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PAGE 4 SATUR! RDAY, ;, SEPTEMBER 4 4,
, 1965,
Another Labor Day
One of the earliest achievements of the Trades and Labor Council of * Canada was the promotion by legis- lation, passed in 1894, of,a statutory holiday to observe the establishment of organized labor in the ¢ountry. Originally dbserved on September 1, the holiday was later fixed for the first Monday in the month to provide a. long weekend. This annual com- memoration has not become an out- moded gesture; rather it is a living observance of the ever increasing importance of Labor on the national scene The responsibilities and_ the strength of the movement continue to grow, and constant improvements in the lot of the working man con- tinue to be made. It is worth recall- ing, on this occasion, the ‘pioneer work done in this province by the La- borers Protective Union, formed in Charlottetown in 1901. Throughout the vears, our labor groups have sought to place good citizenship .in the forefront of their objectives, and have a record unsurpassed by any in Canada _in this connection. Labor .Day provides the. last Jong weekend. before winter sets in, and
everyone is entitled to énjoy it in
—his-own-way-—There—will_bea_wide_
et field- of - recreational activities, But_|
with the increasing , “emphasis on, motor traffic, a frightening increase in the number of accidents ‘has been recorded. And in Canada, the Labor Day weekend is the biggest killer of all. The Canadian Highway Safety Council has issued a special plea for more careful driving at this time, but its forecast is grim indeed. It expects 75 Canadians will die in highway accidents before Tuesday _
All-drivers-know-what-the-safety. rules are; the need is for keeping.
them constantly in mind. Let’s hope the Safety Council is unduly pessi-
mistic in its prediction—though it has usually erred on the other side. In -any_case,~ -it's- warning calls for a co- operative effort on the part of all-our people in a very real sense.
Chores For Satellites
There is irony in the fact that while both the United States and the Soviet Union have agreed to keep nuclear weapons out of space, both have military space programs. It is hardly realistic to expect them, un- der present conditions, to renounce all military interest in space. But there are other aspects of the Gemini- Apollo: programs | to which attention has been called by Theodore George, One~of the heads of the National Aeronautics and Space Administra- tion at. Washington, and which have nothing to do with either military aims or sending a man to the moon.
Mr. George predicts advantages from satellite. picture surveys of ma-
,jor farm areas for the world-wide production of yields early in the crop year. Farmers and other would then be able to take early action on short- ages or surpluses. Other satellite pic- ture surveys might identify important plant diseases in the early stage of their. spreading over crop areas— thereby providing more efficient con- trol—and:even measure the moisture of the soil around the world at per- iodic intervals. to aid in determining planting and growing conditions.
Eventually. too, they may be able to help. fishermen increase their hauls, by detecting and measuring | the movement of major schools of fish, and by aiding in experiments that would‘ chart the direction and
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velocity of ocean currents and the |
variation of temperatures at the sur- face of the sea. It should also be possible by sat- * ellite to discover probable large iron ore bodies which are not too far un- derground, and would make world
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eo mapping practical. These |
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' ancing, was estimated at $365 million..
maps would give geologists some of }
the clues they need for finding new petroleum pools and beds of mineral! deposits.
These are not the views of a theorist but of a practical scientist who knows whereof he speaks, and who, incidentally, is chief of systems engineering, Office of Advanced Mis- sion Studies, at NASA. The humdrum
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chores he pictures the satellites.ac-_.
complishing would, of course, be in- . cidental to the grandiose objectives
involved in the multi-billion dollar |
activities at Cape Kennedy. Pentagon officials. probably give them little thought, if any. But what of that? They could turn out to be the real prizes in the Space race after all.
Which reminds us of the story’ about an idle voung fellow who was told, by a dying rich relative, of a fabulous treasure buried in his back vard. He -dug-and-dug;-but-couldn't find it. Every square foot of the place he dug up, but no treasure. But his spade work gave ‘him the idea of converting—a—useless piece —oftand into an excellent garden, on the pro- duce of which he lived well fed—if not wealthy and wise—ever after.
