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PAGE 4 THURSDAY, NOV. 27, 1%.

I ,Rate BoOst Granted.

j‘ ‘ The (threat of a railway strike has , beenrlifted at the expense of eight of the ten provinces .of Canada, whose ap- peal against the 17 per cent freight rates boost has been disallowed bythe Federal Cabinet. The boost goes into effect on December lst as ruled by the Board of Transport Commissioners.

' , _ ,This unpalatable decision is sugar-

coated with the statement that the '

GoVernment recognizes “serious , in- equalities” in the present freight rate structure, and “has already indicated ’ its intention to move towards a solu- tionof these problems." But not now! Deepite the irregularity of the Trans- port Board’s action in making rulings about wage settlements which are; not itsproper responsibility, the interim

increases are allowed, ‘.‘although this. |

type of freight rate-increase is not in accord with the Government’s long range plans.’.’ A study will be made at oncle inequities in the rate struc- ture, including any that may be ag- gravated by the present increase. ‘ _ How this is going to be done after ' the increase has gone into .effect, without reimbursement from the fed- / eral treasury, is not stated. The pre- Sent‘increase could have been paid in this manner, but “We do not intend to embark upon a, policy of » subsidizing wage increases; there would be no " end todemands on all governments if elicit a. policy were adopted.” What , policy, then, has the Government in mind? "it ‘ . . I ‘ ,Weshall have to wait.and.see.:We should like, : meanwhile, to know the ‘ identity ‘of that unnamed memberof , the Cabinet who was quoted zby the. Canadians ress assaying, at the close ' ‘ of the: cabinet meetings ‘ on Tuesday, that “evei'ything is under control.” ‘ " e “control” in this case is being ex- ‘xerci'sed' at an estimated cost to .this\ Erovince alone of , somemtwo', million dollars a year. This is what a hundred thousand people will be taxed in extra freight charges-to provide the $60,- 000,000 needed to meet the railway

union demands—i—one-thirtieth part ,

, of the total cost! If the same charges ~ Were levied per capitazall across Can ada,they would'amount to a $20rhead tax and the railways would be'

' reimbursed to the amount—not’of‘ $60

. million but of some $340 milliOnl We Would remindall the cabinet members who ‘do/not get their votes in Quebec

and Ontario that they are responsible, to constituencies which, in greater or

_ lesser degree, are being mulcted un- fairly by this latest imposition. But We doubt if the squeeze has been put

, on any of the victims as tightly asit hasu‘pon the people of Prince Edward Island. 1

Mr. Nixon In London , U.Sj=.,, ,VicePresident, Mr. Nixon, has opened his visit to Bri-L tain with a . clear- pronouncement» that" the ‘West will stay in Berlin, strengthen NATO - and stand firm against communist aggression. This is one issue on which there is un- likely to boil any disagreement among the f Western democracies, certainly not on the part of Britain. Just; how successful Mr. Nixon Was ' in” defending. the American position in the Formosa ‘Strait is another question. His reception in London, however, has naturally been cor- dial; As the man who may some day be President of the United States, his visit is an event of much interest and importance. Officially it was for the purpose of represent- ing, President Eisenhower at the dedication of the American chapel in Saint Paul’s Cathedral on Wed- nesday, but it has much wider im- plications. ' «The British press has devoted considerable space to articles from Washington correspondents analy- zing’vthe Vice President. These de- tailed studies have included well- knoWn criticisms 'of Mr. Nixon’s past actions, but on the who1e they havevbeen balanced and even favor- \ able accounts, The Sunday Obser~ Vet’s correspondent described him as “smooth” and said there are “no flaws in the plastic finish”, but the account also gave him credit for having “listened and thought and learned.” His London trip is describe

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ed as “a welcome opportunity to draw a curtain across the calamit- ous reverse he has just suffered with the rout of the Republican Party in the midterm elections—— a merciful switch of the spotlight from the defeated political warrior to the circumspect, maturing states- man.”

Commenting on Mr. Nixon’s visit, the London correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor notes that the British people are extreme- ly politically conscibus and follow American national elections pretty

closely. Their political sensibilities are sharpened, moreover, by the fact that they are contemplating a general election of. their own Within the next year or 18 months; so that their look at, Mr. NixOn is not en- tirely a casual or uninformed one. Like him or not, they have received him» as a man they may have to reckon with.

