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PAGE 4 THURSDAY. JAN., 30, 1958

Economic Report

An intensive ‘study of the econo- mic relations between Canada and the United States has been complet- ed by two prominent Canadian econ- omists, Professor Irving Brecher of McGill University and Dr. S. S. Reisman, Director of International Economic Relations in the Depart- ment of Finance. The results of the study have been made known in a report presented to the Royal Com-

‘ mission on Canada’s economic devel-

,opment. g . l s The’ report says that United

, States’ farm policies, especially the

surplus-disposal program, are the greatest cause of friction between the two countries; and it notes that there is little prospect of -any mater- ial change in these policies» in the next few years. Almost 1 all the wheat . and flour exported by the United States in the 1954-55 period was subsidized in one way or anoth- er by the Government; and, of course, that‘ practice is being con-

tinued. Half of the exports was dis- -

posed of by unconventional market- ing methods, and the other half at prices below the domestic support’ prices.

The only hope fbr more liberal import tariffs in‘the United States,

. the report reveals, lies in the cur- I

rent struggle for. economic supre- macy between the Western world and the Soviet bloc. On this point the report has this to say: “What is unmistakeably clear is that Soviet industrial expansion has been, pro-

-. ceeding at such‘a remarkable pace

as to call into question the tradition- al assumption of the automatic and indefinite maintenance of Western economic supremacy. Indeed, the time for bold Western measures on the economic front ‘maybe fast ap- proaching; and it is,difficult=,to see how the United States—given its overwhelming economic power and an understanding of the political and

economic facts of international life«

—-—can long avoid taking the lead with strong unilateral easing'of,the. conditions of access to the American. market”. V -

What the report‘ seems "to boil_ down to is this: The "United States

may be forced to‘ deal‘-more fairly‘

with friendly nations in‘ matters of. trade, in its own economic inter-

ests, because of the pressure of Sov- . iet economic expansion throughout '

the world. That isn’t the best of motives; but, no doubt, it is better /than none at all.

Happy Ending

‘ A week or so ago a news agency carried a dispatch which quoted Pro- fessor Gordon Husen, who had been hommissioned to study the United States’ old age security program, as saying that “there was a prob- lem in Canada of regional need. Newfoundland’s Health Minister (Dr. James McGrath) considered the present $55 a month pension high for pensioners in his Pro- vince”. The inference, of course, was that in Dr. McGrath’s view, a $55 pension is too much. At the time, the whole thing sounded non- seniical. To begin with, the -cost of livi ’g in Newfoundland is consid- erably higher than anywhere else in Canada. For another thing, it is not usual for politicians to tell any

group of their constituents that they

are receiving more than they de- serve in the way 'of income. That would be one sure way of losing votes and offending people, which no politician in his right mind would want to do. I

Well, the matter has been clear- ed up, and Dr. Mcqrath’s political acumen and personal integrity have been sustained. Rising to, a “point of privilege” in the Newfoundland Legislature the day following the news report, Dr. McGrath claimed that the dispatch was “both em-, barrassing and damaging”. Not only had he never made the state- ment attributed to him, but he had never seen Professor Husen or “ex- pressed any View to him on any sub-

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-Rule in their dealings

ject whatsoever”.

It now only remains for Profes- sor Husen to say that he himself was “misquoted”; and relations be- tween Dr. McGrath and his Pro- vince’s old age pensioners (who, na- turally, were a bit upset over the re- port) will be cordial once again.

V The Golden Rule‘

Mr. Donald Gordon, President of the Canadian National Railway, has been chiding American business men for “not following the Golden with Can- adians.” In an address to a club in Pittsburgh, he mentioned the fol- lowing problems in Canadian-Amer- ican relations: Threatened tariff in- creases. on exports to the United States of ‘Canadian raw materials brought into production by Amer- ican capital; the lack of opportun-

.ities for Canadians to fill senior

posts or participate in the owner- ship of branch plants of American firms in Canada; thigh United’ States tariffs on manufactured goods which contribute to the current

, Canadian trade deficit with that

country; and the effect on Canada’s grain markets of the American sur- plus agricultural products disposal program.

