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The Heavy’ Hand -

According to the “Living

Church,” a religious periodical pub- lished in Milwaukee, W isconsin, @ union of all Protestant Churches in Communist China has apparently been achieved. It is a “union”, how- ever, dictated not by the desire of Christian people to live together in~ | doctrinal harmony but by the heavy ‘hand of the Communist Govern- $ ment, which hopes to profit finan- cially by it. ; This news of a singlé, hurried- ly-built ecclesiastical organization is | contained in a’ report received by the Far Eastern Committee of ‘the National Council of Churches in the United” States. It says that (1) The merger of all non-Roman Catholic Churches is complete. There will be no separate.or dis- tinctive denominational organiza- tions, forms of worship or confes- sions; (2) All particular or special beliefs or practices must be given up. That is, these are not to be in- sisted upon nor preserved in the corporate worship of merged con- gregations, though they may be held as individual beliefs; (3). There is no mention whatever of any real protest against this process. This indicates that a high degree of pressure has been exerted to bring it about; (4) We do not know in most cases the details of the merg- ed Churches. However, in Peking we read that 65 churches are to be merged into 4, one each in the north, south, east and west sections of the city.

“By leaving the churches little choice except to join the Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee,” the Committee reported, “the Chi- } nese authorities are succeeding in maintaining closer controls oyer the § churches and their members. They

have already acquired Protestant schools, hospitals and other institu- | tions as ‘patriotic gifts’. As a re sult, it is not so much a persecuted Church as a captive Church.”

During the first six months of 1958, according to the report, church workers underwent an inten- sive course in “education for social- ism” as part of a general “thought- rectification” campaign. Many “rightists” in the churches were ex- posed and a considerable number arrested.-Among the many who re- fused to co-operate Was a woman, the, former President of a Christian College’ in South China. She is now scrubbing floors in the institution. Congregations are constantly urged to carry out self-reform and to take an active part in China’s “giant leap forward.” By holding joint ser- vices in one building, the funds of the other churches are “dedicated” to “socialist reconstruction.” “This is the first time,” the report con- cludes “that Protestant congrega- ; tions have had to surrender their properties and funds on such a large scale.”

It is not only’ Protestant Chur- ches, however, which are being brought under governmental con- trol. Vatican sources report that 18 or 19 unlawful consecrations of bishops have taken place. What is called the ‘Chinese National Catho- lic Church” is an attempt to sepa- rate Chinese Roman Catholics from the rest of the Church.

Civil Servants & Politics

Dismissal of a postoffiee official has revived the long-standing con- troversy at Ottawa as to whether civil servants should be permitted to en- gage actively in politics. The argu- ment placed before the Commons the other day by Mr. Hubert Badanai, Liberal member for Fort William, was that the rules deprive civil servants of their right to free speech and assem- bly. The Ottawa Citizen (Liberal) takes issue with this contention. ‘It argues, quite logically, that a man who takes a civil service job knows what his obligations are. He is unde? no compulsion, and no loss of liberty fe involved.

The rules, as The Citizen points ’ “Out, are necessary because @ govern-

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. ~ ment empioye serves tne nation. He , cannot show favor to people of one political stripe. His real employer is not so ‘much the government of the: day as it is the taxpayers as a whole. Every. precaution is justified to en- sure that a government émploye does not use his post to advance either . 2 his personal cause, or the cause of his party, at the expense of the taxpayers who belong to other parties.

This principal can best be applied © through’ the rule of ‘prohibiting civil servants from engaging actively in party politics, To be effective, it has to apply to all government employes, ‘whether temporary or unskilled, or permanent and highly trained. ‘If the principle were not rigidly applied, the government of*the day would inevitably base its appoint- ments wholly on party considera- tions. The government could virtually compel civil servants to campaign ,actively on behalf of the ruling party if they wanted to keep their jobs. It is in the interest of all parties that this undesirable possibility be avoided.

