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PAGE 4 .F.‘“7T7§‘.'.-. !1§9wB,i?_B».29-_.i9:3- Scapegoats Won't Do First it was l’iuance Minister

Gordon who had to run the gauntlet

of devastating criticism for his bud-

ggtary bungling. including demands that he resign. until finally he had to withdr.-.w his more obnoxious measures wi:h as good grace as he ¢0n1d Show in the numer. Then Agriculture .\lini=ter Harl‘.\’ l’i3.\'-‘- last \\'P0l<. had to sit through a bat‘- rage of person.-ii attacks when he presented his departmental spend- ing estinmtes to the Commons. His shortcomings were ticked off by the §

Opposition with as much relish as ‘

were Mr. Goi‘doi1's.

Now it’s Pustniztster General Denis who has been under fire, as none of up most notorious prac- tmnne,-; of political patronage in Canadian ‘ni.-':oi~;.'." He was accused I of misleading the House in previous :- misstatements about a list of pat- ronage con.-ultants. and hope was {

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expressed that he would soon be kicked upstairs into the Senate. where he could no longer indulge in his shameful proclivities.

What is curious about these at- tacks is that they seem, for the most part, to have been levelled entirely at the ministers in ques- tion, rather than against the gov- ernment as a whole. Yet the fault, surely. lies as much with the Prime Minister who appointed them, and. to a lesser extent, with their cab- inet colleagues who are presumed to be parties to their alleged mistakes or misdemeanors.

It is the cabinet. as a body. which takes responsibility for pre- paring. and then carrying out, all government policies. Its job is to work in unison. There are no scapegoats who can be loaded with a cabinets incptitudes, and sent off into the wilderness. Opposition members seem to be forgetting this fact, when they gang tip on two or three individuals in the govern- mental flock.

As for their opponents in office.

they should remind themselves every night. before retiring. of the words of John Hancock at the sign- ing of the US. Declaration of In- dependence: "We must indeed all hang together, or. most assuredly. we shall all hang separately.” That truly expresses the principle of cabinet soli.rlarit_v. under any sys- tem of raspnnsilile government.

Another Snag Encountered

That the Canada Pension Plan may be a long way from being im- plemented was revealed in the House of Commons recently by Prime Min- ister Pearson. when he said that Premier I.-esage wants a contribu- tion rate of 4 per cent of the first $4,000 of income instead of Ottawa’s suggested ‘2 per cent in the propos- ed federal scheme.

Since Premier liesage has al- ready stated that Quebec will not participate in the Canada Pension Plan—being desirous instead of launching its own plan—-how does this objection interfere with the ap- plication of the federal plan to the other provinces? The answer is that a constitutional amendment is necessary to permit Ottawa to im- plement the type of plan that it and the other nine provinces think de- nimble.

The purpose of this amendment would be to provide for the cover- 3319. under the federal plan, of widows, orphans and disabled per- Imul who were omitted from the (huff: plan because provision for lien: ton wlvthln the provincial

-‘field of jurisdiction. At the last I * ' lnelnl conference nine

provinces-—alI but Quebec—Ire Iafd to have indicated they would favor the proposed amendment. Premier Lesage is said to have implied that he would agree on condition that the contribution rates under the federal plan were increased to 4 per cent.

According to the Toronto Globe and .\lail. .\lr. Lesage has come to realize that a Quebec plan could only build up funds if it offered substantially lower benefits, or col- lected substantially higher prom- iums. than the Canada plan. He is looking for a way out of his quan- dary not by changing his plan. but b_v forcing the rest of Canada to change its plan. This is the price he has asked for his agreement to the inclusion of invalids and de- pendent persons in the Canada plan. which is an entirely separate issue and of no direct interest to Quebec. 1

It may be that the Quebec premier's attitude toward the Can- ada plan is no more than a bargain- ing position. that he is merely seek- ing the best deal he can get for his province and is prepared to com- promise on this matter for a con- cession of some other kind. In any case. it would seem that far from being “ready to roll." as was sug- gested after the recent conference. the federal plan still faces constitu- tional hurdles and 8. great deal of detailed examination.

