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Mr. Pearson 5 Views

On his return to Ottawa after completing a 5-week tour of the country, Liberal Leader Lester B. Pearson was quoted as saying: “I have found a great revival in the party, a new spirit of energy and enthusiasm. We have a future.”

In this, no doubt, Mr. Pearson is substantially correct, although he may have exaggerated the “re- vival” a little bit; it will take more than a few months to revive fully a party that Was shattered so badly in the last election. But, of course,

. the party’s “future” can be easily presumed. A party that has held such a distinguished place in Can- adian history is not likely to be ob- literated because of one bad defeat in more than 20 years. A period in opposition—whether it be four vears or longer—won’t hurt the Liberal Party at all. Indeed, it might help to prepare it for greater responsibil- ities in the future.

‘ Mr. Pearson’s observations on the economic situation. however. are not quite as easy to accept. “The biggest anxiety”, he said, “is winter unemployment. There also is con- cern over inflation. Picture a fed- eral budget deficit , of $1 billion, with prospects of 500.000. unemploy- ed!” If this indicates an intention tomake political capital out of the current economic “recession”———or whatever the name for it is—we reallv do not think that it will meet much success. The people know, even if Mr. Pearson has forgotten it.'that the present economic situa- tion was building up long before the Liberals were forced out of office. Had they been re-elected, they would have had to face the same problems that Mr. Diefenbaker and his col- laguimbgr‘emxfacing. Whether they

would havendone any better, or any '

worse, is, of course, an academic question that no one can answer

satisfactorily. But in fairness to the ‘

Conservative Government, we think it is only right to say that they have tackled the various problems, es- pecially the unemployment problem, with vigour and imagination. Per- haps they could have done more; but no one can say that they have been idle. ‘

If Mr. Pearson, as leader of the Opposition, has ideas which he be- lieves would be helpful in solving any particular problem, it is his duty to say what they are and to lay them before Parliament at the earliest possible opportunity. He does well to criticize the Govern- ment, when he feels that criticism is called for; any Government is the better for criticism. He would do better still to make sure that his criticism has a constructive basis. 'Any attempt on his part to blame the Government for everything that is wrong or ill-balanced in the economy will not help to convince the people that they made a Imis- take last March. '

Newfoundland Mining

Mining is rapidly competing in ec- onomic value with the fisheries and forest industries in Newfoundland. Fishing is still the most important industry in the sense that it involves more people than any other; but in terms of actual financial value, paper- making and its allied industries are well out in front. But if present plans work out as expected, it won't be long before mineral production will take first place.

This was pointed out by the Hon. W.J.,Keough, Provincial Minister of Mines and Resources in a recent ad- dress befo re the Newfoundland branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy In 1953, New- foundland produced about $33 million worth of minerals. In 1956, the value amounted to more than $85 millions. It-dropped slightly in 1957, because of market conditions. The market for most of this production was almost exclusively outside Canada. All the same. the mining industry of New- foundland is an important factor in the Canadian economy. It produces over one-third of all the iron ore pro-

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duced in this country, all of the pyro- phyllitc and practically all of the flu— rospar. With the exception of petro- leum and natural gas, the value of the mineral production of Newfoundland ranks fourth, Province-wise, in Can- ada, after Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia, in that order

As to deposits awaiting develop- ment, Mr. Keough stated. there are at least 4 billion tons of iron ore in the Wabash area of Labrador. There are millions of tons of asbestos in the Bai Verte area of Northern Newfound- land and millions of tons of high grade limestone at tidewater. Some of the limestone is Known to be 99 per cent pure calcium carbonate In addition, there are deposits of some of the best brick shales in the World as well as magnesite,‘ chromite. tungsten, anti- mony, molybdenum and manganese. In Newfoundland itself there are over 300 known occurrences of industrial and metallic minerals.

It is evident that Newfoundland is on the threshcld of important mineral development, which will make it the mining-centre of Canada. The develop- ment at Wabash Lake in Labrador is the most interesting, as far as this Province is concerned; for it should provide a large and expanding market for Island agricultural products. Towns are already springing up in places which only a few years ago were considered wilderness and vir- tually inaccessible. Thousands of peo- ple will be moving—indeed, are al— ready moving—into the new industri- al area. They will require vast quanti- ties of everything this agricultural Province can provide. It is to be hoped that careful consideration is being gi- ven to this prospect and that a goodly share of the new market will not be lost to our producers because of lack of suitable transportation or any other handicap.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Governor-elect Nelson A. Rocke- feller of New York has big interests in Latin America. His chiei area of oper- ation is Venezuela where he owns a farm and cattle ranch, 14 supermar- kets and a milk pasteurization plant that supplies milk for 3 cities.

