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“The strongest memory is weaker ’- than the weakest ink" PAGE 4 TUESDAY. DECEMBER 22. 1964.

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. be having their p re ble m s with modern-age toys this season. Such questions from youngsters as “Do you think I oughta get a turboprop or a plain jet?" are not easily an- swered on the spur of the moment.

' With the toy laboratories now avail- able, one‘ might agree with the com- ment of one shopping parent: “At the rate they are going, the kids will be on the moon before the scientists.”

There is no reason, of course, why toys shouldn’t keep up with the times. With simple ease, today’s youngster can buy an engine to take apart and put together again, mix his own plastics for a model car or boat. build his own computer or even his own volcano which is guaranteed to erupt. The whole field of technology has been exploited for new playthings.

Parents find a lot of the new toys as intriguing as their children do, though they may be ashamed to admit it. There is no age limit, as the toy floor clerks of any department store will corroborate. When you see a sober business man enthus- iastically manipulating the metal players on the board of an automatic baseball game, for example, you know he’s really a “second child- hood” fan though he is at pains to explain that he wants the toy for his son and is just “trying it out.” The seasoned clerk will stifle a smile at this alibi, and wrap the present up without comment on its adult appeal.

But children are loyal to their old loves and are not always tempt- ed with the latest scientific gadgets. A Boston paper records the follow-

ing incident in this connection, which carries its own touching moral :

“As rockets whirred and a jet clipper flashed its lights for take- off from a counter runway, one package-laden youngster flopped happily down in a red wagon beside a pair of Raggedy Ann and Rag- gedy Andy dolls. Two ladies, pass- ing by, possibly echoed the thoughts of a number of this season’s toy shoppers: ‘I figure as long as they sell Raggedy Arms and Raggedy Andys, the rocket and space set won't take overl' ”

But it is the choice that counts, and there are indeed choices galore in the thronged toy departments everywhere at this time.

Arctic Disarmament As Canadians, we have every reason to be interested in the Arc- . tic region and the possibility that this region may provide a useful 9 area in which the initial stages of ‘ a world disarmament agreement could be developed. We hadn’t ‘ thought of it in that way before, i _. but an article in the Bulletin of 'L“ Atomic Scientists makes some or- resting statements on the subject. ,, It is felt that working in the Arctic region has some very con- crete advantages. It is the only fire: in which the United States and the Soviet Union have a common {frontier—between Alaska and east-

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our Siberia. Hence a disarmament plan could be initiated in the first :netence by these two nations them- ilavee and then extended to other tin-n of the region. The area has only a minimum of

at the present time, and thus may difficulties would be avoid-

‘ infant-moment in this area could one laboratory or test site

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ner, applicable to other arena of potential conflict as well.

The exact area to be chosen could be left‘to negotiation subject to the principle that any agreement must be such as to give no military ad— vantage on either side. It would stipulate that this region would contain no nuclear weapons or de- livery vehicles, long—range bombers or missiles. However, military in- stallations such as airfields and bases, and defensive installations such as radar would be allowed to remain. Thus the Distant Early Warning system of the United States would be intact as would be the corresponding installation of the USSR.

The strategic forces of both countries differ with regard to their composition and tactical emphasis, and a major goal in evolving an agreement of this type would be that of building mutual trust. Therefore great consideration would have to be placed on the selection of corresponding regions which do not embarrass either c o u n t r y strategically. In the Arctic this could be brought about with a minimum of political complexity.

The broader disarmament plan would include the entire Arctic zone. This would- involve the inclusion of Canada as a major partner as well as minor regions of Norway and Sweden. If this could be achieved it would bring about a complete sepa- ration of the offensive forces of both East and West over the entire northern part of the globe.

Doubtless we shall hear more of this proposal in the near future. The article in which it appears was writ- ten jointly by a professor of bio- physics at. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a professor of geochemistry at Moscow University —a significant combination in it- self. There is a determined groping for common ground on problems of this kind, and the hope of the future lies in encouraging such activities.

