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PAGE 4 \iTEBTv'r-zfifi?:l\inv L 1963

New Soviet-Cuban Tie

Whatever the reasons behind it, the red carpet treatment which Premier Castro is getting in Moscow spells cold comfort to the Western powers. His month-long visit can only be viewed as evidence that the Cuban leader and Soviet Premier Khrushchev have resolved their basic political problems raised in the wake of the missile crisis last year. It underlines, too, the degree of stability Castro has achieved in recent months.

In the view of many analysts even at Washington, last October’s crisis turned out to be a consider- able success from Castro's point of view since it provided him. for all practical purposes, with the long- sought guarantee that the United States would not invade Cuba. While the Kennedy administration has refrained from issuing a formal “no invasion” pledge since the with- drawal of the missiles, it has adopt- ed the policy that military inter- vention in Cuba is out of the quest- ion.

This, it appears, was primarily what Castro had desired. His posit- ion has been further strengthened by the Soviet decision to maintain troops in Cuba indefinitely, and go on building Cuban defenses. Despite recent withdrawals, th ere are at least 13,000 Soviet troops on the island. Castro’s parallel insistence that the United States cease harass- ing him through Its tolerance of raids by Miami-based exiles was also met when President Kennedy banned these attacks last March.

After the Russians withdrew their missiles and bombers last year, and Red China denounced the removal of these weapons as a “sellout”, the Cuban dictator gave public indications of developing sympathies for the Chinese. In two speeches last January he deplored the “difficulties within the Socialist family," and. in effect, offered to meditate in the Sovietfihinese quar- rel. .\t that time. references to Soviet-Cuban friendship almost ran- ished from official speeches and press articles.

Now—on the surface at least— all is sweetness and light. A new economic agreement has been sign- ed providing for several hundred million dollars of additional Soviet export credits to Cuba, and Castro, by special invitation, is touring the Soviet Union as Khrushchev‘s hon- ored guest. Washington is no doubt right in regarding this turn of events as having ominous signifi- cance. Unfortunately there is noth- ing it can do about it but wait and see.

US. Wheat Referendum

A bill which passed the US. House of Representatives by a nar- row margin Iast week could have important results on agricultural policy in the neighboring republic. Known as the Feed Grain Bill. it is designed to assure the approval by farmers of the government's pro- gram to manage crop surpluses. It is tied directly to the national wheat referendum that will be held on May 21. This referendum covers what has been described as the tightest production control plan in history—one that has been talked about for twenty-five years but never before put to farmers.

If twmthirds of eligible wheat famers approve the new control program, every bushel of wheat they grow will be subject. to forlch fiat -—-a condition that its opponents denounce as depriving the farmer

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of the freedom he should have. and. _

if accepted, as involving in time similar controls for every other farm commodity.

Under this wheat plan produc- ers will have to accept a reduction in wheat plantings, a move aimed at reducing the burdensome sur- plus of this vital crop. To offset the reduction the wheat farmer must take. the government is holding out the feed grain bill as a lifeline. It

, will enable farmers to grow on the

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acres they have already taken out

1 of wheat production, or must take V out in the future, the feed grains

of corn, grain, sorghums and bar- ley. This would be their new bonus for voting “right” in May. Oppon- ents are predicting, in this event, that it will not be long before farm- ing in the United States will vir- tually be conducted by the federal

government.

The odd thing Is that farm or- ganizations, as well as other groups including bankers, businessmen and economists, seem to be pretty equal- ly divided over this issue. The same groups are represented on b 0t h

‘ sides.

‘ Times commentator,

In the opinion of a New York there is no

‘ question that the outcome of the

referendum is a matter of the high- est economic and political import- ance. The result may not only af- fect American agriculture, but possible World agricultural prices, the eventual membership and pro- grams of the European Common market, and the international re- lations of the United States with other wheat-growing countries such as Canada and Australia.

Quebec Report

An educational movement of far-reaching importance has been sparked in Quebec by a royal com- mission headed by Msgr. A. M. Parent, vice-rector 0f Laval Uni- versity. This commission, after ex- tensive inquiry, has come up with a report calling for a complete re- organization of the school system of the province—~if indeed it could be called a system, a fact abou t which the commission appears to have grave doubts.

