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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1959.

Now It’s The Chickens!

The Federal Department of Agriculture is warning farmers to go easy in feeding tranquilizers to chickens. Poultrymen, it says, use the tranquilizers to help chickens “pull out of emotional slumps due to s ”: but the drugs do more harm than good.

We are concerned about this news. Our farmers, we know, have a lot to worry them—markets, high tariffs, transportation rates, etc.; but they shouldn’t be discussing these problems in the poultry yard. Bad news travels quickly. Hens gossip, and their younglings, hearing all this for the first time, react in the painful manner above _ described. They become emotionally upset, and then are rashly doctored with -tran- quilizers to keep them quiet.

The Federal fellows try to make light of the matter. They say the stress the chickens are under may- be due to “dirty homes and utensils, overheating, chilling, insufficient- feéding and watering, poor li unbalanced ra » improper hand- ling and moving,” etc. Oh, yeah? We have heard that before. Blaming it on the environment!

Let the chickens grow up in the Normal innocency of youth, we say. Let them feel that they are wanted, and be given soothing music and bedtime stories, with no worries about the farm mortgage and the low price of potatoes and other mat- ters that are of no concern to them,

vand they will get along all right.

Otherwise, they will be heading for

a maladjusted life, with all the | strains and tensions of the farm '

economy working inwardly on them, so that they won’t be fit to eat when they come to prime pullethood.

As for the tranquilizers, throw those things down the drain! A good warm toddy at night is to be pre- ferred every time.

Premier Frost’s Warning

At the recent fiscal conference at Ottawa, various provincial pro- posals were advanced to the effect that federal, provincial and munici- pal bond issues should be co-ordinat- ed so that no government at any level would find itself confronted with a temporarily saturated bond market at a time when it needed bonds. This did not meet with very enthusiastic response from Finance Mihister Fleming. But owing to the tight money situation which is still very much with us, it may have to be reconsidered in view of the fact that there is little hope of conces- sions from Ottawa during the life of the existing tax-sharing agree- ments. :

This was evidently in the mind of

the Ontario Premier, Hon. Leslie —

M. Frost, in addressing the Canadian Chamber of Commerce a few days

-ago. Mr. Frost, of: course, is a Con-

servative, and he was not openly critical of federal Conservative polic- fies. But he did make it clear that he was dissatisfied with the Bank of Canada and the way .it is dis-. charging its responsibilities at this

moment. It was absolutely essential,..

he said, for the Bank to co-operate

with all governments, provincial and municipal as well as federal, and with industry as well. This co-opera- tion, on a practical level, was neces-

‘gary if only because of the sweep-

ing powers which Mr. Fleming at- tributed to the Bank, he added siz- nificantly.

The Ontario Premier cited two sections of the Bank of Canada Act

(16 and 18) as providing for Bank

of Canada loans to provinces and municipalities, and purchases or sale of securities guaranteed by the pro-

' vinces. He was sure, he said, that this

is what the sections meant, even if the Bank wasn’t doing anything in this field. He warned against -ths danger of allowing these powers to “atrophy from disuse.” It was time,

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he insisted, for a change. The Bank

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When Hallowe’en docrbells ring and ghostly costumed children chirp “trick or treat”, the practice revives an assortment of age-old customs. On beggars’ holidays in England some 500 years ago, less fortunate persons called on more-favored neigh- ' bors, ringing the night with “A soul cake, a soul cake, have mercy on all Christian souls for a soul cake!” Prayers were promised in return for gifts. As time passed, the pledge of prayérs was dropped. The “soul- ers” gave way to children eager for apples, nuts or other goodies, just as they are today. Other ancient pract- itioners of “trick or treat” once paraded among lIreland’s farm- houses, assessing’ gifts in honor of one Muck Olla, an obscure identity but linked, perhaps, to the Druids who provided many Hallowe'en customs.

