FRIDAY,

* Railway Retrenchment Tuc mOve to cenalize more -C.N.R. acuivities at Moncion and —Halsax nas resulted in a reduction

plain tnat employment with the rail- way in this area no longer offers secyrity to a young person, and that with fewer pusitions available the economy of the Province is bouna to sufter. This ss unfortunately true, and we sympathize fully with those con- cerned. Nevertheless, we must re- member that the railways are fac- and that we, as a Province, are ‘Strongly opposed to the system of freight rate increases which have ‘been granied in the past as a means _ of replenishing railway revenues. The ~ last increase, it will be recalled, was - given as the direct consequence of

a threatened railway strike. We can- mot have our cake and eat it, and

we cannot reasonably demand eco- _ Nomies in railway operation, at high- _ er wage levels and with keener com- _ petition in passenger and freight traffic than ever before, without re- sulting disadvantages.

it was 1orecast at the time of the railway strike in August, 1950, that the tie-up of rail transportation

_ might prove to be disastrous to the railways. The opinion was based on the efficient manner in which the

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* conquest Chinese mainland a decade ago have been resettled by the Hong Kong Government. Of Arab refugees; near- ly half a million scattered about Jor- dan, Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza sirip are under 16. The Arab states: refuse to contemplate a major move-

’ ment that would relieve pressure for

a return to Palestine and many gov- ernmenis are reluctant to accept these refugees, fearing that they might prove a_ disturbing political force.

A Bogy Disposed Of

Angther strong case for water fluoridaiiun nas been made out on scientiic grounds, this ume on a point about which opponents of the mea.ure have had much to say, and which inas caused most general con- cern. This ig the contention that fluoridation causes bone damage, calcification of cartilage and arth- ritis, and has other undefined bad

struck and transport industry came | effects on the general state of health.

w the rescue of, the public in the movement of ireight and food sup- plies. For the first time the public became aware of the potentialities of the trucking industry and how deliveries could be made direct from factory to warehouse doors. Much of the business formerly enjoyed by ‘the railways never returned. Today there are reports that the highly profitable transportation of ‘livestock irom Western to Eastern Canada may be taken over by the ‘trucking industry. There have been conjectures, too, as to the effect of the St. Lawrence Seaway on the _ Movement of grain previously car- ried by rail. Tne increasing volume of traffic by private automobile and public transit sysiems using the high- ways is also biting more deeply into passenger revenue. Hiking passenger and freight traf- fic rates is not the answer to the railways’ problem; it only drives

“more business from the rails. In- ’

deed, there does not appear to be any immediate solution and the fu- ture, from the railway standpoint, is a subject that is creating much so- ~ ber. thought. It behooves us to do some realistic thinking on our own “part, in view of the possibility of further drastic changes that may be required to save'the railways of this country from bankruptcy. We should of course insist that _ fo undue discrimination is practic- ed against us in this Province in railway economies, but that is about the limit of the protest that we can legitimately make. The monopoly these great’ transportation systems once enjoyed has gone forever, and with it many of the good jobs about which Mr. MacDonald speaks nos- talgically. .

World Refugee Year Tue icee world was shocked in 1956 vy tue wagsc evens in Hung-

ary, woich started an exodus of |

thousanus' cf ciuzens seeking asy- lum in o.her lands. But this is only a small part of the world refugee _ picture. There are more than one _millicn Chinese refugees in Hong ‘Keng, a million Arab refugees in the Middie East, more than half a ‘million Eas.ern. Evrop-ans in West- , em Lur_pe. Whie Rus:ians, Spani- a:ds, ‘Jews, Hindus, East Germans,

eerine _ Tibetans—in all a con-

n of the human

Nutritions Reviews, official journ- al of the Nutrition Foundation, New York, reviews in its current issue a number of recent pioneer studies. In these studies the general state of health of individua's whose bones (obtained through post-mortem and surgery) showed a high fluoride content was compared with the gen- eral health of those whose bones were very low in these chemicals. The bones of the former came from individuals who had lived for many years in regions where the water is naturally high in fluorides, while the bones of the latter came from inhabitants of regions with low

fluoride content in their drinking water. “These data,” the authoritative

journal concludes, “add to the in- creasing body of information which supports the wisdom and safety of fluoridation at 1 to 1.2 parts per million in cities in the northern .Un- ited States, and at 0.7 to 0.8 parts per million in cities in the southern United States, where water con- sumption is greater because of a higher average temperature.”

