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The Late Premier Duplessis The late Premier Duplessis had

a formula which he learned when | ary: But Chicago received world-wide

young in political life. He appealed to the voters’ hearts, not their minds. That may well have been his secret of victory; though he phrased it him-

self. in different words. “To be a _|

leader,” he maintained, “is to be strong, firm and courageous in bring- ing to one’s people safety, stability and security in their hames and in

their jobs.” He might have mention-—}-the

ed another quality in his leadership— the keeping of everybody guessing so that other Provinces and the Fed- eral Gevernment could never be just sure how Quebec, under Maurice would swing on any issue going beyond provincial boundaries. Mr. Duplessis held extreme views on provincial autonomy and other questions, and ‘inspired a fanaticism among his followers who Fegarded* him as the savior of the French-Can- adian race. Other Provinces cannot” share this view. There were many distinguished French-Canadians, in- deed, who strongly disagreed with his policies, and who regarded him, not as a statesman but as a dangerous dem- agogue. ‘He seemed, however, to flourish on criticism and certainly proved himself to be,a master of pol- itics and one of the most striking and colorful personalities of his time. Mr. Duplessis could certainly claim to be consistent in his views, and no doubt sincerely. believed that the dictatorship he exercised was for his province’s welfare. It is difficult otherwise to account for his long success in public life. There is no question that he was a man of great courage, of keen intellect and—when

he chose. to exercise it—of much per-_

sonal charm. No doubt it is his vir- tues that will be remembered at this time, and there will be widespread regret at his death which came so suddenly and unexpectedly.

The Prevailing Trend

Noting that all three Maritime Provinces will now have Progressive Conservative governments, the Mont- real Gazette sees in this a significant reversal of the oldtime _ political trend. The Maritime Provinces, it re- calls, came to be identified with Lib- eralism at a time when Liberalism was held to be identified with prov- in the same way that Conservativism—avas held to have centralizing tendencies. Under a num- ber of, conditions—and changes the federal Liberal Party gained_the re-

putation of being centralizers, leav- ing to the Cons servatives the cause of provincia! rights. e Theswchange was forecast in the statements. made by Hon. Angus i Macdonald, the Liberal~Premier of Nova Scotia, in, his last years in ofkicn, It gai ned’ force whet New Prunswick ‘vent Conservative in 1952, and Nova Scotia in 1959. it was hardly to be expected that Prince_ Edward Island, in the Maritime area, — would remain one of its kind. It has” now joined, with the others, with its desire for provincial autonomy min- gied with its realization of its de- pendence upon federal assistance. This leaves Premier. Smallwood’ alone as a Liberal Premier in the Atlantic region. But his case is essentially unique; he is concerned with the special: position of .New- ‘foundiand in regard to the terms of Confederation only ten years ago. He is alone not only in relation to the Atlantic region, but to alk Canada. The ‘Liberal Party. has fermed no government in Quebec since 1944, none in Saskatchewn since 1944,

none in Ontario.since.1943,.and none in Alberta since 1935. In British Columbia it was merged in a coalit- ion in 1941, which was defeated in 1952. The Liberals also merged into

’ » edalition in Manitoba, but the coal-

ition. broke apart to restore a Liber- al Government. Since last vear, how- ever, Manitoba has had a Conserva tive Government ander. Premier Duff Robin

“The result of the'veting in Prince Edward Island,” says The Gazette,

“was probably little’ more than ‘con-

formity with a prevailing” trend. ‘But’ it lias served to indicate that the task

whic the whole world is the audienge/ By.

Beth's

Neandidates or -write or print their.

On September—1, 1860, the found-

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has bécome a véry big one indeed.

It has not only to extend its fed-_

eral representation into ten provin- ces, from the four to which it is now confined. It has also to build up effee- «| tive provincial structures in nine of the ten provinces.”

