' Rachel Carson Seen Spark, In Pesticides Controversy;

By BERNARD GAVZER

NEW YORK (AP)~]t is a. furious argument.

Yet it is not one people talk about all the time. Not in the. way they were upset near

'which we need to know much more: been promoted with prime re- gard for profit; U.S. agriculture department has acted cavalicrly in some insect

(4) The chemicals have

and (Si The

Thanksgiving in 1959 about pol- control programs, with poor re-

mned U.S. c ranbcrries. Or about thalidomide last year It concerns the killer chemi-

eats.

Stripped of side Issues and. quibbling over minor points, it comes down to this:

Is the poison used in pestl- cides causing irreparable harm

gard for the rights of individ- uais.

DDT STARTED IT

Perhaps none of the charges

would have been made except to chemist dipbenyl-trichloro-ethane was it

r the discovery by a Swiss in 1939 that dichloro-

or is it insignificant alongside mnjffr‘lefs‘lmgn‘; ‘ . .. a , u .. . the great benefits it brings. "9me "mm “mum: M I,

There is hardly any argument

could last a long time and kill many different kinds of insects. It was soon known the world over as DDT.

Until it appeared for wide spread use in 1942. there were six primary chemicals used in pesticides. .

Now there are at least 2l2 primary killer chemicals. They are to be found in at least 45,000 different pesticide preparations. "Pesticide" describes the whole family of let be] chemicals aimed at erasing all sorts of pests—dnsects (of which 10.000 of the. 82.000 different kinds are harmfu'. to man\. enemy plants

can", at mstancei, ro- dents, viruses. fungi bacteria. PUBLIC TAKES RISKS

Miss canon says they have been used too freely—in every. i thing from household bug bombs to crop dusting from aircraft—- without any deep understnding

24 New Voting Booths raise Set For Monday test

“There is still very limited, awareness of the nature of the By KEN KELLY screened - off area where the threat." she says. In explalninfl OTTAWA (CP) —- Prisoner: voter can mark his ballot in se- Why she wrote $118M Sprint-i have no vote. in federal elec- crecy and fold it before hand-

“Il IS thy Public “HUS being tions but those at Kingston. ing it to the returning officer to liked ‘0 3551"“? “‘9 mks that Ont. and St. Vincent de Paul. be droppped into the ballot box, "‘9 "'59" “WON”? calwm“ Que, penitentiaries will particl- These screened off areas in The Puwc mus' “Cid? Whether pate in a unique way in next; the thousands of polling places LETS“?aZT‘iimanméo'le “mm” mm" h be“ ’"y'hm‘

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"" electoral officer Nelson Caslon- , . . .guay wants to test for a pas“. They hate given Mr. (.aston-

‘ TOOK THEIR FANCY

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hie recommendation to Parlia- may many headaCI‘" I" the

America‘s wild horses were used by lndians and cowboys ment that they be. made stand- form of complaints that are- alike. Cowpokes preferred "coy- ard across Canada secrecy has not been

. quate The law r 0 q u i re: polling! maintained at the polling place

iote dun" but the Indians liked places be. equipped with 8' ~23" requiring investigation.

‘greys and pintos. l

Mr- Cutaway how be m 18 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Thm, 1;». the problem licked in at least 24 cc this time. At his request. Canadian Penit ' tiartea Industries. agents for the workshops in Canadian pcniten- ' __._.-,. _, tiariea. built him 24 polling ' . booths modelled on those in use in Australian general elections.

F. L. Ley. Australia’s chief electoral officer with whom Mr. Castonguay swops ideas. lent Mr. Castonguay three photo- graphs of the standard urban polling booth used in Australia. The prisoners took it from

"Vote Angus and Heath. and win with Diet"

The result was a five.foot- high plywood voting L. hinged at the angle so it folds to a thickness of about three inches.) with a fold-down desk at elbowl eight.

It can be rapidly set up with

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two easy motions and is easily one“. conservative As" "

stored.

that every American has some DDT or other related poison on has body These are the wonder chemicals—all born in the last 20 years—used to kill the pests that compete With man for to and fibre and carry plazues that have killed million'i.

DEBATE WIDENS

Once. not long ago. the use of these pestiudes was a ques- tion that fretted special groups.

flow it is a question being argued with vigor legisla' hires. SOCIELIF< of civic groups. councils of great industries. pre. cmcts of scientific forums. in special - interest journals and newspaper columns.

Wh '.‘ . . . Rachel Carson.

She is the trained biologist who was a fairly obscure editor with the US. Fish and Wildlife Service until she wrote The. Sea Around Us in 1951 and vaulted to international prominence. It was followed by another highly praised work. The Edge of the Sea. She received awards and honors. Critics applauded her talent for writing of science with great beauty and precision.

To some people she is .loan of Arc incarnate. come to do battle with government agen- cies grown cynical with author~ ity and industry bucksters whose only reverence is for the almighty dollar.

To others. she Is an ambitious. sensation-seeking. scientifically unqualified muckraker spread- ing fear and ignorance in a bid for power and riches.

BOOK (‘AllSED FUROR

But Rachel Carson alone has turned the use of pesticides into a major issue.

She. did it with her book Silent Spring. 3 work which Justice William 0. Douglas of the US. Supreme Court has described as "the most, important chronicle of this century for the human race."

It begins with the deseription of an imazinary town. It por- trays the town at a season suchi as we have nowwa burgeoning spring—that is eerily silent be-i cause of poisons which havel killed off birds and animals.

Then it makes an indictment. naming the major culprits the basic. agricultural chemlg cals industry and the U.S. de- partment of agriculture.

This is an era, Miss Carson. writes. "dominated by industry,i in which the right to make at dollar at whatever cost is set-l dcm challengcd.”

"The decision (to use poisons) l is that. of the. authoritarian tem'l porariiy entrusted with power;. he. has made it ‘ a mo-.' ment of loattention by millions- to whom beauty and the or-: dared world of nature still havei a meaning that is deep andi imperative." ' ALTERNATIVE WORSE

e ansWers from hhe indus- try and government agencies. have taken many forms butt there is one theme that is drummed home in each onezi Without. pesticides there would! be pestilence. 1

Miss Carson. this Is no anu awer. She insists her lndictment‘

nds. ‘

There are five major counts to iss Carson's indictment: it) The poisons threaten the future of man: (2) Wildlife in wantonly [being destroyed:

e are using poisons about

EAST BALTIC

Leitli Robertson. Red Point I: spending some time with friends in Saint John.

.lohn McKie. Howe Bay has been ill at his home for some time. and was recently taken to the PET. Ho ' _ amv bulance. 'llhe. latest report in that be is now making a good recov-

on. Mrs. Elizabeth Robertson. Sout'is spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Robertson, Kingsboro. Mr. and Mrs. hf! lithe-nun

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and two children. Kingshoro spent. a recent weekend with Mrs

Mr. and Mrs. Preston Bryen- ton who were. recently married in Boston. Mass.. are taking up residence in Red Point. Mrs. Bryenton who is the former Mr Mabel Bruce. Red Point and Mr. . Roll Bay. received a normal welcome In this dis- trict.

Mrs. Reggie Rose is not en- joying good health at the pre- sent time.

Lester Robertson.

young of Mr. and Mrs_ John F. Rob-

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