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-» yevolutionary. developments: in the next few yéars. It is already ‘@ mat- ter of importatice to our agricultuyal

economy, but nothing comparable to |

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“what, in the foreseeable future, it may well become. = :

: End Of Colonialism? . yy! MYust where this anticolonial drive {n the United Nations is going to end

_ |e hard to predict. But the Washing-

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the world situation in the

Ter sab by which time, it figures me show of logic, history will

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Canada alone. - Perhaps the

}. keen general interest. “

The Journal quotes a fo’ for medical registrar at St. Mary’s Hospital, London, \ as saying -that it young British doctors: continue, to emigrate at the present rate, the health service will have to adjust: it- self to rapidly falling numbers. He reports ‘that ‘since 1955 hundreds of’ British doctors have been settling in

¢ to state de- . partment policy. that our prestige as ‘a nation depended on. our ability to ‘make everybody outside the country ove us.” But the Dutch were able to bold Manhattan only until -descend- “ants. of the original Indians fr o'm Whom it had been bought could be located. The sale had been pronoun- ced “fraudulent colonialism.” Mexico's claim tesa large portion of southwestern United States had also been recognized. But with Spain already turned back to the Moors, _ Mexico had to surrender everything, | including. Mexico, to descendants of | the Aztecs and Pueblo Indians. Con+ | tinental . United States was changing hands, as“ one Indian tribe after another #merged from reser'va- tions to argue successfully their

_ °aking a final peek at the crystal ball fof the prospects forty years hence, the Washington pundit con- “Everything was becoming quite confused. A few hardy expat- riates of the’ former United States finally: decided to revolt and start a new country, dedicated to the pre- servation and expansion of its own interests. This was a startling and al- together novel-idea, however, and whether it ever worked out is not. known at the present writing.”

. Doctors Leaving Britain sition from the medi- eal profession,” the Saskatchewan government woes not contemplate any difficulty in carrying out its compulsory medical care scheme, on which it won the last provincial -elec- tion with 37 seats against the 18 won. by the Liberals. The experience in in this connection, where the ‘scheme _has out _| been in-operation for several years. , It is one thing, however, to enact to keep doctors, from removing themselves from un- | der the government's authority . by simply*moving away from its juris- diction. According to the British | -treated as quite unimportant. Medica! Journal, this is what is hap- pening in Britain. The Journal says that outside the teaching (or univer- “gity) hospitals, the National Health Service Hospitals are “to a great ex- tend dependent for the continuation of their work upon 4,000 doctors, a large proportion from India and Pak-

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-|-ernment will have an answer to this problem if it should arise, by afford- ing inducements that will prevent *

from the province. In any case, a project is a pilot one so far as Can- ada is concerned, and sirtce it ‘may have political implications on a na- tiorial scale in the near future, its development will be watched with

EDITORIAL NOTES

It speaks. well for Canada’s pres- ‘tige financially that the govern- ment’s cash offering of $150,000,000 in new 2 1-4-per-cent bonds, annouric-"} ed Tuesday, is now over-subscribed. A $100,000,000 issue of 4 1-2 per cent bonds to mature in January, 1968, ” was taken up at the same time by the Bank of Canafa in exchange for two $50,000,000 issues due this year,

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That mythical person, the “aver- age Canadian”, pays approximately $1,239.19 a-year in taxes; $776.16 to. the federal government, $167.53 to the provincial government and $290,-,}

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’ our Government, because it re-

“other, which reported our Nov

available in Canada had been

ght jobs. aes : ; -—“Phe achievement ‘of our econ- |; It is not yet clear what form

THE ELECTION COUNT-DOWN

OTTAWA REPORT by

Patrick Nicholson ’

Cheering Factor [ffCanada’s Ecoriomy

War babies and wheat lie be-

on the state of ‘our economy, which our Dominion Bureay . ot Statistics issued just before Christmas.

One was widely heralded as a welcome Christmas gift : to

ported a big increase.in our na- tional productivity and in — our export ‘sales, In contrast, the.

ember employment picture, was

column does not share these assessments, and believes that readers would also take very different views on learn- ing the basic facts.

First, let us look at that em- ployment report, which showea that the .number of unemploy- ed had fallen by 80,000 in _Nov- ember, compared to the pre- vious November, .But 46,000 new workers had been added to our steadily growing labour forte, so in fact the number of jobs

increased by an impressive 126,- 000 during the year.