‘All very well and good. American business interests in general and the United States’ Government, too, could practise the , Golden Rule a little more scrupulously with no harm to the United States and to the betterment of relations with this country. There is no doubt about that. But, perhaps, Mr. Gor- don himself is not quite as devoted, to the Golden Rule as hemight be—'

witness his authorizing of the laying . off of a number of sectionmen all

across Canada in the dead of win- ter and at a time when jobs are scarcer than they have been for some years—as an economy mea- sure. 1 L ,1 . How would Mr. Gordon like to be told that he would have to: take a sizable‘ reduction in his annual in- come in the interests of economy? We have an idea that he wouldn't,

A like it at all, his professed devotion‘ to the Golden Rule notwithstanding.

EDITORIAL ‘NOTES

Poultry will soon be expected to’ grow some of their own feed. It has been found that processed “feather” meal is high in proteinand can be

«mixed with* other ‘ieédsi-at little"

cost. ' . 4 A 5' I

— I Although smallpox is very rare

in these parts, it is still a serious

menace in manyareas of the world. ‘ Last year, according to a United Na- tions’ agency, eight countries suf- fered epidemics of the disease.

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Of all the officials who are at- tending this week’s meeting of the - Baghdad Pact, none has a more un- enviable role than that of. the US. Secretary of State. American pres- tige in the Middle East was probably never lower than it is at the pre-. sent time. Besides, some of the gov- ernments concerned are a. little

' doubtful whether the United States

should be represented at Y‘ all, since she is not a member of the pact.

* -x w The civic election campaign is

-~ beginning to warm up. The issues

are discussed in an address, reported in toda ’s Guardian, by Councillor Edwin E. Johnstone who is a candi- date for the Mayoralty. It is years now since the practice of holding public, meetings at civic contests

-was discontinued, though it is more

important than ever that the busi- ness of governing the city should be understood by the electors. Mr. Johnstone has set a good example in dealing with these issues, and we're- commend his address to the careful study of all concerned. 5 ' 9 * I’ Newfoundland is the only Pro- vince, where Burns’ Day is a public holiday. This is a little strange in" View of’ a statistical report which re- veals that there are fewer people of Scottish ancestry in Newfoundland than in any other Province. St. George’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day are also holidays, but not St. An- ‘ drew’s Day. Incidentally, Newfound- land has more public holidays than any other Province, with the pos- sible exception of Quebec. And now the Legislative Assembly has passed a law making every Saturday a holi- day in the shops, much to the dis- pleasure of most of the shop-keep- ers. There is such an ado over it that the Supreme Court may be asked to

pass judgement on the legality of the order.

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THE COLD WAR RANGE

On The Rompclge Again

National Geographic Society

Manam, an active island vol- .cano in the Pacific close to the North-East New Guinea coast, is on he rampage again.

violent new eruption has oc- curred, climaxing activity that began in mid-October. Fine vol- canic dust has destroyed gardens in villages andcovered much of the 30-square-mile island. Inhab- itants were‘ evacuated from the vo can-o’s immediate vicinity in D -ember. ‘

Mauam, ‘known also as Vulcan, is part of the great’ island horse-

‘ shoe of the Bismarck Archipelago,

which includes New Britain, New

, Ireland, and the Admiralty group.

Its zlunt cone, rising 4,265 feet ‘and wearing a constant plume of vapor, catches the eye a dozen miles off mainland New Guinea’s Hausa Bay, midway between Ma-

‘ ‘dang and Wewak. ‘

BY PASSED “ WHISTLE STOP”

Manam is familiar -to thousands of Americans who fought in the southwest Pacific in 1943-44. Fly- -ers of the Fifth American Air F or c e. with Australian units, -- struck repeatedly at points of ene- my strength at and near the mouths of the‘ Sepik and Ramu riversin North-East New Guinea.

In the end, Allied bombers and ships made it possible for ground troops to bypass “whistle stops” on ‘General MacArthur’s road back -to‘ the Philippines. At Han-

Space

, Man's ability to master hi en- yir-onmennt (Which does not in- clude, unfortunately, his ability to master himself) is moving at -a prodigious and accelerating rate. Consider a few dates:

1783: The Montgolfier brothers sent up the first balloon.

1903: The Wright "brothers sent up the first powered airplane.

1944: The Germans bombarded London with long—range missiles.

1957: Sputnik I orbited around the earth. ‘

There were 120 years between the Brothers Mongolfier and the Brothers Wright; only thirty- three ye:rs between that first flight at Kitty Hawk and the Ro-

sa Bay alone, the sea and air arms ended the war role of L5,- 000 enemy ground troops by- cut- ting them off from supplies.

Some 5,000 primitive natives live in the small settlements that dot the rim of. precipitous Man- am. Women slightly outnumber men. Children are better cared -for than in many undeveloped areas and survive in higher pro- portion.

