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PAGE 6 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1962. tana nda sadn liti

Important Farm Measure The Provincial Department of Agriculture is to be commended on the aggressive policy it has adopted in connection with improved potato production. Hon. Mr. MacRae out- lined this policy in the Legislature on Monday, and we need not go into the details here. The establishmen of an “Elite Potato Seed Farm”, capable of furnishing enough top quality seed in five years to plant the entire Island acreage, is an eg- sential part of the plan, Patterned efter a similar operation in Maine where the production area is care- fully isolated, the project will not only serve an important purpose in itself, but will give wide and faver- able publicity to the emphasis which is being placed on disease control measures by our seed potato grow- ers in this Province.

However, the minister was” frank in pointing out that most of the trouble heretofore experienced is with regard to the use of custom set cutters and planters, moving in- discriminately from one farm to an- other. “Severely stringent regula- tions,” he said, will demand that these machines be steamed and sterilized after every farm opera- tion. This may work a hardship on the small grower, but it is absolutely necessary in insuring freedom from disease.

Mr. MacRae has appealed for the co-operation of every person connected with the industry in ob- taining the best results from this disease control measure. There is no question as to its value and ur- gency, and we have every reason to believe that our growers will not only acquiesce in whatever incon- venience they may be put to, but will warmly approve this resort to stricter scientific methods. It is on-

they should do so. The industry ‘s facing keen competition these days, and it is only by initiative of ‘his kind that we can maintain and im- prove upon the high standards of seed production for which this Prov- ince has been noted in the past.

Nuclear Arms Wrangle

A Liberal newspaper describes Defense Minister Harkness as “still ducking and running for co ver whenever the Opposition raises the question of the Government’s policy of’ nuclear weapons.” Certainly Mr. Harkness hasn’t been over-commun- icative on the subject, or Prime Min- jster Diefenbaker either. But tne problem is beset with difficulties, not of Canada’s making. The pro- gress of the disarmament talks at Geneva, for example, could have a bearing on any firm policy decisions in this connection.

For our part, we see nothing wrong with the Government’s determination to have no nu~ -t arms so long as there remains any

of Canada staying out of the so-called nuclear club. By this policy the Government is strength--'ng External Affairs Minister Green's hand at Geneva in fostering neutral- fst influence for a test-ban agree- ment. Meantime the Prime Minister has contended that should nuclear war come to this continent there would be time for the RCAF Bomarc . bases and Voodoo squadrons to ob- tain and use nuclear warheads.

We gather from Opposition Lead- er Pearson’s statements in the Mari- times that he is equally concerned about having no nuclear arms im this country for the Canadian frr- ces so as to keep the nuclear cinb

tirely in their own interests that.

tain the West’s deterrent it might be necessary to consider perr ‘ng # nuclear base on Canadian soil man- ned by American forces. This, be it noted, is at variance with the pos- ition his party took last September, when its defense spokesman, Mr. Paul Hillyer, stated explicitly in the House of Commons that nu- clear warheads would add nothing to our security and would provide uo protection for the Strategic Air Command.

Also, it was the Liberal position last fall that in front-line NATO forces, medium and intercontinen- tal nuclear missiles should remain in the custody of only those NATO members who possessed them at ‘he time—that is, the United States, Britain and France. Now Mr. Pear- son has apparently been converted to the view that Canadian planes in Europe should also be equipped with nuclear rockets rather than “eonventional” high-explosive ones.

These variations in Liberal policy explain why the Government is equally loath to reach hard and fast decisions on the subject. In- deed, as the Globe and Mail points out, behind the smokescreens of words used by both parties there are signs that their positions on nuc- lear weapons are becoming much the same. “Would it not be possible,” it adds, “for Mr. Diefenbaker and the Defense Minister, Mr. Hark- ness, to approach Mr. Pearson and Mr. Hillyer and work out a joint non-partisan policy on this issue? That would take the matter out of the political arena, where it never should have been.” Precisely. But would that suit the Liberal party strategists at this time, who have been making a lot of political hay out of this issue at the Govern- ment’s expense?

A Hopeful Note

We can use all the hopeful mes- sages we get from world leaders .n this troubled day and age, and per- haps President Kennedy had the same idea in mind when he spoke last week before a big audience at the University of California. At any rate, he lifted his eyes to the hills before giving this address, and his words have inspiration for all of us. In essence, his speech was an appeal to the American people to forget the “clamor of daily urgen- cies” for a while and consider the long-range tides of history.

