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Why Tolerate It?

Parliament has finally passed the bill to halt the railway strike, and it}is to be hoped that action to this ~ end will follow promptly. But there is ‘still an issue to be decided, and it is one which affects us too closely to tbe sidestepped any longer. It is the ‘question: of Ottawa’s failure to main- ‘tain all the -non-rail facilities on our

— government ferry service during the—

strike period, in fulfilment of our terms of Confederation which pro-

vide for uninterrupted connection

with the mainland. If other provinces

can remain indifferent to the_obliga- tion: involved-here, it:has e very

obvious that we cannot afford to do ‘so. We must make it-clear, through -our representatives here and in

«.}Parliament, that our constitutional -

‘rights have been violated.

Not so long ago, there was a move- ‘ment on foot to “phase out” railway operations altogether in this province, in providing for the causeway then in the planning stage. But there was

. Btrong opposition to the proposal, as.

being against the interests both of our shippers and railway workers.~ At great additional expense, the govern- ment finally came up with a plan” which provided for both rail and ve- -hicular traffic; and, of course, when: this project is completed, the problem we are now concerned with will have been solved. But it is plain that in the meantime we must insist that ‘the present service be accorded the same status. so far as the rights ofall who

Labor government members are find- ing it increasingly difficult to refute her arguments.

Mrs. Frances is the widow of a banker. She became interested in. women’s rights while working for the League of Nations in Geneva, and founded. the association she heads in 1930. The organization's goal, she ‘says, is not a strict community prop- erty law ‘such as they have in Cali- fornia, but rather ‘‘an equal partner- ship in the wealth a family accumu- lates.” ve

The membership number's on ly about 2,000, but it lobbies energetic-

married,,women. It petitions each parliamentary candidate at election time to recognize ‘the righteousness of its cause. Members join legislators each year at several luncheons in the “House of Commons. Four volunteer secretaries are available to its leader, . -who edits-a-monthly- newsletter_and corresponds with government offic- ials and distressed housewives.

_. The organization tasted an early victory when state aid for wartime bombing victims was extended to housewives. And in 1958 Parliament allowed courts to attach a husband’s earnings if he refused to support his wife and children. But in-1942, and _again last year, it lost court cases in which wives were forced to hand over their savings to their husbands.-A_pro-

of Heanor over a plan to keep details of pay raises secret so wives would not know about: them brought no re- sponse at all.

But far from being discouraged. these militant ladies believe the goal of economic equality may be near. Britain's Law Commission, they point out, is now studying equal financial © status, and the government has pledged itself to act on the com- mission's report. If 1t doesn't,we can bet that Prime Minister Wilson will be hearing about it in. no uncertain terms.

Still A Challenge

London, Ontario, had the same_ex-. perience as Charlottetown when a measure to fluoridate the-city’s water - supply was voted down a-few years ago. Now the issue is likely to go to the voters at the December elections, | and the London Free Press com- ments, wearily, that the-citizens are | in for a repetition of all the. argu-

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r use _it—for—_non-rail— purposes —_are—- =

concerned.

We published yesterday a forth- right statement from the Canadian Trucking Association, denouncing the disgraceful manner in which we have

“been treated during the past few

days, and calling on Ottawa to act at once in removing our ferry service

~ from CNR operation and running it~

directly under the transport depart- ment. The association has contacted both Prime Minister Pearson and Mr. Pickersgill on the subject, and in- tends, it says, ‘‘to keep up the pres- sure, and to expose this shocking in- terprovincial roadblock to the people. of Canada, until a full and satisfac- tory solution is obtained.”

This should inspire us to work with equal energy on our own behalf. It’s regrettable, in the circumstances, that our Legislature is not in emergency session to do just this, as Opposition Leader Shaw suggested it. should be. But at least Parliament is in session,

and no more time should be lost.in .

placing our grievance before it.

