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APEC And Agriculture
Of particular interest to this Pro- vinces was the emphasis placed by, President Arthur Johnson in an ad- dress here Tuesday evening, on the priority that is being given to agric- ulture by the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council. There is a contin- uous assessment being made of food supply and marketing opportunities. One staff member and a secretary are fully engaged in this work. The studies include such matters as the sources available for farm credit, beef raising, P.E. Island poultry, feuit and vegetable farms, cattle and hog raising, the impact of the tourist industry on the farm-
‘ing economy, and a number of others.
Some surveys are always in progress, and updating of previous‘ones)\ is béing made continually.
APEC has a strong supporter of its agricultural policies in Premier Walter Shaw, whose own long ex- perience in this field is one of his most valuable asset» as government leader. In an interview appearing in yesterday’s Guardian, Mr. Shaw
. spoke of his plans for expansion of
our livestock industry, potato mark- eting, forest and other resources.
chartered to go into service this week to. North Shore-St. Lawrence ports and Cornerbrook, Newfound- land, the Premier said he hoped. this trade would become a “two-way street” and that we would be able
- to buy extensively from, as well
as sell to, our sister Island Pro-
_ vince. This important factor is some-
thing we have tended to overlook in the past, and should certainly be given more attention in future.
This Province has much to gain from close participation in APEC activities, régionally and on a more extended scale. The membership drive which the organization has launched should meet with an enthu- siastic response locally. If we are to exploit our resources successfully, agriculturally as wel] as industri- ally, it must be through well-planned activities of this kind, and with a united front where common object- ives are to be obtained.
Anthem, Flag & Tariffs
We note that the policy com- mittee of the. Canadian Chamber of Commerce, meeting in Toronto this
k, has approved a resolution urg-
g the Government to adopt “O Canada” as the official national an- them, and readopted a_ previous resolution urging Parliament to for- mally adopt and authorize a distinc- tive Canadian flag.
In this’ part of Canada we re- gard “God Save The Queen”-as our national anthem and find no dif- ficulty in reconciling ourselves to the Red Ensign—or the Union Jack for that matter—when we have occas- ion for flag flying. Other Canadians have different views on this sub- ject, and we are not quarrelling with their right to express them. But we are at a loss to understand why the Canadian Chamber of Commerce should enter the controversy, or what’ bearing it has on our trade problems with which the Chamber is particul- arly concerned. 4
While the “O Canada” proposal was passed “with little discussion and only one hand raised against it,” a resolution of much more con- cern was rejected out of hand, for reasons unstated in the press. sum- mary of tKe meeting. This was a Newfoundland resolution, calling for a “scientific study of tariffs with a view to reducing rates to the point :
“where the genius and ability of the
Canadian manufacturer may be ‘use- ed—without prejudice to himself— to the best advantage of Canadian consumers, particularly those living in peripheral areas.”
A Gordon Commission report on the cost of tariff policies to Canad- jan consumers has appeared in re-
eent months. Some startling figures
Kingdom and the rest of the Com- monwealth and a sharp reversal from an excess of exports to an excess of imports in trade with all other countries as a whole.”
To what extent has this altered trade balance been due to Canada’s own restrictive tariff policies? This is a question, we suggest, of more
-practical importance than the need for a distinctive flag or a new nat- ional athem. By lending its sup- port to inquiries of this kind the Chamber of Commerce © would be wdyking effectively within its own ~ field, and showing more concern for the national economy.
Didn't Worry Hailsham
The public opinion pollsters didn’t make out so well in the British elec- tion contest in predicting a strong Labor comeback. Lord Hailsham, who planned the Tory victory, held a press conference while victory votes were still being counted, and he had some comments on this subject which are of general interest.
Between elections, Lord Hailsham said, polls can be useful tests of pub- lic opinion but no campaign planner should need them during a campaign.
out long before an election campaign
|_will_beflexible- enough ‘to permit a change of tactics to meet new moves - by an opponent but it will not be help- ed by daily chops and changes to fit the pattern of each newly published opinion poll.
