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- Timely. Tribute

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making in this House, no hierarchy a= of peacemakers. We all know about ‘the suffering in Viet Nam. It is some- thing which should affect and move us all. But we all know too that in this crisis the strength of the United States is the greatest barrier we have against the destruction of our way of life. This, I believe, is the underpin- ning of our whole discussion on for- eign affairs.” Thus spoke ‘Heath Macquarrie, ~ our junior member for Queens, in a forthright speech in the House. of Commons recently, on a subject of prime concern to every Canadian. .-Mr. Macquarrie ranked himself “among. those who derive “no satis- faction from any denigration of the United States for its actions in the face of such difficult problems as - those. arising in Viet Nam.” It was all _ very well to point out errors in U.S. strategy, he added, and of course

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there were errors. “But we must be

mindful of the fact: that it is the lead- ers and the people of the United States who are constantly bearing the burden.”

This reminder comes at a_ time when Defense Secretary MacNamara | has. announced that the Paited States ' Nam to 235,000, and that this figure could) be boosted to more than

350,000. without-calling reservists. to active military duty. Also, said Mr. - MacNamara, “we are fully capable of Meeting our commitments elsewhere, in the world.”. *‘ __~ How many Canadians ‘realize that | thése commitments involve keeping | —.ynder-arms-outside-the- United States-— smore than one million servicemen” And that her police duties involve * these far-flung responsibilities: . West Germany, 150,000; France, ~ 50,000; United Kingdom, 35,000; Mediterranean, 35,000; Spain, 10,- “000; Italy, 10,000; West Berlin, 6,500; - Azores, 1,900; Libya, 3,000; Turkey, 8,000; Thailand, 4,000; Philippines, 10,000; Pacific Fleet, 55,000; Okin- awa, 50,000; Japan, 40,000; South Korea, 40,000; Greenland, 6,000; Ice- land, 4,000; Caribbean, 20,000. In addition, America’s Peace Corps, serving 46 countries, now has ~~ .15,000 volunteers, dedicated to the assistance and guidance of countries == in need. And foreign aid cost Ameri- ean taxpayers — $3,244 million last, acayear. ) “=~ Canada is making ‘what contribu- tion it can to world peace objectives, - but we should be the first to recog- _nize the almost terrifying magnitude of the task which our American neighbors are shouldering. Mr. Mac- quarrie has done a useful service by

nti tee.

reminding us all of our indebtedness

in this regard.

We're To Be Indexed

A University of Saskatchewan

“professor has cooked-up a-project for |_

cross-indexing more than 30 million Canadian newspaper stories with the ... help of a computer—going back all * the way to 1840 for the material— while .at the same time making . @ running index of current items, using 15 newspapers published across Canada as the’ source. Daily papers to, be used in the latter opera- tion include The Guardian, so natur- ally we're going to follow the experi- ment with wide-eyed interest. — The index, says the professor— ~-who-is—a—former newspaper bloke himself—should prove invaluable to historians in view of what he describes as the “very poor’ news- paper libraries in Canada. A dry run this month will provide a cross- indexed booklet of one month’s néws, probably February, 1966, in the 15 papers—14 English- ‘language and one France—representing all ten provy- inces. Later ,graduate students across the country will be enrolled to help- prepare the fuller index. They

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will handle both parts of the project .—keeping up with current news and at the same time working back to 1840. They will be expected to w rite

50- word" ‘summary of each story and list the categories into which. it falls. Then the summaries will ba, punched on tape and the computer will put them in .the proper order... _.

The first index booklet covering a | single month will be offered to libra- ries to test interest. $40,000 has al-

ready been guaranteed for operating».

costs from “various interests,” but the cost for the first full year would

| range from $150,000 to $400,000.

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4° “There is no monopoly of peace- -.

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_ many,

After that‘sales_of the index at $75 a copy would make the project pay for itself.

Because of space limitations the planned index will not include sport stories, but will concentrate on_poli- tical, sociological; economic and bio- graphical materials. Scholars, it is predicted, will find material which is:

otherwise unavailable or which woild®

require tedious hours of groping through countless musty files on un- related subjects in newspapers.

Most of the entries would yhe a brief paragraph giving a bare outline of the event. For a provincial by-, election, for example, it would name the candidates and their parties and say who won, and give the date, page and column in which details can. be found in thé newspaper. The ‘entry would also be cross-indexed so that it eould be found under such head- ings as the political parties involved, the province, names of candidates and even the premier’s name.

