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Discrimination

:i.‘:',,Although the United States has rejected _C-anada’s note complaining ajdout limitation on, crude oil im- pbrts from this country, the Can- tiiequestion is by no means lacking in support south of the border.

a recent hearing before the -

House Ways and Means Committee Representative Hale Boggs, Demo- crat of Louisiana, suggested that the Igisenhower administration, is. suf- A inas- much as it is constantly talking about -the need for‘ freer trade be- tween the United, States and its allies. and yet is doing all it can to discourage ‘oil imports from Can- ada and" other ‘friendly countries. When, at the same hearing, Gor- 1. Gray, Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, declared that “Voluntary limitations on crude oil imports arriinged by a speci,aliPre- sidential committee had not been a,i,_rned at Canada”, Representative Boggs asked: “What, kind of q‘uib- biing’ is this?”'He went on to say

that “e‘\/ery time there is pressure

he strongest memory is weaker than i

in .this.Cana}diani oil“ case, you" have the - very opposite‘ of "free ’

trade”. _

s ' still .hoping for Congressional pprovalbf an extension of the Re- cfififrocal Trade',Act;- but, as several Congressmen have pointed out, if this discrimination against Canada -—for that is what it is——in the mat-

Apparently, President ‘ Eisenhow-

ter of oil imports is a sample “of” what to expect in the broad area 0

of trade, there isn’t much point in extending, the Act anyway. Mean- while, the Canadian note might eventually serve some purpose, in view of the fact that the administra- tion has promised ":50 take another look at the oil limitation formula as it affects Canadian exports, later in the year.

Right-.-Tio Education '

Resolutions adopted by the big .

Canadian Conference on Education

last weekseem to have been water-A‘

ed down to the point of being use- less. 1”l‘ha't at least is theimpression

gathered from the Canadian Press _ summaries. In any case the Confer-

ence dealt gingerly -“with the import- ant question of federal aid to educa- tion. Grantedxthat /this is constitu- tionally a provincial matter, viewed as “a local concern’f.—in 1867.. We are in the year 1958 and the disparities among provincial school systems are surely of more than local concern today. They are a,_ vital factor‘ in

the problem of‘ Canada’s develop-_

ment and defence. V -

As pointed out by the Ottawa Citizen in a strong "editorial on this subject, the percentage of schools taught by unqualified persons var- ies across Canada in the ratio of 1 to more than 3. A high proportion of students—4greater in some provinces than others——cannot afford the kind and amount of education or training of ‘-which they are capable.

Basic to the attack on all other problems in education are solutions to the problems of finance. How are existing disparaties to be lessened‘? From where will come fre-sh billions during the next ten years for school and university buildings, tens of thousands of additional teachers, and scholarship progframls? They can be afforded by an economy that is now devoting to education only 75 cents in every $31 of the national

‘product. But they must ‘come less‘

from local property taxesland more from the newer sourcesof revenue controlled by the. provincial and federal governments, which are en- riched by the whole economy or large sections of it.

Without interfering with pro- vincial jurisdiction,/the federal gov- ernment has made hundreds of mil- lions available for education in re- dent decades, even Quebec, the great dbjector, taking some of the funds. When agreements with the provinces are difficult, it uses non-political agencies like the National Research

Council, the Canada Council or the National Conference of Canadian Universities. There is always a way where there is a will. As well as giving the provinces a larger share of tax revenues, the federal govern- ment could expand its aid to educa- tion by offering elementary and sec- ondary school construction and equipment grants and teacher train- ing grants, analogous to those now made for vocationaltraining, hospit- al construction and health services. There is no question about the over- all importance of the matter.‘ Cer- tainly none with respect to the dire need for such assistance in Prince Edward Island‘and other provinces

which havefound it impossible, from'

their own limited resources, to meet the demand for trained teachers.

Filiingly Honoured

It was a fitting gesture on the_

part of -Mayor Johnstone and fel- low. members of the City Council to wait upon Mr. VonClure Gay on the occasion of his 100th birthday an-

niversary, and present their felicita- . tions and those of our citizens gen-

erally. Mr. Gay’s devotion to the finer things of life——to his hobby of music no less than to his long pro- fessional activities as as florist—be-' speaks the character of this grand

old gentleman. His name has been.

a household word in Charlottetown longer than most of us can remem- ber, and in ripe old age he: still sets an example of exemplary citizenship.