There will be fanfare and frolic, as well as Hallowe'en visits, in to- night’s observance of the anniversary. Also, there will be big parties ar. ranged in several communities where the fun can be channelled into harm- less activities, and where every child is welcome. In Charlottetown the Kinsmen are holding open house a the Community Centre for the smal fry, and a good time will be had by all.

Let’s hope that destructive prank- playing will be confined to a min- imum, and that there will be no sad sequels to the fun in the police court Monday morning.

EDITORAL NOTES

The Boy Scouts are making their annual Apple Day appeal, and deserve generous support.

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The National Research Council has reportedly developed an automa- tic flagpole which raises the flag at dawn,. lowers it at dusk and stores it through the night in a heated cylinder. It’s obvious, says an ex- change, that the Council is just work- ing its way into the really big re- search problem—the question of what Canadian flag to attach to the new gadget. e

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New Brunswick is concerned about its dwindling Christmas tree trade, The agriculture department has in- voked mandatory licensing of buyers and has made provision for voluntary grading of trees. This action is due to a threat to the export market by large tree farms and plantations be- ing developed in the United States. The trade was a willion dollar in- dustry to our sister province in other

years.

The accident rate among amateur rocket enthusiasts in the United States is proportionately higher than among motorists. This surprising fact is vouched for by the American _ Rocket Society, anorganization which is campaigning for an end to rocket experimentation by non-pro- fessional rocketeers. It claims that 162 rocket-incurred injuries were in-. flicted to an estimated 10,000 pert sons engaged in amateur rocket ex-

periments.

The Manitoba Conservative As- sociation has passed a resolution urg- ing the federal Government to “bring Canada into association” with the. free trade area of western Europe, “with a view to promoting freer trade between Canada and these countries.” This,ijs a step that could lead ultimately an Atlantic free- trade area embrAcing nations on both sides of the an. It is to be hoped that it will given serious study at Ottawa.

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Business initiative is all very well; but in Lowestoff, England, a gram- mar school headmaster had to put the damper on one* enterprise of the students, masterminded by a young- ster of thirteen. The boys had or- ganized their own school insurance society. Paying. ah ‘initial premium of sixpence and a few pennies every subsequent week, they insured them- selves to the tune of four shillings against getting caned_ by their teachers, and three shillings against

being kept in after school,

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HALLOWEEN MASKS AND PRANKS

PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the discus

sion by correspondents of question c.

interest. The Guardian does not nese»

sarily en‘orse the opinion cf corres pondents.

CAUSEWAY PROSPECTS

Sir,I was very pleased to read the optimistic report regard- ing the causeway that appeared on the front page of The Guardian recently. However with the etcep- tion of The Guardian I failed to observe much interest aroused by the public in general in read- ing of such momentous news.

If we are going to remam sé unmoved by such favorable re- ports, some cfficials that are now so zealously working on our be- half may get the very errgneous impression that we do not preciate their efforts and that are indifferent in our outlook re- garding a causeway. We don't want anything like that to happen.

Prepartions should be made now for a holiday of public re joicing when we receive the of- ficial announcement from Ottawa that our causeway, has the green light. When Newfoundland receiv- ed adverse news from Ottawa they called for a day of mourn- ing. Now I think we should do the opposite and call for a day of celebrations when we receive the good news. 4

Contrary to the-swdtds of a famous author that at is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet” it appears now that we will soon have a super highway commencing on this east- ern Island and ending on the We:t coast, stopped only by the Pacific Ocean. Then Canada will truly be united not only by the bonds of love and loyalty but also geogra- phically by bands cf concrete and steel and so will remain in the fore ranks of nations of this en- lightened and scientific world that is unfolding before

In a few years’ ti

gary of Confederatp not be fitting and we could have a tion: Confederation and the open- ing cf the causeway! Surely that day could be apty called C Day, when the two most important events in the history of our pro- vince would be recognized and honored, recalling with pride the age and service of one and re- joicing over the birth and promise of the other. I am, Sir, etc.,

ISLAND FARMER

Montague. THE FRASER CLAN

Sir, — A Kensington friend has sent me a copy of The Guardian with the account of the recent gathering-of 300 French-speaking ‘ members of the Fraser clan many of whom are still residents of Quebec province. In this re spect the Clan Fraser seems tu be enjoying considerable notor- iety.

