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z

, production is down, automobile?pro-

‘ niggardly treatment their Provinces

A October, 1955, and, a few months

~ probably got the worst deal of all.” A _ His justifiable complaints received

‘suggested anything better, 'or even

A forum in Sackville, Mr. Matheson de-

ﬁlls vflziusrdian

Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

Pulglisnpﬂ every week-day morning at 165 Prince Street Charlottetown, P.E.l., by the Thomson Company Ltd. [an A. Burnett, Publisher and General Manager Frank Walker, Editor Member Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association Member of The Canadian Press Member Adult Bureau 02 Circulation: Branch offices at Summerside. Montague and Albertoii eeyvesented Nationally by‘ Thomson Newspaper: Advertising Service

44 King Street West. Toronto, Out. 540 Cathcart St. Montreal» 1030 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

83 Game: Charlottetown, Summersicl-e $13.00 per an- ui.im' Elsewhere in P.E.I. $9.00. Other Provinces and

(1.5. $12.00 per annum.

“The strongest memory Ls weaker than ' the weakest ink.” '

PAGES 4 FRIDXYTMARCH .28,‘ 1955

The Real Reason

No one is better qualified to speak in the Legislature on our fisheries problems than the minister of this department, Hon. Mr. MacKinnon.

’ The concern whoch he expressed over reduced imports of Canadian fish to the United States will be shared by all our citizens. But his assumption that this is due to the Diefenbaker Government is another matter. One would imagine, from his remarks, that trade is a matter of toadying to our- American neighbors and that tariff’ quotas are determined by the success or otherwise of our politi- cians in “currying favour with Am- erican interests.” The federal Liberal leader, Mr. Pearson, has been talking the, same nonsense in arguing that Mr. Diefenbaker’s proposal to switch! 15 per cent of our trade from the United States to th'e,United Kingdom brought “retaliation” against Canad- ian oil interests. Nothing could ‘be further from the truth-..

The United States is buying less from us at the present time for a reason which Liberalspokesmen have persistently ignored. They are doing it because, with a recession on their hands, they are buying less from everybody, including themselves; Car-loadings, for example——which more than anything else tell the state S of business——are down sensationally in the neighboring republic. Steel

duction is down, department store sales are down. More, than 5,500,000 people are unemployed. -Imports are being restrictedeall along the -line as a natural cons'equenc.e. We agree with Mr. MacKinnon that, every effort should be made to retain our fishery quotas, even \ under these , hard conditions. Bﬂt he hasn’t pro- duced a shred of evidence to show , that Conservative policies have been at fault ‘ ‘ V A - H

Premier Usnd.erI,i,F.it-be «

Premier Mathesm"-comes in for l«electioneering' fatiguing should con-

strong criticism from the Toronto Globe and Mail for putting ,“party . above Province” in his recent com. ments on the Atlantic Provinces ad- justment grants, ' ’

The Toronto Conservative paper recalls that when the Liberals were I in power at Ottawa, the P. E. Island Premier,’ along with ‘his colleagues of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, protested vigorously against A the

were receiving from the Dominion Government. They did this at the Dominion-Provincial Conference in

later——on April 13, 1956—‘— at a radio I

clared that his Province did not “in any shape or form” receive ‘fair treatment at the Conference; in fact, he added, “Prince Edward Island

no response from the St. Laurent Government. Under the Conserva- tives, however, Maritime ‘grievances were promptly taken up and, this Province received an extra $2,500,000 a year, representing an increase of ' 60 per cent over the $4,100,000 it got under the Liberal ‘regime. At that time, no protests were heard from. Premier Matheson; but last week, ‘with the election campaign in full swing, he denounced the adjustment grants as “the most stupid arrange- ment the Federal Government ever made . . . "Prince Edward Island didn’t get anything like a fair deal . . . We got the crumbs from the rich man’s table.”

The Globe and Main expresses‘ amazement at this inconsistency, par- ticularly since the Liberals have not

comparable. The most Mr. Pearson has produced so far is a minor‘ re- vision of the tax-sharing formula which would yield Prince Edward Is- land a mere $61,000.