Our Normal School was only two years old when Mr. Gay was born. The first Town Clock had just been installed in the tower of "St. Dun- stan’s Cathedral, the -first Volunteer Infantry Corps formed, and the

Y.M.C.A. organized. His birth coin-’ ,

cided with the launching of the lar- gest Island vessel ever built, “Ethel”, from the Duncan shipyards in Charlottetown. Emigrants were still arriving from Skye, and the town was just preparing to install its first gas lights. He was two years old when the Prince of Wales, after- wards King Edward VII, visited Charlottetown and the Prince of Wales College was established.- He was a youngster of six when :the

I Confederation Fathers met here;

of ~’eight when the Great Fire swept Charlottetown and Father Belcourt

ran the‘ first steam automobile in ’

Rustico. He was thirteen when the Islandiailway was constructed, and fifteen when the Province entered Confederation. I These ~far-dff events help us to realize the lon span of yea-rsthat Mr. Gay has raversed, and many memories he must have of the mileposts on the way. ”

‘EDITORIAL NOTES

A psychiatrist says that there is nothing wrong with people who talk to themselves. And they are wise enough toselect any apprecia- tive audience. ‘, I

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One question discussed at the Canadian‘ Education wa-s:' “Do elderly persons need to

I be busy or just comfortable?” If

that has any relation to education, it must be a» very remote one. , 2 _ 1 it

\ What many Seattle Teamsters’ didn’t think‘ could be done has been done. Their ex-boss, the once mighty Dave Beck, was sentenced Feb. 20

-on a grand larceny conviction, to

serve up to 15 years in the state penitentiary ‘at Walla Walla. i 1 I

Last summer some 50 Bavarian youths were guests of the Soviet -Un- ion at the Moscow world, youth fes- tival. Now the guests are receiving bundles of propaganda material from

the Soviet embassy in Bonn, with-

orders to distribute it. Those who refused have received threatening letters from Moscow, reminding them that their Moscow interlude had “cost a lot of money,” and that it was not intended to “provide a luxury trip to Moscow for specula- tors.”

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The Newfoundland Government-

has undertaken a huge hospital-ex- pansion program. Estimated to cost $20 million, the project ‘will include the building of seven general hos- pitals and six children’s hospitals and the enlargement of seven of the ex- isting cottage hospitals. In all, 1200 new beds will be added ‘to the 2500 the Province has at the present time. In addition, a new $3 million nurses’ residence is to be built for the Gener- al Hospital in St. John’s. It- is ex- pected. that the project will be com- pleted in five years.

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PUBLIC FORUM

‘This column is open to the discus- sion by correspondents of question of interest. The Guar ian does not inesca- sarily endorse the opinion _of' corres-

pondents.

' NEGLECTED ROAD

Sir,—We have been fortunate to get The Guardian every second day since Tuesday, Feb. 18th. Be- for that we got no mail unless

‘we drove five miles to Bonshaw P.0. '

, Regarding Mr. Dunsford’s “Iron }Curtain” at Borden, thereis ano- ther between the Appin Road and

. South Melville Road on which Her Majesty’s mail comes when Prov- idence makes it possible.

This_is a public road ,and from my point-should at least have a track broken on .it for our mail man. The Hon. MacKay, who is in cha.-rgeof highways, says he has nothing to do with this one. This was his reply when my bro- ther called at his office Thursday Feb. 20th; and he seemed more or less annoyed that this matter

_ should be brought- to his, ttention.

Anyone who listened to? r. Mac-. Kay Saturday night on the radio would‘ find this hard to believe, with all their modern equipment which the people are paying-for.

I think it is. time our Honorable Premier saw to it that something‘ is done’ about this, as, the same thing happens every year. Each one likes to get his mail, yet there appears to be no one with authority to see that there .,is a road for our mail man. I am

quite sure that no other place on .

the Island is being treated like this. , I think it is high time that this

“Iron Curtain” road was seen to.

I amtsir, etc.,

BRENDON C. FLOOD South Melville, ‘ - B-onshaw P.O., P.E. Island.

ECONOMIC FORECAST

Sir,—Each year the Economics Branch ‘of the Department of Trade and Commerce makes out a document known as the econo- mic,-forecast for the guidance of the Cabinet and Senior Civil Ser-

' vants.