On the other hand, if it has been’ badly planned, panic replanning to fit what changing polls may seem to show cannot help it. In that convic- tion the Tory chairman remained firm against the pollsters and their addicts throughout the campaign. The discovery which caused so much flurry among the victims of poll- fever—that the Didn’t-Knows got a bigger percentage of all polls as the election day drew~fiear— did not worry Lord Hailsham. “I think it is a sign of growing re- sentment to having strangers pry into one’s affairs,” he said. “Retic- ence is not a bad thing politically.” The event in this case proved him 100 per cent right. That should be something for the pollsters to work into their calculations next time.
EDITORAL NOTES
Far-sighted foresters who saw Britain’s need for wood in the Sec- ond World War are reaping the re- sults of their labor to reforest large acreages of land. Plans are now go- ing forward for a pulp mill in Scot- land that will derive its raw materi- als from vigorous young growth that started in British Columbia.
Se. Se
In many areas in Canada, the Royal Visit was a stimulus to the tourist trade this year; but national figures for money spent by Ameri- cans in this country show a decline, the first in seven years. At the same time, the spending of lans in the United States continued to in- crease. The result is a deficit of $104 million, compared .with last year’s $78 million, in the totals spent by the two groups. There is something wrong here. Perhaps we are too in- clined to Americanize our accommod- ations for Americans, believing we should make them “feel at home.” People go on vacations to get away
from home.
Following a tradition which is more than 250 years old, sixteen Peers of Scotland were elected as the nation’s representatives in the British House of Lords at a special ceremony in Edinburgh recently. 75 Peers were qualified to vote in this “election within the General Eler- tion” and 32 of them were eligible for election. Under the condition< of the Treaty of Union, 1707, the 16 candidates are chosen “by open election and plurality of voices of the Peers present.” If of age, the Prince of Wales, who is the premier Peer of Scotland, cquid vote as Duke -of Rothesey, although this right has
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‘the federal civil service received
- November, 1927.
_ THE GORDIAN KNOT
OTTAWA REPORT
Civil Service Demands:
- , By Patrick
You are a most generous em- ployer; and I mean you the tax- payers of Canada, Not just “a most generous employer”, but perhaps “the most generous’ in all Canada.
For who else gives his em- plovees the guaranteed annual wage, the job security, the full
quota of holidays with pay, plus cummulative paid sick leave en-
sion at the end of it all, on the generous scale which you the tax- payers give to your emnplovees in‘ the- federal civil service? Does your employer give you as much, and still ride herd as-lightly as you do?
Yet a battle for the civil ser- vants’ pay increase is now being waged here by the officials of the various civil service unions. You -are going to be criticized as a mean employer, in paid newspaper and radio and tele- vision advertisoments inserted by by those unions. mer
YOU BE THE JUDGE The facts are very simple. In the ten years ended October 1957,
no less than seven increases in the scale of payment of each job, the latest being authorized by the
Nicholson
Diefenbaker Government. Now these words should be read ¢2:e- fully; I wrote “in the scale of pesenent See eee ane scale itself tains a built™in and vir- tually autematic raise, averaginc $150 each year, up to a tota of about 10 percent of the basic wage for the job. In addition a civil servant with abilitv§ and ambition can gain promotion to a hetter-paid job, throuzh that old-fashioned but still admirable system of rewarding merit.
Those seven bonanza increases could only be justified on the grounds that they were intended to compensate for depreciation in the purchasing power of the dollar. They totalled approxima- tely 70 percent of the initial pay: in the same period, the cost of living rose by half that figure, or 36 percent to be exact.
