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No Assurance _

Commenting on President Eisen- hower’s address to the Canadian Parliament, the Manchester Guard- ian—a paper not given to wild exa aggera‘tion——called it a case of “rub- bing salt in the. wounds”. That just about sums it up. , _ l '

As far as can be seen in any pub- lished statement, the President pro~ mised nothing, except to “consider” further Canadian complaints as they l; arise. Despite this, Federal Govern- , ment leaders are going but of their way to try and convince the Com- mons and the public that from now a on there will be no such thing as an ‘ American boycott on Canadian sales to China. There is no warrant for this whatsoever—43. s s u m n g , of course; that the official statements which came from the talks mean what they say. ' - 1 According to the Prime 7 ‘ v the President “expressd the 'view

be applied in any Way to the disad-

l No doubt, he ‘did. But “expressinga

view” is not at all the same thing as . 3 making a commitment; and whattho; President may regard as “no disada»

fl may, in fact, be a blow to'it.

The only faint hope in regard to

U.S.-Canada trade relations,‘ espec- ially as they concern American sub~ ll sidiarie’s in Canada, is that in the ll future American “consideration” of it problems may be a little more rev. t durable than it has been in the past. 1

There is no assurance of this, how- ;5 ever; and it is idle to pretend “that there is. *a

-FlyIng Farmers

. Canadian farmers are taking to theair to keep pace with the times. Today airplanes are used for many things, from chasing ducks from ,swathed grain to making, a quick

trip to», town for implement parts;- "1 Yet the first flight for agricultur

1' purposes was made just 38 years

ago at Lake Timiskaming, Ont., the same year as the first plane flew from'Halifax to Vancouver. . Since 1920, agricultural flying has snowballed to the point where last“

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435 hours, according to a studyicon- ducted by L.E. Philpotts, of the Econ« omics Division, Marketing Service, gl, Canada Department of Agriculture. Mainly the airplane was used for

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; goes further——much further. ,, ,1 A unique mission saw planesfly- I t flx-' d‘d' t mg low 0 er _ a , Vineyar s an g other special crops, raising the dawn I, temperatures so that frost would not I? damage the crops. From the an, ., strayed and injured cattle were spot« ll ted and other cattle counted and ,; rounded up. Fences, windmills and other facilities were checked and ‘ repaired if needed, and salt blocks dropped for grazing livestock. A check was :made on watersheds, hun- off conditions, flooded areas and drainage and irrigation systems. gll‘ Weeds and crop» growth, crop dam-

aspen—am

age, pasture conditions, orientation I

of field layout, and. general field conditions including the time for ; seeding and. summerfallowing, came ‘ under survey. Other purposes "includ- ed hunting coyotes, foxes'a'nd other :. predatory game, timber cruising, surveying farm land before purchas- ing, watching for fires, and taking photographs. ‘

can transport workers to remote farm areas, and eVen supply them with meals by air. Theycan fly to meetings of farm organizations that " previously they didn’t have time to attend. And they can go hunting, fishing, visiting, or sightseeing. 'Vet- crinanians use aircraft in some. areas, particularly in the winter when ' 'roads are blocked. Some farm mach- inery'salesmen make the rounds by sir. Even clergymen and missionar- ies use this method to cover quickly rural parishes and circuits. . In the Prairie Provinces last year, 1: 399,143 acres of grain were sprayed or dusted for control of weeds, buck brush and insects. 1n Ontario 22,- 800 acres of tobacco were sprayed and 1.050 acres fertilized; 2,200 acres of spruce trees sprayed; many

Minister, l i that the U.S. regulation should not?

:1 vantageof the Canadian economy”.- ”

vantage: to the Canadian ,economy,’

year 203 craft logged a total of 15,?"

spraying and dusting. But the Story

Many farmers now use the airplane " in place of-a car or small truck. They ‘

‘ Christmas tree plantations dusted; and thouSands of acres sprayed for control of flies and mosquitoes. In New. Brunswick, 3,300 acres were sprayed for bush control.

