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Minister’s Report

The long awaited causeway re-

‘port from the Federal Public Works

Minister has been received, and it leaves us’ wondering why-it was necessary to bring so much pressure

_to bear upon Hon. Mr. Walker to have it released. It tells: us really

much less than we thought we knew on the basis of the Minister’s state-

- ments to our representatives, Mr. J.

A. Macdonald and Dr. Phillips, on October 2 last. ~ At that time, it will be recalled,

the Minister was quoted-as saying

a progress report would be issued

. within the next two weeks and that

‘December 15 had been set as the

“final deadline” for completion of the various government reports deal- ing with the initial “plans”. The re- reports would then be handed over to the Cabinet for consideration. The C.N.R. report was the last that was being awaited, and this was import- ant because it would help in deter-

mining whether the causeway should

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-difficulties; it says that :“consider-

include rail. service. Recommenda- tions were being coordinated by the consulting engineers. The cost was

estimated at between $70,000,000

and $120,000,000 and it was hoped that construction could start in the spring of 1961, and the job finished in perhaps five years. What .has become of all these

_ able progress” is being made, but

makes no mention of when the final

" report-will be ready, much less when

‘the Cabinet will consider it and when,

if ever, the work will be undertaken. We realize very well that this is

_a tremendous job, and that every -phase of the problem must be taken

' into account. But the Minister has

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himself to blame if we had built false hopes upon his:previous statement, and were disturbed at his recent re- fusal to discuss the matter further at this time. He hasn’t yet explained ‘what happened since October 2 to make‘the work so much more com- plicated than it was at that time, and we shall probably never know. But a@ great deal of the present dissatis- faction could have been avcided had

Official reports been issued regular-

ly, as we suggested, from the start.’

We are indebted to Premier Shaw for wiring us, from Ottawa yes- terday, the full text of the Minis- ter’s statement and for his asgur- ance, over the telephone, that he was doing everything to see that the reports were being expedited and the project kept in the fore- front. We trust that he minced no words over the matter, and that his exhortations will be of some avail, at least in convincing the authorities

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informed, not only of the difficulties in the way but about what actually .. is being done to solve them.

New Flying Hospital

Britain has developed something new in the. field of hospitalization. One of her biggest helicopters, the Westland “Westminister”, is being developed as a self-contained flying hospital with its own operating theatre and electrical and hot-water | systems. In a recent broadcast in the BBC’s General Overseas Service, the

‘core of the idea was said to be a

container—or pod—about the size of a railway coach, fitted below the specially designed fuselage, which has four curving legs for the land- ing wheels and looks like a huge liz- ard.

But the pod is only the central part of the hospital. The rest is a lean-to structure with a tented roof and rigid floors, all collapsible and carried. by the helicopter. When as- sembled it covers an area nearly as big as a tennis court. The pod it- self can carry at least 40 patients; and four of these units would hold the medical staff and equipment need-

to look after 100 patients for eight

of

Army Medical Services. .

A Fine Recor

An organization that rarely makes the headlines but which for forty years has been doing a great deal for education in this Province is the St. Andrew’s Society. At the Society's anniversary dinner. here on Wednes- day evening, it was announced that $154,000 in scholarships for the educ- ation of Roman Catholic youths of Scottish descent had been provided. This was indeed, as Dr. J. A. Mac- millan said, an “outstanding example” of what, can:be achieved by thase who believe it worth while to make sac- rifices to educate the- younger gen- eration. By this means the Society has accumulated a fund of $127,000, the annual interest of which provides the scholarships.

This.is following in the pioneer tradition of the Scotchfort ang Sel- kirk settlers, who valued education as a jewel beyond price, and made great sacrifices to provide it for their children. By perpetuating this sentiment, St. Andrew’s-Society has enriched the life of this community and indeed of the whole of Canada, wherever its scholarship graduates

_ have carried the light of learning in

the Church and in the lay profes- sions. It would be interesting. to have the record of these scholars over the years;-it would make an in- spiring success story.

All Too True

Prime Minister Diefenbaker was right when he cautioned Canadians against assuming that Soviet policy had undergone any basic change, des- pite the easing of tension in the cold war in recent months. Now we have Soviet Premier Khrushchev boasting in Budapest about his action in crush-

jalists was running in their mouths

at the prospect of Hungary leaving

-the Socialist camp.” There are still

some 53,000 Soviet troops in Hungary —allegedly not for internal reasons but because “international questions remain unsettled.”

