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THURSDAY, DEC. 4. 1958.

The Last Straw

It is surely the last straw for the Railway to impose extra pas- senger charges on the Borden- Tormentine ferries at this time. As Premier Matheson points out, the Railway does not own these boats, but merely operates them for the Federal Department of Transport. In View ofthe Government’s obliga- tions under our terms of Confede- ration, the deficit on this service is met out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and not by the C.N.R. The in- crease in individual fares is a small item in itself, but 'it will total over $20,000 a year. It exceeds the chargeable per mile maximum laid down by the Board of Transport Commissioners and it may lead to other'unwarranted boosts affecting our ferry transportation rates.

" We thought that this matter had been settled by the presentation of. our ,case before the 'I‘urgeon Royal Commission on Transporta- tion, in which our claim that inter- provinci'al ferries shotrld be re- garded as national highways was conclusively established. The Tur- geon Commission, which reported in 1951,, cited among the submis- sions “rmdoubtedly well founded” our complaint ‘that g “the ferry service is regardedby theR-ailway adnunistraflon "ass part of the

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railway service rather than as a ’

transpot'taflon,‘ service to the people of the Previnoe." Apparently this misconception still persists in the minds of'-'railWay officials.

Coming on top of the 17 per cent freight (rates boost which" will seri- ously our shippers, merchants and farmers, this arbitrary action in our wtgi‘ferry service has amused a ' deal of indignation. The fact it does notapply to the Wood aribou service—operated

Tb, Northumberland Ferries Ltd.

not by the C.N.R. though the

changeable—makes. for a lot of un- confUSlon as well. ' We

V ' that action will be taken im- mediately to have this bureau- crmd'tic imposition cancelled.

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. France-s Situation -

A look at the final tally ln’the French parliamentary election re- veals two things, principally: (1) The new Assembly, for what it is worth—it really will have little to say about national policy—has an extreme Rightist complexion; (2) There will virtually be no organized Opposition in the Assembly to the do Gaullists and their subsidiary backers. ~

An interesting sidelight to this situation is the reduction of Com- munist strength from 149—the number they had in the last As- sembly—to 20. however. was the result of the complexity of the

- new voting system. Actually, the

Communist vote represented a little more than 20 per cent of the voting population on a national What all this adds up to is al- most a complete absence of mode- rate-leftist influence in the Assem- bly. There is scarcely anything re-

sembling, let us say, the demo-

cratic-socialism of the British Labour Party or the slightly left- of-centre sentiment in, the United States Congress. Pierre. Mendes- France, a former Premier and the acknowledged leader of the mode- rate left, Was himself defeated. So were most of his collaborators. Some political observers in France—and elsewherHee in this unusual situation a threat to civil l liberties. As long as General de Gaulle is in the saddle, the danger probably will not be great; for he has shown no inclination so far to tamper with fundamental human riglps. But General de Gaulle won't be mere for ever; and there is no doubt that many of his supporters in the Assembly—whole blocks of them—are inclined towards totali-

V~ cent a year ago.

for both services are inter"

tarlanlsm. There is a‘ possibility, therefore, of the French political pattern’s developing into two seg- ments—~the extreme right and the extreme left, the Communists.

That would not be a good thing for France. It is, indeed, the sort of thing that is conducive to civil strife.

Merchant Tonnage

Lloyd’s Register of Shipping re- ports that the world’s merchant marine fleet continues to grow and has reached a new record size. On June 30, there were 35,202 steam- ships and motor vessels of 100 tons gross or more. Gross tonnage was 118,033,731. During the year the fleet grew by more than 71/2 million tons. It was the largest single in- crease since 1948.

The principal increase came from the Liberian “flag of conveni- ence” fleet which ousted Norway from the third place, despite the continued growth of the latter’s fleet. There are four nations called “flags of convenience”. ,They are Liberia, Panama, Costa Rica and Honduras.- All of these fleets are, owned by foreign interests who are attracted to registry under these flags by more favourable tax, labour and operating costs. At the present time there is much resentment in leading waterfront circles, especial- ly in the United States, at these flags of convenience. Liberia, the leading nation in the group, added 2,612,349 gross tons during the year—more than one-third of the world’s increase during the period.

