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Not So Quiet Election Liberals and Progressive-Conser- vatives have, done a lot of energetic eampaigning during the past week, so that there can be no excuse for any’ voter not being aware of the issues and personalities on between _. which he or she will have to decide
on Tiiésday-- py
The campaign has warmed-up with @ vengeance although the one, joint meeting which Liberal candidates in Second Kings called for last night, we understand at the time of writing, could not be attended by their Con-
is recorded: when and where the fish was caught arfd the type of fishing gear used to catch the fish.
only receive a dollar for the tag but
he will also be paid for the fish. Fishermen catching the “want-
ed” fish are asked to return the tag
servative opposite numbers because-j—and, if possible, the fish to either
of prior commitments. It would have
~~ been interesting to have seen repre- sentatives_of the parties meeting on the same platform.
. The issues are being threshed out, however, and every means ekcept for © the old fashioned debate is being us- . ed to bring home to the voters just
' what they have to decide on Tues- day.
There is one thing clear. The Pro- gressive-Conservatives are still an effective political party despite their Jong years in the political wilderness. How long a party could continue to exist without once in a while being in power instead of in opposition is difficult to judge.
Certainly it wduld be unfortunate for everyone, including the Liberal Party, if the Conservatives ceased at any time to be in a position to off- er an alternative to Liberal govern- ment.
Such unhappy thought, however, should not intrude in the excitement and enthusiasm of a genera! election campaign. Premier Alex Matheson and Conservative Leader Walter Shaw would be the last to complain that there is the least sign of slack- ening of political activity. They are both \in the thick of it and getting eager support from their respective parties.
Price Of Gold
One of the arguments often adva.-. ced against an increase in the price of gold is its possible effect on the general price level. For many years it was held that an increase in prit¢e of gold was inflationary, the belief being based mainly on the fact that, under a strict gold standard system, an increase in the value of gold re- serves brought about an expansion in the supply of domestic credit and currency.
Even today, says the Monthly Re- view of the Bank of Nova Scotia, there might be some inflationary’ im- plications in an increased price for gold because of the psychological ef- fects of such a move on governments’ and the genera! public, but under pre- sent methods of monetary manage- ment there is no necessary connec- tion between an increase in the price of gold and the general price level.
Whatever the pros and cons, the U.S. Government is bound to take ac- count of all the consequences which might follow from raising the price of gold. Though the possibility of an increase in the price cannot be ruled
~ out, it-is clear that_ the main atten-
* tion today is being directed towards alternative methods of improving in-
| ternational liquidity. These include, particularly, efforts to expand inter- national lending in various ways and to broaden the operations of the Monetary Fund.
How Does A Codfish Grow?
The rate of growth of codfish is of interest to all connected with the fisheries. It is one of the factors to be. considered when determining policy on such matters as the mesh size of nets and other conservation measures. Fishermen are being. ask- | ed te co-operate in the research—and are being paid for their trouble.
Scientists of the Fisheries Re- search Board’s Biological Station at $t. Andrews, have announced that they will pay at least a dollar apiece
for those codfish on the list of the
This “wanted” list developed as result of a tagging project con- “du by the fisheries scientists. It is by such methods that research- “ers are able to keep a line on the:
of the biological stations or to turn them over to their local fishery off- icers. ’
Save The Children Fund-
Deep regret is expressed in the annual report of the Canadian Save: the Children Fund at the passing of J.0. Hyndman, a valued and long time friend of the fund. :
Through the Canadian Save the Children Fund's Sponsorship Plan 960 Canadians, this year, sponsored 1,150 children in twelve different countries. This is an increase of 300 sponsorships in a year.
Businesses, a8 well as individuals, have now become interested in the Sponsorship scheme. For example: . the Bell Telephone Company, who published the story of sponsorships through their employee paper “Bell News”, increased the number of children, sponsored by Beli-werkers, from eight to forty.
Individual Canadian sponsors are becoming increasingly aware that the value of sponsorship is vastly great- er than the cost. One sponsor writes:
“It is strange that people should think it so wonderful that I have six sponsored children. Many women have that many children of their own and must find several times that amount of money in order to provide for them, to say nothing of the work and worry involved. These sponsored children mean just as much to me as children of my own.”