In the United Nations Assembly,

meanwhile, Sir Leslie Munroe of New

Zealand, special U.N. representative on the Hungarian question, has re- ported that trials and executions re- sulting from the 1956 freedom re- volt in Hungary are still being carried out. Both the Hungarian and Soviet authorities had refused him permis- sion to visit Hungary in his official capacity and had returned his corres- pondence to Secretary General Ham- marskjold without reply.

The Budapest regime has sought justification of its defiance of the United Nations by constructing a fanciful version of the uprising, charging that it was caused by Amer- ican “monopoly capitalists.” In thus contending that the revolt was _ in- stigated by foreign powers, how can they claim that the problem of Hun- gary is a matter of “purely domestic jurisdiction”? It is evident indeed that the Communist leopard hasn't changed his spots.

EDITORAL NOTES

Dean Rand, the one-man Royal Commission to inquire into the prob- lems of the Canadian coal industry, will start his inguiry’ in January and will visit both the Maritimes and Western Canada. He expects’ to complete his work in six or seven months.

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Farm losses in Manitoba for the 1959 crop year are now estimated at $25,000,000. Hardest hit individually are the growers of root crops. From 25 to 30 per cent of the sugar beet crop and half the commercial potato crop was trapped in the ground, Losses for 276 potato grow- ers who had 11,000 acres of plantings are estimated at $1,250,000.

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Apple growers are facing hard problems. The Nova Scotia market for Annapolis Valley apples to date has been. unstable and completely unsatisfactory, according to the president of the N.S. Fruit Growers Association, who says the demoraliz- ation is due to truckers and panic selling by individual growers. And in’ Quebec, the industry is reportedly languishing because of poor pro- motional methods. They are losing out to New England growers who are spending thousands of dollars annually in promoting their product.

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OTTAWA REPORT High

Where does the money go?

I have received a letter from. the wife_of a Post Office worker, who points out that her family finds it impossible to make ends meet cn pay of $3,900 a year.

Her husband is paid twice each month. After the usual deductions for_income tax, hospital insur- ance and pension contribution, his take-home pay. is $141.

$40 are put aside for groceries: $40 to cover taxes, insurance, and utilities; $10 as payment on a car. Buying necessary clothes, gas for the car d_the usual miscellaneous. items absorb the balance. The baby bonus on three children always at its last gasp when the welcome pay day comes around again.

NO FRILLS BUT NO MONEY

And this-is a family which ne- ver spends a_ cent on tobacco or alcohol, never hires a baby sitter, foregoes the pleasures of paid entertainment, and has even slashed contributions to charit- able societies to a mere 50 cents a week for a mission.

This budget does not exactly reek of extravagance and high- living. It closely tallies with the average budget of the average | family in an average Ontario city, recently compiled from sam- ple families by the Dominion Bur- eau of Statistics here.

That average family has an {n- come of $4,478 a year, or $36 a week compared to the $75 a week of the above postal worker, who receives an additional $5 a week or so in baby bonus.

This year, that family is spend- ing each week $21 on food: $19 on housing with heat and light; $9 on car; $1 on public trans- portation; $8 on clothing; $3 on

smokes and alcohol; $4 on med-

Wage Anomalies

By Patrick Nicholson

ical care; $6 on personal taxes; $4 on pension contribution, etc. - There is not much extravagance or high living about that budget either. And yet this is the second most wealthy country in the world. Then where, one might ask, does the money go?

COMPART OTHER COUNTRIES

We certainly have a higher ma- terial standard of living than the average family in Asia, which has an annual cash income of perhaps $100 and feasts largely on rice.

But I very much doubt ff our

as that of an average il! worker in Britain today, who earns a niggardly $45 a week and yet has never had it so good.

In proportion to wages, prices are much lower in-Britain than in Canada on many basie items, such as many foods, clothes, tex- tile and household furnishings. In Britain also, the climate saves a great part of the 16 per:cent of our income which our climate costs us. o

But perhaps we should look more deeply beneath the surface. Are our costs unduly high? What do tariffs cost the average fam- ily? Does distribution needlessly load our prices? Is there, for example, undue multiplication of service stations as the big oil companies battle it out for our trade? Has the wage-price spiral hustled us into a high-price whirl- pool which is becoming a stag- nant backwater of international ‘trade?

When a family with three chil- dren has money worries on earn- ings of $75 a week, maybe the time has come to study our price structure, not our wage structure.