The United States’ fleet of 25,589,596 tons continued as the world’s largest, althOUgh it declin-

ed by 321,259 tons from 1957. This -

was the greatest drop registered by any nation. Britain and Common- wealth ccrntries were in second place with 24,655,125 tons, up 623,- 000 tons from 1957. Liberia ranked third, followed by Norway with 9,384,830 tons and Japan with 5,461,442 tons. Soviet shipping is not mentioned in the report.

The report notes that the world

. total of tankers increasedby 3,652,-

000 tons over the previous year. It totalled 28.5 per cent of all powered ships, as compared with 27.2 per By contrast, 1939 the tanker fleet represented only 16.9 per ’cent 'of the world’s tonnage. Only 8,198,000 tons of steamships, about 7 per cent of the total, still use coal as fuel. 71,724,- 000 tons is steam powered and 46,310,000 tons, diesel-powered. l

EDITORIAL NOTES

A scientific test has revealed that drivers don’t drive as well after tak- ing a few drinks as when completely sober. It’s amazing what important discoveries these tests do make, to be sure!

The United Stiles h'és $3 billion tied up in wheat surpluses alone. The volume amounts to about 1,200,000,- 000 bushels—200 million bushels more than the country consumes and exports in a year.

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A report from Alexandria says that Soviet collective farmers have presented a “gift horse” to President Nasser of the United Arab Repub- lic. It does not say whether he looked it in the mouth or not.

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The Toronto Telegram thinks that shoes will cost from 50 cents to $1 more a pair next year, owing to increased cost of leather. Unless something can be done soon to check the inflationary process, shoes won’t be the only product to cost more. Practically everything will go up.

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News 'of Red Cross: Mrs. Fran- cis Taylor of Marysville, N.B., blind slnce 1920, was awarded the Red Cross badge of service for her out- standing achievements in Red Cross work over nearly half a century. Mrs. Taylor has knitted for the Fredericton branch of the society since the outbreak of World War I.

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At ‘last someone has protested against the use of that abominable word “geriatrics”, which seems to have replaced “geratology” as a scientific term for the study of old age and is applied to aged persons as well. A prominent New Zealand author, Miss Nellie Scanlan, says scornfully: “‘It sounds like a disease of pigs. Imagine calling Sir Winston Churchill England’s grand old geria‘ tric! I refuse to giVe a penny to any— thing called a geriatric!”

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on HIS Venus Foe THE new Two YéARS

HORATIUS ON A SHAKY BRIDGE

OTTAWA REPORT

An Econom

By Patrick

The greatest preoccupation with most of us is money. “What is

the money go?" are the two most important questions underlying our daily life.

Superficially, most‘of us pro- balbly feel that 1958 has been a bad year economically, for each of us as individuals and for all of us as a nation. There has been heavy unemployment at the beginning of the year, and now repeated again as winter sets in. There have been more strikes and labour dispute than in any recent year. There have been so ‘many substantial wage increase granted“ under pressure of strike or threat of strike that the prices we pay in stores for food. cloth- ing and our daily kick have spir- alled t-o all-time highs.

The economic experts say the economic setAback has only been. a ‘frecession": that its graph is not like a chasm~as was the slump of 1929—:but is shaped more like a saucer; and that in any case we are “bottoming out" of our troubles.

CABINET CHEER

More specific good news comes from Hon. George Hoes, our Min. ister of Transport, who is mak- ing a name for himself as a Ca- binet spokesman who always has something worthwhile to say when he delivers a public ad- dress. He roams far and wide from his departmental topic of “Transport” and in his latest ad-

ic Checkup

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dress he discussed where we are economically.

In that speech, prepared for delivery to the Toronto Board of Trade Club, he highlighted a few of the all-time record highs ac- hieved by our economy this year.

The most significant of the pen- nants he waved, to herald our pull-out from the economic slow- down we have experienced, re- lated to the cash we have in our pockets to spend.

In spite of strikes and unem- ployment, all Canadians together have had $1.08 to spend this year, for every $1.00 which we had last year. Our earnings and other income, after paying direct taxes, have increased by just over eight per cent compared to last year. That figure ought to make us feel good.

