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PAGE 4 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 196l.

Very Contusmg

We gather from statements by Premier Shaw this week that his government is still in the dark about the report of the consulting engin- eers on the proposed Northumber- land Strait causeway and the reac- tions of Ottawa thereto. Is it possible that no trickle of information is coming through from the federal to the provincial level on the subject, despite its importance to the people of this Province? That would seem to be the gist of the Premier’s com- plaint.

Yet we note, from a statement attributed the other day to Solicitor General MacNaught, that he has been holding talks with Provincial Highways Minister Matheson with respect to the report of Northum- b‘erland Consultants Limited; that he had consultations with Mr. Mathe- eon both in Ottawa and Charlotte- town, and that at present negotia- tions are being carried on with Mr. Matheson and other members of the provincial government with respect to “certain aspects” of the causeway project.

. There would seem to be a direct contradiction here. Yet Premier Shaw himself was quoted yesterday as saying that his government is f‘investigating with Ottawa plans involving railways. roads and the causeway.” We take it from this that some contact is being main- tained, some information coming through, despite the “lack of liai- son” about which there have been many provincial complaints. ' We were prompted to call atten- tion to this matter a few days ago, hi connection with a statement in the proposal submitted by the Island Development Company Limited to Transport Minister Pickersgill. This dealt with the question of “phas- ing out the railway operations in the Province" in conjunction with the provision of a system of all- weather roads and the causeway. Reference was made to the com- pany’s agents having undertaken, at the federal minister’s request, “a general preliminary meeting of the minds between the two levels of government,” and to the assump- tion by the company that such a. meeting occurred last June in Mr. Pickersgill’s office ; There is a lot of unnecessary confusion here, which the public is beginning to resent. At the pro- dincial level, at least, We should be gble to get a clarifying statement first would cut through some of the g.

l Give Them A Holiday! i With the sidetracking of the ‘ag issue to a parliamentary com- ittee it was hoped the country Would get relief from this weari- itme controversy. But a. pair of filevision appearances by Prime nister Pearson and Opposition ' der Diefenbaker hasstarted it ing again. Mr. Pearson was to :y u e when he told a national audi- ‘ co last Sunday “we are going to n vo-e new flag by Christmas.” His tement was categorical, qualifi- ' .i by no ifs, ends, or buts. “It's _ to be a distinctive national " r ,_ ," he said, "and it will be based 1 this historic proud emblem of

- the maple leaf.”

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. to complain that the Prime had virtually torpedoed the '4. e agroomontoua flag ' titties. I-l'a went on to say that

-» such as the maple leaf place in any flag and further- ldbu‘ol members wm

elsewhere outside British Com- >

going into the flag committee with the attitude expressed by Mr. Pear- son, he was more than ever con- vinced that a plebiscite was the only solution to the question.

So, the fat is in the fire again, and both leaders have shown that they are as far from agreement as they were a month ago. In the circumstances, we like the suggest- ion advanced in the Ottawa Journ- al that both of them be given a holiday. “They need it,” says our on-the-spot contemporary, “because the state of their nerves and pa.- tience and judgment is becoming so drawn that the course of govern- ment and certainly the course of Commons debate is impaired.”

That, one might say, is putting it mildly.

Speeding The Plow

Congratulations to Donald Dun- keld of Claremont, Ontario, and to Dr. Carl Willis of Charlottetown on scoring first and second places in the Canadian plowing champion- ship at Brudenell Park on Wednes- day. Mr. Dunkeld, who twice won the Ontario championship, said it was “the toughest plowing competi- tion” he had ever met. Which speaks volumes for the young Island man’s achievement as runner up. Both men will represent Canada in the 1965 world contest at Oslo, Norway. Meanwhile Carl’s father, Stanley Willis, has left for Vienna, Aus- tria, to compete as last year’s Can- adian champion in this year's world contest.

This father—son combination of top-ranking competitors for world plowmanship honors is making news in farm publications everywhere. It is a fine way of putting Prince Edward Island on the map; and the same can be said, of course, for the achievement of all concerned in bringing the Canadian champion- ship match to the Maritimes for the first time in history.

