An important Omission

Not having made much headway with American leaders in their ef- forts to bring about a cessation of nuclear tests-on Russia's terms- Soviet leaders have now turned their attention to Congress. An authorita- tive article in the official newspaper ”Izvestia" says that the United States Constitution places legislative powers for war and peace in the hands of Congress and that. then?- fore, there is no reason Why COD- gress should not go over the heads of President Eisenhower and Secre- tary of State Dulles and deal directly with the "Supreme Soviet", the near- est thing to a Parliament-and it isn't very near-the Russians have.

There is, of course, something to be said for the assertion. from a legal standpoint. President Eisen- hower can negotiate with the Soviet leaders to his heart's content and oven enter into an agreement for ending nuclear tests. But nothing that he might do in this field would be binding unless and until it was sanctioned by Congress. The Presi- dent has many arbitrary POWQFS under the Constitution: but fhe power to make treaties is not one of them. That is reserved to Con- gress, specifically to the Senate. al- though it is customary for the House of Representatives to be C0n5l-llled in such matters.

There is one little thing. however. which lzvestia forflnl in mefmo" in its venture. into American law. name- ly, that while. Congress can and frequently does disagree with the President on matters of foreign po- iipv, it would be more than their mos ...,.,.p worth for members of the "Supreme Soviet" to dispute an edict of their Governm9nl-

Coniliclions Opinions

xo wonder members of the United States Congress cannot agree with President Eisenhower or with one another on the contents of the Foreign Air Program! The P00Pi9 themselves and the organizations which represent them have so many divergent views on the subject. Pol- Inwing ,1,-p game of the positions when by various witnesses before the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittcc a few days BR0- Tho American Farm Bureau Fed- eration. a powerful organization. especially in the Mid-West farm belt. blamed Government agencies foi what it called "using every maneu- ver possible to perpetuate a lariZP foreign aid program." It recommend- ed that the program be reduced "in all phases." The Chamber of Com- mcrcn in the United States, following iI'lP same thought. suggested that the 53 billion appropriation recom- mended hy the President be cut to 531-5 billion. The United Automobile Workers of America, which is the largest and most influential single labour group in the country, recom- mended on the other hand that the program be extended in an all out offort to promote "economic develop- ment and world living standards." The Americans for Democratic Action wanted the program to be fitted in with the United Nations and administered by agencies 01 "W organization. This View has been brought forward many time! in "'9 mt. but it has never annealed to

pen or tlie 'A'dmlnls'fi-atlon adopt I plan and adhere to it? In this coun- try, once a program is made official by the Government, very little public complaint is heard about it. Whether that is better or worse than the American way is, of course, a ques- tion. But at least it gives the Gov- ernment a better chance of putting the program into effect.

The Law And Society

Some excerpts from an address delivered by Chief Justice Patrick Kerwin of the Supreme Court of Canada at the annual Law Day cele- bration of Boston University deserve everv little bit of publicity that can be afforded them, for they have an important hearing on the needs and problems of modern society.

On the importance of law and

the rights of individuals: "The law is part of the ware and WOT Of 0!" civilization. Without rules our so- ciety could not exist. But the indi- vidual is of prime importance and must be free in body and spirit. Barring such matters as sedition. libel, slander and indecency, the in- dlvldual may not only hold his views but may set them forth in words or writing without fear of untoward consequences. Unless these rights are preserved. of what avail are buying and selling, of manufacturing, of the arts and sciences”

On the identification of law with community interests: ”We (law.V0P5l must be concerned with the welfare of the people, because it is only by that kind of interest that the mem- be;-5 of the profession will be able to remove the mistaken idea that we are a class apart instead of being 3 gpgmont of the nation with aspira- tionx hop” and disappointments likn the rest of mankind." '

On the need to interest the public in legal lW0('9d'l'”" (""f"m"E in ".19 appeal by Chief Justir-e Vanderbilt of New Jersey for the assistance oi men of goodwill in efforts in im- prnvp the operations of the coiirtsl. ..-I-his is 3 clarion call to recast old systems that now ma.V be creaking

at the joints."