‘We hope the dress rehearsal at the university’s Regina campus goes well this month, and that the project gets launched without a hitch. After that —well, we'll be seeing you in the index, or rather you'll be seeibg us if

you care to look us up.

Lots Of Work: Ahead

overtime sittings in a drive to clean up the 1965-66 spending estimates this week, :and not before time. This is about the only solid piece of bus- iness it has tackled since Parliament's opening on Jaunary 18. Meanwhile the government has been a on_interim supply—that _ voted pending approval of the esti- mates. Last Monday ended the 11th

~-month- of: the-current-fiscal- year for

which supply had been voted, and it would be unprecedented for the gov- ernment to ask for a 12th month of interim supply. Hence the rush to get ‘the estimates approved as speedily - a8 possible, while bits and pieces of

+—money-—can—be—drawn—from—various—j|— but

sources to keep the country run- ning.

As the Globe and Mail points out |

in this connection, Mr Pearson must take his share of blame for the delay — _in the estimates being approved. He ~called: an-election when Parliament should have been about that task. But the opposition, in raising subjects that could as well be discussed when the new estimates for the new fiscal year are introduced, must also take

responsibility for forcing the govern- ©

ment to the money deadline. Debate, concededly, is a most important func- tion of Parliament; but its other vital function is doing the nation’s bus- iness.

The last Parliament agreed to in- terim changes which would speed the

operations of the House while new..

permanent rules were worked out. A dispute as to whether these interim rules outlived the last Parliament has been resolved and they will, in the main, be followed for this session. But it is apparent that they do not go nearly far enough. What must be undertaken, and without delay, is the revamping of procedures on-a per- ‘manent basis so that it will become an instrument capable of meeting the needs of the huge.and complex duties that form Canadian’ governing today.

The history of the last two Parlia- ments has-been one of time-wasting arid obstruction. The country cannot afford to have this- Parliament fuddle through in the same fashion.. The Speech from the Throne projected enough legislation to keep the House sitting for a vear. So far it has only

talked. And it is an old saying that.

words are without meaning until they have been translated into action.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Canadian manufacturers and pro- ducers will be displaying their products in 72 international fairs and

| expositions around the world during

the next 18 months. The fairs are in the United States, Britain, West Ger- France, jtaly, Switzerland, Thailand, Spain and Yugoslavia. The federal government finances the ex-

’ hibit design, shipment to site, erection

of displays and dismantling, return of goods and publicity.

cash _

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PLAIN CASE OF ASIAN FLU

OTTAWA REPORT b

_Cialist -MP and’ defeated Liberal candidate-Hazen_.Argue, a—page from the: ‘‘Weyburn Review”, published in his Saskatchewan

position Lobby in the tacks ot Commons,

This asked "Is Pearson a cap- able leader? Hazen Argue says ‘No’.”” Quoting from a report on November 7, 1960, it prints: these words attributed to Argue in ‘a speech: ‘‘Liberal egg Lester Pearson is incapable of running his own party. . .The Liberal Party is reeling under |

tory, Lester Pearson. .Lester Pearson is just not capable of cleaning out the decadence of a- party~ under ~ the ‘influence of” men like. Jack Pickersgill, Joe |

-Mr. Pearson, you are tna ‘to have to change more than your little bow tie if you | want to clean up the. Liberal | Party.”

savour these pithy comments,

constituency of crepes was | “Phe House of Commons went into | posted_on_the- wal

—the--greatest—mistake in «its his-~ out fora _broadening—of—the-re-—

y Patrick Nicholson

Griffon, will be featured on the’ | stamp--beside-him: The -world--; wide interest among philatelists in Canadian postage stamps is shown by the decision to print this five | cent commemorative stamp. NEW TOPICS

Talk on Parliament Hill sug- Bests that there “will be two significant break - throughs in our laws shortly. First, reflect- ing a_mationwide revulsion at the hypocrisy which is necessi- tated by our outmoded divorce laws, many MPs are now crying

cognized grounds for divorce. Second, to impose a more equit- able distribution of our _throttl-

Smallwood and Ross Thatch- | Sharp

ing and- ever-growing tax -bur- den, there are indications that

may introduce. a _ Capi- tal Gains tax -in his fortheom-

Celebrating New Senator's Appontment

To celebrate ‘the appointment | when he first set :foot in_N New | tacks ever made upon the Pear- to the Senate of the former so- | France, A ship, symbolic o} of his son. Government was recently |

| unleashed by. Lord Brown, Mi- nister-of State in Britain: “Speak- | ing before the Canadian Cham- | ‘ber of Commerce in London, he pointed out that Britain is Ca-

stems from the enormous ex- cess of Canedian sales tain over Canadian. purchases

ifrom Britain an excess of three

quarters of a billion dollars last year.