There have been warm expres- sions of appreciation of the manner in which the big match was organ- ized here. It involved a lot of plan- ning on the part of the Island Plow- ing Council and those who worked with it, and it is gratifying to note the unqualified success which has crowned their efforts.

Standing By Malaysia

British “colonialism” used to be the target for a lot of unjust Ameri- can criticism, but we find no trace of this attitude in responsible American newspapers in comment- ing on the British movement of troops, naval vessels and planes as a precaution against further trouble in Malaysia. President Sukarno of Indonesia has carried his war against Malaysia to the Malay peninsula, and Malaysia has carried its charge of agression against Indonesia to the United Nations security council.

The Indonesian leader has threat- ened to break up the new nation which gives the West a buffer be- tween his country and Communist China. He pays no attention to in- ternational law or to the fact that Malaysia was formed only after its various peoples had approved joining the far flung, independent nation. United Nations missions verified their desire for joining to form the new nation.

Britain and its allies have no intention of letting Malaysia fall, even if Sukarno gets the Soviet Union to veto an effort by Mal- aysia to condemn his country or do anything to stop his agression. This fact is appreciated at Washington, and its reasons understood. ~

EDITORIAL NOTES

Parliament can act quickly when it wants to. Commendable was its expedition in putting through the provisions for amending the Farm Improvement Act this week, doub- ling the maximum amount to $15,- 000 that farmers may borrow for capital investments.

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It is disturbing to note, on the authority of Dun and Bradstreet, that the rate of business failures in Canada is at its highest level since the Second World War. The figure for the second quarter of 1964 rose to 653, compared with 576 in the second quarter of 1963. The current liabilities of the failures in this year’s second quarter reached ahnoat $43 million: the previous record waa more than $38 million in the first quarter of this year. Most of the failures involved small businessmen.

ISN’T THIS WHERE WE CAME IN?

WORTHWHILE ACTION

When Family’s

Now and then. from the seem- ineg never-ending round of ro- yal commissions and govern- ment - sponsored conferences, there comes worthwhile action. One of these rare examples is the Vanier Institute on the fam- ily, whose organizational foun- dations will be laid in the next few days.

.The idea sprang out of the Governor General‘s Canadian Conference on the Family last June. It is one of the fondest wishes of General Vanier that his term as Governor General should be marked by a tangible and enduring organization de-

voted to the upholding of human : The institute will fulfil'

values. this wish. BASIC PURPOSE

The institute's basic purpose will be to maintain and develop by positive and continuous ac- tion, the interest in family life mobilized through the confer- ence.

Ever since the First World War. the family, as a unit in so- ciety. has been declining. This is the supreme tragedy civilization, for whatever natur- al genius mankind possesses, all of it must be subordinate to his ability to provide stable con- dition in which the rising gener- ations may be raised. To fall in this is to fail in almost every- thing else. ‘In spite of attempts by some philosophers and socio- logists —— particularly in Com- munist countries — to provide substitutes, the family remains

only unit on which a stable society can be built.

Today, it has many enemies. Some are economic, some dis- tractions in the outside world beyond the wall of the home. These take a multitude of forms. but in the end their result is the same — the break up of family cohesion. ,

Malawi In Trouble

Winnipeg Free Press

When the former British protectoraer of Nyasaland be- came the independent state of Malawi last July many obser- vers predicted bitter days for

the Commonwealth's newest member. , On Independence Day the

new nation's problems looked particularly depress-ing. For one thing, a shortage of trained natives and the departure of many European administra- tors seemed to indicate that the prime m'nlster. Dr. Hailing: Kamuzu Bands, would find the task of governing the small nat- ion difficult. Malawi’a serious shortcomings in the ones of industry and agriculture also indicated trouble. Doubts were also expressed about the stability of the Bands regime. Recent reports from Malawi indicate that such bars were well . The formation of a new African state Ia often swiftly followed by a government an- nouncement that members of the opposition are to be jailed or have been driven from the country. It is usually pointed out that the two party system, fine as it Is in places like Great Britain. Canada and the United States, simply will not work in the new ca. BANDA’I PROBLEMS Dr. Banda'e problems, how- ever, aeem to involve more than simple distrust of oppon- ents. The threat exists, upper only, within his own cabinet. Within the past week six ministers have left the Bands cabinet. Dr. Bands, who is given to dramatic gestur- es, told parliament that the dc- parttng ministers would have rmrdared him "cold blood." The mignatlons and dismissals thus leave Malawi witha -man cabinet— the finance mister, the trans- port and communications min- ister Ill Dr. Bends himself.

