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Opposition Criticism

This session of the Legislature sees the Opposition in better fight- ing trim than it has been since the present government took office in 1959. This was evident in the Draft Address debate, and it was mani- fested still more strongly in the Opposition leader’s speech on the budget on Wednesday.

The budget presentation by Pro- vincial Treasurer McQuaid was, we thought, an exceptionally compe- tent one. Its showing of an overall surplus for last year was something quite unusual in our Island financ- ing. This year the budget will not be balanced but the reasons given were, to say the least, just as con- vincing as were the reasons given year after year in the past for fail- ure to achieve a balance even on ordinary account. For next year the forecast is for another overall sur- plus—which may or may not he attained, but which at least under- lines the objective the government fs keeping before it.

Increased revenues, both from Ottawa and from provincial taxa- tion, have made possible this attempt at budget balancing as a consistent policy. But there have also been increased expenditures in practical- ly all the departments of govern- ment, providing services we could never afford before. In other words, we are moving with the times. This fa not something to be deplored but welcomed, for many of these new expenditures are capital investme its that will return steady dividends in the future.

Mr. Matheson as Opposition leader had no quarrel with this sound principle in his remarks on Wednesday. What he did attack was the alleged manipulation of figures to produce a false appearance of budget balancing. “Fantastic jug- giing” was the term he used, and he eited, as one example, the Treas- urer’s forecast of a net debt on March 31 this year of $32,868,808 which he claimed should really be in the vicinity of $36,500,000.

Examples were given in con- nection with charges of another nature, namely the financing of enterprises that appeared to be operating on a shoestring and folded up after absorbing substantial government advances to assist them. Also, Mr. Matheson complain- ed, questions placed in the proper manner on the order paper had been answered in a very superficial and sometimes misleading manner; and here again he cited chapter and verse for his statements.

Government members should oe prepared to deal with this. criticism. It is too’ pointedly aimed to be i nored, and it raises issues that con only be settled by delving fully into all their ramifications.

The Moon Can Wait

Enthusiasts’ who hailed the or- bital flight of Colonel John Glenn as assurance that a manned trip .0 the moon was just around the -or- ner have been cautioned by Glenn himself and the U.S. national aero- nauties and space administration that the flight was just beginning. Before man can venture far into sapace or remain there long, a wealth

a tar ae must be assembled

data needed. This 458 pound labora- tory swing around the earth once every 96 minutes. For 90 minutes it stores up observations, then in the remaining time unloads the infor- mation as it passes over a ground receiving station.

The satellite will study the radiation that streams from the -n, especially during solar flares, and the danger this imposes upon astro- nauts. The information should also help explain the influence of the flakes, or sunspots, on weather and tle reason that they play such “ob with radio, TV and communication systems. Such flares occur in eleven-year cycles.

This is a year of low activity, but 1966-67-68, wher thr-- man Appollo spaceships are scheduled to circle and then land on the ~ on, are years of heavy activity. The findings of the orbiting solar obser- vatory, above mentioned, and of future satellites should indicate whether flights could be s-*-'y charted during such periods, or whether shielding would have to be added to spaceships to protect the occupants from severe radiation.

Meanwhile, there are much more important problems to be res~’ -4 than this one of voyaging to the moon; chief of which, of course, is keeping our own planet intact and finding means of peaceful co-exist- ence for the inhabitants on it. The current Geneva conference on dis- armament boils down to just this, which accounts for Canada’s Exter- nal Affairs Minister Green’s laud- able efforts to keep it from collaps- ing. The moon can indeed wait, un- ti we have charted a safer course for ourselves here below.

The Algerian Terror

The Algerian war has ended but the killing goes on, and it is the prediction of Hanson W. Baldwin, well-informed military editor of the New York Times, that the signing of the French-Algerian peace agree- ments will increase the likelihood of bloodshed. For the campaign of wholesale murder and terrorism carried on for many months by the

' right-wing Secret Army Organiza-

tion of Europeans, and the retal- iatory terrorism of the Moslem underground, may reach new cres- cendos with the advance of peace.

