Premier Smallwood, as expected, has been completely victorious at the polls—in an election that need never have been called. There was never _ any doubt that he would receive the full support of Newfoundlahders dn the asking for continued financial as- sistance for Newfoundland under the famous “term 29”.

Mr. Smallwood burst through the open door with such determinéé force that door and frame have carried away. Real opposition no longer ex- ists in Newfoundland. Premier Small- wood went to, great lengths to make

gure of that result. His tame candi-

dates of the Newfoundland party can hardly by any stretch of the imag- ination be called an Opposition.

It has been demonstrated that Premier Smallwood has the confi- dence of the people of Newfound- land. But that has never been in

It has been demonstrated that Newfoundland wants financial assis- tance. That has never been in ques: 7} -tion either.

With the sounds of electoral bat- tle sinking, Premier &mallwood can now go back to the interrupted task of negotiating financial terms with Ottawa. It may be questioned whe- | ther the deal he will now make will tb sufficiently improved to make the

cost of the election, in money, worth while.

There is good grounds for consid- ering that the cost to Newfoundland in terms of sound parliamentary gov- ernment will be more than any “bet- ter terms” can compensate for.

The day may or may not come when Mr. Smallwood will regret his steam-rollering of opposition. The day certainly will come when his fellow citizens will regret it.

Prince Edward Island had the ex- perience of doing without. a proper Opposition, with the consequences that parliamentary democracy suf- fered a very real decline which it has taken years to get over. Newfound- land will face a similar period in which efforts to conduct public af- fairs in our traditional way will be dishearteningly difficult.

' Student Potential :

Atlantic Province high school stu- dents have more acadamic aptitude but trail their United States counter- parts in mathematics and English.

These facts -highlighted the report of the Central Advisory Committee - High School Testing Project. The re- port the first of a series dealing with educational standards of Atlanic Pro-

- vinces high school students, is based on the findings of:a survey of 15,000 students undertaken in April, 1958

~~ in the Atlantic area.

Director of the project is John Ross, of Dartmouth, on leave of. ab- sence from the Nova Scotia Depart- ment of Education to conduct the study.

Here are some of the key facts contained in the report: :

Atlantic Province students lead U.S. students on the “School and College Ability Test’ (SCAT), which mea- sures readiness to pursue the next

higher level of schooling.

U.S. students lead Atlantic Pro- vince students on the Co-operative English Test and the College En- trance Examinaion Board’s Interme- diate Mathematics Test.

_ The occupational classification of the father influences the students gurvival in school.

There is a greater degree of aca- demic selectivity in the Atlantic Pro- vinces than in the U.S. because there is a higher per-centage of students who leave school in the earlier grades. There are similar differences between provinces.

The purpose of the survey was threefold: (1) to compare tke scores of the pupils in the Atlantic provin- ees with scores obtained from the | ‘same tests in the U.S.; (2) to com- pare results with the examinations of the Atlantic Provinces Examining Board and other local examining _ bodies and to discover the best mea- sures to predict success for those go- ing to university; and (3) to discover what wastage of talent. occurs be- m high school and university. he School and College Ability

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into two parts. A ver- | -

dents in the Atlantic provinces came out almost exactly on the same level as the sudents in U.S.; in the quan- titative section they are several

points clearly ahead; and in the to-

tal score ahead by a lesser amount. Just over .10 per-cent of the pupils examined had French at their first language. These were naturally some- what behind in the verbal section which was given in English but still above the American average in the quantitative section. :

The English test used was the Co- operative English Test, yielding 7 scores, on 6 of which Atlantic Pro- vince students scored significantly below U.S. High School students. On the College Entrance Examination Board’s Intermediate Mathematics Atlantic Province students who re- gistered ‘at university were. signifi- cantly below the average of U.S. High School students who were contem- plating entering university.

The investigation was made pos- sible by a substantial grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and by the assistance of the depart- ments of education and universities of the Atlantic Provinces. .

Sinews Of Freedom It has become a commonplace that

taken advantage of to destroy that freedom. The very act of protecting society against subversive influences is itself an abridgement of freedom. Sometimes we seem to be between the equally fatal alternatives of permit- ting the enemies of freedom to take over or destroying our own liberties.

Prime Minister Diefenbaker has suggested at the recent Junior Red Cross International Study’ Centre that a larger amount of literature be distributed by the West among the uncommitted nations, proclaiming the strength and virtues of the democra- tie system.