The French Election

It is a strange election that was started in France last Sunday and is now entering its second phase.

[To begin with, the man who wants to be President—and, of Icourse, will be—did not have his name ‘on the ballots. Then, although there are something like eighteen parties, including, ‘. splinter groups, not one of them, With the. exception

General de Gaulle, ' at least official-

Gaulist parties, though they don’t actually use that label. It is as if in this country, the Conservatives, the Liberals, the Social Creditors and the CCFers all appealed to the people to support Mr. Diefen- baker! " H ‘7 -‘

To confuse the situation still

I, further, when the election results have been tabulated and the elect-

ed members haVe taken their places in the Chamber of Deputies, Parlia-

_ mentwill have little, if any, respon-

sibility; The President will virtually be a {dictator in the sense that the Government—G e n eral de Gaulle, that is—will be empowered to over- rule Farliament on any issue, not the other way round; and he will stay in office as king as he, feels like it. . . ; ’ ’

One can only 'conclude' that the elected members will be regarded

, merely as, agents. for their .consti-,

ztuencies in the matter of public ser-, 'vices and the like. They 'will have practically nothing to say about national policy.“ In these circum- stances, it is difficult to see why so muchtime and effortwere devoted to the election or why the voting process Was made so complicated.

EDITORIAL r NOTES

A Hungarian Communist news-V paper reports that workers in’ that country would rather learn English and German than Russian. There’s a moral in that, if only the rulers cf Hungary are clear-headed enough to see it. ‘ ‘ \

fl . # I x‘ t ; . -> There have been seven hunting fatalitiesin Nova Scotia since the

is told every year in all areas where hunting goes on. It may be that game licenses will have to be re-. served for those who demonstrate their ability to distinguish a deer from a man.

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The union of Ghana, a member of the Commonwealth andGuin‘éa, a for- mer French. possession, now independ- ent, raises another question for the

Commonwealth as a whole. Does Guinea, 'ipso facto, become a member of the Commonwealth or doesn’t she? It may be the begin- ning of further evolution in the Commonwealth pattern.

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Archbishop Makarlos, spiritual leader of the Greek Cypriots, says he has “been given to understand” that the United «. States State De- partment will support the island’s demand for independence, but that Mr. Dulles is not saying anything about it publicly for fear of Turkish reaction. It would not be the first time that Mr. Dulles took one stand in public and another in private negotiations. The Suez crisis is a good instance. Before Britain and France decided to defend their rights in the canal, they were given to understand that the United Slates would support them or, at least, do nothing to hinder them. It was a different story when the dispute

came before the U.N. !

of I the Communists, is opposed to ‘

1y. In effect, all the parties are de-_ '

Ithree dozen alterations and “mas—

.. evidence given by Monsieur Ed- . mond Cloutier, the recently re-

. port” of everything that is said in

~ ers re Daylight Saving, Time.

. at the rate of 71/2 cents‘a pound

deer season opened. A similar story _

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" By Patrick

A jealously-guarded parliamen— tary practice lies behind the re- cent outburst about tampering with the printed records of the evidence given before the Pub- lic Acounts Committee of the House of Commons. ‘ It was charged that around

sivé" deletions were made in the

tired Queen's Printer. v.

That Parliamentary “bible”, entitled “Beauc-hesne’s Fairlie-5 mentary Rules and Forms". has definite instructions on this point. All parliamentary proceedings are reported word for word by a very efficient staff of shorthand writers, chosen with care for that task, says this book; the chief of this staff, “The Editor of De- bates”, is responsible for obtain— ‘ ing “an absolutely correct re-

Parliamen-t. -'

PUBLIC "FORUM

This column is open to the discus

slain by. correspondents of question a.

Interest. The Guardian does not neses»

eerily endorse \the opinion ‘of con-es ' pondents.

DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME .

Sir,—I wish to express the thoughts ,of practically all farm-

The farmers are being squeezed in every direction these times. A single turnip- is‘ being sold In

Newfoundland for 25 cents, while -

we are getting 25 cents for one bushel, which mostly contains from 20 to 30 turnips. The super markets are buying fro-mbakers

and selling for 17% cents .a pound, and many other products likewise, thereby lowering farm- ers’ prices every year.

