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SATURDAY, JAN., 25, 1958

West Indies Trade

Hitherto, trade between Canada and the West Indies group has been pretty much a hit or miss affair and on a very limited basis. The West Indies have taken quantities of fish and some flour but very little of anything else, while Canada’s im- ports from the islands have con- sisted almost solely of sugar, molas-

Vses and cocoa—~and these products in relatively small quantities.

Mr. W. O. Isaacs, Jamaican Min- ister of Trade and Commerce who is now in this country at ’the head of a trade mission, thinks that the two-way trade can and ought to be expanded considerably. He seems to be of the opinion that lack of inter- est in the West Indies market is mainly responsible for Canada’s small export trade.

According to

Kids 4

Mr. Isaacs, the

West Indies, Jamaica in particular, -

could use large ‘quantities of Can- adian lumber, food, hardware, tex- tiles, industrial and agricultural ma- chinery and electrical appliances. At the some time he believes that Can-

ads should be importing more West. «

Indies coffee, ginger (the best in the world, so Mr, Isaacs says); citrus fruits (w=h.i’ch now come mainly from

‘ Florida. and California), tomatoes,

confectionery,‘ ‘R handicrafts cigars, ~ .

These two lists" certainly cover

‘ wide fields; and they providefia good

avenue for an expansion of Com-

monwealth trade which is being "talk-

ed abouta good deal at the moment.

and

There are difficulties ‘in the way, of A

oourso—the dollar shortage in the West Indies, for one. But, that,ap- parently, is not- a very "serious prob- lem; since, to quote Mr. Isaacs, “the

dollars available are considerable .

and increasing”. (In any case, that problem applies also to American ex-

ports; yet American trade with, the . ,

West Indies is much bigger than our own. Now that business men from the West Indies have come to Can- ada to size the situation up for,them- selves, no doubt Canada will recipro- ‘cate by sending a mission to the Islands. That is lreally the only ef- fective” way to stimulate mutual

trade. '

A’ British Example

The Public Accounts Committe of

l:he:BritishiHouse of Commons takes "

its job of exposing waste and ex-

travagance in government seriously. ,

Since the end of World War II this /committee of the UK Commons has, turned up examples of waste of pub- lic funds totalling 235,000,000 pounds. Among. other things, /ex- amples of waste include payment of

38,000 pounds in salaries to Control "

Commission employees in Germany after they “had left their jobs. 34,- 400,000 pounds of British taxpayers’ money went down the drain in the Labor Government’s West African groundnuts fiasco. The Ministry of Food squandered 2,500,000 pounds in overpayment for meat. Another 240,000 pounds went for an army radio set~—-never used.

Things like this, comments the Letter-Revenue, make one wonder what has happened to the Estimates Committee of the House of Com- mons at Ottawa. The Committee as originally constituted was hamstrung by its limited investigating powers as well as by its composition. The

I

Governm.ent’s interest in preventing

waste and extravagance could be put to practical application by set- ting up the House Estimates Com- mittee along the lines of the public

accounts committee of the British Commons. ' Perhaps it is safe to say that

-every department and agency of government -.has accumulated a cer-

tain amount of‘ fat in the form of C

unnecessary expenditures that could

be eliminated without impairment '

of efficiency. The only way to get rid of this bureaucratic ‘fat is for

. A ‘properly constituted House EsLi-

mates Committee to he en-ipowered to investigate every phase of public spending and ferret out every in- stance of waste and extravagance.

; States, to raise funds.

Slowing Down

While the scientists are sending artificial moons around the earth and generally penetrating into the secrets which Nature has hitherto kept to herself, the earth itself is taking a hand at confounding the scientists and their plans. Specifical- ly, it is slowing down, 50 times fas- ter than was supposed by those who keep a check on such abstruse’ mat- ters.

