Che Guardian

Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew

W. J. Hancox, Publisher

| whose experts have been studying ' aerial photographs of the strategic

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country, followed by the granting of airline landing rights to Chinese

Obsolete ~ Hospitals

lace Ward Frank Walker ~ id i ; ' t i ee 2 1 ae eae: | resion south of the Himalayas where" Sy Br. Senet otane-S.- Yany elles Men or for new speciacies of & set | front. ;

Published every week day morning (excep! Sun- fighting with the Indians cccurred. as i _ and o% teeth, the average "Briton | But the anxiety goes deeper day end statutory holidays) et 165 Prince Street, It is recalled, too, that as far back mete? Ses, my opinion, may at first be litthe concerned | than the economic side; it pene- Charlottetown P-E.I., by Thomson Newspapers Ltd. [ : : Ses . ; with due respect to the 763 hos- with a war half-way round the | trates the entire fabric of Brit. Branch offices at Summerside, Montague, Alberton "| as July, 1963, the Pakistani’ foreign pitals constructed during the world—until the news hits home. | ish society. No matter what tnd Souris. minister warned that China would ee ee (The struggle between India_and | Britain may say about the ris- anes ake teaets 45 Unverty ave | come to his country's defense in the basic pattern. Everyone gets | Nenomal Health Service. | and i < onan nee Empire 3-8894. Montreal 640 Cathcart Street Unt | event of an Indian attack. China full hospital care regardless of |. Eighteen years have passed | Britain needs the skills of South- i ee MA 0a ere.” hasn't substantiated this warning in so ot ae eakas tee {ee ae bee hale Gao ow ote waalied Adee

Member Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers. many words. but there is,nd doubt more skilled employees than but although India and Pakistan | help save the sick and ailing Association and The Canadian Press. The Canedien | that it is prepared to exploit the con- beds for patients. The main | have achieved independence the | among the uneducated masses. Press—is ,exclusivelyentitied to the use—for_repub- : : i ; stumbling blocks to these pro- | relationship with the mother | Now doctors from India and lication of all news dispatches in this paper | flict to its own advantage. Even if it | grams stem from hospital insur- | country 1s still strong, weaving | Pakistan are journeying to Brit- credited to it or to the Associated Press or Reuters = doesn’t get directly involved in the | ance groups and government | a mysti¢ pattern that has fol- | ain to help preserve the Nationa? or oe a ee ew el ee rho here. | War, it could make substantial under- rules, regulations, or codes. lowed strange paths. Health Service. right or republication of special dispatches here | , ' . j The modern general hospital In terms of -financial invest- Indeed: with the continuing in also reserved. Subscription rete: | cover contributions to it. should be geared to meet the | ment, Britain's stake in these | exodus of British doctors to

So a If was the gravity of this threat health needs of the community | two warring countries is esti- | greener fields in Canada and the

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PAGE 4 MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1965.

Why No Objection?

Finance Minister Gordon has fre- quently expressed concern lest Ameri- “can domination of Canadian industry * should lead to the loss of our political

independence. We must’ assume, therefore, that he does not share Trade Minister Sharp’s complacency over the fact that the three biggest flour milling companies in Canada— all American—have refused to mill wheat for shipment to Cuba because to do so is illegal under United States

law.

Mr. Sharp says he’ has ‘no ob- jection” to this because Canadian firms can handle the entire order any-

Since when did United States law

ample, admit that long-range plan-

| not infringe on individual provincial

which brought Mr. Ball and U.S

| Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler to

| London for policy-making talks last

| week. It could be what is uppermost in—UN_Secretary-General U_Thant’s mind in his efforts to bring India,

' along with Pakistan, to its senses be- fore- it is too late. ed

~ Water Policy Problem

—Just-about-every—eountry—in—the world faces water problems, and Can- ada is no exception. The governments of the three prairie provinces, for ex-

ning of water projects is necessary if the needs of all three provinces are to be met. But nobody has as-yet come up with a formula that will al- low development in a province and

rights. This is a matter to which the |

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OUR RELUCTANT ASTRONAUT

Canadian Council of Resources Minis- ters is putting its collective mind.

REMARKABLE BEQUEST

in an efficient and economical way. Intensive units are used to treat ividuals wit h- Serious ailments, such as heart attacks, strokes, pneumonia, or cancer. Similar sections are re- served for those recovering from surgery, fractures, acci- dents, or obstetrical procedures. These sick patients are helpless and need skilled nursing care. Most hospitals are designed and built to take care of this group.

