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FRIDAY. OCTOiBf:l:-l. 1954 Fisherman's insurance Claims for damage to lobster traps amount to four times the amount of prem- iums paid by the lobster fishermen, reports

include the losses in the western North- umberland Strait from the close approach of hurricane Edna. Losses from that :-'orni, however, are considered to be small.

The ;Fishei'mcn's Indemnity Fund was set upiTi,v the Federal Government in July of last year to provide fishermen with low cost marine insurance. Since then Mari-F time fishermen have insured .367 vcsscisi valued at 5S963,2()3 and 86.976 lobster trapsf valued at .?386,343 in the first 12 months ofl operation. During the same ptriod 29ii fishermen have entered .'l4-4 claims for which the government has paid out S-16,110 for 36,826 traps destroyed. Premiums received for lobster traps insurance totalled only. 5111.722. Vessel claims paid amounted to 5112.753 and premiums paid amounted to 539,632.

There will no doubt be pressure to raise the rates for this fishermen's insurance on the basis of the first year's experience. Fisliing, however. is extremely uncei-tain' and it would he most unfortunate if the: cost of insurance were to put it out oft reach of a great many of those for "whose protection it is intended, An average oil -losses three or more years would seem to

provide a better basis for such a judgment.

Young People In The Lead

The ruling of the United States Supremelr

Court, declaring public-school segregation, to be unconstitutional, is not having clear' sailing in all regions. This, of course, was expected: a practice that was in vogue for so long is not easily done away with, es- pecially when State Governments are do- ing everything they can to perpetuate it, as is the case in a number of the segregat- ed areas. A few of the States, however, already have taken steps to carry out the directive, without waiting for the final edict, which has been delayed in order that local school authorities might have plenty” of time in which to make the necessary ad-i justments in their school systems.

The first State to put integration into full effect was Missouri, and the report is that the change was made without any serious trouble. But, as segregation pas- sed away, other forms of discrimination against Negro children became noticeable. One instance of this occurred a few days ago when a group of young people, on their way to an integrated youth conference, stopped at a certain place for lunch and were refused service because two of the youths were Negroes. The young people lost no time in arguing with the restaurant l keeper nor in pleading their constitutional rights. They simply bought sandwiches and soda and quietly ate their lunches on the street curb in front of the place that had turned them away- i

A very good commentary indeed on good social relations and a stirring rebuke to those who would keep alive the fll'95

,racial discrimination. Perhaps, after the young people of the South will have tot take the lead in wisdom and g00dWi" bl-” fore. the spirit of a judicial ruling can be made to work for the common good.

Masque of The lioii lloatli

When the South-East Asia Treaty Or- ganization comes into existence, as it must Within the next few months, the condition bf its success. most observers believe, is that the lines idraw by the free world pgainst the thr,eat 0 communist nggressioni will be no less clearly drawn than they are today in Europe through NATO. Yet it ivould be unrealistic indeed to imagine that Even when a frontier of freedom has been i toblished under SEATO, prospects for

tabllizing the international situation in the ,' t would be as promising as is the case in Europe under NATO. The reason, of course, is that in Asia he issue between nationalism and colonial- um cuts across that between Communism . freedom in in manner no marked that iny comparison of the potential achieve- .. l.-. of SEATO and NATO at once be- menningless. Failure to grasp the - tIl, differences. between on ob- of NATO. which is designed to draw , , bfanslve ring around Western Europe