This means, according to‘ a group of Britishscientists, that “the earth will come to a dead stop a lot sooner than had been supposed and, like the moon, will then always show the same face to the sun. The coun- tries which happen to be on the sunny side will continue to have permanent daylight, while those on the other side will be in perpetual darkness”. Dr. Louis Essen of the National Physical Laboratories in Tiddington, Eng., who has the only atomic clock in the world--another

is being ‘wound up in Washington, .1

D.C.—says he has found that days now are 1-10,000th. of a second lon- ger than they were two years ago. “This is the first time we have been able to measure the length of the day”, says Dr. Essen. “However,

the earth is not completely reliable I

and the days have been varying in length even in the same month by

g as much as 1-1000th of a second”. Considering the utter unpredic-.

tability of its inhabitants, the earth can afford to be a little “unreliable”.

In any event, this generation has

nothing to worry about as far as the earth’s coming to a halt is concern- ed. In Dr. Essen’s computation, _ it will not happen for another 16,078,- 000,000 years! . ‘

EDITORIAL NOTES A A

A project, has been launched to give; Ireland its first planetarium, to‘ be built at Armagh, the ecclesiastical capitalof the country. Total cost of the proposed building and equip- ment will be 80,000 pounds ($224,- 000). Committees have been estab- lished in Ireland’ and’ in the United

at vk -Tr _ . Secretary of State John F0 ter. Dulles wo_n’t resign for a -while yet,

President Eisenhower has any- thing to say about it. At a recent

news conference the President be- came ‘quite angry when a reporter

;-Sug’g-'-:J.'t'.ed t'l‘1_at‘~,a good many people ‘

both in and outside the United States were of the opinion that Mr. Dulles’ usefulness" had ended. Eisenhower referred to that as “a lot of , trash” and stated, that “Mr. Dulles ‘is the wisest, most dedicated man I know”. A = L A I A t * i _ - Reports from Bonn and‘ other

*German centres indicate that ‘labor

and industry, together with'govern- ment, take the same commonsense View (about inflation and its in- evitable consequences. Union leaders and employers alike, noting that German exports have fallen off in the wake of wage-cost-price rises of,

, the (past twelve months, are talking

moderation and compromise of ‘the wage front in 1958. Both know,that wage inflation means fewer" orders and fewer jobs; -

' «A» t iv

Referring to the “most dangle!"-

—ous misapprehensions” that the Un-

ited States’ military power is infer- ior‘ to that of the Soviet Union, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chief of Staff stated before‘ a Congressional Committee that “such conclusions could factiially increase the probabil- ity of total war”. On the other hand, of course, they may help to per- suade the joint chiefs of staff to

stop their inter’-service‘ bickerings _

and get on with the job of bringing theimilitary force’: of the "country up to satisfactory strength. pk , '9 up V

The Soviet Union may be plan-

ning to regiment the weatherman.

,'That’s the word that comes from

Washington, where the 011-man Ad- visory Committee on Weather Con- trol predicts that weather, and not intercontinental missiles, may be the

_ ultimate weapon. Washington meteo-

rologists fear that the Russians may try their hand at melting the Poler ice cap, to the intense dis- comfiture of coastal areas in North America and Europe; also that they maye be cooking up a scheme to change world patterns of rainfall, robbing the North American con- tinent of moisture vital for raising food crops. The bogeys raised by oldtime superstitions were nothing to what modern science can concoct‘.

' get bogged down. And it is.fe1t

’tical to the German view just de-

A AIRBORNE SQUABBLE

, for Britain.

faster (just) than the American

.MONéY .0Tz Youz

UNITED KINGDOM OPINION Towcirds The Summit

4 By “onlooker” Thomson Newspapers, London, England,,Bureau

With Parliament back into mo- liion opinion is hardening regard- ing the value of having summit alks as soon as they can be ar- ranged. But most think that the talks should be accompanied by preliminary talks among the for-. eign ministers.

