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Strike Seems Futile

_ ‘The Canadian National Railways “Management does not seem unduly apprehensive about the outcome of the strike threat posed by the fire- men’s union. It has publicly announc- ‘ed that it will continue to render normal services on and after the deadline date of May 1. Union sour- ces have indicated that if the fire- men walk off their jobs, they will not get open or outright support from other railway unions.

The issuq of the necessity of firemen-helpers on diesel freight and yard locomotives has been in dispute between the union and CNR for more than a year, following the no- ‘tice given by the railway manage- ment that it desired to enter into a working contract similar to that which the union consummated with the Canadian Pacific Railway, where- by as firemen-helpers moved up from dieselized freight trains and yard engines such positions would not be filled. This agreement came after two strikes against the CPR, the second walkout failing to affect to any extent the operation of the company’s services.

On this issue three rulings by ' two conciliation boards and one royal commission have been given, all against the union’s stand in the present case. It is to be hoped indeed that wiser counsels will prevail in regard to the strike threat. This ap- pears to be the hope of the Canadian . Labor Congress, which has asked the Federal Government to get the un- fon into negotiations before next Friday. The Congress leaders have not tried to propose any settlement to the Government or to the CNR, but merely to get the talks going before the disputes. In this effort they are acting with commendable restraint and judgement. Meanwhile # is to hoped that public reaction, which appears to be overwhelmingly against the threatened strike, will play its part in influencing the final decision.

Farm Price Policies

Agriculture Minister Harkness’ announcement in the House of Com-¢ mons that the Government is chang- ing its price support policy for hogs by withdrawing price support from eommercial firms, and instead will make deficiency payments to indivi- dual farmers, appears to have been well received by farm producers. It ie a bold stroke of policy, aimed at correcting a situation about which there has been much complaint. It recognizes the fact that a farm sta- bilization program should be design ed to aid farmers on family-sized farms and not bolster the operations of large feed companies, processors or retailing chains. The price used to ealculate deficiency payments should, of course, be high enough to cover costs of production apd give a fair return on labor and investment.

Another announcement deals with the Government’s new dairy support program, effective May 1. It is designed to reduce surplus prodtc- tion-of skim milk powder, increase production of other dairy products and also encourage greater consump- tion of cheese. The National Dairy Council, spokesman for the dairy trade, says the new policy’ will per- mit flexibility and represents “a ser- fous effort by the Government to bring total milk production and con- sumption into better balance.” Under this policy 2the support price on creamery butter, boosted to 64 cents a pound from 56 a year ago, will re- main at the present figure but the support price on cheddar cheese will be reduced. Support of the skim milk market will be continued only for an- other five months:

Farm price policies defeat their ends when they help to price a pro- duct out of the market. They must be flexible.enough to meet changing eonditions, and avoid boosting pro- duction along unprofitable lines. But there will always be interests ad- versely affected by any change. Op-

eritics are already complain- ing that the new support prices are s of ‘s pre-

election pledges. There is only one valid test for these policies, how- _eyer; that is the overall interests of the farming industry. If these in- _terests are not served by the new changes, there will be time enough to denounce them.

Child Safety

tention to its paramount importance, Saskatchewan has announced that it

|_will observe May 3 as Child Safety

day. In reply to a question from Mr. Argue,in the House of Commons, Health Minister Monteith said that if there is any move to sponsor this day on a national basis, the federal department will be’ prepared to lend suitable support. If Saskatchewan or any other province submits a project in this field within the terms of the national health grants, it. will be given full consideration.

It may be doubted whether the designation of special days for safety campaigns achieves all that its pro- ponents have in mind. A too frequent use of this method tends to. defeat its purpose entirely. But the same can be said for any form of cam- paign, carried to excess. The fact remains that child safety on our highways is a major responsibility of every communityy and province; and if the life of only one child could be saved by such action as Sask- atchewan ig proposing, it would be well worth while.

Seasonal Warning

Spring, ah, Spring! It is the sea- son of gladness, hope and budding trees, of preoccupation with outdoor chores and indoor housecleaning. It is also the season of bonfire hazards, which prompt this warning to all who light fires to burn refuse at this time of the year.

Bonfires have an attraction for, children. They are thoughtless in’ playing with fire and tragedies from burn# are fairly common. In all re- fuse and grass fires it is essential to see that the last spark is extinguish- ed. Even if the fire is not fanned in- to flame again by children, a night breeze can easily start it up again and spread to set fire to fences or buildings.

