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Food Bank lndorsed -

All parties in the Commons are agreed on the necessity for a NATO y“food bank”. Prime Minister Diefen' baker has said that “events of the past two weeks underline the nec- essity for action 'in this regard.” 0p- position leader Pearson has urged the Government to “place a formal pro- posal before the NATO Council.” C.C.F. House leader Argue has gone further and recommended that Can- ada make a “definite proposal” and

100 million bushels of wheat, some of the cost to come out of this country’s defencélspen‘ding. ' /

In view of this unanimity of opin- ion,'what is to hinder the Govern- ment from initiating the proposal. and working energetically for its adop- tion? The plarl'ivould go a long way towards cutting down the huge food

surpluses in both Canada and theI United States—the two countries:

which might‘be' expected to con— tribute the bulk of the food—and, at

the same time, it. would, as Mr. Pear-y

son pointed out, “provide food on the spot in Europe which, if war came, would be a necessity for. survival.” This is one field in Western de- fence in which Canada is in a position to takes leading hand. We' believe that most Canadians would like the

plan to be undertaken without fur- _

ther delay. And even if all inter— national problems were to be solved and all fear of War removed, afood bank would still serve a very useful purpose. It would be a ready source of the necessities of, life for millions of. people in the under-privileged countries to whom a' loaf of bread is a luxury. ' ‘

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Flooridalion

According to Dr. Gordon Dawson, director of dental services for the Nova Scotia Department of Health, N ova» Scotians are the second biggest users per capita Of fluoridated water in Canada. Surveys are now under way to determine the effect, if any, of fluoridated water on school child- ren . in Halifax, Dartmouth and Kentville. is the findings parallel those ‘_of similar surveys in other Canadian cities that have ‘flu'orida- tion, they will demonstrate that the specialtreatment of the water is no

menace to health. as some people

claim, and is definitely a means of preventing'the decay of teeth in ju— veniles. ' ' \ ..

This leads us to ask; What has happened to the investigation which

our Charlottetown Water» Commis- '

sioners were suppos’éd to be making into this important question? Some years ago they Vetoed a resolution of the. City Council. to adopt fluorida-, tion, insisting that they were the re- sponsible body and claiming that they were carefully studying the pros and cons of (the whole situation. large and representative delegation of citi- zens promptly waited upon them, urging the advantages of fluoridation and supporting their statements with

medical authority. From time to.

time, resolutions have been passed by our health'and dental associations to the same effect. But 'we have heard nothing from the Water Commission.

If it has made a ‘de'cisnon in the matter,it should so inform the public. [It should cite the steps it has taken to ascertain the facts, what author- ities it has consulted and what rep— resentations, besides the one above mentioned, have been made before it. A full report would clarify the situa-

tion, and the sooner it is prepared and '

presented for public scrutiny the bet- ter. "

Psychological Legislation

There seems to be some confusion in American ' Cengressional . circles over the question as to whether the dispatch of marines to .Lebanon, in response to an appeal for help, was covered by the “Eisenhower Doc— trine”, a Congress-approved measure authorizing the President to send troops to any; Middle East country

threatened by Communist aggressions

and whose Government requested help. Some Congressmen are said to feel that the present situation is covl

‘ ered by the legislation: others have

doubts about it. It is not a practical question, in anyevent. Whether the doctrine be

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applicable or not. the President did not invoke its provisions when he sent troops to Lebanon. He acted, as he was careful to point out to Con- gress, under his constitutional, au- thority as Commander-in-chief of the armedforces. This authority permits him—indeed, it obligates him—to or- der United States forces into action and with what strength he deems ad-

visable whenever and wherever he is

interests in

convinced that American are in jeopardy. This a matter

'which he exercises his personal

judgement. He may consult his cabi- net and his military advisers: but he

, is not under any obligatiOu LU uu so,

and, in any event. the decision is his own. _ . This was one of the arguments' used against the Doctrine when it was} first suggested to Congress. Since the President already has the authority to order the country’s for- ces into action in any part of the world, the critics argued, what point is there in asking Congress to back up that authority with legislation cov- ering some specific area? There was,

of course, no point at all, except that ,

it showed Congressionala—and,',pre- sumably, public—awareness of the

dangerous situation in the Middle.