Pepys Wouldn't. Like It

Britain’s small but dedicated. Mar- ried Women’s Association is on the move again. It has fought for 23 years to bring economic equality between man and wife, and has met with @ good many setbacks and a° few suc- cesses. But its chairman and found- er. Juanita Frances, thinks that soon the British housewife will be part owner of her husband's pay check. If this turns out to be the case, it

_will be largely due to the association's

activities in gaining public support.

The housewife’s complaint, Mrs. Frances says, stems from the fact that her economic rights are based on a case law handed down in 1660, which entitled wives only to bed and board. Samuel Pepys was writing his famous diary about that time, and he seemed to think that wives had quite enough to say in domestic affairs. But the Married Women’s Associa-

_-tion isn’t concerned about Mr. Pepys’ : views on the matter. It is fighting, for

“equal partnership in the wealth a family accumulates,” and an end to archaic laws. ‘'The_ law,’ says .its founder. “says husbands must main- tain the necessities for their wives.

“This means the married woman has

rights only to bed and bread. It leaves the wives whose husbands are selfish without recourse to law.”

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—ments-threshed- -out_on_the_previous—

“Sodium fluoride ,is a poison!” and all that. Of course, con- cedes our London contemporary. So is table salt if taken-in excess quan- tities; and so is the chlorine that every community uses in minute | quantities to purify its drinking water: Facts, not emotions, should . decide the issue; and the facts have. been piling up convincingly in: re- ‘cent years.

About one-quarter of the people of Canada drink fluoridated water be- cause nature has supplied this: chemi- ° cal in the right proportion to safe- guard the teeth of children. In the United States, 2,590 communities: embracing 45,000,000 people drink water that is either naturally or artificially fluoridated. In no city any- where has there ever been a vote to remove fluoride from the water; all the emotional debafe begins when public health authorities with stacks of statistics to back their recom- mendations want:to add the chemical in the ratio of one part per million.

One of the most convincing argu- ments in favor of fluoridation came about by chance in the Wisconsin city of Antigo, which stopped fluoridation after using it for ten years. Within . four years, tooth decay among kinder- garten pupils rose 92 per cent, among second-graders 183 per cent, and among fourth-graders, 100 per cent.

After 16 years of thorough re- search, Canada's federal government approved fluoridation. It has’ the. backing of provincial governments and of dental and medical associations which see dental decay as civiliza- tion’s most widespread and costly ailment. In Ontario, a government commission headed by Dr. G. Edward Hall, president of the. University. of Western Ontario. was able to refute | every anti-fluoridation argument.

But refutation is one thing; emo-— tional reaction to alarmist propa- ganda is another. In London, pre- dicts the London paper, fluoridation is gaging to be called everything from

ally on behalf of Britain's 16 million |

test this spring to the urban council }

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_OTTAWA SIGNAL TOWER

"WHERE IT HURTS MOST.

=

~ Helpless Victims oF The Strike

The Insistenbe of the -non-oper- ating railway: workers upon de- mands that -can only be infla- tionary overlooks many things.

And what it overlooks most of all are all those on fixed in- comes. They have no means of fighting inflation.

‘Life is often hard enough for them even at best. But these are the people who are being press- ed-to the wall.

~The story is told about the

| Germany family whose life had

| been” dominated, year in and year. out, by fathef’s annuity. _Father had been saving to’ buy an annuity while he was work- ing. The -family—budget had to be regulated to pay the prem- iums=

At last the great day arrived when father’s annuity was die. It-was to be the reward of—his

lifetime bf. prudence.

A family party was held in celebration _of_the event. But_by_ —that—time—inflation, —atter—ti-e—|—

First World War, had rash Germany=so viciously that the accumulated savings of the

years were just enough to pay -

for the party.

This, to be sure, is an extreme ease. But inflation is’ eating its way into everybody's savings.

