___works.” Haven’t these studies been

_Lean’s assurance that this proposal

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- Maritime Winter Fair jis still is dis- ‘pute. According to the president of

‘blematical as ever. Works Minister

prospects for acquiring the ‘“Vaca-

-ernment should welcome all the ex-

Queen Victoria’s birth—has been ob-

“Ceylon and Malaya, which lave a

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fransportation Again The question of a home for the

the Maritime Stock Breeders Associ- ation, Halifax is the only centre where the Fair could possibly be held this. year; but facilities there still didn’t fulfill requirements. Since the fire which destroyed the main ex- hibition building in Amherst last July, Moncton, Saint John and Hali- ! fax have shown interest in having the Fair. If it weren’t for our trans- portation difficulties, Charlottetown, from the high reputation won by our Island breeders, could stake out a good claim. If we had the Causeway, now!

But the Causeway: seems as pro-

Green’s reference to the results of a “feasibility survey” in the House of Commons on Thursday leaves many questions unanswered, and raises irritating new ones. Just why it took so long for engineers to figure out that the project would raise the water in Northumberland Strait ten feet above its present level, and how they reach that conclusion now, will need a lot of explaining. As pointed out locally, the tidal conditions are much more pronounced in the Canso Strait than in the Northumberland Strait, yet there was no appreciable difference in tide levels after the Can- so causeway was built.

We are also at a loss to understand Mr. Green’s statement that the “economic feasibility of the whole project would be considered on com- pletion of the studies into land damage and necessary remedial

completed yet ? We have been promis- ed a full report next month, and we shall have to possess our souls in patience, But it is hard to exer- cise that virtue in the circumstances.

Meantime, we trust that_wé shall hear something concrete about the

tionland” very soon. Hon. Mr. Mac-

has not been turned down in favor of the scheme for remodelling the old Scotia II is all that we have to go on. The survey made in Michigan by Canadian Maritime Commission engineers has now been supplement- ed by the inspection by Mr. Alex Scott at the instance of the Provin- cial Government. The Federal Gov-

pert assistance it can get in this mat- ter, and Mr. Scott’s ability and ex- perience are well known.

Another alternative—the construc- tion of a new icebreaker for the Bord- en-Tormentine service—would af- ford the right. solution on a long- term basis; but that takes us back to the present uncertainty about the Causeway. We want that issue settled as speedily and conclusively as pos- sible.

Commonwealth Day It is interesting to note that in the United Kindgom, May 24 this year—the traditional Victoria Day— is tobe celebrated for the first time as “Commonwealth Day.” Of late years the date—the anniversary of

served as “Empire Day,” -but the ob- gervance was sporadic. The change in title was announced by Prime Minister Macmillan last December, when he told the House of Commons that other Commonwealth : govern- ments had concurred in it. g

The British Minister of Education addressed a circular on the subjec: recently to all education authorities independent schools and training colleges. The circular marked the change from “Empire” to “Common- wealth” Day by remiffiding the schools that more could, be done to enable people in Britain “to under- stand and appreciate the achieve- ments and the cultural and religious heritage of those Commonwealth countries, such as India, Pakistan,

civilization more ancient than our own.” The circular describes the Commonwealth as “the most su

cessful free association of a wide and representative group of nation: and territories in the whole of re-

-terms_makes—a—President—a

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eorded history.”

that “a selection might be made from among the Sea Dyaks of. Borneo, the Masai of Kenya, the Chinese of Singapore or Hong Kong, or the Aborigines of Australia. In the same way, the Great Trek and the Con- quest of Everest, the crossing of the Blue Mountains, the first flight ac- ross the Atlantic, Antartic expedi-

tions, the building of the Canadian

Pacific, of Uganda railw: the dis- covery of gold in Australia, of dia- monds in Africa and of uranium in Canada, are but a random selection from the pages of the Commonwealth story which can be used effectively

in the classroom.” eh

The Ministry of Education gested an enticing mixture, not quite lost sight of the traditional figures who featured in “Empire Day” celebrations from its establish- ment in 1902—Cecil Rhodes, Raffles of Singapore, Captain Cook. But even in the list of famous men, the “Com- monwealth Day” note is struck again: “Nor should national leaders like Gandhi and Kruger be neglect- ed,” adds the Ministry’s circular.

