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A Good Live Issue

One of the casualties resulting from the collapse of the last Par- liament before it had had a chance to do its business was the Govern- ment’s program for slum clearance and other urban renewal schemes. This could well be an important is- sue in the coming election campaign, for it is of vital concern to a great many people across the country. Evidently Mr. Diefenbaker intends to keep it in the forefront, for he devoted a good part of his time to dealing with it in his recent address in Toronto.

Ottawa already offers to pay 50 per cent of the cost of slum clear- ance and urban renewal. What th e Government proposes to do, if re- elected, is lend the additional 50 per cent which most municipalities now find they are unable to fin- ance. It would also extend th e 50 per cent federal share to cover half the cost of new services and util- ities that may be needed after the redevelopment area has been ac- quired.

The Government’s program also includes a broadening of the present federal-prm‘incial public housing plan under which municipalities, provincial governments, or their agencies would be able to obtain 90 per cent loans at a low interest rate from the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation for the con- struction or acquisition of public housing projects for low-income families.

The limited—dividend loan plan would be extended in two directions, to enable non-profit corporations to receive low-interest loans for hos- tels or dormitories as well as for self—contained dwellings. It is pro- posed also to expand the university loans scheme to cover self-contained dwellings for married students; to introduce short-term CMBC loans to mortgage holders so that they may buy additional mortgages, and to enable municipalities, by means of loans, to provide for the purchase of land for suburban town centres in which schools, churches, a city hall and community centre, re- creation facilities and shops woutd form a focal point for the suburban community as a whole.

This is a summary of the plan which the Prime Minister says he was bringing in before his admin- istration was defeated by a com- bined vote of the opposition parties, and which will be introduced if he is returned. What have the other party leaders to say about it? Sure- ly they can spare time from their wrangling over nuclear weapons to give it some attention.‘ It’s a real Canadian issue—not one made in Washington; and they can talk as freely as they like about it without disrupting international relations.

Timely Aclmoniiion

It has become a cliche to com- plain that the United States and its residents know little or nothing about Canada and Canadians. In the opinion of Mr. D. A. Coape- Arnold, vice president and general manager of Massey-Ferguson Lim- ited, the shoe is on the other foot. This point was made in an address at Brantford the other day, and it is wort taking note of.

How many Canadian business- men with designs on the United Starla market. asked Mr. Coope-

5 IArnold. can list the 50 states of the { Union-em alone the capital cities

gin. m of those states?

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How many could name without hesitation the capitals names of the governors of those states-that are our closest neigh- bors—Maine, Vermont, New Hamp- shire, New York, Michigan, *Wis- consin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois? Most of them are within an hour's flight from us.

How many, again could name the U.S. Senate majority and minorty leaders? Or the chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee and the chairman of the sub-com- mittee responsible for Canadian re- lations? Far fewer, the speaker suggested, than those who think they know so much more about U.S. affairs than our American neigh- bors know about ours.

And. if it is the case that there is deplorable lack of knowledge about Canada across the border, whose fault is it? “For seven years,” said Mr. Coupe-Arnold, “I lived and worked in New York, the communi- cations centre of North America. 'I was not impressed by the efforts that Canada was making there to tell its story. In comparison with the communications and public relations effort of most corporations, it was pitiful.”

Canada stands to gain more than the United States from an improve-, ment in mutual understanding—not; to speak of mui ual reduction or elim- ination of tariffs. providing our products and management are first class. This was the speaker’s chief point. and it is a good one. For all of us have a stake in Canada’s future as part of North America. All of us have. a stake in the extent to which Canada can compete and become a world trader. None of us can live in our own little commun- ity as if it were an island remote from the mainland of world and con- iincntal trade. Such islahds just do not exist any more.

The Franking Racket

l‘sing a bulk mailing privilege -—which saves the cost of folding letters and inserting them in ad- dressed envelopes—an MP can send out 2.195 messages to his electors at a total cost. of $2.28, instead of the $32 which he would be required to pay at ordinary third class mail- ing rates. On Friday, Feb. 15. alone —the day before the franking privi- lege expired on this occasion—close to 200.000 pieces of franked mail were handled at the. parliamentary post office at Ottawa.

