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FRIDAY, DEC. 5. 1958.

PAGE 4

Their Passmg Mourned

This community and. Province suffered the loss of two prominent citizens in the passing, yesterday, of the Hon. Bradford W.- LePage and .Mr. Pic'ton R. McCormac, both of Charlottetown.

A former Lieutenant Governor of the Province, former President of the Executive CounciI and active for many years in ‘he business and poli- ,tical life of the Island, the late Hon. Mr. LePage was very widely known and esteemed. He had ach- ieved business success at Rustico before moving to Charlottetown, where he established, with his son Mr. "W. R. LePage, the well-known

. firm of LePage'ShOe Company Lin;-

itéd. From early years he wasalso keenly interested in politics and was one of the outstanding champions of the Liberal Party cause. Elected first in 1919, he was returned on several occasions and sat in the Ho/useVand in the Cabinet under successive Lib- eral Premiers until his appointment as Lieutenant Governor in 1939.

Mr. LePage was devoted to ‘his 4

home and _fami'.y and took a l ding

part in the activities of his c furch;

and in championing the—temperance cause. He was a firm believer in prd— hibition of’liquor and fought this is? sue on many occasions on public 'plat- forms and in the Legislature. .A. hard hitter in debate, he was withal a gen- tleman of kindly'and ~courteous dis-

position and hadmany warm friends;

on both sides of politiesv ;

' i The late Mr. McCOrmac appear--

ed to be in excellentlhealth until his sudden heart seizure and his death came as a shock and surprise to the

community. A comparatively young ' man, he had outstanding business.

qualifications, which he showed not

:'only the management .of his firm, Sterns Limited, but in his activities

in the City Council, the Board of Trade, and in numerous; organiza- tions with which he .was associated.

, A candidate for the Mayoralty in the

last civic election, he ‘held strong

:views on civic management and, was

energetic and conscientious in all his public duties.‘ Like Mr LePa'ge, he

I . was a strdng supporter of the Liberal

Party and served as president'of the' Queens County Liberal Association for some years, and also as vice pre- sident of the National Liberal Fed- eration. - .

'To the bereaved families of both these distinguished citizens, The Guardian 'tenders sincere sympathy.

- Mr. Nixon's Discoveries

According to‘aqreport from Lon- don, U.S. Vice President Nixon’s latest visit to the British capital has enlightened him on ,two subjects, in particular. First, he discovered— somewhat to his surprise, it seems— that Queen Elizabeth knows a good deal about‘what is going on in in- ternational pulitical circles. “People look on her", he said, “as an attrac- tive and gracious Sovereign serving in a ceremonial capacity. But I was deeply impressed by the Queen’s in- terest in international problems and her desire to discuss them.” Mr. Nixon noted further that, although the Queen “determines what you both talk about”, she had begun a “stimulating discussion of immedi- ate internaiional problems ’in the news”, while, of course, avoiding any talk about Britain’s domestic policies. . .

Second, Mr. Nixon found to his relief that the leaders of Britain’s Labour Party are not the radicals that they are sometimes featured in the press, especially the Ameri- can press. He~said, after talking to leader Gaitskell and others of his “shadow cabinet,” that he did not think there would be much change in British foreign policy, should the Labourites come to power in the next election. In that, he is probably correct.

The fact is that on major issues in the international ficld there has been very little difference of opinion between Conscrvafive and Labour leaders in recent years. Labour

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v increase. It

spokesmen berate the Government from time to time. of course; that is to be expected. But when it comes to actual policy, what difference there is is largely related to timing and approach. For that matter, what difference is there between Conservative and Liberal official policy in this country? None at all worth speaking of.

Aloms-For-Peace Award

A Hungarian-born chemist. Dr. George C. Hevsey, who now lives in Stockholm, Sweden, has been awarded this year’s Atoms-for-peace Award. This award. worth $75,000, was established in 1955 as a memo- rial to Henry and Edsel Ford. It was set up in response to President Eisenhower's appeal in Geneva in 1955 for international efforts to de- velop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. The first winner, named last year, was Professor Niels BOhr, 'a Danish physicist.

In announcing this year’s winner, trustees of _ the award described Dr. Hevsey as "the first to apply both natural and artificial isotopes to the study of plants and animals andthe first to explore the possi- bility of creating radioactive sub- stances with the system being studied by means of neutron bom- bardment”.