On the face of it the free nations | are at a decided disadvantage in any such competition. A totalitarian re- gime, by its very nature, is capable of selecting the kind of propaganda it wants to put across; and can take all necessary steps to supply its liter- ature where it will produce the most effective results.

The essence of freedom, on the other hand is the right to choose to read, or not to read, as the individual wishes. Certainly there can be no cramming of “suitable” material down unwilling throats.

The only approach is to make it as easy as possible for the peoples of the world to grasp \the significance of personal freedom but resolutely refraining from restricting that free- dom ‘to examine ,gther ideas.

Perhaps the ~b wid of propa- ganda*is example. If we are ever al- ert to see that minority groups of every kind are treated with consid- eration, however littt®use we may have for their opinions, it is bound to make an impression.

This is a small world, after all. Travel and communications being “what they are everyone knows pret- ty accurately how everyone else lives. The way in which we carry on our own affairs is more likely to carry

weight than anything we may say 1

about political or economic theory.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Boston born J. Ernest Kerr, who is married to an Islander, has writ- | ten highlights of the lives of 100 in- teresting Americans whose roots are in the Atlantic. Provinces. His “Im- print of the Maritimes,” published by the Christopher Publishing House, Boston, records the achievements of a score of Islanders who have done outstandingly well in their adopted | country.

* * *

Wallace G. Kerr, writing from Tor- onto, rather than Scotland, places an , additional stamp on the envelope, not | required by the. postal authorities. It is a glossy print of Robert Burns and the following is enclosed:

A Stamp for Robbie Burns The British Empire wadna prent’ .A stamp to be his monument

Or farthin’ bit; Although his poems represent The best of it!

But now I'll tell ye of a plan To. ¢ireumvent this wicked ban And thwart “the best-laid schemes” o’ man > Toskelp ‘our doups ; I'll sen’ his portrait owre the Jan’

: fairly glad. We would also be de-

_tonia into the Soviet Union.

On envelopes |

“TANGLED LINES

OTTAWA REPORT

Re-equip

With the initial awards of con-! tracts on the $420,000,000 pro-' gram to re-equip our eight air squadrons stationed in Europe, Hon. Raymond O'Hurley has em- erged as a wise politician and an efficient cabinet minister.

In brief, the Minister of De- fence Production has skilfully sof- tened the tailing off of our mili- tary aircraft industry. This pur- | chase of 200 F-104G single-seater | Jet fighter aircraft may be our | government's last order for such | planes. In any case, the rapid | development of other weapons | will render manned interceptors obsolete in the foreseeable future. _ The anguish created by the clos- ing down of a huge industry was |

; tasted when the government de- |

cided in February to halt the costly program to develop the al- | ready outdated Avro Arrow air-| craft. Of the 11,000 workers thrown out of jobs at the Avro plant at Toronto by that decis- ion, 3,000 are believed to be still looking for work.

But Mr. O’Hurley's astute pla- | cing of contracts for the new F- 104G aircraft will, in his own words. provide employment from the Maritimes to Winnipeg. SPREAD THE WORK

He told me that Canadair Lid. in Montreal will employ 3,500

ing Our Fighters

atrick Nicholson

and lesser contracts. Mr. O'Hur- ley even arranged reciprocity for | any orders placed at U.S. plants | for this program, under the new | Canada-US. defence production sharing agreement:

This happy program to spread the work among plants right across central and eastern Can- ada has been achieved at mini- mum_cost_to the taxpayers, who must pay the bill of $2,100.000 for each complete aircraft—plus the pertinent weapons, spares, ancil- lary equipment and training fac- ilities. Canadair not only submit- ted the lowest tender, comfortably underbidding Avro which is said to pay the highest wages in the industry in Canada; but that com- pany's tender also provided for the planes to be built for less dollars and in fewer hours than | could comparably have been ac- | hieved in the States.

Although work will begin al-| most at once, it will take 18 months for the program to hit | full stride; then the planes will | roll off the assembly lines in Montreal at the rate of ten per | month. It will therefore be late'

| in 1963 before our squadrons sta-

tioned with the NATO forces in| Europe have full replacement for | their present F-86 Sabre fighter | aircraft.

workers at its peak in building the | |

airframes on its $91,500,000 con- | tract; Orenda Engines, an asso--

ciate company of Avro, will em- ply up to 3,000 workers on its $80,000,000 contract for the en- gines; and 5,000 additional jobs

The new fighter is considered to be the best aircraft in the world today, for the special low-level strike and reconnaissance tasks | required of our NATO air divi- | sion. It was selected only after |

craft had been made. No less than twenty-three different jet fighters were examined; that list was then pared down to seven, then three, then two planes, be- fore the F-104G was chosen as the best procurable weapon for the R.C.A.F.