| the inequity of Canada’s anti-

| dumping law, and pointed out

that Finance Minister Walter

speech last year, mise has yet to be implemented | by the dilatory government . This lapse: by— the Pearson government jeopar-—

/-ing budget. BRITAIN‘S COMPLAINT

When due allowance is made | | for a. politician's need to temper_|

|the most frank but justified ats |

dizes the livelihood m thousands of Catia ea |

| ployed in farming, mining and |

other export, industries, because ; Britain “must.either—sell—more

~ Many ‘MPs crowded round to his’ language, we see that one of | to Canada, or cut its buying |

from us.

Hazen Argue’s former —collea-

gues-im the New Democrat Party. i

ECHO OF THE GRIFFON Several readers of this column especially in Sarnia and Pem- | broke, wrote to me of their in- | terest in my report that a Sea Ranger—crew~in- Sarnia planned to adopt the name — ‘‘Griffon’’, in honour of the 17th century ship of that name built near Wel- land by the explorer La’ Salle. That was the first ship to sail our Great Lakes; its wreck was recently ‘identified near Tober- mory, inthe Bruce Peninsula. Now Rene Robert Cavelljer, Sieur de La Salle, and his ship are again in the news. A spe- cial postage stamp is to be issued on April 13, to celebrate the 300th anniversary-of the date

This column is open to the discussion by — correspondents of questions of in: terest, The Guardian does not neces- sarily endorse the opinion of corres. pondents. All letters published are sub- Ject to editing and condensation where necessary. The Guardian is unable te enter into any correspondence Fegare: ing letters submitted.

“WEST KENT SCHOOL

Sir.—Now that the old school will shortly. be demolished the following may be of interest.

April, 1878, in the presence of an immense audience, including | over twelve hundred oe “of | the City public schools, whi

had assembled at Prince Seont

~ headed by Galoraith’s Band to | take part in the celebration at the new. school.

Mr. John Longworth, Chair- | man of the City School Board was in charge of the _ proceed- ings, and delivered an appro- priate address. The pupils sang at intervals national airs with good effect. Speeches were made by E. J. Hodgson, a mem-

ber of the School Board. Hon. L. H, Davies, President of the Executive Council, Hon. Chief

Justice Palmer, and His Honor Sir Robert Hodgson, Lieut. Go- Vernor, who then proceeded to ‘A Latin with a

lay the corner-stone. inscription, together

of 1877, and the Report of the Board of Education for 1877, were enclosed in‘ a bottle and deposited beneath the corner- stone. :

No mention is made in the re-

the exact position of the corner- stone, but likely it is at the north east corner Of the old school, and it is hoped = that

when demolition is under way an effort will be made to locate | the stone and secure the con- | tents of the bottle. I am, Sir, etc.,

T. E. MacNUTT

Charlottetown.

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PUBLIC FORUM -

The corner-sione was laid on 29 |

Schools grounds and marched, |

port of the School Board as to’

For some time # has been | known that poison used to kill jinsects has also killed fish, birds and other wildlife. Even more shocking isthe fact that insect poison finds its way into the human body ‘in food that has been eprayed.

There is mo evidence thet any Canadian adults or infants have died from insecticide residue picked up from our environ- ment. British and American tests have found only low traces in humans — But it appears that some. poisons build up in the body much like radioactive fall- | out.

Thus far, extremely. known about insecticide ‘‘fall- — where it is, how it inva- | des the food chains of animals |

and humans, how it affects the haa organs, at what rate it | ‘builds up, nd how much of | |each type it takes to sicken or | kill an adult or a child. | Canada has taken a scatter- | }-gun approach to the problem. | The federal and provincial go- vernments have conducted ed- |

Insecticide ‘Fallout’

Toronto Daily Star

ucational programs, two western provinces have outlaw- ed certain types of poison, meet- ings of the type in Guelph have been held to raise alarm over ‘the potential dangers.

But the basic information a

| bout insecticides is lacking. Re-

searchers often work independ- ently on a particular local pro- blem which is not followed up and may on e application to other parts of the country. What is needed ts~a substan- tial grant from the federal go- vernment to finance a team of

| fesearchers to find out the di- little “is |

carta of the menace now entering the human body.

