Now For The Election!

As announced yesterday by Prem- fer Matheson, the proviri¢ial general election ig to be held on Tuesday,

' September 1. The date will not oc- ' gasion very much surprise, as the Government will then have been more than four years and three months in office since receiving its last mandate. It is usual, though not _— Mecessary, for a gov t to seek -—-Teelection at least ev: and this, no doubt, would have been

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the case in this instance but for the

; Liberal upset at Ottawa in 1957 and

the effect of: two Conservative vic-

- baker.

; tween our provincial and federal ad-

Fe ministrations, which had existed un- interruptedly for more than two decades, were than abruptly se- vered; and we have since gone

through! a cold war period in which |

members and supporters of both gov- ernments have been claiming exclu- vive credit for furthering our Island interests, disavowing responsibility _ for our grievances, and looking with -_.quspicion and disfavor upon the an- . tics of those in authority on the oth- er side.

Has the Provincial Treasury re- {>

-@eived larger sums then ever before from the —Dominion—Treasury, in special grants, ~ roads-to-resources program and what not? The Con- wervatives will have these listed down to the last dollar, and the Lib- erals will argue than they should have been much larger, that they were due us in any case and should rave been paid more promptly. Both sides will deplore the lack of “grati- tude” in politics. The bluebooks will be ransacked for arguments pro and eon, and there will be,a spate of charges and countercharges such as we haven't seen for some time in this Province. For unless we miss our guess, it will be our hottest provin- cial election campaign in many years.

There is no question that tne Con- servatives have been strongly for- tified by the Diefenbaker victories and have excellent men in the field, fired with hope and enthusiasm. But they would be unwise to underesti- mate the strength of the Matheson

Government at the present time. It has been repairing its fences and planning its strategy. We don't know what it’s campaign plans are, we shall be surprised if it doesn’t pull more than one rabbit out of the bat. That goes, too, for the Conser- vatives, whose standing in the last Legislature will certainly bear no

——eomparison_to_the efforts they will |

put forth on this occasion. In a sense, indeed, this election will be more critical for them than for the Liberals. If they cannot now »reak the pattern of successive hu- miliating defeats, there will be little hope for them in the near future. The Liberals, if defeated, might find

that a spell in opposition would do | - them good; few if any of them have _

gone through this salutary exper-

jonce. The Conservatives, like the | . ancient Israelites, have journeyed so |

long in the wilderness that they have nothing more to\learn from its trials, and vicissitudes. That was their . _ plight at Ottawa when they found a rew Moses in the person of Mr. Diefenbaker. Provincially, they feel ‘that they have another able proto-

type in Mr. Walter Shaw.

The Credit Side “It would benefit no one to paint : the farm way of life all in rose colour,” says ‘the Royal Bank of Canada news letter, “but the liabili- ties of farming are so prominently before us in the press and on the air that it would be a useful exercise to take a look at the asset side of the ledger.” This, precisely, is what the letter does, in an excellent essay on the advantages which farm life pro- vides in achieving health and hap- __ Piness.

_. The country which maintains the _ @oundest ideals and ambitions in the way of family building will be the en peopled with the strongest

four years; | tion and handy fingers. Many disad-

~Vantages charged against it will be

* Home is the centre of family life, but _in a special way the farm home,

of the, farm family cannot be pro- jected along a statistical graph alone. Tt involves quality as well as quanti- ty, happiness as well as economics. it is well,-too, to remember than many of the disadvantages charged against farm life can be overcome by an alert mind, a fertile imagina-

found to crop up in the city also.

however humble, is the centre of everything. It provides perhaps the greatest opportunities of any in the world for healthy family living. |

And A Bit Of Bach!

No list, however limited, of the great figures of this -modern age would be complete without the name of Dr. Albeft Schweitzer. Merely to contemplate the achievement of this man, says the Montreal Gazette, is to discover at once a rebuke and an inspiration, since it seems as though he has lived not one but several lives, and crowned each of them with a rare human dignity.

In his middle thirties, just before the First World War, Schweitzer had already written the work on J. S. Bach which has long stood as a clas- sic, while his name was familiar to theological students in two hemis- pheres as the author of, the book known in English as “The Quest of the Historical Jesus.” He was, in ad- dition, a brilliant organist and an authority on the building of the or- gan.

Yet he has been known to many more people in many more lands for the life task on which he embarked in 1913—the establishment of the medical mission at Lambarene in French Equatorial Africa..

