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FRIDAY. FEB. 14, 1958

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Parliamentary Truants

Our Ottawa correspondent in- forms us that in the last session of Parliament only about 68 per cent of the members were in attendance at any given time. On occasion the attendance was below 50 per cent. The Liberals seem to have been the worst offenders, but the Conserva- tive ‘record .was not much' better; and a goodly‘ number of members

of all parties appear to believe that ’

attendance in the Commons is a matter of choice and that any ex- cuse is good enough to justify fre- quent absences from parliamentary -duties.

Worse still, the truancy appears

to be condoned by some in high ‘

places. Trade Mlinister Gordon Chur- chill, for example, is quoted as say-

‘ ing he disagreed withthe argument

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that M.P’s are paid‘ $10,000 a year to attend each session of Parliament. That pay, in Mr. Churchill’s view, “is more in the nature of an indem- nity for the loss of business earnings which one might have enjoyed if he were not an M.P”.

This myth that the average mem- ber of _ Parliament makes a great financial sacrifice in order to ‘serve his constituents should be disposed of without any further delay. Some myths serve a purpose,,but this one

is useless. It is bad for the country i and bad for the individual members A’

Who harbour it. In any event, Mr.

Churchill's argument doesn’t bear ‘

critical, scrutiny. What would the honourable gentlemanisay to an of-0 ficial in his department who was in the habit of turning up for work only once or twice a week and-who gave as his excuse some nonsense about his pay being an indemnity for loss of a higher salary which he‘ could command in. business or in- dustry? We don’t know what he would say; but we doknow that the official in question would soon be

\free to look for a job paying‘ more

money. A . Further, if a member, of Parlia- ment can carry out his responsibil- ities better in his constituency than in the" Commons, what reason is there for a Parliament at all? - In that case, representatives , might just as Well stay in their districts all the time and carry on their re- gular avocations. In this way they would cost the -country nothing ex- cept a few dollars for expenses in-

curred in mailing their recommenda-

tions in writing to the Cabinet.

If Parliamentary Government has any value at all, it is valuable enough to warrant faithful attend-

ance at sessions. The fact that mem- .

bers are onbtheirhonour and not subjected to a daily check makes their obligations all the more de- manding.

Heart Research

Heart research is not new in Can- ada. From:the era of Sir William Osler to the present day ‘Canadian medical scientists have attacked heart disease with vigour and suc- cess. But there has been no compre- hcnsiwe,' co-ordinated programme of heart research, education and com- munity service on a Canada-wide basis. In 1952 the Ontario Heart Foundation was incorporated as a‘ voluntary health agency, responsible for administering government funds made available in the province for heart research. Today there are six provincial heart foundations.

In June 1956 there was incorpor- ated the National Heart Foundation of Canada, a federation of the Pro- vincial Heart Foundations, other or- ganizations and persons, “to co-or- dinate and correlate the efforts of ' organizations and individuals inter- ested in heart diseases with a view to reducing the morbidity and the mortality therefrom in Canada.”

This new association is faced with the fact that heartiand circula- tory diseases are taking an ever-in- cleasing toll in Canada. They re- sult in as many deaths as all other causes combined, including cancer, accidents, pneumonia and diabetes. There are 1,200,000 persons who suf- fer from some form of heart disease;

‘is nevertheless large enough

and there are 300,000 who are set‘- iously disabled.

But some forms of heart disease now can be prevented, some cured, and almost all helped by early diag- nosis and treatment. The weapons are research and education. These can be combined into a powerful na- tion-wide army under the Heart Foundation of Canada. The $850,000 now sought—the first appeal made by the organization—will set this new army on the march. Outside of British Columbia, Alberta‘ and Sas- katchewan canvassers are not or- ganized to call at every office and home-, but contributions may be made easily at any branch of a Can- adian bank. The banks are giving this service of receiving donations and issuing cheques free.

(A Hearty Welcome

The oil drillers and other tech- nicians who with their families are arriving on the Island; over the weekend will be warmly welcomed by

A all our citizens. The hope is that they are harbingers of a strengthening of the Province’s industrial fabric through the discovery of oil. It is, of course, much too early to speculate with optimism on the impending operations. Time enough for that when the precious substance begins to flow. At the same time, perhaps we are justified in suggesting that there is at least a 50-50 chance that oil will be found. Neither Im- perial Oil Limited nor any other large corporation is in the habit of spending large sums of money on hopeless ventures.

