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V Mr. Drew's Retirement

hon. Mr. urews retirement as leader of the national Progressive Cpnservative Party and of the of- ficial Opposition in the House of Commons is a matter of general re- gret, for it is due to a health con- dition brought about, in large part, by strenuous devotion to public duties. Mr. Drew has taxed his magnificent physical resources un- sparingly during all his adult life.

He gave outstanding service over- seas during the First World War, and entcred politics shortly after- wards in his native city of Guelph. Arduous years as Premier of On- tarlo followed during which be ac- quired a national reputation for administrative ability and aggres- sive leadership. Since 1948 he has applied himself with the same zeal to building up his party nationally. He has been subject to criticism, of course, but none will deny his in- tegrity and conscientiousness at all times. He is a statesman of whom Canada may well be proud; and if the fortunes of politics had been otherwise there is no question but that he would have worthily filled the office of Prime Minister.

! It is emphasized, in press reports, that Mr. Drew is not a sick man. He has been advised, however, that al- though he may look forward to years of useful and productive work, he cannot resume the heavy chores of Opposition leadership without risk to his health, particularly when it is anticipated that a heavy parlia- mentary session will be followed by an election next year. Mr. Drew has made a hard decision in resigning so that a successor can be appointed without further delay. His friends throughout Canada will share his own feelings of sadness on this oc- casion. His most militant opponents, too, will dip their colours in salute to a gallant warrior.

Another View

The popular Maritime view con- cerning the St. Lawrence Seaway project is that it will add little or nothing to the economic progress of the Atlantic region and that, in all likelihood, it will seriously impair the customary shipping operations of the principal Atlantic ports. This would appear to be a well-founded view. It stands to reason that ships sailing non-stop to Great Lakes ports are not going to benefit Hali- fax or Saint John.

Oddly enough, a somewhat dif- ferent view is being maintained by some members of the United States branch of the Advisory Board of the S e a w s y Development Corporatidn who recently completed a tour of the areas which are being developed. It would be too much to say that they a re pessimistic about long-range prospects of the Great Lakes region, but they are certainly taking a cautious view of the immediate ones. Their chief compliant seems to be that it will be several years before the harbours along the route are in a position to accommodate ocean gang vusels in any great number; andibey saw no hope at all that any

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.'1nHt” which these officials an worrying about will continue to be practised by ship owners indefinitely. The hope, however, has not a grea

deal to sustain it. .

Oil Surpluses Doubilcss, it would be wrong to suggest that the United States” pro- posal to lend European countries up to a half billion dollars for the pur- chase of American oil s u p p lie s, should the Suez Canal become un- usable, is simply a business plan in the economic interests of the United States. Nevertheless, the proposal comes at a most opportune time for the American oil induSU'Y. 88 is

made clear in an article in the bush -

ness section oi' a recent issue of the New York Times. "The nation's oil mu-keters," it says, ”face an ac- cumulation of gasoline stocks. But, in view of Mr. Dullcs' plan to ship crude oil to l-Europe, the accumu- lgtlgn may not be too serious."

The article goes on to give facts and figures cnnccrnlng impending reduction of purchases in various parts of the country: Starting Oct. 1. purchases in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Kansas will be cut to 7596 of the August level. In September another concern will re- duce orders by 26,000 barrels a day less than had been planned previous- ly. Still another company reported that its gasoline stocks stood at 14 93 above the 1955 level and would have to be reduced considerably unless new outlets are found for the ac- cumlated surplus.

It is, of course, a good thing to know that if Middle East supplies are. in fact, denied to Western Europe for any length of time, the deficiency can be made up, at least in part, by American wells. Perhaps in time the Canadian industry, too, will profit from the increased de- mand. But it is obvious that any such plan, no matter what the finan- cial arrangements may be, can only be in the nature of a stopgap. Short of building a new canal from the Mediterranean through Isrcal to the Red Sea-a project which most com- petent engineers appear to believe would not be economically feasible, though technically possible-there would seem to be no satisfactory long-range substiiutc for the Suez.

EDITORIAL NOTES

A scientific team is reported to be putting finishing touches to a device which will enable specialists "to see what goes on in a person's head." Now they'll need another gadget to explain intelligibly what this one reveals.

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Conservation officials have band- ed 14,000 murres on a group of islands off Newfoundland's East coast, the largest nesting place for sea birds in North America. "Mur- res" they may be to the biologists, but Newfoundland fishermen-hunters will continue to call them ”turrs" as they have always done.

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Beginning in the summer of 1957 there is going to be an exchange of professors between Oxford Univer- sity and the University of Moscow. This would seem to indicate that there will bc no war for another year anyhow. Once having made an agreement, Oxford goes ahead with it.

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There is a rumour going around New England that one reason why only one of the six govemon in the region attended the Bar Harbor Conference was that most of them were disappointed that Quebec had not been invited to send representa- tives. More likely it was the impend- ing election with all its fuss and bother that kept them at home.

