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the weakest link.” ” SUESDAY, FEB. 24, 1959.

‘The Cyprus Agreement | ‘ Widespread rejoicing over the Cy- prus agreement is tempered in Eng-

Jand by recognition that a long road

still lies ahead. Attention now is shifting to the problems of the tran- sitional phase and focusing upon the

probable reaction of the Cypriotes. _ themselves. There doubtless will be

keen manoeuvering when it comes to filling in the details of an actual constitution and a pact for military bases.

The British, however, do not per- mit doubts about the future to over-

- ghadow heartfelt relief that a dis-

pute that divided friendly powers at last has been resolved. Cyprus, in effect, has been shifted from the roster of international trouble spots. ~The timing could not have been more propitious for Prime ‘Minister Har- old Macmillan, who has embarked upon his Moscow mission with added confidence stemming. from this achievement. If nothing else, the set- tlement serves notice on the Com- munist bloe that the Western powers ean iron out complex internal and colonial problems at a conference table.

For Britain this will mean relief from a costly and unpleasant police role, and from the political embar- rassment of repressing a colonial peo- ple. The Greek Cypriotes have got

_ most of what they said they wanted,

except actual union with Greece. The Turkish minority will have 30 per cent of the seats in the legislature, rather more than it would get on a strictly proportional basis. The for- mula of independence offers gains to all parties concerned, with vic- tory for none. It is, as noted yester- day, a triumph of eompromise. The fact remains, however, that the em- ergence of still anothe » econo- mically weak state is not an unmix- ed blessing for the world at .this time.

Seaway Extravaganza

Tt now turns out that the cost of building the Canadian part of the St. Lawrence Seaway was under- estimated. Not slightly underestimat- ed, but by an amount equivalent,

more or less, to the total cost of

a causeway between this Province and the mainland! This increase in

the Seaway estimate—from $245,-

000,000 to $239,000,000—was the subject of heated debate in the House of Commons last week. The onus fell on Hon. Lionel Chevrier of explain-

ing what it was all about, and he

came up with pretty lame answers. Mr. Chevrier was Minister of

* Transport and St. Lawrence Sea- way Authority presidént during the period when the original cost esti- mates were prepared and most of ’ the contracts awarded. He denied in- dignantly that he was responsible for the muddled calculations. He de- nied too that he was attempting to blame subordinates, though that seemed to be the tenor of some of his remarks. There is talk now of

a parliamentary investigation into

the whole matter. The sooner it

@omes the better.

Both Conservative and CCF spokesmen pointed to the project .as affording examples of the same

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errors which had marked the Nation-* «al Printing Bureau project, which

figured in the controversial Public Accounts Committee probe of last session. Criticism was unysually heavy with respect to work done on the Welland Canal. That part of the project, originally expected to cost no more than $1,302,000, has already cost the Canadian Government $29,-

» 000,000—an amount more than 22

times as large as the original esti- mate. It was suggested that the “fabulous discrepancies” in the es- timate of this project alone warrant- ed “a full public disclosure of the facts.” ’

On the question of tae Wellanf Canal work, Mr. Chevrier frankly admitted serious errors had been made in original attempts to gauge the probable cost. He maintained,

the original estimate in the House, he had had no opportunity to check

the figures personally. “That was

however, that though he had tabled 1

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the responsibility of the engineers who had been working on the Wel- land C the responsibility of those who had to do with the granting and award- ing of the contracts,” he said, This excuse brought protests from the Conservatives, who maintained, quite rightly, that under our con- stitutional system the former min- ister undoubtedly was responsible.

-The discussion revealed, among

| other things, that the Seaway as ~ planned by Mr. Chevrier had not

‘nearly ‘enough turning basins at the - Montreal end. An enlarged channel, above Cote Ste. Catherine and ah,

~ extra wharf at that place boosted th - estimate by five and a half milliovf An extra vertical lift bridge to farry Montreal traffic over the St. Lam- bert lock and municipal canal works of “greatly enlarged scope” added another ten and a half millions. Af- ter that Mr. Chevrier had become convinced that the Mercier bridge over the Lachine Canal should ‘be a high level traffic bridge and that traffic should not be carried over the Seaway at Beauharnois but un- der it in a four-lane tunnel. These two improvements (for which he had made no provision at all) added $13,- 500,000 more to the Seaway costs. And so on. Then there is a matter of some $36,000,000 plus in con- tractors’ claims still to be adjusted. As taxpayers, we all have to foot the bill for these gigantic expendi- tures. The Seaway is not for the benefit of the Atlantic Provinces— far from it. It is going through, nevertheless. The least that our At- lantie representatives can do is in- sist on a strict inquiry into the huge estimate increases. . The matter should go before the Public Accounts Committee at once for a thorough overhauling.