This document is a confidential

one, required by whatever Gov- ernment is in power, for the en- suing year, and it was rightly left on, the Departmental files by the outgoing Liberal Government after June 10 election. ‘Like any other forecast, this document, .which was dated March 15, 1957, gave both sides of the economic outlook—favorable and unfavorable—-as the econo- mists, who are Civil Servants, saw /it, and being confidential, it is not intended for publication nor for political purposes.

Until quite recently, Prime Minister Diefenbaker and some of his Cabinet Ministers contended that the unemployment situation in Ca ada was merely tempor- ary and that the natural buoy- ancy of the economy would soon assert itself. But finally having to admit that unemployment was rapidly increasing, the only thing to do was to blame it on the previous Liberal administration.

So, on January 20, Mr. Diefen- baker took this confidential document from the Departmental files into the House of Commons, with the cover ‘which bore its title torn off, and made use of it In a passionate speech which last- ed about one hour, for the pur- pose of blaming the previous Lib- eral Government for the present predicament of his Tory Govern- ment. including unemployment, and in thunderous tones quoting the unfavorable paragraphs and leaving out parts that were favor- able.

When,asked by members of the Opposition what he was reading from, Mr. Diefenbaker replied,

‘I call it the hidden report”, and when reminded that the cover which contained the title of the document had been removed, he vigorously denied that he knew anything about its removal. Of- course he knew that in making political use of this confidential forecast, lie was committing a glaring breach of honor, and he

‘ milk of human kindness, we have .just had the example of the in-

I who has to travel at his own ex-

gethe Income Tax‘ Appeal Board.

sad role of books in modern soc-

‘ campaign, it would be overlooked

OTTAWA REPORTS‘

Inieresiiing

By Patrick

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Nicholson

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For Victim" Of

Blood Pressure

By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D. IF you have high blood P1‘9S_' sure, you can do a lot to allevi- ate your condition. Of course you will need the aid of your physician and all his wondrous drugs, but through rest. 1‘913>fa' tion and by watching your diet you can help yourself a great , deal. ’ REST AND RELAXATION

By getting the porper amount‘ of rest and relaxing whenever possible, you night even help to bring your blood pressure down to about normal without the help of any medicine at all. I don’t advise that you rely upon this

» method, however. \

The work of your heart and ‘arteries becomes easier when you lie down. Hence, your blood pressure probably will fall.

In fact, you might be able to rid yourself of or lessen many of the‘ symptoms of hypertension -—dizziness, fatigue, headaches, shortness of breath -— by going to bed ‘and staying there about a week and a half. , ' NEAR NORMAL‘ LEVEL

Gradually, your blood pres- sure will fall until it reaches a level somewhere near normal. However, toolong a stay in bed won’t bring it down any more.

Anyone with high blood pres- spre is apt to be very tense. You may worry about everything, es- pecially your condition. That's why it is important to relax as much as you can. i

I strongly advise a half-hour nap after lunch or just. pefore dinner for any and all victims of‘ hypertension. If you just can’t lie dwn to nap for some reason or other, at leasttry to

sit down and relax for awhile,

So much for physical relaxa- tion; Now, how about relaxing mentally? ' PEACE OF MIND ,

Well I know a number of'doc-7 tors who suggest that their hy- pertension» patients might find peace of mind if they took a more active interest in religion --or, if they are unmarried, that they get»married :

\ While I can’t say definitely that either or both will help alle- viate all high blood pressure,

Special Correspondent for The Guardian

Ottawa: Many taxpayers’ be- lieve something not without rea- son, that our national taxing ma- chinery is a pitiless ogre with a heart of stone. But that belief is also sometimes based on pre- judice. ,

Showing that that grantie heart is capable of flowing with the

come tax appeal case “John D. Ha-rbron versus the Minister of National Revenue.”

This was ,a test case, of Nery great interest to any employee

pense in the course of. hr_is-em- ployment. Mr. Harbron may~well prove to be the knight in shining armour who will obtain for all Canadians the future right to de- d-uctisuch expenses.

‘True, his appeal to have such travelling costs was disallowed by

But thevsympatihetic heairinfg of his forlorn hope demonstrated an unsuspected k-indliness on, the part of officialdom reluctant to extract from us tax-payers one ounce more -than the pound of flesh to which it is’ entitled.

‘The facts are clearly set out in the reasons of his judgment, han- ded down by R.S.W. Fordham, a member of the Income Tax

Appeal. Board.