There is another reason, too, for extending a- welcoming hand to the men, women and children from Ed- monton who have come to us for the first time. Whether oil is discovered or not, the visitors will for a period of several months at least be spend-

ing money in our shops and adding 4,

to our economic prosperity in many

short duration, will be good for them, too; for it is a generally ac-

should at some time or-other in his of her, life have the privilege of see- ing Canada's Garden Province.

This is as good a time as any to pay tribute to the officials and citizens of -the Town of Summerside who have worked diligently to pro- vide accommodations for‘ the wel- come visitors. '

Reasonable Request

Our three Welfare Bureaus have ,a strong case in arguing, as they did yesterday before the Provincial Government, for repayment by the Government of moneys expended for the maintenance of children whom

Working with very limited revenue, the Bureaus are filling a legitimate need. Their expenditure for child maintenance in foster homes, while not the major item in their budgets, to cause them serious concern. They ask specifically to be reinbursed for the money paid,to foster parents at the same per diem rate as is paid out directly by the Provincial De- partment of Welfare when that De- partment administers the placement of children in foster homes.

The Welfare Bureaus are fully accredited agencies with profession- al social workers, and there is no question as to their competency in discharging the duties they have un- dertaken. While not legally re- quired to handle foster home cases, they feel morally enjoined to do so by the terms of their charter. There

ties involved. It is reasonable that. the Bureaus should be reimbursed for the expenditures incurred in this phase of their program.

EDITORIAL NOTES

In bombing that Tunisian village French military authorities did as much for Communist propaganda as

lin.

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It is reliably reported that Sir Winston Churchill has accepted an invitation from Lord Beaverbrook ‘to visit New Brunswick. If the fam- ed statesman and author does come as close to our shores, would it not be a good thing to ask him to come the whole way? He might be de- lighted to pay us a brief visit. There need not be any great fanfare about it. A civic luncheon at which he might say a few words and be pre- sented with an address and perhaps a little gift would be quite enough to

mark the occasion.

little ways. We feel that their stay _ among us, whether it be of long or-

cepted dogma that every Canadian’

these agencies place in foster homes. "

is of course no duplication of activi- '

if they were in the pay of the Krem-

MEETING HLFWAYi

i Getting Rid of I Neurotic Trends

lBy Herman N. Bundescn. M.D. “ A FEW simple adjustmeiitsjn your daily lives probably could make most of you a lot health- ier than you are now. Many of you undoubtedly are performing daily tasks which you do not

consciously resent. DEFINITE CONNECTION

We know there is a connection between your mental attitudes and your physical well- being. That's what keeps ‘psy- chiatrists’ offices so well filled.

Since most psychiatrists are al- ready pretty busy, maybe YOU 0311 try a bit of self-analysis to help improve your mental and phy- sical health. It’s worth an at- tempt anyway. _

The object of this self-analysis, of course. is to discover_your neurotic trends. Once you discov- er them, you have to recognize them as such and take action to eliminate them.

MAKE NOTES _

The first thing to do is to write down everything you do thi gh- out the day, every day for a week. ‘Make notes as you go along and then sit down in the evening and summarize the day's activi-

have to do and which you un-l

definite «

puguc FORUM y Ancient GreeceiAncl' Korea

' From a speech by Pyo Wook Han, Minister of the Korean Em- l bassy in Washington. ‘as reported in “Korean Survey”, January,

This column to open to the discus- sion by cortelponilentl of question of interest. The Guaidian does not neces- larlly endorse that opinion of corres- pondento

VALUE OF SUBSOILERS

Sl.I'fi- ‘I was interested in a letter in your February 12 issue by R. S. MacDonald, on the valur of a subsoiler--especially thr Rabbit story. The wonder to mt is that if it is as good as all h says, there are not more of then used. They are not a net machine. What have all our Ex perimental Farms got to say? I is surprising that there has no’ been more about them in the press and on the radio. if they show such marvellous results.

Experiments are often pretty costly for the individual, except

' in a small way. It would be in-

teresting to have a report of the use of such a machine from our Experimental Farm here in Charlottetown. ‘ ' l I am, Sir, etc., .