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South-East Asia may take I generation or more to achieve. SEATO must, therefore, be flexible 'rather than rigid, and avoid that brittleness which, in the coming era of ad- justment, might result in a collapse of the entire structure. For a too rigid defence system is constantly in danger of being lundermined from within. It would be a tragic paradox if, per- chance, through SEATO being cast in the concept of the impenetrable fortress, the fate of its Asiatic members were to be that .of the group of people portrayed by Edgar ' Allen Poe in The Masque of the Red Death. Shut away in a luxurious palace while a plague devastated the land without, those

ing in his features the deadly. mark of the ppestilence appeared. "And now was acknowledged by all the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing pos- ture of his fall. . . . And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods

expired. And darkness and decay and the Red Death held iilimitable dominion over-

all.” 1

Still Seeking A cure ,

The Common Cold Foundation, an Am-1 erican research group, has issued a pre- gress report on its findings to date; but these are unfortunately of a negative nature. Nobody has managed to isolate the virus of the common cold as yet, and there is no "cure" for it. The foundation offers some encouragement ;n its opinion that "the research picture looks more hope- ful than at any time during the last dozen years.” Meanwhile, a number of facts sur- rounding the central mystery have been es-p tablished. conditioning has no effect on the frequency or severity of colds. It also declares flatly that drafts do not cause colds.

It is well known, of course, that people. in good general health, who sleep and eat properly, are in ii better condition to resist the onset of colds or throw them off once; caught. Being properly clothed for cold or wet weather is a common-sense precaution. too, whichhmany do not always take. iThc enormity of the need for cure or control of the cold is emphasized in these figures: colds cause 27 per cent of the U.S. total of absenteeism at a cost of 152 billion in pro- duction loss per year. The figures for Can- ada, though not available, would doubtless show a correspondingly heavy toll taken by this ubiquitous ailment.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Dieppe taken by Canadian 1st Army this; '

date 1944.

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Relations between Ottawa and Quebec have taken on a slight air of intrigue with the proposed meeting of the Premier and Prime Minister at an undisclosed but pre-

sumably neutral rendezvous. O D I

Britainls present Labour Party is fart from comprising the "Little Englanders" that many Socialists were early in the pres- ent century. The delegates at Scarborough were apparently enthusiastic about the idea of developing equal partnership with what. are now colonial territories.

Britain's pledge to keep four divisions,

oi,and an air force in Europe until 1998 islmmmodm" on the wand...

surprising enough to those who have been aware of the come-back she has made sincv; the end of the Second World War. it would, mightily astonish those who were then pre-i pared to write her off as a force in the;

world.

It is a sign of very much changed times that a large Canadian firm pays some 15 per cent of its payroll costs in the form of "fringe benefits" and a United States sur- vey shows that 25 per cent is not uncom- mon. A generation ago it was a prime de- mand of labour that wages should be strict- ly in cash. . i

-' "We shall continue to do our part-in trade, in financial support and in other ways--in the movement toward healthier and freer trade and payments." This was the undertaking by U. S. treasury secretary George Humphrey which sent intematlonal monetary experts away from Washington somewhat cheered despite the failure of Congress to enact the,President's proposed tariff reductions. '

George Colman, the Younger, was born this date 1762. Like his father he "was ,destined for the Bu, but he, too, abandon- ed his legal Itudiq Ind wrote for the stage. A nrounc wriur and Idcpferpi the list of his filly! and other worh Heir"'It

The foundation says that airh

A Timely Re-Discovery

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ABOARD AT A SHIPS HELM

Aboard nt 3 ships helm,

A young st:ersman steering with care. ,

Through fog on n sea-coast dole- fully ringing,

An ocean-bell - a warning ro:lf'd by the waves.

0 you give good notice indeed, you ball by the sen-reels ringing.

Ringing. ringing. to warn the ship from its wreck-place.

bell.

For as on the alert 0 steersman. you mind the loud admoni- tions,

The bow turns, the frcighted ship tacking speeds away under her gray sails,

The beautiful and noble ship with all her precious wealth speeds away gayly and safe.

But. 0 the ship, the immortal ship: 0 ship aboard the ship!

Ship of the body, ship of the soul. voyaging, voyaging, voyaging.

-Walt. Whitman.

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GAELIC IN SCHOOL

"At Lot 30 (South Shore) School, taught. by Mr. Ewen Lamont, a class of 12 of the 43 scholars listed

Middle

Changes COlllE so rapidly, and .-vents crowd so swiftly on each athcrs"liecls, that one is apt. to for- gel. the shape of things only a .ew years ago.

