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“The strongest memory is weaker than mos the weakest ink.” PAGE 4 MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1959.

Mr. Massey’s Iiliness

There will be renewed concern about the health of His Excellency Governor General Massey, who on Friday was admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal for fur- her treatment of his kidney infec- tion. While it has been announced

that this did not indicate a worsening of his condition, the public mind will “not be relieved until the infection has been cleared up and His Excellency is reported completely out of danger.

This public concern is not entirely due to the high position Mr Massey occupies, and which he will relinquish in a month's time. It is due chiefly te the outstanding personal triumph he has scored in the discharge of his responsible duties. The first Canad- ian ever to be named Governor Gen- eral, he has shed lustre on the office, and eompletely won the admiration and affection of his fellow citizens.

This was _notan easy task, for his appointment seemed, at the time, to ‘have had political implications. Mr. Massey had been a Liberal cabinet minister, and_a president of the Na- tional Liberal Federation. He was. known to be an intellectual, and while the term “egg-head” wasn’t in com- mon use, the idea prevailed that high

_.eultural qualifications didn’t suit well With practical activities. All this ecri- ticism evaporated in the face of Mr. Maséey’s human approach to his job.

He travelled to remote eorners of the land, turning up im places no Governor General had ever visited, or perhaps ever heard of. He opened the doors of Rideau Hall te many thousands of Canadians—85,000 of them, in fact. The number was twice as many in his seven years as had visited the premises in the previous fourteen. He added new pomp and giamor te his office, dusting off the old state carriage which is now a familiar part of the Ottawa scene on eeremonia!l occasions. And he made speeches to scores of organizations in all parts of the eduntry, passing en his impressions of a vital young na-

_ tion and spreading the message of Commonwealth unity.

Ne wonder, then, that we are all eoncerned about Mr. Massey’s health since he has had to cancel plans for his final official visit to the Far North. He has suggested, as his last publie act, the presentation of new colors to the Governor General's Foot Guards, to take place in the seclud- ed grounds of Government House. The event is scheduled for Septem-

September 15. The Ottawa Journal has a better

suggestion for this ceremony, which it is to be hoped will be followed. That is that it be transferred to Par- Hament Hill, and made a national oe- easion at which a grateful people may have an opportunity te bid good-bye. “The presentation of Col- ors to the Governor General’s own Guards,” says The Journal, “would be a fortuitously appropriate time for Mr. Massey, back we trust in good health, to accept the homage of Can- adians—which their presence and in-. terest would convey—for the years of dedication he has given his coun- try.” We most heartily agree.

Touche!

The Financial Post notes that in | launching a huge program to redesign fits “visual impact on the public” by. giving everything from letterheads to boxcars a new look, the Canadian Nationa! Railways hired an Ameri- ean industrial. designer saying they eouldn’t locate a Canadian with the proper qualMications. Ironically, at just. about the time it announced its plans, Donald Gordon, the president, was describing to an audience in Eng- Jand how Canada has passed “from “the status of ypioneer colony to the dignity of endependant nationhood,” “Certainly, the CN. ig, entitled to hire whomever it wants to hire,” Says the Post. “But the Canadian taxpayer is also entitled to wonder if the gov- ernment-owned CN thought of ask- ing the government-assisted Nat- .fonal Industrial Design Council for

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Physical Fitness The Ontario Command of the Canadian Legion will ask Prince Philip to lend his royal patronage to

a plan to further physical fitness

for young Cartadians. Meeting in Kitchener, the Legion proposed “operation sharpshooter”, a project which it is hoped will in time be en- dorsed by all provincial govern- ments and welded into a national effort. When Prince Philip was in Can-

ada he referred to the low Canadian .

‘standards of physical fitness and the need for a program to raise them. That His Royal Highness was right in his estimate has been proved on several occasions and by several criteria. Pilot tests carried out by the Legion in New Brunswick last year showed that 64 per cent school

children failed to attain standards

for successful and healthy living. What the Legion seems. to have in mind, says an Ontario exchange, is a program of national physical training along the lines of the military. forces, graded for children according to age. Programs for nat- jonal health have long been in use in Scandinavian countries, and in central Europe gymnastics is almost universal. It is not at all satisfactory to note that the average European child today is in- better physical coh- dition than his counterpart in Canada.

Sherlock Holmes In Moscow

Conan Doyle would have enjoyed writing this latest Sherlock Holmes thriller—The Case of the Missing Rubles. The scene would be laid in Moscow, where, on behalf of the es- tate of the legendary detectives creator, application has been made in the city court to go before the Supreme Court of Russia. for royal- ties to the amount of 2,000,000 rub- les. The Moscow eourt has granted the application and the case will be heard in the higher court this week.