Before the ceasefire agreement, the Secret Army Organization had seized virtual control of the cities of Algeria in open defiance of President de Gaulle. It is now in full rebellion against his govern- ment, and has announced the “re- moval” of de Gaulle from the pres dency and named former General Raoul Salan as commander of the French Army. High French officials representing de Gaulle in Algeria live in daily fear of assassination, guarded by picked troops behind sandbags and barbed-wire.

According to the New Yorx Times, a six-week study of the rebel organization shows that its power of movement in Algeria is far greater than the French govern- ment censorship has permitted to become known. Independent observ- ers place its full-time strength at between 3,000 and 4,000. The French government estimates that it has 100 to 150 killers in Algeria, with 1,500 to 2,000 agents in “shock com- mandos”, for executions, sabotage and other violence throughout Al- geria. Presumably it could mobilize a considerable number of the 400,000 ex-servicemen in Algeria in the event of large-scale fighting.

Four times since October, 1959, the renegade French generals have tried to bring down President de Gaulle. There have been three years of bombings, assassinations, wanton murders and intimidation. No one, European or Moslem, in- nocent bystander or protagonist, is safe from the men who have turned against their country.

EDITORIAL NOTES

When a Danish ocean freighter, reinforced for ice, reached Montreal on March 12, it marked the earliest arrival on record. The event also meant the shortest closed season in history for the port, just 80 days. ‘Little by little, the navigation sea- son on the St. Lawrence is being extended. However, as the Ottawa Citizen points out, any federal spend- ing to expedite the process should be made with compensating bene- fits for the Atlantic Provinces in mind. The interests of all parts of Canada must be considered in fram- ing national policy.

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Canada spends twice as much |

n “‘the bottle’ as on baby’s bot- tle according to figures just re- leased by the Dominion Bureau of Statisties here.

With this evidence of public af- finity, as well as the obvious im- | is little surprising

that immense interest should have been aroused by the speech on “The high cost of al- |

ry P. B. Rynard, recently reported in this column. |

Every Canadian worker lab- ours for three weeks in each year to pay the national bill for alcoholic indulgence, according to the deep-thinking doctor, who Conservative M.P. for Orillia. “What a thirst! What a cost! he appropriately exclaimed. |

That cost, Dr. Rynard said, in- cludes the price we pay for ill- ness, absenteeism, broken hom- es and the “hidden army of half- men,"’ whose working capacity is slashed in half by the bottle. CASH ON BAR

Approximately one - third af the national cost is poured into the cash registers of the 888 re- tail stores operated by gov- ernment liquor authorities, or licensed by governments, This take totalled $896,942,000 in the latest year surveyed. It can hardly make the liquor ‘taste better to recall that just over half this sum, or $456,629,000

profit on the sale of spiri es and beer.

In the same year, the monthly family allowance cheques dis- tributed to the mothers of Cana-

dian babies totalled $508,000, 000. Most of the liquor consumed

by Canadians is made in Can- ada. This, as Dr. Rynard_point- gives employment to a

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and more significantly than our imports.

For example, our exports of spirits totalled $80 million, oF | five times the value of our imo | ports of spirits. Our exports of beer totalled $4 million, or ten times the value of our imports; and this is one field where we enjoy a favourable trade balance

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with USA, for we sold them 3 million gallons of beer and buy m them only 21 gallons in the latest year surveyed. In w the trade balance does not fav- | our us, for our exports totalled only $8,615 in the year, little more than one-thousandth — of the sum we spent on foreign win-

es. COST UNREQUITED

This volume of export trade and domestic employment 1s not worth the high cost of abuse of alcohol, in the argument of Dr. Rynard. In outlining the various serious indirect costs we have to face, he attracted very widespread attentio!