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Strange, sometimes, how interna-

tional politics works. There is no

doubt, for instance, that Egypt’s fear

of Israel’s armed forces keeps Presi- dent Nasser from attacking Jordan. Yet, Jordan professes to see in Israel an enemy.

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Premier Matheson says he would

[rather work with a Liberal govern-

ment at Ottawa than with the present administration. We can well believe that. On the other hand, he is getting $2,500,000 more a year in direct sub- sidy from the Diefenbaker Govern— ment than he ever got from a Liberal regime, and he complained at the last session of the Legislature that it wasn’t nearly enough. Which goes to show how political sentiment can col- our one’s views. V U .

U.S.'Secretary of State Dulles says he is not “perturbed” over the Demo- cratic sweep in this fal"s Congression- al elections. That may be; for evident:- ly Mr. Dulles is not a man who wor- ries too much about things that can’t be helped. Nevertheless, Mr. Dulles’ influence in the Administration is al— most certain to be less tnan it was be- fore the election. Some Democrats have already suggested that he re- sign, on the ground that election re sults showed public opposition to his overall approach to world problems.

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The New Zealanders have develop~ ed something new in the scientific field, according to Science Service. It is the production of electric power produced underground in “nature’s boilers”. The installation uses live steam piped from a depth of 3000 feet to turn high and low pressure steam turbines. At full capacity, a total of 250,000 kilowatts will be generated. Scientists fee} that the supply is in- exhaustible. Hotels and other build- ings in the area are using the under- ground supply for hot water and heat.

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Mr. Mann, executive manager of the Maritimes Transportation Com- mission, put the freight rates issue in a nutshell when he said: “We have now reached the point where roughly one-third of the railway traffic has-to pay about three quarters of the reven- ue-s which the railways expect to real- ize from the 17 per cent increase." This inequity has been protested by eight of Canada‘s ten provinces, but apparently without making any im- pression on the Board of Transport Commissioners. The Federal Govern- ment is the only court of appeal and those who are not with us on this is— sue are against us. We trust that our elected representatives will keep this in mind.

SOVIET WRITING TODAY

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MILITARY COUP

S'udon’s New Ruler

By Ed Simon . Canadian Press Staff Writer

For the seventh time in the last year, a democratic government has [been overthrown by army of- ficers with the seizure of power in the Sudan by Gen. Ibrahim Aibboud.

The military coup, once an in- stitution p e c u 1 i a. r to Latin America. is toppling civil authori- ties in all parts of the world. Its effects, good or ill. have been felt in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, with repercussions affecting the entire Western alliance.

Circumstances h a v e varied from one country to another, but the one factor common to all the fallen regimes has lbeen the weak- ness of the democratic institutions under attack.

COUNTRY DIVIDED

In the Sudan. the outgoing co- alition government of Prmier Abdullah Khalil was disintegrat- ing, partly under pressure from the United Analb Reputlflic to the north, in a split over foreign pol- icy.

The i n f a nt republic. which

PUBLIC FORUM

This column Is open to the discu-

tion by correspondents of question a.

Interest. The Guardian does not desen-

urlly endorse the opinion of cone: pondents.

“WHILE MILLIONS STARVE” Sin—This is to empress whole- hearted approval of your out-

standing editorial of November

14th, “While Millions Starve", condemning the immorality of a situation in which we are flail- ing to get our agricultural sur- pluses to the world’s needy.

It doubtless came as a rude shock to most Canadian farmers to hear that Federal Agriculture Minister Harkness was threaten- ing a reduction in farm support prices in order to cope with grow- ing surpluses. There may be some of us who consider our work merely a means of making a

‘ living. However, most people like

to feel that their work is of real importance and value ‘to the world. This is especially true of the good farmer. There are few, if any, nobler tasks in the world today than that of producing food for a hungry humanity. It would be adding grave insult to the in- jury the farmer would suffer from taking less for his product to tell him, in effect, that his products cannot be gotten to those who. are suffering. dying, for want of them, and that, therefore, they are of no use.

