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Health Minister Bonnell ‘has cleared up a misconception which glould never have been permitted to arise with regard to the Provincial Hospital Insurance Plan.
‘There was uncertainty when the Legislature prorogued as to whether Ottawa would accept the scheme as provided for in the legislation, after the House had thrown out an amend- ment for compulsory collection of premiums, if necessary, from certain employee groups. This mandatory vision, it now turns out, is in- herent in the plan. It can be invoked at any time if Ottawa insists, or if Islanders fail to accept the plan in sufficient numbers voluntarily. It can be extended to apply to any ’ group, urban or rural. Dr. Bonnell is quite confident .that the plan will work on a voluntary basis; but if not it is sufficiently elastic to provide for any mandatory action that may be required. We find no fault with these pro-
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ing the plan’s success and of satisfy- ing federal requirements. But the
Legislature did take exception in the
one instance where they appeared as an amendment to the Act, and the time of the House was wasted in futile discussion on this matter. It is quite evident that members on both sides thought the Act, as it passed, provided for a purely volun- tary scheme.
Actually, it provided for nothing ef the sort. It empowers the Hos- pital Commission, with the approval ef the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Coun- eli, te fix the amount of premiums, together with the manner of pay- ment and other details relating thereto, and to collect the payments from fesidents of the Province. It provides penalties for contravening any provision of the Act or the regu- lations. Nowhere does it refer to voluntary payments—or to compul- sory ones, for that matter. It pro- vides merely for “participation” by means of payments under the plan— which may be voluntary or manda- tory as the plan provides.
It is up to the Commission to make the plan work on a voluntary basis if it can. We have no doubt that it will endeavor to do so, and we trust that the Minister’s optimism ir. this regard will be fully justified. But it would have been much better if the whole question had been pre- sented, frankly and clearly, to the people from the start.
Misplanned Economy
If there is one thing Communist propagandists harp on more than anything else, it is the claim that their system of planned scientific economy is far more efficient than free enterprise. Many Soviet ach- ievements have lent credence to this claim; but the fact is that while these. achievements are widely -pub- licized, little outside the Iron Curtain
is known of the failures that have
occurred. It is different in the free world, where the spotlight of pub- licity—adverse or favorable—is con- stantly directed upon matters of public concern.
It is odd, therefore, to learn—on the high authority of the Soviet pub- lication, Pravda—-that all is not well with state planning in Russia’s oil industry. Fifty or more railway tanks are emptied each day into an artificial lake near Ufa, in the Bash- kir Republic, which contains some- thing like 12,000 tons of oil and petroleum products. And periodically the lake is set aflame by the local fire brigade in order to make room for more oi! products.
According to Pravda this also happens on the railways of Kuiby- shev, Tashkent, Azerbaijan and var- fous other oil centres. The Soviet railways ship the oil to various des- tinations. The recipients take what they can and leave the railways with half-empty tank cars. The ‘railways need the tanks in order to relieve the constantly growing accumulation of
~ gil at the railheads. In order to re- cover tanks, they dump the sur-
plus ‘the lake and burn it. Suf- ficient storage capacity would solve
_ this difficulty, but that, apparently,
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i what the planners haven't pro- _\ One swallow doesn’t make a summer, and one example of this kind does not necessarily damn a whole economic system. But the Communists have been so appalled by the destruction of unplanned sur- pluses in the western hemisphere, and so boastful of their claims about their own efficiency, that one would
- think they would soon put an end to
this waste of precious fue: But ap- parently it has been going on for a
thing had been fixed up, the oil waste in 1958 was four times as great as in 1957.
Serious Health Problem Why are health authorities so insistent, in the main, in their sup- port of fluoridation of community water supplies? Is it because they are banded together in some dia-
bolical plot to poison the populace? |
That is an extreme view, but some of the arguments advanced by oppon- ents of fluoridation would leave that suspicion in the public mind. In any case, the reason for the concern of so many health authorities with the matter is not hard to explain. It is because dental disease has become so widespread as to constitute a national menace. .
