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PAGE 4 FRIDAY, DEC. 12, 1958

Leadership Sadly Lacking In their letter to the City Council, replying to a Council request of three

' months ago to install the necessary

equipment for water fluoridation, the Water Commissioners stated their de— cision to hold a plebiscite “because 01 the controversial nature of the sub- j act. the many requests from individ- ual citizens not to fluoridate the water and the many cautions to proceed carefully.”

Certainly the Commissioners can- not be accused of acting hastily! They have allegedly been pondering this question for three years and more— ever since they first vetoed a Conncil resolution in its favor. Evidence has been presented to them of the sound health value of the measure from every qualified source. 'If they have heard argument to the contrary we have yet to know whence it came, or on what grounds it was based.

Now we find that their plebiscite announcement was made without con-

. suiting their solicitor, who states that

the Water Commission has no author~ ity to take Such a ballot. Sanction must first be obtained from the Leg- islature. This will involve a furth/e: delay of several months, even if promp action is taken in preparing the necessary application. In the mean- time, of course, there is nothing to prevent action on the Council’s re- solution Without a plebiscite, except the Commission’s determination to shirk responsibility. The e x c u s e 3 given for this dereliction are, to say the least, flimsy and misleading. .

We note that in their letter to the Council the Commissioners state that “only twenty-three communities are fluoridating their water supply at the present time.” The latest statement- we have seen lists twenty-eight com- munities, representing nearly 3. mil- lion Canadians who are enjoying the benefits of this treatment. The Com- missioners also state that “Toronto Township and Renfrew abandoned

fluoridation. after its adoption”; but ,

they do not explain that thiswas due to a technicality in the wording of the Ontario statute and not to dissatisfac- tion with fluoridation. Why this omis— sion? and why the omission of any re- fereane to the requests received from responsible organizations in this city, backed by the City Health Officer, the Provincial Health Department, and our medical and dental bodies? Why the emphasis on anonymous oppon- ents of the scheme, whose qualifica- tions to act as advisers on a vital health issue we can only judge by the fact that they prefer to remain anony- mous ?

Surely the public is entitled to all the information the Commissioners pr'ofess to have gathered on this sub- ject, rather than the distorted pic ture given in their letter to the City Council. The tenor of their letter, and indeed of their whole course of action, is open to serious criticism. We be— lieve that they, or‘their successors in office, will eventually have to take action in this matter. But: in the meantime the younger generation being penalized; and the tragedy is

0 that it is the families of our poorer

citizens who are-'being penalized'the most. It is they who find it hardest to meet the cost of adequate dental treatment for their children, which fluoridation would reduce to such a great extent.

Great Potentialilies In the “New Commonwealth” Robert Jamieson gives an interest- ing and informative account of the British Newfoundland Corporation. BRINCO. was established about five years ago, mainly with British capital. It has three main interests: timber, mining and water power. Its timber concessions amount to 1450 square miles of black spruce. The. potentialities of this reserve are now being investigated by C r o w n Zellerbach Corporation which has an agreement with the Newfoundland Government, where- by it will decide within a specified nine. whether it is prepared to build m pupor mills in Labrador and \VnwWmdlnntl. Exploration is non yum"! ugly. Mining activities are being con- ducted in the llakkovik belt in Lab-

rador, the Halls Bay region on Newfoundland’s North East coast and the Bay of Islands on the West coast. A new uranium deposit in the Makkovik area is said to be the richest discovered since the Eldor- ado mine at Great Slave Lake. BRINCO has completed surveys for a 350,000 h.p. development at Bay d’Espoir on the South coast of the Province. It appears likely that one of the new paper mills, should the projects be found feasible, will be located there. A bigger develop- ment—2 million h.p.—is planned for Hamilton Falls, Labrador. Nego- tiations are now proceeding with prospective customers for this vast reservoir of power. ' All this is further indication of the great industrial development in store for our sister Province-

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I Recognition Again

External Affairs Minister Smith has let it be known that diplomatic re- cognition of Communist China is under consideration in OttaWa. At the same time, he declared that there is no “divergence of opinion” on the matter between himself and Prime Minister Diefenbaker. That’s strange. It was only two or three. weeks ago that Mr. Smith intimated that he was in favour of recognition. At about the same time and on another occasion since Mr. Diefenbaker stated that he was not in favour of it “at this time”

Mr. Smith’s 13. t e s t statement

I would seem to imply one of tWO

things; either he has come around to

the Prime Minister’s View or the]

Prime Minister has come around to

his. If the former, there will be no re- ‘

cognition of China; for it is inconceiv- able that the Cabinet would go against the wishes of the Prime Min- ister and the Minister for External Affairs; in fact, it would be q u i to impossible for the Cabinet so to act.

