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" MONDAY, NOV. 30, 1959.

Your Health, Sir Winston! .

“Never in the field of human con- flict was so much owed by so many

__ to one man.” We have altered the _.,. famous tribute of Sir Winston Churchill for the only reason. that

would permit of such inipertinence— to apply it directly to himself. To- day this top-ranking citizen of the free world observes his eighty-fifth birthday and the world will pay tri- bute, in many languages, to the great service he rendered civilization at a time when it was tottering on the brink. pile It is quite unnecessary to review— the record. The name alone of this grand old warrior, statesman, his- torian and impassioned spokesman

for democracy sums it all up. Our

readers will thank us better, we be- lieve, if we quote briefly from his own words, revealing mére eloquently than we can do the calibre of the man. Here is the grandest passage of all—familiar, we hope, to every schoolchild as well as to our older citizens—spoken that day in the House of Commons, June 18, 1940, when Britain-stood awaiting the Nazi invasion with seemingly impos- sible chances of survival:

“I expect that the Battle of

Britain is about to begin”,—we can”

hear yet the solemn cadence of those words as they came to us over the radio: “Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Up- and the long continuity of our in- stitutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be. turned on us. Hitler

knows that he will have to break

. us in this Island or lose the war. If

we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more pro- tracted, by the lights of perverted

‘ science. Let us therefore brace our-

selves to our duties, and so bear our- selves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, ‘This was their finest hour’.”

We have space only for one more quotation—from a speech made at Dundee away back in 1908, but very apropos to the present occasion, and to our aspirations at this time:

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better. place for those who wil! live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consola- tions of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Hu-

‘ manity wil! not be cast down. We are

going on—swinging bravely forward along the grand high road—and al- ready behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.”

Did he remember those words when he made his great Commons speech in 1940? At any rate they strike the same note of indomitable faith and courage. These were the things he gave Britain in her finest , hour, and for which we are all so much in his debt.

We join, humbly, with the mil- lions of Sir Winston’s admirers to- day in wishing him many happy birthday returns. It comes at a time when he has been under fire from some historical writers, but they are like pigmies attacking a giant ‘with peashooters. His shadow will never grow less. “I have derived continued benefit from criticism at all periods of my life,” Ke ‘témarked on ove oecasion; “and¥I do not remember . any time when I was ever short of it.” That is the answer, and it suf- fices. The great man can afford to be lenient to his critics. They too, ve , will be contributing their.

; tributes toda.

Myth Exploded Highly pertinent to the highway safety campaign which should be engaging our attention at this time, is a pamphlet debunking some “drink-

. Company Inc., New York. The author, Morton M. Hunt, emphasizes the fact that after 20 years of regular cock- tail-drinking, a human being has

“ho greater alcohol-oxidation capacity. than his teetotaling neighbor, and no greater immunity than an inex-

perienced drinker from accidents when he is behind the wheel of

car.

Both will absorb alcohol from th ‘intestine with equal speed, both will lose their perception and co-ordinat- jon at the same rate, both will be- come unconscious at the same blood level. The novice, of course, is both bewildered and delighted by his new sensations and his free-acting ton- gue; the experienced drinker knows what to expect and controls the im- pulses he feels. But these differences to not mean that there is any real difference jn their actual physical abilities.

The moral is that habitual use of liquor, whether moderate or heavy, does not change the body’s funda- mental response to alcohol, regardless of a man’s control of his mood. It is practically suicide to drive a car, operate a machine, or do any work involving critical decisions after drinking more than a very moderate amount: of liquor, no matter how sober and self-possessed you feel.

In Sweden’s famous Caroline In-

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. stitute a research team tested a num-

ber of drivers under the influence of considerably less alcohol than is ac- cepted in many courts as_ the minimum definition of drunkenness. All the drivers showed great confid- ence, and miserable judgement. They knocked down markers, failed to see signs, parked badly—and felt fine about it all. The researchers conclud- ed that even a small amount of al-

EDITORAL NOTES

It was left to our Island-parlia- mentary delegate at the United Nat-

| ions, Mr. Heath Macquarrié, to con-

gratulate Italian-Somaliland on .its plans to declare independence next July 1. “The Canadian delegation,” said Mr. Macquarrie in addressin the U.N.’s trusteeship committee, “finds special pleasure in being as- sociated with this resolution because Canada now will have the privilege of sharing its national day, July 1,' with one of the new states of Africa.” * * *

A dream of President Nasser, of the United Arab Republic, has been the Aswan dam, which would back

