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BAGE I WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22. nfi.

T Strained Relations

: Though two years ago the Soviet ‘Union gleel'ull_v welcomed Premier ‘Castro's final break with the United lstates and Pnc:utl‘aged his transition :to “socialist" revolution, today, by :all accounts, there is fIl'““‘l"R e"l‘l' lance that Cuba may be turning into -he fast. depreciating asset for the :Communist world. New indications :last week. as an additional group :of Soviet teclinicians landed in -Cuba, were that Moscow is accom- Ipanyilng its assistance program ‘with sharper reminders that the

:Cubans begin acting responsibly in

:making use of their aid. Such Soviet misgivings are well

founded. Three and a half years :after the arlvclit of the revolution

in Cuba. there is a complete break-

down in agricultural production. The

. gugar harvest this )'(’.>ll‘ was a. fail- Lure. Industrial prorlurtinn is plum- ‘meting to the point wliere s hoes

:have to be

rationed. The widely heralded economic development plan has been thrown out. Inflation is

‘rampant. The country is insolvent,

going deep into debt to the Com-

. munist bloc.

If nothing else. Premier Khrush-

; ehev is finding out the high price

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of operating in a faraway sphere of influence, and he may also be dis- covering that establishment of a Communist society in an under- developed coiintr_v takes more than hoisting the Red flag over the presi- dential palace. '

As is alw;i_\'s the case in Com- munist the precise. nature of the Sm-iel-(‘nil-an feelings is not clear. But foreign diplomats in Havana are convinced that the relations have markedly deterior- ated in the last six months. They believe that even if Khruchchev re- sists the temptation of giving Cuba UP 8-‘ I bad job, he will fl()l1llt’i(‘.'SS seek to cut his losses and try to dis- cipine the i-c_u,inie’s economic and political behavior.

That will take some doing. But it will he nec<;:ssai‘y if Cuba is not to become an increasing, and per- haps ultimately llseloss. drain on the Soviet resources as well as an embarrassing demonstration of the operations of 8 new Communist society.

Recalling Old Times

It is significrmt of the progress we have made in public health meas- ures that the news of one case of Imallpox in Toronto---where a 14- yeor-old boy is under rigid quaran- tine after h avin g contracted the disease while in the jungles of Brazil with his missionary father--should niuae euch widespread r ea c t i o 1: across the continent. In various parts of Canada andstha United States warnings and advice are be-

yfng aoundedf The health officials cnphaaiza that there is little chance of an epidemic. but every facility available to modern science is being sued to insure against this slight possibility. b five: different in the "good old days”, when hardly a decade passed without heavy toll being taken in alsnoet: every community by this dried diaaeee. Prince Edward Island ‘was no exception, and old newspaper, files bear and witness to the havoc thet was caused. One such outbreak

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d elsewhere outside British Cone .

credited with paving smmmlaad the fatal results. Smallpox was prova- lent at this time in Plctou and Miramichi. and renewed precautions were taken by way of inspection of

‘all ships touching at Island ports.

Twelve years later; in 1861, there was another bad outbreak here, which could have been much worse but for the prompt measures taken by the medical fraternity. It was found that in no instance had any vaccinated member of the in- fected families taken the disease, and this served to alloy the public anxiety.

However, the worst smallpox epidemic struck Charlottetown in mid-November of 1885. A sailor from a visiting ship had had his underclothes washed by 3. local laundress; some of the money she received passed to a nearby bakery for a supply of bread, and the germs with it. What was then known as the old Lunatic Asylum, at Brighton Shore, was hastily taken over by the city board of health. fitted up with a number of beds and put in charge of a doctor and attend- ants; and to this isolated building all persons showing any symptoms of the disease were removed. Fifty- six of the victims died on this oc- casion. Not until the following Jan- uary was the last quarantine flag

removed and the makeshift hospital closed. '

So the story goes; we have touched on but a few of the many such experiences in the l-ives of our forebears. It was only in compara- tively recent years, when vaccina- tion became general and better sani- tary care was made possible, that the fear of this plague as a frequent visitation was removed. This was one of the many achievements scor- ed by our public health campaigni-rs throughout the years—-and perhaps the greatest one of all.

A New Approach

Convinced that the public had become too complacent about the staggering toll of lives taken by automobile accidents, 9. Santa Mon- ica, California traffic court judge began handing out unorthodox penalties, with the result that there has been a 20 per cent drop in traf- fic citations and s 10 per cent de- crease in traffic accidents in his city which fronts on the Pacific Ocean not far from Los Angeles.