The Anta

By Ken Smith Canadian Press Staff Writer

There {s something ironic in seeing hope for a break in the cold war in the signing of a pact to keep the ice-bound Antarctic continent free from-war for all time. 9

But many observers see such | a possibility in the treaty, which has brought together the East and West blocs in an interna- tional agreement that has cut through many problems that have them deadlocked in other parts of the world.

The pact, signéd by 12 coun- tries in Washington Tuesday, does little more than put into for- mal language a tacit agreement that has been in effect for the frozen continent since the start of the International Geophysical Year. -

It is easy to deride the pact as being of no special signific- ance.

NO ARMED CAMPS

It was a simple matter, for in- stance, for Russia and the United States'to agree on banning ‘‘any measure of a military nature,” since there now are no military operations in the area,

It is quite a different matter to agree on a similar ban in Berlin, where armed forces of the world’s two blocs are virtvally looking down each other’s gun barrels.

The pact could, in a matter-of- fact tone, call for international agreement and unanimity of ac-4 tion in the area withceut having to worry about the threat of 2 belligerent Communist China.

There is no colonial problem in the Antarctic, ready to rub raw the nerves of both colonial pow- ers and sensitive newly-independ- ent countries, as is happening daily in Africa and other parts of the world,

Nevertheless, the implications of the pact—if carried . through and applied to the rest of the world—offer hove of world peace. POINTS THE WAY

It remained for Vasily Kuznet- sov, Russia’s deputy foreign min- ister fresh from straight-arming the West at the | nited Nations,

rctic Pact

He described it as ‘additional evidence of the fact that states, if they are rea‘ly to co-operate, can successfully achieve through negotiation mutually acceptable

| solutions of iniernal problems in

the interest of international peace and progress.” ,

Of immediate importance {s the pact’s clause that bans military activities and provides for a sys- tem of internacional inspection to guarantee that the ban is carried out. Observers are assured of “complete freedom of. access at any time to any or all areas," of the Antarctic

This is the key to an interna- tional disarmament agreement, and may become of special im- portance in disarmament talks opening next year under the aus- pices of the United Nations.

The pact also offers a novel so- ‘lution to nationalistic ambitions of various countries by in effect ignoring the problems of claims to parts of the continent put for- ward by many countries.

MAY DIE QUIETLY It says the pact will not affect the claims but adds that coun- tries can in no way to strengthen their existing c whilé the treaty is in force.

Thus the pact opens the way for the problem to die a quiet death, leaving the entire area under international control and pointing the way to settling such problems in future,

Australia’s ambassador to. the United States, signing for his country, saw the treaty as a pos- sible model for other interna- tional agreements.

The words and the promise are there, as they were in the United Nations Charter. ‘It depjends on how the pact is carried out.

The Age Old Story

Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his ewn blood he entered in once into the holy piace, having obtained eternal

to sum up the bo; 22 of the pact.

tedemption fos us

PUBLIC FORUM

This column ts open toe the discus

sion by correspondents of question c

interest, The Guardian does not neses

sarily en‘orse the opinion of corres pondents.

REFUGEES’ PLIGHT

Sir,—Your editorial on the Re fugees- in Thursday's issue of The Guardian, was a deeply mov- ing one. Its reference to Mr. Mc- Geachy’s splendid article in the Financial Post should stir the hearts of every man, woman and child on this Island to do some- thing to help the plight of these homeless people.

We know that the United Na- tions is making a tremendous ef- fort to get some of the 40 million settled during this year. How Many people know that Canada is being asked to concentrate chief-

ope, where men who fought and suffered with us in two wars, or who are fleeing from Communism ere eating their hearts out- in loneliness and frustration, in damp, unhealthy barracks.

People say ‘“‘What can we do?”

Different humanitarian organiza- tions are sending shiploads of milk and clothing, en mesee, to the Koreans, Arabs, etc., but the individual contact is just as im- portant. British Columbia has adopted over seven camps in West Germany. _ Following their lead, the Wo- man’s Auxiliary of the Anglican P.E.I. Deanery has adopted eleven Refugees outside these camps. These adoptees are ill and cannot be brought out at pre- sent, but have sent grateful thanks for letters giving hope and encouragement. Huge cartons of new and used clothing have been mailed for Christmas and some money for their medical needs. The Girl’s Auxiliary have been knitting afghans, It is a tiny ges- ture but it is a start.