Sober Reminder Again we are reminded by the United Nations Food and Agricultur- al Organization, in a report of its lat-
est survey, that the gap between the ~
world’s well fed and underfed “na-~ tions continues to’widen. The sur- vey showed that 10 to 15 per cent of the world population is undernour- ished and up to 50 per cent hungry, malnourished or both. The end pro- | ducts are not only misery, disease and economic stagnation, but politi- cal instablity as well, carrying an ex- plosive patential that is as disquiet- ing, in its way, asthe threat-of atomic war. What is most disturbing is the | prediction that in the decade ahead, food supplies will have to rise by | more than 35 per cent, just to sus- | tain today’s miserable diet levels in | these retarded countries. We worry about farm surpluses in this part of the world, but-think of that! Special-
ists say that if the United States | donated its entire food surplus for
one year to the hungry, it would-be
_ the equivalent of only two teacups
~ full of. rice every Le days for each — “needy person. , And, of course, there are-difficul- ties in channeling even our limited surplus bounty where it is most\re- quired. en these bottlenecks are overcome, there is the prospect that food aid may. encourage receiving nations to defer steps to increase their own farm output, and act as a drag rather than a spur to progress. The hungry nations need to step up public___investment__in_agriculture,
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even at the expense of more tempt- |
ing industrial, road building’ and ed- ucation programs. And they must,
“in some way, sdlve their overpopula-
tion problem. The FAO terms the _ latter a social challenge ‘‘of, urgent
priority,” but unfortunately it offers. —®°t the only burdens...
no very realistic proposal for coming to grips with it.
Channel Tunnel Plans
We seem to have gotten ahead of
the French and British after all in our causeway project. They’re still
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sn ' dip, glide downward awaiting the resultseof a study of-the | high. It is a beautiful
DRAG RACE
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A WARNING VOICE
Where The Mone
Winnipeg
When medical care is paded ates huge amounts of capital to
to contributory “old age pensions | | finance a pension system,
and many other new social ser- vices, the cost of Canada’s wel- fare state will be higher than most citizens yet realize and far more than the politicians admit. In literal fact no one knows the cost, which has been calculated so far in the roughest
“sort of figures. But at the lowest
reckoning the nation has bitten off_as much as its economy can conveniently chew, more.
A society: like a private house- hold, must~ work by some set of priorities because -it cannot | —always—have_all_it wants. First. things should come first. Cana- dian society, though never Very clear, in its recent decisions,
fate future anyway.
The means of supporting these desirable benefits—that is to say the actual capacity of the productive apparatus — comes
second.. But in the end it will be. |
the_economy, not the state, that vide every dollar Of their in- come. The tapayers cannot live by “cashing cheques on own collective treasury and tak- “{ng in one another's washing:
HEAVY BURDENS
Canada -has decided through its 11. governments to place heavy additional burdens on the economy-in the form of taxes, direct and indirect, visible and disguised. Taxes, however, are
When the state also accumul-
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| more money | fact,
| hence to pay the rising costs of
perhaps | | than the economy produces. | it is to produce enough, the ec-
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=+ seems to be choosing welfare as | its -first-priority, for the immed- |
for |
| example, the volume of money |
| left for the use of productive en-
terprise is mathematically dim- | inished. The mere. printing of | cannot alter the | since money is nothing | more than a measurement and index of real wealth.
How much real wealth will | the nation have five or 10 years |
the state? It will have no more | If |
onomy must be vastly expand- | ed and it cannot be expanded | on-—such_a~‘scale without vast | capital investment by business. {. As the Economic Council says, Canada has reached a point where it requires more invest- ment than any of the Western
' industrial nations if it is to find |
their |
jobs for its rapidly increasing | population. | None of the political parties |
appears to have grasped the full }*
significance of this warning. At
‘any rate it has been given scant | must employ the people and pro- |
attention in the debates of Par- liament,~in- recent -federal- pro- , vincial conferences or in tax policies, federal and: provincial. The political process’ is concen- |
trated far more~on~the-require=~
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ments of the state than on the . urgent needs of the economy. |
UNCERTAIN ECONOMY
In the sunshine of a boom our. politicians apparently overlook | the possibility of a rainy’ day when -all ‘their. assumptions
wore WOuld be. instantly-.undermined;./=; sa
Even if the boom continues: in-
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The Monarch’s Cycle
Ottawa Journal ”
Monarch. butterflies vagrant brerzes: stretched wings they
on out- turn and and sail insect in
chalk bed that underlies the English | its cloak of browns and tans,
channel before deciding whether to
push ahead with the construction of a
tunnel linking England to the conti-
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orange, black and grey. One can always
ride the | white dots on the black edges of |
the four wings. The sharply- etched black veins in the shad- | ed colorings of orange, yellow | and tan remind one of the pas- | tel beauty of stained glass win-
| dows.
identify the |
Monarch by the double circle of | |a Monarch. you will find the |
nent. The study will be ae PUBIC FORUM
six months. Meanwhile 70 bore holes are being punched into the channel’s floor, some of them 300 feet deep, by survey teams working day and night.