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Switzerland b not a great power in the military sense, but evidently its financial status ranks amotu the best. A news report Ayn that the

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Detours Around Suez

Neal Stanford in the Christina Science Monitor

Withuug minimizing the serious- ness of the Suez crisis, it should be recorded that two economic factors are playing against Egypt. ' And these when seriously examin- ed in Cairo could make President Nasser considerably more coopera- i live. One is the steady expansion of the large-tanker flect. that mak- es a detour of the Suez Canal ec- , onomlcally feasible; the other is the onrush of the atomic era that is sure to bring before too many , years economic electrical power from atomic energy. Both of these factors could in the matter of five l or ten years maka Egypt's canal much less vital to British and Wes- l tern European economy. Egypt-i lan lntrsnslgcance could result in Colonel Nssser's finding he had a , canal that the world no longer really needed, -

That is not to say that it does not , need it now; that a breakdown in ,

its operation would not be calami- tous to Britain and the West; that Mideast oil nowlng through the canal to Western Europe is not presently vital and valuable. Nor is it to say that the signatories to the 1008 convention do not still have rights under that internat- ional agreement. But it is to point out and point up that while Colonel Nasser appears to hold the upper hand now, that will not always be

so. N0 DAY-DREAM

The large tanker fleet is no day- dream. It is already coming into existence. The tankers that ply the Suez Canal average 15.000 to 25,000 tons. The Sinclair Oil Com- pany Is using a new 58.000-ton tanker to carry all around the Cape

of Good Hope. There are several other tankers in this category in operation: and others of 46.000- ton size or IO. And this week an order was placed here in the Unit- ed States for a 05.0fXHon tanker- tbe largest ever ordered in this country. So the big-tanker fleet is growing and being found financial- ly sound whatever happens to the Suez Canal. Such tankers will of course be more valuable in their runs from the Mideast oil fields around the Cape to the United States. But they could still make the haul to Britain and Western Europe in an emergency-and were there enough of them. So the big tanker constitutes a potential ans- wer to Colonel Nansi-'s -current economic threat to Britain. It is one that with each passing month

eskens his apparent strangle hold on access to Mideast oil.

The other factor that is playing against Colonel Nasser, the pot- entialities of which are immense, is the peaceful development of at- omlc power. Atomic Energy Com- missloner Willard Libby recently said that atomic power may have come 15 years too early for the United States-because. as he ax- plalned. the United States at pres- ent has sutflcint coal and petro- leum reserves and it does not really need this new source of energy for its industrial empire now, In other words it is not cur- rently hard up for sources of ener- gy and not under pressure of need to develop atomic power quickly. BRITAIN'S PROGRAM

But that does not apply to Brit- sin and some other countries. And the sues crisis but dramatizes

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Almost all men Improve an ac- quaintance.

Britain's desperate need to devel- op this new source of power. Act- ually Britain has instituted some- thing of a crash program to tap this new source of energy. And in this field of applied atomic power the consensus is that the British are ahead of the United States.

In a matter of weeks Britain is dedicating its first dual-purpose reactor-that is, a reactor that produces both plutonium and elec- tric power. What makes that bet- ter than anything so far built eith- er here or in Britain-or in the Soviet Union. it is presumed-is that it will not only develop elec- tric power. but it will produce gn element that is itself flsslonable and so a potential source of more atomic power.

The purpose in stating these (I618. however, is not to go into the various types of atomic power plants that are being designed or dreamed about. it is rather to point up the fact that atomic power for industrial use is not still around the corner but is here and in use. Economic electric power from at- omic energy for Britain is its real answer to its power crisis.

And by freeing it from depend- ence on Mideast oil for energy it cannot but in time down-grade the importance to Britain of the Suez. This. and the increase in the large- lanker fleet of the Wont, should live Colonel Nasser pause in his present dealings with the wen. He may have the economic upper band now, but be will lose it quick. or and have less left of value if he

is not reasonable now.

Drought In Texas

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The most withering. costly, pro-

longed and heartbreaking drought l

in the memo , of living man has been searing a large area of the Southwestern United States for the past. seven years.

A graphic description and thor- oughgolng analysis of this great disaster has been written by Mr. Stanley Walker for the New York Herald Tribune. Mr. Walker, A fonner city editor on the New York paper, owns a ranch near Lsmpasas, Texas. .

According to Mr. Walker, the drought covers a belt of territory almost a thousand miles wide, ex- tending from eastern Colorado and western Kansas. all the way down to the Rio Grsnde on the Texas- Mexican border.

No one can say for sure what the drought. has cost the people of the southwest. in Texas alone It is estimated to have cost clone to t1.000.t)00,MI). But in addition to the visible traguiy of what is happen- ing to the land and to the peo- ple. there are indirect costs: the manufacturer whose Isles have fallen off in the area; the indust- rallst who is thinking of starting

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their but to fight the thing tin-oufh But not all. Over the big wrong t- Iron gates of a sbowplaee ranch in Texas hangs a sign: "Gone to Florida. Will be back when it rains."