A recently published history of the settling of thé westernmost township of Quebec, that of Dun- cee in Huntingdon county, tells ef the sctiling there of a first group or family of Frasers from Inverness, and the growth and .€xpansion of the branch through- -out Canada and elsewhere.’ Two of the direct descendants of this first family were the ‘late John Fraser, 1.50., Auditor Genera

Within the next few days some 2,500 lucky Canadians will have received—some may have them already—formal invitations to act as armchair critics of the CBC. Not all critics of the CBC are eli- gible. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, will make the

been passed by and that there's nothing for them to do but con- tinue to offer criticism on a strict- ly unofficial basis, as in the past.

Columnist Kate Aitken, whose brainchild the amateur armchair critics society was, and the C3C Board of Directors, which gave the Aitken plan its blessing, have devised a cunning arrangement

quired 2,500.

Last August, they invited com- munity leaders (mayors and the hike) to submit the names of per- sons who might be willing to take part, to the number of 2,500 or thereabouts.

Those who find the CBC's for- mal invitation in their mailboxes will know that the chief mazgis- trates of their own particular

[them and have come through in magnificent style. The unfortun- ate critics who find themselves on the outside looking in may choose to bear this fact in mind when the next municipal! elections are held in their areas. Hence, the Aitken plan may provide ad- ditional benefits by arousing pub- lic interest‘in municipa] elections in all provinces and districts. This is a posstbility which, it is relably reported, had not figur- ed. in the original plans.

NO GUARANTEE

The CBC's Board of Directors emphasized rather nervously at an early stage that the findings ‘of Mrs. Aitken’s volunteer critics wouldn't necessarily be accepted as final and binding on the CBC. They'd be considered, though. Which is something.

No adequate explanation has

of Canada, and his cousin, the late Dr. Charles McLean Fra- ser, Ph.D., L.L.D., eminent marine biologist, who was advis- er to Emperor Hirohito of Jaosn on oceanography and whose pub- lished volume ‘‘Hydroids of the Atlantic Coast of America’ is a classic.

This branch of Clan Fraser has continued to be the dominating group in Dundee township. There has turned up lately a copy of a Constitution ‘and By - Laws of “Clans Fraser in Canada,” instit- uted in 1895 by clan members prominent in Ontario, In the list of elected Chieftains is one re- presenting the Maritime Provinc- e?, D. C. Fraser, M.P., New Clasgow, N.S. It is not known how long this organization con- tinued. There are many Frasers in Prince Edward Island and the other provinces by the sea. It may be that here are some who are acquainted with this clan or- ganization instituted nearly sixty- five years ago.

The history referred to is, “As Others See Us, Scots of The Seaway Valley’’ (Beamsville Ex- press, Beamsville, Ont.)..

I am Sir, ete. R.. J. FRASER

Ottawa.

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C.B.C.’s Invited Critics

Arthur Blakely in the Montreal Gazette

yet been served up by the CBC concerning the aim, object and purpose’ of the exercise (if any).

The CBC’s Information Service, a rapidiy-expanding organization that is always to the fore when- ever explanations of CBC action (or lack cf action) are required worked up a fair display of en- thusiasm about this move the oth- er day.

“Through this request for as- sistance-from its viewers and lis- teners,,’ the service observed sol- emnly, “the CBC is looking for more qualitative comment on its programs than is now normally available.”

Now to most of those who at- tempt to follow the endless pub- lie controversies about CBC pro- grams and program policies, this will seem a mst unlikely story.

Anyway, that’s the Information Services’ story and they're stick- ing with ii..

TWO MORE POINTS

Their press release adds two, more eyebrow-raising sentences bearing on the point.