“The appellant is a rising young journalist,” commences Mr. Fordham. Note that unsolici- ted testimonial to the taxed em; ployee in -the first sentence. I

hope that Mr. Harbron, in apply-

ing for any future job, will bene-" fit from that endorsement “ris-

ing”, as used by an impasrfiial 01" ficial body. ,

.“He was in the employ of Mac- lean-Hunter Publishing Co. Ltd., on a salary basis, but also did some free-lance work. When. he had occasion to travel ‘outside

Toronto in the courseof his em-.

ployment, his travelling expenses were -paid by the Company. Any travelling he found it necessary to do within the city limits, how’- ever, had to be met from his own pocket.” F « This local travel mighthave been in seeking material for his ‘journalism. But it also included .e_s'se.ntial travelibetween the com- pany’s.~.main office and its other

business premises withing the

city. This amount, according to

»Mr. Harbron’s’ calculations, total-

led $354.80 during the year. .

Now an employee compelled by his employer to pass from one depargment to another in the course of his daily work can nor- mally just walk from one room in-to another, or take the ‘eleva- tor from one floor to another.

I Silence 4 Vancouver

What this country needs most of all is a society for the protect- ion of readers. ‘ _

Let a man sit down to read in a public place-—-hotel lobby, rest- aurant, waiting at the bus stop or on the bus itself. Let a man — or woman —— do this and it is al- most a dead certainty that_ some sociable oaf will plunk himself down and start a conversation.

This invasion of privacy is the height and lach of consideration. It is a direct reflection on the

iety.

It may be simple stupidity. It may be an overdose of Dale Carnegie. But the theory seems to be that anyone in a l public place is a legitimate target for the practice of togetherness. Books, obviously, are merely an escape from,’boredom. Boors re- fuse to consider that some people read because they like reading.

The reader is’ expected to gratefully close the covers on whatever he’s reading at the ‘first sound of a jovial “Great day, lsn’t it?” Let it be

knew that the Senior members of the - opposition parties knew it also. But what did that matter so long as his speech would go all over Canada through the medium of I-Ianzard and the press The

fact remains, however, that he _

misused and misrepresented the confidential, sacred document in a most unworthy, degrading and shameful manner.

Sitting in the Senate Gallery of the House of Commons, studying the antics of the Prime Minister with whom I had sat in Parlia- ment for several years, I thought that on cool, after-consideration he wduldregret the incident, and trust that, in the heat of the

and forgotten. But as late as last night I turned on the television and there he was convulsively waving the “Economic Forecast” and calling it “This Hidden Re- port”, in front of an audience in Newfoundland.

It was bad enough to take this confidential Economic Forecast out of the files of the Department and produce it in the Commons and on the public platform, but to twist its meaning, by leaving 0111 favorable content, was even worse and more mischievous:

I am, Sir, etc., THOS. V. GRANT

For The Reoder!"

Province —

Shakespeare or Cato or a dis- sertation on the‘ pruning of roses, no matter. The book 1S granted only a dubious second place to “Been waiting long?” Or “How’s"the soup today?”

These cafe - and - corner con- versations then sparkle on thr- ough a football game the reader’s never heard of, the magnificent putt on\ the 14th. greenby some- body’s second cousin_ and the posi- tion of a corn on the speaker's left big toe.

Corned thus, - In a ny read- ers will sigh, put their book aside and participate, glass-eyed, in the feast of friendliness. \

What’s needed is a club call- ed, say, Readers’ Alliance, with large lapel buttons proclaiming, “I am a Reader. Leave me

alone.” And if that doesn’t work,

the reader must be trained to look up coldly from his book and state, evenly but clearly so that it can be heard some little dis- tance, “Will you please shut up?’

certainly religion and marriage _as_a rule, are, highly inportant in having a normal, peaceful and‘ pleasant life, QUESTION AND ANSWER

A. B.‘: My child has’ been given ' sulfa drugs for a sore throat. Is there any chance of this drug damaging her kidneys? . Answer; Since the newer sulfa drugs have been employed 111 Proper dosage, there is little, chance of their crystalizing and causing d i f f i c ul t y. But these drugs should be given only under the direction of a doctor.

