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Stability With Mobility

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The various provincial premiers _

are discussing many things at their ~Toronto conference; all of them are important to us in Prince Edward Island, some are vitally important. --One which we believe to be of great importance isthe first step

in the standardization of- “education =

across Canada. It seems ironic that the only comment on this was that of Ontario’s Mr. Robarts who stated “T think there is agreement standard- ization is desirable inclined to term that one of the great- est understatements the gentleman has been known. to make. Obviously neither Mr. Robarts nor the rest of « ‘the premiers have encountered the ‘problem being faced daily by so many Canadian- parents. my This -is-an-age of oblige aie even plan on-portable pensions—but along with mobility there must be some stability. Education of Canad- ian youth right now is neither stable nor portable. The latter is the bitter

lesson ‘being learned by kids every =|

year when their ‘parents are compel-— led to move from one province to another. Where one province re- aoe completion of Grade 12 for --university entrance, another asks for "thirteen; one calls for_an_average of 50, the next: demands 60. A subject which may be elective in one system, and perhaps not taken by the student, . becomes ‘a compulsory subject in his next province and he cannot advance

'.because. he has not studied it. Even

‘the systems and school books are different. : How much simpler and better it. - would be for educationists and pupils | alike if there were one system of teaching. one set of books—one standard curriculum that was Canada- wide-and-tmto° which-any-child-could -. fit and feel at home. It may not-seem

“ef: tremendous importance to some

parents that their: youngsters will perhaps lose a year by changing res- idence, but it is of real financial im- portance as well as being psycholog- -4cally so: No child wants to be told ‘by new teachers in front of new class- “mates he is not far enough advanced’ to join kids of his own age in their ~ elasses. Furthermore, each year his graduation is delayed costs him thousands of dollars of potential in- _ come. ae Standardization of education is too-long overdue and ‘it is high time premiers quit ‘agreeing’ it is desir- able and got around to doing some-

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*- Another-Way Canada is fighting in South Viet ‘Nam up to the hilt. But there is this’ ‘difference, that. Canadian involve- ment is not directed towards partic- - ‘pation in a shooting war against the infiltrating Viet Cong and the North ° Viet Nam régulars. The Canadians are fighting polio among South Viet Nam children. It has been made public by the ‘ External Affairs Department. at Ot- tawa that this country is putting up’a million dollars this year in medical aid to South Viet Nam ‘under its foreign aid program, and the polio | campaign is part of it. As a pilot Operation, Canada ‘is - providing ‘the materials to the health ministry of: the South Viet Nam ZOv- ernment for the inoculation of 165.- - 000 children in. the capital city of Saigon against polin Inthe long view, ‘they plan to extend their program ‘beyond -Saigon to the -whole ,coun- try so that every South Viet Nam child betwen the: ‘ages of six ane ke and twelve vears. will eventually immunized a gainst the disease. ‘ «But. the. medical assistance ¢rhm_ Canada dors not stop with the polie’

progray) A Canadian doctor from: ‘ Burlington: Ont. is already on the spot carinc for-tuo thousand ‘tubere-

ulosis. patients, but his work is hamp- ered by lack of proper fadilities and

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Prank Walker 4.

"We. would be-

i reptiles. Rak : a

seeff asstitance. This country ts se interested. it is contributing more than a hundred thousand dollars for the capital cost of building and equip- ping a proper clini¢.- Another Can-_ adian doctor. and~ a construction | supervisor left this country a couple

of weeks ago to reinforce the staff,

and tater it is hoped: there will be

from five to. six Canadian. doctors '- working- there along with nurses and

technicians. | °°There are no_ protest marches | over this form of South Viet Nam in- | tervention.