There is perhaps something sig- nificant in the fact that the first .two awards have gone -to citizens of

.smaller nations. .In the bigger na-

tions, scientists are‘so busy devel- opingnuclear power for destructive purposes ,thatlthey bade little time for anything else. .

; Some day, it\ is to,be hoped,

‘mjmkind Will bemlivingf in a safer

'World.~ When ,that time cOmes. if it ever does, much of the credit will have to go to men like Prof. Bohr and Dr. Hevesy Who, in the seclu-

\sion of their laboratories. worked

devotedly in their efforts to make nuclear power a great force in peaceful industrial development.

. EDITORIAL NOTES

7'. inernier Matheson has intimat-. ed that an election is not “far off”.

Itxis up to him, of course, to select ‘ ~the\exact date. In this 'case, it

would seem that the Liberals would - have nothing to lose and perhaps. a little to gain by waiting another

year or so.

Now- it has been determin- ed iihat' hospital facilities in the Province are adequate to meet the 'requixiements of the proposed Hos- pital Insurance Plan, Provincial authorities may be expected to give the go~ahead signal without .much further delay. The Province is

I

I committed to, participation in the

plan. There is, thereforehnot 'much point inputting it off to the eve of

an election. . ,

Trade Minister Churchill has denied rumours that he threatened to resign from the Cabinet if it ap- proved the 17 per cent freight rate takes extraordinary courage for a man to resign from the Government, even 'though he may not agree with some (if its policies. It has been done, but in. frequently. That is the only way, of course, in which government mem- bers can dissociate themselves from responsibility for government decis- ions. -

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“By way of lending grim point” to the consequences of invested nonsense, we read a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture which says that the nematode,‘ a species of plantworm or parasite, carries within itself a mysterious ability to resist harm from radia- tion. Man need not therefore fear that his nonsense will empty life from this earth. It man doesn’t want the world, the nematode is

_ perfectly willing to take it".—-From

an editorial in “Saturday Review". * t t «. A clergyman in Cincinnati, who refuses to pay income taxes because some of the money is used for mili- tary purposes, was carried into court 'when he refused to go volun- tarily. Then, refusing to plead, he

'was carried to a cell to think it

over. He says he has no intention of changing his mind on either count. H'e won‘t pay and he won’t walk 1 into court. It is interesting to reflect on the sirange situation that would develop if all citizens fol- lowed his exaltiple. We are not recommending it, of course.

‘ which the Queen and Prince Phil-

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CAM we GET THE APPLE wn’riour Ndufilllé

_ OTTAWA’S WILLIAM TELL

OTTAWA REPORT

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By Patrick

What is a typical panadian’ meal? -

This uuanswerable question is one of the incidental worries af- flicting the plannens of Q u e e n Elizabeth's visit be Canada next summer.

Arrangements are being made to supply a Canadian cook aboard the royal yacht “Britannia”, on

in will tmvel up the St. Law- rence River and along line new St. Lawrence Seaway. His func- tion will be to provide our royal visitors with food typical of our country.

But what food? That is a ques- tion which, over past years, has plagued many more people and many more important people than one sea cook. u '

Tourism officials area always urging our caterers to serve, to our millions of U.S. vlslitors, real Canadian food, rather than poor » imitations of what they get bet- ter at home. The restaurant in- dustry, with good cause, anxious ly devotes most of its conven- tion time to pondering the pro— blem of impnoving our second- mte catering ‘ establishments which have made us a nation of stay-at-homes. On the average, they cannot match European re- staurants for imagination. COSMOPOLITAN VERDICT

Alan Jarvis. the director of our

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national gallery in Ottawa, re- cently descnibed Canadian food as “tasting like Kleenex". 0t- tawans nonmally don’t eat Kleen- ex, but that is the sort flashy and meaningless romar which gastronomically mabches some of

the flashy and meanirfiless pacin-

ters's dauibs being bought with your tax money for our national gallery. And these. I assure you, certainly do not cost like Kleenex.