\ ELDON DRUMMOND Freetown, P. E. I. ' ‘

’p.w.c. CONCERT

Sir,—I had the pleasure of at- tending the concent Tuesday night at the Auditorium. T he stage setting and artists were all that could be desired: and they performed wonderfully well.

‘MI’. Milligan’s singing was de-

lightful, also his‘ ‘accompanist, Miss Lewis, was very fine; but they must have been terribly em- barrassed to say the least, when they appeared on the stage and took a quick view of their and- ience. The first twelve or may- be zfifteen seats (rows) were em- pty, except for three children who occupied three seats. The remain- ing seats were sparsly occupied. To artists of their‘ world and so highly recommended, it must indeed have been a shock. The handful that did attend were won- derfully appreciative and called them back many times to which they most graciously responded. I hope the next artists that come here will be better welcom- ed. After all a large and appre- ciative audience is the “high light” of their tour. ,I am Sir, etc. MARY R. GAVIN Charlottetown.

CFA STAND APPROVED

Sir,—I would be grateful for a spot of your valued white space

in which ‘to express one reader's ;

appreciation of the fact brought to the news spotlight in that Ot- tawa report of the organized far- mers’ brief, suggesting to the Federal Government to “take a lead in establishing some system of giving surplus‘ food to needy parts of the world”. ,~

‘To me, it was very heartening to see the Canadian Federation of Agriculture use the opportun- ity of their annual submission to _the Dominion cabinet to record the grassroot thanks of Canada’s farmers to Prime Minister Dief- eiibaker, for having accented the same thought in the course of his address to the NATO conference in Paris last month, and for add- ing the terse warning that “the conscience of the world will not accept a situation where‘ half mankind is well-fed and half is starved.” ’ '

Only a few days back, one of my neighbors drew my attention to the fact that your distinguish- ed contemporary (Manchester Guardian) seems to be in favor of something in the nature of an international food bank, starting with wheat, and suggesting that “The UN should store half (i.e., 1 billion bushels) of the US. Can- adian wheat carryover, to create a world emergency stockpile.”

Be that as it may, I am heart- ily in favor of the reported CFA submission. intimating that some such international food bank or similar agency “would be design- ed to turn surpluses. when they occur, from a disrupting and dis-

tressing problem into a manage-.

able world asset; to be used in an orderly way for the benefit

1958.

I_ wonder how many here ‘are aware of the fact that the longest continuous records of -ain- fall kept anywhere in the world were kept by means of a bronze rain gauge, at the Changdok Pal- ace in Seoul, Korea. How many ‘ealize that printing from metal novable type originated not in Zhina but in Korea? How widely 's it known that the first iron- élad war vessels’ were not the I/Ionitor and the Merrimac, but ‘he so-called “turtle boats” inven- ted by the Korean Admiral Yi Soon-Sin, and used by him in’ 1596 to defeat a Japanese army invading Korea? For that matter, how many Americans understand that the Korean language uses a phonetic alphabet of «twenty-five .letters, and thatyours is the only lalphabet used by any of the na- l tions of North»Asia? This possess- ion of a phonetic alphabet has, of course, had a great many cultur- al effects on Korean life not least of which is that it has saved us from the awful fate of illiter- acy, which is the price paid by China for its elaborate system of ideographs. _ ’

The history of Korean culture deals with such inventions as these, and still others--including the marin_er’s compass and the oldest existing solar observatory. Other aspects of Korean culture that are particularly noteworthy are our developments in philoso- phy and religion, in architecture, in poetry and the writing of his- tory, in painting, and in ceramics ,,LIKE CLASSIC GREEK

On occasion, I have shown ex- amples of Korean ceramics, scul- pture, costume designs, and archi- tectural drawings to American artists and Professors of Art, and the commonest reaction is that this art of Korea is reminiscent of the classic art~of ancient Gre- ece.

In my judgment, Korean art rc- presents a view of life similar to that of the classic Greeks;' which I might summarize as placing a high value on the dignity and and worth of individual human lives: women and children, as well as adult men.

Now, of course, Korean art did

There are more than 10,000 con- ductors authorized to punch pas- senger tlckeés on American rail- roads, and each has a punch that is individually designed and never dividually designed and never duplicated.

