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Fact; 4 wi:'5.vEsiifiT TIANUARY s. 1954.

New Start Needed

if the Provincial Government. as Premier Shaw says. is still some distance away from an understand- ing with Ottawa on the workings of the federal end of the much- talked about ARDA program, we can assure him that the public is even farther a\v;i_\' from understanding what the whole controversy is about.

When this scheme was launched in 1961 we were given to under- stand that this Province was in the forefront in cooperating with Ot- iawa. We found it difficult to get a clear idea of what the provincial projects were. but we were assured that. they were going ahead won- derfully. We were even rebuked by the Premier. from time to time, for not giving them more publicity in the interests of farm rehabilitation.

That publicity would have been read.ly forthcoming had we been able to get. the co-operation that was necessa1'_\' in presenting the matter intclligihly. We found that we \\’F'lP not singular in this regard. from a brief presented at the last. session of the Legislature by the Fecleration of Agriculture. It seemed that the representatives of our farm organizations were equally in the dark. that their at- tempts to offer constructive sug- gestions had been rebuffed and that few. if any, of the projects initiated up to that time were con- sidered of very much value to our farmers.

It seemed to us astonishing that the very organization which. in other provinces and on the federal level. had been doing most t.o pro- mote ARDA had been treated in this manner here. Nor can we understand, in retrospect, why Premier Shaw. in replying to the Federation complaints. should have maintained that the Island projects were being pushed forward ver y successfully.

If that were so a year ago. what has happened since? According to Resources Minister Rossiter, the trouble is due to lack of a rural development policy by the federal government. It seems that he only discovered this after A series of meetings held in Charlottetown this week. What, was going on in the meantime? Why all the talk about this scheme during the last federal and provincial elections, if there was no rural development policy at Ottawa to link it up with?

And if there was such a policy and it has since been allowed to go by the board, when did the lapse occur? Why didn't we hear about it at the time? Who was respon- sihle? The whole matter is wrapped in Ilnnecessary mystery.

All that does seem plain, at this juncture. is that 1 new start is re- quired. And a good thing to remem- ber. in this connection. is the need of getting full cooperation from our farm organizations. and of operating in the full light of day.

New Zealand's Experience What has become of the issue

of state lotteries. which loomed on the horizon at the last federal- provincial conference and then seem- _ed to fade out of the picture? Will it be revived when Parliament meets next month, by those who

~ believe that this is an ideal way

of meeting the problem of hospital costs, without pain to the tax- payers?

some of the strongest argu- Jnenta against. efata lotteries as a means of raising money for worthy Queen are that it is very expen- qftg. and that probably not enough

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money would be raised in Canada to. make the effort v.‘ orth while. These arguments would appear to be confirmed by the experience of New Zeuland with its government- run lottery.

Tickets there cost about 75 cents, but after all expenses, prizes, etc., pave been deducted there re- mains just 21 cents for distribution to charitable causes. In other words, costs eat up nearly three-quarters of the money put up. For every mil- lion dollars distributed nearly four million must be contributed. This is expensive indeed.

Each year the lottery distributes about $4 million to worthy causes. New Zealand has about 2.5 million people. There seems to be no pos- sibility of Canada operating a lot- tery on a national scale; if lotteries come to this country. it will be on a provincial basis. On the basis of New Zealand's experience. h my many provinces could hope to make a success of such a venture? As the Winnipeg Free Press remarks of the prospects of such a plan for Manitoba, a provincial lottery would supply only a very small drop in :1 rather large bucket.

More Graduates Expected

Total graduations from Canadian universities were in the neighbor- hood of 31.000 in 1943. an increase of 17 per cent over the 1962 total of 26,500. In 1964 it is expected that the total of those receiving degrees, either Bachelor, Master or Doctorate. will approach the 37,000 mark.

Graduating classes may be ex- pected to become larger in the com- ing years as the enrolments at Canadian universities and colleges continue to increase rapidly. Full- time enrolment reached 141,388 students in 1962-64, representing an increase of approximately 10 per cent over the previous year. Allow- ing for the same rate of increase in 1964-65. some 156,000 full-time students will be studying at insti- tutions of higher learning through- out the country.