“I was ieienieas impress-

Maturity Seen A Basic Need In Pregnancy

pregnant cake and butterscotch m daes. It makes her fat _ s — e claims she can't help it and says pregnancy makes her ner- vous and hungry. Why is this?” Women who worry when preg- nant, probably are basical-

ly worry warts, They are emo- tionally immature and unable to | face normal responsibilities in |

All pregnant women have rea- son for coneern but the vast | majority realize and accept the challenge. Pregnancy is a nor-| prun

proce there is no} sense in resorting to self-pity or relying upon cake and ic cream for relief of tension. | This is consolation eating and | one of the rea: put on weight. from craving for starch, clay, or fruit that some develop. |

This is the type of woman who | gains more weight than is

needed while carrying a bab y. | The combined weight of the) fetus, placenta, fluid, and en-| gorgement of certain tissues ra-|

rely éxceeds 18 pounds. The wo- | man who gains more than 30 pounds is headed for trouble. When she picks up 15 to 20) pounds with every pregnancy, | she is bound to become obese. The emotionally matu woman handles her pregnancies in a mature way. Her attitude toward food not only preserves

oa typically writes Rev. Cecil

Webber, of Trinity United rela pet atte in asking the Doctor for a copy of the complete text of the speech which I only had space to summarize. His province, he | added, with a population of a

little over 100,000 spends al- most $4,500,000 on liquor in a single’ year, according to a re-

port in The Guardian, Charlotte: town.

Our Garden Province has a better record than most; for the cross-Canada average is an annual expenditure of exactly $50 for every man, woman and baby in this country.

Whooping Crane Winning

National Geographic Society

The whooping crane, a rare bird for a million years, grad- ually is winning its fight for sur-

Ornithologists believe the whooping crane has been com- paratively scarce since the early Pleistocene. The great white bird apparently reached its low- est ebb in 1938 when only 14 were counted.

But an intensive conservation

rogram has paid off. Thirty- eight whooping cranes are win- tering at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge on the Texas coast. This is two more than the previous high of 36 in 1961

The flock includes 33 adults and five young. In addition, there are seven whooping cranes in captivity. The total of 45 birds still is precariously small, but the steady increase encourages bird lovers.

CRANE RARELY SEEN The whooping crane (Grus am-

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Arctic to central Mexico, and from New Jersey to the Rocky Mount. but few early tra- wallere cncountered. the. elusive bird.

Mark Catesby, an English na- turalist and artist, was the first person to describe and draw the whooping crane. Shortly _ after Catesby’s arrival in the Carol-

Prospect For Space Talks

By Harold Canadian Press

‘The first element of major co- operation between Union and the United States in the field of space appears within reach as result of the exchange of views between President Kennedy and Premier | Khrushchev. | Khrushchev has made clear in his reply to Kennedy that the dimensions of this possible co- ration must be limited by the fact that as yet disarma-

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Another possibility be that Khrushchev badly ‘wants a summit meeting and de-

spa tice Kennedy to the political pinnacle. Kennedy has stated | he would want to expect fruit- ful results before he decides to gotoa meeting. Whatever the reason behind Khrushchev’s decisions, pros-

pects of agreement are en- hanced by the parallel views saders in

expressed by the two lei | the specific fields in which the

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Samuel Hearne, the first Eur- opean to visit the Great Slave Lake region of Canada (1769-72)

reported: “They are generally seen only in pairs and that not very often."”

Lewis and Clark observed mi- grating whooping cranes al mouth of the Little Missouri Ri- ver on April 11, 1805. Evidently this was the only time the ex- plorers saw them during their extensive travels.

Thorhas Nuttall, an English botanist, described a “mighty host’ of whooping cranes mi- grating down the Mississippi Ri- ver in 1811. but experts believe that the flocks he saw were al- most certainly the smaller sand- hill cranes.

CRANES DRIVEN OFF

The rich prairie lands of Ili nois, Iowa, Minnesota. and ea: tern North Dakota were the whooping crane’s original nest- ing grounds. Settlers drained the prairie sloughs, and the birds were driven off.