This is a racket that should be put a stop to. The practice has been attacked in recent election campaigns, but nothing has been done about it. It is countenanced by postal regulations as a means of enabling members to keep in touch with their constituents; but when- ever a session ends with dissolution, parliamentary postal facilities are deluged with franked mail carrying election material. It is permitted for a period of 10 days after a ses- sion ends.

It is obvious, of course, that in an election campaign the practice confers a substantial advantage on candidates who were members of the outgoing Parliament. No doubt there are many in this category who conscrentiously refrain from exploiting this means of flooding the mails—and their Constituents— with their campaign material. But the Feb. 15 total speaks for itself. Literally millions oi pieces of such literature got through this month before the boom was lowered on the 16th. Every election year it’s been the same.

Time, surely, that the taxpayers demanded a pledge from every can- didate that he. will vote this hoary old political dodge out the window if he gets elected on April '8.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Prime Minister Dieienbaker is schedued to hold his official cam- paign kickoff at Winnipeg on Mon- day, March 4. He was just flexing his muscles, apparently, in the speeches he has been making since Parliament was dissolved.

There is always a silver lining. Now from Washington we learn that French President de Gaulle’s be- haviour has taken the kink out of Anglo-American relations which the Skybolt-Polaris incident put there. They have returned "lo their nor- mal. familiar. crmperation-nt-many- echelons status," and the result is "an ease of relationship and a clar- ity of communication" which were lacking recently.

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The Rustico Bank 1850-75. Build‘ng still standing

FOILING WINTER'S COLD

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They’ll All Be Back With Spring

Where did all the bugs go?

Long vanished in the face of winter's cold, the insects will return in spring from a wide variety of sanctuaries.

Some rest now in the form of eggs or larvae under the ground. Other insects, protected by blankets of shellac, cling to wind- whipped branches. Some are frozen without injury, awaiting the spring thaw. Other species have been destroyed in the nit-

ed States and must be replen- .

ished next year from the trop- ics. Some insects went south for the winter. A lucky few have nursemaids to carry them to warm places, care for them, and return them to feeding grounds in the spring.

Others just crawled crevice and called it a season.

GRASSHOPPER EGGS

In the fall, the female grass- hopper deposits ln the soil 3 mass of eggs wrapped in a glue- likc coat. Warmth will not hatch

the eggs of certain species un--

less they are first frozen-—- na-

ture's way of assuring that a . late warm spell won't bring out 1‘

young grasshoppers to starve. Even so. success for a grass- hopper egg is not guaranteed. The blister beetle lays its eggs nearby. 'oung lister beetles like to feed on grasshopper eggs before crawling into holes of their own to sleep the winter. Some fruit-tree twigs appear to be afflicted with inch-long

tent caterpillar. pro- tected from cold and wet shellac exuded by the adult fe- male. Commercial shcllnc is produccd by Asian insects of similar habits. .

Many mosquitoes pass the winter as larvae. or "wrigglers." conicntedly frozen When spring comes they thaw out and, buzz off.

Less hardy is the cotton-leaf worm, in tropical species that perishes to the last bug in nor- thern winters. Each summer a new invasion comes from the

Our Yesterday’s

(From the Guardian Fill-xi

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO February 23, 1938

Tokyo, Feb. 23 — apan~ ese Empire suffered the first air raid in its history today, as Chinese planes bombed the is- land of Formosa and inflicted numerous casualties.

William Keoughan, Vancou- ver. B.C., a former resident of

e Indo-Chins Ste 3 m Navigation Co. has successfully passed his examination and re- ceived Captain's deep sea pa- pers.

Charlottetown and now employ- ‘ ed y

TEN YEARS AGO February 23, 195.1 Edmonton. Alla. — Six hun- dred former Marltimers d in ed and played at the 23rd a n n ual banquet and entertainment of the Maritime Provinces Asso- ciation of Edmonton in the ball- room and dining room of the Macdonald Hotel. President 11.0. Patrlguin reported a mem- bership of 754. the largest of the association‘s history.

