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PAGE eB SATURDAY, MARCH 31,

Electoral Reform Report

A great deal of study has gone into the report of the Royal Com- mission on Electoral Reform which was tabled in the Legislature yes- terday, and we have no doubt that this fact will weigh with the House in considering its recommendations. Certainly it was not an éasy report to prepare, particularly with regard to balancing the rival claims ad- vanced in connection with the dis- tribution of seats in the Assembly, and which involved factors of popu- lation, geography, taxes paid, trad- ing and marketing convenience, and other interests.

Much attention was given to the statistics of voting in the 1959 provincial election, and these are cited, district by district, as indicat- ing that “a redistribution of seats would be desirable, provided the recommendations were not too dras- tic.” Briefly the report proposes re- taining five districts, with ten seats, in Prince County; enlarging Queens County constituencies to six, with twelve seats, and limiting Kings County to four districts, with eight members. Charlottetown and Roy- alty would thus embrace the fifth and sixth districts of Queens, in- stead of the fifth only, as at pres- ent. Various changes are also pro- posed in the division of districts in each county, in accord with the population trend and other factors above noted.

The report also advises the abolition, forthwith, of multiple voting. A majority of the commis- gion, however, recommended that the property vote be retained but exercised only once in any eleetion by any one voter, and then only with respect to property of a mini- mum value of $1,000, situated either in the electoral district in which the voter resides, or in a district immediately adjoining.

Among other recommendations fe one for a $500 increase annually for each legislative representative over the present statutory remun- eration. The voting age, it was felt, should remain at 21 to conform with the Dominion Election Act.

Judge DesRoches and his fellow commissioners interpreted their terms of reference in a broad sense, as involving the duty of making a thorough examination of all legis- lation and practice dealing with elections in this province. They have prefixed their report with a valu- able historical review, and conclud- ed it with a detailed draft Election Act, coupled with the suggestion that a revision of the Act and re- lated statutes be made after every Dominion census, thereby keeping us abreast of the times.

Awaiting Dissolution

Commentators across Canada are noting that the House of Commons hasn’t been itself since the present gession began, and that with every passing day its members appezr to be thinking less and less of the public business at hand and more and more about the coming general election. As a result, the general level of performance has sagged lamentably. Debates have degener- ated into bickering and name-call- ing; question periods, despite the stern requirements of the rules, have become an exchange of par- tisan views; and points of order and questions of privilege—usually with little claim to legitimacy— arise at every turn to bedevil the proceedings.

Parliamentary absenteeism has goared to new heights. Every p= ‘~, ft seems, is preparing with all pos-

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epeed fer Wie erection and &

ee sending backbenchers and front-

benchers alike across the country to drum up the support which they will need. Those MPs who remain behind to hold the fort are scarc 'y in any mood for statesmanship. Standing. in on a rotating basis, they tend to be nervous, edgy and ir- ritable. Every issue and incident is scrutinized for traces of vote-appeal and for little else.

This is a bad state of affairs in- Geed. Politically it is said to favor the Conservatives because, with their big manpower resources to draw upon, they can send 25 par- liamentarians out into the ‘ield without anyone really noticing. For the Liberals to do the same thing would mean cutting their repre- sentation in the Commons to 50 per cent. And the eight-member band of CCF-NDP people can scarcely af- ford to send more than a handful of campaigners into the field at any one moment without vanishing “‘‘e the Cheshire cat, as far as the House is concerned.

The Government has charged the Opposition with irresponsible ob- struction, and the Opposition has made no secret of its conviction that the Government has ceased to

govern in order to devote all its time and attention to _ political preparations. Meanwhile, leading

newspapers are urging Prime Minis- ter Diefenbaker to end the farce, dissolve Parliament and go to the eountry. Mr. Diefenbaker’s reaction to this proposal is not known; though it may well be that he has been waiting for just such a clamor to do precisely that.