The Right Approach

Canadians complain that they do not know what being a Canadian means. They worry about their cul- tural identification, and criticize othere countries for ignoring them. The best antidote to these com- plaints, suggests the Toronto Globe and Mail, are programs for the younger generation. It cites with approval in this connection the Centennial Youth Travel Program, to which reference has been made in these columns on other occasions.

This program began last sum- mer with 1,000 high school students. By 1967 there will be 20,000 stud- ents criss-crossing the country to live in homes far from their own and to see Canada. The program, sponsored by the federal govern- ment in co—operation with the prov- inces, is co-ordinated with similar programs operated by 15 agencies which during the past summer sent another 2,000 students across Canada.

The Canadian Red Cross Society has expanded on this idea with a program for bringing more than 100 youngsters from about 50 coun- tries to visit Canada during the summer of the Centennial. The aim of Rendezvous ’67 is to promote understanding am on g teen-agers from Canada and other countries. According to Maj. General Arthur E. Wrinch, national Red Cross com- missioner, there is more opportunity for influencing world affairs through youth than through any other age group, and the Rendez- vous program will provide oppor- tunity to make “a real contribution to this business of‘intemational co- operation.”

As the Toronto paper well says, these are the kinds of programs we need for Centennial year. And they carry a promise of being lively and interesting as well as purposeful.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Canadians, a r g u e s the Orillia [Packet and Times, are not by any means the neurotic, self-doubting, worried people they are represented to be in Canadian magazines, tele- vision commentaries and newspaper columns. The trouble. it says, is that all our so-called “national” media are based in Toronto, and the atmosphere in which they operate is peculiar to that city. “For Toronto is the mecca of the professional con- troversialist, the fellow with the peculiar chip on his shoulder, and no I result, all the bellyaching nor- mally spread across a vast nation has become concentrated in Toronto, a sort of Babylon of wind.”

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DACHSHUND PULLING CONTEST

OTTAWA REPORT By

Patrick Nicholson

"Carnivorous Diet” For MPs Recommended

Before the coloured lightsi twinkle on the Christmas tree. at dusk on Christmas Eve. Fa- ther will probably need a strong shot. He will certainly have earned one.

“Go ahead, Buster, and take one —— take another if you like. But, warn the doctors, “if you are worried about the effects of a chaser. drop a raw egg yolk into it. Then on the day after Christmas, you won't feel like the morning after the night be- fore."

“With your egg yolk. and your clear conscience, you can castl- gate your critics too," add the doctors with a little real Christ- mas cheer. “Tell Mum to cut out the candy which her hand reaches for between turning the

PUBLIC FORUM

Thls column I: open to the dlacnsllen by correspondents of questions of In forest. The Guardiln does not neces- nrlly endorse the opinion of corral- pondents. All letlen publlahed are Inh-

neceanry. The 6 enter Into any eorrreapondence reg-I'd- lng letters eubm fled. *

CITY EXPENDITURES

Sim—Some estimates as to costs of J.P. Coombe Associates to the City of Charlottetown run as high as $400 per day at cer- tain periods during the past two and one-half years. And at least two of those formerly paid by this company are now b ein g paid by the City. How much is the city paying MT- Lettner'.’ Is it more than $75 per day? Has the total amount paid to this firm been at least $200.- 000'.’ Perhaps the Finance Com- mittee will enlighten our citi- zens on this point.

Then there Is the A 13 pe A! Board. What has it cost the city per diem? And what useful purpose has it served? It was a waste of time for most of those who appeared before the Board. Apparently Mr. Lettner cracks he whip and the Board smile: in acquiescence. Is there no way for citizens to obtain redress in cases of appraisals of older pro. parties (in less desirable areas) which have been assessed far beyond their actual market value.