Mr. Kennedy spoke optimisti- cally of two events: the tangible agreement of the Soviet Union to discuss joint space explorations, and the more nebulous question of the favorable tide of world history in the cold war. As to the first, he said: “The prospect of a partner- ship with Soviet scientists in the exploration of space opens up excit- ing prospects of collaboration in other areas of learning. And ¢o- operation in the pursuit of know- ledge can hopefully lead to co-oper- ation in the pursuit of peace.”

Soviet-American co-operation in space, he said, “would emphasize the interests that unite us instead of the conflicts that divide us.” And he continued: “It offers us an area in which the stale, sterile dogmas of the cold war can be left literally a quarter of a million miles behind. And it would remind us on both sides that knowledge, not hate, is the pa«key to the future—that knowledge transcends national antagonisms, that it speaks a ani- versal language, that it is the pos- session not of a single class, a -‘ngle nation, or a single ideology, but of all mankind.”

Words of wisdom, which, let us hope, will be studied and pondered in the Kremlin as well as in other world capitals at this time.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Our teachers are still under- paid; but as Education Minister Dewar pointed out in the Legisla- ture the other day, the $2,391,000 budgeted for teachers’ salaries ‘his coming fiscal year represents a marked improvement over the $1,- 000,000 expended under this head- ing in 1959.

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The attempt ‘to de-Stalinize philately in the Soviet Zone of Ger- many is proving to be a difficult problem. You can pull down statues and rename streets at will, but to withdraw the new 1962 stamp catalogues printed last autumn is @ cifferent matter altogether. This catalogue contains Stalin stamps and collections of motifs of the past four decades from all over the world.

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OTTAWA REPORT by

Our Impoverished Parliamentarians

The most explosive dynamite | in politics today is the remun- eration paid to our MPs.

I say “not very righteous” because, living here among our | parliamentarians, I know very well an important aspect of their | life which the voter overlooks. | This is that it has now become | a whole-time and very costly job. | The MP. has to spend about | eight months of the vear work- ing whole-time in Parliament; and four months at home most- ly occupied with constituency work.

It is thus almost impossible for an M.P. to continue with his | ordinary work, and there are | very few occupations which per- | mit him to earn money on the | side.

UNAVOIDABLE EXPENSES

At the same time, there are very few landlords in Ottawa or | anywhere else who will rent a family home for months only, and no Canadian schools which will regularly cater for children for vart of the year only. Hence an MP. either has to abandon his family for much of the year, or else maintain two homes.

The economically cheaper but | sociologically less desirable | choice is for the MP. to live in Ottawa as a bachelor. That costs him a minimum of $4,500 a year, in addition to the cost of maintaining his normal home.

Then the MP. has travelling | and secretarial expenses, dues, | subscriptions and entertaining expenses in his constituency, | which amount to at least $2,500 a year.

Thus in effect we pay our

they must pay income tax and | pension premium. |

There are some elder men | who, having accumulated their

do afford to dedicate their later | years to public service. But

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there are very few younger men | of the desirable standard of education and ability who feel justified in subjecting their | families to a $2,500 a year way of life when normal em- | ployment would bring them four or five times that income.

As a nation, we are willing to pay our MPs only a pittance, upon which nearly every MP is today going into debt to his bank, and which - as several recent cases have deplorably shown threatens his wife and children with penury if he should die. We are offering our legisla- tors bargain-basement prices, | such as we would not risk for | medical care or education, and which compare badly with the | income of the sleeping car at- tendants and CBC executives who | are also on our payroll.

CHANGE MPs’ PROGRAM? | It seems to me there are two |

| reasonable solutions. One would

be to pay MPs a more realistic expense allowance, by adding ‘

Diplomatic

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The diplomatic strains which have developed between Paris | and Moscow are another indi- | cation that President de Gaulle

rook no nonsense—not even from the Russians—as he strives to achieve peace in Al- | geria.

The aloof, iron-willed French | leader was reported to be furi- ous over the Soviet Union’s rec- ognition of the Algerian provi- sional government based in Tunis. |

France curtly announced that | Maurice Dejean |

“consultations.” Almost at the same time the French foreign | office said Russian Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov was “invited | to resume direct contact with |

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his government in Moscow.” With two terse announcements

in Paris two of the world’s

important diplomatic missions

were reduced from ambassa- dorial to charge d'affaires level. | REASONS IMPORTANT

This act could have thrown a | monkey wrench into the summit

Federal Budaet Outlook

1962 could be the year in which |

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inated these things from diet, the results were dramat- ic.”