Addressing an audience of nearly a thousand physicians at a scientific convention in Ontario this week, Dr. C. H. M. Williams, head of the periodontics department in the Uni- versity of Toronto’s dental faculty, said that dental diseases are today “probably the most prevalent and persistent of all the diseases which affect the population of Canada.” Sodium fluoride, he said, not only reduces dental cavities by two'thirds among children born after it is added to the water, but it also brings sub- stantial reduction of cavities among those whose teeth had formed before fluoridation. The main causes of tooth decay were malnutrition during pregnancy and excessive consump- tion of carbohydrates. Fluoridation offered itself as “the most effective method of prevention.”
EDITORIAL NOTES
Vice President Richard N. Nixon has made a novel suggestion regard- ing disputes between the Soviet Union and the West. It is that they be submitted to the International Court of Justice at the Hague. It sounds like a good idea—in theory. But a nation that does not honour its commitments on its own initiative seems hardly likely to obey a court ruling. '
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Ontario’s farmers are to be com- pensated for losses suffered from rabies. Maximum payments will be: Cattle, $250; horses, $100; sheep, $40; swine, $40; and goats, $40. The federal and provincial governments will each contribute 40 per cent of the payments, while the county in- volved will make up the remainder. Payments will be retroactive to April
1, 1958.
Twenty-eight American ships will be visiting 25 Great Lakes ports between June 26 and July 27, in eon- nection with the formal opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. It will be the first time in nearly a century and a half that warships will be seen on the Lakes of Peace, and it will in-
volve temporary suspension of thee:
Rush-Bagot Treaty between Canada
and the United States prohibiting ©
this traffic. — 7 Ottawa reports that rail haulage across the country is picking up— another indication of the gathering momentum in the Canadian economy which Mr. Fleming predicted in his budget speech. Other signs noted are increases in labor income and in- dustrial production. Taken together, they indicate that Canada is showing more strength than in 1955 when she recovered from the 1953-54 re- cessiqgn.
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The Ontario Government has set up a Committee of Inquiry into the production and marketing of farm products in Ontario. The Committee will inquire generally into the prob- lems and economics of packing, storage, processing, marketing,
long time. Despite assurances from |
transporting and distributing agri- |
cultural products produced in- the
province. Particular attention will be |
paid to existing procedures and fac- ilities in the light of present large scale food processing and distribut- ing systems; the affect of this con- centration of buying power on. the producer; and, the most practical form of producer group action to meet this eoncentration.
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OTTAWA REPORT
, Broadcasting Regulations : By P Nicholson
Th newly-constituted Board of Broadcast Governors has just published a code of regulations governing ‘‘sound”’ or radio broad- casting, which must be observed by all stations operated in Can- ada, whether belonging to the Canadian Broadcasting Conpora- tion or to private broadcasting companies.
These regulations are not in their final form; they are still subject to amendment following a public hearing to be held by the Board on 14th May, at which re- presentations may be made by any parties who wish to suggest changes.
These regulations conform clos- ely to the regulations previous- ly enforced by the C.B.C. The few changes deal largely with ad-
sertion of a commercial announ- cement after the reading of the news headlines; they give sta- tions more flexibility in permit- ting the averaging of advertis- ifg quotas over the period of one | hour.
As before, certain subjects are banned or closely regulated. Board approval is needed for any program dealing\ with birth control or venereal diseases. On- ly churches, universities, Chari- table and cultural organizations may be the subject of any appeal for funds. Lotteries are forbid-
Programs of a partisan poli- tical character may only be broadcast on a basis equitable to all parties and rival candidates. This renewal of a former regula- tion should be closely watched in the case of the C.B.C., whose commentaries on public affairs have frequently been criticized, in this column and in many oth- er places, as being slanted.