But the need for this intensive and expensive care ends when recovery begins and the in- dividual is up and about, re- gaining strength. They should be moved to a less expensive space where they can use bath- room facilities and eat ip a cafe- teria or dining room. is hotter and there is more social activity. The need for nursing | care is reduced and the conval- | escent is not forced to share a | room with a very sick patient. |

Special units also should be available for those undergoing diagnostic examinations. Many | are ambulatory and do not need

mated‘at about £500,000-000 ($1,- 500,000,000). Tea, oil, mining, in- surance and’ shipping are among the British operations which help sustain the Indian-Pakis. tani economies and at the same time help nourish British homes and-~ banks:

With the British pound strug- gling to maintain its stability and the British economy s0 heavily dependent on foreign trade, the financial side“ of the costly wer would alone _repre- sent the anxiety Britain feels as it watches U Thant, United Na- tions secretary-general, search

Lucky This Time

Montreal Gazette

The world’ can count itself lucky that the strontium 90 fall- out from nuclear tests appears not only to be declining, but al- so never to have reached ser- ious levels.

Research has been carried out |

by Dr. A. M. Hunt, head of the department of dental public

But the very fact that the world seems to have come | through this series of tests, when | the atmosphere was being mas- | sively polluted day after day, and the fact that the amount of strontium 90 is now growing | less, are all the more reason for | prolonging the test ban and for

“the full treatment.” Rodm for | health at the University of To- | trying to discourage other na-

rehabilitation should bee avail-

ing their services into the home. |

| ronto. He has made a compar-

| tions from adding to the polu-

SMOKEY 18 REAL

way and it will plot affect unemploy- : cc ae vats [ than 30,000 child- | ti : a ; Meantime, the United States is | ale. The more Giese indivig: | Mor ot mete Tee SRAM) ie On Cee ee oxins. The world ment. But surély something else of | i 4 . ° h ° - ° d uals help themselves the sooner | TeD's teeth during the period of | may not be so lucky another importance is at stake in this»matter. | looking north to Canada and this To Honor Si i iT sonian Institution Foun er they can return to a normal live. | the strontium fallout with teeth | time.

| country’s water supplies to meet its i National Geographic News Bulletin 2 Some institutions. are extend- | before the fallout period ae

operate-in this country? If thé prin- ciple of our independence is to be maintained, how can this defiance of the will of the Canadian parliament

difficulties in this field. Projects that would cost literally billions of dollars are being talked about—taking water from Alaska and the Northwest Ter- ritories south via the Rocky Mountain

fashionable London flat

queath the whole of my proper- |

unwelcome — the illegimate son |

from King Henry VII.

A lonely man, frail and ill-at |events of James Smithson’s|a million dollars to the United 61, sat at his writing desk'in a | birth, He came into the world States astonished Americans.

Smithson had not only never vi-

can friends,

|

met by frequent visits from a

The patient’s daily needs are | Measured in any of the teeth | was 60 times lower than the

Smokey the Bear is a rpal

physician_and nurse who work | threshold of danger established | bear: Saved from a forest fire in

SUIT OF ARMOR | Mrs. C. writes: I've had spin-

by the United Nations Scientific

Committee on Radiation. : The fallout continued to rise

from thé end of 1962, when the

Lincoln National Forest, N.M., | he first appeared in forest sa- | fety posters in 1945 and now is |

ee TEP and people be justified’ ty. . . to the United States of | Becuase he bore .a lifelong | strangely the United States’ al arthritis for years. The surgi- in a Washington. zoo.

Trench; diverting northward flowing

—

This point is made forcefully in an Ontario exchange, which notes that the $30 million sale of flour to Cuba is part of the $450 million wheat deal made with Russia by the Cana- dian wheat board, acting for- the

‘rivers so that they can flow south in-— stead. To this kind of talk Canadian authorities have been understandably cautious.

National Resources Minister Laing

America to found at Washing- | ton, under the name of the | Smithsonian Institution, an es- | tablishment for the increase and | diffusion of knowledge among men”.

“Thus on an O€tober evening | in 1826, a remarkable bequest

stigma of illegitimacy, James Smithson was denied his father's tithe and place in society. Sub- stantial inherited wealth did not keep the injustice of his social ostracism from rankling deeply.