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- Sacrifice For A Principle

- The chaitman of the Canadian Labor Congress wants this country to nationalize all forms of power sup- ply ih Canada. It might be well for both labor and government. to take*

.a couple of long second: looks at this idea. This could get around to exact- ly the samé thing that is going on in Britain today.

answer to ending private profit, but if has also sometimes proven to be the source of inefficient service. Once the incentive to profit is removed then’ all too often the incentive: to , provide good service disappears. The reason is obviously that nationaliz- ation ends competition ‘in industry and any team manager.is quick to. admit once the element of competi- “tion leaves the field his team; no | matter haw, good it may have been, becomes just another group, going: through the motions: ° The public is properly doubtful of . the success of government-run busi- ness. But perhaps an outstanding ex- ample of. the very_ opposite of. that

Nationalizing industry 1 may be the |_

may be seen in the liquor business. ‘In this field local government. mon- opoly has not resulted in any lessen-

| vided—and at the same time the b profits continue to roll into govern- ment coffers.-But of course this is all

__ing.-demand whieh pavs_tittle heed to ‘either rising cost or lowered aids If it’s wet and-alcoholic it can be-sold.

Formidable. Heritage -

When. school lets out for the aver-__

| age’ voung Canadian, there are whoops of joy at the prospect-of the long summer vacation: But fer Prince

| Charles, the school means a ‘refuge

whether” ‘it is-the-sehool ‘in Scotland :

| or the one in Australia. When the

- Charles literally ‘as to go to work - even if he is going on a vacation. “The heir to Britain’s throne has long been accustomed where he travels, to the press of crowds be- hind the ropes, the pop and flare of. photoflashes and television cameras. But when he arrived in- Mexico City this week from his Australian bush - country school on the :way to join .the royal family in the West Indies, a new dimension was added to his celebrity role. This time the 17-year-old boy had to stand at the head of the jet liner’s -gangway and read a. saying how glad he is to be in Mexico for three days. When,he finished and- it was translated into Spanish, Mex- ican reporters pushed forward with a barrage of questions that had him - | blinking in bewilderment. Members | | of the staff of his host, the British ' Ambassador to Mexico, fended off ‘the press and hurried the lanky: | young prince to an Embassy car that

| their .

. able atmosphere of calm on Par: |

ing in the service or merchandise pro- | liament ‘Hill, in- which those (all the. economic power while un- |ainst Gordon, |

made possible bya constantly grow- | future — as it is likely—to be, |

national leader of the New. De-

| Parliament Building That Scottish-born Baptist m

—premier.—of- Saskatchewan roe

‘intention to nationalise the Mé.ns of production and ath

. would

-he is only slightly pregnant,

was flying’ his own pennant and he ryshed off’ to the Embassy.

No‘doubt the Mexican papers will bristle over being denied an inter- view, with the visiting member of rovalty, but surely a 17-year-old who’ has just landed from the long hop from Australia is entitled to some British uncle stvle help from the ae embassy men.

~ EDITORIAL NOTES

Passion dominates a four sided | triangle of desire and greed.— We'll never be able to understand

the new math.

«

“* te The high demand for alligator ‘hides ,on the shoe and purse, market | has jumped the price of raw hides _ to.$6°a foot, created an incentive for | poachers and forced the U.S. Inter-

-..ior__Department..to—seek- extended—+~

authority for the ‘protection of ‘the |

|. . Is Man‘ the No. 1 threat to wild- life? Dr. George Wallace, University | of Michigan zoology teygehier? sees | soniething éven worse-*He: lays’ it. | | right.on-the line. “Pesticides—worse than. anv threat North American wildlife has ever’ fac ed We shalP have heen witnesses, within a single dec. ade. to a greater extermination of | animal ‘life than had heen: recorded: during alt of Man's previous 7 years j om earth.”

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I'S HOLIDAY POSTCARD TIME a

— OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson; ‘Summer. Calm Returns To Parliament Hill.

Most. MPs have gone home for .Summer holiday, taking away with them the hectic par-. tisam mood-This. leaves—a valu- |

|

still _here-can at, leisure review | the past-and speculate about the

and-as” it. should be

Thus Hon. T.-C: Douglas. the | mocrat party; talked to’ me about: | | “his views of our long-term pol

itical_ trends, as we ~sat “relaxed | _in his office gp the quiet ard al- most deser' top floor oft!