Lawyers for the Doyle estate ac-

“ euse the Soviet defendants of “un-

justly enriching themselves at the expense of another.” This is the language of Article 399 of the Soviet Civil Code. Basing a case on it re- present a new approach in the long fight by Western authors for royal- ties from Soviet state publishing houses. According to the Canadian Press, the Soviet Union is not a mem- ber of the International Copyright Convention and refuses to pay for publication of foreign books.

The case. was argued in Russian by a Harvard University professor of Soviet law—another twist Doyle would have enjoyed. If successful, the suit will open up a multitude of royalty claims by Western authors.

EDITORIAL NOTES

As a matter of tradition a box of snuff used to be placed outside the debating chamber of the British House of Commons and a member could, if he had a mind, help him- self to a pinch on entering or leaving “to clear his head.” A good idea to revive in present day election cam- paigns, when party supporters often go on the air with only the foggiest idea of what the issues are about.

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This Province welcomes the in- creased _ expenditure of $100,000 which will be made im construction of additional buildings and facilities at the National Park, as announced by our Queens County representa- tives in the House of Commons re- cently. Coupled with the plans for converting the Fort Amherst area at Rocky Point into a National Historic Park, it will give an added impetus to our tourist industry and wil] be of great benefit to our citizens as well.

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Soviet newspapers are criticizing the American exhibit in Moscow be- cause it ‘doesn't contain enough ma- terial on science, industry and fac-

tory techniques. But the exhibit is

packed with sightseers every day. Russians stand in long queues to see American cars and furnishings. Out- side the exhibit the grounds are crowded with people begging tickets from every American they can find. Whatever the 6fficial line is, the Rus- sian people are showing that the ex-

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OTTAWA REPORT

__ GETTING READY FOR THE TRIP

Mr. Pearson’s Future

By Patrick

Ottawa has been startled to, read the suggestion in a local newspaper that Hon. Lester B Pearson should resign from. the leadership of the Liberal Party, and _allow himself. to-be—set.up_as a one-man international rallying | point and leader for the forces of anti-Commnism.

This journalistic speculation forecasts that the Liberal Party faces a minimum of about a dec- | ade in the political wilderness, | and suggests that Mr. Pearson's talents would he wasted in 'laad- ing his thin Red line through that experience

“Mr. Pearson is one of the ab- lest men -in foreign affairs that the world knows,” \savs_ that writer; he continues: “Someone else could lead the Liberal Oppos- | ition almost as well as L.B. Pear- son during the next eight or nine years.” :

Mr. Pearson, as is well known, | was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 18 months ago. Vf this! award stemmed from any one. action outstanding among Mr. | Pearson's record, that was per- haps his recommendation that an international army should be set up under United Nations auspie- es, to keep the peace between Is- | real and Fgypt. Mr. Pearson that proposal after Suez fighting, and it was adopt-

ed.

OTHER MEN’S LAURELS Without in any way detracting

from Mr. Pearson's long and dis-

tinguished career in our diplama- |

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fair to point out that Mr. Pearson in fact was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize partly for pirating another man’s idea. I recall) that the idea, a United Nations army to keep the peace in the. Middle East was proposed in our Parlia- ment about ten months before the Suez fighting broke out.-The pro- poser urged that this step should

be taken to prevent what other- |

wise seemed to be an inevitable outbreak of fighting Foreign Minister Pearson brushed aside

the suggestion proposed by the |

Opposition spokesman for For- eign Affairs, named Mr. John Diefenbaker. But it is now his- Pearson later ad- vanced the idea successfully, but after the fighting forseen by Mr. Diefenbaker had broken eut and indeed been ended.

But to go hack to the Ottawa newspaper suggestion which Its author hints might be a ‘“‘silly season” suggestion prompted by Ottowa's 90 degree drigping- wet weather.

The democracies are failing to heed warnings about the progress now being made by Russia, and we continue to think that we can outstrip Russia with one hand tied behind our backs.

Or, as that writer colourfully our philosophy, ‘we the Communists from our two-car garages, and in our five day weeks, and on a nothing down-pay later economy.” UNITE FOR STRENGTH

The writer then goes on te urge

round what will the democracies unite? Around .bB. Pearson, he suggests.