The above information, and much more on the same theme, is con- tained in a booklet issued by the National Employment. Service, the main purpose of which is to give a comprehensive outline of man- power supply and demand as it re- lates to university graduates. The booklet. is based on the latest statis- tics. and should be of value to students at every stage In their career, as well as to prospective em- Dl0.Vers of students, to teachers, vocational counsellors and others.

Comments on the different groups of graduating students are arranged alphabetically for conven- ience, and are preceded by a séction on the 1963 estimated monthly starting salaries. A concluding sec- tion describes the role played by the Service in the employment of university students. A fine job of compression has been done in this excellent reference work, within the space of some 30 pages.

What Really Counted

The late John F. Kennedy was an extremely wealthy man, his estate being founded on a large sum of money presented to him by his father. The amount he willed to Mrs. Kennedy and the two child- ren will be made known shortly.

When the figure is published, however. as the Fort William Times- Journal well says. the American public will no doubt. accept the news as an anticlimax. As President of the United States, John Kennedy lived on about the same scale as most of his predecessors in office. He did not flaunt his wealth, and as a result Americans were much more interested in what he accom- plished in their behalf, than in his personal fortune.

EDITORIAL NOTES

From 1946 to 1962 tax revenues of all governments in Canada in- creased from $2.9 billion to $10.1 billion. or from $243 to $546 per capita. This is a staggering jump indeed.

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The Canadian Red Cross So- ciety ia now conducting an inten- sive study of its water safety pro- gram because of a changing pattern in various phases of water safety technique. The atudy ls-being con. ducted by the National Water Safety Technical Committee, which will seek advice and assistance of experta in other organisations:

HOPING FOR A FEBRUARY THAW

OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

The Blind Pig On Parliament Hill

Well. it will be “back to the old blind pig" for our M.Ps when Parliament reassembles next month.

For a few brief happy weeks. a far - sighted arrangement permitted the parliaments ry cafeteria to stock liquor by the bottle for the convenience of Sen- ators and ‘MP5. This was bought from the stores operated by the Ontario Liquor Commission. and sold as required at cost plus a service charge of 25 cents.

But old eagle-eyes. Canada‘: Auditor - General. spotted this informal arrangement. Wh at funds were being used to finan- ce the stock '3 he wanted to know. Were public funds. ear- marked for the purchase of cof- fee. hamburners and similar cafeteria items. being misap- plied to the purchase of scotch

whisky? asked Scottish Ma x Henderson. our Auditor-Gen. eral. , So the cafeteria has reverted’ to its previous status as w h at we used to call during the war a “dry canteen". I'LL TAKE THE LOW ROAD New MP5 will be forced back to the previous undesir-l able choice of taking the hlghl

Most Deleote

A familiar name in American politics. that of Harold Stassen. is once again being brought be- fore the public. Mr. Slasaen has announced that he will enter the contest to become Republican Presidential nominee in 1964.

Mr. Stassen'a chancel will not be rated very highly. He has behind him a number of defeats that would be likely to chill any political convention.

In 1948. Mr. Stanen attempted to win the Republican nomina- tion. But he was defeated by Thomas Dewey. For the ne election. in . hoped to gain the Vice-Presidential nom- ination. However, he was pass- ed over in favor of Richard Nixon.

Another setback followed at the 1956 election. when Mr. Stas- sen, organized a revolt against Mr. Nixon. attempting to pre- vent this rcnominatlon. This re- volt failed. Mr. Stassen than

sought election in other areas.

road or the low road to the bot- tle. They can either order a Parliamentary messenger to go to the nearest liq u o 1' store to buy them a bottle. or they c an frequent the blind pig which some long - ago timid Speak er forced upon the Parliamentary Press lery.

We inky - fingered scrivenera are commonly supposed be inveterate soaks. so presumab- ly it. does not harm our reputa- tion to have a couple of r 0 0 ms plus a passage in the Press Gallery premises piled his h with cartons of bottles and clut- tered with dispensers of iced bottles. Thus no doubt reason- ed that long - ago Speaker. who did not want our fine abst.emi- ous MPs to have an overt b a r or an illicit blind pig in the i 1' section of the building.