East, and national solidarity inface of that danger. It was, therefore, a psychological rather than a. legal piece of legislation.

Lebanon And Hungary

There are some who are asking =

what is the difference between what the Russians did in Hungary and what the United States has done in Lebanon. In both cases, it is argued, intervention came as the result of an urgent plea from a ,beleagured gov- ernment. w

This, comments the Ottawa J our- nal, is a comparison which will de- ceive only the gullible or those who find it convenient to be deceived. A great difference is that the govern- ment of Lebanon is a truly represen- tative government. It was establish. ed, as President Eisenhower has

- pointed out, by an overwhelming pop-

ular rvoteyin a free election only a little more than a year ago. The Hun—

, garian government of Kadar was a

puppet regime, covered only with

tranSparent legality and representing 4 no one except the interests of Mos-‘

cow. Only the curiously myopic will insist on the parallel. ’ But perhaps even more persuasive to the conscience of the, world will be the two vastly different images'of in- tervention. In Budapest there were the tanks; suppredsing rebellion ‘in the streets with brutality, and blood- shed. ' "

EDITORIAL NOTES '

The Eskimo village of Kotzebue,’

Alaska, «holds an annual Fourth of

July celebratioh l‘that includes foot , and boat races, dcrobatics, and danc-

ing and beauty contests. Instead of bathing suits, entrants for the title of Miss Artie Circle wear fur parkas.

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Whatever he may be like as a rua ler, young King Hussein of Jordan certainly doesn’t lack‘courage. Even with British troops guarding his pal- ace,his life is in constant danger from'wbuld-be assassins. A man of lesser calibre would have fled to a

‘ safer place. ' ,

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"‘The bowhead whale”, says a sci- entific ‘report, “has amouth big eno gh to hold an ox, but it eats the tiniest of sea creatures. Its throat can swallow, nothing larger than a small herring.” So, it couldn’t have,

been a bowhead that swallowed Jon»

ah.

, 4 a a; The, international situation will remain relatively calm for the, next

, few days, anyway—while U.N. dele-

gates debate the question of who should represent Iraq, the present delegate or one supported by the re- volutionary Government. No grave decision will likely be taken until that isSue has been fought out. . 4v- e t l I The new Government of Iraq is

Y talking sweetly to Western Govern-

ments. “Iraq has not renounced the -Baghdad. Pact"; “Our friendship for the West is still the same”; “There

will be political parties, elections and a welfare state”—these are some of .

the honeyed words coming out of Baghdad, a little too high-sounding to appear convincing. ' i i

, A most unusual—and in France a specially impressive—expression 'of corifidence in the de Gaulle leader- ship toward a new republic has come from the response to the floating of a government loan. In the first week it a‘hetted the Bank of France as much gold as it obtained in seven weeks when a similar loan was float- ed in 1952.

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The Paris meeting between Premier de .- Gaulle and Secre- tary of State Dulles produced what both menfidescnilbed as “a large identity of views” on world problems. But, at the same time; the meeting underlin- ed one area of very wide dis- ' agreement between the two coun- tries namely United States help

to make France a nuclear Power”

The two men met less than two

weeks following passage by the

U.S. Congress of a bill permitting

sharing of nuclear weapons and

design materials with North Atlantic Treaty Organization na- tions wh i c lh : have themselves ,made “substantial progress” in. the field. The only nation that has done. so to the satisfaction of the bill’s requirements is Britain. France cannot benefit from the bill. Thus, briefly, if she wants to become a nuclear Power, she must do so on her own. And this, Premier de Gaulle is reported to have informed Mr. Dulles, is precisely what France intends to do. ' ' *REC‘ENT REPORTS ’ France is not new to nuclear j 'scieuc’e and recent repents from Paris have suggested that she may be able to detonate a pluton- ium bomb within six months to a year. But in making her own way to this objective, she will be forced, to. spend enormous sums

search. This process, as Presi- dent Eisenhower told Congress last October, is wasteful in the extreme. It is wasteful to France in the first instance, but, as she is a member of NATO, it is wasteful of that alliance’s effort as well. i

The original U.S. legislation

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duplicating U.S. and British Re- '

against sharing atomic secrets

was passed in 1946. But if the expectation was that this would preserve the*~_U.S. monopoly on such weapons for any length of time, it was, as everyone knows, quite wrong. Soon‘ Russia a nd Britain emerged as nuclear Pow- ers.