ton Spectator

Anxiety for the future of the family has never been more in- tense than it is today. The gulf between the generations often eems so wide as to be impos- sible to bridge, even with the most sincere efforts. Without the cohesion of family life, there cannot be a society.only anar-t chy.

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Strong All Is Well

While the Vanier Institute cannot provide the correctives to the decline in family life, it can point the finger at its chief enemies, suggest ways of pre- serving all that is best in it and emphasize, for those who are in danger of forgetting. that must always be the best source [ of mankind's contentment.

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Asia’s Changing Alignments

New York Times

Two events these past few days have emphasized more vi- vidly than ever the profound im- portance of the Sine-Soviet struggle and its spreading con- sequences upon world political alignments

In Moscow. Indian President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan has received a notably warm wel- come upon his arrival for a state visit. Even more import- ant, a few hours before he land- ed on Russian soil, India and the Soviet Union had signed an agreement under which Moscow will supply significant military aid to New Delhi.

9 prime purpose of this military help is to strengthen India’s military capabilities in the event of a new Chinese in- vasion. Put in other words, So. viet military aid to India today has much the same immediate motivation in terms of India's needs as the similar help bemg given by the United States.

The now obsolete cold war stereotypes no longer explain this kind of co-operatl'on be- tween the capitalist United Stat es. neutralist India and com- munist Russia against the im- perial designs of Communist

ina. Equally strange to those who

In most Western countries such wholesale reduction of cabinet support for a prime minister would often have been followed almost at once by the resignation of the prime minister himself and the calling of an election. seems to no indication that Dr. Bands intends to do this.

Dr. Bands, according to the

imes correspondent in Blan- tyre, charged that the dismis- sed cabinet ministers had fal- len under the spell of the Chin- ese ambassador in Dar es Sal- aam. The ambassador, Dr. Bands claims, won the cabinet ministers to use their Influence to gel Malawi to re- cognize the Peking regime. Sub- stantial monetary aid was pro

mised MINISTERS' WARNING The Times correspond e u t

. son toaay that Dr. Bands claims f ministers attacked him "viciously, violently and diareapectfully" at a cabinet

him, he said, that he must "stop running the coun- try as if it were his own private estate." -

- r. Banda’a governsnent sur- vived a confidence vote in the parliament Wednesday night. This, however, was expected, because all the We are Baeda nominees.

The most recent cabinet member to resign. Education Minute:- Heuryaitpembere, is considered man in the cabinet revolt: lie is said to have wide support in the Hai- awi villagestowbich Dr. Bands looks in anywhe- toeal battle. dafec ac- cording to the Times, turn what might have been a minor cabinet revolt Into a ruler threat to Dr. Bands and fl:

who, for various reasons, coe- Lhue to him.

think in terms of yesterday‘s slogans is the bitter attacl: North Korea has just unloosed against the Soviet Union. The official organ of the North Ko- rean Communists now charges that the Soviet Union exploited their country mercifully in the past by selling its goods at e).- tremer high prices while buy- ing at unfairly low prices.

The North Korean newspaper also accuses Moscow of co-op~ crating with the “imperialists’ in hampering Asian and African economic development. Yet in the early 1950‘s much of the lo- gistical support required by the North K o r e a n s and Chinese troops fighting the Uniteu Nations forces in the Korean war came from the Soviet Un- ion. Nevertheless the N o r t h Koreans have now lined up firm- 1y with Peking against Moscow.

In this period of political flux there will undoubtedly be other significant shifts of alignment that will further bewilder those who try to understand world pol- itics in terms of a simple con- flict between all Communists and all non-Communists.

Successful American foreign policy can only be built upon full appreciation of the m u c h more complex reality. and of

I chers.

the many new opportunities and problems that reality presents.

