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TUESDAY, MARCH 4, I95

’f;Tihe Situation In Quebec “It is generally agreed that the Con- servative Party’s chances of winning aijn overall and working majority in the coming ‘election hinge mainly on vlrhat happens in Quebec. If Mr. Dief- baker can persuade the people of _ at Province to give him an addit-

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ibnal 25 seats he is reasonably safe. ‘

Otherwise, the likelihood of another sitalemate cannot be discounted.

A Reports coming from Quebec would seem to indicate a favourable trend for the Conservatives. ' Largely at-

tiended. meetings are not necessarily‘

indicative of the way people will vote. Nevertheless, they are warming to eyery politician’s heart; and when t eyare accompanied by evident and

early expressed enthusiasm, his joy

complete. This has largely been the case with the Prime Minister in his

Quebec journey. At Trois Rivieres{ 1’

and Rimouski attendance figures fiat all previous records; and in each ace there wasmuch cheering and capping of hands when the Prime -Minister appealed to his listeners “to get on the bandwagon with us for a. qonservative victory”. ‘ §One obvious disadvantage to ‘Mr. Hiefenbaker’s cause is the inadequacy of his French, unlike Mr. Pearson Who speaks it almost with the glib- nhss of a habitant. However, he does his best ;/and reports say that his s 3umbling efforts are welcomed, even t ough they are not always under- stood. But, although they appreciate ah outsider’s fluency in their native tgngue-,..French-Canadians, like other sigments of the population, are prob- afnly mainly interested in a party’s r ‘cord for keeping its promises. In

t is respect the Conservatives under ‘

Mr, Diefenbaker have a clear advant- agélover their chief rivals. This is t that Mr. _‘ Pearson is romises if elected at h, *-Liberal over.-,a p'e,jriod_-of more than 20 S" not particularly helpful to V I‘presentcircumstances.

_ . Cross Appeals i- is. is Rod Cross Month —_ a’; time A" 'y_ear;when attention is,fo_cused A Z ‘international organization. T _ Vbundget for 1958 is a large one e;r‘eVl'Y:.only one source for the 5to'‘ allow the Canadian Red Cross to meet its humanitarian obli-- gations for another year. That money " must be provided through the gen- erosity of thepeople of Canada. The $31,200 objective set for Prince Ed-

ward Island is really only about‘ one- »

half of what it co'sts to carry out Red Cross activities in this province, and must be subsidized -by the National organization from funds raised in other provinces. A A A I

Tlif Canadian Red Cross means ma) h‘ing_s to many people. In

Pringcfle Edward Island, the Red Cross the rjjs-mfree blood trafisfusions for eve jone. V In/1957, 1500 Prince Ed- ward.:_-l’sl'ande1's used 3,000 bottles of blood which‘, but forthe Red Cross Blooolv:'Transfusion Service, would haV’é.,,._cost§,'those who received this

Whendisaster strikes at home or r

in any part of the world, we know the Red Cross will be on the job doing the things we would like to do if we had the opportunity. In remote areas of our vast land, a string of Red Cross Outpost Hospitals and Nursing Sta- tions provide care and treatment. Through our Red Cross we are as- sured that our veterans are not for- gottenmmen and women. They receive regtiilar-f.‘»visits, fsee current movies,” enj<§y;;,th-e. pleasant atmosphere of Redf‘7Cross‘ Lodges and spend hours that; would normally hang over their heads in the pleasant, pursuit ofvthe Arts and Crafts programme. Through

and gaining an understand- ingjof their counterparts throughout

kindness and ‘help for our citizens who"share in being able to secure the loan of sickroom equipment; to obtain knowledge in nursing the sick at home; in preventing and dealing with

accidents through instruction in First Aid; in being able to obtain First Aid treatment at 44 First Aid Posts throughout the Province, and in learning how to swim with safety through the Water Safety Services.

This year, the Canadian Red Cross _ will again have increased obligations. ‘

It is hoped that the response to its appeals in this Province and else- where, will be prompt and generous.

Strange Goings-On

Despite all the claims and achieve- ments of modern science, there are still things which the scientists do not understand and forwhich they have no explanation. At a home in Seaford, L. I., for example, strange occurrences have been taking: place for several weeks. For no reason at all — as far as anyone can see — ‘chairs, books. and other objects have left their accustomed places in the house and moved to other places. Caps of bottles have been_spinning in all directions. On one occasion, a ten pound portable phonograph in the basement flew ten feet in the air and crashed against a staircase.