’ Trees cover Manam’s steep slopes up to 3,700 feet. Though .fresh water is scarce, gardens spread on the lower levels. Taro is favored over yams as the sta- ple food. Manioc, bananas, and sagc are grown. Trade is carried on with mainland neighbors a- cross -Stephan Strait and Hausa Bay. _ -

The island’s rocky coast pro- vides only two poor harbors for small ships, one at Bed-ua on_-the southeast, one at Bieng on the northwest. Aris, five miles north- west, is_a satellite island with all extinct 700-foot volcanic peak.’ APPEASE EVIL SPIRIT

Lava flows on Manamhave at times reached the sea on the east coast, breaching the track that connects all the villages. Is- landers solemnly dance, beat drums and blow bamboo pipes to, appease spirit that causes the earth’s convulsions. The last er-

uptions of note were in 1953. Par-

Control Prololerns

New York Herald Tribune

bot Blitz; only-thirteen ‘years he- tweenthe buzz-bombs and the ele- vation of the late Laika into out- er space. Certainly there is every reason to believe that the progres- sive invasion of space will pro- ceed, within a decade, to a point which, if not re, llated in advance -by genuine, enforceable interna- tional law, will threaten the globe with destruction and its a.tmos-

lute chaos,

The task of introducing order into the nationalist confusion of space flights will not be easy. Af- ter centuries of the painful devel- opment of maritime law there is still acrimor.1;us debate over such elementals as the extent of na-

The Case Of The Sore Bock

Toronto Telegram

For ten days or more, during

.a period of dramatic political de-l

velopments in Ottawa, the Prime ‘Minister has had a sore back. He stepped on a loose stone while walking from his East Block Of- fice to the House of Commons, and wrenched a muscle. For sev- eral days he conducted his busi- ness from his home, the official residence of the Prime Minister.

.Then he returned to the House

last Monday, restored and ready, and delivered a speech that his friends call one of the greatest heard in our Parliament.

But to get back to the PM’s sore back. Charles Lynch, a Sout- ham' news writer, recounts how he was asked to check on’the ser- iousness of Mr. Diefenbaker’s phy-

'sical condition, concerning which

no information had been given out in a formal way, such‘ as a medical bulletin in the manner of the U.S. White House. Mr. Lynch merely phoned the Prime Minis- ter, asked him how he was, and added that there was some talk whether he would be able to campaign actively if there was an election. Mr. Diefenbaker’s re- sponse to the reporter was to come out and see for himself. Mr. Lynch continues the narra- tive: “We scurried right out, and were ushered without ceremony into his upstairs boudoir, which was littered with books and pap- ers. . . As soon as we had shaken hands with him, he went into a demonstration of his fitness. . . We asked about reports that the Prime Minister had been wearing a brace. He threw open his dressing gown and suddenly we were looking at what can most politely be described as the af-

physical

fected area. It was enclosed with nothing more formidable than a cloth belt. . . We had to admit it didn’t look very serious.”

Mr. Lynch summed up his clin- ical inquiries by reporting that, though he lacked a medical de- gree, he could “claim to have in- spected the evidence more closely than any other person in the land, excluding the medicos. All we can say is that he looked jllst fine.

This incident sheds a warm and revealing sidelight upon the Prime Minister, around whose em- inence of office there is none of the aura of divinity cultivated by men in comparable high office elsewhere. Instead, the common touch that makes all men -kin shines in the case of the sore back.

I -POPULATION BOOMS

OTTAWA (CP)—-Canada’s pop- ulation, an estimated 16,887,000 at Jan. 1, is increasing at a “rec- ord rate,” the bureau of statis- tics said Monday. Population was up 805,000 from the 1956 census total of 16,031,000 and repre- sented an increase of 543.000 from the 1957 total of 16,344,000.

I-IEIRESS IN CUBA

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — British heiress Tessa Kennedy and her suitor, Dominic Elwes, arrived Sunday night from Curcacao by plane. Her father obtained court writs to prevent their marrying }in England and Scotland. If they , still plan to marry they will have lto wait for two weeks, as pro- vided under Cuban law.

phere with, to say the least, abso-

ticularly violent periods when rocks and-boulders were thrown high occurred in 1917, and 1936. '

A great rift in the eartlfs crust runs northwest from New Bri- tain to Manam and its neighbors, accounting for their explosive na- ture.