Today, the only known nest- ing ground of the whooping cra- ne lies in an isolated corner of Canada's Wood Buffalo Nation- al Park, an 11-million-acre wil- derness 400 miles from the Are- | tie Circle, |

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‘The cranes fly 2,500 miles from their Canadian summer home to Texas in the fall, arriv- ing in October and November. | Scientists and bird lovers anxi- | ously count the new arrival particularly watching for th young that will assure surviv: of ‘The.

ansas refuge was spe- cially treated. In 1607 to pro- tect the cranes in their winter. ing grounds. In April, the oe Pa = on their ardu-

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(Dr, Van/Dellen will answer | questions on medical topics if stamped, self-addressed enve- lope accompanies request.)

HARDWORKING — STUDENTS T. A. S. writes: After reading your article on the briefcase brigade I wondered if students could be included? It is not un- common to see these youngsters board a bus at 7 a.m. and re- turn home after 7 hours devoted | to the school day. Then many start the grind of homework. Imagine 65 hours a week devot- | ed to school work and this does not include the approximately 12 hours devoted to athletics or oth- er school activities. Ri

| Most students are young enough to take it. Dear labor leaders: Let's not start a 35

hour week for students.

ORAL IS LOWER Mrs. B. writes: Isn't it un- usual for a child to have the same temperature orally and rectally? REPLY Yes, but there is no disease in which this occurs, Perhaps | the child swallowed or chewed on something hot before the thermometer was inserted into his mouth. As'a rule, the rec- tal temperature is slightly high- er.

COALS TO NEWCASTLE J.B. writes: Is it advisable for people of 60 who are well eat a balanced diet to take geriatric tablets? REP’

No. Today's Health Hint— Get an annual chest X-1

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OUR YESTERDAYS

From the Guardian Files

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Mar, 23, 1937) The Association Study Club of ly Redeemer Parish held their monthly meeting last eve- ning with a good attendance Public speaking class was. un- der the chairmanship of John Leightizer, with the tollowing speakers taking part; Miss Edna Richard, Raeney Gallant, Miss Anna Campbell and Clive Boeh- ner. Dr. Croteau spoke briefly in a congratulatory manner on ishments of the parish activities.

Discussion of “curriculum changes” was by a committee headed by Leo F. MacDonald, B.A. Principal of Queen Square sae at the opening sessions Prince

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Foreign Aid J Justified

The battle is now joined be-,

love tween President Kennedy and |

the United States Congress on his foreign aid bill, which adds up to $4,878 million. Congress | has Uaually been to administration's for- ign aid budgets in te past, the same pattern is to be ex- Pected in 1962.

Yet this amount of money, staggering though it looks, may the best sort of investment for-the U.S. to make. The Presi- dent himself feels so. In his mes- sage to Congress on the subject he pointed out that efforts by the U.S. to help other nations

“are small in cost compared to our military outlays for the de-

ons are tangible things; they ap. peal to the “practical” man ac tomed to

It requires a subtler mind, perhaps, to equate national se- curity with such matters ay agricultural machinery tor Thailand or school lunches children in the And ere is a close connection, just the same, and Mr. Kennedy and his advisers are fully aware of it. ITS PURPOSE

The purpose of foreign aid ig to strengthen the internal econ- omy’ of underdeveloped coun. tries and set them well on the road to true independence. So long as poverty plagues these

fence of freedom. OF LITTLE AVAIL

Yet all of our armics and atoms combined will be of little avail if these nations fall, un- je to meet the needs of their own people, and unable to stave | off within their borders the rise | of forces that threaten our sec- urity,” In a word, by helping | others the United States helps it- self |

It is not easy to persuade a) people to submit to taxation for | foreign aid. Many Canadians feel the same reluc Weap-

countries, there can be so secur. ity for them or for their more affluent neighbors,

President Kennedy tells Con- gress that in his opinion any cuts in the proposed expenditur- es would be hazardous. . should know by now,” he says, “that where weakness and de. pendence are not transferred in- to strength and self-reliance, we can expect only chaos, and then tyranny, to follow,”

These are words not to be lost on either, ‘

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