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TUESDAY, DEC. 8, 1959.

Those Causeway Reports

Premier Shaw has made a spirited reply to. political attacks upon ‘his ‘party and himself with reference to the Causeway issue. We have no quarrel with him there, and no in- tention of getting into a fight which We have en- deayored from the start to keep politics out of this matter; but by the same token we have not re- frained either from praise or crit- icism, and to this extent we are inevitably drawn into any discussion on the subject which involves the federal surveys and the manner in which they are being conducted. It is on this point alone that we shall comment on the Premier’s query, “What is all the storm about any- way?” ae

\ The storm in this case broke out in The Guardian news and editorial columns on November 26, while Pre- mier Shaw was away at Ottawa. It was occasioned by a story from our Ottawa correspondent that the Cause- way report had been delayed in- definitely, that no interim report was available and that the responsible minister, Hon.. David Walker, had nothing further to say on the mat- ter_at present: ;

Less than two months before, on October 9, The Guardian had given equal prominence to the minister's

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assuta cé that an in would be available within two weeks

- and that December 15 had been set

as the’final deadline for completion of all the various reports, after which they would go to the Cabinet for consideration, with the prospects of a start ‘being made on the project in 1961.

We accepted this assurance in good faith and warmly commended the Government on the zeal and in- itiative it was showing. Emphasis was placed at that time on the many difficulties which had arisen, necessi- tating delay in completing the survey which had originally been scheduled for last June. We urged the need for frequent progress reports in the event of further unforseen delays, and we felt quite happy in presenting our readers with what we thought was a new and more hopeful picture of the whole situation.

‘That picture was rudely shattered by the minister on November 26, without any explanation. It was only on December 4, after strong news- paper protests and a meeting with our federal and provincial represent- atives at Ottawa, that he condescend- ed to reply. His statement, when it came; was merely an elaboration of the problems touched upon in the October 9 statement, without any of the comforting assurances the pre- vious interview contained.

That is the situation, and we do not think that the “storm”, so far ‘as The Guardian’s participation in it is concerned, was uncalled for! In- deed, we are still far from satisfied that it has blown over. The cause- way survey has been dragging on now

. for over three years, and there has

been no explanation why, in’ the brief period between October 9 and November 26 last, so many hew ob-

‘stacles should have arisen.

We' expect the Conservatives pro- vincially, in view of their election campaign promises, to be as much

- concerned at this unexplained lapse

into vagueness and ambiguity as we are. The federal. Works Minister is new on the job, and it may be that he spoke rashly two months ago, If so, the fault was his, not ours. But we feel a responsibility for having unwittingly misled our readers at~ that time, and we have no intention of resting under criticism, direct or implied, for voicing our reaction in the strongest terms at our command. We have raised the question whether some other interests, ad- verse to the priority being given to our causeway project, are not act- ively lobbying at Ottawa at present. We do not know. But nothing that Mz, Wajker or Premier Shaw has

months, that

statements attributed to the Works Minister on the subject, the more puzzled we are that they should have emanated from the. same source,

A Hornet's Nest

After Deputy Soviet Premier Mikoyan took off from Halifax on the last lap of his trip to Mexico, we sort of lost sight of him. We knew he was going to peddle Communist

tares as he could in the field of U.S. relations. We have great respect for

}: Mr. Mikoyan’s persuasive abilities,

but this time he seems to have run into a hornet’s nest. We learn that Mexican newspapers scored his crit- icisms and warmly defended the United States. They attacked Mikoy-

leading newspaper urged the govern- ment to stop attacks on “our neigh- bors to the north.”

Things also went badly for the Soviets at their trade fair in Mexico, City, which Mikoyan had opened. Russian guides were heckled. Anti- Communist stickers were surreptiti- ously pasted on exhibits. Police once had to move in to prevent a physical

clash between Mexicans and Rus- sians.

