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_ Brightening Prospects

~¥eatured-in-special-articles-in-to-——, days: ‘issue are the brighter prospects |

which are opening for our- fisheries industry, and the processing plants in connection therewith. An import- ant factor in these activities is the plans under way for exploiting our vast off-shore fishery resources, and for making Georgetown-one of t he Maritimes’ leading centres in this re- gard. Two steel draggers have been under construction all winter, the forerunners of a large dragger fleet which will revolutionize the industry in this Province.

Who says that opportunity does We lave before

Newspaper, the London Courier, of August 23, 1827, in which is envisag- ed a scheme for making Prince Ed- ward Island the principal station of an English joint stock company carry- ing on an extensive Gulf cod fishery with the employment of steam vessels of 300 to 400 tons burthen. “ These vessels. it was figured, could be built and equipped here at nearly half the cost of building them in the Old Country. And, as the article states. ‘the great accommoda- tion they would offer on deck for cat- ching, cleaning and splitting the fish, and saving the oil—their capacious

' stowage below—their easy draft of

water—the facility with which. they could be moved from one fishing station to another—the ease with which they ride at sea, and also with

which they can approach their destin-

ed harbor when loaded, and again leave it even agamst adverse winds, by all which great dispatch would be

ensured—are objects of serious mag- '

nitude opposed to the difficulties suf- fered by sailing vessels.”

They would also offer “great ad-

vantages in the herring and mackerel fisheries—as their cargoes might be properly prepared, cured and stowed in bulk in their holds, by their crews, who would receive them from the small boats, and then carried to Hali- fax in a few hours, there barrelled, and shipped for the West Indies and other markets.” _ This project failed to materialize; but the fact that it was seriously planned, nearly a century and a half ago, and that this Island was regard- ed as the ideal centre for carrying on its activities,-is not without interest today. It was a modest scheme by present-day standards, but far ahead of its time. The resources“are still there-to implement it on a scale un- dreamed of by its originators. ~~

Curbing Credit Abuses

According to a leading article in the Financial Times of Canada, fin- ‘ ance companies appear to have lost their long battle to prevent interest

. disclosure on credit and small loan

contracts. Disclosure. it says, will be a major recommendation of par- liamentary committees at Ottawa and in the Ontario Legislature when they report within a few weeks. It is also provided for in new legislation Nova Scotia and Alberta.

The door to a legislative attack on credit was opened in December 1963 when the Supreme Court upheld On-

tario’s Unconscionable Transactions -

Act. This act gave borrowers redress in the courts against ysyrious rates of interest. By upholding it. the court also confirmed provincial jur- isdiction over credit contracts. Ottawa retains control over in-

terest rates, but this may change |

once the amending formula fo the Constitution is passed. This would allow Ottawa to delegate its powers over interest rates to the provinces,

which, it is claimed, have better ma- | chinery for control and are closer to |

local problems.

Senator Croll, co-chairman of the Senate-House committee. is known to favor such a transfer. His commit- tee died with the last sessign of Par-

| Hament, but is being feconstituted with the same membership. It is ex- | pected to report by the end of May | or the beginning of:June. A major recommendation will require that in conditional sales contracts and small cash loans the over-all costs to the. consumer be expressed in terms of annual rates of simple interest. Other possible recommendations ‘include interest limits on Sales. con-

tracts. an increase in the present ceil-*

ing of $1,500 for loans regulatéd un- der the Small Loans Act, and regula- _ tion and policing of advertising in the consumer Credit field. '- Nova Scotia is credited with tak- ing the most radical approach to the | subject. in temporary credit control legislation. passed“last month. The | new act requires spelling out of all |. terms and conditions on lending of money or granting of credit, and out- laws coricealed charges. It also sets maximum terms for lending and cred- it, and requires complete disclosure of credit costs in simple. annual in-_

terest. This act expires July 1, 1966,

- but next-spring_is-expectedto be-re-—-—

placed by more permanent controls. Finance companies are reportedly puzzled about how the interest dis- | closure formula will work. They say it is not successfully applied any- where in the world, that it will in- hibit the movement of goods far more than the legislators contemplate, and may also raise the cost of credit be- cause of added administrative ex- pense. But the need for curbing credit abuses is undoubtedly gaining wider Tecognition. We shall watch with

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Nova Scotia.