A young woman speeder was sentenced by this judge to four hours of -watching wreck victims brought into 9. receiving hospital emergency war’). Several young male speeders were obliged to put on jail uniforms and sweep the streets" of traffic accident debris. Violators in groups up to 100 were shown a color- sound police movie of traffic ac- cidents that pictured the dead, the dying, the mangled and a truck driver burning alive. During this show two women had to be treated for nausea and shock.

Traffic violators appearing in this _iodge’s court are given a choice of a conventional jail sentence or a shorter. unusual one. For instance, a youth can choose between five days in jail or one day of street sweeping. Those who chose to see the horrifying police film had five dollars deducted from the fines im- posed on them. Jail sentences given 50 men and women recently lasted no more than a half-hour, but they were persons unlikely to forget the

experience of being locked behind « bars

Whether this new approach to the problem of “making the punish- ment fit the crime" can be adopted successfully elsewhere we don't know. It seems to be working in Santa Monica, but as yet we have had no report of it being widely omulated. Perhaps it should be. not only in California but in areas nearer home.

EDITORIAL NOTE

The United States has suffered another grave defeat. An American

team was overwhelmed by British-'

are in the world's first international tiddlywinks championship held to- oenbly in New York. Three young men and a young woman from Ox- ford Unlvamity smashed four American tiddlywlnkers 6-1, 5-2 and 6-1. The finely trained British- ara' precision squidglng and squop- plne outclassed the American ‘play-

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SPOILING THE ACT

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A SUPERB ACHIEVEMENT

Conodo’s 5,000 Mile Main Street

Forty years ago a man plant- ,

ed a sign. rcenllniz "\'aucouvcr 5,000 Miles." in lln‘ soil of Nova Scolla anrl drove off in his car.

He made tho trip all riglu - using scores of ferries o v e r

rivers and lakes. and by fitting ‘ 8C('ld(‘lllS-

locomotive whccls to his car for rail travel in thc Rnr'ki(Ԥ. But it was :1 major mpmlilinn.

Now \’ic'oria. Piritisli (‘ohmi- bin. and St. .lohn's. \ir-wfounrl- land. standing at opposite ends 0 f the second‘ largest country on earth, are linked by a su- perb main strccl --— the Trans- Canarla liicliway.

The 5.000-mill‘. billion —dol 'r roadway connects all ten Can- adian provinccs. More than 500 bridges span waterways along the mo .

DREAM SINCE 1885

The ltlEll\\'£‘t_\' serves ubollt lit) percent of Canada's population, and it has been a dream of the nation since the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. Work began in the cle- prcssion years but was lmllcd by World War ll. in 1949, the National Gn\'crnmcnl at tfawa passed the‘ 'l‘rnn1‘-('aunrla Highway Act to subsidize con-

i

struction of the highway by the

various provinces.

The last lln k a 92 -mile slrotr-li in Glacier National Park —-opened on July 30. 1962. encl- ing what hurl been called “the world's longest detour," This was a loop of 177 miles around the Bit: Bond of the Columbia River.

Not surprisln;.'l_\'. the last scr- tion was one of ill!‘ most diffi-

cult to build. Eiglily percent of

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the f‘.irardi:in I-‘llr-st TWENTY-I-‘l\’l-‘. YEARS AGO

was caused _ swept one of the barns at Exhibition grounds early Sun- day morning. The barn which housed Riding Club horses dur- ing the fair last week contained 36 stalls.

The paving of Victoria Park roadway and Brighton Road w’ heizin immedi the City Council decided at a spe- cial meeting last evening. The tender of Hen J. Phi

National Geographic Society it lies in rugged mountains. Where it crosscs the Rockies Rogers Pass, the road follows is

[speaking Quebec, long a hold- out

from the highway project, has joined its own road system

roulc first tried by the railroad to the Trans-Canada. however.

and later abandoned after 2 men had '

Equipping the section with avalanche protection ran the cost up to two million dollars a mile Steel .<lu=lIers. protect the roadway from rock and snow. Howit7.er emplacemcnts stand

ready to avert big slides by is triggering small. controlled ava- . lanclies.