At this Christmas season, when as Pasternak reminds us, our Lord Himself was a Refugee in His babyhood fleeing with His parents into Egypt, perhaps our children could give up one cher- ished toy to a ragged child in Hong Kong, who has nowhere

_| to hang his stocking; as adults,

we might give up a coffee break, (10 cents gives one of these child- ren their only meal for the day) a box of cigarettes, or the icing on the cakes we serve. : We can all spare something, and surely one could enjoy the festive season more if a response were made to such a plea as came from a seven-year-old boy, who living in a hut with three sick adults said, ‘Mother, would you ask my Aunt (adopted) if I could have a chocolate bar?” I am Sir, etc., ADELE HEMMING Charlottetown.

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SYMPTOMS AT 13

This patient first noticed the symptoms at the age of 13 when he developed hives while playing basketball. Hives and localized swelling continued to develop from then on, every time he en- gaged in any strenuous physical activity such as basketball, nand- ball and the like.

The swellings usually lasted for one or two days.

He entered the army when he was 22 and subsequently was dis- charged when he developed his allergic symptoms,

OTHER TYPES COMMON

While this particular type of hives doesn’t occur ‘very often, other types are very common.

Simply explained, hives are swellings caused by the esca of fluid from the blood. When swellings are close to the nerve endings of the skin, they itch. Pain, nausea and vomiting gen- erally occur when the swelling is in the stomach.

SWELLING IN BRAIN

Swelling in the brain. tissue will cause headache and other symptoms.

We have suspected for a long thme that emotional factors can trigger release of the sub- stances, primarily histamine, which result in the swellings. We know now that effort can do the same. ;

QUESTION AND ANSWER mM. 8.: For ‘five years, I have

able and would such an operation alleviate the frequent rising at night?

Answer: Polyps of the blad- der had best be removed.

Usually they can be destroyed by an electric needle without an incision, If neglected, they may become malignant. Their remov- al should help your symptoms

Always consult your doctor about these matters.

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THE 3.D MAN-IN THE PARK

Leaves tlow about his body as it berds,

Alone, irom a bench. It is Nov- ember now.

The trees are stripped. Gone, too, from every bough

Are birds whom every summer he befriends

His life ebbs in him as the sea- son ends.

It is too late of year and life to find

The spring’s green meaning, if it meant at all

To one done with earth's sea-' sons, and resigned.

Dreaming, he sits, while leaves of memory fall,

One by: one, through the thicket of his mind.

—Carleton Drewry in the New York Herald Tribune

| MAXIMS

I know of no manner of she ing so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing with an ex- ception.

Biblical Zoo For Washington

National Geographie Society

Jerusalem's unique Bibical Zoo will soon have a counterpart at Washington's National Zoological Park. :

As a gesture of good will, the Israeli Embassy here has pre- pared more than 50 plaques ident- ifying creatures mentioned in the Bible for temporary display at the Washington Zoo, ;

Like the signs used in Jerus- alem, the American plaques will be placed on the cages arfd dens of birds and beasts known in Bib- lical times.

Engraved in Hebrew and Eng- lish on weatherproof plastic sur- faces, the quotations repeat the familiar, flowing phrases: The lion which is mightiest among beasts. . .the little foxes that spoil the vines... the turtle (dove) Mow gg voice is heard in our

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PROBLEM BESET PIONEERS The nucleus of Jerusalem’s menagerie came into being seven years before the establishment of modern Israel. , In 1941, the Jerusalem zoologist

‘| who conceived the project pre-

sented his first exhibits--a few monkeys, rabbits, lizards, a vul- ‘ture, and an eagle—in a yard off a crowded downtown street. La- ter, as the inmates multiplied, city authorities provided more

quarters in the suburbs.

From the the. Bib- lical Zoo faced problems. Thgse

ranged from the research requlr- ed to select appropriate species to the basic difficulties of obtain- ing them and keeping them alive at a time when the nation itself was fighting for survival. ‘

During the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, the Biblical collecti cupied a vulnerable spot near the old Hebrew University qn Mount Scopus Many animals hil- led; others died Of cold and er in the unusually severe winter that followed.

The supply problem remained acute after the war when the isolated garrison on Mount Sco- pus could be reached only through Jordan. At times, the United Na- tions made arrangements for food shipments. Once an armored convoy—flying international flags and accompanied by official ob- servers—arrived with emergency rations for a prize Abyssinion lion. :

The zoo’s position was obvious- ly untenable. In 1951, its few sur- vivors were finally moved to the Israeli side of divided Jerusalem.