“It has been argued, plausibly,” says a writer in the Conservative Montreal Gazette, “that not a single debate of the current session has achieved a level of quality likely to cause anyone to remember it a year hence.” In view of this obituary it is high time that the session con- fessed itself dead, and gave up the ghost.

Rotary Easter Seals

The Rotary Easter Seals cam- paign has always been accorded generous support in this Province, and it is hoped that this year will be no exception. It is difficult to imagine any more worthy work than providing the best of treatment and equipment for crippled child- ren, and it is to this purpose that the funds raised in this campaign are devoted exclusively.

The public is asked not only to buy the Easter Seals but to use them extensively on the letters and packages they mail to friends and business associates across the coun- try. For it is a nation-wide cam- paign, and the seals are the symbols of its meaning in every community. It is not the contributions only that count, but the warmth of sentiment behind them, and the general recog- nition that it is a privilege as well as a duty to participate in a cam- paign of this kind.

EDITORIAL NOTES

From his clowning days in the old silent movies Charlie Chaplin has come a long way. He has now been nominated by Oxford Univer- sity for an honorary degree of doc- tor of letters.

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The main hope for settlement of the Doukhobor problem in British Columbia, says the Victoria Colon- ist, undoubtedly lies in the educa- tion of the children and the result- ing spread of thought and behaviour in the normal Canadian mould. Since the Doukhobors have — been here for half a century, the real question to determine is how and why this educational process has failed.

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According to a Celtic scholar quoted in the Weekly Scotsman of Edinburgh, Sir John A. Macdonald should have spelled his name with a capital “D”. Using a small letter after the “Mac” in some highland names, he argues, is surrendering to English influence. The capital letter should be used in names derived from the names of clan heroes, such as MacDonald, MacKenzie, MacKin- non, MacLeod, MacPhail and Mae- Neill. But a small letter should be used in names not derived from pro- per names: as, Macpherson (son of the parson), Macvicar (son of the vicar), Macintyre (son of the car- penter), Macleay (son of the phy- sician). We can see where this con- tention will spark some hot argu- menta

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INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT

BRITISH REPORT

Crucial Issue At Geneva Conference United HE, bal alee Service

The discussions in the Geneva |

disarmament committee have made one thing very clear. Both in the field of general disarma- ment and in the narrower field of nuclear tests, the crucial is- sue is that of international in- spection.

For 30 years — ever since the |

first disarmament conference— it has been generally that any agreement on a pro- gramme of disarmament must include provision for some sys- tem of international inspection which would provide reasonable assurance that every state was carrying out its obligations.

The translation of this ‘prin- ciple into practice is obviously a technical problem of which the solution is far from easy. But until now the principle itself has not been challenged.

Now it is in fact being chal- lenged by the Soviet Union and its associates in that they claim that there must be no inspection of armaments existing at the beginning of the disarmament process and of armaments re- maining after each reduction. This surely vitiates the whole idea of reasonable international “inspection” or “control” or “verification”,

NO SECRET

Britain and its allies, together with the vast majority of states, do not refuse. They have clear consciences, And in fact, the level of their war potential is, even now, not hidden. It is pub- lic knowledge, already subject to “‘verification’’ by Parliament and a free press. So there is no reason for objecting to interna- tional verification as well,

It is only in the Soviet Union and its associated states that such resources are closely guarded secrets, subject to no parliamentary control, hidden from the citizens, So it is not surprising that these govern- ments seem determined also to any form of international inspection.

agreed |

WHISPERING WINGS

Why do ‘on touch of Sp And feel its ae before the daf- odil

Breaks a — earth robins in t

Lift praises 4 the day with haunting trill?

Why are men warmed and se profoundly stirred

By the unseen, the wings they cannot hear

Moved to respond to unknown finger tip

And weigh ‘the simple things te find them dear?

