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Oyatory was in spate at the re- cent Conseivatire annual meetings in Ottawa. Eloquent speakers W e r9 a dime A dozen. and after wading through reports of their outpour- ings we are convinced that if talk- jng can win the next federal elec- tion. the resurgence in part.\.’ 501’- tunes t.hat Mr. Dicfenbaker so con- fidently predicted is assured.

But. it is the same with ever)’ political convention when it E995 U3‘ der way. There is no reason wh.V We should pick on this Tory one par- ticularly, except that it's just over, that it rated big headlines because of the national interest in the lead- ership question. and because we ploughed through the detailed re- ports with more diligence and pati- ence than we usually do.

Exhausted by this marathon ef- fort. we find it hard to get our re- actions into focus and deal with the subject. with our customary bril- liance and perspicacity. Our readers will be disappointed: but our recup- erativs powers aren't what they used to be. We keep hearing tirades against the hellions of Gritville in our dreams. and using words out of

all relation to their meaning when we awake.

But we have a column to fill. and we've determined to say something about the convention reports that impressed us particularly. Well, it was this: The women at their meet- ing put it all over the men in speak- ing plainly and to the point. First prize for this achievement we would award t.o the national presi- dent, Mrs. Dorothy Harrison-Smith. who in introducing the party leader made a masterly speech in her open- ing sentence. "1 came to praise Diefenbaker." she said. “not to bury him.“ What more needed to be said?

One thing more. certainly; and it was well said by Mrs. Jean Cass-

elman. MP for Grenville-Dundas. in her address at the same gather- ing. “I want no part." she declared. "of playing the agricultural prai- ries against industrial Toronto. nor French-speaking Roman Catholic municipalities of Quebec against English-speaking Protestant muni- cipalities of Ontario. This is not good enough. This is retrograde backward thinking. The stuff of which civil wars are made. What is so dangerous and frightening is that this technique might. work for one election. If is easier to arouse people’s feelings than their think- ing. Herein lies our 1964 challenge. our inheritance from the best Mem- bers of the Conservative Party."

Words of wisdom. we thought. to which every Canadian should whole- heartedly subscribe. Doubtless we could glean many more from the harvest of rhetoric spread before us; but let these suffice for today.

Question And Answer University students have a wall ofnsking questions in a direct. straightforward manner. Politicians -again speaking in generalities- have a way of replying to questions in as roundabout I manner As pos- sible. When representatives of these two groups get together. there Are ilsmlly some entertaining examples 3: this truism to be picked up by A 523 rful listener. Such was the lease last week when the Hon. Paul awn took time off from his pol- tlocl chores to visit Carleton Uni- ty. And submit himself to the queries After addressing dents on foreign affairs. V g u nportod in the Ottawa

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Journal, was one of the questions asked him: "What in Canada doing to meet a suggestion that countries give one per cent of their gross na- tional product to foreign aid?"

And here, according to The Journal, was Mr. Martin’: reply: "The forthcoming United Nations trade and development conference in Geneva represents the most fund- amental way of dealing with the problem of bridging the gap between the have and have not countries . . . 1 don’t say the conference in its first meeting will achieve success. as difficult problems are involved . . . The only long-lasting solution is by touching the economies of the developing countries."

Having studied this oracular statement and pondered what. it conceives to be its meaning. our Ot- tawa contemporary concludes that in plain English it would run some- thing like this:

“It is true that of NATO coun- tries Canada is the lowest donor ex- cept Denmark; it is true we give only .19 of our gross national pro- duct whereas France gives 1.70. the U.S.A. gives .73. the United King- dom .66. Germany .83 and Belgium .86. But it is also true that votes are not won by sending money out of a country and so our intentions. though honorable, are strictly ver- bal. But I woudn’t want. you to be ashamed of your countr': we use the telephone more than any other country and our general state of health and welfare is about the best in the world.”

We have no doubt that Mr. Mar- tin. however, would contend that this was a woefully garbled version of what he had said. or had intended to say. or had intended to leave the impression that he had said, on the subject.

State-Abused Monopoly

Whatever changes. if any. may be proposed in liquor regulations when our Legislature meets next week. it's a safe bet that the recent. price increases will remain. They al- ways do. Even in provinces with the most advanced liquor laws on their statutes. customers are gypped in the same manner. and they have no redress.

