S, Ontario Election _ As anticipated by almost every- body, the Conservatives had little trouble in getting re-elected in On- terio yesterday, though with a re- duced majority.. The campaign, by all accounts, was a dull affair—‘“quietly pedestrian”, the Ottawa Journal call- ed it—the quietest and the most ped- ‘estrian of any Ontario campaign in the past three decades. Leaders of the three parties proclaimed their platforms, candidates spoke on the { hustings and over the air, but there were no real clashes, no aroused feel- ings and virtually no “incidents” that make-campaigns exciting and colour- ful. Contestants on all sides were con- - tent to snipe at one another at long | : |

range.

The Frost Government, of course, was strongly.entrenched. It had been returned four years ago by a land- slide, with most of the 84 successful Conservative candidates winning

| their seats by a majority of 1,000 or

more votes. Since then it had received

| an infusion of new blood and embark- ed on an impressive program of éx-” tended public services. In line now with Ottawa politically, it presented a formidable front to its Liberal and CCF opponents.

.Mr. Wintermeyer appears to have waged an able campaign despite lack of experience as Liberal léader and an apparent lack of cohesion among his followers. There was a great deal of

~ talk about national Liberal participa- | tion, but it didn’t materialze. A few

’ little squibs fired here and there was

the extent of the national support.

In the closing days the Liberals pleaded poverty. Campaign funds were reported to be exhausted. As the Conservatives were not slow in point- ing out, it was a poor recommenda- tion for a party seeking to control the money of Ontario to say that it couldn’t handle fits own funds through sound budget control. It was recalled, too, that when the Liberals were in power at Ottawa there was no such - complaint from the provincial organ-

ization—leaving the public to sur- - mise what that meant.

Strangely enough the CCFers, who normally complain that they cannot find enough money for their cam- paigns because they have to depend on small voluntary offerings, seemed on this occasion to be fairly well heel- ed.

‘The election will be hailed by Con- servatives as evidence of the continu- ed confidence which the party enjoys federally as well as in Ontario. That is a boast its opponents will find

_ easier to scoff at than to refute.

Municipalities’ Plight | The appeal of the municipalities . \for a review of all three levels of gov- ernment of the present tax juris- dictions has not made much progress at Ottawa. Yet the arguments ad- yanced for fiscal reform seem fair and reasonable, and cannot be ignor- ed indefinitely. As an agricultural Province we are perhaps less con- cerned than larger industrial areas with this issue, yet we too have our municipal problems, of the same kind if not on the same scale. We are re-- minded of this by an address given in Montreal at a conference of Canad- ian and American municipal finance officers by Mr. James H. Lowther, Commissioner of Finance for Ottawa.

Mr. Lowther’s major premise is the same contention as that of the Canadian Mayors and Municipalities : that the financial problems of local governments cannot be solved at the local level. The shape »f our society has changed while the tax structure remains fixed to the rigid forms

_which once served well enough. All across Canada, there has been a growing exodus in urban communi- ties to. the suburbs, requiring new services which cannot be met on the old civic tax base. _

Instead of receiving more revenue to meet these demands, the munici- palities are receiving proportionately Jess. Mr. Lowther pointed out that in the last quarter cen local taxes in Canada have drc from 40 per cent to 13% per cent of all taxes. In constant dollars per capita, local taxes

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since 1934 have risen less than one- third than doubled. The revenue sources of

Manufacturers’ Visit

Though. an agricultural Province, wechave several smaller industries here and would like to have more.

few suggestions when they visit us

their annual meeting at St. Andrews, N.B. The delegates have been touring several parts of the Maritimes since June 6, and their visit to the Island is a courteous gesture which we ap- preciate. :

Heading the Association is Mr. Ian F. McRae, whose presidential address at St. Andrews provoked a good deal of controversy. Chiefly he has been criticized. for advocating a tariff policy “which puts Canadian interests first”; and we must confess that the statement leaves much to be explain- ed. It all depends on which Canadian interests the speaker had in mind. Some of the most important Canad- jan enterprises depend on export markets, and the kind of protective policy for which the Association has stood in the past would strike ‘at them by reducing the buying ability of foreign customers. We -have-had— too much of that kind of tariff tink- - ering already, and we hope the trend from now on will be the other way.

However, we have not invited the St. Andrews convention delegates over here to quarrel with them. There was much to be commended in Mr. McRae’s remarks as reported, particularly his emphasis on the need for greater efficiency in domestic manufacturing. We can apply that to industry generally, including those on which our own provincial economy is based. :

We have already heard this week from Mr. A. C. Ashforth, president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, whose forecast. of new peaks in vol- ume of output, total employment and national income for the current year was most encouraging. No‘doubt, too, we shall hear something worthwhile from the manufacturers’ spokesmen at the government luncheon on Satur- day. In any case we shall welcome their visit, and trust that it will prove relaxing and enjoyable.

EDITORIAL NOTES

* The Air League of the British Empire, which is_ celebrating its jubilee year, announces the creation of a flying scholarship for tuition in Scotland, to be awarded annually to the winner of an essay competi- ton. The award is open to any Brit- ish Commonwealth subject, boy or girl. under the age of 21. The win- ner will be given six weeks flying and ground tuition.