The larger operators, with rs- sarvea to fall back on and with other sources of income. have boon able to cushion tblnselvos to some extent against the inroads of the drought. some have booa helped by the discovery of oil or gas fields on their property. when an oil company louos a big ranch. even for only a few dollars an acre, it may save the owner from ruin.

The nnly cure for drought is a long series of soaking rains. With- out sufficient rain-fall, nothing much can be done about the pres- ent drought. But much can be done now to counteract future It has been lied that t anhandlo mould

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from The Guardian Flies TWINTY-PIVI YEARS AGO

(Sept 12, 13!!) Mr. James L. Mullen. I retired veteran railwaymsn. although

" nearing the three score and ten mark. enjoyed his first plane night yesterday when he "took off" with pilot ones from the Upton Airport.

Yesterday I destructive fire. be lievod caused by spontaneous com- bustion. resulted in the loss of three barns and a root cellar on the farm of Mr. Fred Andrew. Eu! Royalty.

TEN YEARS AGO (KM 2!. 1040) Among Island war veterans who

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Dr. J.K.W. Ferguson of Toronto tells what happens when a person who has taken Temposll also dawns acme alcohol.

He says the combination of al- calm! and the drug yioduces "in- tense flushing of the face and neck and often the whole body. accompanied by a rapid pulse. a pounding heart and also panting respiration."

BEHABILlTA'l'l0N PROGRAM

At this stage acetaldehyde can be tasted or smelled by the sub- ject on his own breath. Some- times nausea and vomiting fol- low. And in severe reactions. a precipitous fall in blood pressure

may occur. particularly if the patient attempts to stand or sit UP

A severe reaction. Dr. Ferguson says. is a terrifying experience. I think you'll have to agree. But, he adds, the more dramatic symp- toms usually subside within a few hours and the patient generally is none the worse after 24 hours.

Many other drugs now general- ly used to keep an ex-alcoholic on the wagon, may develop un. pleasant side effects such as drowsiness, w ' , unpleasant taste. unpleasant breath, body odor or impotence whether or not alcohol is taken.

With this drug, Dr. Ferguson Cilllllnl. he will experience rela- tively mild side effects-as long as he abstalns. However, he cau- tions against "frivolous or un- Supervised use" of the drug.

Another drug. Menstran. ap- Ptars to eliminate the urge for excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages among some patients whose imbibing is associated with depression. it was used In (.33, in conjunction with psychotherapy work.

Science is trying hard to com.

' bat alcoholism.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

T. E.: Is there any treatment for trachoms?

Answer: Trachoms, virus dis- ease of the eye. is a difficult dis- ease to treat. However. it has been

found that cortisone in the form l

of eyedrops is very helpful.

"WINDSONG" High up above A channel of the

sea

This little cottage stands. Set like a jewel

Among dark evergreens, it glows. Cream-painted walls

And gay red trim have made it brave and new

Though many years have passed since it was built.

Its name is ”WIndsong," and the breezes stir

Its sheltering trees to low sweet

melodies,

And when the wind blows strong- er, than the trees

Make loud and joyful music for our ears.

Three generations of one family

Have some in summer to this lov- ely place.

And happy memories an every-

where. Our "Wlndsong" lives alone the winter throush. But when next summer comes, we're coming tool -Mary Garland Coleman in Regina lander-Post.

The Age Old Story

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MANOIUVEIIS PLANNED

KARACHI (AP) - General Nathan Twining, U.s. Air Force chief of staff and General Tay- lor, us. Army chief of staff. luvs boen invited to witness large scale manoeuvres in Pakistan next De- cember. reliable sources said Thursday. Military leaders from Britain, Turkey. Iran and Iraq have also been sources added.

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destructive sharks.-Ottawa Jour- nal

The Liberals want to stay In .1. (ice. Naturally. Who doesn't wan to keep hold of his job? The Lib. ersls are so accustomed to lt' that they have a blissful sensation of Pefpelually being in power. It is Imusins and also rather pathetic of them.-Cape Breton Post

A conference of antbropologlu. was told recently that man mun have evolved in the ”comparatly. ely short period at so mun” years". You can hardly accuse him of rushing things at that.- Klngston Whig-Standard

The man from the Bay of Fundy shore said that eating dune is somewhat the same as eating salt- Bdllleanuts. You just keep on mun- Chink. Put water on the dried dulse and it immediately takes on 3 fresh - from - the - sea - appear. ance. and flavor. Well, it's sul-pl-1,. ins how many Sydney people make I WFY face at the sight of dulse. 1i may be the wild appearance and also it may be because they are land-lubbers by instinct and choice. But there is an lodlna strength of the sea In the purple- hued dulse. a richness of the sea. the sea's vigor and tang.-Cape

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A' meeting for the purpose of nominating two candidates to contest the forthcoming Federal elee tlon will be held Sept. 25, 1958, at the Canadian Leg- ion Hall, Charlottetown at the hour of 8 o'clock p.m. Each poll is entitled to send five delegates.

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