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Well, Now, Mr. Stewart . ..

Hon. Mr. Stewart, Minister of Touri;-in, li.+..< ziunounced that he has mu-uctl all l,~l.'uul innkeepers against racial cli.-:_-riiuuuition, and that ex- cept for one incident exposed in the local press, rumors of such discrim- jmiihm helm: practiced are entirely uniountlcil. We would be prepared 190 101 it go at that, had he not coupled with this statement a remark in- volving this newspaper in 3. cha1'8‘9 of irresponsi'cilily in mentioning such rum=~rs. and also in filing a re- port of them to the Canadian Press “for use a«;'.'0.~:s (.anada.”

The last chzirge is quite unt' ‘- a fact which r;iE.=os some question as {,0 the m1;;i_:lr!l":‘. whole attitude t0- wa,-d me pul’)li('l‘(y which ‘resulted in forcing a showdown in this mat- ter.

Sir.-cc hc has chosen to lecture us on the .-ulrject. of responsibility, it may be in order to ask how much of . this qlléllllji he has shown on this point. Wliat. jorecisely, was the na- ture of his “complete and thorough in\w~«:i i__c.-it ion" into the complaints of other (ll.-’('l'lmlll.'1tOl‘y incidents? How did he succcccl in launching and dis- po.<ir.g of it with such astonishing celoi'i‘r.\'? Who were the witnesses he i;‘.‘*€l'l'ng:‘:ll(;‘(l, and what precautions tliil he take to get ' disinterested c\'irlonce?

lliuhly as we regard the position Mr. Steuurt occupies under the Crown. we may tell him that we are as much concerned about the good name of this Province, about its in- terests. iotirist-\x'ise and from every other sl;m(lpoin'.', as he is. We have been lon;:er in our role of serving the public in our capacity than he has been in his. We have endeavored to (ll.\‘(.‘ll‘Al‘£‘(’, our duties as faithfully, and we shall continue doing so, with or without his good opinion but pref- erahl_v—of com-.~e—in as cordial a relationship with him as we can maintain.

If he knows‘ anything about re- spon;-‘iblc journalism, however, he should know that while it has been associated with every reform which this country has achieved, its popu- larity with the "powers that be” has not iufreo_uently been in inverse ratio to the public service it renders.

When Parliament Meets

If Liberal Leader Pearson insists. on forcing a non-confidence vote against the Dietenbakér government when Parliament meets, he is un- likely to get support from the New

Democmtic l“.'1rty. This is how we b interpret the statement of the NDP

leader, Mr. T.C Douglas, in counsel-

V ' lng against an early general election.

It would be irresponsible, he says.

7 V for Opposition parties to force one with the country in its present state

-—-unless, _the gcvernment falls to ' cope with the situation. A Mr. Pearson. of course, contends

1 that the government has already

failed in this respect. But Mr. Doug-

‘l-.l,aa:\statement indicates that he is

“want

ycliunlrls to .

not prepared to make a snap judg- ment’.alf.thla"tlma. Even though he doesn't like the government's us- -terlby-program, he says an ear y election would impede ft in carrying it through. If the program doesn't sueee'e¢‘l,”‘~ would be in

responsibility of before it starts

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wants it given a fair trial, not 9. lynching. Perhaps he shares Mr. Pearson's conviction that it will hang anyway, but he wants the for- malities to be duly observed.

So, when that motion comes up that Mr. Pearson says he’s going to move, it will be interesting to see how the jury splits. The Conserva- tives, if they play their cards well, should be able to come out on top, for the time being at least. It will be a situation that would have intrigued the late Prime Minister Mackenzie King, who was a master at this kind of manoeuvering. Mr. Diefenbaker, they say, has studied his whole bag of tricks, and may come up with some new ones of his own when the House meets. Whichever way it goes, he’s likely to remain the star per- former at this session.

Tkllwe Lost MacDonalds

ere are some lost MacDonalds somewhere, and the Cape Breton Post hazards the guess that Cape Breton Island would seem a likely place for the search to be intensified. Well, there may be a few of them here in Prince Edward Island, too, so we’d better explain what it is all about.

It's the Clan Donald Society of Scotland that's looking for them. It seems that there were 20 families, mostly from the Hebridean islands of North and South Uist, Harris and Skye, who held lands in these is- lands. An appeal for help in locating the descendants has gone forth from the society's secretary, who lives in a. place named Benbecula.

