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THURSDAY, FEB., 2771933

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Prime, Minister's Vlsll

While his visit at this time is of a political nature, we feel that we speak for all our citizens in extend- ing a cordial welcome to the Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada. We would. .indeed, be aggrieved if he hadfailed to include

this Province in his itinerary, and .

deprived us of the opportunity of hearing him personally on the issues

of the election campaign. There‘

wasn’t the slightest likelihood of that taking place, for he has shown a‘ very keen interest in every part of the Atlantic Provinces; and he was prompt to recognize, and remedy, a long-standing grievance we had as to our_ lack of represent- ation in the Federal Cabinet. His choice ‘of the Hon. J.‘ Angus Mac- Lean as Minister of Fisheries" has met with general approval, and it has set a precedent-in’ Cabinet re- presentation which we shall expect subsequent administrations to fol- low. That is, provided we elect men of Cabinet material. Otherwise, we can have no fault to find with Mr. Diefenbaker or anyone else for passing us‘ over. I

This Province led all Canada in returning a full slate of Conservative candidates in the last election—a

fact of which we are sure the Prime»

Minister, is not unmindful. They‘ have proved able spokesmen for their constituencies as well as for

the Provincegenerally. In the brief ,

nine ‘months since the Diefenbaker Government has been in power, it has admittedly done more forus and for the Atlantic Provinces than any administration since Confederation. Huge amounts have been authorized for public works, while our Pro- vincial treasury has benefited to the amount of $2,500,000 annually

and should -now be able to ‘budget

without the ruinous debt increases of recent years. A

We feel, however, that'our fiscal

I ,need’s should be recognized inj a still"

more adequate manner‘ when the new‘tax rental agreements are made. We have no Royal Comm-ission of inquiry, such as Newfoundland has

had, to assess our claims. We must I

depend for justice entirelyupori the I Federal Government. * The consider- ation, we have already been shown prompts us to believe that, if re- turned, Prime Minister Diefenbaker will fully redeem his pledge of a square deal to this Province, especially with regard to the dis- tribu.tion of tax revenue on a more equitable basis than has prevailed in the past.

The Prime Minister is speaking both in Summerside and Charlotte- town, and there will no doubt be a large attendance at both meetings. He will have a message well worth hearing, and it will be awaited Withtgreat interest. ‘

B‘ A Queer Election '

Canada is not the only country having a general election in March. In the Soviet Union the voters——130 millions of them—-go to the polls to “elect” 1364 deputies to the Supreme Soviet on March 16.

According to reports from Mos-

cow, the coming election will have all,

the trimmings known in the West. There are nomination conventions, registration‘ of voters and speaking tours by candidates and their re- presentatives. Anyone 18 years old or older is elegible to vote. Voting, however, is not compulsory; it doesn’t need to be, for in the last three elections more than- 99 per cent of those qualified voted. Everything is being done to make Voting con- venient. There will be booths in hos- pitals, on trains and on ships at sea.

Outwardly, an election in the Soviet Union is very much like one in Canada. Actually, of course, it is only a caricature of an election.

' 'l‘l1ere is only one party--the Com-

munist Party. Voters, therefore, can eitlier vote for the one candidate whose name appears on the ballot or turn the ballot in unmarked. In case any candidate receives less than a majority, 21 new election is held. This process is repeated until

the person is elected or his name withdrawn by party leaders and an- other put in its place. _

Why do 130 million persons bother to turn out for a fiasco of that sort? It’s a mystery.

An Explanation Mr. Solon Low, national leader of the Social Credit Party, has an- nounced that at long last emphasis is to be placed ‘on the party’s “basic priniciples”. If elected to power, he

‘says, Social Credit would create

a “financial commission” to regulate the amount of money supply and avoid inflation. “We have long con- cluded”, he told a press conference, “that aslong as you limit the amount of effective purchasing pow- er to the amount of services avail- able, there will be a dollar for dollar value ’ and no inflation”. The plan Mr. Low has in mind would create “new money” which would be pass- ed out as “national dividends”.