We go regretfully along with the Toronto paper in this criticism; but we must take exception to a further statement in which it charges the Premier with being “equally scorn- ful of the‘Consei'vative Government’s plans for a. causeway to connect the

posal was launched under a Liberal Government and Premier Matheson was a prime mover in bringing it to public notice, both in this Province and at “Ottawa. He was instrumental, along with Mr. Neil Matheson, the then Liberal member for Queens, in getting the initial survey started in spite of carping criticism within their own party. This paper supported them from the start and we have nothing but commendation for the in- itiative and vision shown by‘ the Premier on that occasion. If the causeway ever materializes——as we believe it will——his name will always be associated honourably with it, at least in these columns. '

A Red Cross Service

Among the many services render- ed by the Red Cross, which is now appealing to the Canadian people for ‘financial support, is this one reported in the St. John’s Daily News: “In May of last year a. young R.A.F. pilot, Terence Montgomery, was killed in an accident at Goose Bay, Labradoijand was buried in the little R.A.F. cemetery there along- side other crash and accident vic- tims who have been buried there ‘ since the big airport was built," ,

“The pilot’s parents, prevented, by distance and tremendous costs from 0 Visiting the graveside of their son, called on the services of the Inter- national ‘Red Cross to ,.help bring them ‘nearer, to their lost son. The couple approached their Red Cross branch in‘England with the request that flowers might be bought and placed ‘upon the son’s grave. The English Red ‘Cross thencontacted the Red Gross" National Enquiry Branch in Toronto and passed along the request to the St. John’s Divis- ion. ' ' I ' A

“Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery may

, never be able to afford the cost of’

.a trip to Goose Bay, but through the Red Cross they have the comfort of knowing that they can have flowers of remembrance placed on their son’s plot" from time to time.”“ ,

A little thing? Perhaps to. some

' people it would ‘seem so. But we may

be sure that to the family concerned,

7 it was of great importance. It is an

example of the various ways in which the Red Cross exercises its human- itarian vocationfrom day. to days

. " EDITORIAL NOTES

Plans to make the whole of Britain ’an,attested!‘area for cattleby 1961 have been announced by the U.K. Ministry of Agriculture.

7 , -I}. * * *.‘ Isla.nd— politicians who‘

ndftheir ‘

sider the pace set by Premier J. R. Smallwoodl of Newfoundland. In three ‘days last week‘, according to

an item inthe St. John’s "Daily News,

he addressed 56 publichméetings. . q “The proper memory for a politi- cian,” said Viscount Morley, “is one that knows what to remember and what to forget,” But Senator Morse of Oregon has improved on this gaxiom. A politician, he says, must “combine the hide of, an elephantand the sensitivity of a butterfly’s anten- nae." ' . '

I Q ‘ -t It is right and proper for the Leg! hislature and the people to be fully ‘ informed on the proposed Hospital Insurance Plan. At the same time, quibbling about omissions and alleg- ed inadequacies should not be per- .mitted to postpone enactment of the necessary legislation to make-the plan effective not later than next Jan. 1. The Provincial Government is committed to this arrangement; and the people will expect the com- mitment to” be honoured. ; ' . 1 1' ..,., One would imagine from Liberal propagandists that the Farm Stab- ilization Act was the worstppiece of legislation ever put in the statutes. Every day they discover new flaws in the Act and the wonder is that any sensible men’ could have voted for it. Turning back to the House of I Commons proceedings we find tha that is precisely what the Liberal members did! How the Act could be so good then and so bad now sur- passes understanding.

Q i

# vMr. Pearson says that -if he had, been Prime Minister when the British offered their free trade plan he would ‘have been inclined to accept it and would have tried to extend it by in- cluding the United States. But that wasn’t the idea. If the British had wanted free trade with the United States, they would have approached Washington, not Ottawa. It is sig-

‘A nificants that Mr. Pearson’s views on

the free trade offer were expressed only in the Maritimes. He ha.sn’t said anything about it in Ontario, and he

Island with the mainland.” This pro- i

isn’t likely to.