Now this is remarkable. Mexicans have had reason, over the years, to be critical of our American neighbors. Since the war of 1848, which ended in the U.S. acquiring vast Mexican territory, there was the Veracruz ex- pedition of 1914 and still later incid- ents involving Mexican rights or sen- sibilities in border and trade disputes. But a change in quite recent years has. been going on. Old wounds have healed and theré has been an increas; ing exchange of good-will visits by officials of both countries. This cli- mate of good neighborliness has paid off. Mexicans don’t welcome purvey- ors of propaganda against their friends and allies, and their stout defense against the arrows of Mikoy- an has set a fine example.

syre. The more we study the two |

wares, and incidentally sow as many ||:

an, the USSR and Communism. One .

FIRST SNOW

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OTTAWA REPORT

The present Conservative gov- ernment is the’ first administra-

tion to appoint a woman to the Federal Cabinet.

his was no chance choice was proved by the prominence

meeting here last week. The P.Cs do not minimize the value

PUBLIC FORUM

This column its open to the discus

sion by correspondents of question c.

interest. The Guerdian does not tesco

sarily eu‘orse the opinion of corres dente.

New M.P.C.A. President |

By Patrick Nicholson

of women at the party’s annual)

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of the role which Woman can and does play in our national politi-~ cal life. te

Thus it was no accident that one of the characters most pro- minent and most honoured at this meeting\ was the woman whose active public career stretches con- ‘tinuously from the long-ago time when she was a leading campaign- er for ‘Votes for Women”. Tha: career is now being climaxed by her election as President of the 68,000-member Women's Progres- sive Conservative Association of Canada last week, and—as time

buried the hatchet with -our great neighbor to the south, and our quar- rels now are of the kind that occur ‘even among the best of friends. Weighed against our -§ncentives to mutual solidarity, they are nothing at all. This is now the situation down south. We don’t know what report Mr. Mikoyan has given to Premier Khrushchev about his Mexican trip, but he is not likely to be billed for a return engagement.

A Worthy Appeal

The Canadian Mental Health As- sociation has taken on a project of ensuring that no mental patient shall be without a worthwhile gift at Christmas, They are asking the more fortunate citizens outside mental hospitals to add one item to their Christmas shopping-list for a mental patient. Cash is not requested; in fact it’s discouraged. They want the evidence of personal interest in the form of a gift to pass along to a sick person who'll know by it that someone in the world outside really cares. In this Province, gifts may be sent to the various receiving centres, as advertised through The Guardian, where White Cross golunteers of the Island division of CMHA will see that they are delivered to pat- ients at Riverside.

EDITORIAL NOTES

One good recommendation by the Royal Commission on Price Spreads has. received less publicity than it deserves. That was for establishment of a permanent and _ independent council to make a continuing review of prices, productivity and incomes in the food sector of the Canadian economy. It is suggested that the council be endowed with funds to enable it to operate independently for periods of five years.

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According to the Post Office De- partment, there’s only one. way for Canadian householders to stop the flow of advertising material into the mailboxes. Any person who ob- jects. to receiving this material— usually mixed in with regular mail— can refuse to accept delivery of it. They can meet the postman at the door and. tell him to take it back; and ‘he will. But according to the Canadian Press, there is one other course of action for those‘ complain- ing. They can accept the material, then place it in a sealed envelope without their return ‘address and mail it back to the sender. It’s a long- standing postal rule that mail not bearing postage carries double in-

demnity to the addressee on tt

SPEAKING OF MESSES Sir,—The leader of the Opposi- tion, Mr. Alex Matheson, was

Never noted for his modesty, and is government’s tecént. rejec- tion .by the electorate has unfor-

noying and even hyperbolic char- acteristic, if we are to judge from his recent statements as re- ported in the press.

