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The Commonwealth Clock

In the lobby at Marlborough House, London. where the Common- wealth Prime Ministers are meet- ing, there is a great 24-hour clock that shows the correct titne through- oIIt all the Commonwealth simul- taneously. But few of the overseas representatives~ seem to know what time it is. Fr. 1' the (Mmmonwealth, We mean, and the free world. Most of them are too busy talking to look, and they are about as helpful as Job‘s comforters in the advice they are giving Britain at this critical time. Will not the unity of Europe in mightily strengthening the West make the Commonwealth partner- ship strongcr. too? They don’t seem to know. Britain's membership in the Common Market will involve the entry of Norway and Denmark as well-~—two powers which. along with Holland and Belgium will as. sure London of four votes in the en- 'iarged community. thus giving Brit- ain the possibilify of greatly in- jzt'luencing the whole future develop- intent of European policy. Won’t that be a good thing for the Com- monwealth? The thought. apparent- ly. hasn't occurred to them.

Won’t Britain’s entry help keep the present anti—Am erican and neutralist elements from assuming control when do Gaulle and Aden- ..auer disappear from the political scene, thus preventing a Paris-Bonn 'axis that may dominate the Six- power group and take dangerously irresponsible political steps to the detriment of Britain and other Commonwealth members? And, in the long run. isn’t it inevitable that if Britain remains outside the Com- mon Market. it will unfailingly lead to the political weakening of NATO?

Questions all relating to what

time it is on the Commonwealth plock. But. of all the overseas spokes- ‘fgnan only Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Rhodesia-Nyasaland Federation, seems concerned. He ‘feupported Prime Minister Macmil- ian’s policy on the ground that Economic strength was the greatest protection against Communism, and glrgued that. 3 Britain stronger t hrough Market membership would Zpe of even greater help to the iDommonwealth. That, says a press '- Iespatch. was Mr. Macmillan’s “first upport" in three days of conference Elk by the clock. ' Perhaps an ltour glass would be I better thing for the Common- lv‘ealth ministers to have in Marl- mrough House than a mechanical llock whose readings they can’t :nterpret. It would show them. at east, how steadin the sands are ‘unning out.

A British Reaction “Fine words butter no parsnipa." The comment is that of Mr. Gerald Wabarro, a Conservative backbench- r in the British Parliament; and the ubject of his comment was Prime , inister Diefen'oaker’s words on the . rospects of increasing Common- éalth trade. Mr. Diefenbaker had

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“ nd to a greater degree than ever

afore. But Mr. Nabarro dourly re- lled that ever since 1932 Britain been generously. admitting un- it“ Canadian and Commonwealth “and raw materials, whereas “ greets high tariffs and strict V [pinatbt‘im'h manufactured

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Mr. Nobel-Io, atlddug closely in familiar phrases, “that trade la a

two-way matter, and If he w'ante continuing free entry of Canadian goods into Britain he should give similar facilities for Britsh goods en- tering Canada. In short, he should practice what he preaches."

Mr. Diefenbnker's vague offer about expanding Commonwealth trade met with a better reception in the Beaverbrook press, where it was r hailed as “a new Empire plan.” But to date, the Canadian Prime Minis: ter hasn’t offered anything like a concrete plan to the Commonwealth conference. His ghost of a proposal, which is understood to rest heavily on the prospects for expanding world trade offered by President Ken- nedy’s move to reduce free world tariff barriers, was allegedly put before Mr. Dicfenbaker by his of- ficials as something to be stuck in his back pocket when he took off for London.

This time, at any rate, he told the conference, “isn’t the time to unvail Canada’s proposals." They could be discussed later if the prime ministers generally want to discuss alternative trade plans. Meanwhile it was indicated that he would feel free to enlarge on his proposals in the Canadian Commons when the new Parliament assembles later this month.

Which brings us back, by a cir- cuitous route, to Mr. Nabarro and his timely reflection on the inability of fine words to butter parsnips.