Another aspect of our pocket money was recently raised at the annual convention of the Mon- treal Dress Manufacturers guild. It would be an unpardonable ex- aggeration to say that, in the field of ladies’ fashion and sar- torial elegance, Montreal is the Paris of the New World. But still, the women of Montreal out- shine the women of most other Canadian communities in what they wear, and their stores rank high in Canada in the stand- ard of clothes they offer.

So it was. interesting to note that this gathering of Montreal Dress Manufacturers decided that although they now fill 98 per cent

of Canada’s demand for dresses,

their future is severely threaten- ed by competition from the Uni- ted States. They especially fear that their present customers will increasingly make shopping trip: across the border, and bring back clothing on the duty-free allow- ance granted to residents who have been out Of the country for a minimum of 48 hours. I

So they made a formal request to the Government in Ottawa, to place a limit of $25 on the value of clothing which any returning Canadian may bring into Canada duty free.

The Montreal Dress Manufac- turers Guild estimates that Can- adian visitors bring back from the US. clothing valued at $35,- 000,000 each year, under the $100 dutyfree regulations. The 'Guild also estimates unofficially that for every article of clothing thus declared, two articles are smug- gled into Canada by returning visitors. There are no official fig- ures on this. But there are fig- ures which disprove the Guild’s

further allegation that clothing makes up 80 per cent of the duty-free imports brought back by visiting Canadians. Last year Canadian visitors to the States, staying over 48 hours, spent a total of $165,000,000. 3,200,000 Ca- nadians made visits of over 40 hours, so the average long-term Canadian visitor spent $51 there, and brought back $23 worth of purchases, of which $11 repres- ented clothing. .

llt is significant that Canadians as a whole bring back from the States, under that duty-free allowance, only one and one half per cent of the total permitted to us by the law.

Berlin Settlement Problem

By Lloyd MacDonald Canadian Press Staff Writer

Mention the word Berlin at the United Nations these days and the reaction inunedila'tely be- comes evvalslve. ,

Eyes the Soviet - bloc delogates haven’t gone on record as push- ing the issue of the former Ger- man capital in the world as- sembly, a l t h o u g h Premier Khrushchev has indicated that he might favor the UN as a possible mediating factor in any “inter— nationaliration” of Berlin.

Two factors appear to be keep- log Berlin out of the UN even as a talking point. One is that for the next few months at least the big powers directly involved have a time limit to consider. The other is that Germany — East or West — is not represented at the UN.

SIX-MONTH LIMIT

When the Soviet premier served notice on the Big Three Western allies that Russia was albrogating its occupation agreements re- garding Germany he specified a sixmonth period for the United States, Britain and Finance to do likewise. After that period, he Warned, the East German 00cm- m-unist regime would be given

communication lines leading from Berlin — which is deep in the East zone of Germany — to the Western none. '

This would leave the Western sector of Berlin marooned in the must of an unfriendly state.

The immediate reaction by the Big Three was that they would not change their position of refus- ing to deal any East German government. Whether the six- month period of grace will bring about any change or compromise is still most uncertain.

DELAY FAVORED

But compromises reached over periods of time have been the historical and basic means of attempts by the UN to settle dis- putes. And if the big powers can get together before next June on some form of Berlin solution the other UN members would not wish meanwhile to Jeopardize these outside negotiations by mak- ing Berlin an inflammatory de- bate issue.

That was the way the Quemoy crisis was handled, once the for- mal issue of R041 C‘lllna'\ I‘CPI‘C' sentailon was shelved for another

yea-r — even though by 3 nor- rower vote than ever before. Since then, Early in this hall’s General Assembly session, hardly a word has been spoken about the Chinese offshore islands in UN debaters. And while the shoot- ing is still going on in sporadic fashion, the issue has lost numb of its immediate urgency.

While the underlying problems remain of course unsolved, most delegations at the DIN appear to how to the traditional diplomatic line that delay is the best of all possible worlds if no immediate solution seems in sight.

In addition, the German people fall into much the same category

as the people on the Chinese mainland in that they lack rep- resentation in the UN. In the view of smaller meml‘ ber coun- tries particularly, the UN should not attempt over~political (action involving populations that have no voice in the assembly.

Thus the major body of UN membership hopes in the coming months for a lasting Berlin set- tlement. A complete breakdown of negotiations could force a. meeting of the Security Council. a resultant deadlock there be- cause of the bilg~power veto, and perhaps an emergency assembly session the success of which would depend on the whrm' s of the Big, Four and only magnify the alssemlbly’s role as a purely advisory body.

