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i “SATURDAY, JULY 25,1958. —}
Important Hearings _
The Diefenbaker Government has made good on its promise to launch a full inquiry into railway transport- ation problems. The Royal Commis- sion it appointed for this purpose,
**aheaded by Hon. Charles P. McTague, oef-Toronto, held an organizational meeting this” week ‘and-will hold its —
firsf, agenda-setting meeting early
Newspapers Lad. |
“other values besides material val-
ee nous said Ruatar Bois,
1 ;
oda.
_in’ August. A Halifax Jawyer, A. Gordon Cooper, has been engaged by
the Commission to make a coast-to-
_coast study of the problems. All in-
terested parties—the.railways, the provinces and any others—will be in-
_ vited to attend next month’s meet-
ing at Ottawa to work out the agen-
The Maritimes have a big stake in this issue, for they have been un- fairly discriminated against in the horizontal rate boosts which the Board of Transport Commissioners
_ has imposed from time to time. The Goyernment has indicated-t ha tit
hopes by next March to get recom-
aoe
even the Senate of Canada can ob-
progress of our country. Those per-
sons_are, or were, natives of dis- ticts where farm revenues were never
very high. It seems that we should
revise Qur ovinion and appreciation of this class.” This is very true. And since not
tain. much concrete information about the problem, it is high time
_ that we devoted our scientific re-
search ‘facilities to this end. EDITORIAL NOTES Congratulations to the Sudbury (Ontario) Daily..Star on its fine edition commemorating the newspa- per’s 50th anniversary. A member
WON'T COME OFF HIS HIGH HORSE
GENERAL
* DECLARATION oF WAR“
SMALLWOOD.
Committee Work Interesting™
(Patrick Nichotson ison vaca- | tion. His guest columnist today
Le = _¢-give thie McTague Commissi
mendations that will enable it to re- lieve this discriminatory burden ~of freight charges on both the West and the Atlantic Provinces. This 9 six months to carry out its ae and make a report.
_ Considering the nature of the in- quiry, this i@ a very hmited time.
it would be well for provincial gov- ernments to get their cases prompt- lv prepared for presentation and
discussion. A large share of this” work will ddubtless fall upon the
Maritimes Transportation Commis- tion which has been the spokesman for these provinces in arguments before the Transport Commissioners. In this case, i is likely that hear- ings Will be held in every province, “efid “every opportunity given to l- eal boards of trade and other or- ganizations or individuals who may have evidence to present.
This: ig an opportunity we have
©’ been waiting for, and it would be in-
“rections, that -so
excusable if we -did not utilize it to the fullest extent in ob a more equitable_freight rate our shippers and all, concerned.
_ A NeglectedgStudy
ht is surprising, in view of the‘! '
progress made in so many other di- little has been achieved ‘in the way of basic econo- mic farm research in Canada, We have quoted criticism on this point
re for’
of Thomson Newspapers Limited, it
is planning a new building which:
will double the size > of its pre- sent plant and add greatly to its
There has been general approval of the Federal Government's dona- tion of $50,000 to the New Bruns-
This is the largest single gift yet made to this most deserving appeal,
and brings the total to date up to |
more than $230,000. s td
“Worst in living memory” is the official description by the Newfound- and Government of forest fires which aready have ravaged 200 square miles of Southern Labrador. Provin- cial forces have been fully mobiliz-
ed, air force units at Goose Bay are |
on an around-the-clock alert, and all outdoor fires have been prohibited. . * * There is no question, says the Ottawa Journal, about the validity of laws passed by Parliament before
’ it was prorogued on a Sunday morn-
ing. The Royal Assent was given be- fore midnight, at 11.45 Saturday. The prorogatiion speech and cere- ‘monial came on- Sunday: The Journal maintains that the laws would have : valid in any case, but it doesn’t ‘explain why there was such un- _seemly haste in winding up the ses- sion.
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Conservative M.P. for Grenville- Dundas.)