When’ Canadians pause to con- sider the value of their dollar, they can have some understand-

ing of what is happening, right

here in their own country. The dollar they saved in 1949 is to- day worth only about 55 cents.

This may’ not matter very much to those who have been able to keep their incomes ahead of inflation. But it #s easy to Im-

-|tion today, the time will come

Montreal Gazette

agine what has happened to, those whose incomes have been fixed.

Anyone today who contributes | to more inflation, in order to beat inflation for himself or his group, is really riding rough- shod over_.the pensioners; the! veterans, the widows, and any: | one who has only a fixed income to live_on, and can never -hope to have any more.

But it is not true to say that | -those—on--fixed—incomes—are—a- special group, people who live apart from the mainstream, as if they were always” somebody else. and never. could be oneself.

The truth is that most people- will find themselves on fixed. in- comes, Sooner or later. No- mat- ter how well they may be try- ing to heat inflation- with infia-

those vores who are now re- | tired.

It vi not just. a matter between labor and ‘the public; it is also

and another class — the’ work- ers and the retired workers.

And there- are many more pensioners on fixed incomes who are without the. advantage otf a retired union workers.

These are the pensioners who |are trying to live on the -Old ‘Age Allowance alone; or upon veterans’. pensions. What ‘their condition often is may be found out by asking any social work- er:

The danger lies in the tenden-

“live with,’’ or-that-it 1s really only the-price that must be paid

when they can hépe to do 80 a0 longer.

=Then—Eh-e-y— will -hecome-an-_/ xiously interested—in— trying to keep what they have from melt- ing away.

A high percentage of those who were once members of unions are now. living on fixed t{n- | comes: 2 3 | ‘All present union members | will one day be on fixed incomes themselves.

If their savings, pensions: and insurance are’ to be really de- pended upon, it becomes a mat- ter of very real self-interest to preserve their value. -

If wage and other demands are obviously inflationary, work- ers who are still working will be increasing the problems of

Arnprior

A prominent committee of Canadian businessmen who form an advisory board for the pro- motion’ of motor touring have advocated the soft-pedalling of super-highway publicity in fav- or of the secondary roads which would distribute tourist expendi- ture more equally across the nation.

The Chronicle is heartily in accord with their philosophy, but some. attention first should be given to the markings on secondry roads. Foreign travel- lers want to find their way back to the main roads without cir-

Canada This Way

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cuitous forays into road _ net- works which are sketchily mark- ed at best, and totally lacking in directions at worst:

| Obey;

Or Else

Hamilton Spectator

At least half a dozen: \awyers scrambled. out of the U.S. House | of Representatives’ committee meeting on un-American activi- ties recently because they) claimed they feared personal | violence.

Their action emphasized again the turbulent atmosphere of

Our-Yesterdays.

(From The Guardian Files) |

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (September 2, 1941)

An enthusiastic reteption greeted his Royal Hi@hness the Duke of Kent at Summerside and. Charlottetown.

The worlts great shipping lanes enter their third year as routes of death and destruction that have involved 29 nations and sent more than 7,000,000 tons of merchant and « naval, Vessels to the bottom ‘with a large toll of human life

a Communist plot to an invasion of . civil rights when: it goes before the | | people again. And Charlottetown— | .what are we going to do about it when | the issue is revived? How much | thought are we been giving to it. as responsible citizens? Or are we going | to allow ourselves to be stampeded in the wrong direction azain, because we just hadn't bothered te think?

| ferent nuclear weapon able to the arming of various |

' bushels

TEN YEARS AGO (September 2, 1956) The Russians announced they have detonated a new and dif- “applie-

kinds of troops."’

Canada’s 1956 wheat’ crop was

. estimated’ by the bureau of stat- istics at a better-than average

512,250,000 bushels. The Prairie

portion was placed at 490,000,000

American politics today. The eiiatty gives the appearance of

“house divided’’ with a frac- fn ‘that stoutly “defends tie White House’s Viet Nam _ polic- ies facing increasingly bitter op- | position from a faction: that ab- | hors the war and finds it indef- | ensible.