EDITORIAL NOTES it is rumoured that former P-C leader George Dr?” W” bemnm Canada's High Commissioner in Lon- don. It would be difficult to think of a more satisfactof.V appointment

MI. Drpw is well regarded in Britain. O O C

To Grand Falls. Willie gB3-l” gsabi rador belongs the distinction 0 1;- pm-ting the first election ofla can . date. This was a little surprlslnf-E. if” the riding is probably me ,'"”5' scattered in all Canada. certainly Of the Atlantic retZi0n- Bul-.Vlh9"' the election was full of surprises-

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The Gallup Poll has been proved wrong again. if this sort. of thintl kpprg up it. won't be loniz W70” ,..,...Q.,.... will agree with Mr. Harry S Truman that the experts know n0 H i the fortunes of poliliml

more abnu else. .

battles than anyone I

Just before the election. Profes- sol" Allan Fraser. l-ihffnl ”i"d'dam in St. .lohn's East. said he was in favour of ”0nP”5l'l”” "wmhprs be' ing elected"--but not in Newfound- land Voters in his riding responded by electing his P.C. opnoncnlv 3 23' vcar-old salesman. .

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Evangelist Billy Graham says that ”Russia is ripe for the grestes: religious revival in history and U18 he would like to so there ”Wlth0"f any strings attached." First of all, though. he will have in get the Del" mission of Mr. Dulles. who doesn't take too kindly to Americans going behind the curtain. He has even been trying to keep newsmen out.

A report from Detroit says that ln future less attention will be Paid lo power and speed in the manu- facture of automobiles and more to safe reliable an dcomfortable tron!- portation. It is a chance 10": Wei"

due.

If the housewives generally Subs scribe to the dealgnltion which 3 Ream; woman gave herself when filling out I school record form. hul- bands have at ions 16” he” 3””

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- -5 .;s.x3..i-:. TORY

OTTAWA REPORT The Cost of Living Spiral

By Patrick Nicholson

Tuo interesting announcements just made by the Dominion Bur- can of Statistics here deserve to be studied together.

The first discloses that wages .

and salaries have reached a new higii level across Canada; the sec- ond says. as we all guessed al- ready. that the cost of living has leapt up to a new peak. Compared to one year ago. wag es and salaries are running up to

I35 per cent bi-zlier. The service l

industries show this maximum in- crease. while construction - hand- icapped by the shortage of mori- gage funds - and lumbering - cur- tailed by reduced demand for con- strurtion uses - show reduced to- tal payrolls.

The relative gain of just over one-tenth in total labour income. compared to nne year ago. is made up of two elements. our larger labour force accounts for 4.5 per cent of this increase. while high- er weekly earnings account for 6 per cent.

IIIGIIER PRICES

sparked by very large increases in tfie cost of food and service in dustries, our cost of living hu risen to I new peak. The idex has soared about l2l.l. This compares with the standard of 100 in l949. in other words. our cost of living has risen by more than one fifth since 1949.

Reducing this in terms of what our pre-war dollar is worth. we see that the one-huudercd-ccnt dol- lar of 1939 is today worth no more than 52 cents. That pre-war dollar dropped only to 34 cents during six years of war. in the next five years. the pre-war infatlonary bonm lapped off I staggering 22 cents. Then came two years of Korean war. cutting off another 3 cents in make our pre-war dollar

worth only 54 cents. From 1952 un- T

ill I936, prices remained fairly stable. Now in the past twelve month period. the spiral has begun again.

There is inevitably ii direct re lationship between prices and wag- er. Unless more real weath is crea- ted by an increased output. any wage Increase must be followed by in directly comparable price in- crease. lf prices are in be kept at a stable level. In increased out- put must be the only balls for in creased wages. This increase could come either from wider use of In- fomatlon. or from higher individ-

ual productivity.

The alternative is inflation. This means that our dollar will have A steadily decreasing pur.-basing power. and tliis In turn -ne-.ins iiaril ship for our pensioners and disas- ter for our widows and tamilie-.

Suppose ycu were one of the hurt dreds of thousands of Canadians. setting out anew an in career in civil life after the war. who plan ncd to save to buy security for your family in the event of your death. Suppose you bought an insurance policy for 35,000. secured on vcur own life. Today. the true value of that insurance policy is reduced to 33.100. Suppose you bought I Fed- eral Government annuity. to pro- tect your old age. The Federal Gov ernment took your money. and guaranteed to pay you a inonilily pension of any 350. Today that pen- sion is worth only 831. True. the government lives up to its word, it actually gives you fifty dollar bills each month. But, since you contracted for the annuity twelve years ago. the government has al- lowed the purchasing power of its paper dollar to be so seriously slashed that your retirement plans now lie in ruins.