The Unsilent Sea

When Premier Khrushchev Com- mented on some concession or other the Western world wanted him to make to relieve world tensions, he appeared to have expressed the ul- timate in negation when he said it would never be acceptable “un- til shrimps learned to whistle.” But scientists have turned up some strange facts in their submarine re- searches, and it could be that what Mr. Khrushchev thought was so im- possible for shrimps to do is being done all the time.

At any rate. they've discovered that the sea is a silent place only to the human ear. and that the denizens of the deep chatter to each other—— and even whistle—at an interminable rate. The first significant discov- ery was made in 1942—Mr. Khrush- chev should have heard of that—— when a. network of anti-submarine microphones set. up deep inChesa- peake Bay was effectively put out. of action by what sounded like an orchestra of pneumatic drills. The source of the sound was traced to millions of little fish. called appro- priately the Atlantic Croakcr.

Later experiments with tape showed that fish not only make sounds, but that some of them. not- ably the porpoise, make sounds in a systematic pattern that seems re- markably like a language. As they swim, porpoises emit an almost con- tinuous series of whistles and clicks. The whistles, which are almost with- in human hearing, resemble the cheeps of a canary; and the clicks are like the tapping of a high speed woodpecker, although they can reach frequencies of 200,000 cycles of sound—far beyond the limits of human audibility.

The scientists haven’t got round to listening in on the crustaceans yet, but doubtless that will come. If porpoises can whistle We venture to say that shrimps have learned the art too, which would completely dis- pose of the barrier the Soviet Pre- mier has put up against accepting Western proposals, and pave the way for a more successful attempt at in- ternational understanding.

EDITORIAL NOTES

From Rutger’s University, New

J ersey, comes the announcement that ants are accomplished conversation- alists. They talk to each other and a zoologist at the university has sound recordings of 25 different kinds of ants to prove it. So far there has been no comment on what the ants have to say, which is per- haps just as Well. ’

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An alarm clock for the deaf Is the latest gadget to be developed by a British instrument firm. It is electrically operated and wakena the sleeper simply by causing the bed- side light to flash off and on inter- mittently. Once the alarm Ia set at the required time, the bedside light can still be used, but of course must 'beawltched off again before the

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LIKE TOPSY IT JUST GROWED

OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson Hees Preoches Industrial Expansion

“We cannot homestead at our Present stage of hewing wood. if we want to maintain our standard of living; still less so if we seek to raise it,"

This was the message which Hon. George Hees gave to the Industrial Expansion Confer- ence here last week. The most important and trenchant pep- talk perhaps ever delivered by a Canadian Trade Minister did not use these words; but he re- peatedly called for competitive design and quality and price in Canadian manufactured goods, teamwork between labour and management, aggressive world- wide salesmanship, more Indus- trial research, expansion in manufacturing -— all leading to greater economic growth all round.

A capacity audience of top businesssmen had come to Cl- tawa to take part In the c on- ference. This keenly receptive audience felt a gate of new ideas surge around them as the Minister spoke. For behind his words of suggestion and exhor- 8 ion lay something entirely new: this philosophy for future.

BOSSES HOMESTEAD

Our business managers have for long gone to sleep each night... snug in their belief that when they wake up on the mor- row their world would be the same, that they could drift along on the benign breeeze of Canadian growth and world de- mand.

But tomorrow and the ne xt day and every day things will be different for Canada now.

We and other wealthy nations have been generously helping the under-developed nations for 15 years since the war. We have been giving them equipment and machinery through various

aid programmmes. We have been

training their technicians. an d

lending them ours. Where jungles

and deserts

l lay unproductive through th e :

centuries, mines and mills are now spewing out the raw materials sought by the indus- trial world. Fifteen years ag 0 our mines and mills were well equipped. and luxuriated In comparative monopoly. Today our same old mines use the same old machinery, which Is now fifteen years older and fif- teen years less efficient. But they are competing against new mines using new machinery in new countries.

Up to fifteen years ago, we lived comfortably as well-paid hewers of wood and miners of minerals for more advanced countries, which shipped us their manufactured products in exchange.