EDITORIAL NOTES

One thing science has not yet licked is yellow fever, an outbreak of which has been reported in the island of Trinidad, Canadians in- tending to travel to Trinidad have been warned by the Health Depart- ment that they should be immuniz-

ed before leaving.

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Since their modest beginning un- der the New Deal in 1935, when only 11 per cent of the people in rural areas had electricity, electric co- operatives have grown to thriving proportion in the United States. To- day they and the private utilities whose rural service they stimulate serve 95 per cent of U.S. rural fami- lies. President Eisenhower recently told representatives of the rural electric’) co-ops that they are no longer an “infant enterprise” and ought to be less dependent on govern- ment. support.

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In the Commons Mr. H.J. Rob- ichaud, Liberal member for Glouces- ter, was prevented by the Speaker from bringing about an emergency debate gn the problems of the Mari- time coal industry. He was ruled out of order on a technicality. We think that this was carrying a rule a little. too-far.. The question Mr. Robichaud wanted discussed is one of great importance to the Mari-— times. It doesn’t seem right that it should have been subordinated to a point of procedure. .

. . * Agriculture Minister Cullen has expressed a realistic view regarding our transportation problems. He thinks that a causeway across the Strait will be built eventually, “if for no other reason than the de- mands which increased traffic will make”, but that, it will probably be 15 years or longer before it is ready for traffic. “A new powerful ferry is needed ‘right now’,” says Mr. Cul- - Jen. That, we think, sums up the situation adequately. It is surely something on which all members of

' the Legislature ean agree.

* * * It is regrettable that aircraft workers should lose their jobs over

' the Government’s decision to acrap

the Avro Arrow jet interceptor program. But there will be no sym- pathy with union officials in brand- ing the Government with “economie treason” and “moral prostitution.” They want a general election called immediately on the issue; but there is “no evidence that the Opposition parties in Parliament have any in- tention of pressing for a non-confid- énce vote. Why should ‘they when the alternative would be ,to con- tinue expenditure of hundreds of millions of ;dollars on a project that

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OTTAWA REPORT

* No Canada Sports Council

By Patrick

Ni¢hoison

I am going ta tel! You about a factory busy. It was perhaps sig-

well --known Canadian foothal!, player, a prominent games coach | from Vancouver Island, the son} of one of our al! - time Hockey Greats, a former semi-profession- al baseball player and a few oth- er well-known Canadians interest- ed in sport.

Lest you think this is wander ing far from news of Ottawa. let to assure you that| these sportsmen al! took the floor in our House of Commons in the course of a regular parlia- mentary debate.

The occasion was the debate on a motion introduced by Mr. John Russell Taylor, Progressive Con. servative member from Vancoy- | ver - Burrard, who is the 41 year | old son of Cyclone Taylor. He | moved: “That , in opinion of thi | House, the government should} give early consideration to the} advisability of establishing a Can- ada Sports Council with the ‘ob ject of fostering and encouraging amateur. sport in Canada, such; council to have representatives | from each of the provinces of Canada.”’ ,

From mid-afternoon unti] ten o'clock at night the proposal was discussed. In these days when the Government is universally regard- ed as a bottomless gold mine, which can pay for everything needed to satisfy every whim of every Canadian, it is perhaps no more unreasonable to ask it to subsidise amateur sports than| te expect it to buy one hundred obsolescent aeroplanes costing up to $9,000,000 each jus to keep a

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| good days ' and sports made them manlier.

nificant that thirteen M.Ps made

speeches on the” propost!, and that unlucky number was just enough to ‘talk out’’ Mr. Taylor's

proposed Sports Council.

Up to the close of the debate, a series: of excellent speeches presented a number of interest-

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facts, and also gave us much food for thought. We were left with the strong impression that “the good old.days”’ were indeed when men were men

Mr. W. F. ‘“Bus’’). Matthews, from Nanaimo, took us back two thousand years to see how the mighty Roman Emupire fell in ruins because Rome became a “spectator nation’’ Men became fat arfd lazy; the population, was softened by being supplied with bread and circuses by the gov- ernment. In_contrast, he pointed out how the all - conquering Mon- gol nation in its prime was a na- tion of athletes. The youngsters were taught to ride horseback at the age of three, when their mothers tied them into the sad- die. They were given bows and arrows at the age of four. Mon- gol warriors used in battle bows whieh required a pull of 166 pounds which could fire arrows to kill an enemy as much as 300 yards away. In contrast, our strongest bow today requires a

' pull of only 60 pounds.