Even in Ontario, we note from the Orillia Daily Packet and Times. there has hardly been a murmur of dissent over the Robarts govern- ment announcement that an ad- ditional tax would shortly be plac- ed on spirits sold in the province. Already government profits run to some 500 per cent of the originial cost price. If any private business- man were to charge such an enor- mous maark-up, and maintain such a close monopoy, he would soon be the target for investigation.

Why, asks our Orillia contem- porary. do Canadians tolerate such flagrant abuse of a government monopoly? There is only one valid reason. The enormous tax on wines and spirits reflects a sort of puritan- ism dating from the frontier era, when “booze” was the enemy of respectable society and a menace to mofality. Today the place of wine and spirits in modern society has been but grudgingly accepted, and their sale has been hedged about with every restriction and humilia- tion which legislation can impose.

Their price has been dictated by a sort of vengeance policy of pun- ishing purchasers by charging them deliberately exorbitant prices. Such A policy has been an enormous boon to provincial governments, amount.- ing to millions (in Ontario‘: case to hundreds of millions) of dollars In year. And whenever more money is needed. ltho government simply cracks up the price of its wines and spirits. safe in the knowledge that no respectable. citizen will have the effrontery to protest.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Australia's ties with Great Brit» ain remain strong. British Week is to be celebrated there in April. Goods made in Britain will be dis- played at a big exhibition.

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It couldn't have happened to a nicer City Councillor, and by long odds the best-looking one of the lot. That acclamation in Ward 2. we mean. for Coun. Corrigan. who as head of the welfare committee has 3 Job of growing importance in the civic administration. We trust that she'll reAlize her ambition of getting on improved housing development program under way this year. "

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in frayed tempers. sheer hard work. and cold cash than snow removal.

Municipal employees to i ling through long stormy nights. while motorists are nestled snug in their beds with visions of smoothly plowed streets danc- ing in thcir heads. can hardly agree with the l9th- century poet.

fiful snow. it can do n of h ing wrong." No highway crew can share the late Robert. Frost's joy in watching the woods-——and roads-— “fill up with snow."

With the growth of cities and suburbs in recent years. a n d some 79 million motor vehicles on the go in the United States. the urgency and expense i snow removal become obvious. A sizable storm in Washington. D.C.. is calcul 000nn inch. New York main- talns 2.600 picccs of snow-f'i,r:lu- lng equipment on A year- round basis.

SALTERS AND SANDERS OUT FIRST

When a storm began blanket- lng Washington with white on the morning ‘of January 12, 1964. callers and sanders started to war at once. From 9 pm. through the cold- piercing dark hours. 135 sand- andcalf trucks and 260 plows were chugging from street to silent street.

PUBLIC FORUM

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FAMILY ALLOWANCES

Sir.- I have been reading with interest the letters that have appeared in this column concerning the Family Allow- ance. I feel that this change (in the age) should have taken place nths After the House of

mg to the house stating the age limit would be extended to twen- ty-one if the child remained in school.

As A student I know how much this means. 1 wonder where the Liberal talk of the 92% cent dol- lar went. We all remember all the fuss the Liberals m a d 9 about this subject. They even went to the trouble t.o m a k c their own dollars with the Rt. Hon. John G. Dlefenbakeri face

new home builder needed. I might remind you that the sec- ond stage of this building tax is coming this April. .

The old Ago pension Increase wu delayed in coming. The members’ increase was intro- duced bofore the pension in- crease. And there was no state- ment made about the back pay when the increase did come.

If the Conservatives were in Ottawa the "Fnrmily Allowonco" would have been settled long be- fore this.

So when the next election com- es remember what the Liberals did in Ottawa and how quickly they fulflllcd'tihelr election pro- m 65.

I Am, Sir. etc. A STUDENT Hnzelhrook. P.E.l.

SEEKS PEN FRIEND

would be noth- ing I'd like more than A pen- frlend on Prince Edward Island preferably in Charlottetown. I now ask you would you find me A pen-friend In your town. I Am 18-yun-old And like reading and riding bllnea.

I Am. 88!’. etc.

CATHERINE WILSON ' 17 school Panda

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SNOW REMOVAL PROBLEMS Huge Costs Involved In Big Cities

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Add to streets and roads in -modern metropolis the rport runways. hospital approaches, [shopping centers. myriad ser- ,vice stations, and parking lots t that must be cleared.