Other extravagant expendi- ture during past year on travel, banquets, cocktail par- ties, gifts and mementoes to V!- siting delegates attendlng all conventions (in splte of the fact that the year 1964 was not the Centennial of the City of Chen- lottetown) as well as on the er- ection of two practically uselesl arches (sorry looking epectac today) costing $10,000 each all have contributed to increas- es In taxes. As regards the coat of the arches. several compo. tent engineers have stated that they could have made a nice pro- fit on erecting those arches at $1200 each. If this be true, what has happened to the rent of the 320000” Besides, this business of erecting arches Ia entedllu- vian — somethlmz like a little "hick" town out West might do. The capital city of a province certainly rates something more dignified and consonant with its character. The words "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" cer- tainly cannot be applied to these dra objects as one view: them on leaving the city.

Never to the entire hlotory of Charlottetown has th re been such an orgy of spending the taxpayers’ money as In 1904. And that by a group which per- petuated itself In office! 11': I very fine thing indeed to put on a ow no u othere

In conclualon. let me say that clfiuns should elect In Febru- economy-minded our tax rate can an 32.” per h dred to 31m per hundred

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pages of her magazine. Tell Sis to lay off that apple pie and ice cream. And tell Junior to stop ‘ slping from that bottle of soft drink while he watches those TV thrillers."

Why? If they don't, they will be the ones who will die from “liquor liver". not you. Doctors have proved that the liver is damaged no more by alcohol than by sugary foods.

This fits in with the advice gi- ven by Dr. illiam Howe. th New Democrat MP from Hamil- ton. I referred recently ln is space to the sylph-llke figures of certain formerly fatsos among our MP5. and described how they had taken a lot of weight off their bodies and their consciences by following Dr.

owe's “carnivorous diet." This attracted many queries from readers. who asked for more de- tails.

“It is important to realize that, in this diet, quantity is NOT a factor. but rather it Is based on the type of food only," says Dr. Howe. "The diet elim- inates almost all carbohydrate, which we normally eat in large quantities; it comes to us in the form of sugar. flour and starch, and hence these in all forms must be eliminated.”

“You may eat these foods: meat, fish. eggs. cheese. milk, c . butter. margarine. fat, leaf vegetables (lettuce, cab- bage, spinach etc.) and stem vegetables (asparagus celery. broccoli, etc.) You must have 00 mgm a day of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) as well as some form of vegetable oil (such as

Mazola) — this can convenient»

ly be taken as salad dressing, with or without cheese mixed in it according to your taste. You may not eat bread. pies, fruit or fruit juices, seed vegetables (peas, beans, etc.) or root vege- tables (potatoes, beets etc), or starch or flour."

It is advisable to go easy on liquor at the beginning of the diet. but if you want some then, and certainly later on, you may drink any dry liquor or dry wine — these having no "free" sugar. Use sugar-free mixes. such as tonic, soda or non—calorie bever-

ages. The loglc of this diet, says Dr. Howe, is that our bodies are unable to use surplus carbohy- drate. and therefore it has to be converted and stored as fat generally at the belt-line. If we choose a diet in the same com- position aa our body — namely with only about one-tenth of one per cent of carbohydrates— this problem will not be creat- ed. and we will lose the fat only, while building up our other tis- suw. Therefore this diet is 5er- limlting: when the fat ls shed from the body, one's weight will stop decreasing and remain con-

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Some MPs have lost thirty or forty pounds or even more in few months: yet this carnivor- ous diet permits them to eat lumberjack's breakfast: sau- sages, eggs and bacon and un- sweetened creamy coffee ga- lore. The great thing about it is that It does not give that hollow saggy look to the face. But it can be costly — you may need to act the tailor to reduce the girth of all your pants.

"Bargain Ottawa

Every housewife will feel un~ derstanding and compassion for the Royal Canadian Air Force. which not long ago found that it had ordered 12,000 more winter tunics than it needed; every houseWIfe will feel equally for the army. which now has enou- gh table linen for officers' mess-

minded, these situations may possess a touch of comedy. But every housewife knows how eerlous they can be.