BETTER THAN U.S.A.

It is an improved version of the Starfighter adopted by the U:S. air force, which in turn was ra- ted better than Canada’s Num- ber Two choice, the Grumman Super-Tiger. It will be a strange unconventional looking craft, like a long slim rocket with the-smali- est stubby embryonic wings. It was a—-Starfighter which recent- ly slid unexpectedly through the sound barrier over Ottawa's air- field, its roaring boom heralding over $100,000 worth of damage to glass panels and partitions in the as yet unopened new terminal building there.

Mr. O'Hurley will no doubt hear

loud -cries of anguish from Tor- onto, making the unjustifiable de- mand that, although at higher cost to the taxpayers, this con- tract should have been given to Avro. But more lingering will be the cheers from Montreal, and from other points from Halifax to Winnipeg—including Toronto — which will benefit from the sprea- ding around of this contract to build a replacement for the Mon- trealuilt Sabre fighter.

From the military and ec- onomic standpoints, the new Min- ister, celebrating a mere 15 months in the Cabinet and in the difficult Defence Production job, has certainly by his handling of this contract—as they sing in his home in eastern Quebec—‘‘gain-

will be provided on sub-contracts ' a close study of all available air- ‘ed his epaulettes’’.

Strictly Unofficial

James Westen in the New York. Times

East and the recognition of China. Once this is done and you per-

defects and, of course, the emo- tional effects of an unattractive. appearance.

DEFORMED MOUTH

Dr. Hennessey is able to pro- duce several hundred photo- graphs and models of children’s mouths which were deformed directly as a result of pro- longed finger or thumb-sucking.

Perhaps the automatic volun- tary habit of thumb-sucking may not cause a pediatrician or psy- chiatrist too much concern, but problems can and do develop in

Dr. Hennessey suggests the earlier corrective are taken, the better, although

tion.

VARIED DETERRENTS

Up to the age of five, he says, such varied deterrents as sleep- er sleeves and simple medication the thumb have been success-

en all a child needs assistance of this na- since the original cause thumb-sucking may long ago have given way to mere

the important thing to remember is that thumb-sucking is @ dental problem, too.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

Mrs. G. N.: I have been told that, I have Meniere's disease. Medicine and diet have helped ‘but can you tell me,if there is any cure for this disease?

Answer: This is not an uncom- mon condition and as long as | diet and medicine have been beneficial you should be very grateful for the results.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (August 21, 1934) In an early morning fire twen-

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suade your allies to go along it,

A portable model of the Amér-. Marines, and instruct Jim Hag- is a matter of no concern to me

ican electronis truth detector, Un- iquack, was put in operation for

the first time here today in order |

to translate, decontaminate, and interpret the latest correspond- ence on the Ejisenhower-Krush- chev visits to Washington and

The Uniquatk version, stripped . of all diplomatic jangon, was as follows:

Dear Mr .Prime Minister:

I sée by the papers that you have been threatening to “bury” capitalism again. Also, Vice

_ President Nixon has reported to

me that you intend to keep Ger- many divided permanently, and Secretary of State Herter, and told me of your alarming threats on Berlin af Geneva. Accordingly I, was wondering if you wouldn't like to come to Washington for a fpiendly little visit sometime next/month. Faithfully yours, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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‘P.S.—Don't land in New York.

Dear Mr. President:

Your note reminded me of my |

own deep feelings of resentment against you personally for main- taining air bases near the Soviet

frontiers, and arming the West |

Germans.

Your attitude toward my allies in Eastern Europe is an _ affront to my country and a danger to

| the place of the world. You re- fuse to disarm or stop nuclear |

tests, even when I ask you to do 80.

For all these reasons. T accept your kind invitation and look forward to seeing you.

Sincerely, |

Nikita S. Krushchev.

P.S.—How about my bringing the missus?