1 | nister led North . America’ 8 first | Ego as CC 1944 to 1961. Now he and-his fol- | lowers feel-for.the-first tinie con- fident- that their capture of pow- er on the federal scene is with- | in sight — perhaps as a resuit | of the next election, which will be a drama piayed by new char- acters in many of the leading roles. ¢ SOCIALISM MODIFIED .

His party has changed its out- look in many ways. It differs from his first socialist, govern- ment 22 years ago in philosophy and platform. This is partly be-

| cause other parties have adopt- : ed and

~already- implemented some of its programs, such. a broadiy-based welfare payments | and social fringe benefits. .And it is partly because circumstan- ces have changed; for example,

in revealing that there is noth- | ing sacrosanct about the earlier

bution.

- some areas than Walter Gordon.

But, as Saskatchewan's present

laws. This is one field where Nae |

|tionalisation might be necessary,

as a first-step to reselling such | ;companies a mere’ economic col- ony of USA, with USA’ enjoying

dertaking: none of the political | responsibility : THE TWIN “OLD”: PARTIES Then=Tommy Dotiglas chatted jabout the slowly . unfolding dra- ma of political Change. .Mr. St. nt’s achievement of a huge majority in the 1949 election ton- vinced-him that nothing would

| alter the pattern of the two old’

‘parties, as ape aA two peas tn | Ta pod, both inated by the eee elite and

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between. ‘sharp “atid the Fleming | |type of Conservatism. The Lib- erals are- already wrapped: in their -final Suicidal strite © ¢s- | Sharp. and. Winters line-up ag- .MacEachen and Sauve, he. believes:

“IT see no conscious ~ realign- menf of our_present political set- up Coming under the -present ‘Old Party leaderships,”’ he said. But I am sure the public will | |move—in™that direction, by elect: | ing more MPs of the smaller ‘parties which -dé have. strong and “distinguishable ideologies.

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Thus we will-reach the: position | +ual_is in-good-health.—

twhere-the-only—possibili ty of pols 7:

especially |itical stability “will ‘lie. infmer- |

_|tarts to . bleed

‘| there is more sunlight;

\vention. Too much be avoided, particularly by those |

| Protective

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| 12 cups of © coffee daily

the. banks. Recent cent quick chang--| gers -As“an~intermediate® “step;

jlar failings. This- pattern, he | concluded in 1949, would lead to disintegration within 20-25 years,

Today, with 17 of those years | 'elapsed, he sees more distinction

iTeft wings of the old parties will | jue party, while their right wings will coalesce with Social Credit |

| support. It is quite conceivable |

|between the Sharp and Gordon that this will happen as a result — of the Liberal party, than lof the next election.”

~Whale-Watch On The Rhine

Chatha m

A leteohnaa ‘call to the local Germian consulate reassured’ us that the Moby Dick of old-Fath- er. Rhine had made it safely back to the North Sea. Thus end- ed a sea saga which had kept | all West Germany’ agog for weeks and even embittered the politics of a state election.

The latter occurred when ri- val candidates competed with | each other in expressing sym- | pathy and support for the 3,500 |

| pound white whale which had

mysteriously swum into and.up the Rhine.

And the whale. deserved sym- | pathy. Not only was he trapped in narrow, alien and allegedly fresh waier, but, we are told, | he was thought to have been |

| nearly killed by the: Rhine's pol- | ore’

Daily News

{ing how’ much better he . woul

jes of government lent have stressed | see. a National government on | nérvousness, \their similazity and their simi-the books. But—ultimately the |‘tation of the heart and indiges-,

imove to join us in a:left-of-cen-""more coffee

Skin Cancer =

ls Common.

