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PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1965.

Quite Misleading

It is nice to read that the federal | departments of transport and public | works plan to spend “well over $13, million in Prince Edward Island dur- ing the fiscal year 1965-66,” as in- dicated in a Canadian Press report of the estimates tabled by Finance Minister Gordon in the House of Commons on Monday. The state- ment, however, is both confusing and misleading.

When we subtract the amounts | appropriated for operation and main- | tenance of the ferry services to and | from this province, for a new ice- | breaking ferry and for further cause- | way planning expenditures, we find | that we are getting precious little out of this initial spending bill of © over $8,304 million for the new fis- cal year which starts on April 1.

_ For many years now, our car ferry service has been charged against the Consolidated Revenue of Canada for the good and sufficient reason that it is an interprovincial service—in effect a national high- way—for which the Federal Govern- ment is solely responsible. The ex- not be “allocated” to Prince Edward Island, 6r to New Brunswick either for that matter, but to the country as a whole.

This is obvious from the wording of the British North America Act . which vests Parliament with exclu- sive authority over all matters of na- tional concern including (subsection 18) “ferries between a province and any British or foreign country OR

BETWEEN TWO PROVINCES.” , Yet year we get the

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The same holds true for the in- clusion of the two Communist coun- tries. As The Times article points out, the Kennedy Round is not mere- ly confined to this continent on one side and the Common Market on the other. It is a full scale internation- al bargaining conference, designed to bring about a continued expansion

and liberalization of world trade. The

larger the list of items and partici- pants, the greater the chance of achieving real progress.

A Bit Of History

The British Parliament is concern- ed with a knotty constitutional prob- lem which dates back to King Henry VIII and which it hopes to unravel in the next few weeks. It is seek- ing to get control over its house. Both the Lords and the Commoners are, in residence as tenants by court- esy of Queen Elizabeth. In 1536, by act of King Henry VIII, the buildings they occupy were designated ‘the King’s Palace of Westminster—for ever.” —

As noted in a London dispatch, the custom of holding Parliament at Westminster grew out of the King’s Councils. The first recorded was that of William the Conqueror in et The earliest royal building on the Site was the palace of King Canute the Dane. It burned down in 1036 and was replaced by the pal- ace of Edward the Confessor, so that he would watch the great Abbey being built over the way.

As a royal property, the buildings |

are in charge of the keeper of the palace, the Lord Great Chamberlain: At present the office is held by the octogenarian Marquess of Cholmon- deley.

For 15 years Labor MP Charles Pennell campaigned for a change in status of the palace. Now in office as Minister of Public Building and Works, Mr. Pennell is being prodded by his Labor colleagues to do some- thing about this “stupid anachron- ism’’, as one of them called it. The minister himself has said that “this is the only legislature in the Com- monwealth which does not have complete command ‘over its accom- modation.” Members expect an'an- nouncement shortly that Queen Elizabeth has agreed to abandon his- toric royal rights over the palace.

Hopeful Predictions

That there were “grounds for hope” that many crippling and kill-

ing diseases ld be. eliminated well before 1985 was announced in

a recent h by a distinguished medical authority, Dr. Luther L. Terry, Surgeon General of the Unit- ed States Public Health Service. The diseases Dr. Terry mentioned spec- ifically included diphtheria, polio, tetanus, measels, syphills and gonor rhea.

Dr. Terry gave as his reason for these hopes that many vaccines have already developed for some of the diseases. These vaccines have been developed through a vast research

“program. which commenced in 1947 _

and in which annual investments in 1963 amounted to $1.6 billion.

He predicted a development of a vaccine against leukemia; the .con- struction of an artificial, heart to be inserted in the human body and eventual elimination .of tooth decay and periodontal diseases.

Here are matters of more con- cern to suffering humanity than all the efforts that are being made in orbiting the earth or sending guided missiles to the moon. Those sensation- al achievements afe not to be de- cried, but the true progress of science should be measured by its success in terms of life on this planet. And

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SPRING TRAINING OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson

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“Are our diplomats in striped | ious Washington figures; ‘does ; What do our ambassadors and

nts really necessary?” this happen in Ottawa too? |their large staffs do all day 1 ti , in thi nd But the most questionable cost | certainly not all—of the 309 Yor- cuneuete hat ms hot “he relates to the froth among those | eign diplomats now living in Ot- $100,000,000 paid by you and me | 111 embassies and the like. One | tawa with their wives and famil- for our orcand-the-corid diplo- | of their jobs is described as ‘‘the | ies, spend half an hour in the of- tie apparatus last year was | Collection and weighing of infor- | fice before a day of skiing or mvt ty il} ettounnt to keep mation regarding developments | bridge? Do Canadians abroad mere the ‘Senor ee 2 ‘likely to affect Canada’s inter- teers the local laws? or do the world.” national relations.” Is that what | they plead “diplomatic tmmun- —_ | is contributed by our embassy in | ity’ and break the speeding Judging by the reaction I have | Gustemala— or Lebanon? | regulations and parking by received from readers, my com- | previously mentioned our | laws? Our diplomats abroad re- ments really set the bells ring- | embassy in Cameroun; it also | ceive entertaining and repre- ing. Canadians obviously do not | contracts small adjoining nations | sentational allowances averag- appreciate being heavily taxed but one of its main tasks must | ing 66 cents on top of each dol- to enable civil servants to live ‘1. to assist our export trade. liar of salary, to enable them to in some faraway island in the ye if our government closed | entertain and hire domestic oun. that embassy, paid our export- | help. Who are the guests on Hon. Paul Martin, our Foreign | ers six times the value of Cana- | whom $4.5 million was spent Minister, has just issued the an- dian goods ordered by Camer- | thus last year? nual report of his Department, | oun, and then dumped the lot | arp, are our pacaeae tare with further details of our diplo- | into Montreal harbour, the tax- | matic gala. Ten years ago, we payers would be saved money. | Ur tax spending: this is a de- had embassies in only 39 foreign | This makes one think. | partment they should study.

Ss plus 12 consulates and t University Enrolment

96 counters The 233 foreign ser- Winnipeg Free Press

vice officers each earning $5.000 | per year or more 10 years ego | several years | university enrolment has grown and will have,

have now swollen to 497 foreign Over the past 10

Service officers, backed up by the public has been bombarded | eight-fold — 1,176 administrative staff and | by figures on universi'y enrol | grown 2-fold in another 625 employees engaged abroad, ment, but fresh statistics are al- years. plus trade commissioners and ways coming to light. As a mea- Another way to mark their military staff. sure. of the task confronting our | impact is to note the percent-

universities they deserve to be | age increase, year by year, in RISING COST

the college-age group (18 to 24) The total cost of our foreign picture is, of | In 1951 embassies was $7,123,321 10 | course, abundantly clear. In the only 4.2 per cent of this age years ago; by last year it had two decades 1920-1940 Canadian | group attended university; more than doubled to $16,532, university enrolment increased | 1961 it was 7.5 per cent: by 1971 , ‘ by some 50 per cent. In the dec- | it will be 13.8 per cent; and by Nearly half the budget“of our | ade 1940-1950 it doubled; and it | 1976 it is projected at 16.1 per

External Affairs Department , doubled again in the succeeding | cent. — consists of aid and gifts to un- decade 1950-1960. It is now the The increase is particularly der-developed and needy coun- | astonishing prospect that enrol- | pronounced among young tries. These included “contribu. | ment will actually triple in the | en of college age. For current decade 1960-1970. After are 6.7

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and “‘gift of oral polio vaccine to | pected to drop s , but even like. | so it should bring the total enrol- | ment to nearly half a million by 1976. “eP world— | This is the general picture of donates which most people are now amount | aware. But the import of these figures ‘can be put in other | Part of the cost of External | ways. One way of emphasizing Affairs is the travelling and en- | their importance is to point out tertainment expenses of officials that over the past 45. years, ences. Understandably we sent (has little more than doubled,

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Simple Poison Ivy Remedy

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen

We received so many replies from the report that jewelweed is a remedy for poison ivy that we suspect there may be some-

thing to it. A woman from Wasb- |

ington. D-C., writes: ‘I am sur- prised you never heard about it. My first knowledge of the anti- dotal properties of this weed came from a series of wildlife

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zine. Since then I have used jewelweed successfully in the

treatment of poison ivy. I .rub- |»

bed this plant on the rash, it felt good, and gave relief.”

Another reader from our na- tion's capital writes, “The use of jewelweed as an antidote for poison ivy is an old Indian rem- edy. I have lived in or near the country ‘all my life and find plain alcohol or soap must ef- fective when applied immediate- ly." We agree with this reader as to the value of alcohol soap

A Chicagoan writes: “I won- der why anyone would be inter- ested in such complicated treat- ments ‘for poison ivy) when it is so simple to pick plantain leaves and squeeze the juice on

| poison ivy blisters We grew up

in Ohio and got poison ivy every summer but never’ worried about it. We used this simple remedy and the blisters dried

up Old remedies never die and several products are an out-

growth of ancient herbal treat- |

ments. Digitalis came from fox-

glove, whereas several ‘¥ranquil- izers are obtained frombfentul fia root, a plant long known in

the folk medicine of India Jewelw may be elected to

| this select group. However. it | will find the competition tough because the cortisone- type hor-

mones are excellent remedies for contact dermatitis, includ- ing poigon ivy DISCOLORED AREA