But. it. does make it her d e r to work in the Press Gallery when, morning afternoon and evening, the p ce is cluttere

up with MP3. civil building employees and out- sldera flocking around to buy ticker by the glass: and often the passages are obstructed by the whole - time salesman allo- cated to service this blind pig. lrundling his carton-

d Candidate

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In 1958. he tried to run for Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania. but was unsuccessful. In 1959 he ran for Mayor of Philadelphia. but was again defeated.

Harold Stassen has given im- portant public service to the United States. through his work as disarmament advlaor to form- er President Eisenhower. But he can scarcely hope that title would sufficiently balance his political defeat: to make him an attractive and likely Presiden- tial candidate.

It seems probable that Mr. Stassen knows this. and that he has no real hope of being chos- en. His purpose is probably to oppose the "right-wing" trends within the Republican Party. And his highest expectation ll probably that he may gain enough influence and power to help throw the nomination to some Republican candidate of moderate and fairly liberal views

Mohole In A Hole

Milwaukee Journal

Driving a drill bit through the lower limit of the earth's crust to steal a sample of the myster- ious rock could provide a fascinating peek at the interior of the globe. It could possibly uncover answers in some age old questions about the earth’: structure and

' in.

But Project Mohole—- as this particular endeavor has come to be known— is currently caught in a fracas that threat- ena to lclll the whole idea. Tue sonata appropriations commit- fee has recommended that all Mohole appropriations be atop- ped until aclentiata agree on I single a roach to the proiaet.

Actual . Mohole has been a subject of controversy almo at since the day if was suggested in 1959 by a group of scientists who had formed the American Miscellaneous society TAMSOCV. The project derives its name from the boundary between the crust and the denser mantle. which is called the Mohorovlclc discontinuity after a Yuoalav ui who the boundary from his earthquake nva studios. The federal goveraniaafl aa- tioual acleaca foundation agreed early to help aupport the opera- tion. But it touched off a dispute by awarding the drilling con-

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mantle underneath :

had no particular facilities related t qulremenla. In fact, als were ranked third ding competition. Then another controv e r a y arose over how to drll the hole. The Houston company proposed building a special barge and wanted to begin operations im- medlately. The AMSOC, how ‘ever, favors moving into the pro- ject gradually. It would. for ex- ample, use a converted oil tank-

axperlanco on o M ola -

lta propon- la the bid-

boring tests. To make matters wom. coat of the program, keeps climbing. At one time it was estimated at $50 million. Now the cost is closer to 870 mil- lion and one report puts it at more than $100 million.

The Mohole atory so far in a case study in chaos. Its scientif- ic merits are beln

course to follow.

conareu would be right its hold-

fizandup further government a.

at at first to make prellmlaaryi

ed were: on a huge freight trol-

y.

One former Speaker once ex- plored thia illicit blind pig. He was shocked by what he so w. and said so loudly. "Well. Speaker, I know you are a tee- totaller yourself. and this must shock you: but its a great convenience for the Members," explained the Sergeant - at - Arms who was accompanying the dignilary on his tour in- Ipection.

“Oh. its not all the bottles

that shock me." r e to r t e the Speaker. “Its all t h 0 se cockroaches." And a S a r-

geant - at - Arms was instru- cted to declare war. The next day. armed with a sp 1' av gun, he moved in. And of the corpses which were swept up, no less than 275 victims were counted. This was repeal- ed for thirty days before the blind pig was cleared of insects. The mice of courae remained, and produced their biblical in- crease.

The funny thing about this whole exercise in concealment is that MP: have been paying much more than they need I o 1' their liquor for years. If they were to set up an overt a nd authorized bar. they co uld get their liquor on this crown at diplomatic prices. namely about $1 a bottle. That is the opinion of one expert in this field who has been study- ing the whola problem. Mean- while Canada la one of the few nations in the world which has an officially "dry" parliament. And Parliament Hill is the site of Queen Elizabeth's only blind Dis. operated on crown land.