There, in his 18 waking hours, each day, Dr. Schweitzer manages to care for patients, maintain a vast corres- pondence, entertain visitors, work on his latest book, deal with the mani- fold problems of the mission and play a bit of Bach!

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Poles had better watch out. Mr. Nixon’s tumultuous welcome at Warsaw is reported to have exceed- ed that given to Mr. Khrushchev

-Isst month, when he made a 10 day

stay in Poland. Communism can't stand too much of that sort of thing.

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Hon. Mr. Pearson is to give lec- wires at Oxford next week to school teachers from NATO countries,’ He has been honoured by this invita- tion, and there is ‘ho doubt that he will measure up admirably to the oc- casion. :

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The prospect of a visit to the Uni- ted States by Soviet Premier Khrush- chev has eased the tension at Gen-

eva. Allied diplomats feel that so | + long as high-level discussions are in | ” prospect or under way, the Soviet

boss can be counted on to keep his threats against West Berlin in sus- pension.

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Premier Smallwood’s decision to call a Newfoundland provincial elec- tion was taken because he did not receive unanimous support in the Legislature for his vote af censure of, the Diefenbaker Government. Two members had opposed it. To be lo- gical, he should now announce that ke will resign rather than accept less than a 100 per cent vote for himself.

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In the closing hours of the Ottawa

session Senator Arthur Roebuck

, presented his annual\ report on di-

/orce. It showed that in Canada last year 6,211 marriages were dissolved, about the average for this decade.

’ It represents at 36.5 per 100,000 po-

pulation; but the provincial. rates varied considerably from B.C.’s high af 97.0 to P.E.1.’s low of 1.0, mean- ing exactly one divorce. Canada’s na- tional rate compares with Britain's 50, a little higher than ours, and a US. rate of 210, nearly six times

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_. PRELIMINARY SUMMIT ~~

‘Three

have made headlines about Af-

Roads To Africa

Christian Science Monitor Three notable developments |

struggle between democracy afd communism—two systems much

te the pull of pan-Africanism. ~~} ®ve

Then. too, there is the question of the Central African Federation. This has split not only whites |from Africans in the Rhodesias |and Nyasaland. which make up

rica in the last week or two, | more divergent in method and ‘is uneasy federation, but also

highlighting —_t h at tinent by its own people ig be | ing enacted. i

These developments were (1) the meeting of three West Afri- can leaders in Liberia to consider | formation of an all-African fed eration; (2) the proposal by | Prime Minister Macmillan for a commission to study the question

vast stage | whereon the discovery of-a con- |

purpose than are the three Afri- can movements. -

PAN-AFRICAN OUTLOOK

In the pan-African outlook, for which Prime Minister Kwame Merumah of Ghana aims to fe- main the leading spokesman, Af- rican self-consciousness finds its greatest stimulus. This affects all Africans, even in the groups

of Central African Federation, a | that form around African-French

project in which the white com- munities in the region take the . leading role. and (3) the report

and African-British cooperation. But this cooperation also -repre-

sents a valid relation between Af- |

of the British commission on the | rican natural resources and tal-

uprisings in Nyasaland several months ago—uprisings the Central African Federation. MAJOR TRENDS

jor trends in evolution: The pan-African move- ment, the new French Commun— | ity of Nations, and the British | led Cammonwealth of Nations. |

Kh seems likely these great movements wil] march side by side for some ttime to come. They | cannot quite merge because of fundamental differences. But each | makes contributions to African evolution which are essential

ents and Puropean education and

against finance.

For the moment the pan-Afri- |¢an movement has received & . These developments reflect ma- African political ”

minor check. That was the result of the three-nation West African meeting. The conferénce decided to wait until Nigeria and the

French Cameroons and Togoland |

achieved independence next vear before trying to form a new Af- rican federation

Meanwhile the building of a once-colonial into a Commonweal- th area is presenting some diffi-

| culties to the British. Ghana is

in the Commonwealth, and Ni-

in a century dominated by world | geria will be. but always subject

According te the Financia Post, Canadian delegates to a re- cent conference of the United Steel Workers of America sol- emniy resolved that Canadian wages should be at least equal to those paid in the United States. This theory of equal pay for the same johs in the two neighbor- ing countries is widespread, popular—and impossible.

