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When the fight for civil rights in l the Southern United States is finally won and its history recorded. a place I of honour will surely be accorded i Martin Luther King, 11 .V9i-KY0 m"115' ter of Illontgonicry, Ala. llis home has been bombed. buses in which he and members of his family and con- grcgalion were riding have been riilrllcd willi gun fire. Yet. despite these and other provocations. he has adltercd to his policy of non-violence.

of returning good for evil: and, what is even more to his credit. he was succeeded so far in kccflllls ill? 30-' 000 Negroes in Montgomery--almost half th e population--from taking vengeance on th elr persecutors. Southern Negroes, although in gen- eral H docile lot. are easilY swayed by eloquent agitators. Under a less wise leader they would long since have turned Montgomery and other cities into cities of uncontrollable violence. The forbearance shown by this

Negro leader and others like him . deserves a greater measure of Fed- w. eral Government support than it has L received up to the present time. After all, the ruling outlawing segre- .- gation in schools and buses came from the highest court in the land: I l

and surely the responsibility for en- forcing it lies with the United States Government, all the more do in view of the unmistakeable determination of most of the local governments to defy the ruling.

Several weeks have passed since Negro leaders requested President Eisnhower to go to the South and plead in person, under the great prestige of his office, for compliance with the law. So far he has done nothing except ask the Justice De- partment to "studi:' the cry for help. How is it possible in these cir- cumstances for the voice of the ' United States to be heeded when it " speaks of justice and freedom for Russians, Hungarians, Poles, etc?

if NATO: Siurcliness

; In a recent statement President '5 Eisenhower referred to the North 7' Atlantic Treaty Organization as a "sturdy" alliance despite all the dif- ficulties It has had to face in recent months. He mentioned particularly .the decision of the British and French Governments to cut down tbcir military contributions. This de- cisirm. he seemed to think. was ('iit'lHll'fi solely by economic consider- ation-. Reports from other sources, incliirllng British and West European )il'v.xs comment, would seem to in- riicutc, however, that political un- ccrlaillties as well as economic needs ivrrc involved. The British and French Governments are just as anxious to see NATO prosper as is the linilcd States Government, but thcy are not as confident as Mr. Eisciihowcr professes to be in its cflcctivcncss as a shield against pos- sililb Soviet aggression.

To put it bluntly-as it has been put by British and French political observers in recent weeks-there is a growing feeling in Britain and France that United States' partici- pation, at the very outset, in the defence of Westem Europe can no longer be regarded as a certainty. This doubt, or something akin in doubt, grew. in part. from Mr. Dul- les' on-ag'in, off-ag'in tactics in the Suez dispute and, in part, from the British and French experience in World Wars One and Two. And it must be admitted that not a word spoken by President Bsenhower or Secretary tallies in the last three months can be taken as an absolute guarantee of American aid In the

rne fact that there are many influ- ential West Germans. some of them in Dr. Adenauer's own party, who would be quite ready to give up the NATO connection if that would help further the reunification of the country. Dr. Adenauer dwelt on that at some length in an address a few days ago. Indeed. he expressed him- self as being very uneasy about it. If the time should come when public opinion in West Germany were to go against NATO or even adopt a luke- warm attitude towards it, the whole system would crumble, for West Ger- many is the strategic hub of it. i'nder conditions like these it is not surprising that Britain and France are looking more towards the defences of their own respective territories than towards the overall shield which NATO was intended to provide, especially in view of their financial difficulties which make re- trenchment in one phase or the other necessary.

Educational Problems

Dcserviug of serious study by all concerned is the article on edu- cational problems in this Province which appeared in yesterday's Guar- dian in the "Widening Educational llori7.ons" series conducted by the Teachers Federation. It recommends a thorough revision of the basis of local tax assessment; widespread ap- preciation of the principle of the larger school unit of administration; a planned program for taking out grades 9 and 10 from one-room schools and having these grades taught in a room built on to one of the existing schools in a central position; adoption by local districts of a scale of supplements which recognize classes of licenses and ex- perience of the teacher. Recommen- dations to the Department of Educa- tion would be to raise substantially the differential between different classes of licenses with increased in- crements for years of service; re- classification of licenses based on academic proficiency; increased sub- sidies for summer school attendance; application of present statuory al- lowances for teachers with univer- sity degrees teaching grades 11 and 12. to all teachers regardless of grades taught; consideration of es- tablishment of a Certification Board with teacher representation for granting of licenses; refusal of lic- enses to all a licants who do not have at least grade 12 academic standing.