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Spontaneous Lung Collapse

By Dr. Theodore B. Van Delhi Years up my roommate in

of breath. we rushed him to the hospital.

X-rays showed the right luna had collapsed (pneumothoraxl. The cause was the sudden en- trance of air into the cheat cav- ity from a tear in the surface of

e

and the collapse occurred during alee .

The space between the outer lining of the lunu and nor side of the chest wall normally contains no air. The a re: is moist I0 that the membranes can slide smoothly against each other when breathing. Air in th pleural apace makes the lung retract from the chest wall: the amount is great, complete collapse of the lung follows.

Where oea this air come from? one possibility is a hole in the chest well. But. in spon-

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'taneoua pneumothoraxdt comes

from within the thorax. Several air sacs near the outer edge of the lung coalesce. to form a bleb that bursts during coughing or straining. Air from the lungs escapes into the pleural space and the lung collapses.

Treatment depends upon sub- sequent events. Now and then the lung surface leak seals by itself and air is absorbed. In others. a needle must be insert- ed into the c be at well when marked respiratory distress ensues because of total collapse of the lung. A tube is connected to the needle and air is with- drawn conlinuoualy until the sur- face leak closes. If this fails to occur after five to seven days. a cheat surgeon takes over. Sur- gical removal of the thin-walled blebs often is required in per- sona who have repeated bouts of pneumolhorax.

VICIOUS VIRUSES A. R. writes: I know that vir- uses can be vicious. but how do they get their name?

REPLY _

According to Harry Wain. in "The Story Behind the Word." virus is a Latin term. meaning slime or poison. It came into its present use about 85 years ago. in referring to ultramicro- scopic. or filtrable viruses. An- other source says the word was used to denote exudates from wounds. which were thought to be responsible for certain dis- eases.

HOARSE TEACHER

Mrs. C. writes: My daughter developed h o a r s e n ess and cough last spring when she started teaching school. During the summer months was fine but trouble returned after she started teaching a g a i a. What suggestions would you

ake?

REPLY ‘

Only one: She should have her larynx inspected and the chest. X-rayed to determine the orig-

V.A.C. writes: when I go off my ulcer diet. I get abdominal pain radiating from the navel. Could these pain: be due to the ulcer or do I have something else wrong?

LY

EP

These palna also may stem from spasm of the bowel. You neglected to say when they de- velop. what brings relief. and whether they are cramp-like or burning.

NOTES BY

THE WAYfi

We are the austerity our fou- -fa worried about. and you gen’: blame them.- Brandon ua. '

Do 1'01! remember the tall. Il- ckel-trimmed. urn -topped. ls- inglaued. heater that sat on the zinc Ina '

er asks. No. but ahovelllni several hundred tons of coal into a dadblaated. fl n- danzling. con-busted. pot-bellied furnace in the basement. Does that answer your question? — .Sarnia Observer.

Making the avoulaaca of work a life objective is a tough job, Just ask anyone who has tried it.—- St. Catherine: Standard.

The club bore was hunting of his ability to distinguish be. tween different beverages. Flu- ally one of the listeners took a flask from his pocket and asked the connoisseur to taste it tell him what if was. The man took I mouthful and promptly yelled.‘ -“Great Scott. that’: gas-

ine!" "I know." came th 2 curt reply. "but what brand?’ —Galt Reporter.

Keelpingulieset Worm

one winter aldelizht la the in- teresting fact that the hot water bottle. that beloved bed compan- ion which tends to be associated with past generations more than today's, shows no signs of being replaced by such innovations as central heating and the electric blanket. In Britain this year no doubt with last year’: fierce win- tar still in mind, 7,000,000 are ex- pected to be sold. There is also a brisk export trade including. oddly. the Middle East. And the Ottawa Journal notes that sales in this country are increasing at the rate of about 10 per cent a year. Some 430.000 bottles are expected to be bought this year at a cost of $650,000.

The evolution of the bottle has been an interesting one. Start- ing presumably with the old hot

brick method. it has progressed through the long-handled. brass bed-warmer. to the stone ‘Pig’ and finally to the modern rub- ber bottle with cloth and velvet jackets with if in the more lux- urlous models.