NOW MEANS COSTLY But now our hewers and min-

ers are being thrown out of work. For example, Canadian iron ore, canalled gently along the St. Lawrence Seaway, finds Itself undersold at US lake ports by a stranger which has sailed the oceans from faraway Africa and India: richer ore, more cheaply mined by ern equipment and less highly paid labour, sells at Cleveland U.S.A. for 38 per cent less than La- brador ore.

With the so-called under-de- veloped countries thus now competing with us in the pro- ] duction of raw materials, we must move ahead to the next stage of industrial development. - We can no longer remain chief- 1y 3 primary producer among the nations: we must leave that sweaty role to the developing nations. and apply our greater education and higher skills to selective secondary production. manufacturing those new ma- terials into finished goods which Canadians and Europeans and even the peoples of those un- der-developed countries want and will buy.

This then is the bold new phil- osophy. the realistic warning If you like. which Trade Minister George Hees is preaching to the businessmen of Canada. More frankly, persaps, he la warning us that self-satisfaction today will cause self-dental tomorrow.

' ‘ the stern warning, dressed up In all those phrases about economic grow d competitive products and labour. management cooperation. which Hon. George Hees gave to the first “Canadian Industrial Ex- pansion Conference" here Ottawa; and through it to ev- ery Canadian worker from di- rector to day-labourer. “We cannot homestead at our pre- sent level, if we wish to pre- serve our standard of living."

Defensive Formation

Herve

By A on y Canadian Press Staff Writer

Britain ls poised at midfield on her drive into Europe, but the Commonwealth fa m l l y‘s

tight defensive formation fore-

PUBLIC

FORUM .

STAND APPRECIATE!) Sir, —— purpose in writing this letter is to express appreciation, though It is some- what belated, of your editorials about racial discrimination in this Province, and to put myself on record as one of the many who are glad you took the stand you did on this matter.

Racial discrimination is con- sidered by most thoughtful peo- ple to be one of the three ma- Jor problems facing the world today. It is to know that we have a newspaper here with the courage and Insight to bring the matter of dlscrlmlna ton to the attention of the public so the it can be recognized and lutelllgently handled.

What cells forth my belated remarks Is the letter In Wed- nesday's Guardian by “A Summer Visitor." which letter seems-to admonish you for your edltorlals. I thoroughly disag- tee with him In this matter. and with many of the points express- ed in his letter.

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Surely he cannot expect to taken seriously when he suggests that the Negro wins his "legal Immunities” (whatever thls may meant) he may drive himself Into soclal and cultural alienation. 0f cour- se the writer of the letter knows that th gro la attempting from .the soclal and cultural alleuatlon that for gen- erations past has Impos- ed on him by his white breth- en. II trying to galtl his rights as a human being. If these rights are denied him In this Province then the matter should be Investigated and rectified by the proper suthorltles.

Rectal prejudice and bigotry masquerade under all sorts of disguises, and usually are found at thelt- wont he is-

our province can bring t Issue of human brotherhood concretely to

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people, and forcibly back up the schools and the press In this matter.

Again I wish to express my appreclation, and to thank you for your editorlal stand.

am. lr, etc., WARREN DUCI-IEMIN Stanhope. Sept. 12.

FISH PLANT OPERATIONS

Sine—May I have space in valuable paper to say a few words about what is commonly called “Sourls the Home of the Dragger Fleet." To a certain extent this may be true; but it seems to me that the dressers have a foster home in Nova Scotla.

This summer has been a dras- tlc one for the working c l a a a who have to depend on the fish- ing industry for their living. Word started for us In April. It is now September. In this pe- rlod,of time we have had about two full working weeks; the re. melnder of the time we had an average of about four days' per week. Welsh this wlth the high cost of llvlng, schoool hook s. clothlng for our chum-em, and

last but not least our team. out ac certath be a great deal out. I

Does It not seem strange. thdt of two M plants operating In the same baton: one Is pro- ducts. steedlly: will» the other one is on I put time basis? It certainly Is not the scarclty of

I think It Is high time our gov- ernment offlclals got on the ball, and really looked Into this matter: especially when the plant I refer to la government

own . Can the captains of these drauera let asst-lance from ‘ Board of then M

t “been Neva Gentle? Ifnot haveuorlght-loselllhelrflsh

lshadows a desperate goal-line

stand.