TIDE FLOODING This reminds us of the very

significant point that, to reduce

our -atual number of unemploy-

ed,-our economy must pot only create jobs to absorb those cur-

rently without’ work, but must

also create yet more jobs to ab-- sorb the swelling number of | war-babies now entering our la-|

The immense importance of | this flood of war-babies can be

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grasped by the barest figures i

In the past ‘four years, more than half a million workers have | been added to Canada's labour |

force, Jobsyhad -been found for | a staggering 430,000. of these, up |

’ to November last.

In contrast, during the post-

. war conversion period between

1946 and 1950, only 334,000 were added to our work force, and. only 310,000 new jobs were creat ed despite the great consumer |

Spending spree of those years. |

In contrast again, during the

four years 1951-1955, which in- |

eluded the. Korean armaments boom, “only ‘267,000 new jobs | were created in all Canada, | while 387,000 more workers sou- |

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* & fee The Dominion Bureau of Statisti¢s: reports that labor income for the} | third’ quartér of 1961 inereased by | 2.2 per cent. This is the strongest |. quarterly gain since 1959. Taken rise

| 50 to the municpal goveffiment. And that, according to: the same source from which we have taken this bit of. information,--works out to 23.73 of | the average -Canadian’s. income. Looked at another way, about one | out of every four dollars he earns |-

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ada, was.thus very healthy in- deed. Against the background of those previous four - year stretches, the past four years

have been by. far our best per=|

jod since the war when measur- ed by that -imiportant yardstick of the number of new jobs creat- ed. for Canadian workers.

,. Little wonder then that Cana

|.dians are today earning more,

spending more -and saving more than ever before. Little wonder too that Labour Minister Mike _ Starr has acquired such a“ sound reputation. « EXPORTS LESS BRIGHT

In. contrast, the other report. showing increased national pro- duction and increased exports are less rosy, except on the sur- face. s

Although residential construc- tion was running’ slightly ahead of 1960, the two very important indices, of economic expansion, namely new machinery and in-

dustrial construciion,.were both |

down.

This trend could well be the first backwash of the creation of the European Common Mar-

| ket, as U.S.A. shifts its branch | plant emphasis from Canada in- to Europe. This will hit Canada very hard, if we remain on ‘the outside looking in.

Our exports showed a much- heralded increase in the first eight months of 1961, But ex- ‘ports to our two best customers, U.S.A. and Britain; dipped sligh- tly. Our sales to the prospering European .Common Market soared; so did les to Jap- an; so did our salés to Commun- _ist China, on thé precarious ba- sis of a big wheat deal.

Exports of our important stap- les, new8print, lumber, copper, aluminum and uranium, drop- ped. Wheat sales soared. But our manufactured goods, whicit contain the most significant lab- our, content, did not.

Our exports were aided by the desirable elimination of the

our dollar. But our export pic- ture was not as rosy as was suggested by figures sualiy swollen by ‘wheat sales to Com-: munist_ China.

By, Dave Mcintosh

Canada ‘And Portugal

“ . - Canadian Press: Staff Writer

Canada has refused since No- |

Canada, along with some other

vember, 1960, to ship any arms | NATO members, , notably Nor-

to Portugal, a NATO ally. This continuing ban on arms

bour force. : [shipments still sums.up better

r anation the: Canadian . government's policy toward Portugal. | —

The policy, adopted -hecause of Portugal's denial of any move toward independence.in its West African colony of Angola andthe suppression of revolt there, may have been tempered slightly ‘by India’s invasion of Goa, another Portuguese colony. : as . But it won't be tempered to -such an extent that Canada will give tacit support to-Portugal in

| the United Nations when the

General Assembly resumes Jan: 15 with Angola on its agenda:: OPPOSED PORTUGAL

When the Angolan issue arose at the 1960-61 UN session, Can- ada stood in opposition to Port. ugal im favoring some UN _ in- vestigation of the situation in Angola. :

resolutions on Angola will take at the current session. Canada would not: be -in favor of’ ex. treme measures but likely would support fesolutions similar te. = passed in the previous ses- sion.

Canada and Portugal tave also been at loggerheads in the NATO council on the issue of colonialism. ‘

| way, has complained that Port- ugal by its policy in Angola is making NATQ appear in the | eyes of Asia and Africa as an alliance of colonial powers. bent on maintaining | economic exploitation.