»Mr. Pearson should be appoint- ed a sort of free-world Joan of Arc, roaming round Washington and Egypt and London and Indon-

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In case you have developed the |

habit of sleeping late during the summer months, prepare yourself for getting up in plenty of time to fix your school-bound child a good

esia, more or less passing on the | gossip like a one-man whispering | gallery. Cynics might ask what | all the ambassadors do, that Mr. Pearson should now replace them - all; Canadian taxpayers might

a hundred foreign embassies, mostly staffed by officials train- ed under Mr. Pearson's own sup- ervision, if they cannot ferret out the kind of information now sought

What ie interesting about this. newspaper suggestion is that it | was written by the well-known

Ottaw journalist I. Norman Smith | who is a close friend of Mr Pear-

well ‘ask why we maintain half)

nourishing brealsfast. Actulilly,

| it has been proven that children

who eat good breakfasts usually do better in school than those who do not

Protéin foods; such as cereals and eggs, are especially good for schoo! children. QUESTION AND ANSWER

MA.D.: T have a film over my eyes most of the time. I have been told that this is catarrh.

Could this condition be helped er cured hy diet?

Answer: Your condition should receive attention from an ophthal- mologist who may determine the

| son. Further, i¢ was written in| exact diagnosis and, if a diet de-

Ottawa at a time whan Mr. Pear- son was himself making a speech | in England urging that the west-| ern alliance should close its ranks | for the cold war struggle against | | @ommunism. Mr. Pearson shares | with Mr. John Diefenbaker and with many leading statesmen in our allied countries the belief that we must strengthen our. al- | Hance, economically as well as | militarily. j But Mr. Pearson is now prea- | ching this need from his pulpit as leader of the Liberal Opposi- tion, a position whith he has no | intention of abandoning at least until] after the next federal gen- | eral election. For Mr. Pearson has heard the belief expressed ' around Ottawa, that he is the best leader now aveailable to the Liberals; and, again to horrow | the words of Norman Smith, he

tie service and later in our gov- that the democracies must unite does not intend to be accused of ernment, it would be no Jess than | for strength in the cold war. A-' “running out’.

Nehru’s Rising Resentment

By Fd

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Canadian Press Staff Writer

To Prime Minister Nehru. who graduated with honors from the! prison’ cell of a colonial power, no shrewder insult could be of- fered than the label of imperial- | ist.

The Indian leader, who has pa- tiently endured a variety of dif- ficulties with domestic and for- ign Communists, was under- standably moved to protest to the

Chinese government when the of- |:

fensive epithet made its appear- ance in official Peiping propa- ganda ongans.

If the Chinese were in a mood lo reply to. Indian protests, they would probably explain that Veh- | ru suffers from an old-fosh- | ioned addiction to dictionaries in) his approach to the meaning of | words.

DEFINITIONS DIFFER

To Nehru, an Imperialist -is a believer in the rule of one people by another. To the Chinese prop- agandist an imperialist is simply | someone who is being awkward about practically anything con- cerning foreign policy.

Nehru could, if he chose, apply | his definition to the word to the. Chinese government for its re) fusal to recoghize the Indian na-| tionality of long-time residents of the formerly autoomous region of Tibet. The propagandist, in turn, unhesitantly invokes it when In- dia insists that her present boundary with China should re- main unchanged.

,In_ provoking India’s prime minister to wrath. the unkind ad- jective has probably done him a gocd turn politically. Indian newspapers have given increas- ing signs of restiveness with Nehru's sweetly reasonable atti- a toward his northern neigh-

r.

Apart from his firm stand on the boundary question and his Prompt ouster of the Communist government of Kerala State in the face of eommunal riots, Nehru has worked consistently toy maintain friendly relations with Peiping and Moscow.

NOT FORGIVEN

Many Westerns have not for- given him for the marked con- trast between his denun- ciation for British and French actions In Suez and his tardy re- buke —-harely a slap ofthe wrist

om Russia’s simultaneous activ- ities in Hungary.

While these far-off events made Hittle impression on Indian public pinion, considerable feeling was)

aroused earlier this vear by Nehru's, restraint in dealing with Red China's rigorous suppression of the Tibetan revolt, which drove the Dalal Lama to exile

/ across the Indian horder.

In continuing to press for the reconstitution of the three-power

Anglo-American Cables

commission in Laos, against the wishes of the Laotian govern- ment, as the result of the re. newed outbreak of resistance from the Communist Pather Lao. | the prime minister has shown himself determined to hew to his neutralist course wherever pos- | sible. Under the circumstances, | the Chinese propagandists are ‘shooting at a sitting target. Rut Nehru's anger suggests that the) open season may be about over

National Geographie Society ©

Giant metal threads stitch Am- erica and Europe ever closer to- gether.