Chicago Omitt i

The Chicago Tribune finds it significant, that Chicago has been_ omitted from the Soviet Premier's

ahead of the Liberal Party in Canada |

“that Queen Elizabeth of Britain had ‘something to do with it.” -

Not directly, of course, for Her ~“Majesty certainly would not be con- sulted as to Mr. Khrushchev's itiner-

_attéention as the only city in the Unit-. ed States included in the Queen’s re- cent visit to North America, arid as” ‘a city that offered a notable civic wel-

come to the Royal couple. The arriv--}

al of the Royal yacht by way of the St. Lawrence Seaiv yay was an expres- sion of the enduring co-operation be- tween the British Commonwealth ‘and United States, and, from the State Governor to the weatherman, combined to make it a truly memorable occasion. _

So the Tribune sees good reason why Mr. Khrushchev might want to give Chicago a wide berth this sum- mer. “These state visits,” it says, “are dramatic productions for

staying clear of the scene of Eliza- triumph, Khrushchev | can avoid being the central figuré in a diplomatie anticlimax beyond the power of Communist propaganda to misrepresent or obscure.” ~~

New Brunswick System

In the provincial election cam- paign, much was heard of the need for electoral reform, particularly with regard to the outmoded dis- tinction our system makes between’ property and non-property voters. - Other Provinces, apparently; “have other causes for dissatisfaction with their voting systems. In Nova Scotia a commission has been -appointed to make recommendations for reform; and according tothe Fredericton Gleaner, New Brunswick’s system is at least as much in need of over- haul as Nova Scotia’s.

“Members of the N.B. Legislature, explains The Gleaner, are elected. in multi-member constituencies that | have from two to five seats each. No official ballots are provided. Electors either use printed ballots provided by the various parties or

own on blank forms available in the polling booths- : Spoiling of ‘ballots can happen very easily under this hit-or-miss system. But perhaps the system's greatest defect is that it is “loaded” in favour of voting the “straight ticket” for candidates ‘all of one party. “Splitting the ticket” is dif- ticult to do without spoiling the bal- lot. The system is also definitely un- favorable to. independent candidates. ”

EDITORAL NOTES

Our provincial election coincided with an important date at Ottawa.

ation stone of the Parliament Build- ings was laid by the Prince of ‘Wales, later King Edward VII. >

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Researchers in the US. Naval

‘Hospital at Oakland, California, have rf

developed a tooth glue that will en-

everyone, _

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able dentists to extract a tooth, fill it, and paste it back. If the original tooth is unusable, it can be replaced by an artificial tooth. That’s all very well, comments an exchange. But there's one thing “about a dent- al plate; nothing much more can happen to a man. With a tooth that’s glued in, embarrassment at inoppor-. tune times is always possible. If a man does find his glued teeth falling out, one by one, at an important din- ner, it can make him lose status so | fast that the climb back could take ! a lifetime.

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True to his word, Finance Minis- ter Fleming has taken the pressure off the money market by reducing the Government’s demand for credit. He sold only $95,000,000 worth of treasury bills (short term govern-, ment securities), $20,000,000 less than was needed to-.meet govern- ment bills due for. repayment. He thus had to put $20,000,000 back - in- to circulation from government re- serves, leaving this amount available as a basis for expanding chartered bank credit. The result was a drop of 71 per cent in the interest rate on treasury bills and a consequent. drop of the same, amotnt in the Bank of Canada rate (at, which it will: make Joans to chartered Danks for expand-

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ing credit) to 6.58 per cent.”

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OTTAWA REPORT

~ Worth Re-Reading ode

By Patrick rh

Among mv _ holiday have been two books which hap- d to reflect-thoughts on Can- ada’s future. What made those thoughts especially interesting to me was the fact that in one case they date back over 100 years, and in the other case they were formed 45 vears ago. ‘The Macmillan Company has just published the first Canadian edition-of “Life in the Clearings” by Susanna Moodie. This account of life in the pioneer settled area of Ontario,. where the St) Law- rence River flows out ef Lake Ontario. was written In “Canada West” in the vear 1252 by an em- igrant. from Ergiand. It publisied in England the follow- ing year. Mv_ copy

after-a lapse of 106 vears. was

reading | grant.

was first |

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i of this first | Canadian edition, published here |

pres sented to me by a good friend |

with best wishes front the Great Grandson -of the authoress”.

Susanna. Moodie makes this one interesting personal observation: “Since my residence in a settled part of the country. I have en- joved as much and happiness as ever falls to the lot of poor humanity.” WOES AND JOYS

But the authoress described how the nioneer suffered various hard- | ships even on these ‘free and fer- | tile shores’’. And she continues: | “Be not

domestic peace.

discouraged, brave emi- !

| delights of our various regions.

