Peat Moss Industry -. A dispatch from Moncton says that the peat moss industry in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia has been given a “shot in the arm” by a new packaging idea. Demand for the product has been accelerated __since producers started\distributing it in small, easily handle? bundles. Four new bogs in New Brunswick

and one in Nova Scotia have been

opened in the last few years.

_ J. E. Mcintyre, Atlantic region | _ agricultural’ agent for Canadian National Railways, said, after com- pleting an ‘inspection trip to bogs “in N.B. and Quebec, that peat moss from the Maritimes now reaches al- most all important centres in East- ern Canada and the United States. It is used chiefly for horticultura! purposes, but it also has value as poultry litter, stable bedding and insulation.

The report notes that Prince Edward Kland and Newfoundland also have “huge quantities” of the moss, but in neither of these Pro vinces is it farmed--as a- business We do not. think this is strictly correct. We ‘Seem to have heard of a number of fishermen and others in this Province who gather the moss for market. There is no doubt, however, that the business could be expanded considerably. Perhaps a little more encouragement in the way of technical advice and super- vision would make the industry as profitable here as it is in the neigh-

Sheep Raising

Some time ago the Federal De partment of Agriculture appointed a committee to look into the sheep raising industry. Its principal as signment was to determine what steps might be taken to revitalize the industry and bring it to the point where it could be considered another important livestock busi- ness. ; . a -

The committee has now con- cluded its hearings after having held meetings in every Province as well as talks with various official groups. J. W. Graham, the Secre- tary of the committee, reports that almost without exception the meet- ings were well, attended and keen interest was shown. Marty ideas and recommendations were brought for- ward. These, after careful study has been given to them, will be ‘embodied in a report to the Federal Minister of Agriculture.

Statistics show that sheep rais- ing has,been at a ‘low level in Canada for ten years or more. This Province used to have a great num- ber of sheep; and one would imagine that it would be an ideal area for sheep raising. Yet, today it is limited to a very few scattered sec- tions and is of small value to the agricultural economy. One wonders what is responsible for this sharp decline.

News From Israel

One of the great needs of the Mid- -

die East is fresh water. The dream of these areas for years has been to find ways of treating sea water to remove salts and minerals and make it usable for consumption ‘and agriculture. Many ways have been ’ found to do this, but all to date have proved too expensive. Now from Israel comes a report that an econ- omical enough method has_ been found—a method that in time could

be improved to make large scale :

use of sea water possible at a price people could afford.

The system was devised by an in- ventor, Alexander Zarchin, a re- fugee from Soviet Russia. It’s a simple system, basically. Salt water is pumped into a vacuum chamber. The lack of pressure causes quick evaporation. Evaporation drops the temperature and freezes part of the water. Freezing separates fresh water from minerals. The water va ' por rises into the tank, the ity crys tals remain in the brine... The brine flows into another tank

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And he feels stire that bigger. plants -could be even more economical. .

* tion, it will be big news to the arid

‘pondent of the Christian Science

‘Moscow's First

_ Visa. With a minimum of fuss and

effect on it.

where the ice and brine are separat- ed. The vapor is piped out of the

would “be Within economic limits.

If the device. proves workable “in sizes big enough. to provide ample water for consumption and irriga- |

areas of the world. And all man- kind would be the better for it.

Mr. Mikoyan’s Trip - From the usually retiable corres-_|

Monitor,in. Hong Kong, we learn that Mr. Mikoyan’s visit to the United States is by no means gratifying to the Chinese Communists. There is evidence, he says, to; indicate that they are “embarrassed, apprehensive and displeased- at «the spectacle of Deputy — Premier talking earnestly with U.S. Gov- ernment leaders, hobnobbing with U.S. capitalists and .industrial ty- coons, and cavorting with Hollywood stars.” And this, he adds, is one of the principal reasons why Chinese Chief of State Mao Tse-tung has re- portedly decided to make an un- scheduled visit to Moscow in the fear future.

