Conference Proposal

I This Province should welcome wholeheartedly Prime Minister Die- fenbaker's proposal to hold a new federal-provincial conference at the earliest opportunity, Of all the Prov- inces of Canada. we received the shabbiest deal under the existing tax rental agreements. Mr. Diefen- baker himself was strongly critical of the situation when he spoke here during the federal election campaign. And well he might be, for neither our fiscal needs nor our tax raising ability was taken into consideration in the allocation of federal revenues.

There is no doubt but that the Conservative pledge to call a new fiscal conference played an import- ant part in the polling results last June. Certainly it did in Prince Ed- ward Island. where the Liberal de- feat was overwhelming. lilr. Diefen- baker now shows that he is anxious to redeem his promise. and our Pro- vincial Government should lose no time in accepting the proposal, and in cooperating in working out I mutually acceptable date. The Gov- ernment should at once begin pre- paring its case, thoroughly and con- vincingly. We believe that if the facts are thus presented, there will be every reason to expect more favourable treatment than we have received in the past.

This is one issue in which party politics should have absolutely no place. Our interests have too often been jeopardized by slavish adher- ence to partisan loyalties. In this case it could work out disastrously if the overruling objective is forgot- ten. Our present situation is too serious. and the opportunity of reme- dying it too promising. for our tax- payers to tolerate anything short of 100 per cent unity of action on the part of all concerned in pressing our just claims.

Corruption In Labour

Mr. Walter P. Reuther, Vice- President of the American Federa- tion of Labour-Cohgress of Indust- rial Organizations, who has been attending the annual conference of the British Trades Union Congress, was loudly applauded when he de- clared that "the leadership of or- ganized labour in the United States is determined to drive out every racketeer who used his position of trust to gain personal advantage at the expense of union members."

It is to be hoped that Mr. Reu- ther and other responsible leaders

of the American labour movement-

will be able to carry out this laud- able intention. For there is no hiding the fact that corruption and .mal- feasance are rife among I number of the lesser officials in more than one participating union. This has been proved beyond doubt in the current Congressional inquiry. But it is not an easy task that they have

- on their hands; and it will take a

great deal of courage and resolution to restore public confidence.

The labour movement in the United States, as in Canadafis very mag; and it plays an important 1-do in the country's economic and

ought life. It would be a great pity , tilt were weakened by the irrespon-

Ibie action: of I small, though noisy. fnctton. But that is whnt will happen

frtnn taking iou excursions into the Jungle in south of bnnnnu for vijaich they have I special liking.

Spenldng of the jungle, it is so thick that even wild Inimnk find it difficult to penetrate them. Most of them follow the trolls msde by elephants. Deep in the jungles live thousands of Iborigines. including tree dwellers Ind pigmies who use blowguns carrying poison darts. Many Malayan houses are made of coconut leaves and bamboos. Usually they Ire raised on stilts to keep out makes. The country is-one of the wettest in the world. Parts of it Ire drenched annually by a rainfall or 2!;- million gallons.

The people on the whole are I cheerful lot. They are chiefly em- ployed in tapping rubber trees. min- lng tin. growing pineapples. tea and cassava. From the roots of the last- named tapioca is made. In making tapioca workers have to be very careful about removing the sap un- der the skin of the root. This sap contains prussic acid. a deadly pol- son. For diversion. the natives catch crocodiles on hooks baited with chickcns.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Justice Department is to be commended on its promptness in de- claring the notorious Jack Comer persona non grata: It is to be hoped that the action will dissuade other foreign hoodlums from "taking I look around" in this country.

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An Air Patrol sentry dog which was killed in an accident in Rapid City. S.D., was buried with full mili- tary honours. Airmen are now col- lecting funds for a tombstone on which will be inscribed: "He died in the line of duty for his country and ours."

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New Zealsnd. which abolished its Upper House of Parliament seven years ago, has taken an appraising look at the experiment; and a report from Wellington says that there is no public interest in restoring the chamber. Everything seems to have gone along pretty well without it.

