5&1 3- 1 BI-?lJ Ch Oulahivji Ultlllpuj PVAGI I WEDNESDAY. 3. I57

Encouraging Progress

g Transport Minister Hees spoke to a receptive audience on Monday night when he said that for this country to be really prosperous, there must be a far more uniform pattern of prosperity from one end of it to the other. That, indeed, is what this weeks conference in Charlottetown was all about. That is why it received front-page public- ity across Canada and why Mr. llees himself came to address it on behalf of the Federal Government. He cited C the Gordon Commission report as I 1 Bhowing that the average income in the Atlantic region lags behind that bf the rest of Canada, and is today B3 per cent below the average of the bther six provinces. The Minister haid he would not attempt to explain this inequality: be much preferred, .0 first, to recognize that it exists. and, T secondly, to express his firm con- viction that it must be corrected. : This is the attitude which hope will be taken from now on at Dttawa in dealing with the just claims of these Provinces. and in aid- ing us to help ourselves with im- proved transportation and other facilities. Our disadvantages are of ,j long standing and many of them ' hre directly due to federal indiffer- ence ln the past. The Minister was able to point ' to special studies which have been instituted under his own department with a view to remedying our con- dition. The questions being studied are the Maritimes Freight Rates Act, with particular reference to the general level of freight rates in the Atlantic region and those existing elsewhere in Canada: the transporta- tion problems of Prince Edward Island. not only as regards the rail- way position on the Island, but also the present and future position of the ferry services, the Causeway project, and the desirability or other- wise of alternative or additional transportation developments in this

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Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick from the point of view of adequacy and value of the service provided: and, as ii corollary. an extensive review of the Newfound- land coastal shipping services. These studies will take from six to twelve months to complete. As they are completed it is hoped to use the same trained staff to review a number of other Maritime prob- lems, involving coastal shipping ser- vices. harbor and port facilities, specialized l0l'i')' services and a num- ber of individual projects. When these matters have been considered by the Federal Government there will be appropriate consultation with pi'ovhicial sources before any final decision is reached. This is a promising program. Conducted in conjunction with the economic studies which APEC has undertaken in various fields such as . agriculture. electric power. tourist ' trade and industrialization, the re- sult cannot fail to be of benefit in establishing a proper basis of de- velopment within the Atlantic re- gion. This. be it noted. is really but the first step in achieving such de- velopment: but it is the most im- portant one of all. Why it was not taken years ago is e fruitless ques- tion to ask at this stage. The em- phasis now is on co-operation on all levels. and let us keep it at that!

The steam generated at in ii week's conference should ensure the forward drive of a movement which

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Nando-Gami

An interesting bit of religious news comes from Japan. It tells about the discovgry of a religion known as ”Nando-gami” which had its origin more than 300 years ago

and was thought to be extinct. A

Japanese professor at the Catholic

University in Nagoya has recently published a series of articles about

it.

Nando-gami, which means, liter- ally, "God in the cupboard", is 3 mixture of Catholic terminology and practices with ancient Japanese tra-

ditions .n n d superstitions.

Itis

thought to be a survival of early Christianity that reached Japan more than 400 years ago. Christian- ity was brought to Japan by St. Francis Xavier in 1549, but was banned by the Tokugawa Shogunate (military governors who had usurp- ed the powers of the Emperor). In the persecutions which followed, mote than one million Christians were put to death and the religion seemed to have vanished: Evidently, it did not, however. A few survivors known as the ”Kirishitan" tthe de- votees of Nando-gamil continued to woisltip underground. The group re- cently discovered, said to number 30,000, is descended from that rem- nant which survived persecution. The worship of i'God in the cup- board" derives from the practice during the years of persecution of putting an image of Buddha on a Shinto altar in the house while hid- ing the statues of (Tlirist and the Virgin in a cupboard. The curious thing is that, although the ban on Christianity was lifted nearly l()0 years ago, and the religion is now considered ultra-respectable, the Kir- ishitan continue the practices which were born of persecution. For ex- ample, at religious ceremonies ser- mons are merely mumbled, to avoid being overheard. Feasts follow all ceremonies, to provide entertainment for the faithful as well as to camou- flage the nature of the gatherings. Members abstain from meat on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays and observe 80 days in the year as "days of obligation". On these days worship is required and most manual

labour prohibited.