Scotland’s rapidly growing table poultry industry recently held its first conference in Edinburgh. Near- ly 300 poultry farmers, students and dealers from all parts of the coun- try attended. The conference was organized in collaboration with the National Farmer’s Union of Scot- land, where the produefion of poul- try meat is now said be running at a level of 11,000 tons a year, at

a value of over £3 million. *

Plans were laid recently for the World Conference on Adult Eduta- tion to be held in Canada at the end of August, 1960. The main theme of the conference, as recommended by the consultative committee, will ne the “role, content and structure of adult education in relation to the adaptation of men and women to the accelerating rate of technologi- cal change.” The accelerating rate of verbosity in educational phraseo- logy might also be discussed with profit.

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Named after the Isle of Iona, off the west coast\of Scotland, where St. Columba and his followers once landed, a new edition of the Bible

-has recently been published in Glasgow. A presentation of the “Iona Bible” has been given to the Right Rev. George F. MacLeod, leader of the Iona Community and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The Bible, which follows the Authorized Ver- sion, is printed on India paper of a

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by The Times, for “an Ahglo, German arms deal a feud be- tween the editor and ; froni

of the Geneva Foreign Ministers’ talks.

But in fact the carefully chosen words used by The Times merely suggested that ‘‘nobody can con- tinue to carry the burden of the Foreign Office for long pericds

LIMIT TO HARD WORK SA-year-old Lioyd has already carried that burden for 3% years. I vividly recall a significant con vergation which I had with Bri- tain’s then Prime Minister, Sir- Anthony Eden, and Mr. Lioyd at Government House here, shortly after Lioyd became Foreign Min-

The latest switch in Soviet tac- ties at Geneva suggests that the Kremlin is given more credit than it deserves for its mastery of diplomatic manoeuvre.

In theory, Moscow's abrupt shifts from hostility to friendii- mess and back again offer the ideal venirle for throwing a less volatile opponent off balance. Iu practice, the trick fails as often as it succeeds because of grievous and elementary errors in timing.

Andrei Gromyko’s sudden fe- turn to the language of the ul- timatum in phrasing Russia’s terms for a settlement in West Berlin is a case in point.

WEST FACES PROBLEMS

Kt coincides with a number of problems, large and small, be- deviliing relationships within the , Western alliance.

The West Germans are squab- thing over Chancelfor Adenauer’s

France is demanding possession of nuclear secrets. Selwyn Lioyd’s future has. been a subject of con- troversy and, most important of all, John Foster Dulles is dead.

Not for the first time, the Rus- gians have intervened at a cru- cial moment with a jolt that murst inevitably restote the ee sense of perspective, Fear viet power is the old, reliable coment which has aiways had a magical effect on splits in the alliance.

In the face of the new threat to its occupancy of West Berlin fhe West can be reasonably ex-

proach would. have appeared (0 offer greater opportunities. -

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hig anxiety to hasten a summit meeting. Gromyko’s latest pro- nouncement appears to have the reverse effect.

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come our Foreign Minister. But he bas embarked on a quadruple role, that job being added to his previous tasks as Minister of Public Works, House Leader, and caucus chairman,’ Only a mau with the constitution of an ox could carry such a load for long.

Which present Cabinet Minister is free to take the surplus load off his shoulders?

AGE CANNOT BE BUCKED

Of course, as the case of Sel- wyn Lioyd shows, no man in Britain or Canada o~ elsewhere can continue indefinitely to—pull his weight as* a Minister. Life’s price of undermined health, ana each of us in turn must recognize that inevitable fact.

I have, just re-read the journ- als cf Captain Scott, written dur- ing his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole im 1911-12. In it, he de- scribed the heroic self-sacrifice of Captain Oates a member of the smali group which accompanied Scott actually to the Pole.

Oates was weakened by malnu- trition and frostbite; he could no longer pull his share of the ried. He recognised that his disability was throwing a crippling load on already facing the death which finally struck them down. So one morn- ing Captain Oates staggered out of the tent into the blizzard—and was never seen again. He freed his colleagues of the burden of his use’ess body. Captain Scott paid tribute to his self-sacrifice in the historic phrase: “‘A very

.| gallant gentleman.

So too occasions sometimes arise when a Cabinet member, although undefeated by his pol- itical foes, gracefully decides to sacrifice his own Ministerial life, making for his colleagues’ sake the gosture of a very gallant gentleman.

by internal troubles uriknown to the West, it would appear that he is simply following the esta-D lished Russian dplomatic pat- tern.

If the form holds true, Western

statesmen can look forward to a few welerme days, weeks or months of relief from their trou- bles with one another until the pendulum swings back.

Indian Lauds Kipling

Manchester Guardian

Kipling’s nivels and short stor- ies about India came to be re- garded by many of a later gen- eration as reactionary and_im- perialist. An appreciation of his work from an Indian point of view is therefore all the more interesting, and in a recent talk in English for Asia broadcast in the BBC’s General Overseas Ser- vice the distinguished India writ- er Nirad Chaudhuri spoke of the “Jungle Books” and ‘‘Kim”

. | in particular as “the finest pro-

ducts of the impact of the Hindu East on English literature.”