In 1947, you the taxpayers em- ployed 115,471 civil servants, at an average wage of $34.69 per week. Ten years later. you er4- ployed 147,777 drawing an aver- age wage of $74.03 from the Cen- tral Pay Office; two months ago, that average wage had risen to $77.64. That represents a wage increase of 125 percent as well as a staff increase of 28 per- cent We will pass over the ques-
tion as to whether the staff in- crease was really necessary.
7 WE WANT HAPPY SERVANTS
All Canadians would agree that we want to renumerate our civil sorvants handsomely . . . These fig- ures, I believe, show that they are very well treated by you, their employer, in comparison to the pay, fringe benefits and work- ing conditions of any other job im Canada. If this were not so, civil servants would quit and take better paid jobs. Yet so attrac- tive is our civil service that it has lured over 30,000 additional work- ers to its gold paved offices in recent years.
To have met the civil service demands for a wage increase now would have cost $242 million, equivalent to an increase of 15 percent in the income tax, or a bill of $56.94 for the average Ca- nadian family. This demand was rejected. because the Governa- ment, in setting its face against inflation, has asked employers and employees to hold the line against increases in prices. and wages. It is morally bound to give force to this pea by ob- serving it itself, and rejecting the civil servants’ request.
In taking this stand, which like sQ many worthy acts by this gov- ernment has been insufficiently explained ard ipadeouatelv pr licised, the Diefembaker Govern- ment is defending your dollar. If the line is held against further inflation, 2s it should be, we will all benefit, including the civil service.
Disarmament Utopia °
By David
Rowntree
Canadian Press Staff Writer
The utopian idea of total dis- armament had been around for centuries before Nikita Khrush- chev presented it to the United Nations last month as a new way to cure all the world’s ills.
It’ is not even new for the So- viet Union. Maxim Litvinov, then Russian foreign minister, gested much the same thing in
stir.
When the Russian proposal was before the wor'd- disarmament conference in Geneva in 1932, the Spanish delegate, Salvador de Madariaga, asked:
“Does Mr. Litvinov remember the fable about the animals’ dis- armament conferencé?”
The fable, the work .of Winston Churchill and not Aesop, runs something like this: —
When the animals had gath- ered, the lion locked at the eagle and said, ‘“‘we must abolish tal- ons."’ The tiger looked at the ele- phant and said, ‘“‘we must abol- ish, tusks.”” And the elephant looked back at the tiger and said. “we must abolish claws and jaws.”
NO CONTROL SYSTEM
* In this way, each animal urged the abolition of the weapons and defences of all the others.
It remained for the bear, who spoke last, to say in tones of sweet reasonableness:
“Comrades, let us abolish everything — everything but the great universal embrace.”
But the bear’s plan, Litvinov’s
suggestion and Khrushchev’s pro posal all failed to include work- able schemes for putting them into practice.
Khrushchev ‘says that if every- one agrees to throw their bombs and armies and aircraft out the window, there will be no need for disarmament controls; when everyone is unarmed, there will be nothing to control.
All that will be left is the great universal embrace. Hungary. Po- land, Romania, East Germany and the Baltic states know all about that embrace,
WEST LACKS UNITY
The reason that Khrushchev’s plan seems doomed to failure, as was the bear's and-Litvinov’s is that individual nations — especi- ally the most powerful—are not prepared to sacrifice their sov- ereignty for joint efforts.
Even when disaster is immi- nent, political leaders seem un- willing to create new institu- tions for-the common good—an examvle was the French rejec- tion short’y before the Nazis com- pleted the occunation of their country of the offer of ‘an in- dissoluble union’’ with Brita’
De Madariaga came to this conclusion recently:
“The Communist world under- stands unity but not liberty, while ‘the Free World understands lib- erty but not unity. Eventual vic- tory may be won by ‘the first of the two sides to achieve the synthesis of both liberty and unity.”
New York Times
" Redolent Of History
Chequers, the British Prime Ministers’ country retreat, stands literally in the heart of England.
Set .in the Buckinghamshire countryside, at a point roughly equidistant from _ the. Bristol @hannel, the North Sea, the Wash and the English Channel, house and estate are both redo- lent of British history.