However, Jarvis is correct in suggesting that our various food processors do’ an unmatched job in reducing to soggy tasteless- ness the really excellent raw ma- terial produced by our farmers and fishermen. second to none in the world. _

But to return to that problem of the Queen’s sample of typical Canadian cookery. ,

Suggestions would be welcome as to the ideal Canadian dish. but the typical Canadian dish is un- doubtedly fried in deep fat, pre- ferably often used before and hence odourous of 57 varieties; the finished product is liberally topped with tomato calsup:

- Mr. John E. Coles, president of the Canadian Restaurant 'As- soci'ation, recently deplored here that there is no two Canadian dish.

HIGH QUALITY FOODS

[It is too bad that our cooks are less successful than our far-

‘ The Brussels Announcement

By David Rowntree Canadian Press Staff Wrif

' An announcement from Brus- just in time to forestall serious' economic trouble in Western Eu- - rope.

The six - country European common market has agreed be- ginning Jan. 1 to lower customst by 10 per cent to all other mem- 5 bers of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Tnade. This. it is hoped-will bridge some of the differences. mainly between Br‘it- ain and France. on how to make European trade easier and less complicated. '

France is one of the six com- mon market countries. They have agreed to change a common tar- iff on goods coming in from out- side countries and at the same time lower duties nd increase the volume of trade between them- selves until in 12 years there are

7 , no restrictions. sels Wednesday may have coine‘

Britain opposes this for two reasons: Her exports to the Con- tinent would be more expensive than similar goods made there; and if she did join, she would have to stop giving tariff advan- ‘ages to the Commonwealth. ‘Britain suggested instead a free

rade area. In this. member coun .

ries would lower duties between

hsmselves but continue to,

charge what they wished to out- siders.

Neither side was able to per- suade the other to give up its project. .

Last month, France and West Germany rejected the free trade idea. They did leave room for future talks and this now appears to have been enlarg-w by ,the concession to GATT members. in— cluding Canada. '

Many Contrasts In Iceland

National Geographic Society'

In many respects Iceland lives between two worlds—the East and the West, the modern and the medieval.

The islanders also live between extremes of hot and cold-As its name suggests, Iicela-n-tl has an abundance of ice. locked in enor- mous glaciers. But is is warmed by water carried north from the Gulf Stream, and bubbling there are some of the hottest springs in the world. The word geyser comes from the lt/indic.

Hot springs heat homes in Rey- kjavik, capital of the coallcss country. The springs also warm hothouses where bananas. grapes, roses, and carn-ations grow.

The hot lava and smoke of Mount Hekla, a periodically act- ive volcano were regarded as proof in medieval times of the existence of hell.

The Kentucky-sized I:I;Iild re‘ public’lies in the North Atlantic Ocean midway between Scotland and Greenland. Georgraptiically' it belongs to Europe and was linked to Denmark until 1914.

A hardy son of Iceland, l.cif Ericson. is bclicvud In lume reached Ame‘llt'a Iivc ccniuilcs before 1942. and mlnv Il‘f'ial‘li- ‘crs have folloucd him In I‘ic

New World, St'llIlllg pl'nnaz'm' :11 Canada.

the Keflavik airport, the country maintains close economic ties with the Soviet Union.

Much of Iceland's fish goes be- hind the Iron Curtain Iceland- ers run their cars on gasoline from the Baku oil fields.

The influx of American military personnel, which began during World War 11, has both stimulat- ed and disturbed the island. From a pastoral fishing economy, lcc- land has moved swiftly into the modern world. But progress has not been even: a shirl' new Cad- illac or Zim may have to travel on a dirt road.

Fish and fish products have al- ways made up the bulk of Ice- land's exports. The banks off the island are so rich in marine life that trawlers from Br'rin and other countries come Io fi~h there Disputes have periodically arisen over fishing rights

The Icelanders. now fllIlTlIM‘l'lllEZ about 160,000, are mainly dCSL‘é‘llII- ants of blond. bluceyed Norse- mcn who began coming to the 15- land in the 19th ('nnlury from \ion way, Ireland. Smilan'l, the Ork- ncy and Shetland islanders. and lhe Hebrides. [hiring film out few ccnturie~. Nm‘sc luci‘alni'c flourished. tilvm; sagas' and Ill}'iil.ii:_v ’llm l“..I(..i.w were the primary liirixn'y fcmx Almost all In- (‘31): Scandinaxlan pULtl'y In ILt“