‘up the waters of the Nile in southern

Egypt to develop power and irrigate parched lands. The Sudan has stood in the way. The dam would flood the Wadi Haifa area as it backed up waters for 227 miles, 100 miles into the Sudan. Now the U.R.A. and the Sudan have reached agreement and work can go ahead on Aswan. Egypt will pay $43,200,000 to the Sudan for the flooded lands. The Aswan dam, it is estimated, will save some 32 billion cubic meters of water that “now flow into the Mediterranean each year. o . a

Australia has embarked on two great projects to make the barren, waterless wastes of the interior of the country productive and habit- able. One project is under way in the bugged. Kimberly ranges of north- west Australia, where two dams will be built to trap water for irrigation and hydro-electric power: The serond blueprint is taking shape more than 2,000 miles from Kimberly in the laboratories of Adelaide’s Waite 1n- stitute, where researchers are de-. veloping a tough, drought-resistant grass to live and thrive in low-rainfall regions such as the vast Simpson Desert.

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The Toronto Telegram, a strong supporter of water fluoridation, was challenged recently by a correspond- ent to “publish the names and ad- dresses of those who are trying to push this rat poison on the city.” It replied as follows: “The people who are ‘pushing’ flouridation are neither manufacturers nor sell fluoride, and The Telegram has frequently publish- ed their names. They are medical, dental and public health organizat- ions. Dental care for children is cost- ing the taxpayers about $200,000 a year, apart from costs met by par- ents. Because of lack of staff, not all the care that is needed can be provided. Fluoridation would cost

year. It is not poisonous but pre-

vents tooth decay.’

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ing myths”, published by Birk and

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from 10 to 15 cents per person per \

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NEW YORK — Our Parliamen- tarian delegates and observers attending the General Assembly here are fully occupied with their work. But some are accompanied by their wives and they, like the many other Canadian visitors evi- dent here, are glimpsing the joys and paradoxes of the most un- abashed enjoyment of Mammon the --world has ever seen.

‘The contrast with the customs and. moral values: of Canada is often startling.

A comfortable three - hour flight by Trans Canad Airlines “Viscount” sped me from Ot- tawa’s teetotal airport, where the overcrowded waiting room offer- ed no seat <and a tiny counter

to New York's fabulous Idlewild airpoot; there the first sight was

crowded and elegant oyster and cocktail bar. This was the im- mediate rendezvous of some tra- vellers on the half-empty plane, who had complained that TCA routes in Canada are teetotal, a tourist - diverting quality which even our railroads no longer suf- fer.

COURTEOUS SELF - SERVICE

As never before, the lure of high industrial wages has minimised the availability of personal and domestic service here. But 175 million prosperous citizens yet seek to save themselves the least effort, and their readiness to pay a fancy price for every ‘“Doos-it-

If there are any new ways to spell C-R-I-S-I-S, the North At- lantic Treaty Organization will surely find them.

Every year around this time, pre-December gloom descends on the Palais de Chaillot in Paris as representatives of the 15-country alliance grapple with the annual stocktaking of member contribu- tions, item by item and nation by nation. ;

This year, with the NATO min- {sterial meetings scheduled to take place before and after the Western summit talks Dec. 19, the December despondency is so thick you can hardly. penetrate it with a Thor or Jupiter missile, which are pretty scarce in Europe anyway.

The difficulties have a familiar ring. There is the usual money worry, augmented this time by the fact that economy - minded countries can’t see spending more money than ifSual at a time when international tension seems to have relaxed, Related to this is growing United States pressure on Europe to contribute a greater share to its own defence.

Perhaps a bigger bugaboo fs France. As far back as January, 1955, a NATO commentator wrote that “‘we cannot-eount on France as a member eager to develop its scope and authority.”

‘CONCERN STILL ACUTE ~~” When President de Gaulle came to power, fears that France would go one step further and withdraw from NATO altogether were rebutted by the reassurance that France needs NATO as much as NATO needs. France.

Concern’ remains acute. Ap- parently obsessed by Anglo-Saxon pre-eminence in Western strat- egy—a fear underlined again and again in his wartime memoirs— de Gaulle seems much less in- terested in the Atlantic commun- ity than in a revitalized Europe based on new Franco - German amity and capable ultimately of standing up to the “freightened giants,” the U.S. and Russia.