—Be-that as it may, from Russia’s standpoint the Mikoyan trip has been a very ingenious: and skillfully ex- ecuted manoeuvre. As the Fin- ancial Post points out, had it been formally proposed that the Krem- lin’s No. 2 man should visit Wash- ington and confer with top U.S. of- ficials, taking sidetrips to factories and supermarkets across the land, months would have been spent in

~ makes a speech, asks a question

wrangling about agenda, person- nel, itinerary, and what not. In the end the plan would have died of sheer frustra- ten >

But Mr. Mikoyan brought it off, in a matter of days, by simply an- nouncing that he’wanted an Ameri- can holiday and then asking for a-1

protocol, indeed none at all, he en- gineered something very like the summit conference—a _ sub-ssummit conference, it might. be called— about which Washington and Mos- cow argued vainly for months last winter.

EDITORIAL NOTES —

As science triumphs over old diseases, new ones appear. From London, Eng. comes word of a new form of paralysis. It resembles polio, but, present polio vaccines have no

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Former President Batista of Cuba says that the rebels won because they had superiority in arms. That, no doubt, was a contributing factor. An- other was public opposition to -the

Batista regime.° »

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The firm of Ayre and Sons Ltd in St. John’s, Newfoundland, is now celebrating its 100th anniversary. With a staff of approximately 600. it ranks among the bigger mercan

tile houses of the Atlantic region. * * *

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Russian has become the most popular foreign langugge at the Uni- versity of Montreal. 100 students are studying thé language in. the univer- sity’s department of Slavit Studies, the largest of its kind in Canada.

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A Canadian, who acted as a part-time agent for the leader of the Cuban revolution, says that it is “fairly easy” to purchase arms in the United States. And it is. evi. dently a lot easier than it ought | to be for Canadian citizens to parti cipate in .civil Strife in a foreign country.

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A foment Catholic teaching nun in Washington, D.C. has been given a $1500 fellowship from the Na tional Science Fotindation to further her research into ‘the question of why sea turfles do not grow old. It is worth ‘ooking into. They live long- er than any other organism on on earth, some reaching an age of 300 years. Age does not appear to have any effect on them.

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OTTAWA REPORT

Efficient Hansard Staff

By Patrick

Parliament's hardest-worki n g staff is once 'more performing :ts invaluable task of taking a word- -by-word report of everything said by every Parliamentarian. who

or delivers an interjection during every sitting.

Both the Senate and the House of Commons has its own report- ing staff, some of whom make a shorthand record of all English- language contributions, while others handle the French - speak- ers. From their shorthand notes, the official record of the pro

ceedings, called Hansard, is pre- pared.

The House of Commons has_ seven English reporters and two | French reporters, the difference | being accounted for by the much | more frequent use made of the English language. This may be changed, so that French will in| future perhaps be more widely | used. now that a system of simul. taneous translation has been in- troduced.

Visitors to the Commons Cham- ber can see the Hansard report- ers at work, sitting at tables right in the middle of the Chamber in the broad space between the front

Opposition seats. The English- language reporters relieve each other every ten minutes. Then they take their shorthand notes

up to the Hansard office, where

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they dictate them back to a typ- ist who types them directly, mak- | ing ribbon and carbon copies and | a stencil. Pt SPEED OF SPEECH

Some politicians talk ~slowly, | others gabble away. But the aver- age speaker delivers about 130, words in each minute. This is! quite a fast rate, and the report- | ers have to be skilled and accur- | ate. In addition, since their eyes are always on their notebook, | they have to have acutely train- ed ears to pick up interjections which may come from anywhere in the Chamber. On top of that,

of course, they have to learn to

recognize thé voice of each one of ‘the 265 M.Ps, so that without seeing whose lips moved, they can tell who made any remark.

It is chiefly because of this need to identify each M.P. who makes any comment that human reporters, rather than tape re- corders, have to be used for this high-speed and important work

“Eighty per cent of all the talk- ing is ddne by ten per cent of the members, so we get to know their voices very surely;"’ a mem- ber of the Hansard staff told me.