As far as we are concerned, we are no wiser now respecting Social Credit’s “basic principles” than we were before; and there must be a good many Canadians who find themselves in similar bewilderment. Nevertheless, it is right and proper that a party should tell on what grounds it feels it is entitled to ,the_ -support of the electorate. Neither Mr. Low nor any of his associates has bothered to do that in previous election campaigns. Even if they don’t do it very convincingly this time, at least they will have to be given credit for trying4 to explain how Social Credit differs from the

I “old-line” parties. It’s a good thing

to do, even if the explanation needs explaining. '

Foreign Currancies One of the complaints against the United -States’ surplus-disposal pro- gram is that it permits products to be sold for foreign currencies in- stead of American dollars. This is no

°great inconvenience to the United

States, since in most of the coun- tries to which the commodities go there are American bases or aid programs which can very %well "use the ‘currencies in paying for pur- . chases made on the spot. It is an obvious disadvantage, however, to a country like Canada which has limited use for most foreign curren- cies. ' 4 " .

Well, it seems that thing are going to stay that way for a while longer, perhaps indefinitely.‘ v The Senate Agriculture Cdmmittee has voted to allow the Government to sell an additional $2 billion worth of “all surplus commodities” for the currencies of the receiving countries. $500 million of this amount can-be made during the rest of the -current fiscal year which ends on June 30. This amount is in addition to $1 bil- lion worth authorized by Congress for this fiscal «year.

EDITORIAL NOTES

If present hopes materialize, Newfoundland will soon add another important item to its mineral re- sources. A deposit of uranium has been discoyered in the Torbay re- gion a few miles from St.lJohn’s. A company made up of American and Newfoundland interests has been or- ganized Ito develop the project.

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For nearly 30 years Trappist monks in Oka, Quebec, have been teachingagriculture at the Provin- cial Institute of Agriculture. They have now notified the Provincial Government“ that when their con- tract expires next year they\will not renew it. Thereafter they will de- vote their time to praying and farming. '

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Some time ago Britain sold Italy its first nuclear power station. Now, it is reported, a British. firm has been given the contract for building an atomic power station for Japan. In both instances there was keen competition from the United States. Natural uranium fuel for the Jap- anese plant willalso be supplied by Britain.

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The Federal District Commission has offered the Government a

D palatialhome 15 miles‘ from the Par-

liament buildings for use as a sum- mer residence for ‘the Prime Minis- ter. It is reported that, whi-le Mr. Diefenbaker has taken kindly to the idea, he has hesitated to indicate acceptance, in View of the coming election. He need not allow that to make him hesitant. Whoever is elected to the post, it is only right that Canada should have an official summer residence for its chief executive.

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m'on by wuespondents of question of

interest. The Guardian does not neses-

sarily endorse the opinion of corre . pondents. '

HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD

Sir,— Hi! relatives, friends and interested readers on this. rainy Sunday:—in this locale at least. This is race relations Sab- bath, also National Boy Scout (48 years), and, last but ‘ not least family Sunday. I love to listen to the sweet voices of,thi» . Church Choir, almost as fine as l the beautiful anthems which I’ am. privileged to hear each

. Lord's Day. v

I have yet to learn the parti ‘culars of the fire at Bay View. If it was reported in detail in the Guardian, itwasa copy that failed to ‘ reach my abode-— there are many such. My family have taken it for granted, East and West, that I knew all about the conflagration that destroyed the saw-mill—the only remaining. one of the three of my childhood days: I am not sure but I’ as- sume my second cousin de- pended on the sawmill for the family’s livelihood. However, he’ has a small ’ farm_ ‘also, be- queathed to his grandfather (my first cousin) by my grandfather Simpson whom I.n~ever knew as both he and grandmother had passed on ere I«was born. My father was one of the younger. members of the family of ten.

Our two Simpson families — with just the yards and road betweei’i—were very close, as my uncle /died when his children were very young, and my fa~t'h‘- er was much more than an uncle to them. In fact they‘al- ways spoke of Uncle James in almost a- reverent -tone, he meant so much to them. Since Christ- mas I received a letter from the mill-owner’s sister wherein she re-minisced about the old

days and asked if I recalled a I

Christmas when they were all invited to Uncle James’ to. see the tree — supper included, which meant all sorts of sweets, i.e., truit and marble cake, mince pie, etc. -

We always had our Christ- mas dinner at noon when I was a little girl and generally we had duck as we liked it bet- ter than goose_ and of course there was turkey for Thanks- giving. The good appleti-te of youth might have been a fac- tor, but I have never had any- thing that tasted half as fine as those dinners of mothers, especially the plum pudding niade long in advance of the special day and reheated in the old iron pot, in a floured sack with a thick plate under it to keep it out of the water. 1 still hear the music —- to child’s ears at least — of it rattling as it was being heated.