In speaking of the proposed Northumberland Causeway, he talks -glibly of “hydrographic tables which do not substantiate the contention that there would

a result of the building of the causeway."’ He pours forth his fisherman's knowledge of the “natural meeting of the western and eastern tides” and caps it all by stating that “the Dutch built huge causeways wt of tree twigs and sand.”

We do not pretend to know nearly as much as Mr. Matheson claims to know about such engine- ering matters, but two questions are puzzling us:

1, With all his vaunted know- -. ledge, why did he not keep an eye

on his engineers in the planning

and attempted construction of the _ little Hillsboro causeway, which now consists of two unjoined heaps of mud, and hundreds of tons of concrete and steel lost:in the mud, and no inkling of when the mess might be cleaned up.

2. With this great knowledge, why did he allow things to go .Madly and merrily on, adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cost of the project and culminating in the critical de- - terioration of the old Hillsboro bridge, placing thousands’ of ci- tizens in not only an jnconveni- ent but precarious situation?

With all Mr. Matheson’s boast- ed knowledge of the conditions re- lating to the proposed Northum- berland Causeway, this little Hilsboro project, to use one of his own faverite expressions, should be a mere. “piddling” one. Yes, speaking of messes, the Hills- boro mess would be hard to match. ‘

You, Mr. Editor, have contin- ually exhorted the politicians, Conservative and Liberal alike, to lay aside party politics as far as the proposed causeway is con- cerned, and to join energetical- ly and honestly in pressing for- ward its need as well\as the im- portance of frank and intelligent Teports of the progress being made. But the old game still goes on, with the powerful Conserva- tives hedging at every tirn and the Liberal Opposition mak'ng politicial propaganda out of every utterance and report.

In the near future, a_ third party, really dedicated to the needs and wishes of the people, might eagily come to power as a result of the present attitudes and bickerings of the- two old line parties, unless they get away from their old outdated Political “‘strategy’’.

In the meantime it would seem

' to us, that Mr. Matheson would be well advised to refrain from boasting of his past récord and superior knowledge of ‘all mat- ters and at the same time Mr. Shaw might proceed to show the people of Prince Edward Island that he and his government were elected on an honest plafform and that he is prepared to give statesmanlike leadership in see- ing that his promises are made a realily.

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month. ’

Know to all simply and affec- tionately as “‘Josie Quart’, Que- bec City’s most energetic woman politician has unceasingly and un- flinchingly given generously of her time to public causes.

She tells me that she was ne- ver “a militant suffragette.” By that presumably she infers not that she was inactive, but that she never padlocked herself to the railings outside the home of Quebec's Premier, as did her sisters-in-arms—or should I say, in battle-skirt—in Britain. But she was chairman of the Eng- lish speaking committee spear- heading the campaign to obtain the franchise for the women of Quebee Province; the only dif- ference between her and Britain's Christabel Pankhurst was that padiock—but in those long-ago days of course. Quebec had no “Padiock Law”.

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will. surely soon tell—by her ap-| ‘pointment as the first Diefenbak-|

an unending diary of voluntary labour, in peace and in war, for humane treatment for seryice- men, servicemen’s families, vet- erans, girl guides, the blind, ani- mals, her five children, her twen- ty-two grandchildren, and any other two-legged or .four-legged creatures whose life her efforts might ameliorate.

Since Josie Quart helped the Conservative Party to storm suc- cessfully every . bastion in the former Liberal stronghold of Que- bec City, she has been promin- ent as an official delegate to the United Nations, and as Canada’s representative on the U.N. Com- mission on the status of women, and accompanying Prime Minis-

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ter Dicfenbaker on his helicon’? QUESTION AND ANSWER

ting and motoring tour of such political outposts as the Magdalen Islands. ~ .

- President Josie, now in her. six-

ties, has taken over a ‘job va- cated after four hard-driving but successful years by Elizabeth Janzen, in her thirties. Maintain- ing the enthusiasm and effective- ness of the Women's Association entails much coast-to-coast trav- elling. “But the Prime Minister asked me, so I could not refuse,” she told me.