I have spent many hours in the Galleries of hte House.of Com- mons during and since the R.B. Bennett days so there was noth- ing particularly fascinating te me
the House as the representative for Grenville-Dundas. having won a beelection there last Septem-
ber. :
New fo me and of the greatest
interest are the yarious Commit- |
tees: Here is done the prepara-
tory work. A Chairman demands |
‘challenging world of market pres-
that rules be followed, but the at- mosphere is informal. Literally | “round table’ conferences, the
esty's Opposition, ft Te now their duty to do the criticizing.
| sion ¥ Party Whip asks M.-P.” for their preferences as to
| mittees. I requested Agriculture | Hugh Horner from Jasper Edson |. because I was. raised on a farm, | had to return to his home in Al- represent a rural riding, and“have | berta, I had the good fortune to a “Hatural interest in-farming, in-| pe invited to replace him-on-the in its procedure when I entered | creased by both my brothers and Radio and Broadcasting Commit-
father actively farming
There is heavy demand for this | all, and may well be history mak-
Sah tore tne and. M.P.'s vie. with one} he beginning of each - another as to who can ask the
“most uninhibited questions.
Committee and |. was pleased to:
be chosen. It has-been interesting with Special Sittings for Bre Prair- le farmers March; for Dairy | Support Prices, and many long hours on humane slaughter. Quickly I discovered that al- most all Committees are inter- esting, but there is never much
air soon thickens with cigarette | time for an M.P. to sit in on ex-
smoke. Ideas are exchanged rap- idly, matic wording, but there is gen- erally a feeling of Accomplish- ment.
This maybe partly my tmpres- | sion as an enthusiastic new Mem- | ber, and partly that Committees | have been unusually vigorous / this Session. There is none of the | covering up, protectionist attit- ude which quite naturally devel- oped at the-nd of the long Liber- al regime. Tory M-P.'s can stifl criticize what was set up before. March 1957. Obviously this is ir- ritating to the Liberals and some- _ disconcerting. As Her Maj- |
Spain Moving Slowly
By Alan Canadian Pres
After nearly four decades of iron - clad dictatorship, Spain is: finally moving slowly away from economic primitivism toward a
eures and outside competition. In the popular image, Spain is a country of toreadors and cryp- tie characters created by Ernest Hemingway. The reality is de.
tras just for pleasure or for-gen-
often too rapidly for diplo- | eral education.
Out of curiosity and a vague sense of filial support, IT looked in on the Railways and canals Committee one day for a few minutes, to see how my father, Hon. Earl Rowe, M.P., was do- ing as Chairman. I remained two hours. With Donald. Gordon, President of the C.N.R. answer- ing questions; there were five Vice-Presidents of the C.N.R. in | attendance, as well as the Pres- idént of C.P.R. and T.C.A. and just for good measure. the Min- sister of Transport, the George Hees. How could it nei any-
Harvey s Staff Writer
growing. lacks unity. Two years ago, experienced observers in Madrid were saying that Franco's Tule could not last much longer. He is still in command.
The casual tourist receives in Spain an impresion of restraint There i¢ a temptation te sense undertones of violence ia the
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‘ator Bois, pointed out, it is met
before. A fresh example is given |
in the report of the Senate special committee on Land Use, submitted just _before Parliament prorogued on Sunday. sented to the committeefA says the xveport, “indicates that it is impossible with our present knowledge” to. give a precise answer to the number of problem small farms in Canada and in the different provinces.”
Three main redsons were given for this condition: There is no
general agreement to what con- stitutes a minimum * acceptable ‘standard of living; (2) Full infor-
- mation with respect to non-farm in- _. eome—that is, income,obtained from
work off the tfarm—is not available; (3) Statistics are not sufficient detail to show the num- ber and location of these farms. ;
* In the. end, it was decided to take the figures of the 1956. Census of Agriculture, which show that 20
per cent ofall farms in Canada -are—
non-commercial farms ~with estimated potential gross
an annual
- value. in production of. crops and
livestock, including farm products consumed in the home, of less than $1,200. There. were 120,242 of these. farms in all Canada. ‘ This is not a problem that has grown up overnight, but. is as old as farming jiself. As one speaker, Sen-
by archaeologists in records dating long before the Christian era. The ~ Greeks and Romans, 4s is evidenced in- their writings, were’ intent upon - improving the living conditions of
gmail land owners... Similar. efforts.
a tenet
“All the evidgfice pre—
available in
sg :
We take this from the Winnipeg Free Press, which keeps a jaundiced political eye on such matters: “In British Columbia an ambitious law- yer’s surest path to the high courts apparently is through his partner- ship with a cabinet minister in Ot- tawa. A few. months ago Mr. Howard Green’s partner was appointed to the
| provincial Supreme Court. Now Mr.