If the latter, we may expect a decision

in‘favour of recognition any day now It would. seem to be a reasonable thing to do. It could not make the Chinese Communists any more in- tractable than they are; and it might possibly make them less so, especially if in due course they. were given z. seat in the United Nations. Only the United States, of all the nations of the w o r l d — not counting Nationalist China — is really opposed to that now.

It is really beginning to look as though the Canadian Government is at last convinced that it is unrealistic to refuse to recognize the existence of a. Government that controls a nation of 600 million’ people and is hesitant about saying so frankly out of defer- ence to U.S. Secretary of State Dulles.

EDlTORIAL NOTES

65 inches of snow have fallen in upper New York State since late Nov- ember. So, all things cbnsidered, we in this region have very little to com- plain about, as far as the weather is concerned.

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After‘months of bickering over‘ cold-war issues, the UN. General Assembly passed a resolution call- ing on nations to “live in neighbour- ly relations.” Nothing very specific about that; but on the Other hand no country can very well take ex- ception to the wording.

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Colonel Davis, comptroller 64th (U.S.) Air Division at Pepperrcil Base, near St. John’s, paid a fine tri- bute to Newfoundland by asking his superiors to extend his period of ser- vice at the base. He said that New- foundland hospitality was unequalled anywhere he had been .ll’ld that it wa» impossible to exaggerate the beauty of the scenery.

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While visiting the Khyber Pass on the Pakistan border, Prime Minister Diefenbaker was presented with threw sheep by tribal chiefs. Following the. custom in that part of the world, he returned the animals to the donors with many thanks. Thus the Prime Minister and his party were spared what might have been an annoyim; chore. No one likes to have to look after sheep when traveling.

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The St. Lawrence Seaway may help rather than hinder port opera tions in the Atlantic region, D. V Gonder, General Manager of the C.N.R. Atlantic area told a meeting in Halifax the other day. “I can visualize”, he said, “that any general increase in seaborn traffic via the Seaway might result in established routes which will produce increased traffic in winter". That may be true But no port can thrive on winter tral fie, alone. The only way that Halifa. and St..loln1<':m ho. i'eas-nmhly sure of their share of traffic is for the Gov ernmcnt (o set the tolls high enough

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TIME, TOURISTS, AND COUNTRY COUSINS

“Ill fares the land, to hasten- ing ills a prey,

Where wealth accumulates and men decay. '

Prince-s and Lords may flourish and may fade,

A breath can make them, as a breath has made;

But a bold peasantry, their coun- try’s pride,

When once destroyed can never be supplied.”

. Sin—The above lines came forcibly to my mind on readinr‘ a letter entitled “ Daylight S-a' ing Time”, written by J.A. Ma Donald of Rice Point, and a} pearing in your issue of Nov 27th. I

In this letter Mr. MacDonald deals with several facts besides the much-anooted question of 53‘ ing dva‘ylightufacbs that all takr together with this question wou‘ seem to show that the people I Charlottetown, City Fathers or leading business men incluch care little or nothing for the we fare and comfort of their coui; try cousins who visit their city daily for business or pleasure.

This writer points out very properly, too, the obvious faCl that Charlottetown owes its very existence, commercially speak- ing to the Sturdy farmers and fishermen of our Province, and not, as some would have us be lieve, to the gay birds of pas- sage, who visit us for a few over» crowded weeks of summer.

Notwithstanding this main de- pendence. on our farmers and fishermen, one could hear all last summer continual expres- sions of regret from the City Fathers and leading business men of Ch-arlotte‘ttwn for the lack of proper accomodations for the gay birds, the summer tourists, but not a single expres- sion of regret for the same lack in the case of their good old friends from the country. Citihens of Charlottetown should surely be aware that a great change, complete and radical. has taken place in the accom- modations once provided by the city‘folk for their friends and re- latives from the country. Time was and not so very long ago.