Reunions In Berlin

Among the blessings that we should be thankful for at this sea- son is the privilege of planning our Christmas gatherings as freely as we choose. We can visit whe1'e we like. and have our friends and rela- tives visit us without a thought to political interference. It has been otherwise, as we know, in Berlin, where the dividing wall built by the Communists 28 months ago has been a barrier to family reunions of any kind.

Now there is widespread joy that this barrier has been breached for the purpose of allowing West Berliners to visit their dear ones in East Berlin. The flow of West Berliners into the Communist sec- tor of the city begins Friday morning. Some 200,000 of West Berlin's 2,200,000 inhabitants are eligible for the one-day passes of- fered by the Communists in this temporary arrangement which will continue until next January 5.

It will be a one-way traffic, for East Berliners will not be allowed to visit West Berlin. Their free- world relatives must come to them. This. incidentally, shows how un- attractive their lives must be under Communist rule. when they cannot be trusted with even a temporary measure of freedom. Too many of them would go and not come back! But even for them, this will be a brighter Christmas, and we venture to hope that the precedent. th us established will be followed by fur- ther evidences of a lessening in cold war tensions in this troubled part of the world.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Agricultural Stabilization Board has announced that the aver- age price received by producers for Grade A large eggs for the year ending September 30, 1963. was 36.8 cents per dozen, which is higher

than the 34-cent support price. 0 O O A crisis in u n s o l d tobacco

brought Ontario government finan- cial backing for 24 million pounds of surplus tobacco earlier this year. This tobacco is now piled up in warehouses. unsold. A 5-man federal-provincial trade mission is attempting to sell it. and also to create a long-term solution, through

export sales. t

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In a summary of its submission to the Royal Commission on Taxa- tion. the Canadian Federation of Agriculture said: "On the whole the tax treatment of farmers is not unfair or discriminatory except in the case of property taxes. Neither do tax provisions unreasonably fav- or the farmer. who has. with the exception noted, been treated fairly but not with special favor." To which the Ottawa Journal adds: “It is sweet music to Government to hear a group of taxpayers insist they have been fairly treated. It almost makes the veterans on Par- liament llill wonder if the CFA Deonlo feel well."

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DO YOUR CHRISTMAS GIVING EARLY

QITAWA REPORT by

Here And There On Parliament Hill

This bf‘lIlE the season of good- will. frustrated moose-huntersl who h a v e returned em p t y-l handed from our northern bush‘ will ronzratulate the y o u n g

woman who has just bagged a. bull moose with her small earl in the comfortable heart of civ-I ilization 60 miles south of Otta-

wa.

Would - be hunters from this.’ Capital normally have to jour-l nay over 100 miles north of‘ here. into the uncomfortable; unsettled country beyond Mani-l waki: and of course they tradi-‘ tionally use a rifle. But Mar- lene Myers hit her half - to n moose with her little car. un- erringly aimed on High way: 401 beside the St. Lawr e n c e j Seaway. She did $300 worth ol_ damage to the grill and win d- shield of her car. but she a n 1 y immobilized her moose. break—‘ lng its two front g w as. dispatched by an armed police-‘; man. unprepared to see a livei moose so far south.

;0WER. FOR PEACE I

The Canadian delegation to‘ the annual conference of NATO Parliamentarians has just re- turned from Paris —— not hailed as veterans of the night spots: in Place Picalle as was the del-{ egation last year. Reynold:

Patrick Nicholson

Rapp, the Conservative .\l.P.‘ for Humboldt - Melfort - Tis- dale, Sask. tells me that he was happy and surprised to fl nil that much of the time of lb 0 conference was spent in di.~.i-its sing mutual interests other than military. He himself was ap- pointed to the" Scientific a n d Technical Committee. and he delivered a speech descrihi ngf what Canada is doing in the way of prairie farm reliabilita-l tion.