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This column is open. to the discus-

sion by‘ correspondents of question of

interest. The Guardian does not nesee-

sarily endorse the opinion of corres- ‘ pondents.

CORRUPT PRACTICES . Sir,-—During this election cam- paign a practice, bordering at least on corruption, and of suf- ficient importance to be referr- V ed to several times in our fed- eral election laws, ‘is more and more» in evidence. It is the mat- terofrefreshments at pol- itical meetings. Having no desire ' to make an issue of small mat- i ters, we of the ‘CCF felt that it was best to ignore such things. ‘However, during this campaign this practice» has ‘reached a new degree of elaborateness and is inore than ever an obvious at- tempt to influence electors and a violation of the spirit of the law. We can’t know whether the law is being flouted deliberately or such things are being. done in lg- norance. In any case, we feel that the time has come when the pub- lic shvoudl‘be reminded what the law on the matter is. Section 379 from the General Election Instruction reads: . ' -“Influencing Electors. .-- The prohibitions of the electoral law are not confined to such gross‘ forms of corruption as the pay- ment for votesgbut expressly ex- tend to the influencing of elec- tors by any variety of corrupt methods, for. example, by fear, fraud, 'violence,. and even by such possibly innocent acts as the sup- ply of food or drink, or by sug- gestions of benefit to follow from voting or‘ refraining from voting. The line between innocent and corrupt conduct" is often a very ‘narrow one, and the decision up- on which side "a given act falls sometimes depends‘ upon fine - drawn inferences from a number -of facts. The statutory provisions on the subject are elaborate and A perhaps involved, but a candidate . who confines himself, and sees that his‘ supporters confine them- selves, to a legal political cam- paign, has nothing to fear from the law in this regard.” . Section 66 of the Canada Elec- tions Act is as follows: ‘ “Every person is guilty of the corrupt practice of treating and of an indictable offence against this Act punishable as provided in this Act,‘ who, corruptly, by himself or by any other person’ either before, during or after an election, directly or indirectly gives or provides, or causes to be given or provided, " or is acces- sory to the giving or providing, .01‘ Pays 01‘ engages to pay wholly or in part thevexpense of. giving 01' Providing any, meat, drink, re- freshment or provision, or any money_or ticket or other means or device to enable the procur- mg Of any meat, drink, refresh- ment or provision, to or for any person for the purpose of corrupt. .ly influencing that person or any other person to give or refrain from giving his vote at such e- lection or you account of such per- S01I».0I‘ any other person having voted or refrained from voting or being about, to vote or refrajn from voting at such election, and every elector who corruptly ac- cepts or ‘takes any suchmeat, drink, refreshment or provision or any such money or ticket, or Who adopts such other means or device to enable the procuring of S1ICh'Inea.t‘, drink, refreshment or Provision is guilty likewise]? I am. Sir. etc.)- DOUGLAS MacFARLANE Provincial President, CCF,

Bedeque, P.E.I. _.__________

PROCEDURE OF PARLIAMENT - Si1".~It has been my privilege on several occasions since the Provincial Legislature opened to Slt in on several of the debates. One thing which 1 have observ- ed is the'continual and consis- tent breaking of the rules of the House. It would be unfair for me to say that the Government is the Only guilty party for the Oppos- men has been guilty on several observed occasions as well. Personally, I have attended the four Older Boys’ Modiel Parlia- ments in the same Chambers dur- ing the last four years and I have

also attended the 35th Maritime

I fail to bow to Mr. Speaker, make

l OTTAWA REPORT , ‘Many

By Patrick

OTTAWA: This has been the most promising election in living memory. _ I

More has been promised by more speakers of‘ more parties than ever before. Some of these promises are beyond day-dreams. But others hold’ out truly great promise for our future, notably one or two which have been un- derplayed by speakers. Typical of these, it seems to me, is the Conservative plan for an addi- tional and contributory old age pension of about $75 per month, based on thelU. _S. A. plan, to be enacted next year. , . When the votes are counted and the shouting dies, two points will be crystal clear. One is that no political party in Canada was the sole cause of our slump; we are largely at the mercy of outside iactons. It would be more profit- able to discuss why we became at the mencyof economic in- ﬂuenyceibeyond our control, and whether we can at least partly fextricalte ourselves from this un- fortunate position.