J W. writes: Is there any way to make a black and blue mark disappear more quickly than letting nature take its

course REPLY Only by applying heat to speed up the circulation. The Mext time you injure yourself, apply an ice bag immediately after the accident to curtail bleeding. As a result, the black and blue spot -will be smaller and heal more rapidly S. S. writes: I am a man of 61 who has been suffering from nosebleed on getting up in the morning. Can you please tell me the cause” REPLY T can't, but your physician ean. He will examine your nose to see whether an ulcer or tum- or is present: take the blood pressure, examine your heart, and order blood tests to deter- mine whether a bleeding ten- dency exists. INGROWN HAIRS Mrs. C. D. writes: Can elec- trolysis eliminate bumps on my face caused by ingrown hairs? REPLY No, but it is not practical un- less the causative hairs are Tecognized. As a rule, different hairs are responsible and elim. inating the culprit does not pre- vent others from ingrowing a few weeks later.

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' NOTES BY

Seme people are so busy look- | ing for the pot of gold that they never see the rainbow. — Galt Reporter

A sign in a laundromat — “After you have finished . your | | washing, be sure to remove all

your clothes... — Cornwall Stan-

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THE WAY

The moterist had been work. ing on his broken-down old car while a° farmer stood watching Well what're you looking at?” snapped the irritated mot- orist. “Is this the first automo- bile you ever saw’” No, I don't think so,” replied the farmer dryly; ‘‘but it sure looks a lot like it."— Montreal Star.

Those Supersonics

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Last October it was reported that the Labor government plan- ned to pul! out, considering it a “prestige expendable’ and an unwarranted financial burden. Original development costs, for instance, had jumped from 560 million dollars to about one bil- lion. These reports touched off heavy fire from the British avia- tion industry and brought a French threat to sue for breach of contract. Obviously, Labor

Party leaders couldn't stand the

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The flip-flop doesn’t make the supersonic development any eas- jer of course. As the United States has discovered, such a plane— capable of flying at speeds up to 1,450 miles an hour —is enormously expensive and involves innurerable engineer- ing and design problems.

A central question about sup- ersonic development that even. tually must be answered on botn

sides of the Atlantic has been raised by the London ubserver “Is it more important to push the speed of civil airliners to two or three times the speed of sound or is it better to divert vast sums of money from super- sonic development to the task of saving lives?’

tm / Polio’s Ottawa Not until the figures are seen is it possible to realize just how dramatic has been the virtual elimination of poliomyelitis. The U.S. Public Health Ser- | vice recently reported that there were only 121 cases of polio re- ported in the United States last year in contrast with 57,879 cas- | es in 1952, the worst year on | record The picture in Canada is just as encouraging. In 1964 polio cases in this country dropped to 21. Compare this with 3,912 cas- | es in the peak year, a figure | which does not include the total f in Alberta which was never re- ported. The Salk vaccine was approv- ed in 1955 for general use. As

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more and more persons have be- come immunized, the number of polio cases, with some slight variations, has been dropping. But never before has the total been as low as last year’s. The previpus year was 1962 with 89 cases.

The numbers of deaths, attri- buted to polio have, of course, also declined. From 494 in the worst year, they have fallea to seven in 1962. The figure for iast’

|year is not yet available.

Polio thus seems to be taking its place with smalipox, dipther- ia, cholera and yellow fever as diseases which preventatives have ended as a fearful threat 1o health.

Fanatic’

| | One of the most frightening | aspects of South Africa's apar- | | theid policy is that it must be | | constantly extended as proof of | the government's continued ; faith in it, and in order to give | its supporters a sense of secur- ity and success. | This can be seen in the South African government's latest | apartheid Proclamation. In fu-| | ture, mixed audiences are to be, banned from all theatres and’ all sports events. In predomin- | afitly White areas, the audience will have to be all White. In | predominantly Black areas, it | will have to be all Black. | Yet im the past the two races have mingled at many sports [pat theatrical events. For ex- | ample, at many important soc- | cer events, the spectators have | | been about one-quarter Black. |

s Logic

But it is just because this mingling has not caused trouble, and has been handled in a

mon sense way, that the South African government has had to destroy it. For it showed that apartheid was not necessary in this sphere. And if inter-racia}- ism could work at sports events, why not elsewhere”

Governments which adopted a fanatic policy cannot do the common They must do that treme. They must pose compromise, where they find it growing up. This is the real horror of ap-

| artheid. It is a fanatical crusade

against all those qualities of common sense, moderation and compromise which are essential if a human community is to have @ sane and peaceful existence, .

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