When the major aims of East-

ory function is not enough.

Hidden VoIIeys - Lost Worlds

New York Herald Tribune

There was an eerie quality in a dispatch from Australia the other day that solved a twenty- seven-year-old mystery. Some -

on mountain called World’s End came upon the wreckage of a plane that appeared in 1931 carrying two pilots and six passengers, includ- in the American theatrical pro- ducer Clyde Hood. Amid the wreckage was a luggage tag that said “Hood care Capitol Theatre”

The incident is a reminder that, while many pebple yearn for new worlds beyond our own, this globe still has its secrets. Scien- tists can-not dismiss the “abom- inable snowman” of Asia, for ex- ample, because its habitat—«if it exists—is a 30,000-squane mile region that has never been clos- ely explored. '

SHANGRI-LA

The legend of Slhangri-La is intoxicating because men like to think that such a place is pos- sible that lost airplanes are real- ly making safe landings in hid- den kingdoms that outsiders have never seen. Certainly the notion that Amelia Earhart was alive on some Pacific atoll persisted long after her dirsauvpearam-e. long

al'lcl' crcrluh'ty should have giv- ‘

en her up.

Do you remember the celebra- ted case of WAC Corporal Mar- garet Hastings, one of three Am- ericans—and the only woman—— “ho survived a plane crash in the unmapped interior of it e w

Guinea in World War II? Allied airmen had heard many tales of a “lost valley”, but It was al- ways sealed off by mountains and clouds. ' ' , FIRST WHITES THERE

The crash survivor~ were the first white people to enter this curious realm. They found that it was ruled by a queen, who kept a harem of men, and naturally sh recognized Miss Hastings as the leader of the white party. In fact, the two men probably owe their lives to the fact that she was along.

The problems of getting the 3 Americans out was a formid- able one, and it drew wide atteu tion. For it is always fascinating to rediscover the fact that the globe still has trilbes that are un- known, or as in the case of Af-

and West are involved an adtvisi

Portrol’r OF

An Executive

By Herman N. Budesen, MD. PORTRAIT of an executive: Physically. the executive is a big man. He is slightly taller than the average man and he weighs a little more. too. In fact, he is a little overweight.

INTELLECTUALLY SUPERIOR

Mentally, he has superior ca- pacity. He has good judgment, is creative and can express himself with ease and directness. He has

a strong self-discipline of his men-

tal powers. Years of experience h ave taught him how to handle ten- sion. Given the choice of‘ comple- ting his day‘s work or playing, he finish his work. He likes work; he likes being an execu- tive.

HOW HE RELAXES

Yet he knows the value of re- laxing, and he knows how to re- lax. he plays golf; he fishes oc- casionally, does a little gardening watches television, attends the theater, goes night clubbing and often reads a good deal.

But probably his most outstand- log trait is his lackadaisical at- titudegalbout his owu health! His indifference and ignorance about the diseases inherent within his particular portion of the popula- tion amounts to a tragic scorn. UNSUSPECTED DISEASE

And the chances are that he does have some unsuspected dis- ease. Statistic-s compiled after ex- amination of thousands of exe- cutives indicate that from 35 to 50 per cent of them have some unsuspected illness.

About one out of every two of these unusually intelligent busin- women suffers an ailment which he refuses to recognize until it may be too late.

USUAL AILMEN'IE ? The usual executive diseases are those of metabolism such as low thyroid state, elevations of blood cholesterol, and-of course —olbesity.

Most common unsuspected dis- eases among both male and fe- male executives according to fre- quency are:

Hypothyroidism, hypertension, arteriosclerotic heart disease. hy- percholesterolemia, diverticul is of the colon, arthritis of all typ s, hernia, polycythemia and ane- nua.

OTHER TROUBLES

Next come herniated disc, chol- elthias-is, diaphragmatic hernia, goiter, prostratitls, hypecuficemia rheumatic heart disease, congen- ital anomaly of the venous sys— tem, diabetes, bursitis, polyp of the stomach or colon, gastritis, and away down on the list—duo- denal ulcer. v QUESTION AND ANSWER