POSITION TODAY

France’s position today paral- lels that of Britain a few "car’s ago: Under the‘ 1946 legislation she, too, was barred from U. S: nuclear informatiop. But that didn’t stop Bhitarinlfrom produc- ing nuclear weapons, and in re- latively short order, too. The cost, however, was heavy — a reported $200,000,000 to achieve the first atomic explosion. It was money which Britain could ill af- ford in the early postwar period But the fact is she built a bomb in spite of the U.S. law, just as France proposes to build one.

Against this background. There is every reason to suppose that if the channels of exchange of nuclear information wept-2. opened up, the U.S. would 'néiceive as well. as give. Which only means that the whole NATO efliort would be aided. The West cannot hope to reach its potential in sc.enti- fic advance vis-a-vis Russia if each Western nation goes its own way. To the extent that this is being done, it is a comfort-first of all to Russia.

This is not to say that the U.S. and Britain should share out their atom secrets haphazardly. Obviously they should not. There are many nations on the Western side w h i c h are irresponsible, which lack the maturity to be entrusted with weapons whose improper use could plunge the world. into nuclear war.

Should France be counted as

Far out in the lonely, wind- sqept reaches of the North Sea \ stands a rugged speck of land

romantically named Fair Isle.

Rising halfway bet-ween Scot- land‘s Orkney and Shetland groups, it is one of the remotest inhabited spots in the British Isles. But isolation has not kept it from taking part in world af- fairs, and its own history is mark ed by surprising ups and down—

V at present definitely up.‘

A century ago Fair Isle was overpopulated. Its more than 300 inhabitants were crowded togeth-

- er within a :ix-square-mile area of small,. scattered farms and open moorlands ending in pre-

cipitous, rocky cliffs. .

FROM TOO MANY, TOO FEW

The solution to the problem— mass migration to Canada—set in motion a depopulation trend. As [numbers dwindled, a curious “jinx” against the birth of girl babies brought an overwhelming preponderance of males. Grad- ually Fair Islanders faced the pos- sibility of having to abandon a home and that had been theirs since Viking days.

The current turn in Fair Isle’s

. ,fortunes goes back to 1948. A

major bird-observatory was set up to study the habits of the hundreds of migrant bird species that nest and rest there; ‘

The action brought in ornitholo- gists and other visitors, and fo- cused attention on the people’s plight. In 1954 the island was brought by the National Trust for Scotland, an organization for the preservation of special sites. Working with officials of Shet- land, w1th which Fair Isle is clas- sed. the Trust launched a long— term rehabilitation program.

The islands population decline has now been reversed, with a recent increase from 45 to 60-odd inhabitants. Two newcomers. a pioneering English couple, have opened the first shop there in many a year. HARD WORK STILL

A deepwater pier is being built to facilitate weekly boat service with the mainland and the annual coal shipment for winter fuel. Lobster and weaving industries have been introduced «the latter

an addition to Fair Isle; fam-

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I ous knitwear in sweaters, scarfs, and socks.

The islanders have welcomed the innovations and the visitors. The new ideas and friendships, have widened their interests and 3 fields of knowledge. But life goes i on in the age-old style. ‘

The crogters plant oats, rye,‘ potatoes, and turnips on their tiny farms. Nearly all have part- , time occupations keeping up thel roads, the school, homes, and: fences—and the many other odd jobs needed to maintain an'isol» ated, do-it~yourself‘ community.

Those who fish or pilot the mail b'oat‘ are among the world’s most skillful seamen, as they‘ must be to navigate their treac-l herons waters and tidelways.