With the Legislature meeting shortly, education will doubtless be a matter of general discussion and it would be well for all our members to acquaint themselves fully with the views of the Teachers Federation. If there are objections to some of their recommendations, this is where discussion and constructive criticism will be helpful. Our teacher shortage problem in particular is a matter of

-serious concern, and every means should be canvassed of meeting it. as adequately as possible.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Ncwfoundlandcrs should and pro- bably do consider themselves lucky. i':ist timber resources. rich mines, plenty of water power. bcst fisheries in the world, lots of big game-and, to top it all. a trout fishing season that opens January 13 and lasts all summer. while the rest of us have to wait until the middle of April.

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A Sovict newspaper has called for a "vigorous shakcup" in the Com- munist Party. The best thing to do with that outfit, if the Russians only had sense enough to realize it, would be to abolish it root and branch and ' replace it by something more in ac- cordance with civilized social pat- terns.

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It is reported that the cost re- sulting from fires in the United States last year was enough to cover all the nation's water. laundry and dental bills. The same thing is prob- ably true of this country's fires. And many of them might not have oc- curred if a little more attention to preventive measures had been ob- served.

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The sales tax which when it was first introduced not many years ago was considered more of a nuisance than a sound way of raising revenue has practically taken over financial , E I in a lugs am of tha some

LAST LAUGH

PUBLIC FORUM

THE GORDON REPORT

Sir.-When I read an abbreviat- ed report of the Gordon Commis- sion. my immediate reaction was a contcnlion beluccll aiiiazcmcnt and anin.-cmcnt. Amazed indeed u as I at the idea of a presumably sane (lorernment appointing a commission of such limited men-

tal calibcr. that they could think . of no alternative for bettering the l condition nf we Maritimers. than ,

for us to gird up our loins and get the if out of here. Where we would go would not seem to be over im-

portanl. as assumubly any other .

place would get more considera- tion from Government than the Maritimes. Amusement followed at the childishncss. and imma- turity nf this concept for our im- provement. and at the idea that it is possible for a supposedly wise and parental federal government to appoint such dolls on an investi- gating and recommending commit- lee. This commission in very fact suggests that we give our Marl- times back to the Micmacs. We have a boner suggestion; replace some of our federal legislators

with a few good Mil-macs. and the ,

Indians will think up something

more practicable and bencficiall

than emigration. We ol'fer this with every apology to the lilicmacl of course. should they deem the comparison odious.

The remedy for our backward condition should be the responsi- bility of the federal government. They coaxed and lndiiced us by false promises. which have remain- ed unfulfilled to this day. to join confederation. They blnrncycd us here on the Island by having the fathers of confederation meet in our little Province which has the first, last and only recognition we got from the federal rcilimc. As has been mcnlioncxl frrqui-nlly, wa were promised uiiinlcrrilplcti com- munication with the iiiainlnnd. For

J many years. we bail to manage

trilh little icelioals l-iplippcd with slccl runners and opcralcd by the passcnizers, bciucmi Traverse and Tormi-ntinc. ll )ou were young and u'llIlif', you :oi ar-rngg the straits. by paying yniir way,

and then pulling Ihc boat and the ' ” generally and: up dead and eaten.

older and iil'illxlll' p.i--cnqcrs on the ice, and jlllllplllil in uhcn you hit open water You then moi; me oars and rmicd. in this way by muscle pmicr you finally got over. and thanked the Lord if you so fercd nothing worse than a wet behind.