By Dr. Theodore R. Vah Dellen "Ironsi told a meeting of ambas- Cancer of the skin, one of the, Sadors this summer ‘that Ni-

most common maligiancies, is easily’ cured. the lesiotis are visible to ‘the, naked.eye and de- | tectable in «the early stages. | Skin @ancers “canbe removed — surgically. or. destroyed’ by X- ray or Yadium. *~ eek The majority of , victims are warned for ahead of time when a painless sore fails to heal or a mole increases in size, changes in. shape, deepens in color, or | or’ ulcerate. Whenever this happens a phy- | sician should be consulted’ be- cayse in the early “stages cure usually follows adequate treat- ‘ment. : In southern regions, where 4 cancer of’ the skin is more common than .in | the: north.. The lesions also are

more prevalent among older,

farmers and sailors whose work has kept them out. in all sorts of weather for long periods of time’ All this has led many au- thoritiesto—-conclude-that--pro- longed or excessive exposure to ultraviolet rays is a causative factor.” There is additional evi- dence to support this coriten- tion; skin pigment not only pro- tects ‘against. sunburn but ap-

-pears~to protect against skin

cancer. Anyone may develop skin can-

cer but those with light or rud- | Yakubu Gowon, 31,

dy skin are more

exposed “areas of the | and

“Its Size Horm

pers Nigeria

By JOSEPH MacSWEEN

Maj - Gen. Johnson Aguiyi-

geria’s size marks her out for ;leadership: on the African centi- ‘nent.’

| - But this size could also. prove ‘a handicap in: achieving purely :

national aspirations, . Ir ons i ‘added.. The “supreme com- Mmander'' was Speaking after

some 600 persons died in Ni- \geria’s northern region follow: ring. his proclamation . of a uni- | tary state. ’ Ironsi’s words *?are none the ‘less true now that ‘he has. been |swept from: power in an army |mutiny which left his fate un- | clear. His fall only underlines once again the extreme diffi- "gulty of; evolving a suitable stem in a ‘big country ' with \deep divisions of Face, tribes religion.

| MADE PROGRESS . Ironsi, with the determined air of an honest soldier, re- | stored a remarkable measure | lof stability to Nigeria after tak- charge—or being put in charge—of..the. revolt. that top- pled the democratic govern: | ment last January. 4 But it was always. a touch- and-go affair. There is still the | problem of a- vast and back- ward * Muslim Northern Region, suspicious:.of.the go-getting Ibos | rand Yorubas in the southern jregions. Thus Ironsi, 41, was | apparently deposed by Lt.-Col.

a member

Susceptible |of the: northern Hausa tribe, | than those with darker compler--| who announced Monday he was

ions; the disorder is relatively |taking over—euthority.

rare among Negroes. Overexpo-'| Ironsi

sure to — sunlight may explain why the condition is more—fre- quent in men; they spend more

_| time in the open air.

Knowing a little ~ ‘about the causeoffers some hope of . pre~— sun— should

faced a monumental task when he assumed power, ‘trying to bring national coher- ence for the—first time to a

country of 56,000,000—10th most

/Populous

with light complexions. There {s

no harm in acquiring.a gradual |

tan but common sense and mod- | \jeration are

- important. working out of doors

| boats must be unusually“careful. clothing. should bé | worn and sunscreen’ lotions. “or salves help to-filter out the rays | and prevent the skin from,—be-

coming .cracked or thickened:_ '-Moles-or scaly patches must not | is

be: irritated, “especially those lo- cated’ on exposed parts of the body.

COFFE HOU ND

V. writes: I’ would like ta: low: a figure for Ottawa

know what effect, ff: any, 10° to

have on a-person This. individ-

-REPLY:

Too much caffeine leads.

tion. Some. persons tolerate’ than others, and? this individual may “be able to | drink 12 cups: without becomihg Jittery. .

. BRIGHT BOY - Mrs. B. writes: My 12:year- | old son is- méntally advanced

| but he always selects as play-

| have -fared,-had he wandered up |

| the Rhine a thousand years or $0 ago.