~ when eveny man and woman, an:'

boy and girl, who visited Char- lottetown for business or pleats- me had a favorite resort to which they resorted for rest and so— c1avbility before. and in between the hours during which they transacted business. This rcsof“ was the good old-fashioned board my: house, or the equally home like small hotel.

In these favorite resorts coun~ try people, young and old, found not only rest and .a well-filled and sociable dinner table, but they found also access to pub- llC toilets, crude enough in some cases, but infinitely better than none at all—and none at all seems to be the word for these today in Charlottetown. Equally congenial. too, as a friendh meeting place for farmers, were the comfortable slables provided for their much beloved horses of those days.

The old - fashioned boarding- house and homey-like hotel and old horse stable are past and gone, and what have we in Char- lottetown to take their place? Restaurants galore, of course and there are some good one: in this city where men and wo— men eat and drink, and, of course, smoke—a naughty male habit, by‘the way, in the old horse and buggy days when no gentleman would think of smok- ing without permission in the close presence of a lady.

But, 0 Tempura: O Mores! the best restaurant in Charlotte town falls far short of the solid comforts proyidf-‘d by "l7" boardinrbl use :1an HM“ old lll‘iifl Rm "liir‘ (will I mg place to new”. [Iggy-9!; for lllt‘ are llst‘lt‘s.\

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OTTAWA REPORT

‘ The spotlight is being increas— ingly focussed on labor unions in Canada, as some embarrassing questions are being posed even by union members themselves.

What; is the function of a la— bor union? To whom does it owe responsibility? Is it a democra- tic institution? Is it fulfilling its function?

Some answers can be seen in recent polls of public opinion. 47 out of every 100 Canadians be- lieve that the most important, task of-any union today is to strive for security of employ— ment. In contrast, ZB in every 100 believe that the least import- ant task is to obtain higher wag» es and 27 in every 100 believe that the least important task is to obtain short-er working hours.

In another poll, sampling mem~ bers of non-union household‘s, one Canadian in five feels that un- ions are too prone to strike and one in five feels they indulge in excessive agitation and demands. It is very significant that these figures are almost exactly mat- ched by the opinion in union households too.

WHAT THE PRESS SAYS

Some recent newspaper head— lines tell the tale of an unwel» come trend.

“Strougarm union methods ap» pear—remedies ask ” says the Montreal Gazette, expressing “concern about the introduction of American union- bare~kuuckle methods in Canadian labor ac- tivities”.

“Royal Commission charges, Teamsters Union with intimida— tion,” says the Ottawa Journal.

“Union Head seeks ouster of U.S. power” says another pap- er, reporting that “a labor of ficial says the time has arrived for the Canadian Government to pass laws prohibiting foreign n‘ ions from operating in Canada"

Management of course have very decided views in this sub- ject.

“Urges curb on powers of Un-

tive must ‘be planned and done in Charlottetown to compensate for the loss of certain good old things; and personally, I feel sure that something will be done in the near future.

I have little doubt that when the City Fathers ‘ erect a new building on the site of the re- cently destroyed Market Bulld- lnlg, they will provide, among other things in it, a suitable meeting and resting place for visitors to the city, and especial- ly for visitors from the country.

Let the whole building, in fact. be designed primarily for the people of Prince Edward Island; and if it proves good enough for them, it should surely prove good enough for the tourist from Boston and Missouri too.

I am reminded again in con eluding this letter, that Mr. Marc Donald’s letter which lIIS'plI‘et. mine, was entitled “Daylight Saving Time”, although he deal: but briefly, and only in his clos- ing para-graph with this subject. in which para-graph he describ- ed this daylight saving device as the “height of nonsense”. With this description I agree.

Enthusiastic advocates of Day light Saving Time should be re— minded that daylight time is con- trolled by the sun, and not by the town clock. The folly of try- ing to lengthen it by changing the clock was aptly described some years ago on the floor of our House of Assembly by a wit- ty M.L.A. from Summerside. He compared the attempt to save daylight by putting forward the clock, to the Irishman who tried to lengthen his blanket by cut- ting off a foot from the head of it and sewing it on to the foot of it.