The lawyers were protesting the forcible removal of the chicf counsel for one of the witnesses in a probe of anti-Viet Nam war activities. They accused the | chairman.of ‘the meeting of .im- proper conduct.

What such stories da to the American. image abroad is not difficult to imagine. Pictures. of a bespectacled middleaged lawv- er being dragged bodily, by the throat, from a committee hear- ing room must remind many older folk of German storm | trooper tactics prior te World | War II.

The trouble is that such stor- jes and such pictures cannot help’ but convey the impression

| that those who oppose the Viet

Nam war are not only consider: ed second-class citizens by those’ who support it but are treated ws such. ‘

When. members of the Ameri-

the atmosphere of a congress-

‘| jonal meeting room, and when

one of their: number is manhan- dled, what is eventually going to happen to the little man on the street who has the guts to stand }up and be. counted against the |

| policy of the day?

can bar fear for their safety in |

for prosperity. this attitude prevails, then thé gambling attitude ts fostered The-—old,-

as no longer relevant.

Life becomes a scramble among shifting economic - val- ues, with everybody trying to snatch some advantage for him- eelf:

But what happens to those who cannot scramble?

The demands of the non-oper- ating unions for a 30 per cent

ting a precedent for labor in ge- neral, *— oi Even if the government te- duces the demand, but still al- lows an inflationary settlement, it will only be limiting the trou- ble. not really. dealing with it.

come the protector of those who cannot protect themselves. i | has to realize that any rise in the inflationary spiral is like another turn of the screw for those on fixed incomes.

They are inflation’s forgotten people. Unless the government

trampled in the rush. The government cannot be a party to any inflationary settle-

one between one class of labor.

cy to accept inflation, to suggest | |that it is something we must

careful virtues are a “aside,

increase would - be~ inflationary }- in-itself and inflationary by set-—

For the government has to be-.

stands up for them, they will be |

ment that will hit the ee

Stubborn Leg Ulcers

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen

Some of the most stubborn ul- cers of the leg stem from hard- ening of the arteries. When dia- betes co-exists, the jesions are erroneously blamed on this condition, The same can be said of ulcers. associated with high blood pressure. The basic cause is poor circulation due to artet- josclerosis. The co-existing dis- ease may complicate the open sores and must be treated simul- taneously to obtain best results. ' Most of these ulcers are locat- ed on the outer and back part of the tower leg. They. become fected because the resistance the tissues to bactesial invasion is reduced. The majority en- large unless treated promptly and may become 10 or more in- ches in diameter:

rest usually is recom-

mended initially, and a salve or Jelly containing enzymes is ap- plied to digest away the star- ved and infected tissue. Now and then warm, moist dressings are used until the base of the wound is clean: Antibiotics are

_| administered to combat infec-

tion. . Heat is useful, but it must be applied with care, because bloodless tissues do not tolerate temperatures above 94 degrees F. A special temperature- con- trolled heat cradle is available for continuous usage. Another plan is to apply the heat to -the abdomen; the warm blood enters the extremities and heats the parts indirectly. ys

Meanwhile, drugs that dilate the arteries are administered to improve the circulation. Healing is a slow\process and. the indivi- dual should be patient, because many month's may elapse be-

-| fore cure-is complete. Gold leaf

also_is said to be of value, There ‘are several surgical

_| Procedures that may hasten re-

covery. Occasionally cer- tain nerves located in the back part of the abdomen are sever- ed (sympathectomy). This4tech- nique leads to a dilation of the smaller vessels by divoreing the arteries from the nervous sys- tem. . .