The findings showed no impair- ment of health, malformation or malfunction in the subject even where water consumption contained

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8.0 parts per million fluoride. |

There was substantial evidence that differént levels of fluoride may be present in\the bones without pro- ducing any tissue damage, malig- nancy or kidney disease, while a ‘careful review of the radiograms failed to reveal any relation be- tween various forms of arthritis and the ingestion of fluoridated water.

-These findings fully support the assurances given by leading dental, medical and public health authori- ties both in Canada and the United

States, that water fluoridation is a |

safe as well as effective cheek on teeth decay in growing children.

EDITORIAL NOTES.

A survey of more than 1,700 newspapers by the American News- paper Publishers Association shows 483 now selling at seven cents and 170 at 10 cents. Forty-nine cost six, cents and eight of them eight cents. The increases have reduced to 991 the number still selling for five cents. Weekly subsciption rates have increased in a ratio simi- lar to the single copy prices.

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OTTAWA REPORT

Mr. Fisher's

By Patrick

Douglas Fisher, the C.C.F.} Member of Parliament for Port | Arthur, has given O-:awa the im- pression that he carries a chip | on his shoulder. |

As this great hulk of an Ar- moured Corps veteran is some- | thing of a perfectionist, one would | expett this chip to be perfectly | in proportion with his huge 250) pound 6 feet 5 inch frame. So! accordingly it is one heck of a big | chip—mainly genuine in my op- inion.

Fisher is one of the most out-

Grievances

Nicholson

from the Ottawa Press Gallery.

I heartily agree with Fisher's stand in each case.

“There is not one M.P. with young children who is not going into the hole if he is trying (o live solely on his parliamentary pay.”’ asserts Fisher.

Living in his own home at Port Arthur, with his wife and three young sons Mark, Matthew and Tobias, schoolteacher Fisher ear- ned $5,750 a year arid could. lay a little aside each month. Now, paying $35 per month for a ren-

standing members of the more | ted room in Ottawa—which—te}

aggressive of the two Opposition | Parties in the Commons. The 39. impression of being more on bis | feet than on his seat while he is in the Chamber, an impression confirmed by his record of 21 major speeches and 173 lesser in- terventions during the first 90 days of ths session of Parliament.‘

mong his colleagues by his lead- er; Hazen Argue of Assiniboia, and deputy-leader, Kootenay's Bert Herridge.

There are of course itchy in- teveners as well as prepared Participants in our Commons’ de- | bates. Fisher is a thinking man, who also works seven days a week and reads often until 2 a.m. to prepare himself on every sub- ject. So his contributions to Par- liament are constructive and also well-researched.

says most M.Ps would refuse to live in, visiting his family for one short week-end per month— ‘not enough to please my wife, and not enough to please me’’— parliamentarian Fisher cannot make ends meet on his M.P’s $10,000 a year.

“I did not foresee the heavy

monthly bills for telephone and |

telegraph, despite my free mail- ing privileges; nor the heavy cost of travel, despite my parliamen- tary pass.”

OUR PREDICTABLE PRESS

As for the news writers in the Press Gallery here, Fisher knows and can deliver exactly the type of speech which will rate head- lines. : |

“I can play the Press Gallery just like an organ.”’ he admits.

Political reporting from Ottawa, he considers, is not sufficiently

BETTER THAN C.D. HOWE

But the giant giant-killer, who defeated C.D. Howe in his first. election battle, as yet displays a lack of balance which is inevi- table in the immaturiy of his second year in Parliament. With experience, as this column has predicted before, Fisher might well develop into another Ali<- | tair Stewart, that former C.C.F. stalwart from Winnipeg who} showed a flair for foreign wal fairs and cultural subjects be- fore his 12-year-old political ca- | reer was ended by the Diefen- | baker landslide.