Bil-t in this case, the employer apparently maintained his differ- ent departments in different build- ings widely removed from one another. C A

Mr. Harbron could presumably ‘have walked——a»t a cost to him of nothing but shoe-leather but. at a cost to his employer of much paid time. Instead, Mr. Harbron evid- ently travelled by private car or by public. transportation. If the‘ employer does not recognize" the cost as expenses which should be refunded, then in fairness it cer- tainly seems that the In-come Tax Act should allow-them to ;'be de- ducted, as expenses essentially in- curred to enable the employee to earn his salary. There is a clear

penses and the normal daily ex- pense of travelling between one’s home and one’s place of ;work. THE JUDGMENT

“At the hearing,” continues Mr. Fordham’s Reasons, the appel- lant freely acknowledged that he could find no groundsfor relief in any provision of the Act, but had launched this appeal for the purpose of. bringing his alleged plight and that of any journal- ists in a similar position to the attention of the authorities con- cerned,, in the hope that remed- ial legislation might result. He argued his own appeal and did so ably.” ‘

Another unsolicited testimonials there is nothing stoney-lhearted about that learned member of the Appeal Board, Colonel “Reggie” Fordham, Queen’s Counsel, evid- ently. . . '

And the reasons and with this broad hint to the Government: “The appeal can only be dismis- sed, as evidently was anticipated by the appellen-t a.t the outset. The Board, of course, must take“ the law as it presently obtains. Amendments, where they seem

honourableubody to consider.”

I

if you need assistance with your Income’-‘Tax »

return, consult themanoger of any office of the

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Canada’s universities are al . ready faced with a crisis. It is estimated that by 1965 some 130,- 000 will be going to college, com- pared with 70,500 a decade ear-‘i lier.—Vancouver Sun.

In noncentennial times men sprout face fungus for a variety of reasons-as an assertion of their virility, to hide a weak chin, in a spirit of deering-do (the beard RCNVR), as a declaration of intellectual independence (the beards Chelsea, Left Bank and CBC), because nobody gives a darn about how they look (the beard Dew Line), or simply be- cause shaving bores them. In nor- ’ mal times this last motivation is the one that hardly anyone,non. bearded will believe.—Vancouvcr. Province ‘

The astonishing growth in the world circulation of the Bible is commented on in_a new survey 1 of‘ Bible societies which shows that las-t year the number of com- plete Bibles, Testaments and sep- arate parts of the Bible the soc- ieties issued reached 26,379,142 " copies, an, increase of a million over 1955. The complete Bible is now issued in 1,109 languages. W One of the reasons ‘for t.l1e‘Bible,’s increasing circulation is the grow- th of literacy in Asia and Af- rica.——London Observer

The ever-helpful Agriculture De- partment has published a book»- let on “The ‘Dairy Goat” loaded with useful material on the selec-

these animals’. We ourselves know of a, couple who, as they say, went into goats and chickens. The goats soon found that they could bring the most attractive cackles‘ of alarm from the henhouse by jumping on the roof. This amus- ed them so much that they did . it most of the time and egg pro- ;

duction vanished. In their e- ‘hus- iasm,.l1he goats ‘ateiall tih tar paper oflf the roof of the poultry. shed and, when they began raid-i ing the clot.-heslvines for food, our friends sold them.—0ttaiwa Jour- = nal - ‘,

C ouiz CYESTERDAYSC

(From The Guardian Files)

(Feb; :5, 1933’) i J - ' Mr. W.P.‘ Doull, who resigned 1 . on Wednesday evening from the’ , . City Council Board to ‘accept the ' position of Building and Electri- cal Inspector for the City of Char- lottetown, was sworn into his new duties yesterday -morning by His ., ‘ Worship Mayor’Stewa1‘t.', 3

The annual ceremdny comme- morating the battle of Paarde- berg which in former years has, i taken place at the South Afric- - - » an Memorial will this yelar take place in St. James Church, it waslearned yesterday. The p1sc- W ing of wreaths at the Commun- . , . ion Table and the sounding of the .. .. “Last~Post” will be included in the order of service.-

I TEN YEARS AGO ' (Feb. 25;‘ 1948) some thirty cars‘ of Island seedpotatoes have been shipped ‘to Halifax where they are being

side” for shipment to Palestine.

000 bushels of seed which has- gone to Palestine this season to buyers in that area. I

The proposed sale and manu- ~‘ ~ facute of oleomargarine in Can- ada and the lack of sufficient qualified inspectors to assist Mr. H.J. MacDQ'n-ald, dairy ‘superin- tendent, were two of the more» important questions discussed at yesterdays two sessions of the P.E.I. Dairymen’s_ Association.

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