SUGGESTED STATEMENT

This country -has suggested that a simple NATO statement about eventual independence for colonies would get the alliance off the colonialjgt hook.

munist aggression. The assis- tance has been given on the un-

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Back Where He. Started

“. Montreal Gazette

The Unite¢ Arab: Republic

° wo union with the Arab kingdom of j. This decision has been.

‘an Arab union based on a ‘ ular § toward self-suffi- \cleney d justice.” whereas

artificial exchange premium on |

t-I am wondering now is, my type of hereditary sy- _philis evereact up and cause me concern? Will my grandchildren inherit this disease from me,

“Life has been - very’ embar- rassing for me. When 1 left school and applied for my first job, I got it but not until my physician wrote that I had been treated. When I got married and had children, it was the same

.| thing over again. I've always felt stigmatized though I realize

that certain things had to be

one concerned.

“If people were as aware of syphilis and what it does to a person emotionally, as in my ease, or physically as in other cases, they, would be more care ful. As a‘ child I cursed my grandmother every time -I had a weekly shot, without ever realizing it may not have been her fault. God helo me if my.

grandchildren do the same _ to me.” - ? ..The writer of the above and

r mother were lucky they ne- ver developed the manifesta- tions of the disease. The disease will not be passed along to her progeny. Enough treatment was given to kill the spirochetes. Our reader no longer has syph- ilis but the protective antibodies that remain in her blood are re- sponsible for the positive blood tests. Additional treatment . is useless because it: would be -aim- ed at the positive test and not at the disease.

¢ Dr:.:Van ‘Dellen_ will "answer

| questions on medical topics if | stamped, self - addressed enve- | lope accompanies request.) nn SST -

‘LOST APPETITE - -

B.C. G. writes: What are the chief causes of loss of appetite? I REPLY

Anorexia (loss of appetite) is caused by a host of emotional, psychological, or physical con- ditions. Some lose apvetite when, they fall in love; others, when a hair is found in the soup. Al- most all of us push away the plate when we,feel sick.

. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGOy (Jan. 6, 1937)

present employed by the city to make a complete inquiry into the Charl n. It. is the first systematic attempt made to pre- pare statistics that will give a picture of actua) conditions in Charlottetown, Mayor “Turner

Professor Euclid J. Gaudet who has been spending the holti- days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs._J. B. Gaudet, Prince St.,

Charlottetown, has returned to|

resume his duties as teacher at the Bart College. Quebec City: TEN YEARS AGO

-4Jan. 6, 1952) at

An interesting review of the career of the Hong A. E. ault, retired reme Court, and former Pre- _mier of this province, appears in the current issue of the Mari

“Judge “Arsenault's picture

was formed, | smashed a ring of civilians 7 was | military men who — ; Arab world, But prominent War 'aieea et were aoa it eS been 7 *, a wz : 5 / es : ;

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even though my children have not? facck

done for the welfare of every- |

Two investigators, -Ivar-Red-|-—F've—mever- seen any | din-and James Robinson, are at | territories for |

eee situation in|.

ice of the Sup- | :

ite and Busy East. |

congenital syphilis ‘The fifth anniversary of my blood tests are made not only | Srrival on the Island (run up ‘oe but on all | . the flag, Dboys) will come before marriage but on all preg- : nant women. When the result is while I'm on vacation later positive, treatment is started to | thig month, with that woman = oe ee See ete teees from gules “ouiee x it is an event I wanf to ob- - The following. eit. Commas serve oar on though | strates certain - phases syph-| prematurely, doing a little flis that. were common years looking backward. . 0608. Be One thing that makes it an “My grandmottieddied from event for me, if for no other syphilis 10 years ago. About 20 person is the fact that my years ago my mother and 1 had | period of residence on the 1s- blood tests, at which time We) jgnq has already become the discovered there was syphilis 0 | jongest continuous stop I've | the family. Although*our blood. ever made in a single com-. tests were positive, Mother and) init There. is. a- sense, 1 nevet had any otfiér indica | tt ocetore, in which the Island several years of weekly Shots |. other piace I’ve ever known to and, finally, penicillin, subse- becoming “home” for me ‘quent blood tests have remain- At the time I arrived here, ed positive. “of , however, there seemed little still have an inactive type of sy’ last out the first a philis. Ihave three c dren eet oo = whose blood tests are negative.| UNUSUAL WELCOME

utes in Charlottetown, . people began asking me: “Well, how you like the Island?” >

The first-time I moved out | of the Charlottetown Hotel, to | go along Kent Street in ‘pur- suit of a cup of tea, a some- - . what sodden. gent halted me, yanked my hat down over my ears, laughed hilariously, and then departed swiftly to give his attentions to other mat-

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While I was still . puzzling over this rather unusual ges-. ture. of welcome, another gent’ | ca@me along, similarly sodden, | amd tossed my “hat across the That was one night when I

found {it easy to change my

mind, and to decide to go fo ’ ped without @ cup of tea.”