Typical of the letters from the sponsored children is: “I am very well and go to school all right thanks to your kindness, though it is some- times hard to get along with living.: When we were neglected you took took care of us. We are now living happily due to your kindness. Thank you very much. You helped us when we had to pay our tuition fees. When we lived in a hut, leaking and draugh- ty, you helped us. You sent us food packages twice a year.”
In the full twelve months of 1958,
the Fund handled $45,868.32 in spon- sorship fees and donations for the benefit of children in under-privileg- ed areas.
EDITORIAL NOTES
Three Canadian soldiers in Ger- many, full-blooded Indians, were ambushed recently by a score of Ger- man Indians. It was all in fun, how- ever. The Canadians earned the ad- miration of their attackers by show- ing them how to bend a bow, make an _ arrow and light a fire that would not smoke. For years a youth group at Soest has studied Indian lore made
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In connection with proposals to make Irish moss the foundation of a new Island industry it is well to heed the words of wisdom of Constance MacFarlane, a seaweed expert with the Nova Scotia research foundation. After going into the many and var- ied- uses of the product, she cautions that our watery storehouse is not inexhaustable and suggests that crops be harvested with intelligence because their rate of growth is slow.
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Sydney is planning to mark its 175th birthday by an Old Home Week during 1960. Amongst other things there is a suggestion that the Namur, a replica of an 18th century Royal . Navy ship which participated in the siege of Louisbourg and which was built to figure the Halifax Dockyard’s 100th anniversary, be brought to Sydney for the occasion. The diffi- culty is that no one seems to know
her present whereabouts. Aayone seen the Namur lately?
PUBLIC
A COMPLAINT Sir,--Since 1956 1 have been trying to get some mo due me from the Provincial Govern- ment for material bought from
in front of my two farms. Our road overseer told me I'd get paid and the engineers told me what price I would get. Regarding the clay they got from. me—for fill, I went tw the Hon. George MacKay several times for the moncy. He said he could not pay me until .the road overseer sent me a list of
the amount of material they took. This has not yet gone through.
It was wet weather when the clay was being hauled and the bargain was that they would re- pair damage to my lane and fill in the culvert. Instead they haul- ed clay from, here to several of our neighbors lanes and left my lane in such a condition that I can’t repair. it without a ma chine; and there has been no machine available since.
Besides that, they ditched the roads in front of my two shore farms. I ordered culverts from them but never got them. The rest of my neighbors got them and got them filled in with clay from here by the Government.
T put in a wooden bridge at one driveway alonzside of where they were getting elay for fill. Durinz their work they made the ditch twice ‘as wide as it should have been and they never pre me one load lof clay to go a 2 just one instance of
y the Liberal \ has used me. —
Another thing I might men- tion is that I had planted 57 imported ornamental trees in front of my rarm. These were also destroyed.
T am, Sir, ete. GEORGE CLARK Alberton. ¢
_ HIGHWAY JUSTICE
Sir,—As a general election throughout the Province is about being held, there are matters whieh have not been publicly re- ferred to that should receive at- tention. The use of our highways by motor vehicles'is continually increasing. Accidents and-injuries are likewise increasing. To what extent do we, the general public, assume responsibjlity, if say, a young person, or an aged per- son, becomes injured? 7 At the present moment, I have at my hand information about two matters, which, without men- tioning names, illustrate what I regard as a public responsibility which we -are ignoring and not assuming. The most recent is the case of a young lady, under twen- ty-one Years of age, a non-Can- adian, who while here on a visit, @ passenger in a motor car own- ed and driven by a resident of this Province, was severely in- _ Jured in a collision which took Place upon one of the highways of this Province. She has since returned to her home in another counntry. i :
Her injuries were serious. Is She entitled to. justice? If so, from whom? Has the public of this Province no responsibility? What official can she look to, to see that justice is given her? She could not sue in her own name, even if she wished to bring an action. Some near relative, as a “next friend,” (a legal term) would have to bring the action, and take on the burden and the Tesponsibility, as well as the ex- pense, of even endeavouring to obtain justice.