This 17 per cent increase in freight rates which is in the of— fing, is going to 'cost the farmers of this Province some two mil- lion dollars. If this is not put on wewill likely have a strike holding up our transportation system for weeks. Our redress is that our Island Government should sue the Dominion Gov- ernment for infraction. of the terms of Confederation with Prince Edward Island. in order to stop such nefarious practices toour welfare.

But to add- insult to injury we have all the Mayors of the muni- cipalities of this Island of ours voting for Daylight Saving Time, giving the farmers a n o l h e r death—dealing squeeze. We all know that all wealth here comer; from farmers and fishermen; without them the municipalities would starve to death.

The Mayors’ action‘ in this re- gard is the height of inarati-tude, and to add to this spirit of in- gratitude, we’ll take our Capital City, Charlottetown. for example. The farmers have no toilet fac- ilities therein. They have to run around and get a key from some gas station or other place and. ofttimes you 'get the wrong key The farmers will all have to buy a trailer and take their own toilet facilities with them. It is a disgrace to a City of its size.

The one great reason farmers are so much against Daylight Saving Time is that if you hire a man on the farm he starts at 7 o’clock, when the dew is on everything. You lose that hour and ‘in the evening he quits at 4 o’clock'when everything is ideal for working. Another hour lost. Instead of getting eight hours of work you get six hours. Two hours’ pay gone for nothing done is the deal the farmer gets from our municipal mayors

This Daylight Saving Time is the height of nonsense. Why not. go to work an hour earlier: and slop a1 4 o'clock, and quit such nonsensical ideas and leave the farmer alone with tandard Time?

th' The Record-

Nicholson

Members may not In a k e material changes in the meaning of the report of what they actual- ly said in the House. But “sligh’ verbal alterations” are permitted in the pr‘utted record, if necessary” to. “make the meaning precise and accurate”.

The same general principles 'apply to “the record of parlia— mentary committees.

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PRINCIPLE AT STAKE

In this case. I learn, the trans- cript of M. Cloutier's evidence was sent by the Editor of De— bates to the Committee staff, who sent it to the office of the Queen’s Printer. to be printed. T h e changes appear to have been made while the text was in the Printing Bureau.

The changes may or may not have been significant. But what is‘ importantls that these changes were made in violation of the ac- cepted rule that v parliamentary reports must be a historical res cord of- what was actually said. No alteration and no deletion is intended to be permitted, even to expunge regrettable comments madein the heat of the moment. , But in spite of this strictly ob- served rule about, the inviolability .of the spoken word in Parliament, there have been a number of notorious instances of changes being made, «perhaps unobserved by ,all but the eagle-eyed few.

One such occasion was on one of t-helast ‘daysgof'the past ses- sion. when Finance Minister Donald Fleming was steering his

GITCH E GUMEE

I departmental estimates through the Houseof Commons. ln Idie course of a. detailed speech last- ing well over [one hour, Mr. Flem- ing was repeatedly heckled and interrupted, especially by the Leader of-the Opposition, Hon. Lester Pearson, and the Opposi- tion Financial critic, Mr. W. M. Benidickson, Luberal f o r Kama-Rainy River. lIANSARD MISSED 11‘

Mr. Benldli-ckson made about two dozen interruptions. These ranged from the succinct com- ment “Nuts”, to the vague ques- tion “was it St. Jamc’sStreet?”

This query prompted Mr. Fleming, his patience taxed, to

Beni‘dickson would not be Straight on his directions about'St. J ame’s Street or any other street.

Later Mr. Bvenidickson enquired about “tight money”. V,

Mr. Fleming drew his own con— clusions, and .. snapped that he didn’t think his honorable friend should be talking about high: things at that time.

“A pretty cheap remark” in- terjected Mr. Pearson. - l This exchange was report word for 'word word in the news- papers, but When the official re- port of, the debate appeared the next day, the three remarks re- lating to the “tight” situation had been expuuged from the histori- cal record.

show that the comments of a par- 'liamenrta-ry..veterah, of a Cabinet Minister and of an ex-Oabinet Minister can all be with”. So it is splitting hairs to complain when some unauthoris- .ed person! makes three dozen

‘by a civil servant.

By J useph

Although the French elections represent another smashing per» sonal victory for Premier d."

for his hopes of ending the A1? gerian war. ‘

The .de Gaulle landslide that sent the Communist party reel— lug may in a' sense result in an embarrassment of political riches for the general and his plans for ending the Algerian fighting.