Why do men quicken te a blade

a the gentle

or

of grass, The Take . wind sw sky, And a e ‘Kinch to the uni-

geese against a

vers

The wondrous ae that do not meet the

How can it be that men are oft inspired

To thoughts beyond their powers to define;

Thoughts lifting them above the common day

With echoes of the hallowed and divine

How does | oo hardets heart find tendern

In one beiet "spay smile and

turn to pray’ ee * ae feet are eager and

Or > ieuniile momentarily on the stair?

ae a = the golden

seem rough beter the hihray

Man all these wonders, an ponders

To exercise his consciousness of

—S. Barlow Bird Freetown, P.E.L

“The armed forces and arma- ments retained by states at any given stage will not be subject to control,’”’ says the memoran- dum circulated to the Geneva Committee by Mr. Gromyko.

It is not surprising, but it strikes at the very root of all possibility of reaching agree-

| brusquely rejected by the Soviet

ment on a staged reduction of |

armaments which would bring about “complete and general disarmament’’. Such _ verifica- tion is an entirely essential fea- ture of such a disarmament pro- ramme. But it is this essential feature which the Soviet Union rejects as inadmissible. Precisely the same Soviet re- fusal to accept international in- spection, on the ground that it would be tantamount to ‘‘espi- onage’’, is the only obstacle to

| became interested

| but a cloak for espionage.

an immediate cessation of nuc- |

lear tests for all time.

This then {s the real issue. Everything else is subordinate and subsidiary, and should be well inside the bounds of rea- sonable negotiation. But on this the Soviet Union seems ment, and its rigidity is a bar- rier to all progress.

DISTRACTING ISSUES

It is, I think, important to have this clear, because from various quarters endeavours are being made to distract at- tention from it by raising what are in fact minor issues.

It is, for example, being sug- gested that the Western are responsible for the deadlock

over tests on two grounds,

The first is that, having last autumn offered an “uncontroll-

ed cessation of atmospher-

ada- |

Powers |

ie tests”, the British and U.S, Governments went back on this offer. The fact is that the Presi- dent and the Prime Minister sought to halt atmospheric nuc- lear tests at the outset of the Soviet Test series. It is there on record that their offer was then

Government. The Russians only in it after they had conducted over tests in the atmosphere.

Again there is a repeated sug- gestion that it is ‘‘well- pong that all nuclear tests are no both detectable and identifiable by “national” inspection sys- tems, and that any international system is therefore unnecessary that it would in fact be nothing This is repeated again and again. But it simply is not true. As Lord Home put it, politely, ‘we have yet no evidence from the scientists to support that sup- | position’,

So one could go on. There is much of this sort of petty pole- | mics in circulation, both in and | outside the Geneva Committee. They only serve to distract at- tention from the real issue.

That issue is the so far rigid

song < the Pend Union to a rm of interna- | onal Rusmeeien'e of the level of

“the armed forces and arma- ments retained by states at any given stage of disarmament”. The great majority of govern- ments are prepared to accept this, and, indeed, regard it as essential. But the Soviet Gov- | ernment refuses. It is, in effect, a Soviet veto on any realistic programme of disarmament,

Causing New Concern

By Harold Morrison Canadian Press Staff Writer

In his anxiety to recapture the Chinese mainla ng Kai-shek appears to be hort- ing his nationalist forces in such a way as to cause new concern and apprehension in Western diplomatic quarters.

The leader on Formosa is aging and the temptation to launch an offensive to redeem his honor in the eyes of his peo- ple may increase, particularly in view of the food shortage on the mainland and the split be- tween Mao Tse-tung and Soviet Premier Khrushchev.