So, be careful. Better to cart the stuff away to a dump than risk dis- aster. But if that is not feasible, then great care should be taken. Adult supervision of fires should be the order of the day.,

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Ontario Lieutenant Gover- nor, Hon. J. Keiller MacKay, says that protocol will be kept at a mini- ‘mum during the Queen’s visit to that ‘Province. That is a good rule to follow throughout the country.

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Apparently, the Revenue Depart- ment is by no means certain of win- ning a case against an allegedly de- linquent taxpayer. In 1958, accord- ing to a report presented to the Com-

partment won 205 cases and lost 197. 110 judgements are still pending. = * 7

The future is_ bright for broiler- fryer chickens, according to a re- port by the American National Broil- er Councik It says that experiments are being conducted with a special “tranquilizing” feed which would be given to flocks just before they are taken to processing plants. The coun- cil says that this will calm the birds, making them easier to handle.

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Ottawa has announced that Gen- eral A.G.L. McNaughton has _ re- linquished the chairmanship of the ‘Canadian section of the Canada-Uni- ted States Permanent Joint Board of Defence, and will be succeeded by L. Dana Wilgress, a career diplomat who_recently retired from the gov- ernment service. General McNaugh- ton is giving his full time to the in- creasingly heavy duties of the Inter- national Joint Commission, another Canada - U.S. body that deals with waterways and other boundary prob- lems of mutual interest.

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According to the Country Guide, a new way of marketing milk is in the offing. Researchers at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin are producing dried whole milk that mixes with water to give a product much like fresh milk. They claim that it does not have the “chalky” appearance of most powdered milk now on the mar- ket: A problem to be overcome is to maintain the flavour of the milk. Up until now thé fresh milk flavour has lasted only about 30 days at room temperature. If it is kept just

above freezing, quality lasts nearly twice as long. dl

For the purpose of drawing at-

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PAYING THE FIDDLER

Treatment Of Leukemia

LET’S TALK frankly about \eu- kemia. Let's see just where we are, whet we can do and, what we can't do.

However, great advances have been made in the last dozen years or s0. Scientists have introduc-

even the life expectancy of per- sons with acute leukemia can be prolonged coonsiderably.

Now this might not appear to be much. But, stop and think about it for a moment. MEASURED IN WEEKS

It used to be that the life ex- pentancy of a victim of leukemia could be measured in weeks, or months at most.

Each day that we can prolong a life means that we are that much closer to discovering a cure and that the patient is that much closer to a renewal of life.

Actually, treating patients with this disease is a difficult matter and requires considerable know- ledge and skill. The doctor must decide which of the many reme- dies available he will use. }

There are various folic acid

OTTAWA REPORT

Civil Service Appointments

By Patrick Nicholson

\ Certain government officials,

appointed by former Liberal Governments to fill top jobs in

Ottawa, have been accused of |

doing less than their best to fur- ther the policies of the present Conservative Government.

It did not take rookie M_P. Mr. E. Nasserden. representing Ros- thern, Saskatchewan, long to form his own opinion to this end Speaking in the Budget debate, he told Parliament: “‘To be quite frank, I think this government has been entirely too generous with many of the people in the public service of Canada, who do not appreciate that there has been a change of government. Some of these people _ still think that orders come from Li- beral headquarters,”

And Mr. Nasserden also said “The civil service employees in Canada never had a better cham pion than John Diefenbaker. In so far as aypointments are com cerned, no one can say that this government has taken what could be called anything approaching a partisan stand."’

It did not take long for a Li- bera! M.P. to throw up a smoke- screen to try to protect the peo- ple attacked so justifiably by Mr Nasserden. Mr. Leon ‘Humane Slaughter” Crestohl, a veteran of four parliaments, retorted: ‘‘It is the duty of Parliament to pro- tect and to safeguard the inte- grity of all our civil servants, and to sustain their independence We must not expose them to any form of partisan pressure or in- fluence. We must hold them in

violate to discharge their duties

ernment . In the category of top civil servants for whom Par- liament must or should preserve the same freedom and indepen- dence. and who must be liber- | ated from any anxiety. which of i ten follows a change of govern ment, I would include all our de- puty ministers.” WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?

Everyone will agree that run of-the-mill civil servants must be protected against hiring and fir- ing on a patronage basis every time there is a change of gov- ermment. But they are so pro- tected, by our laws and in fact. Phime Minister John Diefenbak- er set an entirely new pattern, hitherto unknown in Canada, in going beyond the scope of the law to protect civil servants in their jobs when he took office.