It surprised him to find much time devoted to considerin g‘ the acute shortage of fresli| water in many .\'.~\TO countries.) where there is insufficient pure water for alimen t a r y a n c! agricultural purposes. It was urged that all countries should collaborate in research into,_ and the develop in e nt of. suit» able facilities for convcr t i n .4; sea water into salt - free pu re, water. This work would be of, great value to parts of Canada;

BUBBLING HOSPITALITY Hosts and hostesses on Parll-1 ament Hill have felt constrained to hide their bottle under a bus-! he! in recent years. But hap p y days are here a g a i n. Mrs.- Jean - Marie Dessureault. the charming wife of the prnminentl Quebec Senator, recently gave; I

PUBLIC

FORUM l

THE TONIC SOL-FA SYSTEM‘ Sir,——I could hope I am mis- taken: forl am strongly of the opinion that there is hardly. to- day. a rural school district on Prince Edward Island. in which the school- pupils have even a speaking acquaintance with the time-honored tonic sol-fa sys- 3 tem of singing by note—— the term by w hic h sight-reading. and singing of music is general-' ly described. I believe, in fact.‘ that Icould safely go furlhcr.l and say that there are today uni our province. very few counlryl church-choirs that can read andl sine by note. any one of the fnur- 2 part- hymns in our great Chris‘ tian hymnals— a thing that their] grandparents and great grand- parents could do with ease after attending the old sol-fa singing

schools for a year or two.

This system to which I refer.‘ has been time-honored, not alonel in the old singing schools of! Prince Edward Island. but also.; and much more so. in the Cflllyl training of many of the old mus-l lc masters of Europe: and it isl still much in vogue there. espe-', clally in the British Isles; and.‘ perhaps to a lesser extent. in‘ different parts of the U n ite d‘ States and Canada. Even in our. own little province. the pupils in} the city schools. and the prospec- ; fiive teachers at PWC have held i for some years past, at least al speaking acquaintance with it.

This system is not. of course. the simple tonic sol-fa consisting simply of the letters d. r. m. .l I. l, t. d. mob. Re. Mi. Fab. Sol: i Lab. Te. Dohl with time sym- 3 bols added to the letters but ra-. flier the combined tonic sol-fal and staff system: that ls to say,§ the system that applies the tonic: sol-fa syllables to the modern l planofoi-to staff. The B,VslPf11 is. as every trained musician knows. equally practical in the feaching of vocal. or instrumen- tal music; and it does seem to me that one-half of the usual hour spent in teaching I pupil lo play the organ or piano. could profitably be spent in teaching him or her to apply the sol- fa syllables to one or more of our familiar four-part songs. or bet- ter still, to one or more of the hymns in our well-known hymn books. Ind to plIy cIch of these by note. and sing them by note. Along with this. I much more intensive use of the tonic sol- fa Iyltem than that which is now In practice If PWC lllollld be re- quired there In the teacher‘: fralnlng course. cue two warn of tuchlnl the tonic Iol-fa

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were in actual and intensive practice for four or five years? I believe an acquaintance with the music staff. and singing by note. would be more or less gen- eral throughout our province.

One of the things to be regret- ted on Prince Edward Island and perhaps on every other island—; and I am told there are other ls- lIuds—ls the fact that so many boys. endowed with good singing voices. sing quite freely and en- joy singing till they reach that age at which they discover more or less suddenly perhaps. that they are losing their pure so- lprano voices.. They then become self-conscious and awkward when they attempt to sing along with the girls. and are liable to feel that singing ls, after all, I peculiarly feminine gift. In

ey cease to sing at all. A year or two later. however. they list- en to men singing bass or tenor, and it then seems to them that no man sounds so much like I man as he who slugs in one or other of these keys, especially in

e deep bass one: Ind boy-like. they wish to do what the real men do; and I feel sure th at most boys on Prince Edward Island, trained in tonic sol-fa singing. would find no dlfflculty in changing from their boy-volc- en to the soprano. bass. or tenor of the men.

I may mention now. that many years ago while I was engaged In the teaching profession in British Columbia. I had on one occasion the privilege of attend! in; I muslc course for teachers provided ln connection with I. Teachcrs' Summer School If; Victoria, BC. Our teacher was Miss Ethel Coney, teacher of- vocal music at Vancouver Nor- mIl School.‘ wu I Lo ndon| lady. thoroughly trained and ex-- pert in both the Ilmple sol-fa!‘ system. Ind the combined sol-fa; and staff one. she. in net. col-i lobonfed with Mr. Wlckett, sup-2 ervllor of music In Vncouver and New Weumlnslcr schools. In the composition of I tonlc sol- fI text book. for Ievenl years In use It PWC. Miss Cone.-y's skill in teaching her pupils to read Ind Ilng wllh use Ind Ic-

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curacy, III sorts of different um

music. confirmed In oplnlon I Ind long held. Ind fhIt ls. that no system of teaching sight-read In: and singing of music can sur- pass, or even equal. in effective- IIII, the combined staff and fon- II‘ Iol-(I oyufem. I Im. Sir, El(‘..