Let Canada. still remain the bright future in you mind, and hasten to convert your pre- sent day-dream into reality. The time -is not far distant when she shall be the theme of many ton- gues. and the old nations of the world will speak of her progress

with respect and admiration. Her infancy is past, she beings to. feel her feet, to know her own | strength, and see her way clear- ly through as you may deem her. she has | already battled bravely for her own rights. and obtained the man- agement of her own affairs. Her onward progress is certain. ‘There is no “If in her case. She pos- | cesses within her own territory all the elements of future prosper- | itv. and SHE MUST BE GREAT.” |

From that tision. I moved. on to the autobiography of an Eng- lish doctor, Arthur Conan Doyle, who is best-known for his creéa- tion of the most living of ali fie- tional characters, Sherlock Hol- mes.

Conan Doyle visited Canada in| 1914, travelling slowly right | i across the country. savouring the |

He was especially impressed by “The twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur, at the head of | Lake Superior, which forms most growing community of Canada.”

All lines converge there, he!

| remain @Ractly as. she is

pointed out, ‘as does all the lake traffic, and everything from East | to -West..must. pass through. He referred then. 45 years beiore the opening of the St. Lawrence Sea- way, to. the wonderful water com- munications. He predicted—so far incorrectly—that these—twin—cit- ies will grow into one.- “They are so evidently interdependent that it is difficult to believe that they will fail to coalesce; when they do, I am of opinion that they may grow to be a Canadian Chi- cago, and possibly become the greatest city in the country If I were a rich man, and wished

to become richer, I should assur-.

| edly buy land in the twin cities.” | FUTURE SEEN IN 1914

3 will be the destiny of Canada?” asked Conan Doyle. “Some people talk as if it were in doubt. Personally, I have none upon the point. I see no argu- ment for the union of Canada with the United States. . She will for the remainder of this century. At the end of that time, her population and resources will probably con-

| siderably exceed those of the Mo- | ther Land, and problems wil!

a- rise which our children’s child- ren may have some difficulty in solving . the French-Canadian will always be a conservative force...’ Those interesting reading today.

two old writings make As fore-

| ¢asts of the future of Canada,

they endorse the famous words

of Sir

are as surely coming true. al-

| though perhaps not at the gallop-

ing speed predicted by Laurier and Conan Doyle

Congress Strikes At Hoffa

By Harold Morrison Canadian Press Staff Writer

The United States Congress has

plish, this much apoecars cértain: lt provides the U.S. government | with a powerful new signeditetherately_to_fcht Hoffa and his crew

?

It may lead to af bit striction for the generally. but it strengthen the moral

movement,

more re

mgy fibre-of thé |

j

delivered a body blow agai nst | James Hoffa and the alle ged | crime - ridden hierarchy of his 1.599.000 member. Teamsters | Union |

Whatever else the new labor reform legislation may acc¢om-

weapon de- | movement

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labor movement | } ected to termfic lobby pressuré. also | But he wouldn't give way. | dent

helping to crush vior--| What

| men huddled

these subétances can be rezard- ed as genetic clues or indicators to the inherent disposition of ants, it of the same species are not all

' altke in their characteristics

entire legitimate labor mevement in the US. if he wasn't stopped, the coimmittee said.

The public reacted. It flooded Congress with demands for- ac- tion. When senators and congress- on a compromise ,

proposal. powerful AFL-CIO lob- |

| byis\s were in the wings urging

caution lest the legitimate labor be weakened A-senator—said tater—that Sena- tor John Kennedy ‘Dem. Mass.)_ who headed the huddle (ds sub

Presi- most of | them

Eisenhower he wanted

got in

lence and coercion and make de | The big congressional votes in its mocracy prev ail for the average | | favor showed the temper of the

union member.

Kt is clearly the ‘greatest -ac- complishment of the current ses- sion-of Congress and the most significant American labor re- in a dozen years.

TERRIFIC PRESSURES It. is-clear, too, that: Gongress, in shunting aside terrific pres-

| bill into law in a few days, | in preparation the labor- depart-

sures of a<powerful Izbor lobby, |

was listening to a sfill stronger and more ‘powerful. voice voice of an aroused and angered public. -

A two-year Senate labor rack- ets committee investigation dis- closed ‘teamsters union dealings with the underworld. samples of fraud. corruption. coercion and violence. Hoffa would destroy the

the |

people. STRIKES AT HEART

Senator Barry Goldwater (Rep. | Ariz.) said the bill will “strike | at the heart of racketeeri ng, hoodlumism and gangsterism in | the labor movement.’