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lccland Ilciflll:\ In tho T\I\:'Ih AIianl'c Tl't‘aI) (II .‘xnI ’a‘zni Though American forces guard

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mers. For Canada enjoys the best wheat in the would. excellent beef magnificient cheese. fine poultry products. and as wide a choice of abundant sea food as one. could wish. only in the field of fruits nd vegetables do we lag slightly, and that because climate curtails the range and season of those products

What we really lack in our food stuffs is service by the middle-men. Our butchers so of- ten sell meat when it is still breathing. instead of hanging it for four weeks to obtain that marshmallow tenderness so well- kiuown in Kansas.

Our packers freeze the salt and the firmness out of our At- lantic and Pacific fish. And while ixnponted varieties of cheese with a tang fetch a dollar a pound in Canada, our magnificent prem- ium domestic cheddar is.murd- ered and mushed until it is sold to us in tooth paste tubes.

Some provinces tend to look down on Quebec .as belng back- ward. llf they only knew. Que boc is\our most advanced pro- vmce in appreciating the fine points of living, and these alone In Canada is it fully recognized that cooking is an out which calls for naming, imagination and pa- tience. '

That is why the problem of typ- ical Canadian flood is bothering can planners here. Unless some- one comes up with some good Canadian recipes, we will no doubt bid goodbye to our queen- ly visitor, after six wee-ks among us. as overweight and under- nourished as the best of us.

Whether the common market will really result in fireerr trade has been questioned. ’

Brita-in hinted at possible re- prisals in pointing out that only oneueighth of her exports wont to Europe while European tnade with the Commonwealth has been .nvcreasing.

FRANC OVERVALUED?

There have been questions, too, i whether enough attention has ‘ 'ieen paid to the soundness of I .he six currencies. West German llld The Netherlands are prob- ; 1ny the most stable in this re- gard but the French franc is be- i lieved by some authorities to be I overvalued. that is. not worth as much as the government says it is. .

The feeling of some critics is that rance‘s inflation might :rpread to the other countries and

lfl‘ml'C cooperation.’ The Brussels decision is strictly a stopgap measure. The, basic

~ differences between those coun-

tries in the common market and those outside are still there.

lancel out other benefits of eco-'

Avoid Rush At Christmas ,

By Herman N. Bundesen. .\I.D. BEFORE you set out on your annual Christmas shopping spree ' this vear. let me give you a'few, hints that may save you time. energy and “adachek. I

The holiday season. espemally' the {week between Christmas and the New Year. is pretty rough, both physically and mentally, on most of us. ‘ Your general [health should be ; on a high plane to see you through the hustle and bustle with no serious after-effects. So I don‘t want you worn out by shopping befo~e the holidays even begin.

DO IT EARLY

Everyone always plans to beat the “Christmas rush." of course. but how many of us actually do it? This year really buckle down and get your shopping completed early. Those hectic days the week before Christmas can leave you completely tagged, if you let your shopping go until the last minute.

Now. chances are that, no mat- ter how early you start. your shopping will carry you into the lunch hours. Whil‘ you should have fortified yourself with a substantial breakfast before set- ting out, you should also take sufficient time to relax and en- ' joy your noon meal.

Busiest time for most restau- rants is from noon to 1 p. m. So, if possible, try to arrange your lunch hour either before or after this time.

HOW TO DRESS

You should dress warmly en- ough for the weather, but don’t overdress. Remember; you wnll be inside much of the time. And, for heaven's sake, wear sensible shoes!

But the real secret of saving time and energy on these shop- ping trips is to onganize tibem well in advance,

Decide as well as you can what you want to get for each friend and relative. Then jot down the proposed present opposite the name on each recipient. You pro balbly will badge your mind a- bout some resents, once you see all the gifts available, but this type of planning should be very helpful.

SHOP ALONE ,

Usually it’s best to shop alone. You get more done at a faster pace if you don't have to wait for someone else to make up his mind. _

Finally, try to get home early

enough to have time to sit down afid relax before you start pre- p ring the evening meal. Take time to drink a glass of fruit juice, or a glass of milk. You'll be surprised at how it will refresh

you. QUESTION AND ANSWER

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