Such research projects have been conducted in the United | States and Britain. We now need a body of experts; <which can |deal with insecticide problems | peculiar to Canadian conditions.

Insecticides -which were made |

to serve man are turning on him. ' We can’t defend oursel-

| ves effectively unless we know

the true nature of ,the beast.

Smart

|knew the ranks, he replied:

_'They_all_ looked the same_to.mez.+ _— besides I’m not very bright | sir.’ |

We recall = one otherwise |- quite intelligent fellow who during World War 11, when. officers and other ranks were

| eral.

Fellow

Windsor Star

abundant. When introduced to an army officer, he neter

or gen The same applied to t -officers—in-the--other—services—

Our friend evolved his own system. If he guessed a man | might be a\lieutenant or cap- tain, he addressed him as a ma- jor or colonel, he would call him brigadier or general.

He had discovered no officer | felt insulted by being given a} higher rank. “He only ‘became |

annoyed if he were cut down a

nel as a lieutenant was unpar- | | Gonable.

Australia’ S Action

London Free Press

copy of the Public Schools Act | With. Australia embecking on | ity, which may not be in the na-

| a decimal currency which it | cals the dollar, Stephen Lea- cock's:, reflections on*> Canada’s similar action over a. century before are recalled. Prof. Lea- cock said the Canadians should |

have called the new currency ’|

unit a beaver, or wampum, or almost anything but a dollar, be- cause it was bound to cause con- fusion with the U.S. dollar. Canadians have had reason to think about this ever since, for | the fact that our dollar and that | of the US. carry the same | name is a subtle pressure to par-

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tion's best interest.

rWhen~ South Africa recently adopted a decimal currency it | was called a rand, which under- lined the gold behind it and pre- vented. any confusion.

The Australians, who have a kangaroo on some of their cur- rency units, missed an obvious | opportunity to give a_ distinctive flavor to their money. But they | did their best to make the job of changing over from the old cur-

rency to the new as simple as | ment should compensate them |

| possible by equating their new | dollar with the old 10- shilling | note,

to Bri- |

Lord Brown ‘complained of |

(Gordon had announced a cor- | rection of this in . his budget | yet this pro- |

Unsightly Big Veins

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen

semblés a long worm or snake beneath the skin. The walls are weakened and stretch when there is overloading of the sys- tem and the internal pressure in- creases, The hereditary tend- | ency to expand i8 governed to a certain extent by an inherent

causes of varicosities are stand- ing for long. periods of time and conditions such as pregnancy or

pelvic tumors, that block the.

| flow and increase the internal

tension.

The veins of the leg bring blood back to the heart and the uphill on is maintained by a series

of valves or locks that prevent | the liquid from going the wrong | way between heart beats. When the vein dilates the valve leaf- lets“are separated and do not .meet, This discription in. blood flow is the reason why varicose veins are malfunctioning and | should be treated or removed before complications ensue:

Many people have large vari- cosities but never are bothered | except for their unsightly ap- pearance. Others notice in- creased fatigue, aching of the legs at night, .and moderate pain and tenderness over the distended veins. Severe pain’! seldom occurs and when pres- | ent is often due to other causes

Disturbed circulation to the ex- tremity leads to eczema and pig- mentation of the skin of ‘the leg,

flammation of the(dilated tortu- ous vein.

The ‘most popular surgical | treatment is stripping. An open- | ing is made in the. groin and | the.top of the varicose vein is. severed from the majn channel. Another opening is made above | the ankle where the lower part of the vein is isolated and open- | ed. A long stripping wire with a | knob on one end is passed | through the vein from above. The wire is pulled at the bottom and the entire vein is stripped out.

The injection treatment still is @ popular remedy for smaller | varicosities: A solution is ‘inject- ed into a zein that irritates the lining and causes a clot to form | thet obstructs and obliterates ay. er

| stroyed, | STREP AND APPENDICITIS | L. A. writes: Could an attack of strep throat bring on appen- dicitis in a child?++

REPLY | ‘Infections. of the nose and throat have been listed as pos- | sible causes of appendicitis but ee far-fet-

If GETS EASIER _Mrs.S.A! writes: If a woman. | labors for-two days with her

| first child, is she likely to labor ~this-tong-with ‘her second? - REPLY No. The average duration of labor is longer with the first baby than with subsequent chil- dren. GOUTY ARTHRITIS A. S. writes: Is gout consider- ed a form of arthritis? REPLY

varieties of arthritis, from the statistical standpoint.