But a distinction is drawn in our laWs between permanent® ci- vil servants and deputy minis‘ers The former are hired and pro moted and posted by Service Commission The later are appointed by the Cabinet. A deputy minister is responsible for implementing the policy of his Minister; each Minister there- fore should have a deputy with whom his heart and mind are in harmony, Longstanding Liberal policy does not put these in the same category as career civil servants; to suggest that they should be treated the same way, as Mr. Crestohl.. did, is merely raising a smoke screen DAILY COMPLAINTS

Not a day passes but

some

Clash On Syrian Border

By Ed Simon Canadian Press Staff Writer

The news of a border clash be- tween Syrian and Jordanian troops offers a new reminder of the instability of relationships among the Arab powers.

Officially Jordan has had no diplomatic contacts since last July with President Nasser’s United Arab Republic—of~ which Syria is a junior partner. But in recent months the two countries have given every sign of aban- doning their quarrel as a} result of the ominous developments in neighboring Iraq

The rift occurred at the height of the Iraqi revolution, when Jordan broke off relations with the U.A.R. in the belief, which almost everyone shared, that

Nasser had been the instigator of |

the coup that took the lives of King Feisal and Premier Nuri Es Said and broke up the Iraqi ‘or- dan federation.

The extent of Nasser’s partici- pation still has not been estab- lished. but the question has be- come irrelevant in. the light of subsequent events. If Nasser ever had any control of Iraq's Kassem regime, he has long since ‘lost it.

RED INFLUENCE GROWS Since the Nasser - Kassem es- ‘rangement was accompanied by growing Communist influence in Iraq, the change offered small comfort to Jordan's King Hus- sein. who is no more anxious to

fall into the hands of Nikita Khrushchey than into those of Nasser,

Hussein’s unstable little coun- try has been going it alone for almost a year, apart from the brief period last summer when he was forced to call in British troops to protect him from a pos- sible spread of the Iraqi coup.

With Nasser menaced in turn by the hostility of the New Bagh- dad government, both Jordan and the U.A.R. appeared to have everything to gain from a quiet agreement to let their old dis- agreements lie fallow.

it would be premature to inter- pret a single border incident as }an indication that the Middle East is about te embark on an-

other round of tts interminable game of changing partners. But, even in isolation, it offers new evidence that Nasser’s pan-Arab dream is a long way from reality.

COLD COMFORT

For the West, which has tradi- tionally put its faith in inter-Arab quarrels as its best instrument of maintaining a foothold in the peninsula, the prospect of a new clash between Jordan and the U.A.R. ers cold comfort.

The Iraqi revolution robbed the Western powers of their last ma- jor Arab ally. Today it is Russia that is capitalizing on divisions among the Arab powers while the West stands helplessly by

Nasser has fanned the flames of Arab nationalism successfully enough to make it almost impos- sible for him to turn to Washing- ton or London in his hour of need. even though pan-Arah fer- vor appears insufficiently strong to prevent Arab border guards from taking pot-shots at each other.

MAXIMS

I don’t feel the least hostile te young people or bother about them. I don't understand them, but when I was young, people didn’t understand me. It’s a per- fectly natural process...

HIGHER PENSIONS

HANOVER, Ont. (CP)—<A _ Lib- eral government in Ontario would institute an old age pension scheme to give pensioners $8 to $90 a month, Ontario Liberal Leader John Wintermeyer told a nomination meeting here Wed- nesday night.

STABBED BY CONVICT

KINGSTON ‘(CP)—A guard on duty in the psychiatric ward in Kingston penitentiary was stabbed “early Thursday by a convict patient. Leslie Needham was stabbed below the left shoul- der blade with a broken chisel but his condition was not be-

lieved serious,

regardiess of a change of gov- |

the Civil | , | jor Canadian city

i doctor must determine just how

| rect contrast. that during the| much of any drug should be giv-

| twenty-two vears of Liberal rule,| en. Too much might be harm- |} similar jebs and contracts were! ful. Often cortisone and ACTH | always given to a supporter of | will be of help. ;

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| antagonists and chemical agents that destroy the white blood | cells

SUBSTITUTE QUICKLY

Conservative M.P. has a private complaint that this jeb or that

| Clerk. “Put ‘ome film in my cam-

; —Straits Echo, Penang

the government. The field Blood transfusions, either

of |

manoeuvre where a government alone or in combination with | tressing accident while returning

has this latitude is very circum-| some other forms of therapy, scribed and limited: but it is still | may be beneficial. Generally, large enough to enable the back- | though, this relief is only tempor- bench Conservative M.P. to not- | ary.

ice, as Mr. Nasserden Said, that So, you see, we can do much. some of the responsible civil ser- | Unfortunately, though, we can't

do enough QUESTION AND ANSWER

vanis do not appreciate that there been a change of government.