The vast majority of Prince Edward Islanders stubbornly maintain lhal a blanket cannot be lcnclhcncd in this nay. Bnl “mm llils (l-n'n little lsland h:- rghl and all the world wrcnu‘"

I am. Sir. etc.

M. MacKENZlh

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Spotlight On Labor Unions

By Patrick Nicholson

ions, says Canadian Construction Association". “Our labor codes said inadequate; governments must take their share of the blame for Canada's labor troub- les.” “Claim Unions enjoy rare legal freedom”.

FOREIGN BONDAGE

There must inevitably be con- siderable doubts raised as to the merits of workers belonging to unions whose headquarters are located in a foreign country whose policy is largely inspired in that foreign country and aqua ted to conditions in that country rather than in Canada. An ex- ample o-f this is the demand ex- pressed in some industries for “wage parity” with the USA This disregards differences i the purchasing power of the dol- lar in the two countries differ- ences in production costs, and differences in productivity, all of which should have a bearing upon wages.

It is unsatisfactory for foreign, management to dictate the pol- icy of Canadian companies; it is just as unsatisfactory for for- eign leadership to dictate the policy of Canadian labor.

SE‘EK CANADIANISATION,

A member of a union affilia ted with the Canadian Labor Congress has just written a very outspoken letter to Claude Jo- doin, the president of the:C.L.C. emphasizing the desire, which he shares with many other‘ Cana- dians, to belong to a true Can- adian union. By this presumably he means a union formed in Can- ada, with Canadian leaders work- ing at headquarters in Canada, and retaining the dues paid by members in Canada instead of transmitting them in part or in whole 'to a foreign country.

Mr. J odoin, this member char- ges, has recently written to all Canadian trainmenv and firemen. warning them about “undemo- cratic splinter organizations”. By this, he was perhaps referring to the National Trainmen’s Un—

Ways To Tell ‘ If Alcoholic

By Herman N. Bundescn. M. GENERALLY I try to write something of interest to all of my readers. This one, how-ever, is a column exclusively for heavy drinkers and their families.

I’m not going to point an ac— cusing finger, but I am gomg to give you some guides to help you determine just how c l o s e you may be to becoming an al— coh'oli-c.

ON WATER WAGON

Even alcoholics can go on the water wagon. In fact. many of‘ them feel that they have to, for a while at lea-st, to prove to oth- ers that they don't really need alcohol.

So don't be lulled into a false sense of security simply because you know you can “lay off the stuff” temporarily.

BEER EQUALLY RISKY

And don’t labor under the de- lusion that you can’t become an alcoholic because you drink only beer. .There are alcoholics who have managed to drink th eir way into an almost habitual state of intoxication on beer alone.” There are many changes in your drinking pattern w h i ch should tell you whether you have become an alcoholic. An alcoholic is distinguish-ed from a frequent or steady drinker by his attitude. l , MUST HAVE DRINK

Generally we concede that a person is an alcoholic when it is not merely a matter of want- ing a drink, but of absolutely needing one. ~

If you right along feel that you simply must have a drink for your nerves then you prob- ably are an alcoholic. If you feel that you just must have a drink or two before going to a party where you know you will get alcoholic beverages, then you probably are at least close to an alcoholic.

REGULAR INTERVALS

If you feel that a drink is al- ways essential at regular inter - val-s, then you probably are at least close to becoming an al- catholic.

If you find yourself lying about your drinking and making promises about it which you' never keep, chances are you are an alcoholic.

If you are absent frequently from work following a weekend of drinking, the trouble is obvious. NEED HELP . For those of you who must answer-“Yes” to any ,of these questions, it is long past time that you sought competent help. I suggest you see your physician immediately.

If you can truthfully answer “No” to all questions, but still find that you are drinking more, drinking more often and drink - ing,for different reasons, you still need help quickly. You aren’t an alcoholic yet, but you may be well on your way. QUESTION AND ANSWER ‘C. Y.: Is non - traumatic neue ritis a form of neurasthenia and what causes it? ~ ‘