I have just by chance been look- .ng at newspaper files of two years ago - September and October, 1952. in Korea heavy lighting was going ion; truce talks had been broken oil; and there was fighting in Indo- China as well. Sbnlin had written an urticle proving that war between the capitalist states was inevitable.

But I was especially impressed by the change that has come over the Middle Eastern scene and. over Britain": relations with Middle

iziiistern countries. . . .

just flatly rejected the Analo- American proposals for a settle- ment of me oil dispute and was preparing to break of diplomatic l'l3lHi.i'2ll.S with the United Kingdom. British relations with Euyil W9" strained. There was In yet. Lo aet- tlement. of the Sudan question. Negotiation about the Suez Canal Zone seemed outside the region of practical politics. And strain be- tween Britain and Egypt. was hav- ing ill elects on British relations with other Arab States. Nor were their own relations with each other by any means all that could be wished.

The contrast with the situation today leaps to the eye. Not. only

are learning to read the Gaelic language, by which I found thciri progress in English, and their know-,

facilitated. By comparing translating they are enabled to, comprehend many words and phrases in English, when explain-. ed in Gaelic (which is the mother; tongue of all these children), andi are thus enabled to make rnpldl progress in the acquisition of bothi languages.

"It. were to he wished that Gaelic teachers 'in Scottish settlements would more generally follow such an example, when it. has been demonstrated how powerful an auxiliary a knowledge of the Gaelic language is to the study of the English. The school-house here in one of the largest. and most

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-From in report to the Bonrd-of Education by Mr. John MacNcil', Visitor of District Schools, Jan. 28. 1841.

Silver Fox Look (Ottawa Journal)

The prettiest fashion note, sev- eral hundreli Canadians have seen in recent years is hie news of re- vived lntereut in the silver fox. Twenty-four garments designed o:,' European couturiers have been on display at I Montreal show featur- ing Illver fox exclusively.

Fox ranchers who depended lieavuy on silver fox production have been Iffectcd by changing fashions. In 1938 there were 10,454 fur farms in Canada but. the last. census in 1951 showed only 3.072, an indication miiny had found the business unprofitable. ,

Not only the fox rnncher has known 'dlfflculty. The Northern tl'lDnCf"hp8 long depended on the white fox u I leading source of revenue and declines in price: mode more,difflcult In Ilwnyn trying oc- cupItion. The Northern AffIli-u no purtment. says that the white fat in the Inimnl of greatest economic importance in the Arctic.

We would beg Dame Fuhlnn to be kind. to mnke the wearing of white Ind Iilvcr fox furs euent.lIl- for u long I time no pouiblo-to the Dior Ind every other New Look. This will lnfuriaw I-lulbundr Pro- tective Auoclltton, but. it. Ihould know that if the fubion did not. call for fun it might. deimnd some other eccentricity which would, we know, be little lea expensive.

I Tho Ago Old Story

have Anglo-Iranian diplomatic re- lations been restored, but - what. seemed beyond hope two years ago

the oil dispute has been finally

iledge of that lan3uage' to be mmhisdttled; for ratification of the new

agreements by the Mallla is re- garded as certain. That. means the dangcr of an economic collnpse has vanished and that Iran, instead or being as two years ngo in danger- ous nrca at economic and socinl weakness, can become both it stable and stabilising factor in the whole area. Iran, lying between Pakistan and the Arab countries. is of im- mense importance. 0 I O

, An equal change had come over Anglo-Egyptian relations. The Sudan question, which has helped to em- bitter those. relations for thirty years, is out of the way. The Sudan is moving steadily and quietly to- wards full self government and self determination and, without. over- confidcnce. I think that we can be certain that the other question-of the Suez Canal zone and the final withdrawal of British troops from Egypt after over seventy years - is settled. True, the treaty has not yet been signed. The lost. difficult de- tails nre still being negotiated. and fllWf”ly3 in such negotiations the last. details are npt. to be troublesome. But. I know no one who doubts they will be settled, and the treaty itself signed within the next few weeks. I