Their concern is over how’ thick and sound the chalk deposits are that
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the skeletons of fish and shells of
snails have. built up over the centu- ries. According to The Times of Lon-
the chalk layer in which the tunnel would be ‘built contains no_ serious flaws, that the tunnel is feasible and
don, all indications to date are that |
could be built in five years.
ry
Two. construction plans are pro- | posed. One calls for boring a-hole |
through the chalk layer from Dover to a point near Calais—a total dis- tance of.32 miles, 23 miles of’ it be- low the sea itself. The other “emersed tube” plan would involve burying concrete tunnel! sections in a trench dug straight across the channel. Financing remains the major hur- dle. Britain is in the grip of a balance of trade crisis. and strict spending re- strictions have been imposed. But ad- vocates argue that the tunnel would cut cross-channel freight rates by a half and auto rates by a third. Wait-: ing also increases the cost of infla- tion. In 1960 the cost, including fin-
-In 1963 it had riseri to almost $450
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enter into any ecorrrespendence regard- tog letters submitted.
IN APPRECIATION
Sir,— Recently, my dog, Ching and I returned from our second vaeation in your lovely. prov- ince-and, if possible, our enjoy- ment even exceeded that of last summer. During that first visit, we tried several of your excel- lent camps until we finally found Campbell’s Cove and liked it so much that we stayed for 10 days. The Cove is beautiful, but its charm is greatly increased by the genial fiospitality of its kindly caretaker, Charlie Mc- Mahon.
This same friendliness is to be found in North Lake Harbor and
| the small stores nearby. It is in
Justin Bailey and his son Mi ael who supplied me with derful fish and potatoes and in-
teresting ‘conversation, and in.
another jolly chap who sells ice and adds laughter and humor as a bonus: Indeed, friendliness seems to be a characteristic of the Islanders who are best de- scribed in one way: they are- just very nice people.
Thank you, Prince Edward Is- land, far everything. God willing T shall return
my — ote McMahon. , Sir, etc., (MRS. joe “AROLINE BENDER |
Bamberg, Ontario.
_ If you enjoy new nature ex- | periences, follow the life cycle of |
| weed lead — about the size of a |
ts open.te the discussion |
| the winter. Next season they will ' come back, lay their eggs and
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someday and congratulated Preident ~ again visit Campbell's Cove and | son on the Gemini 5 space flight
" The egg hatches in five days and grows into a_ handsome,
bands of gold, black and white. |
For about two-weeks it-feeds |~ mecessary, The Guardian is unable to, on the milkweed and then
weaves a silk cocoon or chrysa- lis. The cocoon is a thing of beauty; it resembles green cello- phane*decorated with a row of tiny gold-red dots near the upper ends.
It is Police 2 to watch a butterfly e after the .10- day chrysalis period. The wings break through the covering; in a few minutes a‘small, dark but- terfly clings to the broken co- coon with dark blue feet.
For a few minutes the wings | are limp; suddenly they quiver and tremble. Before one’s eyes the wings expand and grow. The new-born butterfly parts its wings and moves them back and forth while the wings grow ligtt- | er in color.
In an hour or so the Monarch spreads its now large wings and soars away in sunshine.
Soon they will congregate in flocks and move southward for
nature’s cycle will be re-enact- ed...
CONGRATULATES U.8
UNITED. NATIONS (AP)" UN Secretary-Genera) U Thant John-
| in a telegram made public Mon- | day. Thant said it was a mile stone in science that will ‘‘bene- fit al
y Mu Must Come From
definitely on its present. level, as a result mainly of world con- ditions, the economy will still need massive capital nourish-
ment and will .not get it in ade- |
quate volume if the state’s ap- petite is too large Now that the nation has com-
| mitted itself to gigantic govern-
mental expenditures it must be- gin to reckon its means of pay- ment.
tain which, by overloading economy, is driven to painful re-
| trenchment, even under a Labor
government, and cannot entirely support itself, for the moment, without-large foreign assistance.
That_ _classic_lessof_in_excess- |
ive “expectations should not” be”) ignored in Canada.
Otherwise, Canada could | | find itself in the position-of Bri- its |
An Epidemic On Wheels
By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellien | Motor vehicle accidents set a | mew record last year by taking | the lives of approximately 48,000 | persons. This broke the pre.
vious record set in 1963 (43,000)
and if the epidemic continues
we can expect another hike in
1965. The blame for this mount- | ing toll is the increasing numb- er of cars and drivers:
Everyone seems to know why | accidents occur except authorit- | jes on the subject. Most of the current information is based on | police accident reports. These | are not considered reliable be-
not take the time to thoroughly investigate each crash. This would involve a survey of the entire scene with photographs, | and a complete report on the condition of the car, nature of
sobriety, and discussions with the survivors and witnesses. It would have to be done in much | the same way that civil aeronau-
crashes.