Recently, the first woman was appointed to the Hansard report- ing staff: Mrs. Blair. She had previously done court reporting in Toronto, and had also been on the reporting staff at the United Nations in New York.

| Advice For

Mothers-To-Be |

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But practical experience is the best way. of preparing. yourself . for caring for your own children. Babies, you know, are put to- they con't

of handling the baby. and coping with various situations that are ‘likely to arise, isn’t well found- ed. , SPECIAL COURSES

-Many maternity organizetions have special courses for parents

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These are two jobs which con- stitute good training for the most important stenographic work in Canada. ACCURACY PARAMOUNT The Hansard report of debates in sacrosanct, so it is of para- mount importance that the report- ers making the shorthand record should be absolutely accurate. What “has been said in Parlia- ment in debate must. stand exact- ly as spoken in the printed re cord. So in the interests of Par-

to-be. In such courses, the future fathef and mothe. are permitted to practice diapering, bathing, and so forth on dolls.

This is excellent training and if a course such as this is avail- able to you, I recommend it. However, working with the real thing is even better.

Of course I don’t want you to try bathing the neighbor's baby, but you -an volunteer as a baty sitter for them. Most new parents welcome the oppor- tunity to get out for an afternoon

| or evening and I'm sure your of-

fer will be well received. GET ACQUAINTED

This will give you a chance (if the mother agrees) to give the baby his bottle, diaper him and generally become acquainted with the care and needs of a baby.

Moreover, it will give you an opportunity to become adjusted to the presence of a baby in the house, even if it is his house and not yours.

BOOKS HELPFUL

I also suggest that you read some good books on the subject of baby care before the birth of

liament, mistakes must not be made.

The Hansard staff has the last word. An M.P. may check the typescript of what he has said, and may make minor changes for the sake of clarification,: be- cause sometimes the spoken words do not even constitute complete sentences. But although obvious errors (if any) or ambi- guities may be corrected, no change in substance is permitted.

Any M-P. may order copies of any speech he makes. This is of- ten done by Members who wish to distribute them among their constituents. A typical speech might cover four printed pages; 5,000 copies of such a speech cost the M.P. $46.21 and that would be an average cost for your own

Member's maiden speech, which-

he is always anxious and proud to mail to the folks back home— naturally. E

Such is the efficiency and speed of the Hansard staff-that the proceedings of the House of Commons, which close at 10 p.m., are available in every member's office by breakfast time the next ‘day.

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Judith Robinson in the Toronte Telegram }

To start a year in anger is bad. But there are times for anger and this is one. q

New Year maledictions there- fore upon the Ontario Depan ment of Highways. The il!wishe:s of the seasoa to the Ontario Min- ister af Highways afid all his de puties and subdeputies, contrac tors: survéyors and- chain men

May their sliderules warp, thei: chain saws seize up, their wob- blies wobble right over, their scoops, scrapers and bulldozers scoop, scrape and bulldoze them into the bottomless pit.

May their engineers spend eternity running survey lines to perdition, may their traffic and tourist experts wait for judgment day in a stalled tractor-on a six- lané super-highway in the shade- less heat of a, noon that never

wanes; may their tongues parch

and their heads be sunstruck and

the.r sweat run down them there |

forever. Selah.

OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN This ought to have been a New |

Year ode to the beauty of Can

ada, a song\in praise of the win-

ter loveliness of Old Ontario, a

celebration of the gallant white road dappled with sun and shad- ow and which for a hundred years and more has wound up hill and down dale along the curving shore*and away up’ hill

again, under elm tops and golden |

willow fans” and between great

rows of guardian maples to the |

m.ll of Rabbit Creek

This should have celebrated the special grace with which the old road meets a new year, offering the snowbright benediction of its years, the strength of its great

| was Thanksgiving itself. Golden

with sun and leafshadow, bless- ed by guardian-cradling memory in its lifts and falls and gentle curves, the old road ran with

| history from village to quiet vil- | lage along the old shore; unhur-

rying, serene, compassionate. AT PUBLIC EXPENSE

So they have kill@d it at public expense. They have destroyed it and its loveliness in the interest of the tourist trade; heaven help us all. To make it easier for speeding strangers who couldn't care less to zip over it at 80 mph without,breaking their‘ necks: to ensure that none will remember it as*in any way different from

trees, the peace of its shadowed reaches and- the sudden heart-

-any other length of dull, bald

| speedway, they are erasing all

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lift of blue water shining through’ | fe and every vestige of beauty

snow - traced branches beyong

the next curve.