Then the only peril would have been to have blundered onto the Rhinemaidens watching over the Rheingold or onto the Nibelung’s theft of it. We presume that the | whale wou Id not ‘have been above water ofter enough to | Tun much risk from the Lore- lei's song. ‘

We leave it to oceanographers | to figure out how and “why a | whale left his: salt-water home -and penetrated deep into the / Continent. We are satisfied to | learn that, unscathed, he is back | where he can, if he wishes, swim from 4*some far-off, ‘bright Az- silver-

to ‘the dashing.

premier, Ross. Thatcher, -Says,, | lution. We could not help think- ‘I flashing surges of San Salvador.

socialism is like pregnancy — | Walter Gordon might{ claim that but nevertheless, in time he would spawn a socialist offspring. Tommy Douglas looks at our, foreign relations clearly and For any reasons, Can- |

be gradually absorbed by. USA,

‘he believes — wé have too much

to lose. Wes .should -take - vigor- | ous step: preserve our politi- |

cal independence and sovereign- -

ty, and to regain our economic indevendence. He. for instance, would take over USA subsidiary companies which™don''t epérate, primarily in Canada’s interests | and with respect for Canadian |

Our Yesterdays

(From The Guardian nee

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (August 3, 1941).

Widespread reports that differences of opinion which

have led to a rift between Hitler” and Goering and resulted in the

| ponds

the |.

The Dragonflies

New York Times

“We libel their kind bv. calling jthem dragonflies, and. we com- pound the libel with myths. and old wives’ tales, describing them jas horse-stingers, ing needles, snake feeders and | isnake doctors.

No dragonfly every “stung. a sewed up small hoys’ ear or fed. or ministered to any snake. -They are not only harm= less to mankind; they are among our. most. helpfil’ insects, feed- ing. almost entirely on gnats, |flies and mosquitoes They are abroad now, over and streams, coursing |meadows and rural roadsides,

horse,

their strangely wings -shimmering in Ahe hot summer sunlight. ;

They are eternally ied, eter “nally curious, and their-big com- ‘péurd eyes — perhaps the most. jertictent eyes in the. whole in-

No. 2 Nazi retiring from the su- |:

preme command of the Luftwaf- fe are ‘‘correct,”’ says Die Zei- tung, German language newspa- per published in London.

Hints that Bri ‘open a “northern “Furopean front. af her own on Germany's flank te help Russia were current in London Britain is ‘known: to have prepared a shock force for just such a job.

TEN YE ARS AGO (Augnst 3, 1956)

* State Secretary’ Dulles called | Egypt's sudden move in. natioa* alizing the Suez Canal “an an- gry act of

Organized ‘labour tn Prince |

Edward Island took. on anew |quate

lant B ate: ‘ev Trades and. Labor Coun

cil and the Prince Edward Is- | land. Labor . Council completed

| merger. arrangements,’ eat

retaliation, seein » fancied grievances.

‘Mr. Sp eaker’ -

devil's darn- -

metallic‘looking |

i sect world — make them look grimly hostile. -

| Something about them speaks lof remote times when there were -dragons,. even flying dragons, of millenia past when. the whole teeming life of this earth includ- ed none of our owm kind.

We watch them, and perhaps | |we sense those \countless ages. on those °metallie .wings .today jas they. hover and wheel-in swift flight.

And they watch us, we know | not why. But we .are uneasy, land we recall the myths even as | we watch In wonder while they jseine the air.

We named them dragons, be- cause we remember, in the race /memory, a time of dragons. But we watch them warily because knowing ‘so much of. the past. their kind- may know “something of the future too.