In this session, Doug Fisher has perhaps been most noticed on two topics. First, his proposal that M.Ps salaries should be increas- | ed; this is a proposal which this | column had vehemently advanced | only a week before Mr. Fisher | repeated it in the Commons. Sec- |

descriptive, and lacks any qual- ifitative assessment.

“We need a lot more interpre- tation and background, and a lit- tle less fact,” he said to me. “The people at home frank!y don't know what we do all the time here, and they are never told who delivers a speech re- flecting work and common-sense.’

There is a lot of truth in that constructive criticism, and _ it takes high courage for Fisher to say sich things. for experience would warn him that the result would tend to be that the gallery would play the organist pianiss- imo.

The C. B. C., he believes, has a drastically warping effect uvon the reporting by all Press Gal- lery members whom it hires.

“If you get an extra source of income, it is only natural that that income would influence your

ond—the largest section of that | point of view,’’ he believes.

large chip on his shoulder—his | continuing vendetta against the | news disseminated by radio, tele- | vision. and newspaper, especially |

“I like my parliamentary job, in spite of a lot of frustration.” is Fisher's summing-up. “I'd stay in it if I could afford to live

Adenauer At

By Alan

Canadian Press Staff

A:question that occurs to every- one, but that nobody likes to ask outright, is one of the many im- ponderables in Germany's gold- fish-bowl political crisis.

Is Chencellor Konrad Adenauer,

at 83, finally beginning to show |

signs of age? Is he losing his Political toych? \

It is a delicate point on which few would venture a dogmatic reply.

From the evidence available it is possible to argue that Aden- auer, in his apparently impulsive decision to mave from the chan- cellorship to the presidency and later in his surprising reversal of that choice, showed an inconsist- ency completely foreign to his character.

Other eyebrow-raising factors are Adenauer’s open criticisms of Economics Minister Ludwig Er- hard, the man who hoped to be- come chancellor, and his sudden penchant for baring his\ soul to reporters.

OUTSPOKEN INTERVIEWS

Usually aloof with Wewspaper men, Adenauer has granted four interviews in the last two weeks, all to foreign press representa- tives. All contained outspoken re- marks about individuals.

For those who refuse to believe

Eighty-Three

last of the “big men” left to Western diplomacy, Adenauer's personality may hold the key.

Like France's Gen. de Gaulle he has a sense of mission, a fee!- ing of being the indispensable man at a dangerous juncture in the world's affairs, that may en- able him to nationalize every seeming inconsistency and ignore any discomfort caused to individ- uals.

Correspondents close to the heart of the struggle between Adenauer and Erhard—now ap- parently patched up for the time being—note that some German sources,, including ‘independent newspapers, are asking whether the chancellor is losing his grip. WARPED JUDGMENT.

Terence Prittie, in the Man- chester Guardian, says one com- ment in Bonn is that age and shortness of temper have ‘‘begun to warp” the chancellor's judg- ment. Sebastian Haffner, writing in The Observer, says cautiously that the point may not have been reached when Adenauer’s own party will be ready to sacrifice the past, namely Adenaeur, for the future represented by Erhard.

“When it will be reached,” writes Haffner, “depends on the party's judgment of Dr. Aden-

that age can wither one of the

auer’s personal capacities at 83."

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something approaching a normal family life. But I will not be a candidate again at present pay and cost levels.”

PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the discus

sion by correspondents of question c.

interest. The Guardian does not neses

sarily en‘orse the opinion of corres pondents.

PRICE OF EGGS

Sir,—People tell,me that I am getting a good price for eggs be- cause the Government provides a support price. It does not seem to work out that way.

1 took 31 dozen fresh eggs to a grading station. 15 eggs graded A, yielding. 37 cents; 2 eggs A medium .03; 306 B, 2.05; 7 C .05; 33 cracked .22; and 10 were dis- carded. My proceeds amounted to $2.72 which works out at less than nine cents a dozen.