Fisenhower will likely sign the | and

ment is asking for a $2 009,000 | appropriation, to launch the big | anti-corruption job the, bill as- | signs to the department: |

There is no doubt Hoffa will | seek to thrust the bill into a web

“of legal entanglements to frus- | trate and slow. down the efforts

of federal agents.

But Congress will be watching-and so wik a4

President.

Creating The ‘Ideal Ant!

j Hie Guardian

Racial. theoriés icenfete have been put to practical use at the University of Wurzburg, in Ba-: varia. where Kar! Gosswald. a well’ known entomologist, claims to have discovered how to breed a race of “ideal” ants for pest control purposes.

These are ants with a high re- production rate will ret onlv live on good terms with neighboring ants ‘most -ants do not’ but will also ‘kill other in- sects. This should be of great benefit to foresters. The inmates of one large community of wo ants will kill about 10,000 insects each day UNSOCIAL CREATURES

U nfor tunately, one of the larg- est and most insectivorous sper- ies. of these ants, a creature call- ed -formica_rufa._is—iisually un charitably diposed towards other colonies of the>same species, & fact which limits proliferat’on on ‘rand seale. Such ants are known as monodomous. They live im isolated communities

“ten

‘ants were crushed

which are’ not interrelated one |

with another.

Gosswald has been working on the idea that even in monodom- ous ‘ant communities there are numbers of sociable ‘polydom- ous) ants, and he believes that if he could sieye out these sociab- le sheep from the truculent goats he wou'd be able to raise a new and useful race of ants’ on the forests of south Germany.

GROUPING THEM

According to a recent issue of Deutschie Korrespond-ntz, this has been achieved by grouping ants by a technique not unlike the humaa blood grouping system. The bodies of.many thousands of ang 1esult- ant fluids analyzed by a method kfown: to chemists as Paper. chromotograpliy.

Gosswald found that even among the inmates of one: nest there were ants with up“to 24 different kinds of identifiable fluorcncert

pubstances im their bodies. Ag

| room were\ donated by Mr. iault of Tignish. .

| War was chairman

. ° By crossbreeding hard working

| friendly foragers with insectivor- | now | well on the way to the creation of | and Miss Nora Bateson,

ous instincts, Gosswald is

the idéak ant.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Sept. 8, 1934)

The new Dalton* “School at Tig- ns, built by furds left by Sir | | Chartes Dalton, 1s“now open and the classrooms are being. used. They have been fitted with up to | date desks. The building- also in- | chides recreation. rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms. The desks for the teacher and pupils in one Tuer-

Carnegie De

was offi-

A branch of the monstration. Library

| clay opened at Murray River on

Mr. James. De- |

Addresses

| Wednesday last.

'|persods apparently believe,

| upon, wearing eye-glass

Wilfred Laurier, and they |

ities Aids Often Ignored

By Herman N.*Bundesen, MD. POOR yision is now. socially acceptable. Poor hearing, many an & tat that soni very_ often ers

bp don't need glasses but who do have hearing defects will insis! type hearing aids ' HEARING AID HIDDEN The lenses are clear glass. The only prupose the spectacles ser-

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Food cooked out of doors is said by enthusiasts' to have an indescribably different faste. In- deseribable? There's the taste of | smoke, then there’s a definite sa- | vor of bug spray, and just a sug- gestion, of lighter fluid.—Vancow ver Province .

A cheerful thought for bureas- erats is there are now so many of them that-a serious effort to | unburden the nation of this lar-

aid.

this is when you stop to consider that, just a relatively few years ago, there was the same resistan- ce to wearing glasses as there is teday to wearing hearing devic- es.

DELAYS ACTION

The average person who needs a hearing aid waits about five Years before finally obtaining one. Many persons wait - muct longer and some never do get an aid, thus living out their lives as third, fourth and even filth-class citizens.