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never was without a canker sore and, believe me, it was an ordeal to live with because of the pain.” She take 8 ounces of fresh (not canned or frozen) citrus juice a good 10 minutes before breakfast and the same amount in the afternoon or eve-

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Other sufferers tell of being relieved by thyroid tablets, shots of vitamin B12, eating one- half cake of moist yeast, drink-

ing buttermilk, taking vitamin G (ascorbic acid), or a daily therapeutic vitamin capsule.

say $20 per night spent in Ot- tawa or in travel between Ot-

The other would be so to al- ter the hours of Parliamentary sittings that the sessions could be substantially shortened.

At present the House of Com- mons normally sits from 2.30 to 6 p.m, and from 8 to 10 p.m. five days a week. M.Ps from dis- tant points then waste the week- end in Ottawa, whilst many from nearby Ontario and Quebec rid- ings go home. It would be real- istic for the House to continue to sit through the evening din- ner hour, as the British Par- liament does; there is no rea- son why it should not sit on Sat- urdays. This procedure could reduce the parliamentary year to two sessions each of fix three months duration.

I can honestly assert that one thing is for sure: something | must be done to improve the conditions of parliamentarians’ life, and to provide security for their dependents.

Strains

A low salt diet helped one person and a Houston man ob- tained relief when he stopped licking labels. But the most scholarly cure was suggested by a man who was convinced here- dity and anger are responsible. He writes, “Unfortunately. I was born with an unstable ner- vous system.”’

(Dr. Van Dellen will answer questions on medical topics if stamped, self-addressed env lope accompanies request.)

SWEATING PALMS

H. W. writes: It is very sel- dom that my palms are dry. Even at room temperature and when I’m completely at ease, they sweat profusely. Is there a remedy for this annoying con- dition?

EPLY Many high - strung _ individ-

vals are bothered along this line. The sweat glands and the ood vessels are under the| control of the autonomic nerv- ous system. As a result, the hands may be cold and red, in addition to being moist. The an- |

ticholinergic drugs, such as Elo- | wi

rine chloride, Tral, or Pro-Ban- |

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machinery, as some British ob- | servers have suggested. | But, say, the pro - Gaullist | sources, it’s extremely impor- tant to try to understand the | French reasons for the action. Premier Khrushchev’s official

recognition of the Algerian re- | of

gime came within days the Evian agreement between France and the Arab National- ists on a cease-fire in Algeria. Technically this was an agree- ment under which

Algeria with special safeguards

tlers in the territory.

Few now doubt that this will | lead to the creation of a new | | North African nation governed |

by Moslems. But France is also faced with the complex of attempting to

power. FEAR EXPLOITED Khrushchev’s recognition of the provisional Moslem govern- ment can only accentuate set- tlers’ fears with Algeria. Their fear of a Moslem as- sumption fer has been ex- ploited ruthlessly

by the lead- ers of the illegal Secret Army

Organization now locked in a the | deadly

battle with the French

Army. De Gaulle’s move came only after he had seen the Soviet ambassador twice to try to get an explanation of the step.

The atmosphere was described as glacial. The an-

complained a Soviet propaganda campaign in which the French were described as “brutal colonialists armed to the teeth.” Since

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BOOSTER INJECTIONS Mrs. D. writes: At what age are booster shots for children stopped?

REPLY

At age 16, when they no long- er are considered children. Thereafter, authorities recom- | mend smallpox revaccinations and booster doses of tetanus va- ccine every five years. Polio vac- cine is recommended every two | years,

INFECTION OF TUBE Mrs. J. K. writes: 1. What is salpingitis? 2. What is the treat- ment.

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PLY 1. Inflammation of the fallop- ian tubes leading to the uterus. 2. An antibiotic such as cillin that is capable of killing whatever organism is ble for the infection.

OUR YESTERDAYS From the Guardian Files

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Mar. 28, 1937)

A committee to wait on Minis- ter of Education, Hon. Mark R. McGuigan, in connection with obtaining Prince of Wales Col- lege Hall for performances, was appointed at a special meeting of the Little Theatre Guild, yes- terday. The committee included Mrs. Cecil Stewart, Judge H. L. gpa and Dr. T. E. E.

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