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Prime Minister Diefenbaker told reporters the other day that the question of increasing old ge pen- sions is one that will be "I id before Parliament." flfhe only thing left to be considered, then. is the size of the increase. It can be taken for granted that Parliament will any "yes" to the question.

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United States Secretary of State Dulles remarked some time ago that he didn't care whether American policy made friends abroad or not. Well, one aspect of its social pattern is certainly not calculated to make friends. The other day in Texas I young Nigerian student was arrested and fined for refusing to move to the back of a bus. The British Em- bassy in Washington has asked for I full report on the incident.

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At Fort Macleod, Alberta. the first Northwest Mounted Police fort has been rebuilt at a cost of S70.000. It is 225 feet long and 175 feet wide with I stockade 13 feet high. A calm commemorates "the arrival in Octo- ber. 1874, after an arduous march of 1,000 miles of 'the Northwest Mounted Police and the building of the first fort, named after their commanding officer, Col. J. F. Mac- leod."

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August was a bad month for Britain's dollar and gold reserves. They dropped 3225 million 'lo 2.- 142.000.000 dollars. roughly 10 per cent below the July level. Consid- ered ln finInciIl circles Is I temp- orary setback, it was attributed muniy to speculation regarding the

0voI."- I condition cnused by unhyglnie conditions It birth.

Now thin doesn't mean -that I child's eyes are perfectly Info until he begins to strnln them by reading too much. Quite the con- trnry. you've got to be enpeci - ly Ilert for eye troubles during lnfnncy. if there is I fnmilinr eye dis- enu, prenntnl mnternnl disease or if the baby wnn premature. then you'vo got to keep In even closer check. What should you look for? Well, perhspn the eyes them- selves mny not Ippenr healthy. Swollen. red or encrusted eye- lids with recurring Ities, crossed eyes or uneven position of th e eyes. inflamed Ind wntery eyes. or constant rnpid motion of the eyeballs menu the eyes deserve Ittention.

Other signs of

-TTPUBLICPPTTFORUM IOTTAWA REPORT

This column In -open to tho dl-no Iion by eorroopoclnntn of Iuuuu If interest. The Guudlnn dose not necoo Iorily endorse the optniu If oos-In pondenln,

GRADE XII AND 0'LEARY HIGH SCHOOL

Sir,- As certain publicity mi been given to the non-granting of I Grade XII in 0'LeIry High School apparently to try and Jun- iily very discriminating action on the part of the Department of Education we feel we should present the facts to the public Is they exist.

The trustees of the 0'Lenry School have been following I policy of improving the stand- ard of educntlon in the 0'LeIry district. in 1947 the old two room school was replaced by I modern four room school, Ind when the need for I Grade Xi became Ipparent two additional rooms were Idded which provided fur- ther fnclllty for the district. The trustees were Ilso assured It that time that Grade XII could be Idded It Iny time In no centre Within twenty five miles was permitted to have such. Tlgninh was preparing to teach Grade XII Ind Summer- side was slresdy operating with Grade XII being taught.

in the fnce of this promise the Department turned around Ind established both grnden in Alberton. I district only fifteen miles from Tignish Ind we were told we could not hnve the grade.

This yenr nineteen registered in Grnde XI in 0'l.eIry, Ind of these seventeen pnsned. This record oompnren fIvorIbly with or excelln thst of soy other Inch school in the province Ind is I credit to the pupils Ind their tencher.

On the hull of this class the Innunl School meeting Ippolnt- ed I speclnl committee to in- terview the Depnrtment of Edu- cntion with I view to establish-

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wns told by the Minister Ind the Deputy Minister that if f!!- teen pupils were in Ittendnnoo the grade could be instituted. This could not be determined un- til the pun list cnmelout some time in August. nod to the menu- time some members of the class. due to the uncertainty of whether the grndo would" be en- tnbllshed drifted Iwny into the bunk Ind other positions. However I Ipeclnl ' of the rntepsyers wsn cnllod. money won voted to pay I tench- er'I supplemont. furnish I lIrg- er well lighted comfortable room in the bnscrnent. Ind provide lnborntory fncilltlsn. The rnto payers even volunteered to mnlte up any deficiency than might be in the teIcher's snlnry by reason of I , '” slight shortage of the required nuur ber of pupils. A tcneber wnn Id- vsrtlsed for. contacted Ind tn-

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New York: Ex-General Dwight Eisenhower. the 33rd President of the United States of America. is the first golf fan ever to lose on the first tee.