Soviet Science Gadgets

2A batch ofSoviet equipment for science teachers has gone on sale in the United States that, in its way, is as significant an indica- tor of Soviet scientific prowess as the rise of the first sputnik. Its quality is said to be excellént for mass-produced items, some _ of which have no _ counterpart in American catalogues. And, in spite of a stiff protective tariff, the Soviets are able to undersell Ameri- can manufacturers by several hun- dred per cent.

For example, there is a rugged- ly built projector for demonstrating a number of physical laws as well as projecting slides that the Soviets are selling for $15. The importer estimates it would probably cost up- ward of $300 if made in the United States. He will sell it for about $75. .

a price which includes the tariff and a substantial profit. But the most striking feature

of the Soviet-gadgets is the obvious fact that some one in the Soviet Union knows enough about the needs and problems of _ science teaching to design tools ~ unusually well adapted to meet those needs,»

and see them into mass produc- tion. It is believed that the Soviets

have ; equipped their secondary schools with this apparatus. In that | case, the low price may reflect a policy of trying to sell a surplus for what they can get in the foreign market. On the other hand, it may represent a dumping price that is part of the economic cold war. But one thing is certain, the Soviets have. shown up American manufac- turers in this field,\ even though their pricing practices may be quite different.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Public Works Minister Greene says that an assessment of “reme- dial works” will have to be made along Northumberland Strait be fore a decision can be made on the 4 proposed causeway. We must hope that these remedial works—what- ever they are—will not require two or three more years of study.

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The Gloucester county counci! has decided not to take part in the New Brunswick hospital insurance plan. This decision, which involves 60,000 N.B. citizens, was taken bé cause it would raise the county’s an nual budget by $500,000. Under the plan any premiunts not collected would have to be paid out of the county treasury, and the council lors figure that there will be thou- sands. of uncollected premiums However, there is to be further dis. ‘cussion with government officials and perhaps a compromise can be reached. :

* * If it.is true that the Dominican

ing for the purchase of a numbe: of Canadian planes to bolster its de- fence against a threatened upris- ing, the Canadian Government should consider the matter from all angles before authorizing delivery of the planes..The Dominican Re- public regime is a dictatorship and by. no means a popular one. In any case, Canada has no right to inter. fere, directly or indirectly, in the internal affairs of South American countries. The less we have to’ do with revolts in that part of the world, for or against, the better.

OTTAWA FIGURE SKATING CLUB

Mr. Martin’s Quotations

- Arthur Blakely In the Montreal Gazette

The roof caved in on the Hon. pened to him this week. Paul Martin last Tuesday. It was | The first incident had no fancy the second time that it had hap-/ frills. The former Minister of

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the Parliamentary cafeteria on Thie column ts open to the discus

Monday last with Mr. Lorenzo Pare, correspondent for' L'Action

sien by correspondents of question c.

interest. The Guardian does not seaee

sarily endorse the opingne of corres pondents.

CBC & THE PRESS GALLERY

Sir,—In the January 13th. edi- tion of The Guardian you pub lished a column by Patrick Ni-

cholson, representative of the Thomson newspapers in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, Ot- tawa.

Mr. Nicholson says that the

CBC selects speakers for televi- sion and radio from a small, closed circle within the Press Gallery. Demonstrably, this — is inaccurate.

In 1958, for instance, ® differ ent members of the Press Gal- lery representing most Canadian daily newspapers either -directly or as members of recognized news services servimg=2 pember of newspapers, participated in | CBC television programs. In ra- dio, more than 48 members of |

the gallery appeared on various |

programs.

Included in these numbers are four men Mr. Nicholson suggest- ed in his column hadn't partici- pated in CBC broadcasts Jam- es McCook, who appeared on both television and radio: Robert Needham, Harvey Hickey and Maurice Jefferies. This inferma- tion could have been had for the asking; that Mr. Nicholson did- n't ask is a matter for consider- ation in any appraisal of his col- uma.

In selecting commentators for programs, the CBC looks for well- informed men and women who are good broadcasters.and whose comments wil] reflect a broad range of opinion. Our choice is limijed because some do not wish to accept broadcast assign- ments for personal reasons or lack of time. Then, too, some very good reporters do not ap- pear to advantage on the air.