Enstward from llritisli (‘ol-

umbia. the Trans-Canada llir:li- way passcs through the Prairie Provinces of Alberta. Saska- tchewan. a nd Manitoba. At

.times the road stretches to the

horizon unbroken by bill or curve. Distances shrink at the 70-milc-an-hour speed limit. Theough w c s t c r n Ontario wildcrncsses, the road leads to the thickly settled shores of the St. Lawrence River. F r e n c ll-

ln construction Provinces on HA‘; WN

to c a r ry it to the Maritime the Atlantic. PARK SYSTEM Unified dimensions and stand- ards maintain the quality of the highway over its entire length. For the most part. it is a wide

two-Inner. but additional lanes ‘

have been added where traffic

country's national parks and recreation areas. the road has its own recreational facilities. Picnic places every 50 miles and-camping: areas every l50 serve vacationers and travel- ers.

With all its convenience a n d scenic beauty. the ngest na- tional highway in the world has

still another advantage dear to : is

the hearts of motorists-— it toll free.

Deadlock In Rodesio

, By Doug Marshall Canadian Press Staff Writer

Observers in London fear the

' Central A f r 1 c a n t‘cdcration

the Park roadway was acccpt- .

ed. The Brighton Road contract was awarded to the Standard Paving Co. TEN YEARS AGO August :2, 1952 ..

“Pig in a Pok-3", a play writ-

ten by a well-known Canadian

author, Catherine Brickenden.

who has several times visited this province as the guest er an

15.3. Glddlngs and Mrs. Arthur Macbean will be the co-director of this production.

A new drugstore. Stead? Pharmacy. beautifully equipped and well stocked, opens its doors to the public Friday, lo- cated on Kent Street on the site of the old North American Ho- tel. The store is attractively de- signed to a sl to the busy shopper.

The Hard Wax

'I‘ensI|oGIobce!IIM

On a visit to Sweden. former United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower has pub- licly apologized for remarking two years ago that Sweden’: eo- clallst. philosophy and welfare reforms ‘had resulted In .a high rate of suicide and drunken- ness. He now says that he has realized he was mistaken.

Mr. Eisenhower is in Stock- holm to give a lecture on Edu- cation for International Under- standing. Apparently be h as achieved his education an inlet he had way.

may be about to cut its own throat.

The possible suicide weapon is the repressive legislation that Sir Edgar Whitehead. pre- mier of Southern Rhodesia, hopes to ram through the lor- rltorial parliament next week.

-In effect the projected bills will make any African nation- alist actlvity illegal. The un- tionalists will have no alterna- tive but to act outside the law. Violcncc. if not racial warfare, seems inevitable.

The heads of all churches in Southern Rhodesia have pealed to Whitehead and ne- tionalist leader Joshua Nkomo to break the grim deadlock he- twccn the black and white races.

MINISTER QUITS A grave omen was the resig-

‘ nation of Jasper Savanhu from

the federal government. One of .

two Neizro junior ministers in Sir Roy Wclensky's administra- could be conveniently cited to prove Welensky sided over a multl-racial party

1'5’ ml’ 1» Charlottetown. for the work on . with multi-racial policies

Such a claim now sounds hol-

low. - Savanhu clear: “No African who thinks

he can influence the events can continue with a European party which

pre- .

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out any doubt make Southern Rhodesia a police state. Trodgold resigned because of Wliilchead's harsh Law and Or- der maintenance Act of 1960. The act gave the government sweeping and legally question- able powers over political acti- iv

The new bills would carry those powers 3 stage further. gatherings bf more than 11 people could be con- sldcrcd illegal. Prison senten- ces of up to 14 years could be imposed on anyone who plan- ncd a strike that would hinder p blic services. BILLS DEFENDED

The repressive me a so have been end on the grou nd s that accompanying constitutional reforms allow Ne-

5‘.

planned constitution will give Negroes only 15 seats in a 65- seat house.

-Nkomo's organization intends

to boycott southern Rhodesla's.

elections next year. The 15 Ne- gro representatives would then e ed so few black votes that the nationalists‘ case would be clear to the world. Whitehead appears to believe the new bills will contain a

made his position V boiling forces of nationalism by

sealing the lid more tightly on pot. British critics say the

e . e to hobnob pot probably will explode. Lon

on. The New States-

has no intention of p ting into . nien suggests Britain's mints-

. practice what it preac es." Sir

for for central African affairs.

Robert Tredgold. the fed- j R. A. Butler.,could prevent the to

station's former chief justice, says the new bills would with-

l

explosion by using his power veto Whitehead’: bills.

