: wR ‘ . ' { ' , Lfberal pledges made during the late ‘ The SE lamented campaign. ‘ There is, for exantple, the redistri- ; a ee ene oc bution of seats, held up by the elec- p= oo a alin - frank Weiser tion. There is a major revision of the ~* el seagh.dey marsing lexcact sn | Bank Act:‘a medicare plan hopéfully dey and stannory holidevs) at 165 Prince Sueet, to be put in being; new railway trans- Scanch offices ot Summerside, Montague, Alberton Port legislation; farm laws to” help —— a - - eastern farmers; collective bargaining Adeaitting toriees loony 425 Cavey ace in the civil-service; a new tak.struct- | = ah Siete Se Cohen greet eb Ure in the wake of the Carter Commis- Sree! Venceve Ma 7097 8 “em Geer sion Report; rules on election expen- 5 ‘ Member Canadian Deily Newspaper Puolishers ses: a free vote on capital’ punish- Press is axchanivelyenuitied to the vse for repub ment, perhaps eyen a new broadcast: —, of = neve dperchns i thle potion ing setup in the light of the Fowler 7 and alse” to a ear naan tea Hiahed herein, an| Report, right .or republication of special dispaiches here There is also the need of bringing Te ee re: down to earth the $40 million _uni- $12.00 @ year by mail on rural rovies and.areas versity scholarship program and the mer SIS.ON beet ot Ialaakd ond U.K." 620.00 per | $400 million roads prog) m for the : year in U.S. and elsewhere outsi ide British Com- North; the pledges of re funds for TE ce the Atlantic Development | Board and , Member Aucit Bureav oi Circulation, _ * the $25. midlion investment boost for PAGE «4 FRIDAY, Y, DECEMBER; 31, 195-——Nova—Scotia's_coal_industry;. “adjust- ment.of the Canada Pension’ Plan “Another Year’ $ End basic rate “if necessary,” plus in- tt is said that we are all optimists creased old age pensions to the at heart, which probably accounts for needy: improved and extended crop the fact that we nevér stand on the “insurance program; national dairy threshold of a new year without a commission, similar marketing agen- thrill of expectancy. This year’s end cies for other products and a féed is‘no exception. The “end,” of course, 8rain agéncy. for eastern Canada and is just.an arbitrary assumption of our British: Columbia; unemployment in’) i gwn, to aid us in keeping count. No ° surance for full-time farm workers; year.is complete in itself.” Even.the . Planning for long-term water use, | Seasons overlap the divisions we and.so forth, : make. The New York Times puts it.| Plenty to do, indeed! Viewed in neatly when it says: “Any year is a this context, perhaps the major ac- Vast procession of nows, which add complishment of the last session was up -to the continuity of foreyerness. the change in the rules of the House ‘The totals are eternally incomplete, 4d. habits of parliamentary com- éternally changing. What is past‘ is ....™ittees which may produce more use- past, a part of experience. That is ful work from the $18,000-a year MPs the only summary, .and it leads on | than anything else, while keeping and on, beyond endings or beginnings House debatessin hand. Mr. Pearson to the hope that is tomorrow, all-the ‘8 hopeful that these changes will tomorrows mankind will ever know.”: | Speed up the legislative program. | With this perspective, we-can see a eee ma ‘cee wut cee _ that the year 1965 wasn’t much dif- |. tailed, it is a sentiment in which we ferent from its predecessors. It came | 4” all concur. « - perilously near the brink of disaster ‘c at times, but it had its good moments | Moves To Geneva tho. Perhaps the challenge of trans- | We are still a long way from forming crisis into opportunity—was realizing World Peace Treush . never more apparent today than in aw”; but that is no reason for scof- the Viet Nam war, which has taken | fing at the achievements of a very e what may prove to be'a new turn in | practical organization whith goes un- the peace offensive launched by Presi- | der this name, which is. representa- - dent Johnson. _The Communists show | tive of 117 nations, and has a secre- vio signs as yet of cooperating; but the tariat and a work program. empor- éffort is worth a try. Several tries. | arily based in. Washington, the or-. : fh fact. if this one fails. | Sanization will begin the. new year There are other touchy problems; ~|1 Permanent headquarters at Gen- such as the racial conflict in: Rho- | ee * desia.. But we hear less today than | th aunched efght years “ago by the | we did: some months ago about: the | ‘men president of the American Bar —Gonghy sbout-Cyrtis about the“ bor Association, Charles S. Ryan, ‘the or- der conflict between India and Baki | ganization had its first world confer- tan, and, other smouldering ‘issues. oe an athens in 1963, ‘when it for- External Affairs Minister Paul Mar. | mally ‘established the World Peace tin, in his year-end broadcast seen | Through Law cenire “at the second ternational affairs, expressed hope conterence. fh Washington this fall that peace efforts here and elsewhere were 3,200 chief justices, ministers in the coming year would be. more of justice, attorneys general, lawyers, successful than in 1965. That doesn’t, | jurists and legal scholars from. 121 : ‘amount to a concrete prediction, but nations. we.can take some tamfort from it. As emphasized at this conference, Yor Canada: 10 thas beh & proipak | _&-great body of international law is .| oug-year; and barring trouble from. ier | already. firmly established and ever flationary pressures-the prospects orate ae 5 age Megas s continued -improvement . are bright. i#e“and- live by—in_such-matters a8: cai: | transportation, communications, fin-