Fulton has elevated his partner, Mr.
| David Verchere, of Kamloops,” to that
bench.”
Dixie now ja regarded as those.
American states which lie below the Mason-Dixon line; but originally “Dixie’s land” was the name given a farm on Manhattan island by Ne- gro slaves, says the Columbia en- syclopedia. Later, the slaves were sent to Charleston by their master, Johaan Dixie, owner of the farm. The name somehow caught on as an identification of the south, and was “in gerieral use that way-when- Daniel Emmett wrote his famous song, “Dixie.” : -
The reluctance of Newfoundland- ers to take jobs away from home
for protracted periods ham been the. ‘ subject of comment by Premier
Smallwood. He is concerned about the fact that outsiders must. be brought into the province to work at Labrador iron because too few Newfoundlanders will sign up for any’ length of time. It is a form of voluntary exile for them to go te Knob Lake or Wabush, and not even high wages cart lure them there in adequate numbers *
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pressingly different. Economic- ally, Spain is ithe most backward country of Europe; politically,
is throttled by an ice-cold, im- passive dictater, who rules through fear.
Now this sullen, soffering, tragic country, with its bitter memories of a bloody revolution, has joined the organization for European economic co-operation.
In return for what will prob-
olive - garbed police, with their sinister - looking black helmets, and in the reluctance of chance acquaimances to discuss politics.
There are evidences of pro
Pakistan la making long-range
abit be.an extremely gradual | liberalization of its trading meth- j ods, Spain will receive £36,000,- 000 credit, three - quarters pav- able now and the rést Feb. 2, | 1960. if certain conditions are met.
CRACKING FOSSIL
Thus Spain moves to end years of economic isolation and fossili- zation. The tantalizing question is whether this may lead ultimately te easier political conditions.
Livingston Merchant, US. ase sistam secretaty of ‘plate, has said he would like to see Spain join NATO. Such a move is um likely to find immediate favor in ali NATO countries,. though some critics s@y that Portugal, a four der member of NATO, ie not much better off than Spain as far as democratic regimes are con-
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Whatever Spain's future in NATO, the Western hope cer- tainly is that Spain's first falter- ing steps away from its self-con- tained economic cradle will event-
Except for five years of tenuous democracy from 1991 ta 1936, Spain has known hothing except war or dictatorship under Gen eral Primo de Rivera from 1923 to 1931 and under Generalissimo Francisco Franco from 1939 to the present time. : MANY ENEMIES
Franco ia detested by many of his subjects Spaniards know him as @ hlock of ice, a andwman He save that hie nde ie a “per sonal mandate’ and ignores cTi- ieism. Opyonents are: ‘‘anti-Span ish.’ Church and ‘army are his qnain allies
plans to move the federal twapi- tal inland from overcrowded Kar- achi.
A @aport and industrial center, Karachi .i¢ the Moslem repub- fic's latgést metropolis, the Na- tional Geographic Society says. In 12 years since the partition of British India, the refugee-chok- ed- city’s population haf- grown from 300,000 to 1,500,000.
Seas of mud and straw huts rsurround Karachi's handsome, 19th century buildings and broad avenues. Vital facilities — water. light , and housing—are strained to the breaking point.
The new capital will be built on a green plateau in the moun- tainous north near Rawalpindi. To the east ie Kashmir, a poc-
the Himatavas.-Te-the-west_are ‘Khyber Pass and the bare, hulk- North-West Frontier Provinces. MILITARY HEADQUARTERS Rawalpindi was once British In dia’s largest military station. Tal-
|_es_of frontier wars with tribes-
men-have heen told and retold In fiction. The city is now the Pak- istani Army's headquarters;
A healthy clhimat?, availabitity of food, water, and building ma- terials, as well as defense, were factors in the selection of the Rawalpindi site in the - fertile Punjab. 2%
The new capital will ‘not rise
in stages over a considerable per iod of time as resources of the ‘young. hard-pressed eotien per- mit. _.