The Department of Agriculture re- port, first‘of its kind, shoWs that indirectly World War II spurred rag— ricultural flying, as young airmen left the _R.C.A.F. to swell the ranks of flying farmers. Also the report gives credit. to the Department of Transport for allowing greater scope to farmers‘who owned private air» craft and thus giving the mushroom« ing business a further shot in the arm. ’ ' _

Agricultural Mailers "

Col. John A. Macdonsld, MP. for King’s, has done well to call the at- tention of Parliament to the inade- ‘quacy of the Federal Farm Load Board under present conditions. The terms under which loans are granted ;——when they are—and the qualifica-

tions required. of applicants are so '

rigid that only those farmers who can

get {along without credit are in a pos-,

ition'to obtain it. The young farmer who is anxious to start out on his own has no chance whatsoever, under the provisions which now exist.

What is needed, asCol. Macdonald _

pointed out, is something on the lines

' of the Veterans’Larid Act, a -“well

supervised and controlled“ agenCy,

‘but not onethat is so rigidly con«‘ ,

trolled as to be utterly‘u‘seless to

the average farmer. It ought to be ‘ " T posSible to. work out a plan. that

w‘ould give hope and' a reasonable

“measure ofsstability to young ‘me‘n : who are ‘anxious to stay on the farm , or to acquire one of their own but",

who, under presont conditions, are obliged to‘see'k other employment,» often not to their liking; This is one

field, surely, where Federal-Provinr ‘ ‘ cial co-operation would pay diyidends.‘

We are glad to note, too, .thatthe member for King’s had a word to say in behalf of , our potato producers“ The so-called “stabilization” price plan offered producers this year was doomed to) failure from the start. It is an affrontl to farmers __to offer them 36 cents a bushel. for potatoes which cost more than a dollar a bush-, cl to‘ produce and to tell them that only first grade potatoes would be eligible for- payment. Every farmer knows, if Federal agricultural of- ficials do not, that there are few, if any, first grade potatoes at this time of year.

EDITORIAL ' NOTES

Senator J.W. de Farris says he has.“n‘othing to retract” Concerning his reference to Douglas Jung, 'mem- ber forIVanc'ouver Centre. as “this Chinaman’i. It is very difficult to make a man see the virtue .of good manners at Senator Farris’ time of life. “ = ix I ‘ i fi I. President Eisenhower made an ex—g

caption to the rule w‘ien*he announ- . I ced his golf score after the. matrr

with Transport Munster Hees and Senate Speaker Drouin.’0.n his horns grounds. when playing With visitors the score is never announced. Appar- ently, it has something to do with protocol, a. word which these days seems to ,cover a multitude of in- anities. ‘ ' ' f¥ ' u» I t

The time to have cut Nasser down.

to size—as the',British, and French

' ' wanted to do—éewas when the Suez

crisis broke. Now, by a bloody mil- itary coup, the pro-West regime has been ousted in Iraq and'a pro-Nasser government proclaimed. According to the Associated Press the coup, if successful, will. be the .most serious blow to the Western position since

_ the Egyptian, dictator nationaliz-

ed'the Suez Canal in 1956. It will also knock the keystone out of the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact in the Middle East and seriously endanger Western Europe’s oil supplies.

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Seven parties won seats‘ in the Finnish elections held last week. Out of 206 seats in one-house parliament, the Finnish Communist Party won 50-a gain of seven—wleaving it equal to the largest other party—-—the Soc- ial Democrats, who. also won 50

seats, a loss of four. The remaining ,

106 seats were divided among the Agrarians, 48, the Conservatives, 28, the Swedish People’s Party, 14, the Liberals, 13, and the socialists, 3.'A coalition regime must, of course, be formed, with the Communists in a sound position to. demand represen- tion in the new cabinet, something they have not had for ten years. With a parliamentary strength of less than a quarter of the whole House, they may even be in the do- minating position. A striking illustra tion of the dangers inherent in multi- party systems.

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' blic Health

OTTAWA -— Welland's Dr. W; H. MainllaIn and Quebec City's Dr. J. ‘Bissmrnette and, East Simcoe’s Dr. P.. B. Rynard are among the doctors who are of the. House of Game mons andwrho are in favour of setting’up a Committee on Health and Welfare.

It is a strange thing that there is no standing connnrittee of the Blouse on our two largest-spend- ing departments, Health and Wel-

is a standing committee on Ex- tel-nal Affairs; there is one on Agriculture and Colonization; on Banldlng and Gonnnerce; our-ve- terans Affairs.,'1‘here is even a‘ standing committee on-such com- paratively trivial subjects as the library and the Restaumm. But the Welfare State and the Warfare State have both been overlooked. ‘ In past years, topics related to Health and Welfare havesome-

maites Cmmmittee, and sometimes ’to the Committee on Industrial Relations. Yet, even with a na-‘ alonlavl hospital insurance plan be- ing set up as a first slop towards a comprehensive national health scrvlce, Parliament has never seen fit to take advantage of the presence in it‘of fully qualified

medical men.