Abusive comment on any race, religion or creed is banned, as is obscene or profane language
So far, so good. But what of the omissions
Kt seems to mé that broadcast programs too often are of a na- ture which are socially undesir- able. This is especially true of television programs, which of course are not covered by this set—of regulations. I refer here to the high proportion of pro- grams which glorify crime, and play up the bad man and the gun man.
All too often the law is set at nought; all too seldom the bad man gets away with his crime. This inevitably has an influence on the susceptible minds of our children, our teen-agers and our adolescents. Juvenile delinquency is the scourge of North Ameri- can today. What part is played in stimulating this by the pro- grams of violence and crime SCARE PICTURES
In a free enterprise sotiety, we
May regret any paternalism in government which regulates the activities of the media of mass communication. Normally, soc:e- ty relies on the good taste and sound sense of the public to kill the undesirable by staying away from it. But society today seems to have a taste for the lewd, the criminal and the violent in fiction, whether that fiction is in the printed word, over the air waves or on the cinema screen.
Even the sweet simple ‘‘fairy stories’ of our grandfathers’ day become frightening and un-uit- able for children in the modern presentation. What sort of a world is it, when parents regret having taken their little ones to see a film entitled after one of the well-known and innocent ta- les which their own parents had perhaps read {to them at bedtime thirty years ago
MW society cannot regiment it- self, and government bodiés have to take action to clean up our bookstores and the like, should similar government bodies not similarly clean up our air wav- es And why are our cinems per- mitted to display films, and our television stations allowed to broadcast programs, which many a sane judge might well deem to be indirectly an incitement to riot
Justice’ Minister Davie Fulton, himself the father of three small girls, has fought a long battle to ban obscene literature. A very valid question is whether a Min- ister of Justice has not also got some obligation to preserve oth- er as,pects of the morals of our young.
Canada’s P
By Marcus
In the Imperial Oil Review
The ‘awful responsibility of giv- ing a place the name by which it will be known for all time to come seldom dismayed Canadian pioneers. Sometimes they brought the tried and traditional names of their homelands with them, but for the most part they ac- cepted the challenge of finding new names with imaginations, whetted by a new life in a strange land, with humor con- scious or unconscious and on the whole with success.
As a result, the roads of Can- ada are adorned with many sign- posts bearing names that are sometimes beautiful, often char- mingly uniygue, and always con- cealing a stofy in the back- ground.
Some of our place-names came with recent arrivals from Europe —Ymir, and Ycliffe in Ontario; Zena, Sask, and Tiell, B.C. Oth- er go back to the earliest set- tlers; none of whom had more vigorous imaginations than the who left us Pushthrough, Cupids, Hot Scold Marshes, Bay Bulls, Joe Batt's‘Arm, Come-by-Chance and Seldom-Come-By.
SHOW-OFF
Almost a dozen place-names in Ontario are the work of Lieu- tenant-Governor Sir . Peregrine Maitland, who wanted to make use of some of the Spanish words he had picked up during mili- tary service in Spain. Thus we have Mariposa, the Spanish for outterfly; Oro, a bear; Mono, which means monkey; Oso, Moso, Rama and several thers. When the naming of three Simcoe coun. ty townships was left up to Sir Peregrine’s wife, she used the names of her three pet dogs, Floss, Tiny and Tay. The his- tery books tell us that Sir Per- egrine was not a very good adq- ministrator either.
Quebec names are noted for their saintly dedicationg. Apart from an. uncounted number of tivers; mountains, lakes and val- leys, almost 1,500 Quebec com- munities are named for saints, including St) Louis du Ha! Ha! which, surprisingly endugh, means just what it says.
The French influence is strong oa Canadian placenames, but in areas where the population has become predominantly nch
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one Newfoundland ballad there is a reference to “Clara from Brul- ey’ and ‘my girl in Toslow.” K is not difficult to reconstruct Bruley into Brule, but it takes a bit of digging to discover that Toslow ct one time was Tos selo John, a corruption of Tasse de |'Argent, a name given by a poetic French seaman to a cup- shaped bay surrounded by cliffs that glisten like silver in the sun- light.