We (li)lJllfil'fl bctlcr lrnnsporta. lion as nerds 1if'iPlllDN'l. and we

arc nou shown with pride the Abeg :

weit. lsucressor to lhe sunken ”(llarlollclown"i, as the newggg and best fcrry in the world. We still hate to wait hours in the wet and cold uh:-n ice conditions are bad. and traffic heavy. Com- bined with llic wood Islands Ferry. they are at first poor and cheap sub.-tltutcs for uninterrupted com- munication. and that would put us on par with lhe other pmvinccs. and we mean the Causeway. the onl.Vg practicable solution.

with reference to the difficulties in constructing the proposed causeway. we would like to recall Bishop Fulton Sheen's a d d r e s I on Ancient Babylon over T.V, ro- rently. He described the walls of the city as from eight! to no hundred feet high, and no thick that a chariot and four horiu could turn on lap of them .1 fun nllop. Babylon was sixteen miles square and thus the wall was 01 miles long. averaging lm feet high and sixty feet thick. - This was built by hand labor entirely. It would. we believe-though 'wa gave (at taken '3: time to co:

in a cubic ggggu-1 the causeway- ha samciaat fill it. mu. our vaoatad modal

should

ed and subsidized by the federal government. that will present the opportunity for the grouping of a finzen or more small farms as one operating unit while maintaining the proceeds of each individual farm.

The fcrleral government should finance the purchase of a single unit of heavy machinery that would plant and harvest approxi- mately a farm a day. The work would be done cooperatively and

4 thus save wages and facilitate tho

work. One man. the best qualified machinist would take care of the machinery and have his cropping taken care of by the other mem- bers of the group. A sinking fund imperative to the organization would fake can of repairs and replacements.

This federal loan on a twenty year low interest rate would not. cost the farmers one tenth of what the Individual units cost. and the saving in labour would be I very decisive factor towards rehabilit- ating our backward farms. It would not cost the federal govern- mcnt one cent, and would give some of their underworked bur- l caux something to do. We have had a lot of experience in farming ' and in dealing with farmers. and are familiar with their difficulties nnd their problems.

We maintain that then is noth- ing impractical or impossible in these ideas. that they are on- crable and sound and a solution that any but a lethargic and in- different government would have proposed long ago. They at least offer hope for the rehabilitation of our non-productive and vacated farms. and the cessation of the rapidly increasing exodus from

our rural areas. to the industrial centers. we need immigrants and the right type for agriculture. We need some such policy as we have outlined that will preclude the idea of failure.

In this connection we might say that we need such immigrants as the Amish people. who we be- lieve wished to settle on some of our vacated farms and who were refused entrance by authority of lllr. Pickersglll, or so it is alleged. Why has the fcrieral government the right to exclude such indus- trious and desirable inuuillrants as these peaceable Pennsylvania Dulch people without referring to our representatives? When our Mr. Angus McLean asked this ques- tion on the floor of the House at Ottawa not once but; several time! we believe he received unsatisfac- tory and evasive answers. We also believe Mr. Mat-Lean is not one to be continually denied and that ha will finally get at the bottom of this matter and be abla to giva us correct information.

We need more and better rep- resentation. We need men to re- present us who are not merely employment agents for their friends and localities. We need men with vision, with altruism, with direct and independent out.- Iook. with determination and dy- namic to represent us. While we wish to avoid political partisan- ship we believe we have such a man in Mr. Angus Mt-Lean”. Let us fortify his hands by letting him know that his efforts are appreciat- ed. Let us pick our men in the next election, for their worth and ability irrespective of political af- filiaiion. and let us ask them to strive to the limit. for Maritima unity, Maritime strength. and eventuhl Maritime prosperity not- withstanding Mr. Gordon and his gloomy outlook.

I am. Sir. elc.. C.C. PRATT. St. Peters, P.E.I.

Pain-killing injections came along relatively late in man's history. but nature has been using them for ages.

The recipient of one of nature's merciful hypodei-mics. however.

Most spiders. for example. have fangs and poison to quiet the struggles of their insect food.