To be sure. money wages in Canada can he raised to the American level Or they can be pushed far above the American level. But # thew are douhle-the

erican standard, or still high-

, the money wages would mean nothing extra in actual purchas- ing power. The worker would have the wages, the figures writ- ten on the weekly pay cheque, tut he would have no more goods than before. — ‘ : PRODUCTION COUNTS

The amount of goods that this nation can have is only the amount it can produce itself or borrow from some other nation We are producing in Canada at a high rate, borrowing ‘on a gi- gantic scale from our neighbor and accumulating debts that must be paid off some day. But we still are producing about 23 per cent less goods per capita than the United States.

kh is not surprising that our production is lower but amazing that it should be as high as # is under Canadian conditions.

The United States. to begin with, owns the richer half of the continent—richer, that is to say, in the kind of resources requir- ed up to now, though our differ- ent kind of resources may be more valuable in a new era of technology.

TEN TIMES LARGER

Secondly, the United States has a population, a market, and hence a mass production system ten times as la as ours and

efficient industry. * :

Thirdly—perhaps the most important factor of all—the Unit- ed States possesses far more ma- chine power per worker than we do and hence can produce more.

In short, the American econ- omy is richer and more mature than ours. even if ours is the second richest in the world, pet Capita - WAGES AND VALUE

Since wages represem nothing but- a claim to the available goods, the figures on‘ the pay cheque represent nothing whatev- er if goods are not available to satisfy the claim.’ Increase Can- achan money wages tenfold or a

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| There the Labor opposition is he- rating the Macmillan government for, its African ici¢s.

It is interesting, a token of British sincerity, {hat a com- mission appointed by the millan government has brought in a report contrary to certain past basic assumptions of the government, and this has be- come a British White Paper.

Into this over-all picture, as i has unfolded recently, the French |Community comes by way of its interest in a possible future ‘chal- lenge from leaders like the Mar- xist Sekou Toure, President of the only and tiny state that chose full independence from France .und- er the de Gaulle Constitution

This, then, is the mighty patch- work of Africa. It is being re designed by African forces of the ‘twentieth century, sometimes ® | harmony, sometimes despite. the | divisions imposed on Africa in the 'ninetcenth. To comprehend its | possibilities and its dangers is one ‘of the chief responsibilities of | free peoples as the wider struggie lbetween liberty and totalitarian- lism. goes on.

fall drastically, no matter what figures are written on the che- que. Also many of our work- ers will be without jobs and

wages. As the Financia] Post puts it, in seeking wage parity with the United States Canadian labor s not only trying to cut a bigger ipiece of a smaller pie. It's on its way to make it wmpossible for Canadian entrepreneurs to go on manufacturing any pies at all. . We could wish. that Cana-

dollar, were as high as the Am- ‘erican. But that just isn't so and | wishing won't make it so.

Nixon’s Siberian Tour

Many observers here have rated Vice-President Richard Nixon's tour through the closed areas of jndustrial Siberia as the most successful part of his visit

The image of the youthful-ook ing. energetic American stafas- man, with his confident grin, hand-waving and frequent excla- mations of "peace and friend- ship’’—a slogan with an almost mystical ‘significant in Russia— was undoubtedly stamped vividly on the minds of many thousands of Siberians.

’ This was partly because the people were not accustomed to seeing j and probably also because Nixon did not match their preconceived ideas of an American capitalist spok-

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The people of Moscow whe have a more sophisiticated aiti- tude toward visiting foreign offi- cials, were less obviously im pressed by Nixon's mannerisms.

MUCH SCEPTICISM

Widespread scepticism existed here about the description of Am- erican life Nixon gave in his ad- dress ai the opening of the Am- erican exhibition,

His. picture of American living

standards was regarded as the |

natural distortion of a_ nolitici- an out to make as much pro- paganda as possible in a brief stay. Few “ussians in Moscow seemed to accept his figures without question. © .A

Nixons frequent talks with Rus- sian workers in mines, factories and hydro-electric plants have

been widely reported in Soviet |

newspapers. But not all of his re- plies have been published and ‘the

impression given‘was a lopsided |

one-of reluctance to debate deep- rooted differences with ordinary people:

Probably one of: the most im- portant aspects of the has heen Nixon's repetition of the

American people's peaceful aims | in the New fork Tames

whole trip

Jand their desire for a better un- derstanding of the Russians

This was what the Russians | most wanted to hear and he has given them new hope that Am- “erican statesmen are genuine ‘when they talk of improved rela- tions between the two , countries.