Chequers is tittle over ani hour’s drive from London — thirty eight miles of broad pastures and wooded slopes up the Thames Valley and into the softly rolling Chiltern Hills. The thousand acre estate lies in a sheltered cup €30 feet above sea level, On two s'cés, the north and the west, it is-bordered by the Icknield Way, oldest known road in the British Isles, a path to London trodden cut by ancient Britons passing well above the dangers of the forested valleys.+ —
HISTORIC SITE
mansion occupies an ancient his- toric site. Legend has it that Caractacus, the last British king te fight the Romans, was born here in the year 1 A.D. The re- mains of his castle of Cymbeline are still to be seen in the parx. So are faint traces of a still older Druid’s Maze. The present Che- quers estate is first mentioned in the Domesday Book, with almost exactly the same dimensions then as now. 5
The name dates from the twelfth century when tbe’ owner was Elias de Scacarrio, Keeper of the King’s Exchequer. It’ pe- came a tradition for this family to hold similar high office and the name ‘de Scacarrio.’ or, in
Norman French,” ‘de- Chekers,
was adopted by them:
FROM 12TH CENTURY For 800 years, until 1912, the hovse changed hands only by. in-
The forty room red brick Tudor
keritance. The original building was rebuilt about 1320, and again
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in the late fifteenth century. The present building, with consider- able later additions and mod'fi- cations, so that it is almost ‘mock Tudor” in style, dates from 1565. From*the de Chekers it passed to Hawtreys, Crokes and Russels.
In 1909 Lord and Lady Lee of Fareham became life tenants. The direct line having died out, they bought the freehold, and oy the equers Estate Act of 1917 willed it to the nation.
During most of World War I it was run as a volvntary bhoo'- tal under the management of Lady Lee and her sister.
David Lloyd George was the first Prime Minister to live at Chequers. He gave a housewarm- ing party Jan. 8, -1921. Since then, Prime Ministers. Andrew Bonar Law, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Cham- berlain, Winston Churchill, Cle- ment Attlee, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan have all_used it gvatefully as a retreat from the cramped, godifish bowl quar- ters of J) Downing Street.
ITLLED WITH TREASURES
The house is historic not .only :n site but in content. It is filled with treasures of the pa’. Its collection of paintings, by such masters as Gainsborovgh Reya- olds, Rembrandt, Rubens and Constable, is famous. Its 5,000 volume library includes numbers of sixteenth and seventeenth cen- tury books in an almost perfect state of preservation. :
Tapestries, furniture, military couvenirs and works of art abound, all of them of historical significance. In the great State Bedroom is a magnificent Eliza- bethan bedstead, its oaken posts and canopy intricately carved. fhe paneling there dates from 3600. It has a perfect example of seventeenth century French mbr- quetry work in its writing table. The dining room ca dates from 1560, the study hds a small contemporary portrait of the young William Penn.
NO GHOST LEGEND The house, Jarge, drafty and imperfectly heated, has no knowa ghost legends. But it has at least two secret doors and passages. The early Tudor linen fold. panel- ing in the west end of the Long Gallery conceals a secret door leading to the “Cromwell Pas- sage.’ Downstairs, in the Hawt- rey Room, a small secret stair- ease lies behind the paneling on the right of the mantelpiece. Chequers is one of the Nation- al Trust buildings and will be preserved even if future gen- erations of Prime Ministers should
spurn it is favor of more com- festable quarters.
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STUDIED REPORTS
These reports were studied by a committee of home eccnomists and PTA health chairmen.
The committee found that aca- demic grades and student behav- ior are closely linked to dietary habits. The so-called problem children, they report, often “were the ones who eat no breakfast.
It seems to me that the con- clusions you parents must draw from this study ,are pretty plain.