The Liberals haven‘t yot‘per- formed up to expectations in the role of Her'Mavjestyjs Loyal 0p— position.

"Thero' are, of course, reasons.

The hole-is one to which the Liberals had long considered their talents peculiarly unsuited and which they accepted a year ago only because the electors gave them little or no choice in the matter.

The Opposition is weak numern ically. Forty—nine Liberals V oppose 207 Conservatives. Orhthey would. rather, if absenteeism were a

thing of the past. Which, of oouo 'se, it is not. ‘

’Further, these Liberals lack op- position experience a-fter 28 un- interrupted yea-rs in office. Still further, the last two elections tended to wipe the slate clean of political issues which they Would have been able to use to advantage while serving a try-- ing and difficult period of now prenliceshlp.

But none of these factors, and- n.0,.combination thereof, offers a complete explanation of therein- gtively weak showing of the Lib;

erals in the House of Commons '

up to the present. ‘ It isn’t easy, of course. for 3

party to make an impressive -

showing in the Commons when it can count on the services of only 49 M.P.’s. But sfler the clam tions of 1.935 and 1940, the Con- servatives had, to make do as 'best they could with only 39 elec- ted supporters. In 1949, only 41 Conservatives won election. And the PC’s entered the 1953-57 Purl! lament, during which they man' aged to outslug the huge Liberal machine on every occasion when it counted. with only 51 support- . ers. - SUFFERS BY COMPARISON Today’s Liberal Opposition sul- fers by comparison with than Conservative groups of past years. And it is now clear that the qual’ ity of opposition offered by the Conservatives during their long period in the desert. was under- rated at the time. _This is all the more surprising since the Conservatives lacked fmntbenchers with recent exper- ience in the administration of Government depantments~an ad- vantage which the Liberals still possess, though not on the same lavish scale as during the last Parliament. _ But it is probably unfair to measure the strengths and weak-

AnolWéllore -V

' By Patrick Nicholson ~ Special Correspondent for The Guardian

There are eight doctors of med- .Icine sitting in the House of Com- mons now. They could form a’ useful and knowledguble kerned Committee studying health mat- tors.

DOCTORS 0N OFFER

Talk in the Lobbties suggests that this long-standing oversight many soon be put right. It is es- pecially significant that mistakes have been found in” the original Health» Insuhance Bill, passed by Parliament rubber hurriedly just

boilers the 1957 general election. '

Three ,amendments are contained in a blll’before parliament now. But it is as so often happens, a committee of the Senate which has been thoroughly combing over this matter. ‘ . Thus, some ofnthe doctor m.p.’s in both the Conservative and the Liberal parties have been disucss- ing this, 'and have made the un- otflieial proposal that s Health and Welfare Committee should be set up, including some or all of their number. Hon. Paul Martin, a for- mer Minister of National Health and Welfare, has endorsed this suggestion in talking to me. And the Liberal caucus has considerj ed the proposal also,. and in general expreSSed its support. Doctors are naturally especial» 1y interested in the new Health: Insurance scheme. Many Millions

The Voice Of The Turtle

Arthur Blakely In ‘The Montreal Gazette ,

formsnce of a party ,. which re— maimed, in Opposition for so man it years that it seemed in some peril of acquiring permanent title. to the post. - Under our system, an Opposi- tion exists to “oppose by all con- stitutional means.” Ill is expected to criticize, to taunt, to questIon. to lease. to scrutinize, to admon- ish, to harry, tovinfonm, to warn and—«albove all—~to oppose. UNLIKELY CONVERTS Assumption is that in these days of intense party loyalty and discipline. it isn’t likely to'con- vert Government supporters by its arguments and thus defeat the Government in a Parliamen’ .tsry division. But it should, by its efforts, be able to win addi~ tional pulblic support, while at the same time keeping the Gov- ernment. on its toes.