- it!

| mew scheme.

MORE a IN SPACE.

Canadians ave so ‘to the present calend which | closes the’ Old Year on Decem-

on, January 1, it.is not always “Tealized that this system of counting the days and weeks and months is comparatively. new. In 1752 Great Britain decreed . that “the day following Septem- ber 2, 1752, should be Septem-' ber 14, 1752. That means 11 days we're dropped from the calendar just like that. It was an adjust- ment .in time measurement to

rian Calendar. At the same time . the British commanded ‘that all

sessions should also adopt the GREGORIAN FORMULA

Since then, Canada, the Unit- ed States and other countries af-

| fected by the decree have beat

using the Gregorian formula. we have only been ae this plan. for two centuries, which is not ‘long in the life of the world...

It was Pope Gregory xii who —

rcustomed ;

ber 31 and opens the New Year

bring Britain under the Grego-—

dominions and colonies and pos- | Hunga:

_CALENDAR CHANGES. - Year Didn't Always Open On tanbar 1

The Canadian Press

|. The idea was not adopted by every nation at once. The Ro- man Catholic areas of Germany | -Holland and Switzerland fellow- ed the plan immediately. But, the Protestant parts of couttries waited until 1700 and | 1701 et in line.

‘France accepted the Grego-

, Tian stvle at once. - Poland took |

up the new calendar in 1586 .and ry in” 1567.

Afte? Britain had adopted the | Gregorian ‘system in 1752, Swe- | den followed in 1753, Japan did | not take the idea until 1873, or not a century ago. —

China accepted the Gregorian

lendar, in 1912 and Turkey in

t oy Russia came into the Gre- |

gorian orbit in 191% and Roma-_| nia in 19] GREEK ORTHODOX The Greek Orthodox commu- nities met in 1923 at Constanti- * nople and decided to depart from |

- PUBLIC FORUM

This, column ts epen te the discussion by correspondents of questions of te. terest. The Guardian does net,.meces-

pondents. ‘an letters published are sab- ject te editing avd condensation where + Mecessary. The Guardian is unable te

enter inte any regaré- ing letters submitted. ~ ‘

Sir,— In answer to the letter in_The_ Guardian Dec. 23-“‘Across the Island’, I would like to cor- rect some of. the statements |

sarily, endorse the opinion of corres. ©

COMMENDS SHIPMATES 7 nal Equinox.

| their old sivle calendar and ad

{opt the one which is now in +common ‘usage throughout the world. Greece accepted the ca- lendar then too. A

France decided to get away from the calendar during the | French Revolution. It was de-. | | creed that time in France should | be measured from. September 22, 1792; the day of the Autum- Each _ following year was to begin on the day | when the ‘Autumn Equinox fell:

| When Napoleon saw the con- |

| fusion this was causing in French

overall reports would indicate, but certainly we have made some gains: Our merchants report.a good pre- Christmas season, and our farmers have: had an increase in cash income generally.