Famous Chorus Coming

The Charlottetown Rotary Club is to be commended on its initiative in bringing here, on Saturday even- ing next, the famous Don Cossack Chorus. Now all American citizens, the Cossacks have been exiles from their native White Russia since 1920. They have toured sixty-five different countries, and there is no apparent limit to the number of capacity crowds they can draw" to their con- certs year after year. Their program is ii varied one, ranking from solemn religious music to stirring folk mel- odies, Cossack dances and American songs. They have, we believe, ap- peared here before under Commun- ity Concert Association auspices. Their visit to any community is an event of first-class musidhi import- ance, and they will do doubt draw a large audience at the Queen Char- lotte High School auditorium on

Saturday

EDITORIAL NOTES

A professor of medicine has chid- ed psychiatrists for "not realizing how little they know." But that is a common failing, and there is no reason why psychiatrists should not

share it. I I I

West Germans rank among the world's best fish eaters. 56 pounds each annually. Canadians manage to consume about 13 pounds each. it must be noted. too, that Canada is a big fish producing country. West

Germany isn't. I I I

Following the military uprising in Thailand, King Pumphipon said he had no choice but to fall in with the wishes of the insurgents. If he follows that course he will probably keep his crown. for a while at least if he doesn't, there w1'll soon be no

King Pumptilpon. O I I

' An interesting

visitor to St

John's, Newfoundland. this week is Commander Walter Raleigh Gilbert, a direct descendant of Sir Humphrey Gilbert who took formal possession

of Newfoundland for his sovereign. Qieen Elizabeth 1. Commander Gil- bert. who is High Sheriff of Devin.

borihlswaytothedteof8r Walter Raleigh's colony at Jamo tiinvn,Va.Slr-Walterwasahal

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' heard here frequently. The Right

ENVlSlONlNG THE CAUSEWAY '

QTTAWA REPORT Our Next Governor General?

By Patrick

Ottawa: Who will be our next Governor-Geiieral?

Air. Vincent Massey will end the one - year extension beyond his normal five - year tenure of that office next February. So. in.i.-rested speculation as to his si't-cessnr is naturally being

linn. .lnlin Diefenbaker has sure ly given considerable thought to this subject already, although I understand that it has not yet been discussed in Gibinet.

Our Prime Minister will cer- tainly submit to the Queen, be- fore the end of this year. his recommendation as to the per- sonage whom she should appoint as her personal representative in Canada.

The name of ex-Prime Minist- er Louis St-Laurent has been prmninently mentioned as a pos- sit-ility. But it can be taken for cer'ain that, even if he were to be offered that high office. he would not feel .able to accept it. it is a well-kept secret here that his seventy-five years have been weighing increasingly heavily upon him for lfi months past. and especially since the election last June. Although the occupant of Rideau Hall never has to make important decisions. or speak publicly anythinit more thoughtful than "governor-geiv i-raliiivs.” that person does have to lead an active life at public functions.

ARE WE CANADIANS?

Mr. St-Laurent: name has of course been mentioned in con- junction with the phrase: "Our next governor-general must be ii Fr...ch-speaking Ci-nadlnn." There is that Insidious theory of racial alternation in our public life rciiriniz its ugly head again.

Poliiiciiil circles here are in- rrcasinilly iiskiniz whether our national life must always be haunted by the spectre that ”.lnlin" cannot have the job he-

riiu.-e ii is "Jeiinis" turn. Or alternatively. must some ob- viously better qualified "Jean"

be excluded, to the detriment of Canada. because it happens to be ”.fohnis" turn?

i wonder. would those same pcople. when taken desperately ill with appendicitis. go and seek for a French-.-peaking surgeon, just because their last previous opt iation- -perhaps for tonsllitie- via: performed by an English- spcakinn proles'nnt surgeon?