POPULAR TOURIST GOAL Today, the flourishing Biblical Zoo is a favorite haunt of local mothers and children, and\ a en lure for foreign Ss

Olive, cypress, and eucalyptus groves, set against the historic Judeen Hills, recall the Holy Land of old. The Zoo's hundreds of ex-

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promise to rival the achieve- ments of parrots and myna birds. -—National Geographic Bulletin

Carlo Alfieri’s paintings have been withdrawn from exhibition. canvas, which critics had praised for its unusual grey col- oring, exploded when a visitor lit a-cigaret while looking-at it. Al-

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powder with his paints to obtain the unusual effect.—Il Popolo, Rome ’

Hon. L B. Pearson is right when he says a slip at the summit is more dangerous than a slip in the valley. This is no reason why world leaders should shy away from the summit. Mankind would have been deprived of many of its finest achievements if it had been afraid of the summits of life. It has been the determina- tion to risk the heights which has cenquered. countless obstacles to progress.—Windsor Star

There’s a campaign cooking in Morocco that rates far more in- ternational attention than it’s getting. The Moroccan ministry of health is experimenting with a new weapon in a nation-wide war against malnutrition. The weapon what’s claimed to be a “miracle food” called PEFF—short for pure flour. It’s made from sard- ines, costs 21 cents a pound and pound-for-found provides 14 times more muscle-building protein than the best-beef—Vancouver Sun

Handel’s Messiah {fs a notable exception to the old maxim that a great work of music is never appreciated in its own time. From the beginning its success was ex~ traordinary. So many tickets were sold for the first perfor- | mance of the work (in Dublin in. 1742) that notices were published in the newspapers begging the ladies not to wear their hoop- -skirts to the concert and the men

ie — their swords at home.—

The utiprecedented appearance of an exhibit of sports cars in the annual Red Square parade in Moscow may have indicated as much as anything the new trend in Russia's ambitions. The mil- itary part of the parade lasted only 20 minutes, the shortest on record. Civilian activities made up the bulk of the great display— a reflection perhaps of the So- viet ambition to out-produce its opponents rather than outfight them.—Victoria Times

hibits suggest a Noah's. Ark of creatures—the raven and the dove sent out to find land after the Flood; the serpent that tempted Eve and the goats offered up for sacrifice; leopard of unchange- able spots; the wolf that dwelt with the lamb; and one of Sheba’s camels that on the journey to Solomon’s Jerusalem bore spices, geld, and precious stones.

Zoo directors in other coun-

tries have donated animals to fill in gaps of the Jerusalem collec- tion. From London came a pair of rare Syrian bears, believed to be of the same species as that slain by David. The bears have presented the zoo with triplets. ‘' The technique of combining Scriptures with nature lore ap- pears destined to spread widely from the land of its origin. After the plaques have been shown at the Washington Zoo, the Israeli Embassy plans to send them to other interested zoos in the Uni- ted States.

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Executive at Festiv ters in Ottawa, it was decided that the Dominion Drama Fes- tival would aim for a Festival Final, in Canada’s Jubilee Year of 1967, of eight plays written by Canadians. — Ontario Travel News

GIFT CAMPAIGN

MONTREAL (CP) — A Christ- mas gift campaign for the prove ince’s mental patients was opened Wednesday night by its chairman, Gratien Gelinas of the Comedie Canadienne. It is seeke ing 15,00v gifts for distribution to mentally ill persons.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Dec. 4, 1934)

The appointment of Mr. Wilk

liam A. Heustis, Charlottetown, as

Clerk of the County Court of —

Queens County was made at a meeting of ,the Executive Coun- cil last evening. The appointment necessitated by the death of. Col- |onel Charles Leigh, takes effect as.from Jan. 1, 1935.

Mr. E.W. MacKennon, super-

intendent of the P.E.I. - Division |

of the C.N.R., and Mr. Clarkin are section of the C.N.R. While in

Summerside they visited L. R. . Allen, M-L.A., who is chairman —

of the railway committee of the Summerside Board of Trade, and — railway matters with him.

TEN YEARS AGO (Dec. 4, 1949)

The Institute of Chartered Ac- -

countants of Prince Edward Is- land have announced that Lorne Ives of Charlottown has been suc- cessful in passing the final exe aminations for Chartered Accoun- tants which were written in Oc- tober by candidates from all parts of Canada. Mr. Ives is a son of Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Ives of Charlottetown:

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wigmore, Kensington, leave on Saturday on a visit to their son, Dr. Fred Wigmore, at. Moose Jaw, Sask., and other western centres. They expect to be absent about six months. Mr. Wigmore has fully recovered from an illness which forced him to retire a few years ago from active farming.

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