The latest addition to the grow- ing underwater network is the pair of telephone cables being laid under the Atlantic from North America to the coast of France, the National Geographic Society says. e

When it goes into use this fall.

the facility will be able to speed ||

3% conversations under the sea at one time. One strand will carry

voices eastward; the other, west. ||

The new link is being created be- cause of the success of the first transatlantic telephone cable, pla- ced in service in 1956.

The American Telephone and Telegraph Company will own the

cables jointly with the French|' Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs and| Telephones, and the German Fed-| |

eral Ministry for Posts and Com- munications. . . IN NEWFOUNDLAND The western ends of the cables surface at Clarenville, Newfound- land. They will tie in to a cable that will cross Newfoundland and the waters of Sidney Strait to eon- nect with an existing 575-mile ra-

dio relay route extending south

to Portland, Maine, to join the Bell System's national network,

In Europe, fhe Ites end at Penmarch, on the Birttany pen- insula of France. Thirteen of the % circuits will terminate in France and 13 in Germany. Bel- gium and the Netherlands are al- loted one apiece; Italy, Switzer- land, and Spain, two each. Two spares can be used in any of the countries in the event of a eir- cuit failure. -

At present, there are one cab- le and nine radio telephone cir- cuits between France and the United States, and two cable and 12 radio circuits between Ger- many and the United States. ~

ed—roughly 2.500 miles for. each strand — were manufactured at , | Newington, New Hampshire; Fr- | ith, England; Calais, France; and | | Nordenham, Germany. The cable

, consists of a central copper con- ductor surrounded by copper | | tapes, polyethelene waterproofing | more r tapes, layers of a- bric, jute, and cotton-wrapped | steel armor wire.

| | HEAVIER IN SHALLOWS

In the deep areas the cable will | be one and a quarter inches thick | and weigh about a pound a foot | That in shallower regions, how- | ever, needs protection from tida! action, marine life, fishing rigs. and shipping activties. In these areas,’ the cable wil: vary from ‘tmost two inches to a little over | ‘hree Inches in diameter. Tt wil! | weigh more than 10 pounds per

‘1! foot.

Telephone communication by | deep-sea cable is made possible | by intricate electronic amplifier | which boost voice currents pass ing through them by about a mil- | lion times.

Fach amplifier uses three va- | quum tubes and some other components packed in flexible c per tubes about eight feet lonz and only one and three-quarter | inches through. Thev are spliced | ‘nto the line and laid like ordin | ary cable with regular cableship | gear.

The twin cables will each use | 57 amplifiers, placed 44 miles | apart.

The Age Old Story

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ficiency is involved, only then can the trouble be corrected by diet.

PUBLIC FORUM

This column ts open te the discup

sion by correspondents of question «.

interest. The Guardian does not meses

sarily ex‘orse the opinion of corres pondents.

LIQUOR LAW ENFORCEMENT

Sir,—Realizing that the present election campaign has not really warmed up, as yet, and that there may be additional issues brought before the electorate with- in the next few days, I would appreciate hearing the viewpoints of the Opposition in regard to our present liquor laws and the en- forcement of the Temperance Act in this Province.

I have been observing for a number of years, the compla- cency. under which the present administration labors under this ridiculous piece of legislation, and yet not displaying. publicly at least, any desire te correct the situation, no doubt, not wanting to make it a public issue and a gamble more or less at the polls.

When one takes into considera- tion, the fact, that the net pro- fit from the sale of alcoholic bev- erages in this Proviiice, is one, if not the leading source of our total revenue, without, which this Province at the present time

| would. find it impossible to oper-

ate within Ms budget or other- wise, one would almost feel, that an item of this magnitude would certainly receive a great deal more realistic discussion and ac- tion at a time like the. present.

T am Sir, ete.

H.H. LARTER Souris, P_E.1.

MAXIMS

Men in teaching others, learn |

themselves.

‘OUR YESTERDAYS (From the Guardian Files)

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Some twenty wheel chair pa- tients from both hospitals were taken to the races by the Walier Callow Wheel Chair Coach yes- terday afternoon. Today whee} chair patients from the Provin- eial Sanatorium, about twenty in number, will be taken to the Ex- hibition Grounds and tomorrow a

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Darting all about the place.

Pesky nuisance, cute tormentor, Robber with a pointed face.

walls. wnat All night long your gnawing .ec wing ec

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Drove. you to.a warmer clime. Do we have to bide your antics All the long cold wintertime?

Can you go on dodging daily,

Our sharp cat who watches you?

Though I quite dislike your mis chief,

Mouse, I rather hope you do.

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