But at this she will shine, even though her favourite accessory is a rose or orchid of Liberal red. “Josie has immense drive and energy, and she loves travelling,” a lifelong friend told me.

A child of the well-known Din- an stevedoring family, she mar- red in 1916 Harry Quart, long prominent as a printer, contrac- tor and concrete-grouter. In those businesses, he has been success- ful enough to keep Josie in the standard for which she is fit- ted, with a lovely home in Que- bec suburb of Sillery, two cars,

Since then, Josie’s life has been

Trouble

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — For more than a year, Brazilian Pres- ident Juscelino Kubitschek’s gov- ernment has been under heavy

fire. :

This land of more than 62,000,- 000 people is racked with serious economic problems. Living costs have skyrocketed, wages have re- mained low. Housewives «have had to stand in line because of shortages of beef, rice and beans —three items that Brazil nor- mally produces in abundance and cheaply. ;

In the face of strong criticism, Kubitschek has pushed ahead with: plans for Brasilia —the fu- turistic capital city being built deep in the Brazilian heartland.

His critics cry that he is going too fast and spending-too much. They call it Kubitschek’s Folly and say it will plunge the coun- try into debt. Many blame the na- tion's troubles on Brasilia.

TWO TESTS ‘

With that {nm the background, Kubitschek last week faced two events that could have caused him serious trouble, if not un- seated him.

One was a revolt by air force and army officers who charged that Kubitschek’s government was leading the country to econ- omic disaster and that it was rid- died with corruption and Commu-

The other event was a leftist sponsored general etrike in im- portant and often anti-Kubitschek Sao Paulo. .

But the moves failed and Kubit- shek, who had to be los- ol popularity, came out, victor-

Why, in the light of all the grumbling about high prices, low wages, food shorages and Brasilia was it that Kubitschek won?

Perhaps the answer lies in what Kubitschek said Friday in telling the people the revolt had been defeated..He said:

“The.era of (violent) revolution is over in Brazil.’

NO SOLUTION

An executive in Brazil's busi- ness world sounded the same theme. “‘We have many problems in Brazil, but revolts and strikes are not the way to solve them.” he said. “We, all of us in Brazil,

have oulgrowm the old days of

By Edward T. Butler Associated Press Analyst

and all the travel she enjoys.

In Brazil

palace coups and revolutions. We know the way to solve our prob- lems or to change our govern- ments. And that is by voting. We have an election next October and ff we don’t like what is going on we can vote against it.”’

Said another:

“Those officers forgot one thing: The people want no more of revolution and violence.” ~ -

came from all parts of the coun- try during the two days of the officers’ revolt. Even opposition newspapers and political parties denouticed the rebellion as harm- ful.

Brazil has been a republic since the middle of the 19th century, but real democracy and constitu- tional government are_new—since the fall éf 1955 of dictator Getulio Vargas.

And even though the first taste of this sort of living contains some of the bitterness of hard- ship, the Brazilian people seem willing to take it that way. They had the chance twice last week to upset things and they didn’t.

ADAM When Adam day by day Woke up in Paradise, He always used to say, “O, this is very nice.”

But Eve from scenes \of bliss Transported him for life. The more I think ‘of this The more I beat my: wife.

—A.E. Housman

MAXIMS"

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any- one else. ~

NORTHERN FORT The big stone Prince of Wales’ fort at the mouth of the Church- ill River on Hudson Bay was started in 1732 and completed

eventually grow in again? + Answer: Uniess the

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The same sort of sentiment |

Mrs. H. W. S.: If eyebrow hair between the eyes are removed often in the early teens, will they

roots of

‘tion these days.