“I have always wondered,” Mr. Chaudhuri said, “how so Eng- lish a temperament as Kipling’s could become so susceptible to Hindu influences. The English mind and the Hindu mind usual- ly repel each other. But in his case the two seem to have fus- ed, through an explosion of gen- ius, to create imperishable liter-

duism also {s anti-intellectual and intuitionist.”” IMPACT OF HINDUISM

Mr. Chaudhuri said that he spoke deliberately about the im- pact of Hinduism—rather than of India or Islam—on Kipling, not only because he, as a Hindu, was best qualified to appraise that part of his work showing its in- fluence, but because he consid- ered that some of the -greatest things Kipling had written were due to the impact of the Hindu way of life.

He instanced “Kim” and a des- cription in the short story “The Bridge Builders about the com- ing of Krishna to a conclave of the Hindu gods. Since his child- hood, Nirad Chaudhuri said, he had been reading the lyrics of the Krishna cycle and hearing the songs of Krishna\—‘‘still not only the only god, but the only ro- mantice and love in the lives of a very large number of Hindus” yet he had read nothing more evocative than the passage about Krishna in that story.

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Mr. Chaudhuri went on to give further examples, and to regret that he had no time to speak adequately of “Kim” which he regarded as the finest story about India written in England. He was, he said, constantly re- reading the “Jungle Books” and f in them not only the spirit of great Hindu fables in the collection called Pancha-Tantra, but also the fable of the English- man in India.

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OUR YESTERDAYS (From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

x. -(Jume 12, 1934)

The 13th annual meeting of the Registered Nurses Association of P.E.I. was held in the ladies par- lour of the Clifton Hotel, Sum- merside, yesterday afternoon with an attendance of 36 delegates, President, Miss Lillian Pidgeon occupied the chair. The new slate of officers include Miss Anna Mair, president; Miss Mae King, vice-president; Miss Edna L, Green, treasurer and registrar.

The annual inspection of the Cadet Corps of West Kent and Queen Square Schools took place yesterday afternoon at, Victoria Park. The units were inspected by Captain Belanger of Quebec. The West Kent Corps was com- manded by Ian Scarth and ‘the Queen Square Corps was com- manded by John Smith.

TEN YEARS AGO

In a C.N.R. derailment at Roy- alty Junction at about 10 a.m. Saturday, Mr. James Leightizer suffered slight head lacerations when the engine which he was driving on the Summerside train was sideswiped by the second, third and fourth cars of a freight “extra” ftom Charlottetown. The

accident was believed caused by ||

a defective point.

Mr. Phillip Perry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perry, has re- turned from Yellowknife, N.W.T. to his home in Miscouche. Mr. Perry is employed with the Trans- American Mining Co. as diesel engineer and his company {s one which engages in extensive gold mining operations in the far north.

immediately underwent in the tropical East, he can do no bet- ter than read the Jungle Books.”

His own people, the Bengalis, were hurtfully caricatured .as the Bandar Log, “the Monkey People, clever and fickle, with- out leaders, without sustained purpose, without strength of character and always boastful,” yet he preferred Kipling’s angry dislike to Mr..Forster’s compas- sion. “In any case,” he conclud- ed, ‘‘as a Bengali I am now hav- ing my revenge on him, for the proud Englishman that he was would not have welcomed praise from a Bengali.

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telling us unpleasant truths about

ourselves, but also because he wrote a story like ‘The Miracle of Purun Bhagat’ and gave us one of the finest interpretations of Hindu renunciation,

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We meet on equal terms,: take swift delight

In mutual respect. Each in his own

And separate orbit tastes the dark and bright

Of daily life—together yet alone.

We walk the same earth, are to- gether warmed .

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To warn me not te trespass nor impose

Upon your place as the aristo- crat—

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—Mildred@ Lescarboura Greene in the Christian Science Monitor

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hopeful than to be forty years old.

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John’s, (Nfld), News

the Commonwealth is all very well. But we must question @ Government policy which gies aid to India priority over the devel. opement of a region of our own country which -has been neglec- ted in the past, and to the build- ing up of which the present Gove ernment is specially pledged.— Fredericton Gleamer

That “it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good” was pro- ven literally true in south-western Saskatchewan recently where

many long-buried artifacts—in- cluding arrow-heads and spear- points—of considerable archaeolo- gical value. However, although the findings are described as @ “rich harvest’, we have some

. | doubt that farmers in the area

are nearly as delighted as the

The British it seems, do not fool with errant drivers. Caught in ; a car he had taken, John Gordon Grant, 23, of Hudspeth Crescent, Pity Me., County Durham, was disqualified for driving for 30 years! The coyrt has ample rea- son for its action. As the Man-

case, Grant had been convicted 20 times of taking cars. without the owners’ consent, or of attemp- ting to take them.—Moose Jaw Times-Herald

New troubles are besetting the Senate office building in Wash ington—the one in which the tun- nel to the Capitol building stops 100 yards short of its goal. Now they have discovered that 600

the wall-to-wall carpeting is laid down.—Sherbrooke Record

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