Moscow Radio Sunday de- scribed Nixon as a “‘brilliant or- ator” who was & ‘victim of the poe ideas about the Soviet Un- ,fon which American propaganda

has been boosting for many ' years.” \

Foot Corner

IN SEASON

| And what is there im trees that

> give’me ‘hope?

Do they not die in their appointed time?

Have I not seen their husks lean from the slope—

Gnarled, empty clowns like Gar- goyle shells of lime? :

| Fit subjects for the brush. the copper plate

| Surrealist, damnation - chronic dreams:

| The frozen figures of a gothic

; fate;

| Their pitted garment crust rent

| -at the seams—

| Yet, others stout

| knights, in Spring

| Caparisoned for tournaments of

light :

Adding wisdom of a further ring

| To years that thrive ¢oncealed from prying sight.

As glinting trumpets echo tune to tune,

| Maturing my awareness toward

| June.

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Restricting circulation. you see tends to create varicose veins and I know you don't want that.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

Miss M.C.: What causes gall bladder upsets?

I am seventy-five years old and very active. I do not eat any fried foods and have meat only five days a week.

| dian productivity” and hence the’ | buying power of the Canadian,

Answer: If the gall bladder !s | infected. contains stones or does | not empty itself properly. an up- | set may occur. Although certain | foods such as fats and. gas-pro- ducing foods may induce an at- tack, these upsets may occur. de- spite any dietary restriction.

The regular use of anti-spas- modics and bile-stimulating med- icines y be helpful.

See your doctor about a suit- able diet and medication.

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (August 4, 1934)

A new neon electric sign has been erected in front of the Diana Tea Rooms and is attracting a lot of attention. The distinguishing feature of these new neon signs, it is explained, is that they give greater visibility and have a lower current consumption.

Saidiceci'e first Sneaker Dance held -Wednesday night on

the Tignish orchestra. Chaper- ones were Mrs. Parvin Cass, Mrs E.P. Foley and Mrs. J.P. Me- Innis.

TEN YEARS AGO (Ausust 4, 1949)

Me. Donald Stewart, represent- ing the Canadian National Fox Breeders Association at the In- ternational Fur Conference held at Oslo. Norway, returned on

Tuesday night. He left Isio July

3%, travelling hy plan-. and

fur agencies there.

Eleanor McQuaid of Richmond apd Margaret Carruthers of Aug- ustine Cove will be the guests for three days of the Canadian Na-

| tional Exhibition at Toronto.

These young ladies, together with

provinces, will be given a civie reception by the Mayor of Tor- onto.

MAXIMS

Science helps us to understand many phases of the material and | dynamic sides of life, but the highest reaches of music come "thrillingly close te the central core atid essence of life itself.

QUARREL OVER TV

WHITBY. Ont. (OP) year - old fruit farmer was charged Saturday with the tempted murder of his older brother Police =sdid a chopyte arose from turning off a telev:- ston set. Police arrested Victor Zosik after Harry George Zosik was ghot in the arm with a .22- calibre bullet Friday nighi. The

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his arm -then hit a chesterfield. The brothers. both single. oper- late « m-acre term near here.

OUR YESTERDAYS

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'ed in Moscow, President Eisen- hower’s proclamation of last week as Captive Nations Week, was incredibly tactless—a fool- This sort of thing does not hap- pen accidentally. The . nations | i of the world, friends and foes | alike, cannot avoid marvelling

at it. That it was al to hap- jest lack of tact, fails to justify pen, is amazing enough;| that it | his proclamation at this mom- was planned and timed thus, is | ent. i astounding. TORRENT OF ABUSE 4 That the satellites of the Soviet | All it accomplishes at the are captive nations we all | moment Mr. Nixon is Bisenhow-

caer and have known for years. The fact was cruelly demonstrat- ed in the brutal suppression of Hungary, and previous to that made plainain the rioting which broke out in East Berlin, and in happenings in Poland. . STRESSING THE OBVIOUS Thus, in his proclamation, the U.S. President called attention to the obvious, to the ever present awareness of most of the world. including the satellite nations. If the proclamation could accom- plish a definite useful purpose at this time it might be justified. But it comes to naught when the people of the captive nations hy

tour of the Latin American lands. A sinister reference, for is fully known that the South erican mobs were planned and stigated by the Communists. " The stand of the West the Communist menace will become less staunch through ing with the skill in free of bast.

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spent several days in London | where he visited many of the |

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