The CBC makes the widest pos sible selection from those avail- able and qualified. In addition, every effort is made to develop new broadcasters among the gal- lery membership

Among those who appeared on CBC 1958 were parliamentary corres- pondents of the Montreal Gazette Vancouver Sun, vince, Montreal Free Press,

Vancouver Pro- Star, Winnipeg Winnipeg Tribune,

‘Toronto Telegram, Toronto Globe

and Mail, Toronto Star. Citizen, Ottawa Journal, Windsor Star, London Free Press, The Halifax Chronicle-Herald. Ot her broadcasters from the Press Gallery included representatives of Canadian Press, Southam News Service, New York Times, Mac- leans Magazine, Weekend Maga- zine, Saturday Night, Financial Post, Agence France-Press and the Chicago Tribune. This large, representative group of Press Gallery members cannot be cate- gorized seriously as a “very small closed circle."

A dispassionate view of Mr. Ni- cholson's remarks is contained in one of the Thompson news pa pers which published his column. The Pembroke Observer said in an editorial on January 2lst.:

“We agree with Mr. Nichol- son that the number of .reporters and commentators. used — by the CBC might be increased: but we find his labelling of those popular with the CBC as ‘pinko leftists’ a serious matter. If the accusation is to be made it should be’ substantiated with chapter and verse. Those with whom we disagree should not be) labelled with derogatory titles unless there is sufficient proof to: make the label stick.”

Ottawa

| am, Sir, etc PETDRR A. MEGG6, OBC Director of Information Ser- vices Ouiawa, Jan. .

TV and radio programs in |

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Catholique. Without advance war- | ning, a large acoustic tile detach- ed itself from the ceiling and de- scended rapkily in accordance with the law of nature discovered by Newton, missing the startled Mr. Martin by a hairsbreadth and crashing on the floor at his feet ‘ The theory was advanced that | the dislodging of the tile had been caused by vibration caus- ed. in turn, by the activities of workmen trying to clear snow ; amd ice from the roof of the Par- Hament building

It was, as things turned out, a sign of things to come. And no such explanation could be ad vanced to accoum for the sec- ond incident of the Kind in which Mr. Martin was involved. DIFFERENT KIND

This incidept was of a differ- ent class - and kind. K had its origin in a speech which the Hon. | Mr_ Throne Speech debate shate last week. |

Mr. Martin took vigorous excep- | tion to a reassuring... statement by Prime Minister Diefenbaker

that Canadians had, during 1958, “worked ‘more, earned more, spent more and saved more” | than in any comparable year in } Canada’s history

Mr. Martin, in fact, gave ex- pression to incredulity and an- nounced his intention of reducing the assurance to ashes, thanks to contrary statistical information which he had received. from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, which has acquire a reputathon for excellence and general rell- ability in the facts and figures field. And Mr. Martin then be- gan to place on the record a mass of statistics for which he thank- ed the D. B.S

At times, to add a little variety which is. after all, the spice of life, the former Minister not only mentioned specific D. B. S. fi- gures, but read aloud passages from documents, that. seemed equally Minister's cause MR. FULTON’S QUERY

Justice Minister ©. D. Fulton | inquired, at length. about the | source of these quotations and statistical material. Mr. Martin

he~ agreed. disclosed that B.S. was the source. But | what page? And what document? | He might a matter of casual interest.

But Mr. Martin did not wel- come the, inquiry. The material came from D. B. S. and that, surely. was enough

Mr. Fulton spoke on Tuesday, less\ than 24 hours after Mr. Mar- tin’s harrowing experience in the cafeteria

He lost little time in charging Mr. Martin with .the outright

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An intriguing feature of Nikita | Khrushchev’s marathon address this week outlining the Soviet Union’s new seven-year plan is the lack of ideological content. There are the usual exhorta- tions to the faithful to catch up with and surpass the capitalist countries in per capita output and the oft-repeated structure against “revisionists” inside the Com munist party.