But Chiang’s views concern- ing developments on the main- land are not shared by the United States. There is a fear

some American diplomats that the 75-year-old nationalist maybe exaggerating the situa- tion, & morale-

Chiang says anti-Commun ‘orces on the mainiand are “converging into

| one big torrent” for it and

| that military and civilian per-

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| nationalists were

r | sonnel there er fight agua | land revolution against the re the Red t

mi | @ager

| mainland

a nationalist auien EVIDENCE LACKING

One U.S. authority said he could no evidence that a |

find massive revolt is in the making. The police arm of the

as tough as ever.

onc am pcan with the i ing has te "consult eo the EE tore taking any overt

Mao. before the mainland can sue- | Tse-tung regime appears to be cessfully hands

capture the mainland, lost to the

is some 13 years ago. Presi- dent Kennedy says there has been no such consultations and he knows of no new proposals under consideration,

“Quite obviously, it is the de- sire of the le of Formosa that they be returned,” said the president at a press conference, “but we have to consider all the responsibilities and prob- | lems which all of us bear.”

While Chiang has agreed to consult with the U.S. before launching a war, he also has indicated he could wage a bat- tle without American military manpower, although he would need a trans-Pacific ony line.

any such battle, car if the to re

me, eign ~ be less

to intervene

came aware they lh forces

The U.S. appears to belleve this selma revolt must occur

change

The he Age O Old id Story

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they have something useful to |

do. There is no greater satisfac- tion than that which comes from contributing, doing a job well, and being industrious. The mas- ter word is work and it is unfor- tunate that the growing tendency to do as little as possible is de- priving so many people in our labor force of the gratification of accomplishment. It is frightening

to watch the people of this coun- |

try lose their greatest heritage

| and greatest source of satisfac- |

tion—productivity,

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

OUR YESTERDAYS

From the Guardian Files

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Mar. 31, 1937)

Preparations are under way for the annual relief of the car- ferry Charlottetown for over- ae avons to the commence-

ment of concentrated automo- bile traffic to "Prins Edward Is- land. The ferry ‘Prince Ed- ward Island’’ will take on the regular runs between Cape Tor- mentine and Borden while eek,

Charlottetown is in d. Mr. and Mrs, Slackford, Sum- merside leave this morning

for Halifax where they will embark on the CPR _ liner, “Montcalm” for Liverpool, Eng- land to join their daughter, Miss Mildred Slackford, R.N. and Miss Winnie Schurman, R.N. who have been taking a special nursing course in don. They will remain until af- ter the coronation.

TEN YEARS AGu (Mar. 31, 1952) C. C. Baker, Minister of agriilars, wat wes aoe a op- ening of the P.E.I W s In-

other purposeful |

| is the last |

Lon- |

‘It’s Hard to Cure

our , and prob- ably one of the serious, ts through the viol- ence of conflicting human at-

titudes about alcohol. While there is no way -

flict, even itself, that are the chief cause of the problems associated with alcohol. Some of the stupidities are of a kind that can “drive a man to drink”; send him in the direction of becoming a compulsive drinker.

It was the great philosoph- George Santayana, who said: “Whiskey does not stand dead drunk in its bot- tle.”

STINKIN’ THINKIN’ | Then I've been told by members of Alcoholics Anon- | ymous that their fellowship used to have a saying which | went like this; “It ain’t your drinkin’, but your thinkin’, that's stinkin’. mn t is my notion that just about as much of this “‘stink- in’ thinkin’” is done by social | driniers, and — O yes! — by | prohibitionists and by so-called | temperance people, as ever | has been done by alcoholics. Perhaps if enough people | begin worrying chiefly about ‘stinkin’ thinkin’,” instead of alcohol as such, the day will come when we'll have some really sane approaches to the er centred about alco- | 01,

*‘UNGRATEFUL SUBJECT’ Well, what stands in the way? A good answer was pro-

vided by D’Abernon, general editor of ‘Alcohol: Its Action on the Human Or-

| Gaia a work based on ne of the most respected ev ae of its kind ever made, a | launched in 1918 by the British Medical Research Council.

Abernon, subject. Most people who are interested in the subject are already partisans on the one side or the other, and no body of impartial opinion exists which is ready to be guided by scientific inquiry.”