Poisonous _ l Legumes

grown in India, Algeria, Strain, and France. They cause trou- ble only hen umed in

w cons large amounts. The disease begins with

weakness and a sense of heavi- ness in the legs and groin. This is followed by gradual stiffen- ing of the muscles and jerkiuess and quivering 0. legs. ow and then paralysis is preceded by pain, numbness. or tingling of the lower extremities. Some describe the sensation as “ants crawling under the skin." No effective treatment is known Lathyriam was described centuries ago. In all probabil-

ity, Hippocrates to the disorder when he wrote “At Ainoa, all men and women who ate peas continuously became lmpotent in the legs, and that

Epidemics have occurred. especially during famines when people will eat anything. One of the last in Europe was traced to the use of certain lat- hyrua peas in the preparation of flour and cereals. Lathyrlsm caused paralysis among those confined in concentration and prisoner - of - war camps durina World War II. This is mention- ed to demonstrate that the dis- order- is not rare and c o u Id happen to any of us under cer- tain conditions.

Experimental lathyrism has been produced in rats by feed ing them the seeds of the com- mon sweet pea. It differs from the human type in that bones are affected primarily. The animals develop spinal curvature similar to that seen in adolescents. as well as chan- ges in the long bones and the ribs. The walls of the aorta tend to degenerate. leading to dissecting aneurysm.

The similarity between the bony manifestations in rats and certain skeletal disorde rs in man stimulated interest in this disease which mimics human conditions that never have been reproduced in the laboratory. It has opened an estirely new field for resear-

PIGMENTED NODULES

C. ,writes: Is urticaria

plgmentosa a genetically det- ermined disease? REPLY

This chronic skin disease of children has been reported in mother and daughter and in identical twins. The pigment-

nodules associated witn the disorder become hive like when rubbed, because of release of histamine into the surround- ing tissues. The bumps tend to disappear with adolescence. FOOD SUPPLIES VITAMINS

L. J. writes: Up to what age should children be g iv e n vitamins?

REPLY

These supplements rarely are necessary when the child is eat ing a balanced diet. Vitamin D is the except i o n. It is start e‘d during the second week of life and discontinued when the youn- gster begins to eat and drink enriched foods along with ‘lsh, butter. and eggs.

STARCHES AND SUGARS

E. G. writes: Does the am- ount of carbohydrates eaten affect the cholesterol level in any way?

REPLY

Not significantly. Today's Health Hint-

Ulcer victims need physical and emotional relaxation.

(Note: All correspondence to Dr. VanDellen should be ad- I dreseed to: Dr. Theodore Van- Dellen. care of Chicago Tri- bune, Chicao, Illinois.)

Too Rugged A Test

Globe and Mail. Toronto

A properly - cut suit. the right kind of haircut and speeches spiced with wisdom gleaned from Bartlett’s Familiar Quo- tations are as much as most politicians need to win public support. Now. however, . Dr. Daniel Cappon. a psychiatrist, suggests psychological scree- ning of all candidates before they are accepted by politic al parties to run for office.

Candidates would not only have to appear to be suitable, they would have to be suitable right}: the very bottom of their

payc . How many statesmen. of tthe p would have gotten pas

e complualve . show! Thomas D’Arcy McGee was given to emotions out- bursts ln public places and

was worse, he wro poet . Shocking; Mackenzie King consorted with spiritual- lsts and consulted crystal balls. Can't have that! John Diefen- baker had visions and was con- vinced people were plotting against him. Send for

what

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What would happen to those tenuous quorums we've been getting in the House of Com- mons recently who had passed their psychol- ogical screenings were allowed to sit? Through the mists, darkc 1y. one sees a great echoing chamber with only two men pre- sent. The one in the white coat with the clipboard rises and addresses the other:

“Mr. Speaker, everybody but me and thee... and..."

"Free 'As

The silent departure of the birds, to be observed those days in Northwestern Ontario. is stir-i ring within . as it does every early fall, wou- dermeut and admiration. Human beings who have put flying ma- chines In the air. rockets IMO space and stored immense stocks of information into cone puters, have never been able to