MECHANICAL ABILITY

B. G. writes: Is mechanical ability inherited?

- REPLY 3

This ts debatable ut ‘seems |‘ logical. : e TODAY’S HEALTH HINT—

Don't be a show-off driver.

(NOTE: All correspondence | to Dr. Van Deilen should be

addressed to: Dr. Theodore | -Van Dellen, co Chicago Trib- une, Chicago, Mlinois.)

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Our Yesterdays

(From The Guardian Files)

ee FIVE YEARS AGO (March 4, 1941)

In a ‘épeech to the Nazi faith- ful in Munich, Hitler announced 215,000 tons of shipping had been destroyed in the preceding two days. The figure was later | increased to 250,000 by German |

Appointment of Maj.- Gen. E. W.: Sansom, Officer Command- ing the third Canadian division, to command the Dominion’s new armored division was announc- | ed by the Department of Nation- Cal Dintewnies ee

TEN YEARS AGO (March 4, 1956) Captain George A. Burch Nee and senior officer of the | “‘Abegweit” retired after 33 | Hiaaed in the Borden-Cape Tor- mentine service.

| Prime Minister Eden express-

led indignation over the dismiss-

“rank or two, To address acolo 91 of Lt-Gen: John Glubb as | commander of: the Arab Legion |

_ and announced ‘that other top | British army officers serving

with-the-force..would be recalled — | from Jordan.

, PLEA FOR PROHIBITION

“NEW DELHI (Reuters) — A | petition calling for immediate prohibition throughout India was handed to Prime Minister ‘Mrs. Indira Gandhi Thursday after being signed by 185 mem- bers of Parliament. Dry laws are fully enforced in three out | of India’s 16 states. Other states enforce prohibition in restricted | | areas. Some operate ‘‘dry days”’ | twice weekly. No states have | objected to prohibition in prin- ' ciple, but many feel the govern-

for losses of excise revenue if the dry laws are totally en- ' forced.

A varicose ‘dilated) vein re |

weakness of the walls. Other |

ulcers, swelling, and acute .in- |

_nada's best source_of foreign-eur- several | rency earned by trade. This | injections the entire vein is de-

___| the_Manchester._Guardian_——_.__|

Yes, but it is one of the lesser |

| young people generally for the

| Harris S. Avery, Tennessee di-

officials. \

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Cuban Belts fighiening

, By Arch Canadian Press

WASHINGTON ,(CP) — Cuban |

times are hard times now, various signs indicate.

Non-American “ travellers re-

turning from visits to-Cuba say |that agriculture—sé often the +-Achilles—-heel--of Communist-re- gimes including the Soviet Un- ion and China—has deteriorated . bunder the rule of Premier Fidel | | Castro. “There has been bad luck | ranging from hurricane damage | to the staple crop of sugarcane or | to drought and a world decline | in the price of sugar, to which | the Cuban economy remains | wedded.

A fresh blow was dealt by | |China im January when, parently because the Castro |

of Marxism failed to |

Applicants, it is reported, in- clude not only disenchanted | middle classes and intellectuals | but also’ some rural residents. | IMPORTED FROM CANADA. |

The foreign agriculture’ serv- | lice of the U.S. agriculture de- |

view of Cuba that farms: there | provided less in 1965 than seven | Years. earlier.

Sugar output was good but it | blames drought arid negléct for. | declines elsewhere and it says that total food output was nearly 15 per cent below the | achieved in 1957-58. :

Imports of wheat and flour |

~ Ving 450,000; metric tons” tast

-Canada-and—feed—from—the~ So _ viet Union appeared to be pro-

| in 1957-58,

‘| eredsted ith snatet

MacKenzie Staff, Washington

from Canada, on Soviet account, have more than doubled—total:

year. The U.S. report says ‘imports of livestock breeding stock from

ducing results in greater milk | and meat outout."’ But this was- a limited recovery and 1965 pro- duction is said to have declined to the 1962 level, well below that

| EGGS A BRIGHT SPOT Eggs were off: the ration list, . | for six months.in 1965, says the | report. Some were exported. Communist - block barter of trade. since 1961 and

Britain, Japan, Moroceo, | and the United Arab Republic | were main non-Communist buy- ers of Cuban sugar.

Drought and the planting of

Its rice shipments will total | 135,000 ton oeere of 250.000

such as an arthritic hip or knee. | partment says in a current re- | | tons provided last year.