Alberta’s Happy Lot

The province of Alberta had at its inception a public revenue of $1,- 425,059, which grew by 1947 to $54,- 626,000. The gross public bonded debt, nil in 1905, had reached $139,- 350,000 by that time. The province was in hard financial straits. The “funny money” issued by. the Aber- hart government, which. had come

matters. When Mr. Manning.t ook over the government on Mr. Aber- hart’s death in 1943, he too found the going tough. His attempt to take over the banks was foiled by. Ottawa, and the province’s credit on the money market was at a low, ebb.

But something happened in 1947 that changed the whole picture. Oil was discovered in large quantities, and with this discovery Premier Man- ning decided that the need for Social Credit, .whatever—its-form, -was--no-

_ longer imperative for.Alberta. While the government of neighboring Sask- atchewan clung to its socialistic ways, Alberta switched to free enterprise. It attracted the big oil companies, and ‘Mr. Manning picked lieutenants with a knack of driving hard bargains.

Today look at the results! The Alberta Legislature has just ended its winter meeting after enacting a record $494 million budget and order- ing a new railway to be built in the bushland of the Rocky Mountain foot- hills to open new coal, timber and pulp resources. The CNR will build the tracks, but Alberta will advance the $40 million for them. Mr. Man- ning’s party—still Social Credit in name—holds 59 of the 63 seats in the

, House, and his treasury holds nearly $500 million in cash reserves. The increased funds he needs for health. and education. services. and public works will come, for the most part, out of current revenues.

| The new budget estimates royal- ties from oil and natural gas in the ; coming year at $180 million—about 37 per cent of the total expenditures. Agriculture and industry will furnish the rest. Taxes are lower in Alberta than in most other provinces. There is no sales tax, and the gasoline tax | is 12 cents a gallon.

One of Mr. Manning’s ministers

| remarked the other day that it was | unfortunate now that the word “soc-

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+ ial” was in the party’s name. “We | are antisocialist,” he said: “We have | fought the welfare state.” The vot-

| ers, apparently, are unconcerned | about what political doctrine the gov- | ernment espouses—so long as those | oil ‘wells keep producing.

EDITORIAL NOTE

Canada will be among the 29 | countries represented at Europe's | biggest heavy industry fair in Han- over, Germany, which runs April 24- May 2. There will be a ‘total of 5,799 exhibitors, of which 1,411 are from countries other than Germany: Big- Zest foreign exhibitors are France, | Britain and the US., followed by Switzerland, Austria and the Nether- lands. - The number of foreign ex- hibitors has more than quadrupled in the past decade.

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“OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson

Vote Proved Signal For MPs’ Exodus -

Parliamentarians have gone | home for Easter, leaving unan- swered behind them an intrigu- ~ ing question: who wants an elec- | tion? | Many MPs take the ethical stand that they should - forget Partisan jockeying, and get on ; with their job. Practically, few |- of them want to lay their-$18,000 | per year jobs on the line, and face “a chancey and ‘exhausting campaign with a personal bill of anything up to $20.000 ‘non-ded- uctible) at the end of it.

If anyone doubts the stay-put sentiment among MPs, just look’ back at the scene in the House of Commons at-5.30 p.m. on Fri- day, 9th April. cer. Speaker Matnaughton or- ' dered “call in the Members’, and the Clerk of the House counted their heads as_ they stood up to vote on Mr. Diefen- baker's amendment. This care-

away from field of party. policy; it simply criticized . “the government's bumbling failure to “clean house*';-as demanded during the Christmas holiday by Social Credit leader Bob Thompson and other prominent opposition politicians.

It was a motion carefully de- signed and skilfully worded to line up all Oppositiom., groups against the government; and this it succeeded in doing, for the first time since the Pearson administration was sworn into office one hundred and two weeks previously.

STAGE SET FOR DEFEAT

portant vote of the session;

| should have seen,the minority

Liberal governrient: defeated; but eae we witnessed jone vot the mo&t

held in our House of Commons The minority Liberal ‘govern ment won by 106 votes to 93. ‘Thus the five Opposition groups, with a total elected strength of 136 MPs, found 41 of their number, or nearly one- third, n6t participating in this significant vote; the Liberal

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‘| Would any business tolerate that

fully worded motion steered | the controversial |

This, probably the most im-

remarkable votes; ever; mocratic. But it does make it

whip, with the life of his minor- ity government _ threatened, could only muster 104 of his 129 MPs to vote. The Liberals were reinforced by both the ex-Con- servative ‘‘independent’” MPs from Québec. Leon Balcer and Remi: Paul, who voted against their former leader Diefenbak- er: others voted solidly against the Liberals.