The'British view is almost iden-

clared ‘by Adenauer -— that if the ground for conference is not well-tilled first before the chiefs start talking it may be easier for the whole business to

that an indifferent summit con- ference would be worse than no conference at all. '

When would the British prefer the talks? Politically, there are reasons for thinking -that, they will seek a meeting some time in mid-summer. If it comes fairly soon on the heels of the budget, which is sure thi year to contain some relief for e tax-payer, it. will constitute another triumph to.‘- occupy public attention as polling comes near." I. '_ , = FAIR SHARE,

But whatever the budget brings‘ forth, wanting more concessions right now are the coal miners, who have put in, for a new pay rise. But ‘they are losing, in the process, what public sympathy they once had. It is truethat be- fore the war ~miners were just on an existing rather than a liv- ing wage, but since the mines were nationalized under the imm- ediate-post-war Labor. adminis-

tration they have had a fair share '

—- and more — of the whip. '

Cola prices to the consumer over here have gone up by about 400 per cent since pre-war days. In basic terms, where a hundred- weight bag of the coal that the] British throw on their fires cost 28 cents, it now costs $1.40. On the otherhand , although output of coal since 1950 has remained fairly static —— between 75 and 80 hundredweights every: manshift ——- wages since that time have doub- led. '

From below the ground to above the ground. Still unresolved here is the squabble that has arisen regarding the granting of the key contract to build a new jetliner for British European Airways -- the state-run organization that covers the European mainland

Just signed is a big order by British Overseas Airways for a Vickers —— the same firm that did the Viscount and is now forg- ing ahead with the larger Van- guard, its successor, for medium- distance routes. Not a penny of public money -is being spent on the new plane, which will be

Boeing 707 airliner.

But the squabble over the BEA aircraft is an indication that the Government over here, more than once bitten in the matter, is get- ting -tough with manufacturers and insisting that they pool their

resources more. And at the mom- i

ent the industry, while ready to merge for specific projects, is reluctant to do it over 3. long term. .

Now the choice is between dc l-lavillands and a huge concern formed by an affiliation of the Hawker group, who have been making most military aircraft recently, and Bristols, who made the Britannia. And — after pour- ing millions of dollars of public money into civil aviation research since the war, the Government is sure of just one thing: that whoever gets the contract for the, new airliner will have to “go it al’one” with no help from the taxpayer. The order will be worth about 80 million dollars initially,

.MAXlMS

with a good chance of big over- seas sales. IN THE: LIMELIGHT

Still keeping in the air it is probable that Britain‘s "Royal Air Forcewil l grab most of the headlines and most of the lime- light when the Defence White Paper comes out here in the middle of next month.

The main reason: the rejig of Britain‘s defence system is being hastened by the introduction of moreguided missiles, which will be coming in at.‘ least two years before they -were originally ex,- pected. I

Further cuts in the strength of Fighter Command are expected, and the future_tendency will be to have all Brit'anin’s fighter stat- ions ranged along the eastern coast of the country instead of, as now, strewn all over the place.

A" personal sign of the times for - the ‘Londoner; Biggin Hill, most ilfamous of all fighter’stat- ions during the5gBattle-of«iBritain; lost.'lts‘ last fighters thii; week. The field, just over Londou’s bor- der. housed Spitfire and Hurri- cane squadrons during the Battle,’ and every pilot from the Common- wealth knew it. p _

Now ‘ among the reasons for givingdt up is the fact that the new fighters comin along before missiles take over ——- the 1800 m.p.h. PLS — need ‘a runway of 2500 yds. before they become air- borne. Biggin Hill‘s runways are only 2000 yards —— and there is no room to lengthen them.

I've got official statistics now to bolster up one of my main contentions gathered over the past‘ few years —— that._women ‘smokers here are on the increase and when they do start smoking there are no half-measures about it

It is now known that the aver- age British male smoker. gets through .124 cigarettes a week (few of them incidentally filter- tips) and a woman 71. And al- though three out of four men smoke — the same as in 1 39 — the women’s percentage ig 41, about a ten per cent in _rease over pre-war days. '

ready-made packs - they call — than Canadians, or for that

matter Australian and New aalanders. _ ’

And the British smoke more

them “tailor-mades" over here,.