“Our institutions," the report says bluntly, “have been divided in almost every conceivable way— Roman Catholic from Protestant, French from English, academic from technical, secondary and primary from university.” To achieve better co-ordination, it calls for a minis- ter of education with full control over all phases of education in Que- bec. The pres ent department of education and the ministry of youth would be fused to form the new de- partment.

In theory, co-ordination has been through a Council of Education con- sisting of a 44-member Catholic com- mittee and a 22-member Protestant committee which was supposed to meet jointly, but rarely did. In fact, the report indicates that the coun- cil has only met three times during the twentieth century. In its place, a streamlined 16-member Superior Council of Education is suggested which would be required to meet once a month.

To meet fear which might exist in some quarters because of the fus- ing of Protestant and Roman Catho- lic branches, Dr. David Munroe, director of the institute of educa- tion at. McGill, has emphasized the

; necessity for g r e a t e r unification

and the fact that the rights of the two main religious groups undel‘ the British North America Act have been preserved.

It is possible, comments an ex- change, that the successful imple- mentation of this report may do more to resolve the grievances which have given rise to Quebec separatism than any number of political concessions. A Quebec dedicated to seeing that its young peope get an education which will fit them for the challenge of the

‘ twentieth century will probably not 2 be unduly worried about separatism.

EDITORIAL NOTE

It. has been announced that in May and June, for the first time since 1961 units of the British Army will train with their counter- parts of the Canadian Army at the big military establishment in Camp Gagetown, NB. The British trainees will comprise officers and men of the 24th Field Squadron, Royal En- gineers, and the lat. Battalion. Queen's Own Buffs, Royal Kent Regiment

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WHAT A LINE-UP!

OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson , A Lively Canadian Success Story

What has the West got. that we in the cffcte East lac . Why do we Easterners always envy but fail to copy the zest for life, the gaicty and the exu- berant individualism oft e friendly people of the Prairies and of British Columbia?

“Perhaps you are born into this world to be positive or ncg- alive: to e pugnacious about‘

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life. or else to accept it as it comes. If I had been a negative character I would now be mind- ing a machine shop in a western l Canadian mining district. I had I to be pugnacious to get as far i as the University of Alberta."

And from that first step. Lovat Dickson progressed. His autobio- , graphy, “The House of Words," i recently published by the Mac- millan Company of Canada. dc- scribcs that progress. Thirty- three years ago, Mr. Dickson I left “the part of Canada I call home, the uplands of Alberta, rising imperceptibly from the prairies to meet the foothills of the Rockies.” He travelled six thousand miles eastward, w i t h little money, and with only a promise of a job in London his eccentric Canadian benefactor was not able to im~ plcmcnt.

THE CHARM or WORDS f Lovat Dickson‘s life has been built. of words and around words. l He started as an editor; he be came a book publisher and be- came a director of the great pub. lishing house of Macmillans, the f a m i1 y business of Britain's Prime Minister, Harold Mac-

millan.

His account of h I 5 career makes a fascinating story, of. triumph capping struggle, of in- i tcrcst even in early adversity, l and always lit by the warm hu-

man interest of the stories be- - ed

hind the stories in the b ooks ‘ which he published. l

There was, for instance. Cap- tain von Rintclen, “late of the German Imperial Navy," famous German spy who wove his not so successfully in the United States. In the early years of the first World War, i his task was to intorfcre with the flow of munitions which the , Americans were selling to th e l European Allies. I

“Did you have any success?" i asked Lovat Dickson.

"Oh. immense." chuckled the

9 3‘ to

spy.