I William A. Xanten. the en- ‘. gincer who masterminded snow fighting in the Nation's Capital ‘K for 40 years. likens it to p n- i nlnsz for an engaging in battle. ‘ Not. only must the men and

equipment of various City dc- ipartments and transit compan- ‘ ies work as a team: ey must ‘ be coordinated with the workers,

trucks. plow-s. and bulldozers of : adjacent suburbs and counties. ‘Control centers suggest mili- itary GHQ's. Radio communica- tion is a mu. . _ Probably the greatest emer- - gency snow removal in the Uni- fed States was accomplished in ‘ Washington on the eve of Presi- ! dent John F. Kennedy‘s inaugu- ration ln January. 1961. A late- afternoon fall paralyzed rush- hour traffic. Cars. buses. trucks, and ambulances were locked in intersections like pieces of a jig- saw puzzle. For some drivers it took hours to inch in growing frustration from block to block Washingtonians feared that the inaugural ceremonies wo uld have to be postponed. INTO THE FRAY

Yet Washington officials were ready for just such a nightmare, and personnel of the Army's 87th Engineer Battalion were stand- ing by. Mr. Xanten mobilized 3.- 000 men and 500 city vehicles. Al‘fW,V vehicles were asstcznerl to

a llow off some 3,500

abandoned cars forming obstacle courses in ; the heart of the city and on the «-parade route. Dawned A sunny iday and the inauguration went. f off without a -hitch. i Despite the traffic jam. the - pre-inaugural storm was 1 baby ‘by historical standards. Mr. Xantcn recalls a storm. about ;two decades ago. that layered , the city first. with three inches - of sleet. thcn five of snow. This ‘was before rock salt use. and ;with the streets turned into un- . even glacial messes even the § bus drivers got carslck. | Engineers have dreamed for t years of new ways to m e at ‘snow emergencies. Among pm- i posed schemes: chemical addit- ives to pavement. radiant best- i lng. infrared light, electronic de- l vices to divert snowstorms

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iextremcly costly system of in- .stallln;z plastic hot-water piping ‘beneath stretches of streets and llbridizes prone to tie-ups. The ‘American Public Works Asso- tciation has undertaken a 5100.- i 000 project. flirough its Research :Foundation. to seek practical ; advanced techniques.

t home. snow still means A ‘i-man. A shovel. and an aching

back.

= It may come as 8 dishearten- : ing sunrprlse to the householder 3 who has holatedly acquired A ,power lawn mower to learn he i should be In the market for the

inowest suburban status symbol 3

5 —— A -power- propelled 311 n l or ’ snowplow.

The United States has An- ‘ nounced 8 major step forward in its space research and explor- ation program.

A mllltary space laboratory. to be known As "Moi." will be placed in orbit in 1963.

This laboratory will be able to carry two men and equipment. They will be launched with the "Mol“. will enter it in space. carry out their experiments. and return to earth.

It ll. of course. impossible to know what the Soviet Union will have done by this date. and it is therefore impossible to know whether this new step in space research will really carry the United Statu And the Western world Ahead.

One of the principal uses of this laboratory. it appears. will - be to conduct military research. so it can be only partly related to the American moon program.

And this mllltAry purp one secms likely to include Atudy of l the possibilities of employing l nuclear woman; in orbiting sal-

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i It is probably gene:-Ally wish- . ed that space will never be put 1 to military use.

1 The weapons which re ni- reldy available mm sufficient- ly menacing in themselves.

Yet there must AlwAyI be in * the Want. and similarly in Run- { sin. in nagging doubt II to whAt ‘ the other side in planning or at-

tempting.

Certainly. the manned ulelllte experlemntl of both the United States and Ranch hAvo Ihown that it is not difficult to launch large payloads into orbit. and return them to earth with con- skerable Accuracy.

If this IA possible with men. it . should be possible with nuclear . weapons.

The military um of the cpAce laboratory to be launched in 1908. may well be designed to explore the requirements for

such A weapon. And w h l I 0 this posnlbility miuhtbo depo mutt be

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Pox Usually Not Serious

by Dr. Thoodon 1!. VII Dolln

Chicken pox uAuAlly ll o serious And most children recov- or within two or three weeks. Unlike srmllpox. Icarrlmz is un- usual. Although ono or two tell- tnlo curl may remain on the face. susceptible adults who get the malAdy Are likely to be sick- er that Are young Victims. This man: it is better to have the dlseue in childhood.