* Let me list just a few of the,

valo left him little other choice,.— Ottawa Journal

Mars, about which astronomers have been speculating for years, is coming in for increased atten- Prof. Kirill Ogorodnikov of Leningrad adds his contention to that of many arother scientist that Marg con- tains life. What’s more, says Prof. Ogorodnikov, the Soviet Un- ion will soon send a ‘‘Marsnik” up to photograph the planet end prove that life exists there —Mil- waukee ‘Journal 2

A few weeks ago we complain- ed about. inability to find any shop that would fix a cigarette lighter. We took it to three to- bacco shops which ‘sell lighters and to three jewellers. None would have any part of it,\as it was cf: foreign make. it had no material value but it had a real value as a keepsake, a memento. But none was interested. They offered to sell us a new one (we had a couple of other ones: which did work). Finally we found a handy chap in our own office. With a little screw driver he took it apart. A coil on the end of the spring had broken. He attached it up and the whole operation took about 15 minutes. It works as well as new.—Windsor Star

The Age Old Story

And whatsoever ye do in word cr deed, do all in the name of ‘he Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Dee, 8, 1934)

The 8.8. Don, of the Johan-

nesen and Falck Pedersen Steam-

rived in port at Charlottetown |

yesterday from Rieme, Belgium with a cargo of 2600 of fertilizer for the Island Fertilizer Company. The steamer encount- ered a heavy gale about five hun- dred miles off Cape Race, fol- lowed by storm after storm. The ship suffered considerable .dam- age. ‘

Workmen are now employed laying an asphalt mastic floor over the concrete at the Drill Shed. This sub-contract is being done by K.V. Gardiner, Ltd. The general contractors are P.H, Mac- Millan and J.C. Arsenault. Six local men are also employed on this work.

TEN YEARS AGO (Dee. 8, 1949)

Fire, stemming from an ex- plosion in the engine room, troyed the converted Fairmile. Katherine G., in Souris Harbour Tuesday night. There were five crew members aboard at the out-

P

- break but none were injured. The

ship’s gasoline tanks caught fire- and exploded shortly after the fire started. The boat was owned_ by Mr. Reginald MacDonald of' Souris.

The contract for and renevating the Stanley, Shaw and Peardon building for the

| New Way Furnitere Co. of Saint

John, N.B., has been awarded ta County Construction. Limited. It was announced that the work would begin on January 2nd and would be completed at the- end of the month.

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Canada’s Generous Offer -

Milwaukee Journal

One goal of the United Naticns in-the next year is to find homes for the thousands of persons stil! in refugee camps of western Eur-

uals exceeding that figure be cause of family members.

The cost of_treating the tuber- culous at sanatoriums and main-

the hairs are destroyed, as by electrolysis, they will continue to grow.

STAMP DEBATE

OTTAWA (CP) —. Frank How- ard, CCF member of Parliament for Skeena, said today he will in-

‘ Uce a bill at the next Parlia- mdf siiffening the law respect-

trading stamps. He said in an interview that he will have the support of the CCF party in pro- posing the private member's bill, which will take the form of an amendment to the Criminal Code.

ope. A major difficulty is that many of these remaining refugees ar,

} “hard core’’ cases. They are pe!

sons who are old or ill and who, with their families, would be a burden on the receiving country. Especially difficult to resettle are persons with tuberculosis. Most generous, therefore, is the announcement of Canadian For- eign Minister Howard Green be- fore the UN general assembly that Canada will accept a ‘“‘sub- stantial number” of the tubercu- losis refugees, As a_ beginning, 100 “cases’’ will be received, with the total number of individ-

taining famities 1mabte—to—sup-- port themselves will be shared by the dominion and provincial governments. ~

Canada, like the United States, has opened its doors to thousands

of refugees since Warld War IL.--

Its generoifs new offer continues that policy. And .our northern neighbor does not make the offer in \the sense of assuming a bure den. Rather, as Foreign Minister Green put it, ‘“‘Canada welcomes the occasion. . .to give a group of human beings, whose plight is particularly tragic, an opportun- ity to rebuild their lives in dige nity and happiness.”

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