The ticket p u n c h was the brain child of Pappy Ayres, a shrewd river boat pilot who also doubled in brass as a conductor on the Erie. In the early days, the conductor simply wrote his initials in pencil on tickets—a practice which enabled unscru- pulous passengers to erase the mark and turn in the taiiff for r e f u n d. In 1852, conductor Ayres suggested that the rail- road provide him with a punch that would enable him to muti- late the ticket and also provide prodf that he had checked the fare. The idea caught on, and today the ticket punch is still one of the most effective "de- vices used by the railroads in accounting for passenger fares. SIMPLE AFFAIRS '

At first, punches were simple affairs. The Erie’s first order was for 52 of the devices, half of which were for the capital letters of the alphabet and the other half for the small letters. As the industry grew and the number of conductors in-

of the hungry and poor of the world”.

Here, I think, is a matchless weapon for peace! I covet lead- ership for my country in its con- structive use; for I believe it can help to ‘make yards’ in the end- less race between population and the food supply.

I am Sir. etc. “CANUCK” (’09).

Ontario.

-and cultiivatedxour own special

-Our early and still greatest novel "is entitled, in English, the Wait-

lRoii|roodin‘g With A Punch

Jack Mcguire in Railway Progress Magazine

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not spring into being all by it- self. China was the well-spring of our art forms, just as Athens learned from Egypt and the Unit- ed States from Great Britain. But like.Greece and America, Korea took the seed-bed of Chinese art

modes of development.

In literature, for example, Kor- ean lyric poetry has been .written from earliest historic times. It is classic in"-form, brief, and absol- utely symmetrical. The common subject matter is romantic love, love of nature, and the wistful statement of personal aspiration.

ing Wife, andlis based on the Cinderella theme of a poor girl who is wooed and wed by a hand- some young pnince. However, ‘our novel does not end with their mar- riage and with the romantic con- clusion that they “lived happily ever after.” On the contrary, the novelist dealt in very realistic fashion with the difficulties that resulted from this kind of match.

KOREAN STORIES

In Korean stories, the pl.ot of- ten revolves around the devoted effrirts of a young man or girl to get a chance in life-to win an education-'—to pry open a door- way to opportunity. The story commonly ends when this chance is achieved. What happens. there- after? Does the hero or heroine profit by,this opportunity to rise to the heights of success? Our writers do not appear to have been deeply concerned with such questions as these. They seem ‘to feel that once a fair chance has been won, the rest:is up to the individual—to succeed oi; fail as he will. The main consideration is that justice be done: -that 1 life limited by poverty, or by a natural handicap, or by loss of parents should be rescued from the unfair limitation. The climax of the story occurs when the right to compete fairly in the nor- mal struggle of life has been won. —From a speech by Pyo Wook Han, Minister of the Korean Eni- bassy in Washington, as reported in “Korean Survey,” January, 1958.

creased, use of 1 e t t e r s was dropped in favor of various de- signs, among them the clubs, hearts and diamonds of playing cards. _

Often the selection of a punch design is proof that railroaders have a sense of humor. One conductor who is a teetotaler punches out a cocktail glass on his tickets. Another whose sur- name is Bull punches a cow's head. One interurban line had an attractive lady conductor who boasted a wo1f’s head on her punch. ‘

A nonsmoker punches a pipe shaped hole. A conductor on a Texas railroad punches the map of his state.

PRIZED POSSESSION

The ticket punch, admittedly a conductor’s most prized oc- cupatlonal posséssion, c a ii’ t sol- ve all of his problems. ‘Some years ago, a Northern Pacific conductor redused ro punch the single ticket handed him by Daisy and Violet Hilton, the Siamese twins. He reasoned that they were two people and should present two tickets. He was overruled by an opinion from the roads legal department, how- ever, which held that since the twins were joined together. one fare was valid for their transpor- tation.

V

ties. - .

At the end of the week, anal- yze your daily actions.

Don’t try to justify everything you have done. Look at your ac- ;

‘ tions just asyour neighbor would look at them. The results, and:

only the results, should be the judge of whether they are worth- while.

I think you will find.that the results of some of the things you do each day actually make you unhappy or resentful. Yet you compel yourself to do them. USELESS Cl.-IORE

Perhaps you attact one virtual- ly ‘useless chore to avoid respon- sibility for another one of infin- iely more value. Maybe you have an unconscious desire for sympathy or for perfection. Neurotic trends not only dis- turb you, but your entire family as well. Get rid of them.