:NATO consultation? That's an- other old worry, despite safe- guards enshrined in the report of the three wise men, which was supposed to be a kind of NATO constitution or set of ground rules. *

In the age of summit diplomacy —~or interminable talk about a summit—the small countries tend

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Distracting Luxuries

By Patrick Nicholson

itself’ gadget offers a match- less market for scientific ingenu- ity. -So. while Russian Sputniks streak across the Manhattan sky, the stores are crowded with well - heeled workers buying such ultimates in gadgetry as electri- cally -operated pencil sharpen-

ers.——

On the sidewalks of New York, the bookstalls are doing a roar- ing trade selling a wide variety of glossy magazines at 50 cents apiece, with such telltale titles as Rogue, Dude, Male, Sir Knight, Playmate. The liberal coloured nudes in this new phenomenon exceed_in quantity, but not in quality, the wares of that old soldiers’ favourite ‘La Vie Pari-

dressed women and hygienized males walking on them.

On elegant Fifth Avenue, Rocke- feller Centre towers in the heart of commercial Gotham. In its

midst is an open - air ice rink, |

where men, women and children were dancing to the soft music,

or taking lessons from the smart-.

ly uniformed instructors, or cut- ting graceful figures. Many busy passers-by had time to watch this charming spectacle. A non- step elevator sped me to the top of the skyscraper, up 51 floors in 45 seconds. Among the spires and roof - tops of the magnificent vista, I saw the gleaming white new Canada House nearby. Several Canadian visitors told me that, more attractive to them than the variety in the stores or the succulent restaurants were the live theatrical shows. Sir John Gielgud playing a suave Benedick to Margaret Leighton’s bouncing Beatrice,

in Shakespeare's |- ;“‘Much Ado About Nothing” rank-

New Drugs For Many Ailments ©

By Herman N. Bundesen, M.D. OUR

constipated individuals. Thus it helps such persons to avoid the Valsalva maneuver, which we discussed in detail a while back.

The Valsalva is an automatic ¢ycle of extreme var- iations in peripheral blood pres- sure and blood flow. It could lead to sudden death.

One of the major drawbacks of aspirin is the fact that it some- times causes gastric upset and irritation. These drawbacks have been greatly reducedXby the re- cent introduction in this country of a freely soluble—stable cal-

cium aspirin.

The aspirin, developed in Switzerland, deposits no inxol- uble particles that may attach themselves to the stomach lin- ing, thus causing possible irrita- tion, congestion and even ero- sive or severe hemmorrhagic gastritis. :

This, too, {s available only through a doctor’s. prescription.

IMPROVED SULFA DRUG

An improved sulfa drug gives promise of cutting down. the dos- age of oral drugs requited to pro- tect rheumatic fever victims against recurrent attacks.

Recent studies indicate that a single oral dose of the drug might provide protection for an entire week. Oral antibacterials can provide protection now, but they have tobe taken every-day.

QUESTION AND ANSWER Mrs. R.A.: I am 68. years old and of late have been troubled by | a constant throbbing in my head which keeps me awake at night. Is this just from old age or is it a sympton of some illness? _

is here to stay. :

Outside the Third Avenue offic- es of our Mission to the UN.,; the sidewalks are bountifully graced with dead fallen maple leafs, or a reasonable facsimile thereof. This is not an intentional tribute to Canada; it is the con- sequence of higher remuneration for crawling the streets as driv- er of one of the many unhired tax- is than for sweeping the streets as a municipal employee. Among the fallen leaves, I saw also used dixie cups, paper wrapping, news- papers, empty boxes, a car bum- per, two liquid bottles, and the usual mixed garbage of smokers. In vivid contrast with these un- kempt sidewalks were the well-

NATO’s Chronic Ailment

The Canadian Press '

gium, The Netherlands and other

members are said to be de-.

pressed at the recent tendency of the big powers to take things in their own hands.

Reports from. Ottawa suggest that External Affairs Minister

ed tops with many. “My Fair Lady,” still young after many years and many changes of caste, enchants enthusiastic audiences. “Two For The See-Saw,” with its caste of two players, was popu- lar. And the gay musicals, “La Plume de ma Tante”’ and ‘‘Des- try Rides Again” offer some- thing rare to us, but at shocking prices ranging from $ to $8.65 a

seat from the box office, or up_

to $50 from scalpers.

Front page news, arousing in- dignation from New Yorkers who object to the \gyp but not the scalp, was the revelation that over 100 butcher shops were pay- ing up to $60 per month each to municipal officials for permis- sion to cheat housewives by weight frauds.

Green will cémé to the Décember NATO meetings determined to end this state of affairs. It looks now as though he may have to

talk loudly to be heard amid the babel of voices concerned with military, strategic and economic considerations.

In NATO, crisis seems to

be chronic. ;

Making New Geysers

National Geographic Society :

The earthquake that shook Yellowstone National Park in August thoroughly disrupted the underground plumbing system of its steaming geyser basins.

Sapphire Pool, once a listless geyser that bubbled up no higher than 6 or 7 feet, now dramactical- ly spurts 150 feet into the air. About 100 hot springs erupted for the first time after the tremor; some have continued to spout peridocially.