De Gaulle, of course, was not directly involved in the cam- paign — the presidential election comes latch—and he explicitly forbade his name to be used by any p art y. But the voters showered their favor on those candidates supporting him. ADAMANT RIGHTISTS

It’s apparent, that the new French Assembly, when it finally is convened, will have a rightist character, including possibly an absolute majority of de Gaulle supporters.

But many of these deputies are more adamant than de Gaulle on the Algerian quest-ion. .‘hey stand for “integration” of Algeria, mak—

France.

De Gaulle, while cautious in his political promises, has indicated he has in mind a more modes ate solution, closer to the hopes of the rebels. His attitude mig lead to internal self~gover~nment for the North Africa“ territory within the French community of nations that he has creaéed and in federation with Tunisia and Morocco. both former French colonies.

ANOTHER ROUND ‘

Actually, only 42 of the 465 seats were filled in Sunday’s elec— tions, in which an over-all ma— jority was required for victory. This left nearly 500 s-ats still to be decided, including those in Al- geria, in the second round of bal- lotting next Sunday. than

1,500,000 voles, a drop of

Communists still polled a greater percentage of votes—18.9—t'han any of the other 16 parties in the election but they appeared

I am, Sir. etc. JOLIE: Y. Rice Point. RBI.

likely to lose 100 or more of the

MacDONALD l143 seats they held in the old

Assembly.

Gaulle, they may spell bad news;

ing it virtually a province of ,

The Communist party lost more 1

about 26 per (-cm. from 1950 when , it prwllCd a total of 5.434.580. The ;

Algerian Problem Remains

MacSween

Canadian Press Staff Writer

Six of the pramier’s cabinet lministers were elected outright. But a more significant develop- ment was the success ’of the new party founded by Information Minister Jacques Soustelle‘, the Union for the New Republic (UNR), in its first trip to the polls.

WATCH SOUS’I‘ELLE ,

The UN’R, with 17.6 per cent of the popular vote in Metropolitan Franco, ranked second“ only to the Communists in the vote total and won nine seats, including Soust-elle’s. The UNR this as- sumes a dominant role, with pre-

100 and 150 seatsin next Sunday’s run-off. when only a simple ma- jority will be needed to win.

The other large group is the Independents m Conservatives— who also are expected to send more than 100 deputies to the As— sembly. The election in Algeria and the Sahara will be held Sun- day, and it is expected those ter- ritories !will send 70 right-wing- ers to Paris. since participation by radical nationalists was for- bidden by the French Army.

Soustelle—as one of the chief architects of die Gaulle’s rise to power—1‘s seen as a key figure in the emenging right - wing power, and he is being carefully watched in France and elsewhere In an at‘cmpt to anticipate his future path.

MAXIMS

Make yourself an honest man. and then you can be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. ‘

retort that at that moment Mia:

Which was perhaps just as well.’ But I' mention this episode to‘

‘ ‘tamlpered.

alterations in the. evidence given

dictions that it will win between

Dental Decoy

Commonest III

By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D. WHAT is one of civilized man’s most common afflictions? Bet you can’t guess! It’s not the common 0 old, heart disease or cancer. It’s no‘ foot trouble, either, although mil- lions of persons have poor feet. DENTAL DECAY Our most common affliction seems to be —- dental decay! There are few persons who never have been bothered by dental ' caries. _ But this greatest of all villains is about due to abdicate its lead- ership among men’s ills. Within the next decade, according to of- ficials of the American Dental As- sociation, there is a rezlpossib ility that dental decay will be eli- mrinavted as a major factor in di- sease. - WONDERFUL CHANGES Sounds like a pretty wondenful era; doesn’t it? So let’s take a. peek 10 years into the future—in 1968—40 try and see what chang- , es in dentistry are likely to have occurred. You’ll probably see just as many patients, maybe to o r 'e, waiting in your dentist’s office. In 1963 the papilla-fish of the Unit- ed States is expected t-c be more than 200,000,000." . . ,_ The 1958 ratio was one active dentist for every 1,900 persons. STILL NOT ENOUGH . Even though ‘six new dental ' schools have been built, in Colo- rado, Florida, New England, New York, Oklahoma and "and! Clare- 1ina, since 1958, the number of dentists hasn’t increased propor- tionately with the population. ‘ Still, your dentist now c an handle many more patients than the slightly more than 1,000 he could accommodate annually in