TWO MINUTE MEN

Bus Matthews deplored our soft athletes of today, such as our professional hhockey players who

like to.play only two minutes at a time. He recalled how Cyclone Taylor had told him that in his playing days “we were sixty- minute men.”

Douglas Fisher, the C. C. F.

member from Port Arthur, gave a long and obviously carefully re- | searched account of the develop- ment of sports in Canada, sug- gesting that sports are related te the depth of the culture of a nation. He asked for a clear dis- tinction between” amateurs and professionals in sport, and deplor. ed the prospect that a Canadian Sports Counci! might include someone like the famous Ontario hockey promoter Connie Smythe “whose main philosophy with re- spect to sports is ‘if you can't beat them out in the alley. you cannot beat them out on the ice.”

Hon. Lester Pearson, one-time Guelph baseball player, con tributed to the debate; so also did Hamilton's former footballer Tiger Cat ‘Bobbie’ McDonald, who reminded the House of the shameful wartime discovery that forty per cent of the recruits go-

into our army were found to physically unfit, and had to be rejected.

Nobody made the obvious pre- | diction that, as we become more | and more a nation of spectator sports, soon we will all stay at home in front of our television sets, while champion boxers fiz Xk in empty TV studios and football clubs are owned by TV networks ami play games in remote and empty fields surrounded on- ly by TV cameras. Such is the P state to which car-parking prob- lems seem destined to reduce us.

But meanwhile, our MPs did not vote to create a Canada Sports Council.

Building Better Mousetraps

Arthur Blakely in the Montreal Gazette

Opposition speakers have neg- lected few opportunities during the current session of Parliament to establish clearly, beyond any | shadow of a‘doubt, their concern | over the huge federal deficit now accumulating.

They have said without hesita- tion that this concern will as sume lively proportions even if the deficit runs higher than} the figure of $ illion or there- abouts which /Finance Minister Donald Flemifg says that he an- ticipates.

But they don't believe for a moment that Mr: Fleming's! optimism is justified. Not really. Some have intimated that, on | the basis of information available | to them and some operations in| a simple arithmetic that they | have performed, the deficit may | well amount to $1 billion.

The real pessimists think it will run even higher.

But the contemplation of the Government's budgetary deficit is gloomy work and, fortunately, the Opposition speakers take time out occasionally to talk of other, more cheerful things

On a recent occasion, for ex- ample, the Opposition parties were presented with an opportun- ity to move want-of-confidence amendments to a’ supply motion

things that they would do for Canadians were they occupying the seats of the mighty. 4 NEW PROPOSALS

The tiny eight-member CCF band went at this chore with manifest enthusiasmm. Mr. Er- hart Regier ‘CCF—BurnabyCo. quitlam!, moved an amendment calling upon the Government to bring about a return to prosperity by adopting new, economic meéa-

sures, The amendment itself did | little more than suggest the kind |

of measures that the CCF group had in mind..

But Mr. Regier obligingly fill- ed in the blanks in the speech in which he moved the amend- ment.

The CCF Party,. Mr. Regier said, was convinced that things

would take a turn for the better |

in Canada were Ottawa to do the following things:

(1) Assume the complete costs of looking after all employable unemployed.

(2) Offer more aid to the pro vinces and municipalities “to meet their social investment capi- tal needs.’

(3) Share the cost, with the provinces, of a “national high- ways program” involving much more than the single road involv- ed in the Trans-Canada Highway arrangementt.

which would indicate the sort of

First Steamer Here

P. E. Island Historical Society

Did you know the first steamer to enter Charlottetown Harbour?

The first steamer to enter Char- lottetown Harbour was the “Richard Smith,’ owned by the Pictou Mines Company, She steamed into the harbour on Aug- ust 10, 1830, and it is said the Indians fled to the woods when they heheld this ‘‘smoke boat.” The vessel remained until the next day, and took Lieutenant-Gover- nor Ready and a party of friends for a sail wp the Hillsboro River.

The second— mer, which ar- rived in September, 1831, was the 1370-ton ‘‘Royal William" form a Quehec shipyard, a ship that, two years later, made herself forever famous by crossing the Atlantic propelled’ entirely by sieam power, It was then that a

new age in navigation was born, and just as a pebble dropped into a pond sends ripples to the banks, so the wake of the Royal William was to distrub the Seven Seas and touch every shore, for her wake was the death wake of the sailing vessel.