WHAT 1'0 D0?

Are we to continue to live in I land of inflation? if so, we would all be better off to spend our dol lars today. rather than save them up for the proverbial "rainy day" only to find on that rainy day that the Ottawa mice of inflation have eaten half of their value away.

The three aims of our federal government in our domestic econ- omy should be full employment. rising living standards. and stable prices. Nature and world ” J give ill the first: research and development gives us the positi- bility of the second: the failure of government leadership town-ds establlahin the third is undermin- ing our w lo prosperity.

Britalnls government has this week lnunchcd I plan for indus- trial partnerrhip: I conference has : been called by the government. in i

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which employers Ind labour un- loin have been invited. to set in motion I master plan covering prices. wages. increased productlv- . and higher living standards. The l liy sickly look on the face of our l dollar suggest that the time is over- rlpe for Iucii I constructive sign of government leadership here too.

Friendliesi Oi Birds l

Notional Geograplc Society

Confidently Iti-lding the gutters and sidewalks of the world's great- est cities. pigeons go Ibout their business of living with people.

The birds hIve been making I good thing of the relationship since before history was written. the NI- tlonal Geognphlc society nyl. Men have enjoyed it too, not alone for food and sport. but for their companionship Ind buuty.

in front of the White lloune in Washington; in the squares of Rio de Jnnelro: on the monuments of Pam; around the imperial PI!- ace in Tokyo. in the Itreetl of Buciins Alres: III London's Trafal- gar square: in Venice Ind before st. Peta”: in Rome. the blue-guy bird: make themselves at home- IROADWAY LULLAIY

In New Yarn Tluiea square. they have no far Iilopted the IIIIIII of their liurnnii ' u to sleep by day and play by night.

The con man pigeon of c

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uinbn Iivia . native to Europe.

birds can not read; they just stay where their friends Ire. if crumb- dropplng humans obey the signs, pigeons follow suit.

Whether plgeonI lake on mIn's characteristics by being Iround him. or hang around because they Ilinrc utuIl interuta. is unknown.

However. experiments It Hur- vIrd University show the birds can learn sports. like to gamble, will play the piano. can "tell time." suffer boredom. identify colon, and are superstitious. '

Wmcll CAM! FIRST?

Researchers taught pigeons to play Ping-Pong. They bat I ren- latlou ball back and forth on I tiny. netlcsu table. When out knock: the ball past MI append be Irina I bit of grIlI.

OUR YESTERDAYS

From the Guardian Files

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (June 13. 1932)

Belief in the essential soundnesl of Canada's position and firm con- fidence in the outcome of the im- perial Economic Conference, were

strikingly evident at all meetings

of the Canadian Manufacturers An- sociation. repurls Major C. L. MacKay of Bruce Stewart and Company, who returned yesterday from attending the meetings.

The Summerslde School Board conferred with Professor Lloyd Shaw, who is in charge of Normal Training at P.W. (jnllege. on Fri- day evening on the standard to be adopted for the new secondary school- Professor Shaw dealt with the curriculum and the standard of examinations.

TEN YEARS AGO

(June 13, liM'll Mrs. .l. Walter Jones Wife of Premier J. Walter Jones.

will smash the bottle of charnpagno over the bow of the new car fer- ry ”Abegwelt" at the christening uremonies which will take place at Sorel. Quebec, on June 15. Mrs. Jones has accepted the invitation. which was tendered by the De- partment of Transport, to chris- ten the ship.

The largest graduating classes in the history of the 87-year-old in- atitutlon received their certificates yesterday morning when the Com- mencement exercises at Prince of Wales College were held in the College Auditorium. Principal G. D. Steel said that the increased enrollments were indicative of the increasing interest in education on the part of parents for their chil- dren.

MAXIMS

Who can subdue IIII own Inger

, II more than strong; who on II- A lay Innilu-r'iI in more than nine:

bold fniil on him that can do both

PUBLIC FORUM

open to no than an of nodal lumen. 'I'liI Gundlu donut j aunt

Thll column II In

Irlly ciidonn the opinion If pond-Its.