In idan to ¢reale an en- tirely new center suitable to its
Opposite to Feance, though
needs “Pakistan follows a strong
tight-lipped unfriendiiness - of the |
.|one. correspondent recently
| suffering un-precedented
‘ruthless, but # incorporates a sol-
- Overcrowded Karachi
National Geographic Society
‘| tia, and India have made-to-ord-
ing stioulders of ranges in the ket of lush valleys- guarded by? u
overnight. The move will he made |
_. Katachi was not intended to be
=) thing but interesting with ‘such a cast? INTRIGUING
This is the wmtriguing biseiaie:
tie fact of Parliamentary Commit- tees. Amyone can be. called be-
,
Later in the Session when Dr.
| tee. This is the most explosive of
ing _ It is generally agreed that Ca- nada needs a C.B.C.
It is also generally agreed that | it is bad business for a Company to be relieved of the natural con- straints and stumuli for competi- tion, without close observation as to costs: These the Committee demanded. Probably no organiza- tion has never been so ruthlessly | and publicly probed, at the same and ‘continous and unexpected pro- blems. Individual Committee members often did not feel as
ruthless as the printed reports k is possible’te develop per- may have te . In fact, the| sympathetie/eat was there a or almost any other infection.
w . 7.
Vice-Pres Bushnell seemed to be the one man left to face up.to a mountain of C.B.C. woes.
The democratic process can be.
id base of fair play which hates to see one person take the whole brunt of a concerted attack.
gress‘in some grandiose architec- tural developments, described by as typifying Spein’s ‘‘quest for the some 2,000 persons dwelling in caves in the Madrid area.
In a book on Spain published Jast year, British writer John Haycraft said that ip the prov- ince of Andalusia, ‘‘one _often feels as if one were, dealing with children. partly because people are dependent on their homes and are often treated by their
seems to know much about, this
Some cerebral palsy cases follow a prolonged high fever, but a high fever in itself doesn’t mean that such an affliction is
sure to follow.
Fortunately;>: most of the cere- bral palsy victims can be helped te varying degrees.
Persistent training, under skill- ful hands, enables most victims to gain a considerable measure of ‘muscular and ¢o-ordin- ation.
TREATMENT COSTLY
Treatment. however — usually | is costly. And parents will do well; to follow the advice of their son
hearty when more than 150 years old, but Pakistan puts both
40n | in the shade by the The pond below Awwal Kahn who is $00. 004 best
been drawing 2 pension from the - | East India Company years.
A herd of goats in Oregon Is reported to be remarkably accur- ate in predicting the weather. We had thought that the only kind of weather information’ one could obtain from a goat was the direc- titon the wind was blowing. —Ed- montonn Journal
‘A man is in critical condition in a Kingston hospital, result of | a “joke” on the part of a/ “riend” who sot hom in the sto- mach with a 22-calibre rifle. “In- cidents like these make us wond- |
er whether it might be a 2000 | Sen to make it a criminal of- | feice to poimt-a rife.shotgun or
pistol lay anybody—loaded. or un- loaded.—Ottawa Journal.
tempting to rehabilitate palsied children.
Although as yet we have no| cure for cerebral! palsy, scientists at leading universities and. in- stitutions throughout the nation, are seeking a way to stop it. Some day they are going to find the answer.
Mrs. G.W.: The doctor has diagnosed my brother's condi- tion as-periarthritis, but no one
disease. 8
Could -you tell me # It is here- ditary;is asthma eonnecied with it and is pneumonia im any way
cag ateaneng for k? - : uinennibin of the tisues around a joim rather than the joint itself. It is one type of “rheumatism” and is ordinarily’ not hereditary nor related to asthma.
jarthritis following pneumonia
make provision for the Heensing .