This ought to and should have been that sort of a piece

But it will not be written now The Ontario Department of Hign ways has passed that way and the old road lies dead naked

| murdered and laid out flat among

its slaughtered trees.

There was not in. the whole ol old Ontario a lovelier country highway, winter. spring or sum- mer; and in autumn its beauty

Our First Public Building

P. E, Island Historical Society

Did you know that, the ‘first meeting of the Assembly of this Island was held in the Cross Keys Tavern, corner of Queen and Dorchester Streets, @har- lottetown, in 1773. proprietor of the éstablishment,: Alexander Richardson, was appointed clerk of the House, for ne was a schoolmaster and a learned man. We may reasonably suppose that, through his good office, the members were able to com- bine business with pleasure. an arrangement that increased both the earnings of the tavern and the volubility of the speeches,

The Town Constable perform- ed the double functions of ser- geant-at-arms and door-keeper; but despite the gravity that these honourable duties should have deposited in his bosom, his inherent lack of. reverence for parliamentary assemblies ‘per- haps brought to the surface by his current libations) got the better of him, and, during the proceedings, he took occasion to remark in audible tones that “This is a damned queer Par- liament!"

No doubt there was more truth

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than fiction in his expressed re- flection, but his inelegant out- burst, nevertheless, lost him a day's pay of five good shillings, and presumably lightened the colonial expenditure by a like amount..,

The Cross Keys Tavern was, in these first years of the life of Charlottetown, the most. import- ant structure to emerge from the saw pits, for it aot only dis- pensed the liquid merchandise peculiar to the type of business suggested by its swinging sign but it was our first schoolhouse, and the’ versatile proprietor divided his time and talents, as circumstances warranted, be- tween his two dispensaries.

Behind the sign of the Cross Keys the early sessions of the Masonic Lodge were held. and Alexander Richardson, still ver- haps with some mercenaty de- sign, was a charter member of the Order. On Sundays, some Protestant denominations con- ducted services behind the same sign, but whether the proprietor conformed to each persuasion Is not meationed in- any of ‘our his- torical sources. -

from the old road to the mill.

When they are done it will run flat and nasty between new, straight-line wire fences from here to there. And none who drives it will know or caré any more whether they are here or there.—Here, there and ali the | way between will be unfit to care | for or remember.

“Highway improvement” is what the Ontario Department of Highways calls it. It depends what you mean by improvement Among the citizens who pay for this sort of murder out of their taxes there must be some who love old Ontario and would be content to drive quietly among her loveliest places. There must be some who would willingly seek the relief of sun and shade and rise and fall after the dead and deadening monotony super highways.

But no seeker will find beauty any more on the road to the mill. Beauty lies dead there soiling the January snow, bulldozed out roots and all to make what the Ontario Department of Highways calls an improved road, to produce the 1959 mode] departmental idea! of highway. perfection; so many un- bending, flat, bare, treeless miles of

of

wire-guarded, pavement: an elongated concentration camp, the road to hell after it gets

there; the ultimate produce concrete mixers ness.

This is the sort of improve. ment"’ that is destroying old On tario and yoy.-are paying for it. ‘believing it to be progréss and therefore desirable. It is neithe: Make a New Year note of it.

of ard mindless-

OLD VICTORIA The site of Victoria on Vancou-

per Island was first ocupied in 1843.

your own offspring.

| You will get some very pertin- ent pointers in the hospital, so by the time you get home you should know what it is all about.