At first, it was thought that “radio waves” might have been re- sponsible for the strange behaviour of inanimate objects. But electrical engineers who were called in to in- vestigate that dngle found nothing to justify it. Now, a team of psycho- logists who specialize in such esoteric subjects as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psychokinesis are on the premises to watch developments. One of them said that reports of similaroccurrences were fairly com- mon but had “never been authentic- ated to the complete satisfaction of scientists”. He added that “experi- ments at the university (Duke Uni- versity in Durham, N. C.) have led to the difinite conclusion that there is

some sort of influence of mind over .

matter.” —

There are people in the World who would say that there is no great inystery at all, really. It means sim- ply that the pixiesor the gremlins or some of their sprightly offspring are having the time of their lives. This

‘ wonft appeal to the scientists;' but

since‘ they have no more plausible explanation to offer, they may as well hold their pealce.

EDITORIAI; NOTES

Prime Minister Diefenbaker will have-to take time off next sum- mer for a bit of salmon‘ fishing. In both Gander, vixifiii,‘-Laiia Riinoiiski, Que. he enteredinto, a commitment, to come back “yvhen the salmon are running". b '

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' ." i ; ir» _ ' The-United States House of Repre-

sentatives has approved the admin-, istration’s “soil bank”iplan for an- other year, although there was a good deal of opposition to it. The amount farmers may claim in 1958 for retir- ing surplus crop land tolan acreage reserve will be boosted from $500

« million to $750 million.

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The National Geographic Society\ notes that only one of the famed “Seven wonders of the world” sur- vives —— the Pyramid of Egypt. The others were the Pharos (lighthouse) of Alexandria, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of the Olympian Zeus,

the Tomb of King Mausolus and the

Colossus of Rhodes. t A w A it

The School Board in Winnipeg has followed the lead of school of- ficials in St. John’s, Nfld, in Warn- ing recalcitrant and lazy students thatthey will be expelled if they do not soon get c_lown"to work serious- ly and submit to proper discipline. This plan is likely to become gener- al. It is not a pleasant thing to have to do; but it is better than permit- ting a few trouble-making pupils to taint the whole atmosphere of the school. Moreover, in most schools *-these days class-room space. is much too valuable to be cluttered up by those who simply will not be taught. in 9 Q is I

Kremlin Propagandists like to picture the USSR as the protector of minorities and free from race preju- dice and hatred. How false such claims are is revealed in an appeal which comes from the World Jewish Congress, meeting in Rome. The Congress declared: “It is our duty to draw the attention of world pub- lic opinion to the plight of the Jews in Russia and to seek to secure red- ress of the wrongs they suffer.” Jews in Russia, says the Congress, “are denied the facilities essential to the effective exercise of the rights of cultural and communal expression and of perpetuating their faith and developing their culture by the educ-

‘ ation of their children and youth.”

‘ WINTER VACATION POSTERS.‘

PUB_LlC FORUM

This column is open for the discus-

sion by wuespondents of question of

interest. The Guardian does not nese:-

sarily endorse the opinion of correc- pondents.

SNOW PLOW— ACTIVITIES .

Sir,—I have read with much surprise in your columns on March 1st., a letter signed by Mr. F. J. Bryanon the action of snow plows between Summerside and Alberton.

On Feb. 26th, we ‘had our sec- ond severe snow storm this month

‘with cuttings on the main high- ways fifteen bo twenty feet high almost continually between Bloomfield Corner and Alberton.

As Prime Minister Diefen- baker was an honoured guest to our Island oh Feb. 27th, I believe. Watson should be commended on his efforts to‘ have all main roads open to Summerside for his pub- lic meeting, and to his invited “non political” guests at a ban- quet.

‘Mr. Bryan also is in ,a very

critical mood; on. our by-roads’ ,

and pavement in West Prince. Apparently he is very forgetful or possibly belongs to the younger generation and does’ not ‘realize that every mile of pavementon‘ Prince Edward Island was con- structed by the Liberal Govern- ment, also there was never one

the Liberal Government. I know that‘ our‘ present Liberal Govern- ment welcomes constructive criticism, but if Mr.‘ Bryan will

_ patiently wait a few days his

road and possibly his lane will ‘no doubt be plowed. ‘

With regard his reference of im- poverished Government the only one in living memory that lay prostrated before the empty larder was the unfortunate Ben- nett Regime of‘ 1930-35. ,

I am sure that “Thane” and “J. Walter” haveidone and “Alex” will continue in the years to come do what is best for our Island.

So for the Love of Mike boys let’s do what is best for all of Canada.