The Christmas my cousin re- ferred to was, I believe, 1904 as I have a gift given me by ‘my sister who passed on. last

-December 14. "a book entitled, “Girls, Faults and Ideals” dat- ed. that year. Dora said she still has the picture book among hei- keepsakes in a trunk she took from home which was her share of the gifts my la-te sister had for all of them. What long- lasting memories childhood’s happy ones are!

Another letter from a first cousin —- on my maternal side - brought back all the happy oc- casions when my sister and I each summer school holiday spent a week with her at our Aunt’s in Clifton. It‘ was at ways in cherry time, and what wonderful cherries they were!- large and luscious. Much finer than ours were at home, per- haps because my Uncle gave them better care. I‘.verytlil1ig around that home inside and out was the essence of perfection as both Uncle and Aunt were meti- culous. I can still see in mem- ory’s eye the old stove in the kitchen shining like a mirror, and the back porch scoured white with sand. My Aunt’s lovely home - hooke d rugs — she did beautiful work — every loo cut! I hadnt seen the above meiitioiid cousin in ‘years till my

OTTAWA REPORT Hutchison’s

By Patrick Nicholson » . Special Correspondent for The Guardian

Ottawazt Bruce Hutchinson has tried-to do it again.

‘Fifteen years ago, he wrote a best-seller called “The Unknown Country.” It was the most vivid‘ canvas yet painted in words\. of ; Canada from coast to coast; an j‘ impressionist canvas certainly, picking out interesting highlights of this huge country, and very‘ interesting the author made them. ‘

Now the 56 year old editor of 1 the Victoria, B. C., “Times” has 1 repeated the formula in a similar cross-country-. verbal newsreel, ' entitled “Canada, Tomorrow’s Gi- ant.” (published by Longmaifs, Green and Co., and selling for $4.95). ‘ ’

Again we have the transconti- nenbal highlights, a little vignette from each of our ten provinces, and all strung together like pearls on the thread of the Hutchinsons cross-Canada motor trip. I say “the Hutchisons,” for the writer Bruce, book along his wife, Doro- thy. Again we have the short symlbolinc curtain-raiser of mental Canadian preceding each chap- ter.

And all the while we must won- der at the way, in each huge province, the Hutchison automo- bile seems to steeer unerringly, for the most colourful human be- ing in that province, so tlratehe can be stalked, trapped, and mounted in words on paper by the author. Or is this the news- paperman showing through, kno- wingeach “character” by repute, andvheading toward-s such ready- made material?

DEEP IN THE SADDLE

Would the average tourist stum- ble on the last of the Alberta cat- tlemen: “the men who never saw a house all summer, and often died of winter cold; such figures

last trip to‘ the “Is1e” in 1946 when another first cousin took me on a tour of brief callsof all the relatives I knew -— and many_I had never met, although he insisted they were related—'in vicinity of Summerside and finally called it a day on ar- riving in Long River in the late afternoon.

My cousin and I had a: fine time catching up on the doings of all the intervening years when we had lost contact as folk are wont to do during one’s busy years with small children. After '\a delicious supper of chicken (home-canned) salad, biscuits, which go so nicely with it and only Islanders seem to perfect that culinary art, cake, etc._ we wended our way via auto back to Summerside where I was still to call on another cousin before being taken back late at night to my sister’s in Carleton -—- what a day! I felt as though I had seen the world and his wife! but that was my cou- sin’s idea of being kind —- he knew all the clan everywhere and would have done a fine job of writing the genealogy of our family. .

A relative did that around the turn of the century -— he spent the greater part of his honeymoon on the Island among the tomb- stones in Cavendish cemetery—- what a way to spend a honey- moon even for such a fine cause! I haven’t a copy of his efforts but a brother has and tells me there were about 7,000 in the clan then and added it probably had grown to at least 70,000 to- day with descendents in Can- ada and the US.

I surely liked S. Barlow Bird’s last poem in The Guardian as‘ did also a friend to whom I showed it yesterdiay afternoon. He could have found the inspir- ation in the 46th Psalm. "Be Still and Know That I Am God.” Per- haps he did get it there.