And that will mean for more than agreement on the question of the Canal zone. It. will mean the opening up of nn entirely new chapter in the whole Middle East. For it puts an end to the Anglo- Egypt.iIn conflict which has been A oomtnni. Ind dlmaglng fnctor in Middle Eastern offIln nince the close of the 1014-1018 war. In one some the new chIptor hu Ilrendy opened. !''or ulreIdy Anglo-Egyptian reintlonl are on their new buiii - al friendly Ind co-opentlve Ia if the formal Iignaturu hId been at- l.Iched to the formal trenty. That in It rcvolutiomry change.

Nor does it Iffect. only direct to- lIt.ionI between Britain and Egypt. lfwlffecu for the better both Brit.- ilh relation: with the rent of the Arch world - the settlement of the Bunllnl Out: dispute 'with laudi ArnbiI in already I welcome Ila of im... vcment. And it will offal

”!vpt Ind other ArIb mm on tip-one hnnd Ind the wholu &- on world on the other. Of 2'51 there are mIny hopeful-

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VIC-DIM

Eastern Changes

By W. N. Ewer

Tliat offer, made by the British Minister of State: to the diplo- matlc representatives of the Arab States in London on September 21:2, and at once communicated to the Israeli Ambassador, may or may not bring results. Itia too early 3'93 W judge. But it is very seriously made and will be seriously considered. And even that would not have been possible two years ago.

so I turned from the files with the feeling that certainly in the Middle East, these two years have been years of really remarkable achievement.

Back To Button-Sticks

(Hamilton SpectIt.or)

According to The Cmadiun Press, top army officer: in Ot.tawI ore. perplexed by the fact. that the troops preicr old-fashioned brass buttons. which have to be shined laboriously, to the new - fnnglecl nontarnishable ones. which don't. Either The Canadian Press mis- -understood. the officer: or else some very unsoldlcrly - clinracteu are sitting behind desks in Na- tional Defence Headquarters: No professional army man would be the least. perplexed; rather he would take the preference II I cheering. but. perfectly normal, proof of good morale in the ser- vice.

It. is an elementary fact. that. any soldier worth his rations take: pride in his appearance and will go to quite remarkable lengths to get. it the way he wants it, spend- .ng his own money to have his uniform surreptitiously retiillored and devoting hours and consider- able artifice to working up I pro- per chine on the rccnlcitrnnt. leather of a pair of issue boots.

Btnsswnre offer: particular scope in this direction. It can be tnken (or. during those occasional periods when the higher-ups inexplicably frown on the process, smuggled) downtown to a Jeweller or I. maul- plnt 5; shop to be proleuionnlly but ed so that it. will take I better shine and also-equally importmt -acquire that long-sci-vice look to which every worth - while recruit aspires.

when the Irmy introduced the fancy non-tnmichIble buttons, which look dull. five years Igo it was just another symptom of the sincere but misguided welfnriam which has infected the clviliIn heads of the Department of Na- tlomil Defence. The official doct- rine in recent. years has been that the my to It.t.i-Ict. recruits in to make Irmy llfa appear I: jolly, easy, comfortable and Iecure no possible. we -have long lulpectod thnt. this is quite the wrong Ip. pi-ouch; t.hIt the services will draw the type of men who make good soldiers by offering n tough gnu- lenge to their peroonll pride. The ti-oops themselves, demnnding the

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Inn: 1 boy who hinted out tubing I girl with hot houuvtol-k in: wound up helping her with bar houuuork. -. mntn Btu-.

A hoohohrn getting old when the friend: who used to any. "Why don't you gel: married?" chance "to. "why didn't you get murledl" -Toronto cm-. ,

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A ionltor Ion " foreign policy ha been one of "hluater and 1'9?-f'lIl'.' This in also the do- mestic policy of many pIrentI.- Edmonton Jouniol.