What he lost. when he teed up the first presidential ball, was Ill chance of ever being taken seriously. In I grent president. His frequent golfing ban increas- ingly dominated the public pic- ture of the president. whether he is holidaying It the house es- pecially built for him on the Nntionnl Golf Course at Augusta. Georgia: or whether he in prac- tising chip shots on the front lawn of his otficinl White House residence.

Since his second serious ill- ness. he has seemingly spent ev- en more time fluffing It bnlls. and now cartoonists constnntly remind Americans of their golf- ing president. hinting that be in thus ignoring their serious pro- blems.

Not very long Igo. he held I conference with our then Prime Mlninter. Mr. st-Lnurent. looti- iog Iround I golf course in elec- tric carts. M I time when Item- lc tests, i-I-bomb wIrfIre, mon- wny loflntion. trade -ecenslon Ind Iprending communism lncrenle ingly threatened their two un- tlons. those two government bends. riding electric chariots I- round I golf course. presented I Ipectscle unmatched in history since the Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burnt.

IKE THE NATIONAL HERO

When the wnr-hero general. who was dedlcnted to the cnuno of pence. wu ' t p. ” t of the U.S.A. in I052 the whole free world sighed with relief Ind hoped for no end to the Cold War. Eisenhower today is still so lov- ed that. given Inother election tomorrow. the memory of the suc- cessful wnrtime lender would win for him the presidency I- gnln.

But Itns, there in I big up Ind mnny pbstncles between Ge- nernl the sod Pienldent Ibo. First is the smnll new Idditlon to the constitution known In the 22nd Imendrnenl. Thnf lsyn it down lhnt no mnn mny run for I third term In president. Thus todny ilre in history's first "Lame Duck" president. Every- one knows he may not run for president Ignln. no the t ' " Iry effect of his ” ,' 2 in fut fndlng. Everyone knows ibnl he will not be Ible to rewnrd his supporters Ifter the next elec- tion. In nobody is Ifrnid to of- fend or oppose him.

so I colnblnntlon of circum- Itnnces has led to Ievernl Io- vern defeats for the President II recent weeks. if he were Prime lllnlnter of CInIdI. he would be

Iny M.L.A.. Ignln trsveliod to Cllnrloltetown to be greeted by the Minister of Education Ind

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Eisenhower's Prestige Wones

By Pnirlck Nicholson

forced to resign. but that does not hnppon under the US. form of government.

it is I bod thing that the creeping regrowth of isolation- ism in the U.S. has led Con- gress to nlnsh Eisenhower's inr- sigiitcd foreign Ild program. It is I Ind thing thnt renctionnrles have been Ible to devltnllze his humnnltarlnn Ind lnw-observing civil rights bill. Ilmed It giving coloured people full citizenship rights.

But worse thnn these individ- uIl defentn in tho powerlessness of the President which they nym- bollse.

AN ABUIID LAMI DUCK

Over the next three yesrs. the

Washington government in likely to be increasingly thwnrted by I hostile Congress plnying dom- estic politics. lite will indeed be I lnmo duck President. . Never has Iny previous Pred- denl won such resounding elec- toral victories; novIi:.hII Iny predecessor enjoyed such In un- criticnl press; never has Iny President been handled so tan- derly even by his polltlcsl foes- up till this you. But now Cor .. snmnn publicly insult hlrn - one called him "I lousy llnr" -; newsmen openly critlcine his "vnclllsting" Ind "wisby-wodty" policies: Ind observers Iround the globe Ire doplortng his loss of polltlcni londenhlp. which is frnnkly I major disaster to the free world.