I am, Sir, etc., , R. K. MATHESON O’Leary P. E. I. 7

READING AND EDUCATION

Sir,-It seems to me that lit- erature, good literature, is more than ever needed in our rural schools. About all the reading a child does at home is required reading sutlh as homework. T.V. and comics take most of his lei- sure time.

I'm not suggesting a ban on T.V. Let his television viewing warm him u-p and provide a stim.

\ ulus to reading: If his favorite programs‘ involve the Wildest West — the teacher can get him to read in school-stories, novels and poems on frontier day\s,,iea1-. ly Canadian and American his- tory. the cowboys’ -prototypes in South America and Australia, naming only a few examples,

Today, more than ever, the "School has to introduce the child to his literary heritage; and if possible, make reading a ‘neces- sary and meaningful experience, so that as an adult he will ques- tion and analyze what he reads. . This analyzing is an increas-

‘ ingly important skill. We are bom- barded by Papers, magazines, books, T.V., and radio with in- formation of all kinds, artistic, scientific, political, etc., and we must sift and assess, discard and digest, until we find something as elusive as The Truth from it all.

Yet that is what the schools must teach.

But the teachers cannot work marvels in the schools! Are the b o o k s there? Is there money spent each year by the District to increase the library? How many know that the department of education paid forty per cent of the cost of books bought for the school? Does our school take advantage of the Prince Edward Island Libraries lending service?

Do we knowour school?

I am, Sir,et,c., A RURAL TEACHER-PAREN~T.

‘ London, England: I have just

. Canadians to Europe this Spring

rnonth. T.C.A. will operate dir-

nearly late for the plane after

mile of roads plowed except by 3 to the brightly sunm upper stuns"

OTTAWA REPORT

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By PATRICK

come to Europe by the cqmfor- table, care - free all-Canadian route, on a Super Constellation of Trans- Canada Air Lines: ,

T.C.A. is preparing for a bump- er year, carrying holiday-making

‘and Summer. As an added at- traction, Canadians are booking visits not only to the Old Coun- try, but also to Brussels where the World's Fair will open next

ect flights to Brussels, in addi- tion to the present flights frorrp Toronto or Montreal to Prestwick, London, Paris -or Dusseldorf.

T.C.A.’s private airport. So many. Canadians havelinks with Scot- land that T.C.A. carries more Trans-Atlantic passengers to and from Prestwick than any other North American airline. SNOW FALL T0 SNOWDROP We took off from Montreal at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. I was

driving from’ the Laurentians through a blizzard so severe that visibility was less than 50 feet at times. But the snowfall slack- ened and the Super Constellation quickly rose above the weather in

phere, and within eleven hours the view was of smwdrops on -the green English countryside.

Captain Bert Trerice invited me to see the cockpit during the flight. And among the bewilder- ing oomplication of dials and gauges where. the aircrew work, I learned how T.C.A. guard their passengers’ safety.

Captain Trerice, a veteran of 19 -years’ flying with T.C.A., is one of their senior pilots, em-

By T.C.A. To Europe

Special Correspondent for The Guardian

Prestwick, I learn, is almost ‘

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flies as an inspector, supernum-~ erary to the» regular crew, to_,_ watch how they handle their air- craft. Every crew member has to fly under a check pilot at least once every six months. Thus -1‘. C.A. not only overhaul their air- liners at regular intervaés, but al- so check over the flyin skills of their crews.

By coincidence, the regular captain of this crew being check- ed was Nelson Trerice, who told me that this was, the first time those two Nova Scotian air-skip-' pers had flown together for 15 years. ' A JOB TO AIM AT ,

The senior of the two attentive air-hostesses was Kay Mackay, of Winnipeg, whose brother Don Mackay is now working with the Trans-Canada Pipeline Company‘ at 0shawa._ \

Kay, a tall rblonde, as efficient as she is decorative, told me that she ha been an vair-hostess with T.C.A. for 5 years. Before that, she trained as a nurse at Winni- peg’s Misericordia Hospital.

It surprised me to .hear that

there is not a waiting list of reg- ‘

istered nurses seeking this job, which Kay says is interesting aiid pleasant. It is the only girls job in Canada where the work .-is done at 300 miles an hour, and the monthly pay cheque in dollars exceeds that speed handsomely. Each “shif ” or trans-Atlantic, flight may last from 10-[11 hours, but each hostess only does about 3% round trips every month. For the restof the month, she may have time off at her Canadian base, or be shopping in Paris, threatre-going in London, or sight- seeing in Germany.