Special X-ray studies may de- monstrate that the blockage of the vessel is confined to a small _ segment of the artery. Removal of the obstructive material or bypassing the blockage restores the, circulation and promotes

_| healing. Most of these ulcers-fol-

low injury, Protect the extrem- ities whenever the blood supply is-reduced. oe VISION IN PREMATURES.. Mrs. F. writes: Do most pre-: mature infants suffer from poor eyesight? ee - . REPLY - No. The eye condition known

; as retrolental fibroplasia afflict-

|ed eight per cént of. prematures many years ago: It proved to be~ due to the excessive use of oxy-: gen. Since then the incidence of this -eye condition has dropped Lalmost_to zero.

—FOOT SENSATIONS= ——

W. W. writes: My husband has numbness in the left foot and his toes are very cold. Sometimes they feel like pins and needles. Could this be “thrombosis of the | leg?.He is66- years-old.

REPLY

Yes. Other possible causes are ‘anemia ora -neurological disor- der.

UNWANTED HAIRS - A reader writes: I- am seven months pregnant and~ was won- dering ‘if electrolysis _to remove 10 unwanted hairs on the Tace would be safe at this time? REPLY . Ten. yes, X-RAY AND ALCOHOL I. H. W. writes: Would a chest X-ray reveal an addiction to al- cohol?

“REPLY

No, even though many alcoh- olics develop tuberculosis. TODAY’S HEALTH HINT— The psyche can influence the skin.

(NOTE: All correspondence to Dr. Van Dellen ‘should : be addressed to:: Dr. Theodore Van Dellen, co Chicage Trib-

houses Gan strike matches and throw stones if they like. There are actually paper houses with people living comfortably in them.

Some vacation cottages in mild climates are made almost com- pletely of paper. In Los Angeles many -houses have paper-c ore walls; a new: church in Florida has a paper -core roof as well as walls. Paper walls are made of kraft paper stiffened with er- sin. and hdéneycombed into six-

is covered with paperboard tren-

water, and termites.

The light strong honeycomb orginally was -deyeloped - f-or aircraft, and the core was cov-

sided cells. This honecomb core-

hardest. 2 | une, Chicago, Mlinois.) _ Living In Bare: Houses - Fort William Times-Journal Sy People who live in paper ered with an aluminum. skin.

Gantries on rocket-launch- ing pads at Cape Kennedy are also cushioned with honeycomb paper.

Paper walls are just one of the many revolutionary new uses for paper, the National Géogra- phic Society says. There are more than 12,000 kinds ee er, and 100,000 uses for: them.

A_ special paper for insulating electric a l’condensers is ten times finer than human hair. Condenser paper is so thin that 5,000 sheets stack ‘up to less than an inch; a carload is worth

| $1,000,000. ted to make it resistant to fire, |

New wallpapers repel insects; noiseless popcorn bags are a boon to moviegoers; water re- pellant. kraft. paper makes. neat:

garbage cans.

| To. some the harp is a luxury,

an instrument to be twanged by 'a graceful lady in a drawing |room, or to be used on occasion iby ¥ symphony orchestra.

Not so to the Welsh. From ear- liest times the harp has been: a ‘domestic’ instrument, handed down ‘from father to son. Fam- ily ownership of a harp was re- |garded asso important that | Welsh law exempted ‘the instru. | |ment from seizure for debt.

Bul harps wear out. with concern that a shortage of harps now exists in the land that has always venerated them. At present there is no Welsh indus- try making new ones or repair- |ing old, and imported harps. are | too costly for the market (around $3,000). |

We nole |

A Noble Instrument

Christian Science, Monitor

The Welsh Harp Society, form- ed to help save the harp, has been at its wits' end trying to find ways to bring down the cost of these traditional instruments We are cheered to learn that it now sights a possible sarwee to the need.

oa he come to Wales and es-. tablish a Workshop-for the mak-

‘ing and wan of harps.

bears not only that up- ‘o-t he-

“| fatal, re danuary land

— Mheve’ been ‘been found- have. had- the

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_ Uncertainty ‘Alaa China

The United States, like the rest of the world, can only guess at most of the internal foment now unleashed inside China. — -

“We have no clear picture of what is happening,” State Scc- retary, Dean Rusk told a_ con- gressional committee. Tuesday:

But, as Peking continues bel- ligerent statements, _ President Johnson says the U.S. for its part must also continue to take the Chinese at their shrill words.