The efforts of the Liberals to perform these useful functions do not appear to have been notably successful so far. Their perfor- mance during the Throne Speech debate attracted little attention and suffered, at times, in com- parlson with that of the Huzen Argue's nightman CCF group.

grow into something approaching- the unattractive system of state

just alter the war. whose hope that freedom of choice will al- ways be retained, through the op- eration of the shin as an insur- ance pmpositiOn, Which will pm- .vide in case of illness the money

for such services as howls/hes to select. ' DIAGNWIS IMPORTANT

In spite of the substantial in- crease in the number of hosplltnl beds across Canada there is still believed to be a serious shortage in some areas. British Columbia and Saskatchewan are said to be among the better equipped ro- vinces in this regard. while t- ario may be one of the worst.

When I the hospital insurance plan is fully in effect, we will perhaps see whether or not there is, any justification tor the fours that the hospital facilities will be swamped; » , 1‘ _ .

One important aspect to this is the matter of diagnosis. As the original set stood, diagnostic ser-

potients, but not to «handouts. Thus, in order to obtain the ser- vices free under the hospital in- ‘surance plan, a patient would have to occupy I bed. But Ade- quate diagnosis, including labor- atory fsvided for patients with- out them occupyng a scarce bed-on \an out-patient basis. »’I‘Ih~ls is one of the corrections which is typical of the advantages Accru- ing from a Health Committee, such as these doctors are now privately proposing. ‘ ,

lng’s recent budget was a rela- tively easy target, marked as it

was by a huge deficit and a few minor concessions to the taxpay- er. Bul Opposition criticisms have not been of a kind calculated to

leagues many if nights. _

The Hon. Lester Pearson con- tinues to sound much more. like a Secretary of State for External Affairs of considerable experien- ce, than a Leader of the Opposi- tion with or without experience. His urbane, well~reasoncd emitri~ butions to debate’ read well in Hansard. They have not, however, awakened a fierce loyalty and enthusiasm in his supporters. Nei that do they seem to have irritat- ed, enraged or embarrassed the Government. ‘ T00 GENTLEMANLY

Some observers say that he lacks a killer instinct. Some of his friends say that. he is too much the gentleman, too well- filled with the milk of human kindness, to deliberately wound or maim an opponent with cruel- lysbarbed, shafts of oratory. And this may be so. -

Quite recently, he was present- ed with an opportunity to skewer Prime Minister Dieleubaker for

any sloeuléss

Finance Minister Donald Flem—

lelling a CBC reporter what ques- tion: should uni. be asked In a

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Watch Out For Summer Pests

By Herman N. Bundesen. M.D. JIGGERS. the chiggers!

Be wary of these tiny red mites during these pleasant sum- mer days!

Trombicula lrritans. or chin- gers, as you probably call them. are one of our worst summer- time pests. While they are. gen- erally found in tall grass and weeds, they also thrive in short grass.

EASY TARGET A Thus, even when you are lying on the lawn in your own back- yard, you may be an easy tar- get for these bugs.

Chlggers do not burrow into the skin as is generally believ- ed. InStcad. they hook onto the

skin. And. once attached. they

feed on lymph or blood. This pro- duces an irritation which is dif- ficult to imagine. ' Within 24 hours the itching be- comes véry intense. The inflam- ed blisters which develop make the skin appear as though it has a rash. DON‘T SCRATCH! : , Now I have already warned you sbmlt the danger of scratch- ing vigorously to relieve an itch. Scratching the irritation caused by a chigger can easily produce a secondary infection. * , Calamine lotion might help ease the itching. If it doesn’t, better see your doctor and fol- low his recommendations. He has a lot of anti-itching medications available and can giv'e you one specificallydesigned to aid such cases. ' Usually, the itching reaches its peak on the second or third day. Then, it begins to subside, and in a day or two you can forget about it. '\ ACT UICKLY

You might alleviate the itching somewhat by acting quIlcldy once you are bitten. Get into the bath- ub right away and cover your . .utire body, particularly the“ area that was bitten, with a. heavy soapy lather. . ~

That should get rid of th e pesky little bug and any of his comrades which might have joined in the Whack»

‘a winger-infested area. it will pay- to take a few. precautions. Sprinkle your stockings, and penis»! your underciothing. too. with flour of sulphur. Then the little fellows will avoid you ‘ like the plague.

QUESTION AND ANSWER,

T.‘ C.: Is there any value in eye exercises of the muscles of the eye ‘1: cases of nearsighted- ness?

Answer: Althth certain eye exercises can train a person who is nearsighted to see a little bob er, the actual deformity in focus- i g isnot corrected.