Security for costs, (as a not resident), would undoubtedly be ordered. Even if this were com- ' plied with, and the necessary bond,. in a substantial . amount were given, what next? She, or her lawyer, would, still have to bear the burden and responsib- ility and the expense of hunting up witnesses, interviewing them, reducing their statements to writ- ting, having the case brought on
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the accident took place, attending the trial, paying witnesses fees as well as the sheriff's fees and the Jury and Court fees, and also run the risk of mot winning! Is
me when they widened the roatsTifis Justice?
The victim was hurt in this Province, in an accident on one of our public highways, through a collision of motor cars, that we license and allow to operate upon our pubiic highways. Can we, the people of this Province, stand a- loof and say, ‘This is not our al- fair; we have nothing to do wiih it. The victim ventured upon the highway in a motor vehicle; let ter take what comes to her.” Is this our idea of justice?
Or ‘take another case, an eid- erly person, also a female, was injured, and nearly killed, more than three and a half years ago, by a motor vehicle, which was travelling upon a public highway and struck the victim who was walking, accompanied by anoth- er lady, who was also struck aud ver of the motor vehicle, upon a trial which shortly afterwardf took place before a competent court, was found guilty of crim- imal negligence, with respect to tis method of driving at the time the vehicle he was operating struck and almost killed the two ladies referred to.
One of these ladies has had to spend the greater portion of the time since the accident in a hos: pital and has been under medi- cal care and attention during a large part of the time. Her out of pocket expenses, including me- dical and hospital charges, are in the ‘neighbourhood of ten thous- and dollars. These have not yet been paid, or have been paid only in part. In order to live, the vic- tim has had to sell her home and sell everything else she owned.
The driver of the motor veh- icle which caused the injuries, is a person without any means what- ever. The owner of the motor vehicle who is also a person with little or no means, alleges that on the occasion referred to the dri- ver was using the vehicle without the owner's permission.
Yet the e of this Province, who, under the Highway Traffic Act, have sanctioned and allow- ed the giving of a license to the owner of the motor vehicle to op- erate or to allow to be operated, ‘his car upon the highway, and who have also sanctioned, through the further license which was given the actual driver, the doing of what was done, are clearly dir- ectly responsible for having al- lowed to be given the statutory permissions which resulted in the accident and in the injuries that have been referred to. c
T extent is this respon- sib’ recognized by the public hain
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In the Act-as passed prior to the last Session, the most that the victim could have recovered out of the public funds of the Province woudl have been $2,- 000.00. At the last session, after the situation referred to had been specially brought to the attention of proper officials, the amount that could be recovered: out of — funds was fixed at $4000,-
This means, the victim should receive towards her out-of-pocket expenses of $10,000.00 a minimum amount of $4000.00 leaving her actual outlay, when her bills are all paid, $6000.00 .and nothing whatever for herself, to compen- sate her for the pain and injury she suffered, or the agony she must have gone through, even though, she managed to survive. And even to obtain this part com- pensation, the victim would need
and perhaps two, lawsuits, and in- cur all the very considerable ex-
pense that such litigation would involve.
The question is, Is this Jus-
tice? Are the people of this’ Aig be done. or are they not? H
i foc wial im the County ia which
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ince concerned that Justice is te be done, then. since
_THE SUN BATHERS
the use and operation of our highways is a matter of public concern for which the public is or should be responsible, a new department should be set up; a department of persons who should investigate all accidents that take place through the operation op- eration of such vehicles upon the highway; and where personal in- juries take place through such accidents, the cause of the acci- dent or injury should be thorough- ly gone into, with a view to hav- ing the injured party or parties Properly and adequately compen-
necessary.
be recognized as part of
safety and of Justice, to “which persons would wish to come. Perhaps then, this “impaired
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our new sense of responsibility.
sated, and at public expense if
Our public highways would then our homie, and our Provice would be referred to as the Proyjince of
driving,”’. so-called, through the @se or consumption of what the Government sells under its mock “Temperance” Act, would be ta- seriously, and our highway vehicular traffic might he brought into line and made to accord with
On the subject of impaired con- dition while driving, I will make no comment, at present anyway.
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supply had an average of 2. tomers per mile. + 4, That at the date of (ng, March 14, 1957, ears after the extension completed, ‘the customers on the whole extension averaged 3.55 per mile.