EARLY WINTER

Before the season of the vintage died

Enameled cold over the golden bough

Confined within an unsubstantial now

The richness of all autumns. glor-

ified. . . ‘-

The harvest burden bent the

crusted branch .

Serenely to the e 111' th until it brushed

The snow with color, and reluct- ance rushed.

To firee its treasure in an aval- anche.

The -supple leaves, before their time unbound,

Circle the weightless tree abrupt- ly bare.

Abandoned brightness crowds the hollow air

And drifts of silence bury com- mon ground.

‘ —Sister Mary Gilbert. in the New York’, Times.

‘The Age Old Story

Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath Holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. '

FARM PRICES DROP

OTTAWA (CP) — Prices of‘ some Canadian farm products eased slightly during last No- vember, the bureau of statistics‘ reported Monday. The price in-

dex, based on 1935-39 prices=

equalling 100, dipped to 219.9 from 223 in’Octcber and 225.8 in November, .1956.

EXPORTS INCREASE

OTTAWA (CP)—Value of Can-

ada‘s domestic ‘exports rose. to a recorded $4,397,200,000 in the first 11 months of 1957, due mainly to sharply increased shipments of uranium, cattle. crude petroleum and seeds. However, the bureau of statistics said the gain over the corresponding 1956 period was small because of big declines in sales of wheat. ‘grains, wheat flour, planks and boards, wood pulp, copper and zinc.

for September 1958.

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‘lilac chessboard is a sgunbol of - life —- ,of all life. The essence of life is struggle. Take struggle out of chess, or out of life. and what 1 is left? In chess I have found

happiness.

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‘tie up their emotions. thigh.

l Women Longer

Lived" Thom Men

By Herman N. Bundescn, Pictupre America as a nation populated entirely by women- no men at all.

While this will never happen. of course. we are heading in that general direction. Men are dying faster than women.

The death rate for men is sub- stantially higher than for women in most of the 64 major causes of death in this country. Pneumo- nia, influenza, cancer, tubercu- losis, accidents, even homicide—— they all claim more men than women.

THREE CATEGORIES

Only in three categories is the female death rate significantly higher: cancer of the breast and genital organs and diabetes. These figures are for 1950. the most recent ones I have avail- able. And since difference in the male and female death rates has been widening steadily over the years, it probably is even great- er now.

Back in 1920. the death rate for menbetween the ages of 45 and 54_ was only 10 per cent higher than the female death rate. By 1950, it, was 78 per cent higher!

BENEFIT BOTH SEXES Naturally, both men and women have benefited from our medical advances. Science has prolonged the lives of both sexes. Nevertheless, men are dying faster —and younger than women Why? We have several theo- ries, but no actual proof.

For one thing, men in general get around a lot more than wo- men and are therefore more fre- quently exposed to disease. Then. because they are the male animal they are more aggressive ‘and lack the caution of the female Consequently, they meet more accidental deaths. Alcoholism al- so is much more prevalent among men.

BOTTLE-UP EMOTIONS . Men have a tendency to hot- Ulcers, blood pressure and heart "disease may be the, result, Women. on the other hand, re- sort to tears and hysterics to relieve their emotions.

Men are also more subject to the stress of today’: speeded-up world. - BETTER. RESISTANCE

resist disease better than men can. But whatever the other rea- sons for their longevity, there is additional fact of which I am positive: women take better care of themselves than do men. We- men will consult their doctor quicker and follow his instruct-

counter part.

Women. it appears, simply have more sense.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

G.T.: What causes a bone in- fection? , Answer: An infection’ of the bone, or osteomyelitis, most com-

’ mouly occurs in children as a re-

sult of the spread of a bacterial infection from the throat to the bone. In adults, the infection us- -ually follows some form of imjury to the bone, such as a fracture or a gunshot wound.