Cunda in getting tragically ur- banized. Between 1941 and 1951 its rural populntlon increased seven per cent while it; uiban popula- -Chair ham Daily N6wu..

U. 5. HIIIIBI new plus for on international agency to use atom peacefully. we hope, however with I little left. over. in case You Know Who gets funny. -Windsor Daily Star. (

A Cundlln vvonun vot.crlnIrlIn observes that a few years of close association between an owner and his pet tends to produce a slight resemblance between the two. some dogs might consider that insulting. -Fort William Times - Journal.

The intent incentive to reducing to the conclusion of an American surgeon that. thin or underfed persons will have I better chance of surviving radiation injuries in an atom attack. starved, animals, he found, outlived well-nourished companions when exposed to lethal X-ray doses. -Ottawa Journal.

Rev. B. I. D. AIhford. I former R.cAi". padre, who know: Gen- enl Kurt Meyer, lately refund from I military prison, say: the man will soon be in West German uniform. nithouzh "Meyer's real dream of life is to be ll. lender in peace and not. war." He may be able to do a bit in both categories, -Brnntford Expositor.

l'rnvdI'I Ittnck on Clement Att- lce, charging that he slnndered the Soviet Union and Communist. China. at his Hong Kong press conference lmmedintely after en- joying their hospitality, was to be expected when he did not full 1. victim to Communist flattery. His ability to see behind the fa- cade naturally irked the soviet MW-I l8encY- - -Kitchener - Waterloo Record.

With In oItlmIt.ed pei-Iona Ind I third of Pcklstonh "93 hit by disastrous floods, the United states has signed an agree. ment: extending emergency did. Unlike most people the U. s. has helped, the Pakistani: Ire opt. to be imtetul. -Chnthnm DItly News.

A motor on accident. caused by I, bee, occurred in this area re. cently. strangely enough, small as In bees Ind hoi-ncta, they Ire quite often the cause of cIr Icel- defti-5. in lhlt they distract driver: to the point where onti-pl of the machine is lost due to the driver's frenzied attempt to kill the pest while in motion. This is I danger- OU-! practice. -Brockvllle Re- corder Ind Times.

A profeuor of Bi-ltIln'I Dinning. ham University has stated that "Wk 3 3005 10? I Person while mt may harm the blood vessels. Hdntva. muscles and Appetite. This view has been unpopular ever "Shakespeare's King Legi- suld. The foster-nurse of nature is "W-9e'5 R983 his. since then, been sought. after and lIuded, work dg. Dlored and Ivoided, daqaite ch. urgings of the poet who won that: "Of Ill the foe: that man lh0"ld drnd. the fint. Ind worse 15 Md." Llte to bed and only to rise seems to be the modern motto. -Toronto Telegram.

LONDON (CF)-Superintendent Nlpcv nobemon Joined the Wom- en: Royal Navy service in 1939 as I writer. In December she takes over from Commondanl. Dome MIIY Lloyd Ia director of the service.

jg return of bi-In buttom on which they will certainly pour the mogt BDPIUHI vltupernilon but which they need to feel aoldlerly, seem to be confirming this.

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some people an muniuu in I joke tbIt.'a only

I00 thus Iupposed to have two, Ind var, often hunt any. -0tt.IwI clt.,

fun. g Tho old ouIt.'Ird-pic - tlu-oyin.

flourished before the coming of than new pi-ennui-ind coritainei-I full of whipped cream. iihavlxig soup and shampoo. Journal.

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something Bnntford, could lam from certain other cities on this continent and in Europe ,1; can it: pays to have at local bylaw pro- hibiting unnecesury honking of horns. or maybe the Honk-Horn Harry type could be weeded out when he takes his driver's t,e.gg,.. Brantford Expositor.

many fully sovereignty, um; um ammunition will be supplied in German troops. when Russia gram- ed full sovereignty to East cm. many, the Russian troops mained, with their gum and gm- munition. It is to be hoped that West Germany can see the differ- ence. 4;, 0

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