In his speech Tuesday to the American Legion, the president drew on the London Economist to insist that the “only safe as- sumption for the Americans cr anybody else to make is that the Chinese believe every word they say.” :

That grows increasingly diffi- cult, however, since the China view of Lai reality displays a steadily “widening split be- tween the view held by other nations, Communist — or _.other- wise.

But a real dilemma exists for the U.S., informed sources say.

American officials have been forced by internal Chinese events to ask whether in fact the U.S. has over-reacted in Viet Nam after all and China is actually even weaker then seemed possible. Or, on the other hand, is it equally possible that Chinese caution displayed to date may be cast aside.

. By Areh MacKenzie Canadian Press Staff, Washington

“In Asia, Africa’ and Latip

America a revolutionary storm is raging and U.S. imperialism is being trounced and beaten everywhere,” says the latest editorial comment in The Peo- ple's Daily of China. ©

In fact, China's prestige inside

or outside the Communist fam- fly may beat an all-time low and there has been a swing away from conditions likely te nourish China-style wars of lib- eration—from Indonesia to Latin for penetrating Latin America, is the latest Communist: coun. try to lambaste China for em-

with its ever-harsher | harass ment of the Soviet Union,

FEAR PLOT :

The People’s Dally agaw linked Russia with the U.S., Ja pan, and India in a diabolica)\ plot to encircle her.

Secretary Rusk said he hoped the power shift inside China would include qualified military men capable of recognizing the disaster of any major war.

But the defence minister, Lin Piao, seems to have nailed down the No. 2 spot under Mao Tse- tung dnd Piao is the leading -ex- ponent of guerrilla warfare ‘as the best means of watering down and devouring capitalist giants such as the US.

‘So the guessing game goes on

Viscount Montgomery, the sal- ty old, field marshal, hasn't been heard! from of late, but no doubt the recent reorganization of the British Army will bring hipr- charging into print, with his two badge beret firmly on his' head and his pen at the high port.

Among the” latest moves ‘in Britain is the change which does away with the use of the term “other ranks’ to describe pri- vates. Henceforth, the other. ranks will be known as soldiers, something they had been all along. Those who gain stripes, by the means often discussed by privates, are still non-commis- sioned officers and everyone else, from one-pippers. up, are commissioned officers.

Batmen, the privates who have the cunning to get out of the daily drills to attend to the needs of officers, will be knovm as orderlies. And no one goes on sick parade in the mornings any more. The angles to get out of work will still be as cute. as.

Soldiers Of The Queen

Regina Leader-Post

lead-swingers as well as the truly ill now go-on the sick list. No doubt the army treatmen

the lead-swingers’ favorite, to a broken leg will remain the same: two headache tablets and light duties. In the old days the |at- ter consisted of moving the~ pi- ano from the recreation hall to the officers’ mess, because they had arranged to have-some.show

of a bash. There'll be no change there.

One other designation has been changed. The term “mar- ried families’’ now becomes "'fa- milies”. Whether that about to save the wear and tear of’ orderly room typewriters or because free love is rampant in Britain could make a pretty good subject when the soldiers meet at the local pubs for a pint of two of mild -and bitter and a “game of darts.

Cor, stone- the crows! Wot wilt:

ever, but the malingerers and

not like it at all, he won't.

The Fourth.