The 22nd Amendment

It seems odd to Canadians that the people of the great neighboring re- public cannot elect whomever they want as President for as long a time as they want. That is what the 22nd Amendment prevents them from do- ing by limiting Presidents to two terms. The proposal of Senator Hennings (Dem., Missouri) that this amendment be repealed seems to have less support now than it did two years ago. But it has found a strong champion in former President Harry

Truman,.who spoke out strongly the | ‘other day for repeal. His argument

is that the ban on more than two “lame duck” in the final years of his sec- ond term. Knowing he can’t be elect- ed, people aren’t as apt to be impress-

ed by presidential-power->———>

A couple of years ago President Eisenhower favored appeal of the ban. But the other day he placed himself on the fence. He said he didn’t “feel too’strongly about it” and was willing to let the people de- cide. Of course the people would have to decide—through Congress and their state legislatures. But Mr Eisenhower's attitude is peculiar.

The President says that he hasn't noticed any decline in his authority in his last two years in office. Some observers are of a different opinion. Others claim that he has never been strong at any time; he has been re- luctant or indifferent about assuming much leadership. But this is a per- sonal case; the issue to be decided is one of principle. As the Milwaukee Journal well says, “To argue that by electing a man three or four times is to invite dictatorship—is to show little faith in our government system and our Constitution and laws. There should be no restriction on _ the voters’ choice—and certainly no time limit. The day may come when a strong President is needed in crit- ical times and the incumbent ‘is the best man for the job. To place bar- riers in the way of his service is to tie a hand behind our backs.”

The Truman thesis: hasn’t been tested, as Eisenhower is the first President to whom the ban extends. But even if the thesis is wrong, there is a strong argument against the

EDITORIAL NOTES

To jazz trumpeter Louis Arm- strong’s mind,’it would bé a fine thing if the foreign ministéi’s at Geneva would permit him to blow a little of his torrid music. at them. It would, he feels, cool them off, re- lax them, and put them in a happier frame of mind. He may be right. Bad cases require desperate cures.

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The “no color ‘bar” principle has now been firmly established as a Commonwealth ideal by the head of the Commonwealth herself. Queen Elizabeth has taken a wise and im- aginative step in the appointment of a Negro from Ghana,to her of- ficial staff at Buckingham Palace as assistant press attache.

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It is interesting to note that Can- adians formed the greatest part -of Commonwealth visitors to Scotland Jast year. It is estimated that the total number of visitors from Canada was 28,000, and that they spent about £1.5. millon~in Scotland. Altogether 430,000 tourists from overseas visit- ed Scotland last year, spending £13

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Falling Out Over Fall-out

Christian Science Moniter

At times it-seems that—differ— i

ences over the dangers of atom- ic tests are as great as the dif- ferences which have prevented their banning. The divisions among American nuclear scient- ists and biologists were sharply illustrated in testimony before the Holifield committee. Var- ious experts were as far apart in the estimates of fall - out perils as have been the plans at Geneva for halting tests. People who are desperately ~ can find authorities with figures to support © their fears. Others who seek to remain

calm can cite equally—complete ion appears to be

with figures—to back them. Where experts so violently dis- agree the layman may well seek some rational middle ground. Where there is evidence of so many remaining uncertainties he may wisely refrain from extreme positions.

WON'T EAT FOOD

It is said some folk won't eat certain food for fear it contains strontium. But facts so far known

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than the fear. There is need for reassurance like that of Dr.

Emphasis On Aircraft

By Stewart MacLeod Canadian Press Staff Writer

Although missiles are gradually taking over as Britein’s chief air weapon, the end of the manned figbier era is nowhere in sight.

In fact, say defence ministry spokesmen in London, the man- ned fighter will be required in- definitely — “until méesiles learn to make pcsitive identification of aireraft.’" They aiso say manned aircraft are the only weapons that can hedze-hop into enemy territory without being spotted by radar.

British defence planners took a long look at the future of manned aircraft before deciding that the new TSR - 2 fighter- bomber should be brought into production about 1965 at a cost of £200,000,000.. They made the decision abcut four months ago. GOING STRONG

It will be about 1987 before the RAF is equipped with a full com- pliment of TSR-2s. Since defence spokesmen say the aircraft will be in service “for a good many years” this means that Britain’s manned fighter plane: weuld be going strong until 1975, even if no additional models are de-

' signed.

T-c TSR-2 will be essentially low-level aircraft which Defence

Yesterday morning in Ottawa, ;

General Lauris Norstad, com- mandér of NATO forces in Eur- ope conferred with Prime Min- ister Diefenbaker. It is under- stood that the role of the Can- adian forces in NATO would be one of the major matters the two Western leaders discussed.

The role of the Canadian NATO units will be in large measure de- cided by the equipment they are given. It is possible, for instance. that the Canadian Army brigade may be modernized by. the ad- dition of United States short- range atomic weapons, whether missiles or artillery.