The other point is that, which- ‘ever party forms our next gov- ernment, ?‘a vigorous effort’ will bemiade to improve the direction of an important part of our foreign trade.

Conservative Mr. Diefenbaker wants to “switch” some‘ of our imports, so that we will buy less from the States and more from Britain. Liberal’ Mr. Pearson says he does not want toswlitclh trade, he wants to “expand” it. Cut out the double-talk. and they are both saying the same thing.

Mr. Diefensbaker wants to buy more from Britain, so that Bm-2 tain will earn more dollars and be able to buy more from us. The

Parliament at Sa-ckville during the past Christmas holidays. At these Parliaments the rules of Parliamentary procedure . have been ‘stressed and also ve strict- ly adhered to. -When a yo ng 1361‘- son who ha.~s‘be-en at such a Par- liament sees the way in which those who run the Governments of the country handle thesehrules, it makes him feel that perhaps the senior politicians could learn something by attending some of the sessions of a Model Parlia- ment. .

In my ‘estimation some of the senior poll-ti-cians~"did do this very- same thing at the opening session of the St. Dunstans’ Model Parlia-\ ment. Judge Trainor, the Speak- er of this Parliament, is to be commended for the way in which he -curtailed the breaking of the rules of Parliamentary procedure by telling the members of the way in which he saw so many sessions of the Provincial Legislature and the House of Commons ruined by unnecessary and annoying battles of words back and forth across the flodrs of both Houses. This can also hold true for the way in which sotmany of our politicians enter and depart from the Cham- bers of both Houses —— I havevnot seen sessions of the House of Com mons but I believe what has been said is true there as well.

I have gone on ‘at some length to show what can be learned from a Mlodel Parliament and said very little and have failed to -show any examples of actual breaking of Parliamentary procedure rules. Two general examples have been cited in the above paragraph which cover very well the rules of ‘debate and the respect of the members to the chair (Mr. Speak- er). From observing the debates in the Provincial Legislature, I have noticed that on too many oc- casions the rules of debate have been thrown in the bucket for the mere pleasure of having a person- al grievance ironed out with ano- ther member of the House or having the press make reference to the way in which A. told B. off and perhaps by this means to make the voters in the next election side up with A. for being such a great defender of his Gov- ernment. Then, too, I have seen numerous members when enter- ing or leaving the Chambers

Election Promis

1 Special Correspondent for The Guardian

’Were the traditional staples’ of

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Nicholson

purpose of his so-called. trade, swiitcli is really to boost our ex- ports, especially such as B. C. lumber , and salmon, Prairie wheat, Ontario cheese andbacon, and Maritime pit-props. These.

our exports to Britain, which are now limited not by Britain‘s.de- mand, not by our capacity to produce, but by Britain’s shor- -tageof doll-ans. ‘ LIBERALS’ TRADE POLICY The Liiberals, on the other hand, argue that to reduce our pur- chases from the States will anger, that country, and make them slash their purchases friorn us. One ;could‘ discuss 3that indefin- itely: but there is val-idiit in the‘. counter-argument that, in a free enterprise country, the importer will buy in the best market. re- gardless of wheliheiyor not his fellow-citizens are able to export to that market. v . What is much more import-ant .is the revelation during this cam- paign that both mayor parties are thinking in terms of an expansion of our trading area. ‘ For.ten years past. col- umii has been in Si minority posi-I tion - decreasingly a. II_1'1H0I‘1ty. 1 am glad to say — urging that the freenations o the welstern world should reduce the!’ obstacles to mutual trade. -The eason be- hinrlldthis belief!-is that oplllier tglcigs cou e—DOSlSl Y gain ' ' nomic “strength neededto fight the cold war. The allies in the North Atlantic Alliance-, for ex- ample, have been allied in our preparations against war, but at the same ‘--time we have been knifing each other 1l'1,i§l’le back 111 the field of trade. Lets. be fran1_<. and admit that despite a11_h1s great Marshall Aid and similar gestures the most damaging back-stabber has been UII019