In Cherokee ~

pe Science Monitor

These are the days when {deas

fly.swiftly. iver. national.borders’..

and .land almogt. anywhere» We were moved-to. this unoriginal reflection hy word that Gwynfor Evans, ‘first member of — the

|Welsh national party ever eléct- ed-to the House of Commons, as been refused leave to take

the-oath-of office |tougue

We could not help wondering it a™~ recent Supreme Court idecisiof\ might not have opened cawotoe similat linguistic cri Tw’ the Lfnited States Na sw that the hich court has cfuled ithat literaey in Spanish is ade for voting privileges,

in

grhen the Charlattetnun ard might it not AJawfilly fallow: that

Spanish 1s adequate for addres 3 ing Congress”

Adter all, what would be the situation ‘if,.on@ of New York

a e

his native |

City's Puerto Rican nefghbor- hoods..elected:-asrepresenative-a spelihinder who bound spells only.in Spanish?

We cannot say for sure that the Su ne Court did not con- sider. possibility when. resid, ering if ecision, but it would | not surprise us if tt had not. And His interesting to spe c.yfate what Congress would do tf one

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of its “members _ insisted on speaking only al :

. Or, fob that’ matter uisiana French of Cherokee, Sioux or Blackfoot. These are’ times.

when racial-minorities are vety —

much en-the aui vive and @hen the influences of the Gwynfor Eyanses care widely.watted- on the breezerrrnnn ” ,

ae children who are inferior m Does this indicate that Ihe tas a psychological disturb-

di. ance 3 %

ws

REPLY T think kiny smart,

STOPES NOSE :

FE. A. S. writes: Why do some

people have a very red nose. : REPLY ' This ts acne rosacea, a con- diition frequently associated with alcoholism. Other causes include overindulgence in cof- fee, tea, or highly seasoned and greasy food. PSORIASIS

Mrs. P.. writes: Can a person of 17 get psoriasis How-ec an one tell if he has this disorder

REPLY

Yes, a person this age ean get psoriasis. The best way to find out-if the condition exists is to consult ’a’ physician. _ : TODAY’S HEALTH HINT— Prickly heat can be avoid- ed by keeping the skin’ clean, dry, and-cool. ~*~

(NOTE: All correspondence to Dr. Van Dellen should - be addressed to: Dr. Theodore Van Dellen, co Chicago Tritb- une, Chicago, * Illinois.)

LOSE LAND FROM SEA ~ PORT. MORESBY, New Gat

|nea (AP)—The Latlat people of |New. Britain lost a legals battle ‘to continue farming 690 acres of land that rose from the sea years ago. The supreme court jruled the land belongs to Pa-

| |

pua-New Guinea. It rose in a | jvoleanic eruption in 1937, and | the Latlats began _ farming two years later.

FOUND THEIR MAN

“PHILADELPHTA (AP) |took police 20-years, | finally

ja neighbor, John Smith. Staal “T knew who it” “was.

I'ye . been waiting for the knock for 20 yéars.’

~boy Re Rater

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Those | : ‘and ‘indi- |. viduals fishing- from piers and

‘per acre annually

\ An Ottawa

}-merical come-back.

nation in the, world and biggest in Africa.

jone of the only African jtries to present a healthy |

‘regime's strong point,

|handicap. Yet

Canadian Press st Writer «

gave ah finoranside of ‘discipline ‘and patriotism. But they had‘

*little political experience. Many

politicians who! might have helped were discredited: or in jail:

Irons!: gradually fell. back

more on friends he could trust. Perhaps. jt’ was inevitable that these—Were mainly » [bos like himself..-To northern eyes, it appeared to be an Ibo—takeover- although Ironsi himself had de.- cried tribali$m.

It was in this atmosphere that Ironsi proclaimed a unitary state late in May, abolishing the federation under ‘which . Nigeria ‘eame to independence six years ago. The result was anti-south-, ern riots in the north and many Tbos and Yorubas lost: their lives. ‘ 2

Then there Was the economia \ situation. Although Niger

the world, it had aera bms —:.ineluding soaring phe gosts—-which Ironsi® could . ‘hardly remedy quickly. Unem- ployment was_ serious. }MUST- SELL IDEA

The crux of the military gov- | ernment's ‘ problem, however, was how , to devise a system _whereby the north could be in- “eluded within a popularly ac ,cepted scheme of national unity.