The secretary reports that the search for the lost MacDonald clansmen has been going on for some time, but only four families have so far been traced—one from North Uist and three from Skye. The de- scendants of these families who at one time had estates in Heisker off North Uist and Dunvegan in Skye have been traced in North America and Australia, where they emigrated about 80 years ago.

Others have not been heard of for nearly 200 years, but the society he- lieves that many more can be traced if the word of the search is spread amongst all MacDonalds whose fore- bears migrated from the Hebrides to various parts of the world.

Hidden Business Tax A study by the Canadian Tax

Foundation of the records of 129 companies showed the firms to pay an average of $65,000 annually for the bookkeeping involved in their various taxing duties. Of this amount, $48,000 is spent on com puting and paying the company's own income tax, sales and excise taxes, customs duties, municipal property and business taxes, and other levies. But the remaining $17,- 000 is spent collecting, the taxes owed by others, including the income taxes of employees and retail sales taxes. The companies studied employed an average of 11 or 12 extra employees to handle this bookkeeping.

The Globe and Mail. Toronto, yes out a strong case for in- igation by the Royal Commis- now being appointed into the equity, efficiency and constitution- ality of this method of tax collect- ing. The expenses referred to are in addition to those incurred oy business in performing other duties for the Government—-collecting in- formation for the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, for example, or pre- paring briefs and submissions in connection with applications for var- ious licenses to do business.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Police Association of On- tario has raised an interesting point. It is that a police officer chasing a speeding car could be charged with careless driving. The premise there is that two wrongs do not make a right—-or do they?

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II Russia's obsession with secrecy

A is always good for chuckles in the

west. The London Observer reports that censorship even extends to con-

‘ tents of western scientific periodi-

cals, Of 28 recent issues of the Brit- ish magazine Nature, 18 were cen- sored. What the Russians do is buy a few copies of Nature. The censors then clip paragraphs. whole paces. entire articles or, at times, even in- dividual words. The ripped up mag. Idle is than copied by I photograp- lflivrnoaas and copies are sent to Russian scientists-cleansed of all material the censors think objection- lbla. .

OLD ROCKING CHAlR'5 GOT ME OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

Here And There About The Capital

The Moscow Circus, which selected Canada for its first vi- sit to North America, opened its tour in Ottawa last week. It es- tablished itself at once as a “must” for every circus buff. It is predominantly a human cir- cus, with skilled and courage- ous men and women gaily earn- ing the generous and almost non-stop applause of Ottawa's enthusiastic audience. But the trained bears of Valentin Fila- tov stole the show. Riding mo- tor-bikes and scooters, roller- skating, boxing, juggling and acrobating, they excelled. Even as bicyclists they are so much more adroit than Ottawan mes- sengers that Bunny Pound, that V.I.P. among secretaries on Parliament Hill, went back stage and had a close look to see if they were real bears. or men sewn into bear skins.

A government official sent an order to the manager of that Russian circus: “During their stay in Canada, the animals will not be allowed to mingle with Canadian animals.” Afraid the Banff bears might learn to ride bicycles, and clutter up the Trans-Canada Highway? SOCIETY HIGHLIGHTS

Devotees of the columns which relate the trivialities of the not so trivial personalities have had two good laughs here lately.

“The German Ambassador and Mrs. Siegfried have return- ed to Canada from Murray Bay. P.Q.” announced one newspap- er. So Quebec did separate.

“Hon. Pierre Sevigny, Associ- ate Minister of National De- fence, and Mr. Sevigny enter- tained at a cocktail party last evening." said another news- paper. Who “wears the pants" in that family?

From Quebec we hear talk of adding a slogan to the pro- vince’s automobile licence plat- es, the slogan to be appropri- ately: “Quebec - La Belle Pro- vince." New Brunswick plates carry the slogan “Picture Pro- vlnce," but on the wh e we unimaginatively leave this evi- dence of civic pride and sales- manship to our friends in USA. Licence plates commonly noted on Parliament Hill this summer include: “Illinois - Land of Lin- coln.” “District of Columbia - The Nation's Capital,” “New Jersey - Garden State" and “AI- abama - Heart of Dixie." CANADIANISM TOO EASY?