Perhaps someone can explain why the farmer is getting s0 little. All I know is that there is very little money in eggs.

I am, Sir, etc., ELLIS LACEY Blooming Point.

EGG GRADES AND PRICES

Sir,—While reading an item in The Guardian Friday, June 19th, where the Fourth District of Queens Liberal Convention was held, I was surprised to read the speech made by Agriculture Min- ister Eugene Cullen when he read a letter from a lady in Souris stating where she only re- ceived 7.4 cents per dozen of eggs on a 30 dozen crate, and accus- ing the Government of not sup- porting eggs in such a low grade.

I do not know the price paid for Grade A eggs in Souris, but I feel sure there is not too much difference from what we receive in Queens County. On June. 15th I had a 30 dozen crate to our local grading station where I re- ceived am average of 31.19 cents a dozen.

The price we receive for eggs is entirely up to us. If we allow the hens out on range, the grade will go down. Eggs should be gathered often, cleaned, placed in fillers with the large end up and ‘stored in a cool place at once; then we will get the high- est -market price. Does our hon- ourable friend really believe this was Mf. Diefenbaker’s fault, or the low grade of this lady's eggs which caused such a low price?

I am, Sir, etc.,

MRS. HOMER PROVENCHER

South Melville, P.E.I.

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QUESTION AND ANSWER

Mr. A.T.: I nave suffered se- vere liver damage as a result of infectious hepatitis and would like to know if the liver damage would have been less severe if I had had bed rest at the onset of the disease. .

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THE HOLIDAY SEASON

Sweet summer's warmth is ia the air

And smell of blossoms, every- where.

The promised green is on the bough,

The year's best days are here and now.

The winter eynie watched with awe

As magic of the spring's first thaw

Ohanged grey of sky and white of snow

To blue, and brown, a golden glow.

The glory of the flower and fern

Is equalled by the birds’ return

With wondrous flight from south- em clime

To lend their songs te leisure time.

But summer's loved mo-t by & boy With freckled face, ag whistling

turns With fishin’ pole and ean of worms. —Bert Foster, Charlottetown,

“CLIMBER”. OR “DAISY-CUTTER”? Queen Elizabeth would know. Sports Editor Andy O’Brien of The Patriot's Weekend Magazine chatted with the Queen’s race-horse trainer recently, and learn-

ed that Her Majesty’s love of horses is

on a

sound knowledge of training and breeding. Proof is that in 1958 the Queen was Britain’s most success- ¢ ful race-horse owner. Andy prophesies in tomor- row’s issue that our royal visitor will have happy memories of her visit to Toronto's Woodbine race .

track.

RATTLESNAKES! There are only four (maybe

now only three) types

of poisonous snakes in

Canada, all of them varieties of rattlers. Weekend Staff Writer Jock Carroll says that Canadians are

in more danger of

ing struck by lightning than

of being bitten by a rattler, but that it’s wise to know how to treat snakebite. This comprehensive article in Weekend Magazine is a must for all

campers and cottagers.

LES SOEURS GRISES, 200 years ago, could have been translated as “the drunken sisters.” But the Grey Nuns are now known and respected for their widespread charity work. The founder of the order, Marguerite d’Youville, was recently —— fied by Pope John in St. Peter’s Basilica. Wee

Magazine’s feature by writer Bill Trent tells more about the life of the woman who may one day be

Canada’s first saint.

_A FINE FEAST of fun—good reading and good entertainment—is\assured the whole family in to- morrow’s Evening Patriot, complete with Weekend

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TEN YEARS AGO (June 26, 1949)

Twenty-nine students were a- warded certificates at the first closing exercises of the Vocatici- al School held in the Prince of Wales College Auditorium yester- day morning. Three received cer- tificates in brickdaying. fifteen in carpentry, six in electricity and five in plumbing.

Navy. officials from the local naval base, Queén Charlotte, an- nounced yesterday that the French Fishery Patrol Vessel, L’- Adventure, will arrive in port this morning, and will anchor at the west side of Maine Whari. The ship will remain here until Tuesday.

The Age Old Sines

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