An industrious student, Smith- son resolved to achieve honor in

Congress was not sure it, want- ed the money! ‘Tt is beneath our dignity to receive presents from anyone,’ thundered John C. Calhoun. But the eloquence of more farsighted mep prevail- ed, and in 1836 an A

cal’ corset :disturbs and upsets me physically,-. and hampers walking. Can yqu suggest some- thing else? REPLY

*“ Yes. An operation may solve your problem if backache has plagued you for years and the

About a year ago the high point |

an | GESIGH CONSBLTANTS * SEWING SERVICES QO. BOX SSO CHARLOTTETOWN, Pee

$$$ $$ $$

prairie farmers on behalf of the said last spring in the United States | created the pa oe museum Fanta right. At one aes lomat sailed from England with | usual remedies have been un- | Was reached. It has been drop- : Canadian_government. It was nego- | that Canada’s water will prove to be | complex in the worll. L eetieilisey cine aes cule (Oh ree * ecmmmamiae BORE | Sere ee Dress Goods! tiated in line with government policy | her greatest resource and, if it is sold, | 700 SCHOLARS | mun. | cTalowist of his class. A dedica- soi as asvocalane a tearé to undersigned” aud” ae | ore arene st uncertatuty “To — ° that such sales to Communist coun- | it will have to be paid for. He didn’t pie Be, a unaworkary’ a ed Bo Ce ae. That legacy and subsequent | cept yourself. ‘one camr Se entirely sure what|3 9 newest shades “e . : 5 ar, ist, i och .

tries not only benefit Canada’s econ- | Say SO, but he could have added that | his birth in 1765, the Smithson- lEwieubok saa cane oe tei ¢ Pg a 0 a + | era ov is, vied | ° @ finest quality t

| arou! ciety. affectionate pride. cago, Illinois.) | ple in the direction of dis . | Seeee eesccccoooeoool

try that had magnificent water re- © in a two-day celebration, Sept- ember 17-18. Ceremonies will in-

\ ces of its own but has squandered oe q | elude a_colorful academic pro-

i i we cannot | : bebaety | ing through Europe. One con- ea aa that | cession and convocation, schol- | temporary recalled that he was

: atly sessions, and special exhi- |a devotee of games of chance As the Montreal Gazette points

) bits.’ | who successfully bet. on horse out in this connection, it is not pos- | | { | |

The United States, however, has used its Trading With The Enemy Act to prohibit American firms and their subsidiaries from dealing with- such countries in certain commodi- ties. This is an extra-territorial law and Washington has made it stick with American controlled firms oper- ating in Canada. :

- The Ontario newspaper quotes Al-

oo -win-Hamilton,-agriculture-minister-in_—|_and_then_to_cut_off the supply.Such the Diefenbaker government, as say- | commitments, whatever the terms of ing the flour sale is not the first time— an-agreement-may—say,—are-for_eyver.. American law has interfered with | Canada has soon to arrive at a water = Spo Canadian policy. Washington, he says, policy. It may well be one of the el M nipulating Culture i previously held up sales to Commun- | most important—and most difficult— ay 3 Globe And Mail, Toronto ist China of fertilizer, newsprint and | decisions this country will ever be farm machinery manufactured by | called upon to reach in its dealings American firms in Canada. | with the United States.

_ This doesn’t make the situation | Th Grain Rate any better. As long as Washington | oseGrain Kates : . - It is a perennial complaint of the

Smithson never married. He | spent most of his life wander-

,

Now, a purchasing agent will

Chief Justice Earl Warren, as sin ; :

chancellor of the Smithsonian | Wectg eens ee

sible with regard to water, any more Regents, abe > jsonane Car-.|. gmithson died in 1829 iv Ge-

j michael, immediate past secre- |'noa, Italy. In 1904 his remains

than. with regard » one aes ae tary of the Smithsonian and the | were sent to Washington, D.

for Canada to agree to share with the | National Geographic Society’s|¢ and placed in a small cha-

+-United-States fora period~ of-time;——viee—pregident-for_research_and | pel-near- the entrance -of--the | exploration, will address the op- | gmithsonian.

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There fis something forbidding- ly ponderous about the joint ef- fort of Ontario and Québec to manipulate culture, to whack it| As far as the Ontario exchange | back «and forth across their com- | is concerned, one has, the ini- mon ‘border like a tennis ball, tial impulse’ to ratse“4a-*-lusty |:

The Cultural Affairs Minister | cheer at what appears to be a of Quebec, Mr. Pierre Laporte, | sound effort to break down bar- announced that, as a result of | riers, to build new lines of ner.

is |

can dictate the terms upon which railways, notes the Winnipeg Free

American firms do business in Can- | Press,-that-they lose_large -sums_of

ada; our-independence isn’t-much-to an- Ontario. iniative, the two munication, to repair misunder-

provinces were in process of ne- | standings, to sow some seeds of

followed these matters over the years | has observed two phenomena when | thefe is a large crop: rail earnings | almost. invariably rise.and there are ‘}"nio~ more~ complaints’ from™railway management about financial losses. This year will be no exception. | | With a record crop in prospect and approximately 114,000 boxcar loads to be shipped between now and next ‘July under the Soviet sale alone, rail- way earnings can be expected to rise steadily during the coming months. Indeed this-improved prospect has already been anticipated by the stock market; shares in the Canadian Paci- fic Railway, which were trading for $61.75 on August 10 (the day before the Soviet sale was announced), rose