When Parliament reassemb- les.. some alert M.P. may prompt an enquiry into the ba- sis upon which Canadian citizen- ship ls granted to immigrants. One such as quoted as saying

“I will always be I00 per cent Italian. My taking out Canadian immigration papers is a for- mality." These words have been widely attributed to the film ac- tress Gina Lollobrigida, who liv- ed briefly in Toronto, had a street named after her, then re- turned whence she came —per- haps never to return. We would welcome the lovely lady as a fellow citizen, but we would sur- ely not welcome Canadianism being used as a public conven- 9

e

Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova. the dedicated Executive Director of the Unitarian Service Commit- tee of Canada, has just launch- ed its appeal for 300,000 “Friend- ship Dollars." This worthy year- ly good deed will as usual sup- port any projects in the world's needy countries such as feeding starving children, cloth- ing the ragged, and training the ignorant. Doctor Lotta is also

asking Canadian women to send to her Ottawa headquarters ba- sic clothing for the destitute: the U.S.C’s “Operation Bountiful” needs layettes, cardigans, blan- kets and warm practical cloth- ing of all kinds. OUR COPYRIGHT?

some printers who were paid to print voters’ lists at the re- cent federal election are selling extra copies of those lists to mail order houses and the like. Accurate up-to-date lists of na- mes and addresses of house- holders are thus made availab- le at minimum cost to promot- ers who wish to mail circulars. Complaints have been made about this practice, on the grounds that this is an infringe- ment of the citizen's privacy, and that the voters lists are pre- pared for official use at public expense, and should not be thus made available for commercial purposes.

Uneasy Nostalgia

By Alan Harvey Canadian Press Staff Writer

There'll be many a moist eye and sad heart when Common- wealth prime ministers gather

next w e e k in Marlborough House. Like schoolboys when the

summer h 01 i d a y s are over. statesmen will be afflicted with an uneasy nostalgia, an impres- sion that things are unlikely ever to be the same again.

This will apply particularly to the so—called white domimions-— Canada. Australia and New Zea- land—-and the United Kingdom. All are apprehensive that Brit- ain's bid to enter the European Economic Community marks a climacteric in Commonwealth affairs.

As ministers assemble in the opulent conference room over- looking the mall, around a 38- foot-long table of glowing red rlbimga wood from Africa. even the most convlned European may feel a tremor of regret for the changing Commonwealth. EVOLVED IDEAL

Britons have always instinc- tively felt themselves bound up with something bigger than their own tiny Island. The Commonwealth ideal has helped to compensate for the death of empire. Now they vaguely feel they are selllngthe Common- wealth down the river.

In Australia. where the mg of empire first was unfurled in 1788, whole communities open on sales to Britain. Australians think of the old country as

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Wcindering Grandparents

Denver Post

Are grandpa and grandma ob- solete? Have they gone the way of‘ the Locomoblle? Well, not quite, but they are changing their habits just as are the twist- ers.

Once upon a time the family loaded itself into shay or sleigh, bundled up while father ed the reins, and with crack of whip and about set off for grand- father's house and I feast.

at was rich grandpa. With

1100:’ grandpa it was a little bit

different. Poor grandpa and

grandma. h a v I n g exhausted resources, were f to

rely on the filler piety and nest-

lr children.

ed with the children,

' serv tters. makers.andgen- eral aeslstancea la the house-

bo .

The household survived the strain so well. usually, that the grandchildren did not

slble worlds. Nobody. in day UIIOI

L d . sass...‘ doe now

was when sh‘e was a girl and

contemplate er sllc with a sigh of his own.

Junior, Willy. and sister 8 us

come home from school and find

o‘ng‘Kong. “Having wonderful the post cards. “Wish you were

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home. Sentimentally. the Com- monwealth means Britain first, New Zealand and perhaps Can- ada fairly high up, the rest no- where

The flourishing town of Mll- dura, in Victoria State, sells 40 per cent of its dlred fruit crop. including delicious sultanas, to Britain. If the Common Market bid goes through, Australia will pay a duty of £8 10s on every ton of currents. Mlldura may become a ghost town.

New Zealand has 2,500,000 people and 50,000,000 sheep. Economist Colin Clark says it has the highest standard of liv- ing In the world.

HUGE EXPORT

Every year it sends 20,000,000 lamb carcasses to Britain. New Zealanders have tried hard to sell lamb and mutton in Canada and the United ate but N o r t h Americans stubbornly stick to steak. New Zealand's butter and cheese exports are also lnydanger.

Canada bas a $1.000,000.000 annual’ export trade with Brit- aln. The pulp and paper indus- try, collating about one - tenth the total, has no qualms about its ability to

Canadian wheat can ‘pierce .Eu-

ropean rr 1- But many

manufactured goods may suffer

and the Canadian government worried.