Near-by isles have droll names such as Bagadag, Bllupblup, and Motmot. The last two are part of the North-East New Guinea S-chou- ten Islands named for Willem Cor- nelis Schouten, who with Jakob Le Maire in 1626 char-ted the Ad- miralty group and Manam.

Coast settlements in the Hausa Bay region bear twinnames, too -— Purpur, Batbavt, Bunabun, Bili Bili, and Kotra Kotra. There also a Gumptrop. .

tional jurisdiction ;ver the sea- three miles, or twelve? Air tra- vel, is bedevilled by problems of national “air space.” ’ One question which would sure- ly arise, in creating an ‘interna- tional space agency, is where

space begin? Will man be any more successfl.‘ in policing the ,strat~ospher-e than in preventing wars, and crimes upon the earth? (Yet the very f:.:t th-at outer, {space offers a clean slate for e creation of new international illstituutions is in favor of the at- tempt. It offers, too, an exciting appeal to the imagination —— a chance for constructive work in an untouched field. -V If successful, this could open -the way for similar efforts in in- ternational co-opera-tion for peace; efforts that have been stifled by earth- bound r~i"alries, old fears

all — if space is not regulated humanity may be extinguished by its own devastating creations. The world ha.s a right, indeed a duty, to insist that the Soviet Union measure up to this oppor- tunity. Pclicing space is one great and conczcte accomplishment

that East and West might achieve in a summit meeting after due ’ preparation.

GUARD POETS CORNER WC ACOUSTICS

A man I_know is old beyond his

. years —

The constant clamour falling on his ears

Has tempered his impatience to expose '

A churlishness that knows no true repose.

He never heard the footsteps of

. a mouse '

Across dry leaves; the stirring of a grouse

‘In quest of beechnuts in a sunny wood '

Or happy notes» of furry Mother- hood. .

He never thrilled before a fea- thered Choir

Or to the locust playing on his lyre-

The tranquil ‘sounds that lull and discipline

Are lost upon _a sense attuned to din. ’

A friend of mine is younger than his days — His sunny spirit sweetens and re-

pays The simple life he leads beyond the span

of man.

house, To hear immortal melodies by Strauss, But he has stood enraptured to the strain ' Of robins singing in an April rain. ]He hears the haunting lyrics of the lute

Upon the breathless plains where all is mute -

This man who knows where fairy feet have trod

And keepeth still to know that God is God.

—-S. Barlow Bird. Freetown, P.E..T

does ‘air spa;-J’ end and outer-

and hatreds. And -— the most so-. , berizng yet demanding thought of I

Role Of Color In Health Rules

By Herman N. Bundesenv, M.D. COLOR plays a very Import- ant part in our lives. l While I am a doctor. not an interior decorator, I’d like to PaS_§ ‘ on a little advice about the col- ors used ill your home and of- fice, since they have ‘a direct bearing on your well-being. Science has proven that we re- act differently to different colors. COLORED ADS

Mail-order statistics, for exam- ple, show that colored advertise- ments outpull black and white ads by an average of ten to one. In fact, the New York State Tax Division increased its collections by enclosing angry-red self-re- turn envelopes wtih its tax forms. In the paper industry, one New England firm produces two lines of colored stock named “Influence Bond” and “Impulse Bond." '

The “Influence” papers are. a soft, tactful blend of gray with green, tan and blue. The “Im- pulse” papers — designed to in- spire ignmediate action _— are flame red, bright turquoise, yel- low, pumplin, lime green and clear green.

MUSCULAR REACTION

We know that we humans have a decided muscular reaction to color. and light.

Red colors, such as those used by the tax agency, tend to in- crease muscle tension and speed up the pulse and breathing. Bright illumination does the same thing. . — Blue colors\ and dim lighting, on the other hand, relax the mus- cles and slow down the heart and lungs. It seems to me that blue colors and dim lights are best for the home, especially for the bedrooms. I

WARM OAK TINTS - For your office, a warm, neu-V tral oak tint probably is most suitable for desk tops. The vio- lent contrast between brilliant white paper and a dark top is wiring I« re ves the oak tint provides a moderate contrast. It’ is much more restful.

You probably wouldn’t think that the color of a baby carriage would make much difference to a baby. But it does.

BECOME HOTBOXES ,

Black and gray buggies are usually warm in the winter. But, according to a Better Vision In- stitute report, they become “hot- boxes” in the summer ,

Another summer tip — mos- Jqultoes apparently prefer to’ a- light on dark blue, red and |. brown clothing. They are likely to shun white, orange and yel- low.