| of non-resident anglers this —
when the federal fisheries depart- ment recently surrendered this right to the province, visiting sportsmen can fish free in that province during 1959. Last year the federal fisheries department sold 1,700 non-resident licences to fishermen at $5 each for a total of $8,500—Saint John Telegraph- Journal
Canadian| Bank of Commerce that Mr. W.R. Gilbert, Manager of the
Montague, Edward Is- land Branch, has been appointed |: assistant inspector of Maritime and Newfoundland branches with headquarters at Halifax— oes or
Ten-year-old Freddy Burke was taken to hospital with a broken | leg after he was knocked from his bicycle by a car on the corn- er of Spring Park Road and Dou- gias Street last evening. The young lad, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Burke, 6 Union
Street, was struck when the car
OUR YESTERDAYS (Frosh
the Guardian Files) ,;
« TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO |
(July 25, 1934) { His Excellency Bishop J.A. 0’- Sullivan and a large number of ; clergymen from Prince. Edward Island were present to partici- pate in the religious services which commemorated the four hundredth anniversary of the dis- |. covery of the Magdalene Islands celebrated at Havre Aubert on Tuesday.
A delightful moonlight eruise was enjoyed last evening by near- ly 300 persons who took advan» tage of the Harland excursion sponsored by the Holy Redeem- er Tennis Club and partook in a four hour program of singing and dancing while sailing over the
| Look at the monotonous manner
turned the corner onte Douglas Street.
MAXIMS Monotony is the law of nature.
in which the sun rises. .. .The monotony of occupa- ‘tions is exhilarating and mee ings.
orous throng ~ door unbarred.
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ed to ice
And say by day aspiring hockey greats, —~
| Could blossom like a garden wheg
the stars Twinkjed at hand-clasped chil- dren on their skates. ‘
Now, lasts too long,
Nothing of.youth is here, no lan- ghter heard;
Only the soft. wind's sight, a stray ing leaf,
| The Wee: of a contented mother ©
bird.
But sée the wena chaied whitey” on 2 wall,
“Freddy loves Mary”,
“Letty dots on Paul,”
4
—Ruby Friedmas :
in Regina Leader-Post.
dnd: mouey shaukd De spent on - | Because Nova Scotia failed to > The A
~ He will be very gracious unte—_ thee at the voice of <-he cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. -
eith
Keith Carmichael Ltd.
Plumbing and Heating Brackley Pt. Rd
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Of children trooping through
it would seem the slleues :
ei
fants until late’ in life.”
Friends of Spain may hope that itz entry into OFEC may be the first stage in a delayed growing up. Y
lead. The United States, Austra-
er federal cities. Libya jis ‘build- pulled Sean
ing a new capital, and Brazil is SS a
constricting an ultramodern seat |,
of government in’ the interior Get Your : |
northwest of Rio de Janeiro. Vacation Needs As Asian cities go, Karachi fe
a youngster. It was not until the at
18th century that Hindu traders
settled the arid area (Known as Parkdale Pharmacy
Kalachi-or “Land of Sandi] St. Peters Rd. Dial 6832
Dunes." Even a century ;& £0, || Opes. Every Night°Til 9 p.m.
Karachie was hardly more than’ a fishing village sandwiched be- tween the Arabian Sea and bar- ren desert.
Karachi might have remained a quiet backwater had not the area's first colonial governor, Sir ‘Charles Napier, realized its pos- sibilities: He was largely re
moonlit waters of the harbour and Straits.
TEN YEARS AGO (July 25, 1949) Tt hae been announced by the
ees the sidewalks are often a home. without walls. The streets are crowded with bicycles, ped- icabs, horse - drawn victorias, streetcars, buses, cars, taxicabs; and, typically, rubber-tired carts
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am. to 9:00 am. if your paper is late — or
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sponsible. in the mid-19th ‘cent-
ury, for developing the harbor fa- _cilities. Today the port is the out- | let for all of West Pakistan and Afghanistan. © | ‘ROLE IN WORLD WAR
During World War 1, Karachi | was a main stop on the Miami-
port Command. it was not w- common for one pilot to ask a eT other to pick wp laundry the week before in the city. Kar- | achi remains a terminal point for international airlines and . Has one of the busiest airports in Asia.
the permanent capital of Pakis- tan—a nation numbering 94,000. 000 people. And it was hardly prepared. after partition {nm 1947. for the avalanche of Moslem re- fugees and civil servants. .
Though the Government has made -a streauous effort to pro- vide housing, to countiess sel
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