- British Bells

Alma of lndsretry. Londaa

A satof 10 balls. the largest weighlne lo ewt.. was a final tune -up in a United Kingdom foundry last week, be- fore being shipped in September to the Chapel at America‘: ex- clusive Groton school ‘in Mas- sachusetts. w is e r a President Kennedy studied for a time.-

Wlth completion of the order at the Whltechapel Bell Foun- dry. establish‘ in London's last E I! d at ca 1570. casting

will begin on another to - bell- aet which will be hung n 2 in year in the belfry of U.S.A'i

famed Washington Cathedral.

under construction since 1907. "British bells are in great de-

mand in America because there

is no bellmalrlng foundry -“

there." says A. A. Hughes. managing director of the firm. "Since World War II, w ti en Americans became Interested in bellrluging. there has been a growing cell for British musical llaudbslla. of

t epkethlswahavaatwayeau.

wilting list.’

’ Whltacliapel bells include the most famous in the world: In London. Big Ben, St. Paul's BI] Tom. Bow Bella, Weatmlnlatar Abbey, the "Oranses a ham- ons" bells at st. Clement Dan-

: also Liverpool Cathedral. Amei‘ica's Liberty Bell was art- gtnally cast at Whltachapel In 1752. On July . 1778, pro- clalmed the Declaration of in- dependence. _

Bells made by the ancient

firm from copper tie. to ma tells the (neat! British “tonal" quality. a re-

has been heated to well over 1.ooo dellrees Caettxrade. In ad- tor churches. chapels. monasteries, . and clocks, they are also a a at for fire engines. ships, buoys. sheep and cattle.

The 8713 African national parksboardpunstorocasduh Inslsoiindslnaesftrrttadle aev¢laatasala"tslL"

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Many Types Of Pollen Seen

Cause Of Fever By Dr. ‘lbaadorc Van Dellen MAN‘! 9 think of’ hay

. many races are allergic tothc pollen of trees and graces. The difference lies in e timing. Ragweed usually polllnates at this time

the year the mldwest wbereis other plants do their lovemak 1 in the spring and early summer.

The hay fever problem varies in different parts of the coun- try because climate determines when" our 34 major offending

trees, grasses. and weeds un- dergo polllnetlon. There is no the nation where all

area in

of th e to grow all of the time. Grasses and trees grow in some regions. for example, but not ragweed.

This is important to know when the physician is asked by a sneezy person toflnd the cause of the hay fever. . Texas heads the list with 27 culprit. In Florida and the gulf states there are only 16 major pollen: en_d the season ends in Novem- bar. This means a Florida physi- cian need not test his hay fever patient for all 34 pollena; he can concentrate on the prev- alent 16. The individual may even be. sensitive to something that does not grow in that state but it is obvious there is no need for concern because it is not playing a role. 1

Furthermore. when snccziun’ continues into December. thci possibility of another type of allergen or a respiratory infec- tion becomes more likely.

Most hay fever sufferers in this country can expect relief by September or October, when the pollination season is over.-V If -there is a continuation of nasal congestiomsneezing. and red s wollen eyelids - blame dust. the family cat or dog. or the common cold. A few months : later. the cycle begins again 1 with tree and grass pollen ‘ the south, southwest. and south- ern California. '

(Dr. Van Dellen will answer3 questions on medical stamped. lope is enclosed.)

TODAY'S HEALTH HINT- Don‘t try to be a showoff in the water: understand y o u r 4 limitations. '

topics if . sclf-addressed cnvc-3

"guns: the smaller

,, - language (but through the stat-

‘ had just said much better. ' stance. CBC's account of

3 men was first class. Bun within

A NO TE’S BY THE v/Ar‘

gull." 'ta outline the blue: the bone. —- Calury Herald. -

Hasarotllttlo

It appears that one was to write a tilt uni; these days is to take something com one of the mastea. than decom-‘ pose it. 7 Bran rd llxposltos-.l

Golfer: “Notice any provemedt since last year?" Caddie: _“Had your clubs shie- ed up. haven't you. sir?" -Mom treal Star.

Field Marshal Viscount Mont»

cigar and calling for mo brandy." — Ottawa Journal.

Annual walking tours ._.are at a g e d in Holland under the name of “General Crerar Mer- clies" in honor of the World War II Canadian Army com- mander. A compliment which involves physical effort these days is compliment indeed and it is pleasant to" report til at some 4,000 participated in the marches this year, including platoons from the Canadian NATO Brigade in Euros». -

owes lln-. cool; level bead

Ottawa Journal:

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word will an... in" "1? "'.‘§‘sauy'"'uTi """ come. 'a

in the ....i..'’.. canto s'.t'.‘.’

More .s'lton than eat, a 1.... his etccess in life to the

on his wife's

shoulders. — Chatham News.

cans ad. The national debt will reach the menu are the Russian cosmonauts get there."