Our own shores were not un- touched, by the wash from the Royal William, and in 1832 an Act was passed to provide for the conveyance o@f mails between Charlottetown and Pictou by a steam Vessel, a grant of 300 pounds sterling being voted .for that purpose. The service was accordingly performed by the Steamer “Pocahontas,” which ran twice a week to Pictou-the ca- bin passage’ money being twelve

shillings eurrency.

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(4) Share in the ‘‘capital cost of education.”

(5) Increase the existing per-/ bed grant of $2,000 for hospital | construction to $5,000. :

(6)\ Embark on a program in| volving the construction of new and ultra-modern penitentiaries.

(7) Offer *“‘more aid to the pro- vinces and municipalities’ than is now extended in connection with housing construction.

(8) Make possible better, cheap- er housing for ‘senior citizens.”

(9) Offer ‘‘much greater finan- cial assistance’’ to provincial gov- ernments for the ‘establishment and maintenance of parks and re- creationg! facilities.

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swer each question truthfully.

As a rule, do you drink | xDo you always feel for a drink at a defjni of the day?

Do you go on frequent drinking sprees?

Do you take a drink the first thing every morning? PROBLEM DRINKER

Do you lose time from work because of drinking or does it interfere with your efficiency or with your responsibilities?

Do you ever have periods of loss of memory or blackouts, times when you cannot remember what happened after drinking too much?

Now look back over your an- swers. If you have answered even a single one of them “Yes,” you may be beginning to have a problem with your drinking.

Hf you answered “Yes” to more ;than one, you may be a begin- ning problem drinker right now: COMPULSIVE DRINKER

Whether anyone progresses from a problem drinker to an ac. tual alcoholic depends upon how much he drinks and why he does it. Even the problem drinker at times recognizes when he has had too much and is able to stop.

He may.deliberately get drunk to celebrate a special occasion or to drown his sorrows, $0 to speak, over some unfortunate occurrence

The alcoholic gets drunk. too. He doesn't start out to get in- ebriatei, but he almost always does. An alcoholic, you see, drinks compulsively. \

So better watch your step. or, more apprepriately. your drinks. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Anxious: Is there a cure for shingles? I have had them for two years.

Answer: The eruptioon of shin- gles does not ordinarily last. for more than a few weeks, but the pain may persist for a long time Treatment with radiation, X-ray or injections, will usually bring relief.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Feb. 24, 1934)

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Prince Edward Island's repre sentatives on the newly organiz- ed Maritime Transportation Com- mission will be Messrs. R. E. Mutch and J. O. Hyndman. Mr. Mutch’s appointment was made some time ago by the Board of Trade and that of Mr. Hyndman at a recent meeting of the exe. cutive. F ,

Mr. Stanford Phillips, O'Leary who was in the City yesterday, intends rebuilding the potato warehouse of the O'Leary Pro- duce Company. which was de- stroyed by fire early this winter. The warehouse will be construct- ed on much the same plan as the former building. It will be 120 feet in length and 4# feet in width.

TEN YEARS AGO (Feb, 24, 1949)

(10) Re-activate the Municipal Improvements Assistance Act to) help municipalities get low-cost | capital for construction of ‘Sew- | age and water facilitiees.. |

(1) Pay further increases in! féderal civil service salaries.

(12) Inaugurate, with the pro-

ces, a national pension plan, assuring all Canadians of ‘‘an adequate minimum purchasing

sewer.”

(13) Payment of bigger family | allowances.

(14) Offer, to Canadian farmers, guaranteed ‘‘parity prices.”

(15) Cut the cost ‘of living by offering to eliminate the sales tax on ‘essential commodities” if the provinces will do the same in their tax fields. t LIBERALS APPROVE

Adopt these essential measur; es, Mr. Regier assured the Gov- ernment, and things would cer- tainly take a turn for the better in this country.

The program sounded so good to the Liberals that they couldn't resist the temptation of vot- ing approvinglyy for the CCF want-cl-c: amendment, despite the traditional reserve with which each Opposition party regards its rivals and their works.

No one, of course, mentioned the possible cost of these inter- | esting proposals to the Federal Treasury. For one thing, it’s te. garded as being in questionable taste to refer to matters of cost on such occasions. But in any évent, the projects im question would require so much additional federal™ Spending im so many fields that no one tan even guéss at the total which would, how- ever, be enough to stagger the imagination of the most ardent CCF sécial planner.