Much more important is the future of the RCAF's First Air Division, which has been one of the most important air divisions under NATO command. In fact, for several years after its arrival in Europe in 1952 and 1953, this Canadian formation was freely acknowledged, by the Americans, to be the first line of air de- fence in Europe.

It was the “elite corps’ for two important reasons.

AT KOREA ;

While the/ United States Air Force wes sending._the best of its people to Korea. Canada’s air

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Warren that tests so far have added only 5 per cent to the radioactive material in our natural surroundings. The warn- | ing that many people can exper- | ience more damage from careless use of X rays is timely and may add some perspective.

| But there is also need to recog- nize that new things are being! learned constantly about fall-out. Where and why it concentrates | become vital questions in judging | dangers. The speed of its falling | has recently been figured as , twice the earlier estimates. And ; one thing on which expert opin-

in. general agreement is that any addition to the supply of radioactive mater-

| ial-is likely to be harmful.

SERIOUS QUESTION .

This in itself, it seems to us, raises a serious question as to the moral right of any nation to pollute the atmosphere which ‘belongs to .all humanity. This, _we believe, should be a very large consideration in pushing for a ban on atomic tests. We

lar ones in which choices have to be made. They say, “You don't refrain from driving a car because cars injure thousands of people each year.” But is that really the same?

A ban on atomic tests is also sought as a way to prevent war. This is not a very realistic ap- proach in the direct sense—un- less destruction of existing nuc- lear stockpiles were to accom- pany a test ban. But indirectly an agreement on stopping tests might be the most feasible first step toward general arms con- trol measures. For all possess- ors of the bomb seem to have a mutual interest in holding down the membership of the “nuclear, club.”

FULL OF OBSTACLES

The road-to agreement is full of obstacles. China is one of the | big ones. Disagreement as to ef- fective detection and policing is another. The Geneva conference on a test ban has. however, made some progress and reces- sed this week in a more hopeful atmosphere than it has known since it convened in November. But it needs steady and insistent support from public opinion.

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one-eighth that of prednisolone, an earlier cortisone derivative. Of 43 patients who had been poorly controlled on prednisolone, 17 were adequately controlled on dexamethasone. However, there were more adverse side effects than occur in the general run of cases. RELIEVED SOME CASES Doctors report that this new drug has relieved some severe cases of arthritis in which al!

other forms of treatment had

failed.

I don’t false hopes, but I do want to as- sure the many victims of arthri- tis that medical science is con- stantly striving to help them. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Mrs. M. B.: Can you tell me what causes burning, watering and mucus in the eye? Could it be an allergy?

Answer: This condition could be an allengy but it would be best to see a physician.

“World Weather Cycles

Smithsonian Institution Bulletin

Whatever the fallings-out over

know that earnest people believe tests are necessary and the sit- uation is similar to less spectacu-

Minister Duncan Sandys has de- | scribed as “highly suitable for limited war operations.”

It will be capable of high-al- j titude all - weather performance and will carry air-to-air missiles. It will also have space for an atomic bomb and will take off 4rom 600 - yard unsurfaced run- ways.

Defence spokesmen describe | the TSR-2 as a ‘‘completely ver- j Satile aircraft, capable of doing | any job.”

NEED POINTED UP

The need for manned aircraft was brought out sharply at the time of the 1956 Suez action whea British pilots were ordered to de- stroy military imstallations with out striking nearby towns. Pilbot- less missiles, say the defence planners, could never accomplish | such a mission without large- scale destruction.

Manned aircraft appear to be winning renewed favor in some other Eurovean countries because of their ability, by changing height at random, to sneak under the re@ar screens. Both French /and West German defence | spokesmen have publicly pointed fout the advantages of aircraft iover missiles.

n Europe -Gazette :

Under NATO agreement Canada devoted all her abilities to pro- viding the best air and ground crews she could obtain and train to her European task. And Can- ada’s best air. forces. as they have proved in two world wars, are as good as anyone can pro- duce,

During this period, Canadian equipment was also first-rate, in comparison with allied or enemy aircraft. Canadian engineers had taken the American Sabre jet figh- ter design and improved it ia many ways, but primarily by | equipping it with the Canadian- made Orenda engine, which was

mediate postwar period, they obtained from Britain. FUR FACTORS

The combination of the two fac- | tors,

the dangers of fall-out there should be agreement on’ the value of ending tests. |

in each wing, were re-equipped with the Canadian - designed and produced CF-100 all-weather in- terceptor.

All of these accomplishments are now overshadowed by un- certainty for the future. The Canadians are still rated a fine fighting force as far as personnel goes; last August, the Division won the “‘“Guynemer Trophy” for best acrial gunnery in the Al- lied Air Forces Central Europe. But their aircraft are daily fall- ing further behind in effectiveness as other allied forces—and the Russian air armies—continue to introduce airplanes which can fly higher and faster. :

The proud “elite division” is fast becoming the “obsolete div- ision.”