A careful search of the aver- age basement would reveal that many a housewife has stored away on lent empty ran - ry jam jars to hold the preser- ce of the next 27 fall oeuonl.

Bargain day at supermar- kets invariably results in an ac- cumulation of eggs (two cents a dozen of! t or price). poultry (at one cent a mud less than it was weeks ago). margarine (at special prices that cannot be restated), and other atapiee that form a

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pile large enough to outlast an extended siege.

The armed forces like any housewife, cannot be too care- fu'l.

never knows when the manufacturers will stop making goods, and serious shortages will appear.

One never knows whether there will ever again be bar- gains such as there were this week

Moreover. It is always cheap- er to buy in quantity. even if one has no use for the bargains afterwarde.

The only people unhappy in this altuation are husbands in the one case, and taxpayers In the other.

Since they are the same per- sons, they are by now accustom- ed to a large accumulation of angelica. whether to muehold

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Colds Hard To Contract

By Dr.'l'heodolclI.VanDellea Colds and other respiratory lnlectionsmeooommon.more dianmmll'bnpeoplealeeneeo- inzaud hacking on any galevan

are spread easily from one per- 'eontoanot:herbut there is no c vklencebo on: of

e a feet. If anything, they are more difficult to catch than we ve been led to believe.

The nasal discharge may hold the way in which

eagewaya of a cold sufferer into the nose of a volunteer. But not

We know now that material from the nose moves into the throat in tee to seven minut- es. Indicating the nose has an efficient clearing mechanism. Only a small number appear in the saliva: the rest are killed or swallowed.

On the other hand. when a nasal infection exists. the nose is teeming with micro-origin» isms. A thousand times more infective agents are opewad out on sneezing or blowing the nose than with coughing or talking. M of are contaminated droplets fall to the floor.

Victims of colds have the po- tential for spreading the disease but. to paraphrase the Bible. some of the causative viruses are inhaled by others but fail on barren grwnd and do not produce an infection. Much de- pends upon the resistance of the individual and the condition of the nasal passageways. The longer he remains in contact with the contagious person, the more likely the chance of cross- lnfection. Fresh colds and chil- dren's colds are more contag- lous than others, for reasons un-

nown.

A lowered humidity in the liv- ing and working quarters dur- ing the winter causes dryness of the nose and throat._ This, in turn, hinders the cleansing ac- tion and makes the individual more vulnerable to invasion by the cold viruses.

Allergies also constitute a trig- gering mechanism. The me can be said of sitting in drafts and becoming thoroughly chill- ed, which are said to affect the nasal secretions and many ex- plain why some people develop colds under these conditions.

STOP THE LAXA’I‘IVE

Mrs. R. writes: My four- year- old son won’t have a daily move- ment unless I give him a laxa- tive. Do you think he has some- thing wrong with his intestines?

The chances are that the lax- ative is responsible. You don't give the intestine an opportun- ity to function normally.

SMOKING AND DISEASE

.l. V. Z. writes: What disease might a person have if he devel- ops a dislike for smoking?

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Those Wl'lh lung cancer have many reasons to dislike smok- ing. Cigarets irritate and taste bad when the throat is sore or bronchitis ein'sts.

UncERATION COULD FOL'LOW

L. . writes: Is inflammation

of the colon the same as ulcer? REPLY

No. but ulceration of the col- n may develop during the height of the inflammation. TRACTION FOR BACK PAIN A. P. writes: What does frac- tion applied to the legs do for backache?

REPLY It relaxes the muscles of the back and reduces pain from spasm. TODAY'S HEALTH HINT— Store guns and ammunition separately.

(NOTE: All corrupondcnoe to Dr. Van Dellen should be addressed to: Dr. endure Van Dellcn. co Chicago Trib- une, Clucago.' Illinolc.)