Still make sure you have an- other woman around to give you a helping hand, at least with the housework.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

R.J.F.: When I tilt my head back or lean forward, it is diffi- cult for me to breathe. What could cause this? :

Answer: This may be due to compression of the trachea (wind- pipe’ by an enlarged thyroid or other tumor in the neck or upper chest. An X-ray might reveal the cause.. *

It could also be due to pressure of the diaphragm = especially in an overweight person or to a diaphragmatic hernia.

A medical dicted.

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MESSAGE AT PARTING

I cannot speak you many words

My time is short, I must pfess on,

| Before my theme could be ex- pressed

The hour would sound I must\ be gone.

I put it all within a look, I put it all within -a touch:

book

In which you see my truth was such.

sed Or cloud with any. unbelief The me it carries to your breast —Hal Summers —in “The Listener”

(From The Guardian Files)

(Jan, 20, 1934)

| Damage estimated at $10,000 | was caused yesterday afternoon when the spacious Roman Catho- lic Parochial House at St. And- rews, occupied by Father A. P. McLellan, was completely §raz- ed by fire. It is believed the fire started from a defective flue in the attic. Sufficient insurance was carried to provide for the

house.

The audit of the Town of Sum- merside accounts for the past year show a current revenue of $67,463.45, current expenditure of $63,748.99, leaving a surplus on current account of $3,714.46. The statement also shows taxes for 1933 outstanding at only $1,406.55, and a total accumulated outstand- ing taxes of $3.629.40.

TEN YEARS AGO (Jan, 20. 1949) ,

A deficit of $31,708.88 for the year 1948 was reported at the annual meeting of the Summer- side Town Council last night. Coun. Gorrill said that the deficit was partly caused by the in- creased costs in the electric light department and by extra ex- penditures in the street depart- meat. Mayor Arnett said that in order to balance the budget in future it will be necessary to get more revenue from taxation.

An old fashioned “Chopping Frolic” will _be held in the woods at Riverdale on Saturday as part of a move by neighbors and

examination is in- |

construction’ of a new parochial |

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They must in memory be the)

"NOTES BY

THE WAY

At ,modest cost, you can pur- chase one of those rubber gad- gets that enables you to cradle the telephone receiver on your shoulder. By fastening dawn the phone buttons with a piece of tape, you can keep your shouider

‘to the phone all day while you -| write letters, or read. This teeh-

nique also enables you to wave “what are you doing New York : : ‘ New Brunswick peat moss in- dustry has developed so gradual- ly, and with so little fanfare, that it came as a pleasant surprise to many people the other day to learn that it is now a well-estab- lished 4business which gives em- ployment to hundreds of men dur. ing the “harvesting” season. Four new bogs have been opened in this province during the last 16 years — at Pokemouche, Shippe- gan, Lameque and Inkerman—as well as onc near Berwick. N'S., and four in Quebec Province.— Saint John Telegraph-Journa!

friends to assist Mr. Earl Car- rier of Cornwall replace build ings lost in a disastrous fire on September 29. The Carrier fam- ily lost their residence, barns and most of their livestock and feed.

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“ One’ ofthe most pleasant jobA in the world must be clipping bend coupons, and st of us re gret that we have to spend so lit tle time at it —Edmenion Journal

Whether as individuals or or- ganized groups the only way te ~ keep people: from’ throwing their } weight around is to keep them

The neighboring mad Scientist is working on the ultimate. yet /humane weapon. It is a ray which immobilizes the opposi army by melting all its carbon paper. — Hamilton Spectator:

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_Posthole digging is one profes- sion in which to, be successful you must start at the top and work toward the bottom. And no mat- ter how well it pays, you'll finish in the. holé.—Ottawa Citizen

In continental Franve alone, by 1975,‘ the population is expected to rise some 3,649,000 to a total 47,938,000. According to the Na- tional Statistics Institute, in 1975 the over-seventy - five - year-olds will number 6,150,000, a 20 per cent increase over the number of oldsters todzy. hon. in 17 years’ time there will be 875,000 more women than men in France— France Actuelle

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