But what emerges most clearly is a song of inspiration and in- centive with a suspiciously cap- italistic melody based on more and more of everything being pro- duced by less and less work with the final, climactic chorus hold- ing out the promise of a tax-free future. GRANDIOSE BUBBLES

By 1970, says Khrushchev, Ras- ‘the highest living standards and the shortest work-

Marté-contributed to the)

What's What In. Opetating Room

pital—just to have a look around. Let's see who and what is there.

an extremely bright light.

Near the table is a portable stand holding tanks of anesthetic gases and oxygen. Close by are tablés and stands for instruments a stand for sponges, suction ma- chines, and a rack containing blood, plasma and other fluids which might be -needed during

the operation. ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT And there is other essential

equipment, such as receptacles

NOTES BY

THE WAY

ot Bebcats are bad? The Oniaric Royal Commission on reports: that porcupines oy millions of jackpines, which sup- ply newspaper pulp. The bobcat with one blow to the head suns porky, rolis him ‘on his back aad proceeds to dine.—Toronto Tele- gram ; ¢ An gchiune wan chinese 0b bre “siding officer in the first: Senate of the new state of Alaska. The choice was made Sunday in 2 caucus of Democrats, who have

strong majorities in both hous- vy

es of- ‘the Alaska Legislature. which opened its first session Monday. This inspires the idea that when the Northwest Terri- tory finally enters Confederation as, possibly, the 12th. Canadian province, it would be appropriate to make an Eskimo the Mr. Speaker of its first Legislative Assembly.—Cape Breton Post

The Age Old Story

And all that beMeved were together, and had all things common.

containing all the supplies that may be needed, starts for hold- ing basins of solutions and even waste buckets.

You may be surprised to see} that the instruments, dressings, sutures, sponges and other sup- plies are. packaged. They were placed in, these protective cov- erings immediately after they were sterilized. to enable the op- eration to be completed easily. and quickly.

Now, about the people present

there are the two leading char- acters, the patient and the sur- geon. But there are also many

less astonished statisticians over} in the D. B. S. He had. he -said, checked a number of: quotations to be found in the Hansard re- cord which Mr. Martin had said! came from D. B. S. publications. But D.B.S. had disclaimed res- the statistics themselves were ponsibility for them and. inatcurate. OBJECTS TO WORD

Mr. Martin objected strenuous- ly to the use of the word “fab | nication” which was suggestive, as he said angrily. of ap intent to deceive. At Mr. Speaker Mi- chener's suggestion, Mr. Fulton amended his sentence to* substi- tute the word “invention” for the word of which Mr. Martin had complained.

Why had Mr. Martin done this thing? Mr. Fulton said that he!

4 was not one of those who went |

about attributing nasty. motives to anyone. But it was a matter of fact that the effect of this

ed, had been to create the im- pression that the- extent of the! current unemployment and in- flation—which was serious enough | —was worse than it was in fact, K was an attempt to scare the Canadian people.

Mt. Martin denied that he

“fabrication” of statistics which} he then attributed to the doubt-|

in fact |

others.

There is one. perhaps two. sur- gical assistants; the anesthetist and several nurses. The latter in- clude the chief c@erating room nurse, or operating room super- visor and her staff, the scrub nurse, the supply nurse and the circulating nurse

SCRUB NURSE The scrub nurse is the one who

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in the operating room. Of course | you never have to return.

stands beside the surgeon and hands him instruments as he needs them. The supply nurse makes sure that- all the instru- ments and other materials are ready for use.

The circulating nurse is sort of an al] round helper. She gets ad- ditional supplies when they are

needed and helps the cee and the other nurses. i Now*you have seen an ionnah: | ing room. Let’s leave—and hope

QUESTION AND ANSWER

ease? Answer: der of the centra! nervous system | characterized by slowness and ‘poverty of movement, weakness, muscular rigidity and tremor.