Public relations : were «not: the and per-

suading the: northerners—of the-~

virtues “of a greater degree of

unity than existed under the. old constitution is a project that will require real expertise in'®

public relations. Nigria's size and = diversity — are obviously, as Ironsi said, a it ‘is hoped the advantages .of size must out- weigh the disadvantages. For Nigeria is-one of. the few. coun- tries south of the Sahara :big, enough to attain real economic leas

— On Farmi

a Ottawa

Honieowners who chase tried, growing grass and ended up with a lush crop of gravel may envy the sod-farmers of Ontario |whose business. has grown to $10,000,000 a year from only | $10,000-a year in 1950.

A news_report from Toronto says there are 90 sod growers in Ontario and that 10 per’ cent \of their production goes for res- idential lawns, though this is too

The sod

is mowed at least

would™ twice a: week while growing and

/Tequires a large*amount-of niois- ‘ture Preparing tho soil correct lly, and ‘harvesting and deliver-

“ing the crop mean high.machin- t to! ery costs. r emor, palpl- says the sod-is harvested every

The Toronto report

|two years and brings in about. ‘$1. 000 an acre (compared to~ $500 for potatoes, $100 for corn and $1.890 for to- | bacco.

grass grower ithought the Toronto figure -a lit- tle high for this area. but most ‘local sod is harvested and sold jafter on@ year at perhaps an

sod, may

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ng Grass

Journal

$800 average (per acre) oe

Sod farmers 2stimate about half amainch of. ‘opsoil f¥ taken... every. timé.a crop is harvested but they say. organic material from the grass helps.enrich new soil ploughed “up before eoch, planting, Sod. farmers—are BeNsI</ tive- about criticism .from_cons- = ervation people.

Their defence if offef thats grass farmitg gets value out of

“Jand . that might have been left

idle. Sod farmers. usually close fo. cities. are iiltimately- destine - ‘ed for building_rather-than acrle “eultural-wse answav. they. sa‘ Most .people won’t worry too. much~about=it, content >to eee grass growing anywhere. Buying ~ not match the inner satisfaction of growing one’s owl lawn, but it-beats. paving th yard and painting it green: as. some subburban folk have. con- sidered. in desperation. Ancduit_is

-hetter by far than’ that —-ugh— turf-which is-sald “fo -*

artificial be growing in popularity in the U:S s

There was: a time when Amer: | ica’s Red Indians -were thought | to be doomed to ultimate extinc- tion. So certain were the proph- | ets as to what was”happening, a | lot of Americans;bewailed the | imminent loss of/this interesting portion of the fountry’s roman- tic past.

Now, however the Noble Red Men are definitely staging a nu- |

In addition to this, the Indians of the Pacifie Northwest, driven from their historic hunting | grounds in a far distant. past, are setting out to regain them.

This time the fight will be wa- | ged, not. with tomahawks and | scalping knives, but in the dense thickets of the US. federal courts.

At’ least 70 indians im Wash- ington and Oregon have filed | claims to parcels of southwest-. | ern Oregon timber land.

Their claim is based on $an/| 1887. U.S. law which allowed in- -dividual Indians from 40 to 160 | acres of publie domain. 2

Oregon is the major target for the claim, becausé more than half. th® state is federally own- ‘ed. Furthermore, the timber on | the particular tracts they seek |. is worth an~average of half a miltion dollars. ;

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Officiats of the United States Bureau of Land Mariagement de- ny the Indian claim. They assert that land eligible under the 1987 law has to be “‘self 'suppérting | farm land."

However, George Pierre, a Co-~ | lville Indian who is also a mem- | ber of the Washington state leg- islature, declares that some 19 million acres of Oregon are ope ened-to land claims by the In- dians

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