MUST BE TAUGHT
Children must learn to eat the things set before them at home. Moreover, they must be encour- aged to taste everything offered in the school lunch.
Generally, if a youngster ex- periments with a new dish or food, he will eat all of it on his plate.
QUESTION AND ANSWER
Mrs. M. E. H.: Is it safe to get a permanent wave while preg- nant?
Answer: Ordinarily it is safe to get a permanent wave while pregnant. : ‘
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TO AN ARCHAEOLOGIST
And art these, then, the trophies that you bring
From all your years of search- ing bits of clay
That once touched lips with wine and laughter gay,
And trinkets from the tomb of some dead king?
Can these dry, dusty bones bring
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And grub for history's long-hid- den lore. :
If it is Man you seek, look nearer home:
He sits tonight beside your friend- ly hearth,
And Babylon lies just
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NOTES BY THE WAY —
those who hear it.—Toronto Tele- gram ~
Norway’s first library boat, named “Abdulla”, has left Ber- gen on its virgin tour of the Hor- daland skerry yard with a col lection of some 3,000 volumes. The venture is jointly sponsored by the Municipality of Bergen, Bergen Public Library, the State, and the Province of Hordaland. The floating library will fill a long felt need for books among fish- ermen-farmers who live in wid- ely separate and sparsely popul- ated island communities along the coast of this western district.
—News of Norway
MAXIMS
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OUR YESTERDAYS
(From the Guardian Files)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Oct. 22, 1934)
The old plaster on tht ceiling of the Legislative Chamber in the Provin Building is being replaced, for the first time since tne construction of the building over eighty years ago. The laths used originally were all hand split, the new ones are the pro- duct of modern machinery. Re- pairs are also being made to the roof and gutters of the build- ing.
Mrs. Isaac Burden of Monta- gue and _ daughter Margaret R.N, ret last week from a four months visit to Casper, Wy- oming, where they were the guests of Mrs. Burden’s brother, Mr. George Czmpbell. On the re- turn trip they spent’ a week in Chicago visiting relatives and also spent three days visiting the World's Fair.
TEN YEARS AGO ~ (Oct, 22, 1949)
A special parade was held at H.M.C.S. Queen Charlotte last evening by R.C.S.C.C. Kent at which a shield for shooting and zn efficiency pennant won at Camp Major were presented to the Corps by His Honour Lt. Gov- ernor Bernard, Patron of the Is- land Division of the Navy Lea- gue, Mr. Justice Tweedy, as pre- sident of the Division, presented tne corps with a framed facsi- mile of the sea Cadet crest.
It has been learned that as soon as a contract can be let, a new stesl bridge will be built at Bea- ton’s Bridge, five miles east of O'Leary and the road straight- ened. Meanwhile reflectors will be placed on this dangerous curve
Ottawa
Some TV adman who must have studied Pavlov has come up with a way of circumventing the industry’s ban on_ subliminal advertising. He’ proposes to get at human watchers subliminally through their dogs.
The plan is for a recorded dog’s bark to be broadcast as back- ground to a dog food commer- cial—but at a sound level inaud- ible to humans. This is\ calcu- lated to send Prince barking around the living room. The an- nouncer then asks the owner of man’s best friend if he knows why the dog is- barking. Ans-
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Pavlov used to make his ex- perimental dogs drool hungrily just by ringing a bell—a kind of Rin-tin-tinnabulation that the ad- vertiser in question seems to be trying to improve on by making it subliminal. \
We're inclined to think, how- ever, that the —_ hy Psu
ing into the ose 7 te who have said all along that too. many TV commercials are pitched at the level of dogs rather than adult humans.
As to the question of whether this is the same kind of poten- tially dangerous thought control as subliminal advertising for hu- mans, the answer seems to be no. It's just a commercial gim- mick that is about as annoying as the cereal - plugger's ‘Now, kids, tell your mother to be sure and get...”
As far as the dogs are con- cerned they'll just be doing what they usually do—bark back when
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