Jan. 7, the Cuban government | cut the annual rice ration to three pounds a person from six. | The U.S. report says the pet. | capita rice consumption in 1958 ~ was more than 10- —. It

account during the first half of *

1966 are not expected to ofsett the shortage of rice in 1966." But. Castro has indicated Cuba |ean't spare scarce foreign ex-

change to buy more rice from

non-Chinese markets.

“It 1s significant “that: both in Britain, where the parliamen- tary system originated, and in Canada, which inherited the sys-.} 4 init t_ British —f

there are at present signs of dissatisfaction with its capacity to cope with modern political developments.

It is largely in response to this unrest that the British gov- ernment has introduced a bill to name an ombudsman or parlia- mentary commissioner as a pub- lic watchdog against the mis- takes or misbehavior of the bur-. eaucracy. A private member's bill has been introduced in the Canadian Parliament by Social Credit leader” Robert Thompson for the same purpose.

In both countries some cast envious eyes on the U.S. con- gressional committee system. The.latest flowering of this sys- tem in the U.S. Senate’s foreign affairs committee. hearings on ‘Viet Nam, lias brought praise ‘from the s of London and

The Times admires ‘‘the thor- oughness and leisure"’ of the Ful- bright proceedings while ‘the Guardian looks forward to the

Reform In The Air

Vancouver Sun ; ~~ when Britain’s MPs provide. t

> yom ‘the individual -whose job ‘is to be a watchdog

‘full debate in the

orc tad with a similar sys- m It has been claimed that. the overshadow MPs, part of .

for the people and a check on the day- to-day transactions of government. And the introduc- tion of the U.S. committee sys- tem, it is argued, would over- shadow the House of Commons as a whole, ..

The British government tries the ombudsman -by providing that all. complaints from the. public should be directed to him through the MPs. Other coun: tries, such as Neew Zealand, Sweden and Denmark, have not found this necessary or conven- tent.

As to a “committee system like that of the U.S. Congress, there is no evidence that it> cuts off Senate or House. On the contrary it enabl-

-es—legisiators to be-fully inform-

ed in a way that is not possible in Canada or Britain and at the same time relieves the plenary chambers of much detail.

Considering a bill to. abolish the death penalty, the Kentucky State Legislature heard evidence from an unusual quarter from five convicts, one of whom escaped the electric chair by on- ,ly seven hours. They were given ‘a standing ovation ,by the le- gislators when “they finished.

Many will be impressed with the fact that the legislators took time to hear a side of the story seldom aired in this way. Others will be more impressed with the fact that such men were readily available and that they have been speaking about their. sad experiences in crime to juvenile and

elinquents

| past two years. The program was started by

Voice Of Experience

Guelph Mercury

Breathitt said, a fine example

of what rehabilitiation and pri-

son progress can do. These a men speak with authority. They

are the real thing. Or they were. They are now doing what- they can to deter others from following in their footsteps and : helping in the best way poss- ; ible to pay the debt they owe to society.

Certainly the best people to help others and to paint a pro- perly discouraging picture of a

life of crime are those who have been through the mill themsel-

ves. This is a principal tenet of Alcoholics Anonymous and one

of the main reasons for the. de-

gree of success it has enjoyed

in helping the chronic. alcoholie

on the road to sobriety.

rector of corrections, and since that time the five prisoners and others with similar background have addressed nearly 175.000 youths.

It is, as

Governor Edward: |

VETERANS TO MEET

MONTREAL (CP) — Greying veterans of the famous Black Watch will celebrate March 2% the 50th anniversary of the 73rd | | battalion's departure for over- | seas from Mcntreal in the First | World—War.--The—battalion - -was-|} raised mainly in the Montreal | and Ottawa areas, but received | drafts from several parts of On- | tario and the Maritimes. -

50 DOGS KILLED

UNIONVILLE, Ont. (CP) — | Fifty chihauhua dogs valued at $25,000 were killed: early Thurs- \ day-in a kennel fire here. Police |

Call us tor programs,

busi- an

club bulletins, ness letterheads. ~~ work guaranteed.

GUARDIAN - PATRIOT CENTRAL PRINTERY:

e

| said faulty wiring may have | bigene the cause of the blaze. \

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NOTICE OF MEETING

NORTH MILTON HALL SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1966

Speakers and Discussion one — Potatos — Taxes Queens County Federation of

Agriculture | ue Knud Jorgenson, President ‘

Phone 4-8506

P.M.