The most ominous implication of the developing violence between In- dia and Pakistan was underlined in a brief statement in a London dispatch in Saturday’s Guardian. It came from the U.S. undersecretary of state, George W. Ball. after-.a conference

, with the British government, and it dealt with the possibility that Red.

riers? Will an _ inter-provincial cultural agreement facilitate any exchanges which previously were difficult or impossible? Has the Ontario Government de- ‘cided; as a--good. will gesture, that it-is now ready to admit to the stages of Ontario theatres French folk-singers and their guitars? SHOULD EARN APPROVAL ° Many people must have been under the naive impression that artists, musicians: and actors scored their hits or misses in one province or the other, sole ly on the basis of audience ap- preciation. If a singer from Montreal draws rave reviews : in Toronto, we would expect to see him pay a return visit with- out any nudging from a Gov- ernment official or sinister re- minders that there was a quota to. be filled.

changes. :

The proposed link with Ontar- io will be only one of a number now. being planned by Quebec. Proposed drafts for an accord With France, dealing with cine” ma, the*tre, art exhibits and linguistic experts, are almost ready. So too-is an agreement

with Lousiana, and a similar ac-

flict. Mr. Ball said he would prefer “to wait and see what form a Chinese intervention would take” before commenting further, but there is no doubt as to the significance he meant to attach to his statement. Already China has carved itself , a 12,000 square mile slice of Kash>

Our Yesterdays

(From The Guardian Files)

‘ TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (September 13; 1940)

An army of 2,000,000 tonight rimmed Britain’s mist-shrouded coastline -and hundreds of air- fields or likely landing spots in expectation of an imminent Nazi invasion attempt.

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mir—over which the two Common- wealth nations are feuding—given to it by Pakistan through border agree- ments in 1962. It has also made un-

official claims on a narrower section. A further foothold there would be the beginning of Lenin’s inspired jour-

ney: “Through Moscow,. Peking and

Delhi lies -the roads to Paris and London.” Now that Indonesia has

veered

into Peking’s orbit, isolation

of India, “the linchpin of Asia,” could

be

on, the Communist agenda.

ce 1962, when Peking became Pakistan’s friend by attacking India, relations between President Ay ub Khan and the Chinese Commfiinists

by $5 during the following few days. No one will begrudge the railways their higher earnings. Bigger box- | cars, longer trains, faster turnabouts and more efficient management have combin keep grain traffic profit- able without increased rates. But in the circumstances there should be no more talk about financial losses under the Crow’s Nest agreement.

EDITORIAL NOTE | _ Canada is renowned as a wheat- | growing country. But the Windsor Star does a good turn by reminding | us that meat, after all, is a more valuable farm product in terms of —

oy

Artillery fire rumbled on the Egypt-Libya boarder with in- creasing intensity after fresh Italian troops moved up near the border and British forces prepared for a possible Fascist offensive into Egypt.

se _—_—_—_—_ TEN YEARS AGO (September 13, 1955)

It was announced the multi- million-dollar Canadian Nation- al Railways hotel under con- struction in Montreal will be called the Queen Elizabeth de- spite a campaign by a Quebec Nationalist group to have the name changed. *

Big Henry Hartinger’s bases- loaded, 2-run single in the last of the ninth innings broke a 4-4 stalemate. and gave the Sunshine

have been growing steadily warmer.

They were strengthened by the ar-

| .gross production. Beef alone puts

If the Governments of Ontario and Quebec. are going to start sending cultural bouquets to each other, they may discover that they are dealing with deli- cate flowers which can wither and die if they are crudely bun- died and shipped ‘out by fhe truckload.

Is this kind of agreement not really just-a bit of political win- dow-dressing, paying no more than token tribute to the worthy idea of cultural intercourse? We seem to smell more than the

greasepaint.

INTRODUCE WAR DOGS

SRINAGAR, Kashmir’ (AP)— Indian security forces in dis- puted Kashmir state are using

from the Pakistani sector. Sim-

Tsland Dairy a 64 victory over -ilar—tacties—were—

the R.C.A.F.. Flyers and the

dogs to hunt down infiltrators |.

—ased—by—both-} sides in the jungle war against

The P.A. was going through his inventory when Al Bentley called Long Distance. Al always kept in touch by Long Distance between visits, and the P.A. did a lot of business with Al’s company. This time, Al had a honey of a bargain to offer, and the P.A. snapped it up...It happens every day: smart salesmen offer bargains, smart buyers grab them—by Long Distance; so fast, so friendly, so direct. Maybe there’s a bargain sitting in your warehouse—something someone could use? Try a Long Distance call. It might just clear that space...

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