The turning point. perhaps no- rocognlnod It the tlmo. III when IkI'I Foreign Secretary. John rostnr Dulles. delighted the us. cotton lobby by wttbdrnwing his promise of money to help Egypt's Nsnnor build the AI- wsn Dom -- which would have promoted Egyptian cotton to be I more powerful competitor for world markets.

Since thnt disastrous folly, the Western Ilunnce has been stead- ily" drifting sport; nobody Inn Iuomod the mantle vacated by the golfing Ind powerless proo- ldont.

IkeI' decline in Indian- ity Ind prestige It home he loft the free world without I ionic and even without I rallying point.

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UITAWA (CP)-lrltIln'I first lord of the Idmlrslty. Lord Bol- kirk. will visit Conndn Ind the

. rolling of the eyes in infancy, frowning or Iqulnting when looking It din- tnnt objects. tilting or twisting the bend when looking It things, holding objects too closely, I mnrked sensitivity to light. fro- ouent rubbing of the eyes. It- i temptn to brush Iwny I blur with the hand or stumbling over Imnll objects.

DEVELOPMENT. ACTIVITIES

Development Ictivitien of the child mny be delnyod. Perhaps he will fnll to follow ” t with his eyes It the unusl Ige; I creeping child will foil to pick up small oblectn. with eye trouble. he may be unable to Identify f "' dlslnnt objects. it he fails to lenrn colon by In of four. it might signify color blindness. i

Generally. about five per cent of school-age boys present evidence of r color deficiency. Ind Ibout one per cent of the

is have the some trouble.

Uls'l'loN AND ANSWER

A. G.: I hnd I bsby two years Igo Ind brennt-fed her for eight months. However. my brenntn will not dry up. Whnt would you suggest that I do?

Answer: it would be well for you to how I complete physical exnmlnntion to determine whet- her there in some hormone dif- lioully causing the hrsutn to dlnchnrlu.

The Age Old Story when I inII'I wnyn plenso the

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The birds come. They do not know that the plIeo,wII Ill- Int before they come.

They live among tboh-.own vole-

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Ion . Their return is only I coming to Inother home: They hnvo business to trnnnnct

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OUR YESTERDAYS

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time for the mental pntlentn. who have so much ldcl time. That in turn may hnsten their recovery. -Milwaukee Journal

Ne have Inuod h- dignntion ever since they went to press. especially when I read- er disagrees with In editorial. The cnpnclty for indignation in one of the noble Ittributen of tho humnn race. one wouldn't want it to lessen. A

privilege of the render in thnt of being indignant. Ind it's more nntinfnctory to read something worthy of the capacity of I great lndignntion. thnn to he in- dignant about trifios. - Cape Breton Post

hnd particularly high pulse for the qunllty of tho Inlmnls shown.

Fire. which bogsn osrly yeste- erdsy afternoon, destroyed the dwelling house., lnrge born. workshop Ind poultry house of Mr. lisrold Annenr. Lowe: Montague. Five calves Ind lib poultry were nine lost. The loan I estii-noted It over IIMN. pnrtly covered by lnnurnnoo.

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Thorn no denying it. thnl the time Minster in I hnndsonis person, but it in not doing him Justice to picture htm Ilwnys II I Hollywood type. scour or in. or the public in likely to discover Mr. Disfonbsker stlting bluntly thnt certain distasteful things In going to be done Ind the smile is not going to make the edicts Iny more pIlItIblo ilor thou who hold high hopon.-Moon J II Times

The idea of living longer I. eer- tslnly pleusnt. But then will be problems. Lnck of Jobs crenteo I trying problem for I mnjoi-lty of the Igod todsy. Tho propor- tion of our popuintlon over as in Itendlly growing. While the pop ulntlon hII doubled. thin group of the elderly has qundrupled. in the light of these fncts. the predicted Inc of 150 in something Ierioun to think Ibout. But there In no ronson to not into I tiny. It's still for dlotnnt.-Cornwnll stnndnrd-Freeholder

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