I am still enjoying “Ellcn‘s Diary” - keep it up, friend! Thanks for your brief Christmas message, but just a reminder that I am awaiting that pro- mised lengthy missive, Mrs. Dixon. A cousin informed me that some of our childhood m-u- tual friends would like to write

New Book

as Soapy Smith on his way to crime and a gunman’s end; Big! Jim, whose victims were buried:

in quicklime; the Sun‘ Dance Kid;

and Old Martin, the English gen- ‘ tkeman, with a gallon of whisky- and another of water always tied, to his saddle”? Would the average tourist inf Alberta even learn about that 10- cal temperance beverage called “Mountain milk,” consisting only of boiling water and sugar - and whisky? v l, Bruce I-I-utchison’s consistent, theme is of Canada, a nation,’ which is just finding itself; Can-‘ ada, a nation which has changed 5 outof recognition in the physical= sense in the past fifteen years; and Canada, a nation which in! that ‘same time has changed e-§ qually in the philosophic sense,l to appreciate that it is a nation‘ in its own right, no more appen-v dix of empire or playground of republic. - g Thus each of his descriptive

sections shows how some “char-, that. “C'aIiadaI T0m0I‘1‘0W’s Gi-

acter” is no longer typical of mo- dern Canada, but serves merely to remind us of a colonial past and ‘to emphasize our more res- ponsible present.

Writing before last June’s elec- tion Bruce Hutchison spotted and described, but did not pinpoint, the fatal ch-asm separating “The Brass” from “The Grass” —- to quote the theme of the recent National Liberal Convention. He described the often ‘stumbling but yet determined march towards nationhood, as noticed in each section of this broad country. Then, in the chapter on Ottawa, he wrote this telling comment:

“I could not believe, after see- ing the Canadian folk for myself, that Ottawa had sensed the ‘true

me after reading my “Forum” letters, I'll be delighted to hear from them! They are for-

tunate to be members‘ of that famed McLeod Clan —- Dame. Flora’s. A recent letter from a sister said she‘a-btended a tea in her ‘honor and told her she was a McLeod, and that great lady said, "you are one of my children.” What a large family she has as she claims all of her name — they are almost legion. I note that Rev. Dr. Bonnell has just published a new book en- titled, “No Escape From Life,” which is the first he,has writ- ten dealing with human prob- lems in a decade. I am sure it will be very worthwhile and in- teresting reading as all Dr. Bon- nell’s books are. Just last even- lng I picked up his “Pastoral Psychiatry” (from my bedroom bookcase) to glance through it and remained to read ‘several chapters about his late father who did such wonderful work in Falconwood (now Riverside I believe) Hospital for many years. What a wonderful ‘fine, understanding Christian gentle- man he was: Little wonder the son of such a father should go far in his chosen fieldof minis- tering to his fellowman in coun- seling and preaching! Dr. Bon- nell’s book should have a wide circulation; he has made so many friends through his radio broadcasting, alone, to say nothing of his numerous other contacts There are so many other. items in the Guardian l"d like to comment on -— l\/lrs? Frank’s fine columns, etc., but this has lcngtliened quite beyond my in. tention when starting to \\71‘i[jg3_ I cannot conclude, though, with- out telling the California weath- er for weeks has been atrocious. Rain, rain and what's worse terrible. storms often leaving de- struction and sometimes trag- edy in their wake! We Califor- nians, would all consider going to Florida except that, accord- ing to report, its much worse there weather-wise. I Am Sir, etc., G. S. GORDON, I Mrs. D. J .) Oakland, California.

tions, and also provides

Experimental TB Vaccine

By Herman N. Bundesen, M D-

NEW medical advances are being made on several fronts with a new drug for treating ulcers, an experimental tuber- culosis vaccine and a new method of controlling drug a_C' tion among the most recent dis- coveries.

Favorable results are reP0I't€-jd in a series of 155_ cases of P<_3P_UC ulcer treated with a medlclne

called Romach tablets for a pe- “riod of three to six We?k5- 1m‘ mediate relief of P3111 was claimed in 92 per cent of the cases. ENCOURAGES HEALING

The medication contains bis- muth subnitrate which adheres closely to the ulcer wall and en- courages healing.

The TB vaccine is made from purified tubercle bacillus Wax in a solution of hexadecane. The wax contains many solvent - ex- tracted tubercle bacilli ‘which apparently are the principal factors in producing the im- munity, since the wax lost its immunizing power when most of the bacilli were removed. IMMUNIZING AGENT