Knowing the reply that the Premier had made to the query of Mr. Bell on the floor of the house and understanding that he had on various occasions stated
blicly that no extension Lad roe made under the Rural Elec- trification Programme where the number of customers averaged less than four per mile and that no such extension was being con- templated, I brought to the at- tention of the Premier, that, bas- ed on the disclosures at the said hearing before the Public Utili- ties Commission, such was not a fact. 4 Knowing that one in a position such as that of the premier must frequently rey on others for in formatton and thinking that per- haps he may have been misin- formed, I suggested that should he have made an error he might want to acknowledge it publicly. It has not come to my attention that he had done so. I therefore am at a loss to know whether or not the Premier had been misin- formed or had knowlingly given wrong information. Having a good knowledge of this extension and of the number of customers on if I feel that the information as disclosed at the hearing of March 14, 1957, is quite accurate.
From the correspondence that passed between the Premier and myself subsequent to our first
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Sir The residents of rural areas in this province who are receiving electric current from transmission lines constructed under the Rural Electrification Programme are fortunate. Elec- in the home and on the farm is a modern and labor sav- ing convenience. The value of one’s property is enhanced when electric current is available. The construction of such lines, how- ever, appears to have been made in area contrary to the general
Just prior to. the close of the
ed the Pemier from the floor of the house: ‘‘Has any extension of lines— under the Rural Electrifi- > been made where the number of customers than four per mile?"’. The Premier appears to have made verbal reply in the negative and in a letter dated May 23, 1958 he informed Mr. Bell that no such construction
At a hearing before the Public Utilities Commission on March 14, 1957 sworn. evidence, togeth- er with correspondence made
1, That by letter dated Novem- Public Utilities Commission, which was acting on
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I am, Sir, ete.. conversation in the matter it is
W.E. BENTLEY | apparent that in some respects
Commission has grossly mis-
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION informed him. It is always pos-
sible it has misinformed him in respect to the number of custom- ers per mile on the extension in question. If so there is no extern- al evi¢-nce that the Commission has bees taken to task for having done s®. ;
In writing this letter I am not makir any objection to exten- sions javing been made under the Rural Electrification Pro- gramme where the customers are tess’ than four per mile. I do object, however, to the Premier of any province. making public statements contrary to facts. : The statements made by the , | Premier of this province, and ap- -| parently not withdrawn, are con- trary to the sworn evidence made at the hearing before the Public Utilities Commission on _March 14, 1957 and the official correspondence ‘made available at the time.
Should the Premier make some public statement relative to this letter, and it is quite possible that he may, it is not probable that any reply will be made by me other than possibly tender to the press for publication the cor respondence that passed between us. This correspondence is avail- able for the perusal of any inter- ested party. .
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constructed at a total cost of around three million will cost the Island only $300,000.
And so you know that although Angus MacLean
makes reference to this “excellent deal” at Mount Ryany —
he had nothing at all to do with it. Is he regretting the
fact fhat the poor Diefenbaker Government now has to pay for things that the “naughty Liberals” got them —
into.
Conservative speakers can get and the latest to become
Joe MacMillan.
The doctor should know a lot about hospitals and should be one of our best informed citizens on hospital
Premier Matheson that made the Island plan eompul- sory, he should learn the facts. r
The facts are that the PC members of the House. held up their hands in hérror when the’ Liberals sug-* gested that the plan be tried on a voluntary basis. They would not listen to Dr. Bonnell when he said that the government wanted to give the people a chance to ‘decide for themselves. \
No ... it is a well known fact that political pres- sure brought to bear on Ottawa with the hope of dis- crediting the Island governmefit won the day and Ot- tawa dug in their heels and said, “no compulsion . « « no signature on the dotted line.”
_No Liberal candidate has denied that premiums will be deducted from cream cheques and fishermen will have to pay through their returns for their fish. Do the PC’s say this is wrong ... if it is, then let them. tell the people the truth that it was they who made it that way.
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insurance but when he tells an audience that it was —
Many people are wondering how inconsistent the ‘ involved in this ttavesty of facts is the good doctor, —
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