AS reported by Mr. Dewar in his Federation of Agriculture newsletter, they fiave-done very well indeed in

T

| space, human rights, diarmamgsi <0 crew pariicking. _ arbitration, peace-keeping. The

| Peace Through Law Centre seeks to |

economic upsurge in this area as the ance, frade, ‘property rights. If is no

less practical and necessary to de-

velop similar acceptarice of Tnter- |

national law in such other areas as

| keep these objectives in the forefront,

the picture; however, and it is evident |

that there is still much to be done in coping with our agricultural prob-

« lertis.. Here, as in other:'matters, the coming™ year will hold its challenges

and. opportunities. Enough‘ to war- rant, surely, our planning hopefully te-mest them in the right spirit. May the New Year bring comfort to: those who have experienced ill- ness or the loss of loved ones in re- cent. months, and may all our read- @s find an. abundant measure of that happiness we associafe with the season’s greetings on occasion.

Heavy Job Ahead

Prime Minister Pearson is look- ing forward to “‘a most interesting, stimulating and challenging year’’ for Canada’s new Parliament when it opens on January 8. That's the spir- No more dilly-dallying, wran- gling or scuttlebutting! The Iegisla-

_ tive program will be a heavy one; so

heavy, indeed, that Mr. Pearson says “we *may- easily be here all year.”

: fast item but ‘the number of Cana- | | dians who sit down to a bacon and

- As the dispatch from the capital says,

authorities, According to the source

_ commercial baking, ice cream, noodle

The last Parliament having been cut |

_«« short by that unfortunate election,

half its chores wer? left unfinished. They're piled up mountains high, and.

~ it will take a bulldozer to get through

them. Not to speak of all the new —— needed to give effect to

‘|,

as the only concéivable- means by

| which nations: can hope to live to- | potatoes, hogs and poultry products. - : : are less satisfactory aspects of-

: BS On The Decline

A trend that is not conductive to

the health of the nation has been | noted by an official of the poultry |

division of the federal department of agriculture. This is’ the fact that egg consumption is on the decline. Fresh eggs in the home are largely a break-

egg breakfast has dwindled in recent years. They are now eating dry cereal, or doing’without the meal altogether.

‘fhere.is.a growing trend towards a cup of coffee and a cigarette. .

* The nutritive value of eggs should be played up more by our health

above quoted, our annual consymp- tion ranges between 21.5 and 22.5 / eggs per capita. The figure includes | not only fresh eggs, but dried, frozen and. liquid eggs- which are used in

made. Firsily I. am not going to single out any of the men that | were on that trip. As far ag .I am concerned all the crew mem- ‘ bers were the very best. ¥, Soe not see or hear of any, member

Everyone

orld. \ carried on his duties as usual.

(Mr. MacLeod is referring to | statements in a letter from Capt. John R.B. Maguire, Senior Mas- ter retired from the Borden- | Tormentine carferry service. The statements were quoted | | with comment in the column } | ‘Across the Island’ on Thurs- | | day, Dec. 23.) -

I was a fireman on watch that | might and there were . several | men from the deek ahd stew- |

ard’s department who ¢ame down to help us and [gon't think | any one.had fo be (Oid-to help-)

As for: the engine room cre they were a wonderful group men, everyone worked his heart |

out. The engines were’ at full

| speed. You can imagine the way | we had to work to keep‘ steam.

up se to the statement that

lifeboats, that is a most untrue | statement to the -best of my lonowledge. Many of the crew members were. trying to get life | belts" but they could not be blamed for that.

aaah an attack, I feel # wa tt | my duty to attemp* to do it for them. A lot of those fellows went overseas for their country after

well. ‘

I could correct a great deal more in the letter but my main purpose in answering it is to |

‘soups and such non- fooditems as | shampoos, leather, _tanning, pharma-, | -ceuticals, adhesives and lithograph- ing.

Something wrong here. And, as one farmer red us emphatically,

it isn’t the hens’ fault. They’re turn- | ing out as fine a product as.ever, and simply can’t understand why humans have let them down this way. ©

{ : Local, 127, Borden, P.E.1.

wipe out the impression that! there was a cowardly crew. To my. mind there wasn’t a coward aboard that night. I have never sailed with—a better bunch of shipmates and if anyone gets _ recognition it should be the |

whole crew, aS in my opinion }

every man aboard did his duty 100- as ; | om See Bir, ete,

» Local Chairman See CERT and GW

Vice President Pad. Fedgration be ae

tain John D. Dicks had to use a | club to keep the men from the |

As many of the a who_ bg on that ccmer leteaa thatabiaoes are now ~-

1942 and served their country |

declared that the date following |

those. -

NAMES. OF MONTHS Some of the names of the months date back tothe old "| calendars: They were conven- jent and they were never chan- | ged.