For some months now, there: has been talk of re-equipping the division with new aircraft. The decision need not be as difficult to make as some of those in- volved in plans for North Am- erican defence.

In NORAD, Canadian and U.S. forces are integrated under a combined command; so that the Canadian effort may not be was- ted, plans of the two countries for radar bases and ground con- trol systems, for interceptor squa- drons and missile defences must be undertaken together. This is not easy at any time; it is com- plicated now because American plans themselves are in a period of transistion.

The future of the First Cana- dian Division ig much more a distinctly Canadian. decision to make. Norstad has Stated more than’ once that he needs forces like the division, quite apart from the missiles that are being in- troduced into the NATO organiza- tion.

Once decided upon, the re equipment of the division could be carried oul in the same way the division was originally equip- ped: an American design, adap- ted to Canadian. needs, could be produced under licence by the Canadian aircraft industry.

The need is for 300-400 aircraft, a worthwhile order for Canada. There is more than one advanced American design available which would suit this purpose.

It must be hoped that a de- |

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National

ANNUAL MEETING

Provincial Council Boy Scout Association will be held in the

Film Board Screening Room “Dominion Building, Charlottetown ‘Tuesday, May 26th at 8 p.m.

There is a basic period of 273 months—or 2234 years—in world weather which is evidenced in temperature and precipitation, accofding to calculations of Dr. Charles G. Abbot, research asso- ciate of the Smithsonian Institu- tion.

According to Dr. Abbot's find- ings, weather the world over re- peats itself every 273 months in warm and cold pleriods and drought and exceptional rainfall episodes.

Within the major period there are at least 27 subordinate per- iods, apparent in various phases of weather. On the basis of the calculations, the institution has allotted funds to Dr. Abbot to make temperature forecasts for 10 years ahead for 10 American cities.

Dr. Abbot, recognized as one of the world’s foremost authori- ties on solar radiation, has work- ed for many years on the thesis that there are variations of the sun's radiation that we recognize as light and heat which control the world’s weather. At first tnis thesis was based on what Dr. Ab- bot considered highly probably, although extremely complicated, effects on weather of minute var- iations he observed in the amounts of solar radiation falling on the earth. But now he finds varia- tions of identical periods in rain- fall and temperature, so that no further solar measurements are required for forecasting weath- er. The socalled ‘‘sunspot period,” approximately 13 1-3 years, of the frequency of “spots’’ or —-dark areas on the face of the sun is

cision in thig direction will be made soon and that the visit of General Norstad to Ottawa will help to speed it. The work of the Canadian Air Division must not be undermined by unnecessary de- lay\ in keeping it adequately

Canadian Cancer Society

TAKE NOTICE that the 1959 An- nual Meeting of CANADIAN CAN. CER SOCIETY will be held in the Westbury Hotel, 475 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario on Monday. June 15th, 1959 at 11:00 a.m, (local time) to receive the reports of the Directors and the Auditors and to transact such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.

By Order of the Directors GEORGE PIFHER, Secretary-Treasurer

May 7th, 1959

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THE WAY

SWAN LAKE BALLET

Her swaying form was neither swan

Nor woman but a dream of time And tears, a fancy drifting on A lake of dim mirage, a mime Of mobile moonbeams, symbol of The unremitting quest of love.

Our startled eyes in darkness glistened eee hearted:

ened

Until her corps of cygnets darted In shy glissades and saw their A wraith of moonlight, leave the scene

grief And sighing, vanquished disbelief.

—Elias Lieberman, in the N.Y. Herald Tribune

one such period, but not the most important one.

In his present theses Dr. Ab- bot employs 27 regular periods of weather, all exact integral sub- divisions of 273 months, as 1-3, 91 months, or 1-7, 39 months. These subordinate periods appear in his quite complicated mathematical analysis of weather, but their causes remain to be determined. For his forecasts he requires consecutive Weather records of a selected locality for 1,000 months.

“I would undertake,” he says, “10 year temperature forecasts for any selec 10 cities in the United States or abroad where about 1,000 consecutive monthly records of mean temperature

Gevernment is like cars or houses—nobody is satisfied with the kind he can afford.—Vancou-

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Thirty - three young business men of Kensington will be don- ning overalls this afternoon te commentice, what to them, will be unfamiliar work. To demonstrate the Clean Up Week campaign now on, the members of the Jun- ior Chamber of Commerce will paint a house against time. The residence of Mr. Walter Thomp- son has been chosen for the event.

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