Thus both been and head find

ment is ‘at stake. But the Com- monwealth ls changing with the

Is altering the character the family onshlp.

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Positive Outlook On Retirement ;

Is Seen Needed .

RETIREMENT is for th 0 s a who prepare for it" was and continues to be a good adage. The welfare state has taken care of e financial aspects for many but more than a monthly check is necessary to make e ma- jority of retired persons happy. They must prepare to enjoy their leisure time.

Some Industries are taking I positive approach to this aspect of retirement by conducting lec- tures on how to prepare for those years after 64. Employee of -50 to 55 are invited to attend and in some instances. the wife also is asked. The teachers are said to be experts along this line and ‘discuss personal ad- justments, health, work and let- sure, living arrangements, in n d finances. These different facets of retirement are mentioned be- cause more than a hobby is needed to be happy in the let- sure years.

Retirement should not be _ a roleless period. On several oc- caslons we have said the indi- vidual is happiest when he retir- es to something. This applies to most of us. including men and women’ who welcome retirement as a release from an uninterest- lng Job. -

It is important to indulge in some advance thinking on the subject to prevent it from be- coming a useless period. T h l 3 may mean a new but less ex- asperating job or moving to more pleasant surroundings near relatives or friends. Others will enjoy the freedom to stroll, read, observe, or do whatever they want to. Constructive, self- satisfying activities make the retiree feel useful and needed.

The saddest group are those who retire to nothing. These in- dividuals come from the top as well as the bottom of the industrial ladder and spend their time dwelling on what they retired from -— position. wa- ges, and companionship. They could have used a little advance guidance.

Preparation for retirement ought to be started years he- forehand because many of the wonderful things in life take time to appreciate. A man who never has read a book, made a garden, or gone to a concert cannot bank on enjoying these things the week after his 65th birthday. The seed of interest must be cultivated thru training a n (1 education, starting w ell ahead of the change. The need for good health also must be appreciated.

(Dr. Van Dellen will answer questlons on medical topics if stamped, self-addressed enve- lope accompanies request.)

0 Notes THE PWAYTT

Coaseleaee is a dreadful so‘-..i The‘ more you listen to it. the more it.talk.a—- Sudhury Star.

Statistics show that more than a million women in Canada are overweight but those, of course,

figures. on

There were more crimes than

irths in the United States last year. and all of them were com- mltted by people who were once cuddly little bablea.—— Hamilton Spectator.

There’: logic somewhere If you can find It in the ready an- swer of an 18-year-old Spaniard to the Spanish police who on Saturday charged him with the theft of a motorcycle. The you ' that he took the motorcycle to return as fast as possible to the municipal fall in Leon, from which he escaped on Friday to attend the annual festival in his native village nearby. He was in jail, in the first place, for the theft of an- other motorcycle. —-Cape Bret- on Post.

our YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Files!

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO September 8, 1937

Truro,N.S. Sept. 7 (CP) — Nine schools in country districts surrounding have b e e 1: closed, it was reported here to- day. as a precautionary mea- sure against the spread of lu- fantile paralysis. None of the several cases reported were re- garded serious, but care is be- ing taken to avoid an epidemic of the disease.

At the Cavendish Unite d Church last Sunday, the minis- ter was Rev. J. Sutherland Bon- nell, D.D., pastor of Fifth Ave- nue Presbyterlan Church, N e w York Cit T aoloists

' Ruth

TEN YEARS AGO September 8. 1952 drew of N e w

‘five packs of cigarettes,

IIIIIISE WIRING

T Always drive as If your chi].

dren were in the other car...

Stratford Beacon-Herald.

First 1...... “It's been so long since I saw you last that 1 hard. ly knew you. You have aged so!" Second Ditto: “Really? Well, I wouldn't have known you either, except for that dress." —Montreal Star.

' mom came hunter had

been relating his experiences ad nauseam. ‘ ring around a native village," ha droued on. ‘ spa is op and.” “Don't silly," com. mented a bored listener. “They gow th at way." — Montreal an.

The army psychiatrist want.

to be sure that the rookie sodier was perfectly normal. Susplclously he said: “What do you do for your social life?" "Oh," the man blushed, "1 just sit around, mostly." “Never go out with girls?" “Nope." "Don't you even want to?" The m a n was uneasy. “Well, yes sir, sort, of." “Then why don't you?" “My wife won't let me, sir."._ Gait Reporter.