, Surely. if we are ever to be it

Nlcholnol the united nation which we are

!striving to build. we should all

be just simple -.....yphenated Canadians? Surely. unless we are to exclude one-quarter of our entire population which is of neither English nor French de- scent. we must stamp out this disunifying "Family Compact" of French and English, and ad- mil that full and equal citi1en- ship is open to all? Or must the children and grandchildren and all other descendants-in per- petuity-uif Dutch and German and Ukrainian and ltallan and all other minority-group immi- grants be kept down in the po- sition of second class citizens?

COMMONWEALTH CHOICE?

it has been suggested that the Queen-Mother might be invited to be our next governor-general. This has been received in many circles as an admirable suggest- lnn. Typical is the comment of the Guelph "Daily Mercury.” which recalled how popular our gracious Queen had been when she toured Canada with her hun- band, the late King George Vi. in I939, and added: "it is a fare- gone conclusion that Canadians as a whole would be happy to once again have her in their midst."

On the other hand. some seri- ous thinkers suggest that this ll not a woman's job. Yet is not a woman filling the post of the monarch whom the governor- general represents here?

Two interesting suggestions of other personalities have been heard here. One is Admiral Lord Mountbatten, uncle of Print Philip. who would certainly be outstandingly popular. The other suggests that we should give a lead to the whole Commonweaiih by appointing a distinguished statesman not from the Mother- ('minlry but from a Slster-Do- mlnitin. This I heard from a Can- adian now living in Ottawa but who shows the broad outlook on would affairs which one an- sociiitcs with his former home town of Wi . C . Roland Mersey make: the thought-pro- vokiiig suggestion of that distin- guished ex-Prime Minister of Ceylon. Sir .lohn Koti.-lawaln- an lppointmcnt which. he says. could raise criticism li- jealous breasts neither in India not Paklrtan, yet would win friends fnr Canada in all the Common- wealth and vin admiration in all the world.

if Roidiation Menace Report

Renters Agency. Geneva

Radiation from x-ray lpplralul ' and nuclear reactors in a grow-

inn menace to the health of fut- ure generations. says a world health Organization report pub-l Iished here Monday.

The report was drawn tip by the urzaninitious study group on the effect of radiation on human her- edity. The ltroup. made up of Ii experts from nine countries; met in ('opc-iihuen last year.

Particular attention was fo- cused on the genetic haurds of radiation from so or c e in used in medicine. industry, com and upuimental science.

The expert.-" introduction to the lflpaee report. to which is an- nexed I2 speclaliud papers. raid: ”Tne group is't-if the opinion that the well being of descendants of

PRODUCE MU'l'A1'l0Nl After pointln out that radio-

etic point of view."

The report expressed particular concern about the long-term dan- ger to populations resulting from the effect of radiation on the la glands.

Because of the danger to of!- sprinii resulting from lrradialbn of these (lands by x-rays. "coo

, slderation should be given to &

iernilriing what efficient means of shicldtfll the gonad: fsex glands) could be devised and brought in- use."

PUBLIC FORUM

This column in type: to the dint.-up ion by eorrupot dent: of uueniol al luteren. no Guaioian does not neon urlly endorin Ila epiaiu d ow!- poudenla AMBULANCES AND TRAFFIC LIGHTS

Sir,-May ladd my voice to that of Mr. Joseph L. Martin whose letter regarding "Traffic Laws” appeared in the Public Forum on Sept. 24th?

During the noon hour rush on the 24th, I happened to be rund- ing at the Great George and Kent Street intersection and witnessed the following incident.

An ambulance coming out on Kent dnshod across this busy intersection against the red light.

its siren rounded only intermlt-F

tently and was low-toned-cerb ainly not of the traffic-stopping type. At this same at t coni- ing into the intersection from the north was another car pro- i.-ceding at'a reasonable speed on the green light. its driver slammed on the brakes and just by Inches avoided ramming the ambulance anildlliipn.

Had the driver of the second car not been to alert and quick to not. some other ambulance might have had a goodly load to take to hospital.