But the tarantula. one of the largest spiders, is itself victimized by the Pepsls wasp. lls death comes after a strange perform- ance in which the tarantula makes no move to defend itself until the end. I DUEL IN THE SUN

Each species of Pepsls preys on a particular species of spider. Flying low over the ground in the

female wasp searches out her own spider and examines it with her antennae-a tactic that would get most insects killed. But, from the wasp, tho spider accepts this hand- ling.

Reassured that she has the right victim, the wasp moves off a little and dig: a grave. The spider makes no attempt to escape. Poplin din I hole some it inches hip and wide enough to accommodate the spider.

'attacIa

annoyed, does little to save llsef except shill its ground slowly. Al the cltmactis moment. the spider

southwestern United States. the 3

Nature's Hypodermics

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cop? the biggest lbumbichcu.

This maraudcr seizes its prey on the wing and Jobs in its pro- boscis. Almost instantly the poison paralyze: and the robber fly car- rics its catch to a handy porch to cat.

with its sting and ceramic skill. the potter wasp provides its young with a carefully planned and well- sincked nursery. On the upper side of a leaf or twig. it builds a clay "lug" about.haiI an inch in diameter. having a perfectly fitting lid. inside are placed several paralysed-but still living- cankerworms. From the top the wasp suspends one egg on a silken thread. Thus it liansles out of harm's way in case one of the worms retain enough life to thrash about. When the larva hatches. it has a hearty breakfast close at hand.

Holloy's Comet Coming Ilnc (London) News

"This original creature. who rub- with

huadnihh atnlvenary of his birth. xhovnd Ibo romarliahlo quality of

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Medically Speaking

I1 Ilaroua N. Iudcaea. II. II.

COTTON IS HIGH STYLE IN OPERATING BOOM

The well-dressed surgeon and nurse wear cotton. That is, when they are in the operating room:

It is generally advisable that all outer" clothing as well as slips or stockings wore by doctors. nurses and other personnel dur- ing an operation be made of cotton. Outer garments of wool. rayon. silk. dacron, nylon, shark- skln and the like are usually banned in the operating room.

Why? To safeguard the patient -and the attendants as well.

COMBUSTIBLE AGENTS

Some anesthetic agents. such as ether, are tombustinie. Should some anesthesia accidentally be released in an operating room. there might be a chance of an explosion.

For this reason. all concerned with the surgery wear cotton gar- ments to prevent the possibility of static electricity setting off a blast.

They also wear plain leather shoes, sometimes with special in- sulating devices. Moislened cot- ton boots also are permissible, but shoes with rubber or gum rubber soles are banned from the oper- ating room.

We require that all rubber sheeting be fabricated from con- ductive FUbbeI'- Stretcher pads. the covers on the operating tables. pillows and cushions also should be made of conductive material.

EQUIPMENT GROUNDED

All anesthetic equipment and operating tables must be ground- ed. Even the furniture should be made of metal or another mate- rial which will conduct electricity.

Hospitals also insist that sur- faces on which movable objects are placed must not have paint, lacquer or other insulating finish if they are to be used in operating rooms.

Although such explosions are very infrequent. they do present a hazard in some cases. However, the patient generally is safer than he would be in his own bathtub.

QUESTION AND ANSWER T.M.: I bumped myself on the breast. It is black and blue and sore. Will this cause a cancer? Answer: There is no evidence that an injury of this type leads to cancer.

The Age Old Story

Blessed are they which are per- scouted for righteousnenr sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heav-

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Doria: I554 lrlllah aviation ex- pom exceeded two million for the first time. The December figure. 1:7,1l5.739. brought the total for the year to El01.460,582. an in- crease of 58 per cent over the previous record total in 1955. - British Aircraft Society

A rocket designed to reach an altitude of I!) miles will soon be released at the Woomera Range in Australia. This device is 15 ft. long. IW: inches in diameter and has been given the name Skylark. -British Aircraft Society

Canadian telelvlaloa fans who do watch purely Canadian pro- grams - and there are thousands who never see a Canadian show because of their proximity to Unit- ed States stations - must won- der just what the CBC does with its receipts. Certainly the Can- adian puhlic doesn't get 83450,- 000 worth of entertainment out of Canadian radio and television. - Brockville Recorder and Times