M. McKENZlE,

Canoe PJJ.

‘ music.

» In Increase of more than one

a party in honour of .\lrs. Mau- rice Bourget. the wife of the

Speaker of the S e n 8 t e. 130 Euests were re-('ei\'cd by lh e lioslcss and by .\lrs. l. P sler

Pearson in the Senate drawing room at what was openly des- cribed. not under the previous euphemism of “a late afternoon reception". but openly and frankly as "a champagne party.‘

Ml'SI(‘AL EVENING

The Italian ambassador. His Excellency Carlo de Ferrariis Salzano, invited fellow diplo- mats. officials and residents and their wives to his luxurious Ottawa home to hear a concert by the Bocchcrinl Quintette. W h i c b has just completed a successful concert tour of Can- ada an USA. The interesting point about this group of five stringed instruments is that they play the music of Luigi Bo- ccherini. "the Italian Mozart". who lived from 1743 - 1805.

His music was not missed in} his homeland so rich in art: yet it was only by chance thatl the celebrated Italian violinist.l Pina Carmirelli. happened tuf find I complete collection of? his music in a Paris brie - a -‘ brac shop in 1949. From this: lucky chance. Miss Carmirel l i‘ former‘ the quinte-tte in whichl she plays first violin. and star- ted the new vogue for this for-l gotten composer‘; delightful‘

FAMOUS VIOLIN 3

Miss (‘armirelll uses one off the best and most famous violins m ade by the 1; re at_ Stradivarius. This treasure is! the property of the Italian gov-' ernment. which gave her per-‘ mission to use it on this recent

tour of Canada.

Our Yesterdays

(From the Guardian Files)

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the GuIrdlan Files) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO December 2. 1938 '

And enjoyable and greatly Ip- preclafed concert was given It the Provincial Infirmary last night by the Christian Endeav- our Soclety of Zlon Church. Pa- tients of the institution entered very heartily into the singing Christmas carols and other favorite selections. ev. . Carlyle Webster was chairman.

Owing to the fact that Ievernl children have gone in the ice on the It the Electric Light Plant. Summerslde. since there ha: been sufficient lee for skating. The part fbIt h I I

11 considered u in I II ha: been fenced off.

TEN YEARS AGO December 20. 1953 Word has been received that Charlotte-

nadlan DrImI Award In recog- nlflon of MI contribution to fl: 1: development of drImI In the Province of Prlnco Edward 11- land.

Charlottetown’: National Em- ployment offlco report: more than four hundred residents of Chnrlottetown Ind Royalty now di-Iwlng unemployment Incur- Ince bene This repreunta.

hundred clIlmIntI in I week. ___j_____________..

APPROVE PLAN ( A-Pl

plume of Khrushchev’: seven- yenr pin for flu chemlcd D-" itr.

Skin Disorder [ NOTES BY THE WAY

Easily Spread

By Dr. Theodore R. Vnnnellen

Impetigo is I highly conlag ious skin disorder in infants and children. It is caused by staphy- lococci or streptococci which are easily spread by the hands to other parts of the body. The rash can be stubborn. especial- ly when the causative agents are resistant to the Intlbiotics.

e first lesion usually

gins on the face or hands as a small peasized blister filled with yellowish turbid fluid that ruptures within I few h ours. The llquld escapes and d H as as a thick. golden - brown crust. The fluid teem: with microorga- nisms — one reason why th e condition rarely remains stat- ionary. Each sore enlarges. causing others to develop until the skin is covered.

Impetigo in newborns occurs occaslonally Is an epidemic in hospital nurseries. The cause usually is one of the antibiotic- resistant strains of staphylo- cocci. The infected lnfants are immediately isolated from tb e noninfected and treatment is started w i lb 0 u t delay. The attendants use strict hygienic measures to prevent the condi- tion from spreading.

The eruption generally res- ponds to treatment and there- fore is not too great a menace. The crusts usually are removed and the area is cleaned with alcohol or an antiseptic soap. Before the advent of pellzcllllll many physicians applied finc- ture of iodine Nowadays. oint- 1 ment containinz n e o m y cl :1 y and bacilracln are applied.