INDIAN INFLUENCE
The influence that has prodac- ed the most melodies unusual and distinctive place-names in Can- ada has been Indian. The flavor of these names varies from re- gion to region just as the In- dian languages varied. Thus while the Pacific coast natives gave us Illeciliewaet (swift wa- ter) and Lillooet (wild (wild onions), typical plains tribes na- mes are Okotoks (many stones), south of Calgary, and Pembina (cranberries), Alta.
In the Maritimes, the Micmacs of -Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and east- ern New Brunswick have given us many pleasing vowel combin- ations, including all those with the ‘‘acadie”’ endings which Bliss Carman |ater wove into some hauntingly beautiful lines of poe- try. On the other hand, the na- tives of the rest of New Bruns- wick, whom the Micmacs dubbed “‘Maliseets,” meaning ‘broken talkers” or “those who stumble when they talk,’’ have left us many formidable combinations of hard consonants and sputtering “s"" sounds—Excuminac, Mem- ramcook, Nauwigewauk, Penob- squis, and Richibucto. UNUSUAL SOUNDS
Aeadie ‘pronounced ack-a-dee) means “the place’ and thus we have Shubenacadie (the place where nuts grow), and Tradacie (the camping place). Some of the Micmac names look difficult, such as Musquodoboit, near Hal- ifax; Whycocomagh, in Cape Breton Island; and Tatamagouche which ‘means ‘‘the meeting of the waters.” Others have distinctly un usual sounds, such as Ecum Se- cum (eek-cum seek-um, meaning
ach, which reached Nova Scotia from the Outer Hebrides in the early 1%h century.
There are place-names in Can- ada to suit every taste. There is a Sober Island near Halifax, a Wine Harbour not far away, and a Wine River near Chatham, NB. There is a Whisky Jack near Nor- way House in Manitoba, a Whis- ky Gap on the CPR line near Cardston, Alta, and a Soda Creek in BC. °
There is a Garden of Eden in Nova Scotia, a Tranquility in Brant county, Ont., and Travel- ler’s Rest in Prince Edward Is land. There are no fewer than three Paradises in Canada—one, of course, in B.C., one in New- foundiand, and one in Nova Sco- tia,\which also has a Bible Hill near Vancouver are a Lulu and a Lulu Island, both named by Colonel Moody of the Royal En- gineers ,after an actress, Lulu Sweet, who was much admired in the 1860 we are told, “for her good manners and graceful bear- ings.”’
Several of our place - names have come: straight from books; Gravenhurst and Bracebridge. in Ontario, are from a Washington Irving story, Bracebridge Hall. Norval, Ont., was taken from a pretentious narrative poem by an
honatas, Alta, is out of the wide field of American legend. And Iago, B.C. was named by a read- er of Shakespeare.
There is a theory that Fiin Flon comes from a character in the Sunless City by Preston Muddock, called Professor Flintabbatey
is said, was kicking around in this outpost and was read by some of the prospectors, who used to joke about the name. This story sounds implausible to any- one who has ever heard the kind of things prospectors joke about. A more believable theory links this name with the French ex- pression “‘flonflon"’ which occurs in the chorus of many French songs, especially the kind that
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OUR YESTERDAYS
(Frem the Guardian Files)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (April 24, 1934)
News has been received of the winning of a Fellowship in Greek Archaeology in the American School of Classical Studies at At- hens, Greece, by Mr. Cedric G. Boulter, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Boulter, Charlottetown. Mr. Boulter who ise not yet 22 years of age, is an honours of Prince of Wales College hav- ing led his class for the three years of his attendance.
Quite a little excitement was caused in Summerside yesterday afterday afternoon when the fire department responded to a call for a fire in the heart of the business section on Water Street.
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TEN YEARS AGO (April 24, 1949)
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