It was good to see at least two of the provincial ministers of agriculture, those of Saskatch- ewan and Ontario, taking issue with Mr. Harkness at the con- ference in Ottawa last week and tel-ling the world what should be done. The proposals of Saskatch- ewan’s Mr. Nollet would both strengthen the farmer‘s economic position and get our sunpluses to those who need them most, through the good offices of the United Nations. Mr. Ha-rkness re- plied that he would have to be a “magician” to carry out all Mr. Nollet’s suggestions and that he intended to handle things “in a more scientific way".

Perhaps this world needs a bit of magic. if we may broaden that term to include the results that come from having the vision to see what has to be done and the will to do it. For years the United States has opposed the idea of a world food band. and so far, Canada has followed suit. Instead of this. Canada should be providing leadership in build- ing such an organization. In Me final analysis. we can win the struggle with the Communists for world domination only by be? ing them to it in doing something truly worth while for the world's nerdy. It will be no easy (wk. but, if freedom is to survive, we have no other choice.

I am. Sir. cm. DOUGLAS MacFARL.-\.\E Bedeque, P.E.L

even,

emerged from the joint rule of Britain and Egypt only tw0 years ago, was illequipped to meet the emergency. The Moslems in the northern half of the country were divided into factions supporting and opposing closer relations with the U.A.R.’is President Gamal Alb- del Nasser. The primitive Africa-n tnibes in the south play little part in Sudanese politics.

The early stages of any mill-'-

tary coup offer Ifcw clues as to the intentions of its perpetrator and the comparative obscurity of Gen. Albbourl has given rise to a number of conflicting redictious. TWO TI-IEORIES .

Some olbservens, noting the pro- Western leaning-s of the Khalil re- gime, interpret its fall as a Nasser victory, suspecting that the general is being used as a figurehead Iby UAR. agents after the pattern of Gen. [Mohammed Nagluib, who preceded Nasser to power in Egypt.

Albboud's British military training and on the fact that he visited a number of Western countries as head of a Sudanese military mis- sion three years ago. It concludes that his purpose is to prevent the Nasser faction from gaining con- trol in the Sudan.

The general’s early pronounce- ments have been soothing and non - committal, promising im- proved relatious with both Nasser and the West and denouncing chaos, corruption and the influ- ence of unnamed foreign embas- sies in Sudanese politics. FRESH WARNING

Their tone gives reason to hope that Sudan’s new leader, if not as staunchly prestern as the generals in control of Pakistan and Thailand, might at least par-~ allel Iraq’s Brig. Abdul Karim Kassem in pursuing policies inde- pendent of those of his northern neighbor.

In any event, the Sud-an offers fresh warning to the West that Communist subversion is not the only threat to democratic govern- ments. Like France’s Fourth Re- public, the Soci-alist Burmese Re- gime of U Nu and the rightist ad- ministration of Thailand’s Pibul songgr-am, Sudan's civil power was the victim of its own dis-

Another theory relies heavily on

unity.

This Remarkable Age 1 I

New York Times Weekly

This is truly a remarkable age. In the last year alone, man has set up permanent living quarters. at the South pole, has plumbed the ice-capped depths of the Arc- tic Ocean, even to the North Pole, has lofted satellites into space, and has begun to enslave the fusion power of the hydrogen atom for peaceful purposes. Per haps the epochal events justifv the labeling of our era as the Age of Imagination, for this is the faculty most clearly at work in all of these immense achieve- merits.

That the Age of Imagination ts merely in its infancy is suggest.- ed by the proposal made by Gail A. Hathaway, engineer, at the recent world Congress on Large Dams. After renewing the con- tributions that large dams have made to civilization in past cen- turies, Mr. Hathaway turned to the present and the future.

The present is remarkable enough. Mr. Hathaway pointed out that among the dam projecis under way is one in the Nether- lands, Which will include four dikes with a total length of twen- ty miles to separate the Zuidcl.‘ Zee from the North Sea so that the salt water can be pumped out and the land tilled. These dams will be built on foundations 100 to 140 feet below the sun face of the sea, set on sand and in a region of strong tidal cur. rents.

MORE TO COME

For-midable as such a tasu may seem to the layman, it is but a bagatelle compared to the task that Mr. Hathaway sees for future dam builders. Some day- around the year 3000 A.D.—he oli- served dam engineers might be called to run a dam between Greenland and Norway, in order to avert another Ice Age. Such a structure, built upon the so-called shallow “sil” which runs along the ocean floor rough-1y in the vicinity of the Arctic Circle, would have to be 325 feet above the ocean floor and 300 miles long. Its purpose would be to landlock the Arctic Ocean and thereby prevent the warm cu:- rents of the Atlantic from flowing

into the Arctic, melting the pack ‘

ice and precipitating a new march of the glaciers over the northern half of North America and Eur-

ope. ICE AT THE POLE

In making the assumption that another Ice Age can be prevented by separating the Atlantic from the Arctic. Mr. Hathaway was accepting the new theory advan-

ced by Dr. Maurice Ewing and 1

Dr. William Donn of Columb-a University.