Pointed speeches by Canada. Pakistan, New Zealand, Aus- tralia and India. following in rapid successlon on the second day of the conference of prime ministers, suggest that Brltatn’s sister nations are as reluctant as ever to see her cross the channel.

All are speaking circum- spcctly. The tone is milder but the case remains substantially the same.

In reminding the United Kingdom of lukewarm state- ments about the European con- nection made three years ago by British ministers. Prime Mlnlater Dlefenbeker may have used a technique as am. barrasslng as the more forth! right criticisms expressed by Canadian spokesmen at tithe Ghana a year ago.

KEEPS PLANS 8 CRET

Whltehall is unliker- to dis- play much enthusiasm over Dlefenbeker's vague references about “alternatives” to British membership in the European Economic Community. It Is un- derstood the prime mlnlster plans to keep these alternatives in a plgeonhole unless his Com- monwealth colleagues Inalsl that he produce them.

““Be keeeps waving these al- ternative plans In the back- ground. but with strings at» fuelled," one Brltlah source commented. " ' ‘ put them on the tablet. After all. he's had plenty of time."

to ln s‘ with reporters. Dlefenbeker has declined to give the slightest clue to any new Canadian proposal. It Is understood he may hold them In reserve for Canadlan’ Parliament after lib

maths Commonwealth counts-lea may say will make any difference.

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Old Misbeliefs Ar’eHarcl To Die

a, Dr. Theodore E. Vulcan.- WHY ARE most babies born at nlxht? A Benson Park. at...

been Interested in. how closely we humans follow the development ofimau down th ‘ ales. Most women so Into labor at night. So did our prehistoric ancestral mo- thers. Darkness was a protop- tlon om eneml ta tlme when they were helpless to de fend themselves. Moat farm anlmals have their bables at: ‘ I!

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Everyone is entitled to a the- 0 when the reason for a all- uellon Is not known. This worn. an assumes that “pm-historic ancestral imothere’ had their babies at night. In all probablb lty, some delivered them during the day as do modern mothers. 0n the other hand, many of our habits and Instincts go back to primitive man. We repress them but the clvlllzed Individual of- ten reverts to the an i m al stage when certain emergencies

arise.

It takes some people a long time to shake mlabellefs. An Illinois housewife writes: “Re- member some t e ago when the cancer scare started about cooking In aluminum were? I threw out all my pots and pens made from this substance and replaced them with steel. Now comes aluminum wrap and I'm wondering if it Is safe to u se it for wrapping and storin g foods or was the aluminum can- cer scarsui’u'st an idea and not

The story was not true and this gullible woman should have investigated before throw- ing 0 u t h e r aluminumware. Furthermore. we went through the same thing when tin cans came lnto existence. But I sus- pect she still believes the myth because of her remarks on alu- minum foil. If the use of this metal led to cancer, most of us would be gone by now.

(Dr. Van Dellan will answer questions on medical topics if stamped. self-addressed enve- lope accompanies request.) LONGEVITY AND MURMURS

S. ries: I'm a woman of 52 with h slight heart murmur. My doctor tells me I could llve to be 80. Is this possible? REPLY

Yes, but don't throw all cau- tion to the wind now that your ‘ realize you may have 30 UPI more years to go. Many mu rs murs are innocent and do not Influence longevity.

TODAY’S HEALTH HINT—

Overweight? Eat slowly and really taste the food.

GYPSIES SETTLE

About two-thirds of Sweden's 750 gypsies now are perman- ently domiciled. while 252 Indi- viduals of 52 families still are

migrant.

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NOTES BY THE WAT

Tea m ,anfs Work “is cousin

has swept down“ the dell.— Gala-r7

One of the first great W laments of life comes to the child In kindergarten when he finds that after going to school for a w he 5 can't read — Ottawa Journal.

In the good old days. which cycles aay neVer existed. t wearing of the first pair of long trousers was a great trenaltlon and marked the end of chlld- hood. But If the present trend continues It will take his first pair of short ones to give to- morrow's adolescent a similar sertorlal thrill. — Hamilton Spectator. .