It must be quite a job for a girl.

ployed as a “check pilot.” He

I . Farewell

“Farewell, 0 Syria, and what ‘an excellent country this is for the enemy!” said Heraclius, the [Eastern Roman Emperor. He had abandoned all hope of hold- ing the rich province which Pom- pey had added to the Roman Empire seven hundred yearsh be- fore. The enemy which had taken over the “excellent country” was the Arab host advancing north- ward from the deserts of Arabia. I-Ieraclius had just rescued the Roman heritage from the hands of the Persian conqueror but he could not hold it. He was fight- ing off B»ulga.rs, Slava and Avars in the north and west while Per- sians and Arabs were attacking from the east and south. So the Arabs took the ancient city of Damascus and overran Syria and Palestine. ' MIGHT HAVE BEEN ,.

In fact, the Arabs were over- running everything inn the Middle East at this point in the seventh century. Gibbon notes in “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” that the Arab sweep came at a time’ when the old powers of the East and new pow- ers of the West were at their weakest. “The birth of Mohamm- ed,” he’ says, “was fortunately placed in the most degenerate and disorderly period of the Per- sians, the Romans and the bar- barians of Euro,e: the empire of Trajan, or even of Constantine or Charlemagne would have repelled the assault of the naked Saracens, and the torrent of fanaticism might have been obscur'ely lost in the sands of Arabia.” There was then no -power lo stop the Arabs who within a century of the death of the Prophet ex- tended the Arab dominions'from India across Africa to the Atlantic and the Pyrenees and took cap- tive such famous ancient lands as Persia, Syria, Egypt, Africa and Spain. But the Arabs in des- perate assaults were never able to take Constant nople, which even in its weakened state was still too strong for them. TURN OF THE TIDE

Damascus soon became the

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capital of this Moslem empire, which was greater in extent than the Roman Empire at its peak. Soon after S-yria the same Arab armies ’co:1_quered Egypt. They worked their way across North Africa, into Spain and into France. The tde was not turned back until it had reached the Loire. It was Charles Martel, founder of the Carolingian power, who finally stopped the Arabs’ push—lending force to Gibbon’s conjecture that any one of the great powers of the past or Char- lemagne himself could have call- ed a halt on the Arabs and turn- ed them back to the sands of Arabia.

That is only one of the many interesting and futile might+have- beens of history. The point for today is that in the beginning of Arab power Egypt was ruled from Damascus. The whirligig of time has brought about such changes that Damascus is begging Egypt to take over Syria, now that they are both free to dispose of them- selves. It is recalled that Egypt and Syria were united at times in the Dre-Arab C...ys of the Pharaohs and later under Saladin. hero of the wars of the Third Crusade in the twelfth century and also under the Mamluk Em- pire of thirteenth and fourteen- th centuries. But the present “United Arab Republic” i's some-

ient lands of the Middle East. EMPIRE IN THE EAST The rule of Damascus over Egypt came to a violent end after- about a century. The dynasty of the Omayyads was overthrown by the Abbasids who established themselves at Bagdad. This was only one of the bitter Arab feuds which have been almost. continu- ous since the days of Mohammed. For the backwardness of their people the ‘Arab leaders are _quick to blame “imperialism” but more obvious causes are the struggles of state against State, dynasty again dynasty and Shaikh against sheikh. The “United Arab

Republic" gives no promise of

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Spfing Hay Fever Season

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« d ason still is: Theefiin/:grVi'1(:)ei1thsS:31way. yet this imfiay fever weather for a 800d many Americans. _ _ . Spring hay fev e r beglnz 11; March and continues until a ou‘ mid-June. It’s caused ‘by pollen; from trees such as hickory an

elm. SIZABLE NUMBER. Only about 10 per cent of the

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troubled by _these tree p°u.ens' But this is a sizable number, since an estimated two and one-half per cent of our entire popula- tion is liable to hay fever attacks -13 inhalingpollen. _ yFall hay-fever — the one Whlclél causes the most sneezing ant wheezing — begins about Augus 15 and continues until the first frost kills ragweed growth “"1 eliminates the offending pollen-

There is still another type of hay fever -— the summer type-.

ROSE FEVER _ Often called rose fever, this variety prevails from about May 15 to July 15. It is caused by vol- len from grasses. Timothy, red- top and bluegrass are the worst offenders. ‘

About 30 per cent of our hay fever victims have this Summer type allergy. . .. One surprising t h 1 n g 1 about spring hay fever, the kind We are most concerned with at the