-have to be revised a bit.--Brant-

Perhaps women biologically can 0

ions betterthan will their male '

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NOTES BY THE WKVTF

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Whatever the federal , ment lacks this year it ifiiilvemi be advice. The seven royal missions about to start

Looks as ll that old nursery rhyme about the cow jumping over the moon anrl the little dog laughing to see such sport W111

. . . . W ford Expositor the Job 01‘ Just finished, w1(ii'kgff°'__ _ enough‘ recommendations over” A woman has been very trying wide field subjects to keep 19 (,0 the shop assistant. whose tem- islators busy for years A ’ ‘'

per was beginning to get a little uncertain. “I ‘think y0u”h3d.b9i' rter fetch the manager, sniffed customer. “Perhaps he’ll have a. little more sense than you seem to possess." “Oh. he has» mfid‘ am.” was the tired reply. ‘He went out as you came in.—0ttawa Journal ’

a good number of pigeo °‘ 50"‘ Brantford Expositor ‘ i

A rather strange big, of 1,.” the fact that down south. in F1 ida, the weather has been °"i thing but sunny. Cold. ltariih w‘.‘“l’* have blown and snowfall; hind‘ -been recorded. In fact, *7 3" ly was it in the seotionwhere the;

con.

Motherhood has interfered with were Vacatlonmz that alocal plans of the Young Wives’ Club }’_1eba‘:(°1t‘:‘?, “P “"1 time no -. of St. Michael’s Church in St. Al- U1 1 f. 5“““>’ Canada"w en... ban's England, to stage an ama- ' e-Y . lglfilled “Irv Would be 1 '- ~ teur play called “World Without :5 dim °rtabl°"'Br°°kVm¢ Re. Men.” One after another of the or / 16 club members has had to beg Everywhere the ferric. we “I. off from taking part in the play. appearing. It is years sincelgfh‘ Even one member's pet dog last ferry crossed between W. 9‘ which was to have appeared in isor and Detroit. The Mackinmy the play, had to be excused. The ferry has been supplamed half‘. dog is expecting puppies.—Cvape bridge. a.nd soon the ferry-’w1¥i .3 Breton Post crosses the St. Mary’: river C- tween. the Sault, Michigan mtg, the Canadian Sault wjm’ Ontario and Michigan 1,',,°ff"*.«.~ greed to provide funds for"; m $15,000,000 span between 4:11.; cities, and unless Paruamen, Ottawa should intervene congtlwn tion»is to start this Summer‘ ferry belongs to the frontigri PI-er‘; turesque. romantic, rugged: M,~,,:'; bridges are faster in an age Ml}; centrating on speed. —.

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City firemen were called about 8 o'clock last evening to the sev- enth barn fire in -the northwest section of the City since last Sep- tember. Fire Chief H. H. Jewell said last night that the barn was locked and that he was at a loss to explain how the fire could have started in such a place.

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mu VILLAGE COMMISSIONERS or VILLAGE OFPARKDALE. ‘

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From The Guardian Files) _ TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Jan. 25. 1933.)

Damage estimated at over $20,- -000 was caused on‘ Tuesday night when the dam of the new Mari- time Electric power plant in the Montague river was swept away during a storm. It is thought that the accident was caused by ac- tion of f1,‘qst,as the dam had been leaking for some days previous to the‘ break. The terrific rush of water. swept away Suther1and's Bridge and a number of other small spans.

_ The drying plant for fish which is owned by the firm of Mat- thewand MacLean of Souris is

work on quantities, of fish which are being prepared for shipment in -the near future.

TEN YEARS AGO N (Jan. 25, 1948)

Zero and sub-zero weather over the week-end did not stop the ferry Fairview which continued to make trips despite the pre- vailing cold weather. Three below zero ‘was reported in Charlotte- town while Tyne Valley reported

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at present busily engaged in that

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