“It (the CBC) is also seeking

| to determine the degree of in-

terest the audience takes in the programs it sees and _ hears. To obtain these results the CBC is encouraging those joining in the project to offer. constructive comments as well as likes and dislikes over a wide range of pro- grams.”

Tims may well mean that the CBC has found constructive com- ments hard to @ome by in the ordinary course of events.

Still and all, the explanation isn't too convincing. The CBC hasn't, in the past, hesitated to

employ professional audience research organizations. for the purpose of ascertaining the

popularity ‘or lack of it) attach- ing to this extravaganza or that.

For that matter, the CBC main- tains its own audience research division for the express purpose of shedding more light on this sort of thing.

Just what Mrs, Aitken’s_yolun- teers are likely to reveal that hasn't already been revealed by these professional research or- ganizations—assuming that the volunteers operate reliably and efficiently—isn't too clear.

We a | Facts Corror

KINSHIP : Strange to me as foreign tongue Is this my budding daughter, Changeable as she is young, And deaf to all | taught her.

Careless girl with grubby hands Dabbling dishes in the water, Fair as any flower she_stands Lost in a dream that caught her. is Wary of a parent's ways That pry, just now I thought her Very like a girl in days When I was still a daughter. —MARTHA SHAW In The New York Times

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children under the age of 12. For gome reason, twice as many girls as boys are victims.

STRIKES YOUNG CHILDREN

When a child is stricken, it us- ually occurs before he reaches the age of three. In most chil- dren, especially those under the age of eight, the disease usually involves the larger joints, parti- cularly the knee.

anthritis rarely affects children, the disease often has been wrongly diagnosed as rheumatic fever by them.

Like rheumatic fever, trheu- matic arthritis in children usual- ly follows a réspiratory infection by the hemolytic streptococcus.

GOOD CHANCES

While the course of the dis- ease varies, naturally, the chanc- @s are good that most children will recover from the effects within two years.

For some youngsters, however, the disease will continue to re- main active for 20 years or even more. However, average duration of the disease is about five and a half years.

FOR BEST RESULTS

Hospitalization usually {is re- commended since prolonged bed rest combined with adequate phy- sical therapy produces the best results. The use cf gold salts ap- pears to be of some benefit in certain cases.

If the disease does not quiet down within the first three years, the chances of complete recov- ery aren't very good.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

Mrs. E. W. F.: I have been told that lemon juice in a little water, taken several times a day, will help a person who has a post - nasal drip. What do you think of this? .

Answer: There is no particular

reason to expect that lemon juice

drip favorably or unfavorably.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Oct. 31, 1938

At the Bedeque Rink Tuesday night bc-wre a crowd of more than fiv¢ hundred in a closely contested tug-of-war battle, Low- er Bedeqne dislodged North Bed- eque from the finals for the Strong - Morrison trophy. Lower Bedeque has now won the right to meet Upper Freetown in the final pull this season for the coveted trophy.

Justice Arsenault, president of

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the Tourist Association, leaves to- day for Ottawa where he will at- tend the annual meeting of the Canadian Tourist Publicity Bur- eau and also a meeting in con- nection with the Dominion Govern- ment’s organization of a Travel- lers’ Bureau.

TEN YEARS AGO , (Oct. 31, 1949)

Early Monday morning a fire of unknown origin destroyed a dwelling house owned by Mr. John MacDonald, Georgetown Royalty. It was a new dwelling constructed by Mr. MacDonald last year. There were no out- buildings burned. All the cloth- ing, furniture and stored pota- toes were lost. Part of the house was used as a schoolroom for the children of the district and all the equipment was destroyed.

The present Prince County Hos- pital will definitely be retained and used, probably for chronic cases, after the new hospital has been completed, according to Mr. W. E. Darby, president of the Board of. Trustees of the hospi- tal. The new hospital will have 125 beds and the present hospi- tal has 60. Work on the new build- ing by M. F. Schurman Co. Ltd. is proceeding satisfactorily.

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