And when Lovat. Dickson pub. lished the spy‘s writings, th ey met with an Immense sriCcess too. The book - publisher‘s bu- siness "jumped to undrcamt-of. proportion." Pcrhcps Fate ar- ‘ ranged a suitable curtain when at 7 am. on a winter's morning in 1946. a jabbing gardener. clutching a workmun's ticket in his hand, was found dead on the platform of South Kensing- ton Underground Railway sta- tions, in London — one of those deep stations where Londoners had slept on the platform dur- ing the Blitz. seeking protection against the German bombers In those extemporized shell e rs. The name of that workman was ex - Captain Fritz von Rintelen von Kleist. THE LAST ENEMY

That district of London was the setting for the romance be- tween the young Royal Air Force hero. Richard Hillary, and Llfe, personified by Denise, daughter of the famous football star Max Woosuam. Hillary's best - sell-1‘ lng book. “The Last nemy,”, was also published by Dickson. I

But to Canadians, the greatest i Interest must centre on the story , of the romantic Grey Owl. Lovat ' Dickson published his book 3. y' acted as his manager and friend i which he made lecture tours in . England, and also wrote his life *

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The account of the burkskin-l ned Indian from northern Sas- katchewan fills many pages,’ moving from Ajawaan, north of Prince Albert. to Bucking- ham Palace in London. Children “Ill always enjoy Ins tales of‘ tho (‘anadian wild, of his life with the beaver: - chidrm dl

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r all ages. And those stories were ! ‘ published by Dickson for the au- l story of a positive character, thor who was “the bugbear of , pugnacious about life.

“The House of Words" Is the

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Grey Owl lose nothing from the

humdrum suburban origin.

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friends.

Swedes Pick A Bird'

Chatham Daily News

Among the nations of the world, Sweden is tops in its per capita showing of amateur and professional ornithologists.

To use a cant expresslon.; picked the

Sweden has been and is for the irds.

whclmingly prefer as a nation- al symbol.

In a democratic poll, the‘y elected a democratic bird. They common black- bird not for its beauty of plum- age and melodic song but for

Buy‘ strangely enough. ml re_| the love of homeland it displays

ccntly it had overlooked the

by remaining in Sweden all winter when most birds mi-

Important item of choosing a grate to warmer dimes _

national bird all its own.

, The Swedish press, discover-I good ing this crucl fact, got busy and

agitated. To the agitation the Swedish public at home and abroad re-

sponded with a discerning en-l

thusiasm

And what bird did they over-

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Always willing to help any cause, we in Canada will gladly donate our numerous de- mocratic blackbirds to the Swe- dish people.

And, for good measure. we'll be happy to add those cousins of the blackbirds. the too num- erous starlings.

No Ghostly Derelic’rs

National Geographlc Society

On his way to America in 1492 Columbus sailed through the Sargasso Sea He enjoyed the trip, his chroniclers report, though the Sargasso later ac- ‘ reputation.

As recently captain around the Sargasso, fearing thick seaweed

2 might slow his ship. He reach- port, a day late because of ’

the detour.

Popular belief has pictured the Sargasso as the graveyard of a thousand ships, eternally entangled in a wilderness of seaweed.

Explorers and scientists have

Sargasso. The Sargassum weed that gave the sea Its n floats loosely in patches, small, or not at all. WARM AND SALTY

The Sargasso is a gently ro- tating oval section of the west;- em Atlantic. Its warm waters, saltiest in the Atlantic. are bounded by the Gulf Stream, the North Atlantic Current, and

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a m e often

» the North Equatorial Current.

Although the myths about the Sargasso have been exploded. it remains a fascinating area. of interest to gourmet:an both sides of the Atlantic, as well as to apologists and oceanolo- gists.

Curiously, the center of Illa: Sargasso is nearly two f ee: higher than the edges: 5 cross. section view would resemblo that of a biconvex lens. Deco

(ripen!

deeper ocean layers, the Sar- gasso k; lacking In nitrates and food minerals. thus In plank- tonic life. The warm are ex- tremely clear.