WATCH.IT, BUBB .- ig

Mind you, in the four years | psinee, I've'never had any sim- ilar attentions, but it.is true t6 say that my first night in Charlottetown did strike me as being a le strange. The next few°wetks didn’t do much to alter that feeling.

The thing -I was told often- est in that early’ period went~ about like this: ‘You'll find — Islanders slow to accept out- siders; very set in their ways; and unreceptive to new ideas, particularly if they come from ‘away,” whi ould have the effect of changing their man- ner of jiving.””

Generally these words were spoken in a way which con- veyed this warning: ‘You'd better move slowly, Bub, and watch your step.”

NO REVOLUTIONS On the whole, though, as I think back over what I was told doring my early days here, I can't help feeling that things have worked out rea- « sonably well, at least for me . and for’ that - woman. Of eourse, what Islanders in general feel about the mat- ter, or about me dr that woman, may be, and probably .. ‘is, quite a different matter. Stit,{t did--heppen that I wasn't carfying any revolu- tions in my hip pocket - when I arrived. ‘It is true, too, that

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why people should go around making hurly-burly leaps‘into change, unless events, and pe evidence at hand, have first made them ready for what- ever change is under consid- eration.

aittomatically at peace, even in those. earliest. ss with what I now take to Is- land attitude.

On this point, then, I. was)

“that is to welcome it -when it arises out of natural, healthy

ae “growth; and to resist-it, or at

least view it with skepticism until doybts have been resolv- ed, if it arises in any other way. . . :

* "That's. about the approach - I find on the Island, and I like it... “

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It is an unexciting, undram- - atic approach, but it works» fine for people who maintain a sensible ‘measure of opens mMGeINeSs—whe see that the art_ of living consists Jargely of continously keeping a great number of alternatives ~ under review, as a means of. meeting thew conditions as they arise, and of choosing as wisely as possible between

those alternatives.

Even occasional rthistakes - aren't too serious, if they slip past that approach, for- the approach itself provides fos their ultimate correction.

It seers to me that this ap. - proach has accomplished some wonderful-things during the short time I have been on the Island — the’ weakening of the. grip of dogmatism — the moving away from what caa be gross and. self-damaging in ~ insularity, when it takes cer. tain‘forms,— the lowering’ of at least a tew of the barriers of suspicion which used to

“ exist between people; between farm and urban people, for example, and, yes, even be tween some Catholics and some Protestants. ‘

AH! POLITICIANS | It is the change process that I consider to-be function- ing- properly here, no matter how large the need may be for further, early changes. One place I'd like to see a *change soon lies in this pro- position: The relationship be- tween Island politicians of all parties and the press is about as strange as any I’ have ever encountered, and strikes me | as being somewhat unhealthy. But that is a separate subject and has to be put aside now for possible future discussion. . Meanwhile, to get back te that approaching fifth. anni- .versary of my arrival on the Island, here are a few rea> > ~ sons why I'll vigw it as a- cause “for celebration: ee | ~~Most Islanders haye shown a great willingnessto give a fair Hearing to anything 2 have- wanted’ to say or write, without regard for whether or not théy accepted it. On the sgmie terms, they've gener- ally seemed to assume that My motives are honest and . decent, or at least give them the benefit of the doubt.

TRADE SECRET

_ And here's a ttade secret: the greatest’ boon that can- be . given to any editor is to have a reader “audience he ble

4. to enjoy, on reciprocal .

no matter what bits and pieces _ Of disagreement may* occa-

sionally arise between- editor and audience.

Perhaps I'm. wrong, but' I have the feeling that Island- ers have given me-that sort of audience. f

Anyway, that feeling is strong enough to cause me to say to myself: ‘Happy Anni- versary, Bub,” and to support the conviction that there is justification for happiness

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