The infection is most. preval- ent in the winter And early Aprlnc months. It is caused by A virus and occurs in epidemic! every three or four years. T h i n ll the period of time required for A new group of susceptible: to come upon the scene. We do not know what happens to the virus during the free periods except

At someone with chicken pox must keep it going.

he diagnosis cannot be made until the rash appears. The sus- ceptible child develops fever. lost of Appetite. headache. backache 14 lo 21 days After ex-

re, Mother and physician may believe the youngster has A cold unless chicken pox is rife in the neighborhood.

The mystery is solved within one to three days when crops of red spots are noted on the trunk and on the face. neck. and ex- tremities.

like a teardrop on A red base. They rupture and a crust forms. New pox arise during the next three or four days: some chil- dren have only a few whereas others are covered with them. There is no specific treatment. itching. which is annoying. may be tlon. or one of the anti- itching pills. A child -may scratch th e itching areas so much a second- ary lnfecion moves in. Keeping the finécr nails short and clean will decrease this haz a r d. Mit- tens are suggested for tykes who are too young to reason with. Mothers must find ways of Amusing the small fry for t h e

place blistering and the disease I no longer is contagious. Now an then gamma -21

it must be given early.

MUSCLES AND EXERCISE

Mrs. P‘. writes: if an over - weight person decides to reduce by diet and nxercisc. vwhat hap- pen: to the muscles‘? I should think exorcise w o ul d make them heavier.

REPLY

iMu(-h exercise w o u l d bc needed to lose A -pound of flesh and to increase the size of mus- cles. The problem you pose is rare unless the individual is an athlete. SEPTUM SURGERY

deviated aopum are w o r s 9 -than the disorder ilself‘? REPLY

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3 septum is deviated to such An

extent As to ock the nasal

pussgeway on one side. Per-

manent relief is worth the few

days of discomfort that follow

the oper ion.

MALIGNANT LYMPH NOD!-IS C.P. writes‘

. are given for cancer of the lym- ' glands?

REPLY There is a long list of remed- lcs. varying from nitrogen mus-

ls helpful in some forms of the ‘ disease. IN!-‘LAMED COLON B. V. writes: Does co cause bleeding and why? REPLY

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There are several types of col- ltls And bleeding occurs in some. It in most likely to be present when the wall of the colon is congested or ulcerated. TODAY'S HEALTH HlNT--

Never smoke in a no smoking area.

On each lesion. 1:. small blister forms that looks

constant and ; alleviated . with starch baths. calamlne lo- ;

next 10 days until dry scales re- «

obulln is uscd in . sickly children who develop chicken pox. But. to be effective.

L. P. writes: is if true flint the ‘ After effects of an operation for 1

What treatment ,

lard to vlnblastine. X-ray also 2

NOTES BY

THE WAT

i No nutter how little A pone: know: About dallslon. ho fools fully qunllfled to Argue About ll. --Port Arthur News Chronicle.

Mother: Why does Junior [look so dejected? Father: He wants to go to the corner drug store. but the car won't lfll'l.—- Guclph Mercury.

. The new Znnulbnr Gavan- ‘ men! has announced that l

I legislation. heretofore written in tlcngllsh. will from now on be 1 written in Swahili. Canadians ‘ may hope from this that thel own legislation. much of whlc appears to be written in Swahili. will some day be written in Engllsh.— Globe and Mali.

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From Great Brlhln c o m c I warning that bowling lo excou can cause A newly identified syndrome—— bowler‘: finger. Dr. B.A. Latbam reports in the Bri- tish Medlcal Journal that the condition is characterized by soft tissue swelling of the proximal lntcrphulnmzcal _|olnl of the mid- dle finger of one hand only. The patient. he said. was "a fAnAtlc- Ally keen bowler. playing as much as ten times 2! week." —

Medical World News.

A Iutrltlolhl Advise: this i, one vultuu for 10 minute: it. will lou 100 cAlorlu. but if .i., bu A hl|llbAll after. he win uln more thAn twice in,” Amount.—— Edmonton Journal,

A dour Acqunlntanco tell: u. that he hu beer seen a Friday the lath that he dldn‘t prefer to Any MondAy.— strnlford Beacon Herald.