Old. Faithful is performing at slightly greater, intervals. And Grand Geyser ‘has ‘played only sporadically since the earth- quake. It formerly spewed hot water and steam 200 feet every night to ten hours.

EARTHQUAKES OPEN PATHS

Geysers form in regions where volcanoes were active in the past. Deeply buried molten rock con- tains to seethe and send up hot gases—mostly steam — along joints or faults in solid rock. Earthquakes may open new es- cape vents or breach subterran- ean chambers.

An underground vertical tube and chambers filled by seepage from rain? and melted snow are the basic requirements for a gey- ser. Volcanic gases heat the water. It flashes into steam on reaching a critical pressure and temperature, and the mass of steam and hot water roars up through the rock tube in an erup- tion,

Contrary to popular belief no geyser appears at a precisely predictable time. Old Faithful did not earn its name by virtue of prolonged regularity, but was named two days .after its discov-

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ery. Recorded intervals between Old Fathful’s eruptions range from 33 to 94 minutes. Several geysers in Yellowstone are more faithful than Old Faithful.

Geysers are among nature's rarest phenomena. They have developed in significant numbers only in Yellowstone, Iceland, and New Zealand. The biggest and largest geysers are in Yel- lowstone.

The National Park has-.more than 200 geysers that whirl, whis- tle, churny and spray. Birds and bears make their homes near some Yellowstone geysers to keep warm. q

Teelandw’s hot springs warm people as well. About half the houses in Reykjavik, the capital, are heated by natural hot water. Bananas, tomatoes, and grapes grow in spring-heated green- houses,

ACTIVE FOR CENTURIES

The word geyser comes from the Icelandic “geysir,” meaning gusher or rager. The name was given to Iceland’s Great Geyser which has been active for centur- fes. Like the Great Geyser in Yellowstone, it spouts more than 200 feet.

On the other side of the world are New Zealand’s violent gey- sers. Waimangu, the largest gusher ever known, spouted a column of water 1,500 feet high

Alswer: Age it produce throbbing in the head. You should have a complete checkup by your doctor to deter- mine the cause.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Nov. 30, 1934)

Commander C. T. Beard, R. C. N., inspected the Charlotte- town Royal Canadian Naval Re- serve last evening. The Char- lottetown unit under Lieut. Com- mander Buntain consists of fifty- two men. Com. Beard first visit- ed Charlottetown in 1909, return- ed as miidshipman in 1911 and as captain of H.M.C.S. Patriot in 1921.

The first concert of the season to be given under the auspices of the Community Concert Asso- ciation was held last night in the Prince of Wales College Auditor- jum. Guest artist was violinist, Toscha Seidel, with Herbert Jaffe as pianist. The concert was und- er the distinguished patronage of His Honour Lieut. Governor De- Blois.

TEN YEARS AGO (Nov. 30 1949) Recognizing the ‘work of the Ladies Auxiliary of the King’s County Hospital, the “Town: of the Week” award for outstand- ing community achievement has

announced yesterday. Included in the award was a contribution of $100 to the Morftague Women’s Group.

The Norwegian ship Godvor ar- rived in the Charlottetown Har- bour Monday with a load of fer- tilizer and was forced to tie up at the Marine Wharf until she can secure a berth at the Rail- way Wharf where the Panaman- jan ship Perla and a small schoon- er are being loaded with potatoes.

and threw a boulder a quarter of a mile.

In 1866, seven new Zealand gey- sers came to life explosively ‘n a basin that had been dormant for six years. Water, steam, mud and stones shot almost 3800 feet into the air for about four hours.

New .Zealand has tapped this tremendous underground energy with a power plant capable of producing.69,000 kilowatts of el- ectricity. The roar of escaping steam ahd water from one test boring echoed four miles away.

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A Russian expert has predict- ed that, 50 years from now, the human life span will have been stretched to between 150 and 200 years. The prospect raises sev- eral intriguing questions. ‘

The world will not, of course, be able to behold any of the new class of 150 - year - olds until long after the twenty - first century has ended, but it will undoubtedly be up to the teen- agers of the century’s earliest years to get accustomed to the idea of being around for a long, long time. ,

It is. indeed, tempting to ask just what the teen-agers of those days will be like, and particular- ly what they will be saying about those 150 - year - olds who come in their path. Will 50, perhaps, seem to them a trifle less in- credibly old than it does to their 1959 counterparts?

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oa Vv society? -It seems obvious that those who have attained a mere 70-must be looked on as strip- lings, who should habitually de fer to the ripe judgment of their seniors.

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