. The ice where a truck broke through on a lake near Kenora with five drowned was said aft- erwards to have been worn this by a current. It is one of the con- stant dangers where ice is used for transportation. A rock or a shoal. or even a difference in pressure from a river some dis- tance off. can cause a movement of water under the surface of the ice so that is it worn thin and, this. made dangerous to those who might travel it. Danger of this kind is especially present in riv- era.-Port Arthur News-Chronicle

Down in Havana. III.. a watch fowl biologist is busy dyeing some wild ducks pink and green in an attempt to learn why ducks go north in the Spring. We don't pretend to know which way or when the ducks will fly. But there's one safe prediction. If the pink ones do head north many a keep- er of late hours is going to hava his hair stand on end as. weaving his way homeward. he sees a flock of pink ducks go by. He'll probably start flying himself--to a psychiatrist.--Milwaukee Jour- nal

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ENIGMA OF THE ROSE

According to the botanists.

The genus of the rose consists

Of many species. each of them

with leaves odd-numberad on the stem:

From each thorned stalk extend: an urn

From which fivo leaflika sepals

turn:

Within the sapal. petals thrlvo

To fonn the cup; they. too, are five.

Then come tho stamens. carpets,

stigma. The sum of beauty - and enigma; For how and why this blossom grows So purposefully. no one knows. And who requires an explanation? The bloom is ample confirmation. .-Jean Mergard In The Christian ' ' ' ”

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A mother reports that the 1. training her children never to or, over spilt milk; but she would I); Just as happy if they wouldn't laugh when she tries to mop it up, '-Edmonton Journal

Lord Attlee on a lecture tour at. tracted so small on advanoe sale In Tomato that his Massey nan meeting was cancelled. Marilyn Monroe "live" would have pack. ed the place. Sociological signin. canoe?-Ottawa Journal

Every time we queue up 1., stamps it is behind the lady who wants twenty - seven four-cent stamps. forty-lwo five - cent stamps. and how much is a par. cel to Honolulu, so big.-Brandon Sun

How do birds keep their feet from freezing? Some, such as grouse and a few of the owls, have cathered feet. but most. birds are

arefoot as babies. Some animals are barefoot too - raccoons. for instance - but they have enough sense to stay under cover iihen it is bitter cold. Birds (innit.- New York Times

The "World Almanac" for I951 has 896 pages in small type of las- cinatinng facts political, govern- mental. educaiional, social and alheletic. Where else could one learn. for example. with so little exertion that the town of Scckonk in Massachusetts had 6,104 resi- dents at the latest count. and that Billy Ferraro Jr., of Livonia. Mich- igan. is the roller skating l'lh'iI1Ip- ion of the world?-Ottawa Journal

3 Theylre Coaching . Fun Oula Hockey

1? h the fun you had on the old mill pond -everybody played when he wanted. as long as he wanted!

Today the kids frequently ban to rise at 4 a.In. for their turn on the ice and they're rigidly coached to play positions. They learn to got rid of the puck. not keep it.

In this week's issue of the Star Weekly Gordon Campbell. in his contro- veraial article "Give Hoc- key Back to The Kids" shows why the Russians can beat us at our own national game. Buy your copy of the Star Weekly today. - The New STAR WI-.'EIi'I.Y

Montague Albcrlon

OUR YESTERDAYS

From 1110 Guardian Files

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (February I. 19”)

Civic affairs. pnrllcularly with relation to the welfare and em- ployment of the labourlnl f-llllsll. were discussed at a lai-sell! ll- Iinded meeting in the Labor Un- inn Hall last night. The mcetlnl. called by the union. was attended by the Mayor and a number of candidates in tho forthcolnllll civic contest. ;

With prospects of lurtherord- crs the first shipment of-livestock from P.E.I.- consigned to tho 1!- land of St. Plorrl. nu sons for- ward over tho C.N.R. to Hill!!! and lhenca by atoam to Si. Pt- crre. The shipment consisted of I rarload of cattle and hvll 5559"” bled from various Island pointl-

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