In bl: book "DIIlIlIo|cop¢_'° humorist Pierre Dnnlnos cnlled for the invention of A "tranalst. or fighter" to discourage pan. Able rAdloA in public places. An Englishman has now invented one. Danlnos promptly tried it out. and reported '

when A ullor In a Nnvy swim. mlng clAss refused to dive from n fifteen-foot plntform, the in structor Asked. "What would _you do if you were high on a Alnklng ship?“ “Slr." Aald the student. “I'd wait for it to sink about ten feet more." —Galt Rs. porter.

Left Wing Com petiior

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l Canudlln rm: sun Writer

i The “llonsieur X" of French But Monsieur X--53-year-nlrt 3 politics is over the first barrier Gaston Defferre. the Socialist

in a long. lonely and seemingly

impossible campaign to dil- lodge President de Gaulle from . the seat of the mi ly.

i Few cxperfa give him much I chance. He seeks to win the i votes of the French left in the } presidential elections that must I be held before the end of 1965. i and the French left is A notor- iousl_v hard team to drive in i lwrncss. Besidesmearly everyone will ‘ tell you_ General de Gaulle is unbeatable.

Our Yesterdays

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TWENTY-I-‘IVE YEARS AGO February 7. 1939 ‘ Mr. William Morrison. A na- tive of Charlottetown. and for many years connected with the Hood Rubber Company has been re - elected Master of t h o Maftapan Order of the Grange and at the same time was pre- .scntod with the Past Master‘: l .l('\\'('ll at the annual installation : of officers. l

Sister Helen White. Past Chief of Charlottetown pwfhlan 1 Temple No. 17 was presented 5 with a silver - crystal rosebowl

by sislor members of the temple

. at an cni oya ble function to- , night. The presentation wa I i - made honor of Sister White‘: lfnrthcoming marriage to Pope ‘-Clark of this City.

TEN YEARS AGO February 7. 1954

f"onstruc f 1 o n of the n e w ‘ Eaton building on Kent reet ; is expected to get underway to- : day if weather permits. Lar g e itransport trucks have recently i brought many of the needed

supplies and a field office is ex- ? pccted in be opened tomorrow ; with building ‘official: of the i company already in the City.

Harry Pethlck. elderly retired ,-farmer of Cornwall met with i a painful injury today when he i a n d A neighbor were work I ti; on an outside pump. The handle Iliad been raised up And then : fell on Mr. Pethick'l hand cau- i sing a badly lacerated h A nd lwhich required five stitches to 1, close.

mayor of Maraellle-is going to have A try at the giant-killer task. He surmounted his first big obstacle during the weekend by reaching a compromise with the man who could have tor- . him. Socialist Party Leader Guy Mollef. FREE OF PARTY

During A Socialist conizrcss held At the weekend in that Paris suburb of Clinchy. Mollct sought to ensure that Defferre as -presidential candidate would be responsible to the Socialist -party. Dofferre demurred. argu- in}: that . must 9 no of party ties to rally all the leftist forces in the country.

Though almost unknmvn in- ternationally And occ" __nally derided as "a socialist with a yacht." Defferro is by no means what the French call in man of straw. He has vigor and Atvle.

It used to be said that if Brit-

Aln And North America voted would go to A man like Pierr- in French elections. victory abroad but A declining figure at home. In the some way Defferre will probably seem an attractive figure to those whom dc Gaulla would dismiss as Anglo-Saxon.-. HA D RECORD

He is a pragmatic politician. he has the strong support of liberal-intellectual organs the Paris weekly newspaper L'l-Express. he has A good war- time reslstancl record and he has excelled as an Adminis- trator in his 10 years as mayor of the sun-drowsy. yet volatile. port city of Maraeille.

He is surrounded by a dyn- ’

amlc "oquipe or team of Ar- dent supporters. all set. for the

lay.

Deffcrre would end French pin-prick: against NATO. sup- port the nuclear test-ban treaty. concentrate on political reali- flcs. discard A policy of grand- eur built largely around nuis- ance value.

It remains to be seen wheihcr he can whip the lnchoate left into Anythlngllko A serious thred do do Gaulle, who ll Al- most As "ln|t.ltutionAl“ As the Eiffel ‘Dower. Peqplo may not llkethe look of it. but they want to keep it Around As I symbol.