And what is happening? As one; Mrs. P.: Can any harm come Cabinet Minister expressed jt: | from taking high-protein gelatin “Must we always run around put- | for an extended length of time? | ting our finger in new holes which |I have an awful problem with | appear in the dike?” |ragged nails and thin hair

Our civil service has been Answer: No, unless there is a |

praised in the past for its high | definite contra-indication for. high-

quality. One of thé characteris-| protein diet. tics of a fine civil service must | be its readiness to serve new i

OUR YESTERDAYS

masters when the electors decide

to change the government. Civil (From the Guardian Files) | servants. who, with their fami- TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

lies, make up the predominant (April 27, 1934) i part of the Ottawa electorate, are Mr. Malcolm Irwin recently |

out of step with every other ma- Ottawa is the only remaining Libera! strong-

hold. But regardless of their pri-

completed a tender for his ca- bin cruiser, Roamer. The tender is 15 feet long 4% foot beam and draws only about three in-

vate political. opinions. good civil ches of water. She is built of | servants should. put their best : : a aad Geeieaid an © ee their | Cedar, oak, elm and African Ma- ; 93 i. i M Na hogany. This is the third craft »rmuplovers and m2 i as- '

: ee ~ | that Mr. Irwin has built of this serden apparently has doubts as kind

to whether they are in fact doing

this Gerald, the son of Mr. and Mrs.

}mic Bulletin

f | Was ridihg.

contemporary wisely de- is the art of know- not to tell the truth, to tell the truth, and tell the truth.—Chat-

—e A little bey ran into a. drug- Store very excitedly and shout- ab: “A bull is chasing my dad!”. “What do vou want me to do about it?” asked the nervous

era quick,” the boy replied.—Galt Reporter

A group of professors in In- dia say they have discovered Shakespeare's origin. According to them he was a Brahmin from southern India named Shshappa Iver. Later in Karachi he took the name of Sheig Pir and then went to England where he an- glicized his name to Shakesveare.

Air Mail, a French creation, is forty years old. For the first time in the world, a postal adminis- tration that of France in this case, entruside regular mail ser- vice to- planes after the First World War, following a very en- couraging trial undertaken before the war in 1913.—French Econo-

Wesley Miller. Upper Queen

Street, was the victim of a dis-

to school yesterday afternoon when -his foot got caught in the | spokes a sloven on which he | breaking his leg. The lad was taken to his home and later removed to the City Hos- | pital. } i

TEN YEARS AGO i (April 27, 1949)

Prince Edward Island has a/| mew Great Seal, which arrived recently for the Provincial Sec- retary’s Office, and which will

| replace the Great Seal used since

Queen Victoria’s time on such im- i portant documents as proclama- | tions, latters patent, commissions |

Seal was manufactured at the |

| Royal Mint at Ottawa.

Rev. A.S. Adams, Pastor of the Montague United Church, announ- | ced to his congregation on Sun-

| day: that he had accepted a call |

to Carmarthen Street United Clmrch at St. John, N.B., and} that he would be leaving his charge at the end of June. Rev. Adams came to Montague from /

Glace Bay. C.B., and has re-/}

six years.

You might say this was over-dlo- ing it, Jet alone wearing the Mac-

lent brawl. The organizer of the gathering was stabbed in the mach by :a delegate from awa prefecture. The fight red in a restuarant where delegates from all over Japan had met to prepare for a demon- stration march against “war and unemployment.”’"—Japan Times,

aze a Scottish international play- er, who had several reprimands against him. ‘was banned from soccer for life. It may be diffi- cult for hockey players to keep their tempers in the heat of bat- tle. but if they knew that a foul

would involve a month’s suspen-

sion and no pay the question of Tough hockey would soon be sol- ved.—St. Thomas Times-Journal

Gall (osha

EVEN THE OLDEST

Even the oldest don't outgrow the spring.

Town-bred or farm, the coldest and the east.

Susceptive rally when the wind has ceased

And hesitate, and listen, wonder- ing

While new streams sing. All of the later flowers

Forecast their fragrance gently in the air;

Orchis and aster. Budding boughs declare

Their full green promise for the summer hours.

An old man sounding the pave ment with his cane

Beneath a sky blue to the very top

| and various state documents. The | Paused by a\plot of earth beside

a shop

And stiffly stooped, forgetful ef his pain.

And when he spied the first en- chanting stalk

Knelt there in rapture on the city walk. —M.E. Drew in Toronto Star

The Age Old Story

Se teach us te number our. | mained in Montague for the past | days, that we may apply our wisdom,

come hail or high water, you leave on time,

get there on time...rested, relaxed, refreshed.

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