CARS on ONE ROCKET

has based its post-war Iihi10‘_S‘0- phy upon tihe erase miateijral demand for two cars _in evtrfy garage. Not every family iii the world can afford two c‘aI‘Sv\ and the high fast of defence- ~ Few families could afford both those,

as well as substantial gifts I20 ‘t. \ . °.h§I§tyRu,.s1a, where dictatorial

powers restrict the purchases of cars and other luxuries. has creaped uprfrom behind an

overtaken us. She leads the W01‘1d in rocketry; she ma:invbains the World’s largest ariny and Sub‘ marine fleet and air fleet; and

noise such as to attract the at- tention of the other side of the House from some important phrase that a member of his own

that another noticable thing in the House is the large number of members who are absent from the House on several occasions. ' It is true that some may have business to attend to or a com- mittment to fulfil, but one’ must remember that these men are there to represent the peopleiof the various districts of the Pll‘0- vince and that what is being said or done on behalf of one part of the Province is important and bears amark upon ‘the Province as a whole. I have not mentioned any mem- ber of‘ the House and I hope that I have not offended any member but rather I have put the mat- ter before the public, the mem- bers of the House, and the young ,-ople of today who will be the politicians of tomorrow. If the government of today fails to ob- serve the rules and the means to run government effectively, what will the younger generation do when they are -called upon to run the government of twentyyears from now? Will parliamentary procedure be put aside in favour of a return to childish bickering? Now is the time to remedy the situation; tomorrow may be too late. I am, Sir, etc., VIMY W. GREGORY. Deputy—Premier elect,

'iAici in Loingucige L

,been curtailed by damage to

‘investigated the relationship be-

_ in the instruction of the handi-

The worldswealbhiest nation .

she still can afford to Woo lthe _

side is making. I might add here,

Disorder Cases-

By Herman N. Bundesen, MD. A FEW weeks ago. I wrote a column about aphasia and what the Northwestern Institute for Language Disorders—-the o nly school of its kind in the country that we‘ know if — is doing to help some of our young aphasia victims.

A great many of you, appar- ently, are interested in both the problem and the solution, for you have written asking more details about the school; =

First, a word about the prob- lem.

DAMAGE TO BRAIN

Through out the nation, there are several thousand youngsters whose ability to speak, read, write or work with numbers has

language centers of the brain. Unfortunately, few of the chil- dren get effective aid. The prin- cipal reason for this is simply that the general public ~ not only does not understand the nature of the difficulties but they don’t even know the trouble exists. ' The great tragedy about all this is that, in many. instances, the youngsters are believed to be emotionally disturbed or mentally deficient when that is not the case at all. ,

NEED FOR EDUCATION Since it has been only during the last decade that science has

tween language disorders in chil- dren and brain damage, there is a great need for education, both

capped and the training of ther- apists. The Language Institute on the University Campus at Evan-’ ston, Illinois, does work in both fields. I . When youngsters with language disorders first visit the Institute they are given comprehensive tests to determine -the cause of their handicaps. , These children, the Inlstitue has found, learn best in sngall clas- ses conducted in rooms relati- vely free from noise and inter- ruptions. The youngsters are not grouped by age, but by their ab- ility tolearn, social maturity and emotional adjustment. FORMAL INSTRUCTION Formal instruction at the school occupies only a portion of the day, but a child's‘ improvement also depends on maintaining con- trols over the remainder of his waking hours. ' . The school recommends that the ‘daily routine of these children should '_be free from activities which involve numerous distrac- tions. ' Things like visiting a super . market or department store, see- ing’ a movie, or having guests are not the least bit exciting to us. But they might bewilder and over- stlmulate a child with a damag- ed brain; M I _ QUESTION AND ANSWER. S.P.: What is the best‘ way to treat nausea and vomiting during pregnancy? . Answer: Since nearly ﬁfty per- cent of the women who are pre.

iii_1comn1litzted_natioms of the world with econormcaid. ’

We can overtake Russia yet. The route hes through freeing trade between the North Atlantic

and,-ulnconvertibl-e currency, The route was sign-posted by‘ the North Atlantic Treaty, whose Aiiticlle Two called for co-,opera- tion in tihefnon-military fields; but HOW We appear to be head- ed towards that same objective via another route.