S om e pliysicians also prc-3 scribe an oral antibiotic such as erythromycin estolale. This

excellent drug gets into thel_ e

blood and strikes the lesions Olll the -inner side. In addition, thel drug is ready to go into action- wherever the bacteria try to’ start new lesions.

A study on 78 children wit hi impetigo was reported in th e New England Journal of Medi- cine. The results favor the sys- temic treatmcnt with an oral antibiotic. Thirty - eight of the young patients the usual antibacterlal ointment; seven failed to improve. Th e other 40 were given erythromy- cin estolate by mouth and I ll got well.

DIZZY ON‘ RENDING F‘. C. writes: man of 30 get dizzy when he stonps to tie his sboelaces? REPLY

There are several reasons. varying from a disturbance in circulation to pressure on cer- tain nervc centers. The c au se can be found through 3 pecial studies. including blood pres- sure and pulse determinations while you are tying your 1 a ces in the physician's office.

NECK STRETCHING . C. rites: Do you think that using a weight on the neck. with a halter. could relieve sev- ere headache? REPLY Yes. provided headachc stems from pressure in the neck. T h i s remedy often helps when the neck has been injured or arth- ritis exists.

PLAYING SAFE

Mrs. S. writes: When a tumor is present in the uterus. wh y are the ovaries removed as well as the uterus’?

REPLY

The ovaries may be removed if the tumor is a cancer. This is because the hormones manu- factured by the o v I r i e s in- crease the growth of malignant

ells.

SWELLING I-‘ROM HIVES Mrs. J. H. writes: Can nerv- ousness cause the body to swell? REPLY

Yes. provided you mean hives resulting from nervous- ness. These localized Iwellings usually stem fro m allergy, often to a food. but occasionally they are traced to emotional upse .

Today‘: Health Hint-

Keep Christmas tree from

blazing.

Reserve‘ , In Advance“

You're In old ffmbr If you re-' member what I vrhlffletree (or] I Ilnxletreel ls; or if you recall‘ the days when the automobile.-i was put up on block: for the. winter; studied by oil lamps: or, took your bath in the waahtubl

the kitchen.— Cumberland Ad- vocate.

The Earl of Dundee, vfslflng Montrnl, said Canada may one 1 and In

Time will have to judge Lord Dundee‘; ability as I prophet. But this much is certain now. he II In expert at saying the sort of , thing Canadians love to hear. —- ; 0l:tIwI Citizen. *

A film Ictor took bf: wife to the hospital for the birth of their first child. For the purpose of the film on which he had been working. the father-to-be upon- ed I two-weeks growth of very dark beard. While waiting In- xlously. he was joined by anoth- er expectant father—— I haggard young man who paced the floor for several minutes before notic- ing the first man sitting in I cor- ner. When he did spot him. t h 9 young man turned pale. “Good. Heavens!" he Iald. “How long have you been waiting?" —GIlt Reporter.

Setting For Winter Olympics

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EMPEROR LIKED 1'!‘ l One of Tirol’: greatest admir- ers was the "Last ‘ ht" of‘- tbe Holy Roman Empire. ' milian I. The 18th-cenfsury mon-

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lnndbmclfls guests have been many. and many have been amom. Marble slabs It the Goldener Adler (Golden Eagle) Hotel bear the inscribed names

of some: 1548-the King of Tunis. 17w—C-oethe. 1828—Pu- ganini.

Foreign visitors have long lov- ed Innsbruck for its beauty, gaiety. laughter, music, and «- pecially. its food.

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1964 winter games are scheduled for January 2) through February 9. But the 100.000 resi- dents of Innsbruck and those of lbc neighboring ootnirnunlties if

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New ski trails, lifts. and ouncninsdldes.

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here is a new. plunging bob- sled run. Roads and rail lines have been improved. A new bridge. the Europa. crosses the Sill River valley at a height 'Jf 624 feet to link the Austrian and German aulabahns with the high- ways of Italy. '

To house the competing teams.

. Innsbruck has built a compound

of eight 10-story buildings. each topped by a roof garden. The practical-minded Austrians plan to rent the 496 apartments an the ames.

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