The Donn-Ewing theory. whic-i ;

has set the geological world on its cars. 15 a radical revision of

g the older theory which held that l (the Ice Age was featured by a ‘ solid ice cap which covered the , whole Northern Hemisphere rign: ‘

to the North Pole. Drs. Donn and ‘

Ewing claim that glacieis are born of endless snows, and that these snow-s can fall only when the Arctic ice floes are melted away, leaving the Arctic Ocean subject to evaporation by the sun.

This happening during the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago, the scientists maintain, and it will start happening again in about one hundred years unless the Arc- tic is kept cold and frozen over. At present, the Arctic ice pack is melting away fast. Some es. timates say that it is 40 per cent thinner and 12 per cent smaller than it was fifteen years ago. TIME TO PLAN

The Donn-Ewing theary also explains the end of the last Ice Age. When the build-up of the great glaciers had. lowered the seas 300 to 400 feet, the shrunk- en Arctic became largely land locked, because of the sill running

Cut off from the warm currents of the Atlantic, the Arctic grea- ually froze over, the endless snowstorms stopped, and the gla-

replenished.

This global thermostatic action is What Mr. Hathaway’s clam would be designed to prevent Fortunately. there is at least a century to get ready.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From The Guardian Files) (From the Guardian Files) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Nov. 19, 1933)

The harbour at Summerside is practically frozen 0 v e r and steamers are having difficulty in getting in and out of the harbour. The S. S. Banna from New York, which will be loading potatoes for Mr. Mac-Farlane, tried to get into the wharf but owing to the heavy ice could not make it on Saturday morning.

The Abegweit hockey team swing ,into action tonight when they match strides with the fam- ed Moucton Hawks, Allan Cup ' Champions, in one of the opening | “Big Four" games. Coach Jack-

, son announces his boys in best i of shape and eager to enter the ‘ fray. Mr. Ed Nicholson will ac- company the team as manager.

TEN YEARS AGO (Nov. 19. 1948) Island Telephone Company of- ficials at Halifax announced last night that a new micro wave link in telephone service between this province and Nova Scotia would , he opened ouighi. The new facili- ties are expected to improve long- ‘ distance service between the two provinces. The transmitter on the P.E.I. side is located at Tca Hill.

Group Captain A. Lewis, AF. C. of 10 Group Headquarters.

‘between Greenland and Norway:

ciers gradually melted away, un- -

Making Contact Lenses Easier

man N. Bundcscn. M. D.

BysglllllETIMES, it i: difficult

en for doctors to 'eep ‘ frilly with the rapid ladvan‘iles in the medical and allied f1el 5. Let‘s take contact lenses fox example. ’ Let’s take contact lenses for example. N tional ' November is a Cosiilflzfcet Lens Month, I wanted to write a column about this type of lens early this month. Then I decided to wait until a - ter the Third National Contact Lens Congress was held in Clu- ca-go, New York and San Fran- cisco. I’m glad I did. NUMBER INCREASING I had planned to say that near- ly 4,000,000 Americans are wear- ing contact lenses as compared with 200,(X)0 only eight years ago. The national congress sessions re— vealed that, as of now, there are more than 4,000.00 persons us- ing contact lenses. I had planned to say that only about 85 per cent of those who desire to wear these lenses can wear them. Tension, nervousness and other factors, I wantedto ex- plain, nule out the remaining 15 per cent. HYPNOSIS HELPS NOW, I am informed, the use of hypnosis may make it possmble for almost anyone wiz) wants to wear contacts to wear them in comfort. Hypnosis has been tested on 18 persons with “100 per cent re- sults," I am advised. I had planned to explain that it generally requires from three to four weeks. sometimes 31, ht- tle longer, to gnaw accus to wearing contact lenses. NOW. thmotlgth a new method of 901in called the Con-Lien me- thod, the lenses are ground so that they nest entirely upon the tear layer in each eye. Since the edges of the lenses no long- er W101! any part of the eye, the adaptation period has been cut by W per cent, or to about one week or so.