January was named for Janus ii god with two faces, one _ of ‘which looked: backward and the

other forward.

February is from the Latin Februo; to purify. ‘The Romans

‘| had a season of feasts purifying | i themselves from sin at this time | | of year.

March is from. Mars, god of war.. It was the first month of

| the . old year, when there were |

| only 10 months. April is from the. Latin Aperio, | to open. This was when the flow- | | ers came into bloom.

May is for the Roman goddess Maia, which also meant to

grow.

June is for Juno, the goddess.

July used to be known as Quintilis, meaning five. It was | the fifth month of the calendar of Romulus.

- August used to -

septem- meaning seventh: which month: it was in the old calendar. “October, “November and De- cember are from the Latin Octo,

“!Millions

diffi- |

be Sextilis, °

for the sixth-month. R was,

changed by Augustus to August. - September is from the Latin

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By Dr. Theodote R. Van Dellea Nene mnneet Soalt of Rehess 8.

itiams marked the passing of. the noted chemist who isolated

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got the same except that one in every 200 grains was coated with vit-

weeks, ae Dre-Williams had to be con- experiment be-

detected the secret 3

acne rice across the dividing -line

involves “the . extremities. The

es difficult and in time, impos- sible. The muscles atrophy or waste away. The tissues become dropsical and ultimately the heart and brain are involved.

ANNUAL LUMBAGO

D. W. writes: What causes a severe attack of lumbago every winter?

REPLY =

We do not know why some are | 90 susceptible to these rheuma- | tie conditions and have annual “bouts of lumbago, stiff neck, ar- thritis, ‘or related disorders. In the case in question, there is a poommaiity <e that the back muscl- es have: been weakened through | strain, fatigue, or infection, |making them more vulnerable [a ones drafts, and cold wea-

1

- INHERITED TRAITS | ‘P. B- writes: In a discussion -with my friends about whether | | traits are inherited or acquired, I stated that shyness is inher. ited but they say-it is acquired. ,1 am the mother of -two chil-. | | dren; one is bashful and the oth-

Beriberi, @ form of fieuritis, |

~

—,

Ta any case, Waashingtoe 1 now hag launched a concerted peace'|: drive with “Vice-President Hu- Humphrey pressing case with the Japanese govern- | ment while U.S, Ambassador |

f

‘oy Kohler met Soviet Presi- nt -NikolaiPodgorny and am- ssador-at-large, Averell Har- man, talked with Polish for- minister, Adam Rapacki.

And’ in Vatican City, Pope |

Paul -received—Arthur—Goldberg,—-ister—Wilson--to-Moscow-in-Feb-..

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in private audience and was told President Johnson ap- preciated the Pontiff's efforts to | bring about the Christmas truce | | in Viet Naam.

Perhaps the Harriman-Rap- |

“South 1 Africa Aloof

A very dsiticant step has | beeen’ taken in the Rhodesian crisis by the Republic of South Africa. It is reported that South Africa has frozen the almost $17 million-of Rhodesian foreign as- eets which i holds, amounting to some 40 per cent of the Rhod- esian total. The action was tak- en on the instructions of the Lon- don board of the Rhbdesian: Re- serve Bank appointed by Bri- | tainto replace the board which | is loyal to the Smith regime.

This action is significant’ be- | cause there can be. no doubt that it isnot in accordance with | South African sentiment. and feeling. South Africans. are, not | surprisingly, sympathetic to the attempt of the Rhodesian Whit- i es to maintain supremacy indef- | imitely...