Riding the wings of the war that invades the lives of-the pas-. toral. people of South Vietnam_ are, as always, the Four Horse- men of the Apocalypse. The. quiet peasants have met Con- quest ‘in_so_many forms that. Lthey--must--wonder, sometimes,— who is master now. ;

And Slaugiiter charges the vil- lages, searchinb one day for the Viet Cong but finding easier game, marching the next day with Viet Cong raiding parties. And Famine moves from the rice paddies destroyed by che- micals spraying from the air. And_the _pale horse of Death

minute horseman, napalm,-but more: ancient riders.

This year the. Black Death of the Middie Ages spread into five more South Vietnam prov- inces, for a total of 22 out of 29. The: Ministry of Health reported 2,002 plaque cases, 116 of them

August 5 asteur Institute put the figure higher, at 2,649 for the first half-year. Both report- ed 4,500 cases in 1965, with, 250 dead, the worst year for the ‘pla-

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hard to eradicate,” said Rev. Do Van Quy, chief of the—insti- tute’s plague laboratory ‘The main reason for. the spread seems to be the movement: of troops and refugees.” But ship- -ments of rice and other aid com: -modities-may_also_spread_the-in-— fection.._.‘This problem will not be solved until the war is end- ed.’ said Father Quy.

But Dr. Joe Stockard, chief>et the United States aid mission's preventive medicine section, 9 even less. hopeful. ‘“‘Now that the disease has become 90 wide- spread, a high incidence may expected. te continue for. an.in- definite period,” -he™ said.

All-of the Americans. serving in Vietnam have been immuniz- ed against the plague, and only one has contracted it—“a med- ical technician who has since re- covered. About a quarter of South Vietnam's 16 million peo ple have been immunized. The rest, if they miss the red death of napalm or the flashing death of Viet Cong raids, may méet their Black cousin.

They must wonder what other dark visitations they can expect

gue in Vietnam history. “Plague is just like ink, it ad

in the name. of preserving & freedom they never had

Independent

Canada's Fathers of Confed- eration have been forgotten. Lhees! ees are neglected and Some of those that

name obliterated by the ravages of time and the inclement wea- ther of the country they sired. One year before our first cen- tury, they are Canada’s forgot- ten men, -

Children in Canadian schools don’t even know the names of these men w ho,/ in many cases, died within thé memory ‘of men and women who are living to- day.

‘One;- Sir William -Pearce How- aid: ‘lies in a family tomb that bears no name on its. entrance and carries only the family name, almost buried in the grass of the tomb’s roof.

No national shrines these. Not only are the graves not recog- nized or commemorated by any plaque or railing, marking them as a-national historic site, but it is not known where some of them are buried at all.

Not one of the four seen by an Independent Businessman re- porter in Toronto had so much as a flower on-it and the grass

and weeds blow in the wind around two. e

As their turn of the cen- tury, Ca 8 Boy Scouts have

undertaken to locate the graves and to “rehabilitate” them. But in this there’s a problem.

First they must obtain permis- sion of the descendants, and in many cases they are as elusive as are the graves of some of those original patrons of Cana- da. Secondly, they must gain the consent of\ cemetery autho- tog before they: can begin their wor

According to cemetery offic- fals in three Toronto cemeter- jes, arrangements were made almost 100 years ago for the perpetual care of the graves.

A Shameful Story _

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sion, which has heen moneying away the time while trying te urge Canadians into becoming excited about their coming na» jtional birthday party, —has—ne \money to ave the Seouts ad their project. ‘

Although in some eases tt ‘ perhaps too late for Canadians to. even find the graves — for time has erased from’ memory ‘and from the record their wher- eabouts — Canadians will soon obey the first part of the Fifth Commandment, Honor thy fath- er, next year, at least.

LIFT CENSORSHIP

ACCRA (Reuters). — Ghana’s governing National Liberation Council today announced the. lifting of censors ip on outgoing press cables impose four years ago under deposed president Kwame Nkrumah. J. W. X. Harley, vice-chairman of ‘\¢ eg — inspector-genera’ of id correspondents. 2r¢ o "specata in the country Lwithout hindrance or obstacle. ——

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