ROAD! AND GAS TAX

Sir.-Re the new tax on gas. I must say it is ridiculous for the poor farmer and fisherman to be overtaxed like this. and Is for the trucker he may as well take his truck off the road Iltogetlier.

I would like to know who led the Premier to believe that the

l farmers in this Province rullu l that the increase

is necesury. They certainly don't realise It out of Soui-is with I road such II VI have now. and it looks II it tlIfI road is going to be left impaniblo until midsummer again this year. 1 Im referring to that so-cnllod pavement between Souris Ind lied Point. The people Just do not travel on it. They go by dog path through the woods. it takes about five gallon; of us and two quarts of oil to go by road. and one would be fortunate to get summer out of I new set with the deep slurp biulltl. Panniers in our Iectlou Ito require I better round for tin an increase tbu pod tools. I Im. Sir. etc. hnun

DISOUSTID

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TAVERNS I'I'II.L EUR GUELPII. Ont. (CPL-Th CC- Ida Elections Act Iliut tho

HIlp In Planning Restricted Diet

nynu-n'u.auu-a. run.

you I ulfimumuu any iutrtctaddlctmlynoodtoralld outyourmIIlI..

TITIE L.-IodiummllkisliquidwiaolI inilkfroinwhlcliiuonthann pcreontoitlunocuulaodluni

dog. nu-ougii a process in the sodium is rcplIeod with Iiiun.

Although tlilI results in doulillnl the ordinary amount of it is null within tlieufo nus II far In adults are concerned.

It is I difficult Job for doctor to plan I sodium-rcltrictad diet which in tuly and hill! In Protein. yet low in sodium eoutciit.

Many pbyaiciaul recommend that milk be omitted entirely or at least that the quuntlty consumed be kept to a minimum. This makes it difficult for the patient to obtam the needed ts of calcium. protein and riboflavin.

VALUE OF MILK

in fact. the American Mnzllcal Association's Council of Food: and Nutrition recently pointed out that the necessity on restricting consumption of meat and other proteln foods. which contain lnrge amounts of sodium. makes the po- tential value of milk even more evident.

The council terms low-Iodium milk "very useful" in planning sodium-restricted diets.

This type of diet usually is re- commanded to counteract the body's fluid retention for such con- ditions as cirrhosis of the liver. congestive heart failure. high blood pressure. toxemia: of urea- nimcy and in certain kidney di- SESSES.

FAVORABLE COMPARISON

Low-sodium milk compare; 1.. vorably with whole milk in many nutrients. However. the content of

niacin. thiamine and Vitamin B12 is cut about in half. Vitamin B6 and calcium are reduced about one-fourth.

All this must be taken into con- sideration when planning use of lowsodium milk lu I diet. Tlinl is why Ill such diet: should be plan- ned by physiclana. not the patients themselves.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

5

interested Reader: is multiple Iclerosis inherited? Answer: There is sometimes I

tendency for several cases of mul- tiple sclerosis to occur in the same family. However. it is not uIuIlly hereditary.

IN THE GREEN VAULT October. like I shrewd bank prea- ident. Seized last summer's assets-all The gold hot days pressed down like folding money in the dank treasure box of Fall.

Winter-long the Iummer sun was growing

"in wet thin splnueys. under snow.

in logs and crannies. Wild March brooks began.

in April. payment time was due.

in May the treasure'I green coin- pouuded interest Pressed Igalnat the bonds. And the coffers burst. And all the flags of spring. Ran up. declaring dividenis. -Bianca Bradbury.

In the Christian Science Monitor.

NOTES , ya

land. I beIuty spot between the two Saults would be deal for such I purpoae. since it was probably the lite of one of the origin. In- dlau Iucanipmentl. it was certain- ly included in their reservation and ' in said to contain I burial ground. -Sault Ste. Marie Star

The Age Old Story

How excellent in thy liwollilkiuil ncu 0 God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

cllli. lit umbtegomlkzg mun manner I c to - pnunt difficulties i: m?"”''

The fancier Combination do." have pucunutic checks on them, thus eliminating one of Iumingl--. loveliest and most diltiuctive sounds - the slain of I screen door down the block.-Orillia Ple. kct Iud Time:

All lone reaenrclicn ny com. placently that pigs show-no mm. reaction to jet plane noise than ". gentle wnullng of the can.” cm tliey' prove that isn't the way pig. si:nIl great diItreu?-Kilcheuer- Waterloo Record

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