Yet in spite of this sympathy, the Verwoerd government has been extremely -careful to do nothing to indicate it is support-

SINGER PLEADS: GUILTY

Tt, PASO, Tex. (AP/—West- singer Johnny Cash. pleaded

oa Peas during—an—ar- raignment on charges of Narr | possession of depressant and- stimulant drugs. Cash, who was |

Our Yesterda s

4

,

New Year's Greetings were published _from” Lieut. Governor | B.W. LePage; Premier’ Thane

relations with other —countries,- he-ordered-France-to.go back to the Gregorian Calendar on Jan- { uary 1, 1806.-

Novem and Decem, the eighth, | ninth apd tenth months ~of the | ‘old caléhdar. aie

Ls “The Old Sugar Bush

| Ottawa Journal

Ontarie maple syrup produc- tion dropped from 500,000 galions in 1942 to 125,000 gallons in 1964. Thousands of acres of sugar bush are left untapped annually

“yet there is literally unlimited market potential for maple pro- ducts,’ writes Mr. A. J. Camp-_ bell, forester, in asi Ontario Latids and Forests owe re-

provincially /iim Perth this month took the ‘first steps toward forming an | organization to work for the |comimon cause — a cause that | a te ee oS oe

| to change to modern labor-sav-

| ing equipment (pla pipelines ‘replace buckets) calls for more capital funds as well as more

money to repaif damaged equip-' | ment (squirrels are a protilem).-

Some. at the meeting were con- ~ about who

| customers are friends. Better | packaging and labelling were

“Many people would rather , buy a pint for $1 than a gallon | for $6,’ writes Mr. Campbell. | He points out that the provin- | cial government is ready to as- | sist producers’ in several ways. | Potentially. vast: increases in | production and marketing of maple syrup have great appeal for Canadians.” The passing of \the old-fashioned sugar bush seene would také a little getting used to — ‘but there would be

| ICE LOOMS ON LAND

Glaciers cover about one-tenth | of the world’s land surface and | contain almost one: per cent. of the world’s water

| Better marketing is needed. -

| cetned ™ producers self,’ locally and charge . ‘‘the® same as last year” because the.

sweet consolation in knowing

ae tural resources.

70 Newiand ierent

13 ‘Spring Park Road

IT sy

that more use was .being made |

: Wishing 08 a Happy New Year! FORD ELECTRIC

FROM THE STAFF AND MANAGEMENT COSTELLO’S MEAT MARKET

| Paso International Airport by | federal narcotics, agents

allowed to remain free on $1,500 bond, was arrested Oct. 4 at :|

who | | said he was carrying 608 dexe- |

| drine and 475 equanil tablets.

| A. Ca li; His - Excellency, | Most Rev. J-A. O'Sullivan, Bis- |

| hop- of Charlottetown: ~His- -Wor-

| ship B. Roy Holman, Mayor of

Charlottetown. ; ‘TEN YEARS AGO

7-yeat-old swimmer who twice ad stroked her way through

ent waters to fame, was icked Canada’s woman- of- the- ly for the second consecutive | year. r

‘2 Dial 4-787 |

Ripe For Negotiations

; Canadien Press. Blail?Wrter

“| of periodic jerry F matic talks and Harr

military force —}-Nam- to 200,000 me the-current- 175,000. More American

FROM LS CURRAN & BRIGGS LTD

Pet RE ele Seis Hts Mee

acki meeting js the most triguing, for Warsaw is the

of a. world

now ie preparing to South

ri

are being moved: in each Protection of these troops

require heavier aerial and eea *

| support. The- greater American

involvement undoubtedly will | bring new U.S. military deter- | mination that goals =~ be achieved, no matter what the | cost may be:

But the opportunity- pe for negotiations. Perhaps the Soviet

agreement to invite Prime Min-

ruary is an indication it wange East-West tensions reduced. There is no doubt an agree-. ment on South Viet Nam can clear the road for other agree-

| ments to strengthen East-West

petations.

point

ing the fllegal Rhodesian govra- mént. It is acting in this man- ner out of a careful regard for

South’ African interests.

If South ica were to help... the Smith re 7 as, that re- gime clearly and expect- -

ed, it would invite great interna- tional hostility. By identifying it- self with Rhodesia, it might find * itself subjected to many of the same sanctions:

In spite of. its sentiments,. the South African government has “clearly decided not to help the

| iNegal Smith regime. It does not

want to risk. haVing its own dis; criminatory social and -political . eystem dragged down along with -. that. of Rhodesia.

cee A complete. stock of

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