The section of the Highway Traffic Act quoted in your col- umn on the 24th. re ambulances. distinctly stated that drivers of such must give clearly audible slrenmignals and also that they must drive with due regard for the safety of others.

I am Sir. etc.. ONE WHO A130 DRIVES Charlottetown.

slice of the test: of nuclear wea- pona. at any rate if they are con- tinued on the present scale."

The main report stressed the lack of information iitlll available over the whole field of radiation. it called for immediate stepii to increase research. to ensure the compiling of accurate and full statistics. and aiiked for govern- ment flnanclal support for genetic and other biological investiga- tlons.

Apart from natural sources of radiation-eoemle rays, substances in the earths' cruiit and radioact- ive elements in living tliisues. the report noted three man categor- leii of man-made sources:

l. Radioactive material and technical equipment such as ex- ray tubeii and nuclear reactors. 2. Radioactive substances on lum- lnnul watch dial: and television lets. 3. Artificial radloactve ele- ment: distributed by man such an atomic explosion fallout.

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gestioul. too.

The patient should get plenty of air. if weather permits. one of the best places for anyone luf- fering from rheumatoid arthritis is on a screened porch. If tlibll not possible. the room where he does stay should be light and airy. If he can't get out into the sunshine, ask the doctor about the advisability of using the ul- traviolet light.

day truffle experts drivers should wear comforta- ble clothing. stop every hour or so. walk around a bit and link a cup of tea or coffee. stunt speed is a killer; it should be varied. if the car has a rad- io. it should be dialed to lively music. sports events or the like. At night dash lights iiiould be A dimmed and the driver rhould ai- ternate his headlights between the high and low beams. they say, running the windshield wip- er occasionally help; too. -Ed- monton Journal

MIXED DIET

diet. This should include an abun- 1 dance of fresh fruit and green ,

I suggest the patient should be given wheat germ, since it con- tains a good deal of vitamin B.

And, although he may not rel- lsh the thought, the patient might be given cod liver oil.

iiicidentaliy, there in I new test for rheumatoid arthritis which is so simple and fast that it can be performed in a routine clinical laboratory in 20 minutes.

It's called the Benionite Floc- culation Test (Bi-"Tl and was de- veloped by Canadian physicians. KEY ELEMENTS

Key elements in the test are I drop of the patlent's blood serum. lnormal human gamma globuiln and Bentonile. n colloidal clay.

A drop of the blood serum is added to a drop of Benlonite- gamma globulin mixture on a slide. it the test is positive, the Hentonlte particles will clump inocculatei within a period of a few minutes.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

C.F.: What causes Hodgkin”: disease?

Answer: The cluse of liogitin's disease, which is a disorder of the.lymph glands and organ: of the body. is unknown.

8-: sure he gets a good mixed . ;

vegetables. in addition to this. 1',

Molly in being used far too light- ly. The Russian female vdce which beams the Kremlin ver- clan of the news toward the Ca- nadian Arctic is contemptuously called Moscow Mollie. Thatll not too bad perhapl. but. now of- ficlals in Fall River. Mass.

think it would be": good idea to hire ladies to check parking meter violations - and are pre- pared to call them "Meter Mol- iles.'-Hamllton Spectator

The Age Old Story

Now the God of Peace. . r 2 you perfect in every good work to do his will. working in you that which is well plfllilll in his night, through Jesus Christ. to whom he glory for ever and ev- er. Amen. -

t7oed&mo2

Welcome, old friend! These many years

Have we lived door by door:

The Fate: have laid aside their shears

Perhaps for some few more.

i was indocile at an age

When better boys were taught.

But than at length has made mc 3119.

ifl am use in night.

Little 1 know from other men.

Too little they from me.

But thou hast pointed well the pen

That write: these lines to thee

Thaniu for expelling Fear Illl Hope, -

One vile. the other vain;

One”: scourge, the other'ii tele- scope

i shall not see attain:

Rather what lien before my feet

My notice shall engage -

He who hath braved Youthis di1.zy heat

Dread: not the frost of ale.

-Walter Savage Lander.

OUR YESTERDAYS

From The Guardian Flies

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (8Ppt. 25. 1932) ..

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