At the opening of the Spring Exhibition of the Montreal Mu- seum of Fine Arts. on Sher- brooke st. March 2, two large M rine painting y A. . Wright of Charlottetown, will be exhibited for the entire month.

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isouth, reaching as far north as ‘the Great Lakes and Canada, ;where it feeds on many kinds of plants. The monarch butterfly. Ion the other hand, gathers in northern states in autumn and ,flies south in swarms thousands

_ strong.

,INSULATED HOUSES .

‘ The Cccropia moth spins it- self a vacuum-bottle cocoon—

fwith two walls and an air space

5 between for insulation.

The honeybee winters in its

Iliive, but all the bumblcbccs die

except the queen. Already ferti-

glized, she takes cover where

Ishe can, awaiting spning and a

.chance to found a new colony—

. pcrhaps in an abandoned mouse

ole. Most coddled of wintering

{bugs is the corn-root aphid. 'eggs are carefully collected by : a species of ant and carried to nests below th e frost line. In ‘sprlng they are taken to the roots of the first weeds to be- [gin growth. There the young feed until sap begins to flow in

,corn plants. The ants then transfer their charges to those 5 roots. where they flourish—to

the dismay of farmers.

This is a dairying operation. ;and the aphids are likened to grows. The sap that aphids suck i holds too much sugar for them in relation to protein content, so the excess is secreted. T be ,clear. sweet liquid called hone, ‘ dew is a staple food of the ants, :which “milk” the aphid by , stroking their bodies.

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A Sense Of Esircmgemeni

Canadian Press Staff-Writer

It was a tiny "filler" story, :tucked away between the so- ciety gossip and the classified ads. but it had L cance

l Flying home from Paris. the.

fliitle news item said, Londoner ‘ Robert Sanderson scrawled on his embarkation card: “Profes. sion — anil-Gaullist."

And the French authorities, , unsmiling, told Sanderson I keep out of Paris from now on. r That’s how things are between France and Britain these days. Ever since President de Gaulle shut the European door. there has been a distinct coolness be- tween John Bull and Maid Marl- annr.

Things are getting so tense, they say. that British gourmets are refusing pepper on their steacks an poivre, and sipping instead of

' Spanish burgundy Frcnch claret. The E n t e n t e Cordiale,

lacrale. French newspapers have care- fully noted Britisb hostility. A

eral papers, along with a news- paper columnist's comment that ide Gaulle is a "bottled-nosed > old giraffe."

The columnist is a real live llord—-the Earl of Arran—which

wider signifi- _

It ' ‘ seems. is becoming the Entente 1

lighthearted poem broadcast on . the BBC was published by sev- ;

made the description seem all the more outrageous to the French.

All this is on the public level. Undoubtedly most of it comes under the heading of good clean fun. and will vanish completely by the time the tourist season rolls around.

Al the government level. how-

ever, a sense of estrangement. 0 1 may persrst for some time. The

,Elysee Palace and Admiralty ,‘House are no longer on the same wave-length. British min- isters feel genuinely let down after their failure at Brussels. an there is no sign yet that j the French are feeling any re- 9.

A magazine. The Spectator, wrote angrily after the Brussels breakdown that the .French negotiators must have been all “liars or lac-keys." British officials might not go all 2the way with that. but they probably would claim that they were misled by repeated assur- ances from Foreign Maurice Couve de Murville that France had no political objec- tions to British entry. The French meanwhile saying that the negotiations with

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but were preventing progress in

discussions among the Common ‘ Market countries on other sub- . jecls.

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I What looks like a bit of un- . usually good sportsmanship ‘ the part of the United States is

indicated in a recent proposal 3 that would make the U.S. state i department a talent scout for the t 1964 Olympics.

The Olympics, which now take in pretty much the whole world, are the modern reincarnation of the Olympic Games so popular in ancient Greece that the re- current ycars were dated from hem.

Although originally competi- tion was restricted to Greeks, a acted truce was declared in whatever were were going on to 1 permit competing athletes to ’ come In from outlying areas-of

Hellns.