Sheep raising has problems all its own on weirdly sculptured Isle. The flocks graze .on the‘ grassy tap of lofty Sheep Rock,‘ accessible only from the sea. Se- ‘ veral times a year, men climb its sheer face by means of chains blip the sheep, and lower bags of , wool and young lambs. l

The world at large has an in-{ terest in keeping Fiar Isle go-I ing. Its lighthouses protect ship-i ping, and its position makes it? a useful observation post. Inl World War II. it reported onl German planes and submarinesfl

Curiously, the war was a fac- tor in establishing .the island’s bird observatory. An Edinburgh ornithologist, George Waterston, imprisoned in a German camp abroad. worked out plans for the enterprise with a fellow cap- tive, also a bird enthusiast from Edinburgh. Returning home, he enlisted the help of the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club, bought Fair Isle, and put the plan into ac- tion. Later he sold Fair Isle to the National Trust.

MAXIMS

A habit cannot be‘ tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

USEFUL FABRIC

Cordage, paper and cloth has been made from lndia's‘jute since

early in history

such a nation? Not, we think, as matters now stand. Premier de Gaulle, has brought stability to France and to the French Union; and constitutional reforms are ahead which will place that stab ility on a permanent basis. He also has pledged that France’s restored stability and confidence in herself will be used to support and strengthen NATO. ' d

The determination of the U.S. Congress that none of that na- tion’s nuclear discoveries which could'be of use to potential enem-

les will {all into their hands is

completely understandable. But balanced against this must be the. damage it has done to the NATO alliance the past, and the dam. age it will do in the future. In other words; the rigid restriptio-ns may be costing more than they are Worth. ‘ _

This is surely one of the most important internal problems that the NATO alliance will have to solve. Yesterday it was: Britain. today it is France, tomorrow, penhalps, West Germany; then

who? ‘anads, as a member of-

NATO, has a, stake in this, for surely it is to our. advantage

that the resources of the alliance

-— scientific as well as material — be used to the best advantage. The Govenmnent at~0tta|wa should take a positive role in solution of the issue. . '

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Our Ideal Man would command a interested in his potential earnin pressive. He need not have any mind and be richly endowed with write a reasonable facsimile of the Queen’s English.

personality so that he can get along well with both Sta have an eager desire to attain success, and be willing

Don’t Show Off In TheWoter

By. Herman N. Dundesen, M. SHOWING off in the water is

one not—so—good way to lose your .

life.

Swimming is fine relaxation, it teaches coordination, it’s healthful exercise. I strongly re- commend it.

CAN’T TAKE CHANCES ,

But no one can swim well enough to take chances. Every year some 6,000 persons drown. Drownings are second only to traffic accidents as a cause of ac- cidental deaths in the 5 to 44age group. Most of these drownings could be prevented simply by using a little common sense.

Now I know most of you have heard these warnings before, but I don’t think I can emphasme water precaution enough. So here they are again. Read them; they may save a life this summer.

Don’t show off or tease other persons while in the water. Such horseplay is apt to end trag- edy. V ~ LEARN EARLY

Make sure that your children learn to swim at theearliest pos- sible. age. Urge them to join swimming classes conlucted by the Red Cross, the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, YMCA and YWCA or public schools.

Wait at least one hour — and I mean an hour — after eating before going into the water.

Swim only ,in safe places and dive until you are sure the water is deep enough and free of danger— ous roeks.

smv NEAR .ANornER

Don’t overestimate your skill

'or strength. Always try to have

another swimmer nearby. -

Stay out of the water during storms. - r ,

One more word of caution:

Should your boat upset, your best bet probably is to stay with it. Most rowboats and outboards will stay afloat even when cap- siz . Your chances of rescue are generally better if you cling to the craft rather than attempt to swim to shore.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

Mrs. S. 5.: What causes chap- ped lips, and is there any cure for it? 1

Answer: Chopped lips are us- ually seen in nervous people who moisten and bite their lips ex- cessively, and then expose the lips to cold winds.

A lack of vitamin 1372. or ribo- flavin, may be a contributing cause. . g ‘

Chapping generally yields to some simple ointment, such as cold cream, unless a secondary infection has occurred. u '

t The Age Old Story

He that overcometh shall in- herit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

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