But it ‘can be. done: Several Universities and~ medical —socie- ties have projects” line. A Harvard group found that a combination of factors, usually involving mechanical failures caused by improper |
maintenance, was frequently re- | sponsible. In more than 10 per cent there was evidence to sus-
ious items include removed cot~,
; ter pins and clamps, brake lines |
| slashed through or hammered | | flat. Speed law violations and | lack of courtesy were not signi- | ficant causes. Another study that more accidents | happen on high grade roads in open country, at 35 and fewer be- ' tween 55 and 70 miles. per hour. | Imadequate highway design | plays a role. It is estimated that 8,000 lives will be saved when the federal interstate highway system is completed. Another 15,000 could be saved by wear- | ing safety belts combined with shoulder straps. Reforms in au-
tomobile design centering about |
improved door latches and the | steering column also™ will be helpful. CRAZY, MIXED UP ' IDEA Mrs. E.J. writes: Is it true. that a woman who is -wearing fingernail! polish at the time of an attack of coronary thrombos- is will fail to respond to artific- ial respiration?, REPLY This is the most-garbled-ques-
| time. Nail polish has nothing to do with breathing or heart at- tacks. Furthermore, artificial respiration seldom is needed in treating coronary thrombosis.
-TODAY’S— HEALTH HINT=_ Be sure exits are always | | clear.
cause most patrol officers can- |
the injuries, driving conditions, |
tics investigators examine plane |
along this |
pect murder or. suicide} Suspic- |
{ Into the Néw Earth:
A Rash Gamble
By Arch MacKenzie Canadian Press Staff Writer
"GDN EDIT P A FAN- GAMBLE
The power of the United Na- tions is once more on tria) over the crisis in Kashmir.
The Kashmir crisis, allowed to simmer for years, has erupted into what appears to be | the beginning of a full India- Pakistan war that could.spread | and embroil all Asia if not halted promptly. | Britain, Canada and other , Commonwealth -countries had begat that both Prime Minister
|Lal Bahadur Shastri of India _ President Mohammed Ayub |Khan of Pakistan would heed | Britain has ‘been working be- | hind the scenes to urge both | leaders to cool their national pride and move back from the | brink of disaster. Attempts to- wards conciliation have failed.
The United Nations now is grappling with the issue and at the moment there is no indica-
} tion.that U Thant, the secre- tary-general, can wield more in-
fluence over the Asian antago- nists than Britain or the Com- | monwealth!
TAKES “GAMBLE For the first time there ap- | Pear in the issue the element e a fatalistic gamble on the | part of Pakistan. For years | Ayub Khan has tried by various means to get India to agree to } some—final, acceptable solution |to the Kashmir issue. nn There was some indication | that the late Jawaharlal Nehru | was edging. towards negotia- ons. The -Pakistan president may have believed that Nehru’ 8
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CASTOR AND POLLUX DUO—1965
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| @ backbone of iron.
| ceasefire line have
| many Western observers- that
this initial infiltration attempt, of Pakistan,
| had the which in tirn may feel it can:
successor might be even more ready to get a final settlement,
But Shastri has shown he has Attempts by Kashmir guerrillas to infi). | trate the Indian side of the been re: pulsed. There is*no doubt among.
| turn to China for help if thet Kashmir flareup should turn.
into full war.
LODKS TO MOSCOW
India now has moved a step further by invading and seizing strongholds on the Pakistani side of the ceasefire line, per- haps feeling that in the event of full war, New Delhi could count on help from Moscow.
Pakistan says it won't allow India's ‘aggression’ to go un- challenged. There appears to be no immediate solution in sight,
“One hope among British au- thorities is that Moscow and Peking will make their positions clear, might be ‘less eager’ for a full showdown -if they were told they could expect no help from So- viet ‘or Chinese quarters. There is some question, however, whether China will attempt. to discourage Pakistan. Indeed, China may want to encourage Pakistan to settle an old feud with India. %
FILL INFILTRATORS
KUCHING, Sarawak (Reu- ters)—A Malaysian security. pa- trol killed at least eight Indone-
sian infiltrators in a clash in the Lundu district of Sarawak, a se- curity forces spokesman said Friday. :
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A Salute to Our Space Twins |
| Through the clear air,
The azure empyrean,
The diaphanous-: veils,
| The high chill winds,
The great filled emptiness
Of Space—
You sped. ‘
|'You two, encased
In Time's cocoon:
Ready growing chrysalidae
Of another age
Men of Space. skin;
Men of shining heads and glow- ing eyes,
wearing a new
Extra orbs that held by hands, tion I have received in a long |
scan The vast “Universe for tracks— Yes, the footprints ef God! And slowly His rays do help: And the shining traces lie Clearly. marked: Stepping-stones- ~“apace-mariers-
“—W.H- Doucette, CSSR, RCN” | Shannon -Park, N.S.
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