Under a new program the U.S. State Department and Sports International. a non-profit organ- ization promoting America‘s role in international sports, will sel-

[ ect two outstanding track athlet- ‘ es from each of the participat- l lng countries and distribute them

among nine American colleges

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and universities that have agre-

ts Thedepa-rt- men! will pay travll expenses. the colleges the maintenance.

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Over 400 Viruses Will Cause Colds

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen

MORE than 400 different vir- uses cause respiratory infec- tions. Thus it might be possible to have 10 or more colds in a single season without having the same infection twice.

But this is unlikely because

ous and likely to result in ree- plrabory infections. Many of these offenders have been iso- lated and a vaccine made from them reduces the number of in- fections during the winter months. In this respect. we ap- preciate any help we can get. Vaccines protect , only against the specific organisms and can- not be expected to guard against every bug that comes along, me persons are more re- sistant than others to the com- mon cold. lu. and other re :- piratory infections. It is diffi- cult to understand how any of u eacape them. The act of coughing forces air out of the lungs at a speed of 200 miles per hour. Secrebions from the mouth and throat are thrown out eight feet when talking, 12 to 15 feet when coughing, and feet in sneezing. This is the rea- son why we hammer away at

covering the month while coughing. But coughing and sneezing

are not the only way in which colds are transmitted. With every expiration and every word spoken. a few million micro - organisms are spewed into the air. A person with a cold standing in a crowded bus or elevator could pass on the infection to all susceptible pas- sengcrs.

A cook or waitress does the 353 me when she breathes on ifood or touches rolls, bread, or {fruit with contaminated hands. ,This explains why colds spread imore rapidly among people who lmingle with crowds or work Iwith others in confined places. ‘This is the penalty we pay for 1concentrating in larger cities. “ There is no substitute for the jgolden rule. in dealing with a icold. Keep it to yourself and ;never expose others by coming {too close or coughing without covering the mouth. A soiled lhanderkchief is loaded with igerms and those who handle

v ifoods should always wash the

Jhands after blowing the nose or :louching the mouth. 1 ASPIRIN REACTION i A.G.B. writes: What symp- .toms occur when a person re- acts to aspirin?

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This depends upon whether {the individual is poisoned by ‘lhe drug or allergic to it. Poi. soning occurs from overdosage jwhich leads to vomiting and iacidosis. Allergy may ca u se lsevcre, even fatal reactions, i from small doses. Symptoms {vary from hivcs to shock.

i VEGETABLE ORGANISMS

l C.R.M. writes: What is this ;Ihing called fungus and does it have a more common name? i Fungus is a scientific term ifor a low order of vegetable or- ganisms that includes molds, ‘yeasts, and mushrooms. Ring- .worm is a popular term for a ;certain type of fungal infection ‘of the skin.

STREP PREVENTION

E.P. writes: Would ta kl n g in antibiotic daily help ward off strep throat in a person who has had 11 bouts in five years?

R Yes. This is the method used 7by those who have had rheuma- ltic fever to stave off strep in- 'fections that trigger the dis- a

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se. PERIODIC SWELLING L.K. writes: What would ‘cause the calf of my right leg 3 lo ccome swollen o n c e a 1‘month? , . REPLY Ii Male or female? {TODAY’S HEALTH

HINT—- Foods have emotional sym- bolism.

certain viruses are more numer- -

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SPANS EON!

’ New York's American Mu- lseum of Natural History shows a nature parade that stretches from prehistory to the .ge of astronauts.

NOT TOO LATE

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It Is a chilling thought. I can tell you. but by the times

is column appears I w ill have travelled deep into enemy territory (sometimes known as Ontario or Upper Canada). Even riskier, I'll be exposed to the machinations and conspir-

gs (or worse) of a large ga- thering of those sinister fel- lows, newspaper ,

And then, to cap it all, be- fore heading for home.’I face the fearful fate of spending one or two days in that capital of craftiness and deceit — in that centre of machiavellian schem- ing -— in that horrendous Hog- town —- in Toron o. '