In other words, itis the woodenheads, the closed-mind ginks, be they wet or dry, who re alcohol ‘‘an eri

subject" — who alive the stupidities and "deat. conflicting human attitudes

ward it — who delay the ra- tional approach that must be made to it some day through

Speaking you Mhys

'Stinkin’ Thinkin’!

the guidance of “‘scientific in, quiry.”

for the fact thaj an Alcohol Education Confes ence, under provincial spon. sorship, opened yesterday ip eee and is continu.

ing The coaitiinn tline sug. gests that some. attention -is given to inquiry, and that not all emphasis ing + Thisoss

placed upon assertion

a healthy development, in my view. A few years ago, if an Alcohol Education Conference fhad been held in P. E. I. it would almost automatically have become a_ temperance gathering, and nothing morg, ' Any tendency toward the examination of all sides ‘of questions of public concer, and away from closed-mind approaches, is to be applauded}

WHAT IS FASTER?

Then yesterday's keynote talk, I’ve just discovered, de- veloped the same viewpoint I'm trying to express today, and probably did a better joo of it.

No matter what benefils may be produced by the cur- rent conference, however, and no matter how wise may he the messages taken from the conference to the schools, ‘it will be a long time before the effects are carried into the} main currents of society. ®

, M. Hutchins, § while president of the Umver sity of Chicago, put the situa- tion this way: ‘‘Education ig slow,’ but what is faster?’

MEN COME FIRST

Meanwhile, though, IT think it might speed the process a little if more people could realize that the problem of alcohol does not lie in the con- tents of a bottle, but in the

nd and condition of indivi. duals who use those contents,

t be repeated:

“Whiskey does not stand dead drunk in a bottle.’ It is men who get that way. It is by thinking more about men and less about whiskey that this situation has to be met ultt- mately.

I'm glad the conference in progress here already has this proposition before it

Rualen th ewrs

NOTES BY

THE WAY

A public man we w says he is not too popular. He wants to cut public spending and save the taxpayers some money, but they don’t want it that way, — Windsor Star.

You can tell when you're get ting old. “t's when the insurance

agents stop calling. — Stratford | Beacon-Herald,

stitute laadenite onaras, "whin |

commenced yesterday morning | | at the Vocational School | Charlottetown. speech

in During his

Mr. Baker emphasized the importance of the work be- ing carried out by the women of organization, men- tioning the tremendous success attained by these groups. since their origin.

Despite the many activities

taking place. a very enthus- |

fastic group of Sunday School teachers and church workers, met with Dr. L. W. Shaw, in St. Paul’s Anglican church hall, and listened with much interest

the third of his talks dealing with the different phases of Christian Education. The final

| talk will be held next Monday

in the Central Christian Church.

A resident who lives near ~ railway tracks says he rae poy g than a vibrat-

chair — current health fal. It’s a vioreting house, — Edmonton Journal.

To dispel the idea that Alco- holics Anonymous is a secret society of limited membership, the organization has publish a an annual report for the first | time since its founding in 1935. | Membership is about 30,000 in 82 | countries, 7 per cent gain | over 1960. There are 8,615 AA groups. No fees or dues are charged, and the only member- ship requirement is a desire to stop drinking. In Canada there prio Bh nny Hse ps with an es- mated 15,000 mn members.—Mod-

pe Medicine.

ane - ey ; Wherever you're going in Europe...

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to the.

Soap is one of the rationed) items in Cuba. Premier Castro} won't worry about any shortage of shaving lather at least. Ottawa Journal.

Auto insurance should mean ppg against Sa worst that ppen roads. When ; relat takes his a out of the garage he should be able to pay for any damage he might do, not just some of the damage. We have come a long way in protecting the public from the havoc that can be wreaked by autos but we have not yet guar anteed it against the worst kinds of accidents. — Vancouv er Province.

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