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N.M.: What is Parkinson's dis-' innovation

Kt is a chronic aul

odd use of faulty statistics which | the former minister had concoct- |

| complished But the very success of Khrush-

ichev'’s ambitious program is likely to confront. him wth new problems Russia’s tremendous industrial | development has led to the emer- | gence of a new managerial and scientific class whose ranks are | being swelled bythe hundreds of thousands of students now receiv- 'ing an advanced education. Khrushchev owes much of his strength inside Russia to his rec-

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|ognition of this class and its call up . come in. . hatred of the harsh police state BENEFICIAL! Phone | policies of the Stalinist era.

| His dilemma has ‘been neatly summed up by the Brit.sh weekly, | The Spectator, which says he is iin the equivocal position of “at temptiag to run an autecracy by consent.”*

There is always the danger that 2 literate society will rebel and every success of the new seven- year pian is likely to make Rus-

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OUR YESTERDAYS

(From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY—FIVE YEARS AGO . (Feb, 3, 1934)

A numbert-of citizens were start-

led yesterday morning to see s

Cawadian Airways Dragon at .

standstill in the air and appar ently about to crash. What actual- happened was that at the al- titude of 1.000 feet at which the plane was flying there was a 65

‘mile an hour wind blowing per- mitting the plane to travel at.

that speed and still remain at @ standstill with relation to the

‘earth.

A very large number of people took advantage of the excursion to Boston this week end. Fifteen passengers boarded the train at O'Leary on Thursday remaining

overnight at Summerside. Among -

those leaving from Summerside

were Mrs. Ernest Mills, Mrs. H.~

H. Lefurgey, Mrs. Pearl Affleck, Miss Blanche Kenny, Mr. Claude Kenny, jr., and Mr. Roland Lyle. TEN YEARS AGO (Feb. 3, 1949)

The price of a gallon of gaso- line to the consumer in Chariot- tetown has been increased by one cent sirce February Ist., thus making the regular grade gaso- line end\the high octane 41 cents. Tix wholesale price has been raised one-half cent throughout

| the Maritimes. The increase in

the price of oll products applies only to gasoline, kerosens and

During the past week the Mon- tague Curling Club began a new in having the male students of Grade XI of Monta- gue High School undertake the learning of the rudiments of curl- ing. Eight students are attending the instruction classes given each afternoon

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any intention of trying t¢ indi- cate that he was using quotations | from any source, let alone the D. B. S. He had said only that he was using D. B. S. figures. SPEAKER'S _. LEG

The Speaker expressed confi- dence that the Commons would accept the ex-minister’s exp'ana- tion of what he had actua .y in tended to do and say Which is no less than is required by the House rules. To which Mr. ful- ton replied that he had carefu'ly refrained from attempting to im- pute motives. He had concerned _himself only with the facts.

And the facts were that the Hansard record of Mr. Martin's speech was ‘iberally sprinkled with quotations, specially identi- fied as such by being printed in smal] type. And Mr. Martin had attributed these. in fact. to D. B. S. which deserved not the slightest credit for them. Im fact, some of Mr. Martin's quotations and statistics ran counter to statements that D. B. S. had made, from: time to time. about economic trends and develop- | ments.

The obvious course, said Mr. Fulton, was for the former Min | ister of National Health and Wel- fare to set up his own statistical ? service, in competition with the Government - operated D. B. S., and then quote from its findings at will | Mr. Martin, who has not yet had an opportunity to make a 4 minute speech in reply, still feels, it is understood, that Mr._| Pulton’s facts were wrong and his conclusions without justifica-\ tion. Meanwhile, all statistics have become suspect on Parlia- | ment Hill. No matter who uses them when, why, or with what at- |

Comm: inist bureaucracy.

YOU,TOO, CAN GET

New Soviet Program

By Ken Metheral Canadian Press Staff Writer

tribution.

ing week in the world.” , range of needs

It is easy to prick some of the | \ Russian leader's more grandiose | bubbles. Elimination of income tax, for example, will mean little in a country where state-manip- ulated prices and other_forms of indirect taxation account for more | than 90 per cent of the govern- ment’s revenue. And few West- ern experts. give Russia much chance of achieving a 70-per-cent | rise in gross output of’ farm pro- ducts.

But it would be a mistake te | dismiss ali-the ambitious targets as so much pie in the Soviet sky. SOME REALISM -

The objectives set for produc tion of industrial and consumer goods look realistic enough, in view of recent Soviet achieve ments. British observers believe even the stupendous task of build-

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