

day the most prominent New now undecided. Our leaders | in | have failed to challenge the Can-

fe

:

&

Ree a

é

| i

z F

RR :

= & -

3 : d R

hi concerned

i

E95 jie ek

life,

g

is undecided and | uncommitted. Even those” who | have regularly supported the old line parties in the past are |

j

_ West Germany's Example

Winnipeg Free Press

A survey by one of West Ger- many’s leading statistical insti- tutes has established that 42 per cent of all German adults can speak at least one foreign lan- guage. Twenty-six out of 100 Germans can speak English and 24 know French, the percent- age of those French having more than doubled dur- ing the past 10 years.

This is most remarkable, be- cause the Germans form the largest linguistic group in Eur- ope (outside Russia), and Ger-

man has for long been a popular:| migran

second language all across Nor- thern, Central and Eastern Eur-

What If It Rains?

‘A ridiculous plan for Canada’s centennial year has been ap-

Our Yesterdays

(From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY . FIVE YEARS AGO (October 19, 1940)

Terrific blasts shook London before dawn as Nazi airmen re- newed their attacks after the

-thrusting Royal Air Force “had hurled 15,000 bombs on German invasion bases across the English Channel.

Pope Pius XII broadcast a personal message to the Roman Catholics of the United States in

by the Society for the Propaga- tion of the Faith. The society

TEN YEARS AGO

(October 19, 1955) Leading Aircraftsman Wi 1 liam M. Gallant, son of Mr. and

Miss Anne Marie Pineau, dav- ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Urban Pineau_of Bloomfield, P.E.I. re-

cently graduated in the 1955 {- class of Verdun General -Hospi-

2 it 2% ae ee

ope. Indeed, a German going a- broad will find German- speak- ing people in most parts of the continent. Z

It is, therefore, the great merit | Europe

of German education that it has | made the Germans so conscious of their neighbors, and is teach- | ing the German child one or two | foreign languages.

One wonders, if a similar sur- | vey were to be carried out across allegedly bilingual Can- ada, how many people here — | other than first- generation im- | ts— could boast of being | to make themselves under- in a foreign language.

able stood

sort. To spend what ll be hundreds _ thous- on a si that be shown outdoors in a place | isn’t even remotely like an |

is not only to be | but to be careless with Canada’s reputation for circum-

Wf Canada must have a big entertainment with |

(and fireworks, doubt), let it be held in a spot where people can see it and in a | where “popular” enter- | tainment isn’t out of place. Tor- CNE gr , or Ot} s football stadium, would | be ideal places for those who) such entertainment to sit | and admire. }

no!

i

ii

produce what advance press. | is already labelling a | “fabulous open-air production” doesn't alter the case against fair-style razzie~ dazzle

re

ens B2 divinities @ 2p te

pt A

in A th it th th ag

pple ca ee ’

adian people to make the great- er effort, and have failed to give a new sense of direction and national purpose.

“The people generally have lost faith in politicians, with their suspect honesty and lack -of-national- goals. 1- don't-blame anyone for being fed up who has watched the slimy hands of the underworld reaching up into the councils of the nation, and who has watched influence peddling A bail-jumpers subverting jus-

AUTO PACT UNCERTAINTY “Prime Minister Pearson and Industry Minister Drury have failed to produce for publie scrutiny all the documents re lating. to the auto pact with

fits to the auto-makers, in the form of a rebate of more than $50 million each year; but the government has been wrong in failing to ensure that these benefits would be passed on to the consumer in the form of lower car prices, and paid out to workers displaced by the ra-

“In short, the people are look- ing for leadership; but they are net getting it, partly because our present leaders are not yet aware that our generation has moved into a new chapter of his- tory—that of the scientific revol-

ig ie

! % : i é

3

‘ i

L

|

R

bi

bet f i 7

g

tif itd! Fly it

UY Fs

i

|

i if

H | 7

g

FLEE eb:

I

E

ji ! oH

i f

t

i i

z in

?

f :

§ & E

i

$ z

i el i

i i d a

8 i i i

ff

= = F2 z = 5 3

iF | g 3

|

change of life?

_ America’s Art Pioneers National Geographic Society

dians was creating elaborate monuments, developing a sys- tem of mathematics, and using a surprisingly accurate calen- dar.

i i

other objects ico shed American intellectual tic achievements formerly tributed to the Maya.

Engineers as well as sculp- tors, the Olmecs the colossal stones actoss rugged terrain from basalt mines 50

sf

= :

:

Venta, a remote island in Tab-

u

i

isk

F i

aa8e

Hittite:

bese Fyli

|

2 ii

cee FE

a3

wie

REg EE

‘ li gyi gs aes make se’ le eam pacing sas lagaghahceaigaeai ica Adige lai rd lina ct acta atc

oT stRE EE & :

i

g

asco’s coastal mangrove |

swamps. De. Stirling

Brsathtiacsh. Picad Cal. Phi

excavaied and _

me ee ee amar ate ee ce

eae ‘ /

¥ s

Tans vou]

a: a }

ee ee:

‘Majori

|

Fe he=e8 ne gi

ae

Arabs Mak

MA

NOTES BY

~

rf

#

i

é

t:

f bf: E

i

te

ef

>

n

2

E P|

I

E é i

<5

i

z F28 Sees.

§

|

&§ 4 5 z

e

: 5 is gz

i 5 i i

E es

g

t dik if: 's g%

23

E

3 §

a

5 5 E

z

— _ Q =

|

bit

a af

ih igh

| ag

!

ik it HI

| 2% = 3

i :

sel

G..

|

2°: : ‘vit

tf

oe

: i

é

kiss and make up. In the radio attacks begin

er

é

THE WAY.

: g z i

iy ni

i

F z

i

!

: :

; : :

g F é

i

i R

Fer at |

FEf F

x¢ ; i

4

Plurality’

3 S E g

oh gF

Hera

1

gee RE

:

Ee

i i

i

& 33 g8 e523

4 E

it 58

f

3

rH ary ‘ih

To

ie ‘l

aE 3 Beg J eS 53

Se e g

efi Ni

ze

‘oday

§

g g

again.”

Time Flies

sae

i

ts £

S28 F

iy

[

[Fe

: ist? ahi :

would

z

1.— GUARANTEED INVESTMENT CERTIFI-

CATES are issued in or $5,000. Interest is full 6%.

2.—REDEEMABLE at anv tim 1 ine. WE GU iy e at full face

for up to 15 gears, but cutifiaste at any time. 3.— CURRENT ACCOUNTS (passbook) pay 5 ‘interest per annum on the 8 ye Bh in

erly balance. Interest is paid every 3 months on deposit will com-

4,— Accounts opened by the 20th of the month interest from the first of that month.

and if Interest is left pound.

| earn

JOR

COMPANY

‘57 Queen St, (the Hyndman Bidg.) 804 _ Hours 9 - 5 Daily — Closed Saturday

Pitas

hadi ds atk te

THE

Pills prompt relief from the

. Dee Dodd's.

‘

SOLS S SESE SERRE EC ESS

AAO S 8 005 0008 08 A is

i

UTC LULL

i]

%

€

MA sy ATTTTTROE ETRE un

Ti j

units of $500, $1,000, payable annually at a

to pay you the 6% you may cash in your

minimum quart-

TRUST.