The enormity of the problesn is. evident from statistics which indicate that about 10 per cenf of the American popufatién ‘suffers from some degrée of hearing loss. BACK’ TO NORMAL

Approximately half of these

7 persons — about 9,000,000 — can |

be , restored to normal living tnrough medical or surgical pro- cedures or by the use of hearing aids.

Yet, because of prejudice. sup- ersijtien, pride and ~ perhaps some plain igmorance, many of these persons virtually defy any one to help them. They have: a mental block against the wear ing of a hearing aid.

A New York group, the League forthe Hard of Hearing, has be | gun a study of the preblem. The League plans a complete survey of the psychological aspects in- volved in the rejection of hearing Gcevices by these persons.

This is a fine idea and the Te- sults of the study undoubtediy

problem.

EDUCATION NEEDED

But we must.do more than work with those who are hard of hearing. We must educate those who are not had of hearing—tae public at large.

a hearing defect any more. -than ihe would try to hide a handicap? — I'm not trying to sel? hearing aids. | am trying to sell vou—all ot you—on the idea that a Person with a hearing aid‘is no different from you. In fact, some day it may be you. QUESTION. AND ANSWER... Mrs. F.E.M.:

rough brown spoils on my face

Could this be skio Cancer?

Answer: The spots you describe may be a type of cancer, 4 pre- cancerous condition or they may be completely benign. Consuk a skin specialist at once to deter- Lmine the nature of these spots.

He may suggest.,removal of one of them fer microscope: ex- amination.

was apparent that even ants |

The eves of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, ‘te shew himself strong in the

| perfect foward him. a | were given by Premier decent” lan, J. A. Campbell, M-L.A.,.W. A. MacPhee, . school inspec Director.

TEN YEARS AGO (Sept 8. 1949) I" Bessie Seaman of Charlottetown” ifas been appointed a National O'fice Supervisor for the Victor- jonas Order—ef Nurses_for Canada. She has served in the V.O.N. of fice at Saint Jobn, N.B., for the \last five years. “Miss Seaman is a-yraduate of Mentreal General | Hcspital and of Dalhousie Uni- ver ‘sity. fo

Carl Ford of Mount Pleasant is a pafient in the Prince County Hespital with injuStes following a motor accident that occurred last | evening near Miscouche. Mr. Ford land another person were riding in rumble seat of a car when it was struck by-a truck backing out on the highway. Mr.“ Ferd was torown from the car in the | collision.

For Ist,

ADULT POLIO CLINIC

2nd, 3rd inoculations for Sturgeon and surrounding districts will be held at STURGEON SCHOOL, . Thursday, Sept. 10—7—-9:30 p.m.

' You can see how ridiculous

will help lead to a sdlution. of the |

Why should a person try to tide | f

visuat

Ihave some small

and nose. These spots’ itch and | when I touch them it. feels like | needles in them

‘The Age Old Story.

behalf of them whose heart is _

tor, |

Prince of Wales College REGISTRATION

Tuesday Sept. 8th —2 p.m. First Year W ednesday Sept. 9th —2 ee Second Year

Monday and.Tuesday Sept.

Third and Fourth Year and Normal Training Sot kee -9:00-12: 00'and 2: 00-5 :00.,

“1th and Sept. 15th

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gely non-productive element would cause a noticeable jump in the unemployment . — The Printed Word

~ With all the current in international military aid, it worth fecalling that it was Turk- ey's privilege fo extend a help |. ‘ing hand to the"Wnited States as | far-Back as 60 years ago. The date 1898. The occ erican-Spanish War. aid: 30 cam@s.—News from Turkey

PUBLIC FORUM

This column ts open to the discus

sion by correspondents of question c

interest. The Guardian does not neses

sarily e&“qrse the opinion of corres > »ypondents.

=

Sir,_The ground surrounding the plaque at New Glasgow in memory of the late Hon. David Laird is in a very neglected con- dition—the grass dots ndt appear to have been_cut this season, and it is therefore difficult to find the approach from’ the road to the site on account of. the long grass.

Surely plaques placed to the memory of those who were’ pre- minent in the life of this Island

neglected.

Perhaps ie s Institutes | might be w to have these memorials attended to when they | are situated outside towns or vil- | lages. If some arrangement can- not be made .to keep these memorials in proper condition, it

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Passing, the summer ceiaies never see

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The bud start from the duh, the green tree.

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