At least we know that Prime lvllinister John Diefen-baker and Liberal ‘Leader Lester Pearson are in agreement about the de- ,si'na_bil»ity of expanding the for- eign tnade of our country, which for so long has boasted that one out of three jobs depend on our exports.

nations, cutting out the restr’i'ot- ‘ ions'.suci1'a>s "tariffs and quotas‘ "

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1 NOTES BY THE WAY P

Political observersare watching‘ the Canadian campaign closely — and none more closely than the American politicians who have to face the same thing next Fall under the same conditions.-—MiL waukee Journal -

Newly coined British sover- eigns are being sold in ‘Canada ‘.. at $9.50 each. Interesting sou- venirs of a time when the sover- eign ruled the financial world, but no one is likely to use them for buying thegroceries. —- Ottawa Journal

BIRDS IN SPRING

. . Among the roots

Of hazel, pendent o’er the plain- . tive stream, ‘

They frame the first foundation of their domes; ~ ‘ Dry sprigs of trees, in artful fa- bric laid, ' I :And bound with clay together. Now ’tis nought

But restless hurry through the busy air,

Beat by unnumbered wings. The swallow sweeps

The slimy pool, to build his hang- ing house ‘ Intent. And often, from less back , Of herds and flocks a thousand tugging bills _

Pluck hair and wool; and oft, when unobserved,

Steal from the barn a straw: till soft and warm, . Clean and comiplete, their habita-

tion grows’.

—James Thomson (1700-1748)

WMAXIMS ‘ If any man seeks for great- ness, let him forget greatness

and ask for truth, and he will find both. \‘ -

gnant have nausea xand ‘vomiting during the first three months of

should be paid to normal amounts of this distress during these

amounts of food at -more frequent intervals, and eating a greater /amount of starches help, _ -The use of sedatives and a drug known as diphenihydr mine are

should be used only under the

the , care-.

From _‘~‘The Seasons,” .

pregnancy, not too much concern»

months. Uusually,'eating smaller '

of help in certain c ses, ‘but,

The Ford Motor Co. in the Unit. ed States has asked the Institute of Motivational Research to find out why Americans buy foreign economy cars. Somebody, it seems is slowly waking up. _. St. Catharines Standard.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From The Guardian Files),

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (March 28, 1933) A delegation of the wholesale

the Government for the purpose of presenting a petition to have

this Province. The memorandum was presented by Mr. H.K.S. Hamming, supported by Mr. S. A. McDonald and Mr. G eo r ge DeBlois. ,,

According to reports from thg Prince County the numerous seals that have been along the shore from Ca-mupbellton to Miminegésh for over a month, have nearly an disappeared. It is a very rare oc- currence to see such a large

the Island.

TEN YEARS AGO (March 28. 1943) « ,

Work on the cadastral survey of “the Province which was held up last year, will be coutin-iipd this year and will be completed in three or fou-r years time, ac. cording to a statement made y‘§s- terday by Premier J. Walter Jones. Premier Jones stated that no provincial survey had been made since 1764 and that a new survey made at this time would be of‘ great benefit.

Preparations for the establish- ment of a passenger, truck and automobile service between West Point and Buctouche, N.B., will begin if and when the Canadian Maritime Comm-isision sees .fit ta grant the West Point Ferries Ltd., an annual subsidy, Mr. Sanford Phillips, President of the Com- pany said yesterday. , ,.

Give, and it shall be given unto you; . good measure, -pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom; . 1

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