The warm sea In northern Europe's central heating plant. The Samgasso's western and

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amount of heat 51

re. They never GLASSY YOUNG

The pr y, larval eels as transparent as glam. head back to the fresh water stream and

The Filmer!

into young eels,

the three years It takes reach from American

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as 1962. a sea-

disprrwcd this notion. There are , Shrimpv

no ghastly dwell-cos on the.

being closer, do it In one year. The pane-ht eels. meanwhile. sink to the depths of the Sar- gasso and die.

overcome unbelievable obstacles on their journey: to and from the Sargasso. They navigate thousands of miles of ‘ waterfalls,

to help out. lln Holland, whone the IJssel Mec-r has been closed off, its sluice gates are opened periodically to allow the eels to migrate.

A variety of other fish, crabs, _ ea, snails. and slugs also Inhabi the shelled ing Sargasso. Among these is the Sargassum fish, so strange in aspect that one expedition christened it “My Word!" be- cause that's what one of Its members exclaimed when he first saw one.

Technically named Histrlo histrio, or Ptemphryne, the Sam gassum fish looks exactly like the surrounding seaweed and can stalk its prey unseen. One gulp of Its big mouth, and the little, five-inch fish can tube In another flsh of equal size.

Saingassum flab will eat cl?

most anyt ‘ another. roman something of I myoceu'y. Marine biologists presume the little cannibal: call a (mm It the appropriate time.

lung, including one baht

Charter a coach

when ls Rabies Treatment Vital?

Theodore n. v.- Belle-

800,000

nually byw treatment rcqul . y more who are bitten do not con- sult a physician because the la- ceration Ibuot earlou the animal is a pet or was provok- ed Into biting. But, despite Ita- tietlcs, the question of rabies always comes to mind. When gyms type of treatment need-

Dr. James H. Steele, chief of the veterinary public health services, writing in Consultant. suggests the following points:

Call your local health author- ity and ask whether rabies ex- Ists in the community. If not. the chance that the animal ls rabid Is not great.

Don't let the animal escape since examinations by a veter- Inarlan can be most helpful. This Is most important because rabies Is a fatal animal disease and can be detected within a few hours after death of the rabid animal.

The vaccine is in order when the animal cannot be found and rabies Is present In the region. This Is especially true when a person Is bitten by a wild ani- ch‘as a squirrel, skunk,

fox. rat or bat — more so

when attacked on the face. Finding the animal also Is

Important because It might be

a pet that was immunized re- cently against rabies. If so. the chance of developing the dis- ease Is almost nll. The victim also may have been immunized and according to Dr. Steele "No one has ever died of re- bies who had received a pre- vious course of anti-rabies vac- cine." We pass this along to ve- terinarians, dog andlers, dog catchers. ,ame war- dems. naturalists. and oth- ers who frequently come into contact with animals. The same applies to inveterate campers and hunters.

The anti-rablc vaccine differs from the Sample. which is used to prevent rabies after the in- dividual Is bitten by a rabid dog. The atter is prone to cause reactions and Is not used unless absolutely necessary. One or two doses of the other In advance of expoure Is more effective than any treatment subsequent to c o n t a c t with the rabies virus.

There Is no effective treat- ment once symptoms appear.

help alm extreme excitability and fluids by vein combat dehydration. I hope you never have to witness this ter- rifying disease. HYPERTENSION

J.B. writes: What Is the cause of high blood pressure? T ere are various causes in- cluding certain heart defects, hyperthyroidism, and obstruc- tion to the flow of blood to one kidney. But In the majorlty of victims the larger arteries are in a state of contraction »or spasm due to nervous or hor- monal stimulation. Send a stamped. self-addressed enve- lope for leaflet on hypertension.

AIDS

H.D wiles: Can anything

be done about deafness? REPLY

Surgery. hearing alds. and learning lip reading are the usual solutions to this problem, depending upon the cause. But Investigate excess wax In the ears b efore doing anything drastic.

N0 CURE YET

A.S. writes: Is it true that newspapers. radio. and TV soon will announce a definite cure for arthritis?

of to my knowledge. If a cure ls found. I hope you will read about It first in this col- m

n. MUSTN’T OVEREAT ~ P.F.H. writes: Must a person remain on a diet for life after a .heart attack?

REPLY No. He should avoid glutton- ous eating and get down to nor- mal weight If he is obese. TODAY’S HEALTH HINT—- Select a firm mattress.

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