Dear Mr. Prime Minister:

Mrs, Eisenhower and I are | glad you are coming, or anyway

lighted to have Mrs. Krushchev come along if you think it’s safe. I think you should know, how- ever, that there are some Ger- mans here who think their coun- try should be united, some Hun- garians who want their fellow- countrymen released from your camps. and some people from the Baltic States who are still displeased about the incorpora- tion of Latvia, Lithuania and Es- |

I will, of,course; for your pro- | tection, mobilize tve Army, Navy |

Ais Force, Const Guard and | maa.

| sense of humor.

| cording to the riches of His

erty to keep the press as far away from you as possible. | Sympathetically yours,, Dwight D. Eisenhower. P.S.—Bring your own caviar. THE KHRUSHCHEV DOCTRINE ‘Dear Mr. President: | I read your last note to all my | colleagues in the Presidium .and they roared with laughter at your

As is well known, the Hungar- ians, the East Germans and the | Baltic States people are as hap- | py as larks. We recognize your |

Vionroe Doctrine in the Western |

Hemisphere, at least for the.

‘resent. and all we ask is thac

you follow the same hands-off pol- |

sy in Easfern Europe, the “Mid-

dle East, and one or two other |

countries we are exploring with |

our Chinese comrades.

Could anything be more reas-

onable? .Come and see for your- | self later in the year.

Sincerely yours,

Nitkia S. Khrushchev.

Dear Mr. Prime Minister: |

Thanks for your inviation. I ac- | cept, I hate snow but we must | keep talking even if we cannot agree. |

It is important, however, that. | we understand in advance that | we are not engaging in ‘“‘negotia-

tion’, My experience ig that my

allies in Europe think they should | _ have something to say about the | future of Europe, the Germans |

| in particular, insist that they have |

a voice in the future of Germany. Accordingly, we can have)

“talks’’ or even ‘‘conversation” |

| and “exchanges of views,”’ but

not “negotiations.”

Faithfully yours,

Dwight D. Eisenshower. | Newfoundland, have overcome difficulties in

ALWAYS THE LAST WORD | Dear Mr. President: I fully understand and agree. |

I don't care what you call them.

Ai I want is for you and me to |

agree to the Soviet plan on Ber-

lin, an all-German committee, a

German peace treaty, disarma-

ment, a nuclear test ban, the den-

ucléarization of central Europe,

Scandinavia, and the Middle

The Age Old Story

That he would grant you, ac-

glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner

whether we ‘talk’ or se’’ or “negotiate.”

Yours for peace.

Nikita S. Khrushchev

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All the strength and force of a man comes from his faith in things unseen.

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The president of the"Charlotte- |

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TEN YEARS AGO

Fire damage and broken wind- ows were the results of an ex- plosion in a grease pit at Brad- ley’s Service Station on the corn- er_of-Great George and Fitzroy Streets yesterday — afternoon. Origin of the explosion was giv- en as the ignition of sparks from carburetor with the gas fumes in the pit. No one was injured. The firemen extinguished the blaze without much difficulty.

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tion at the present time. paying $800 for a teacher

that teacher.

- FRANKLY SPEAKING

Did you know that education in Prince Edward Island during the past six years has made more ad- vances than in the previous twenty five? ;_

And no less important body than the P; Bk Teachers’ Federation unanimously adopted this state- ment made by their president at the annual meeting of the Federation in Charlottetown last Spring.

Mr. Shaw’s proposal to pay teachers’ supplements will not eliminate school taxes and that competition te get the better teachers will be still as keen as ever.

Although he has not told you, all Mr. Shaw intends to pay is the minimum supplement required by legisla-

you will have to pay the extra

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IN THE TEMPLE OF SPACE

I stood on the prairie im youth tide

Flashing its light in the skies.

| The star studded heavens above *

— out te the magie hor-

n

Where the earth and the heaven would meet.

The stretches of spaces inspired me And filled me with wonder and

awe— About the collosal—creation That none, but its God—ever saw.

In the full universal arrangement

Set forth im their orbits and flight— ;

By the power of the mighty Crea-

tor That circled the heavens that night.

Where the sky was a slowing bright temple

That lighted im brilliance — a dome—

There,—I worshipped the God ef Creation :

In the far Templed Space—on His Throne.

—Peter A. Reilly.

That is to say if you are

requiring a $300 supplement,

$500 if you want to gel

Summerside and Charlottetown would be the dis tricts to gain most by such a plan and the inequities which Mr. Shaw claims now exist in rural areas would not be solved. As a matter of fact poorer districts might well find themselves in a worse condition in s¢ far as securing a better teacher is concerned.

Did you know that Keir Clark had legislation passed at the last session of the Legislature which wil give an equalization grant to the district with low tax potentials and that he has made arrangements for & ‘complete survey of educational facilities on the Island by Dr. M. E. La Zerte, one of the greatest. authorities

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