And Mr: Fleming's budgetasy |

His Honor Lieutenant Gov- ernor J. A. Bernard officially opened new Y.MC.A. Building yesterday aftenoon. The cere- mony, which was largely attend- ed, was presided over by the “Y"’ president, Mr. T, Roy Cd- more. The dedication was giv- en by Rev. J. T. Phbott. presi- dent of the P. E. I. Ministerial Association.

Present plans regarding the in- troduction of a dial telephone ‘system in Summerside, call for the installation work te com- mence in March, it was learned yesterday from Mr. D. M. Gass, Manager of the Island Telephone Company. It ts expected that the

\equipment will arrive from Eng-

land shortly, after which instal lation will begin.

acnieieneaas do aaa MAXIMS

The whole art of teaching ts

only the art of awakening the na-

tural curiosity of young minds for

the purpose of satisfying it af- terwards. 4

HEADMASTER DIES LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) —Henri Carnal, 77, former’ head- master of the exclusive Le Rosey School for boys, died here Satur. day night after a long. illness. His former students include Shah Reza Pahlevi of Iran, Prince Aly Khan and his son, the present Aga Khan, ex-king Farouk of Egypt, the Duke of Kent, Prince Rainier of Monaco and Prince Charles of Belgium.

deficit? Well, it would begin to look more and more like the figure of Canada’s national debt to which, of course, it would con-

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island as much money as the pol- Iticians are reputed to have de- posited abroad is pproblemati- cal.—New Orleans Times-Picay- une

Heads of U.S.-based internation- al unions who try to rua labor affairs in Canada should note the recent ruling of the Alberta Board of Industrial Relations, which orders‘decertification of Teamsters’ Juocal 514 on the ground. that ‘a union controlled from i tional headquarters in the 'U°S. does not qualify as a bargaining agent under Alberia law.—Fort Erie Letter-Review

That was an intriguing story about the Toronto boy of 15 who works so fast, he cannot keep a job. He has heen let out of two supermarkets because the managers could not stand pace he set for himself, Custom- ers gathered to watch because he unloaded cases of groceries so fast. Some complained to the manager that he was working the boy too hard.—Fort William Tim- es-Journal

Why don’t offices, stores and.

factories have “milk breaks?” We don't want to wish hard luck on Brazil, Colambia and Central America who grow our coffee but why should:it have to be a ‘“‘cof- tee break?” We do produce our own milk while coffee is entire- ly an import and too frequently, according to the dairyman, it is drunk black. giving not even a tiny aid to the dairy farmer.— London Free Press

A sure way for big revenue is indicated by a bil! introduced in the California Legislature to raise the pfice of a marriage li- cense to five dollars from two doliars. The three bucks hike in price is unlikely to halt anybody who- wants to be married. and think of the fat pickings for the state in the Hollywood area where film persons get married repeatediy, as often as they are divorced in order to marry some- body else —Cape Breton Post

A happy-go-lucky squire to-he we've just been told about. son of a Harvard professor. has work- ed out the most adroit svnthesis of boyhood and manhood we've ever heard of. Anxious to look slick for the girls he’s begun, to notice -at grammar school, but unwilling to give up his whcle way of life for their sake, he carefully spruces up his hair with a pocket comb at intervals, af- ter first wetting it down with a water pistol—New Yoorker

The Age Old Story

The things that thou hast heard .. commit thou te faithful men, whe shall be able to teach pthers.

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“Though I now sink out of view and shall be, forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I've gone."’ So spoke Abraham Lincoin after his defeat for the Senate by Stephen A. Douglas in 1958, following

their epochal debates on‘ the ex- ” tension of slavery. The man-

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* Officialdom often makes itself ridiculous by petty actions, and this is not restricted to one country. It so happens the United” States is the latest example. It refused to allow a Canadian hoc- key player, Lou Smrke, to cross’ into the United States to New York to fly to Europe with “the Bellevilie hockey team. He is of Yugoslav origin, and his father had returned to that Cammunist state. To deduce from that fact that the hockey player is politi- cally tainted is stretching the im- agination.—Windsor Star

OFF HER ROCKER

In the dim and distant past Wher life's tempo wf&sn't fast, Grandma used to rock ana knit, Crochet, tat and baby-sit,

One ¢ould always count on Gram If the kids got in a jamb;

In an age of gracious living, Grandma was the gal for giving.

Grandme now is at the Ey. Exercising to keep slim:

She's touring with a “nunch;* Taking clients out to lunch;

- Driving north to ski or curl,

All her day are in a whirl: Nothing seems to stop or bieck her

Now that Grandma’s off her rocker.

—ROBERT D. LITTLE in the Toronto Daily Star

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