Four MPs were in the House but did not vote: Liberal Ralph Cowan and two Socreds were paired with absent MPs of oth- er parties, while Mr. Speaker Macnaughton- was presiding in the chair.

Thus the attendance in the Chamber at the time of the vote

was 106 out of 129 Liberals: 66 | out of 94 Tories; 10 out of 18 | New Democrats;-11 out of 13 | Creditistes; eight out of nine So- creds; and two independents.

degree of absenteeism of its $18,- 000 per year white collar work- ‘ers on an important job?

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Sarnia’ and Forgie of Pem- broke; plus of course the two Grits-under- a- cloud Dupuis and | Rondeau. Tory absentees. i n- cluded those believed to be lead- ing- anti- Diefenbites such as

~Gordon Fairweather, Sig Enns,

Jean Wadds and Heber Smith, and equally those staunch pro- | ief men such .as Pigeon, Neil-

sen and Monteith. At least five |

other Tories were ill. So per- haps other MPs of all parties were sick, or were paired with- out declaring the pair.

This many MPs _ apparently absented themselves, so — that-} their party could appear to be

voting against the government |

without actually overthrowing it.

But the most remarkable event |

of that very remarkable vote was that equally some top Lib- erals, even Ministers it , was said, were urging their support- |

| ers to absent themselves so that | the government would be beat- | | en and an election follow.

Will the division bells become | the signal for an exodus, with | MPs of_all parties seeking to avoid voting? Politics have in- |

' level.

| Fosters Voting Deadlock

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There is some virtue in -this. The proportional representation system under which Irish elec- tions are held’ are certainly de-

| difficult.to secure a strong gov- ernment. In this election the “government secured 48 per cent of the first choices. In single - member constituency votes on a straight majority basis, with- out preferences, it would prob- ably have scored a sweeping | majority, owing to the existence

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MARKETING BOARD BALLOT

Sir,—This Potato Marketing | Board we have today has taken | great pride in its buying of time of a Toronto publicity agency for the purpose, of . promoting our table potatoes. This is the only forward motion this board

existence? | ° The- biggest promotional job | this Marketing Board has tack-

| has takem but does it justify its | | j

tinue with Mr. Burge but at least a “no” vote will give you

a temporary plan which will be

voted on again in 18 months. In

18 months the winds of political ‘change will perhaps remove some of the obstacles now facing us.

I_ would like to see a Market- |ing Board established on P_E.I. that would tackle the real prob- | lems, of the industry, problems

of at least three major parties.

Countries with proportional re- presentation have © relatively stable governments, because there are few major shifts in voting big enough to disturb = | results.

It is ironic that the fate of tie

government might have hinged on the degree of sanity of a ‘handful of voters. Yet the main opposition party is protesting the government victory in Longford- Westmeath because it challeng- ed the validity of votes cast by mental hospital patients at Mul- lingar.

However,—if.. Mr. Lemass thinks that the proportional rep- resentation system provides a built-in deadlock, he might look

at Canada or Great Britain |

where the electors also failed to make up their minds in any de- cisive fashion.

Our Yesterdays

(From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO "(April 21, 1940)

Charles Sumner Tainter, 8, physicist and inventor once as- sociated With Alexander Gra- ham Bell diedlast Saturday night. With his wax disc record, Tainter was credi with hav-

led to date is this plebiscite and of ynethical practices of «sing. ing made phonographs cémmer-

they are making quite a show- | ing: full page advertisements ‘and spot announcements in both |

seed tags on table potatoes; trucking in used bags from the | | mainland; trucking out poor.

| cially possible. He was the in- ventor of the dictograph and he was the first to transmit sound

| local newspapers; half-hour pro- quality table stock, to name a | through the agency of light. He

| grammes and spot announce- | ments on TV — real high pres- sure tactics and at great cost.

| that would do any political .par- |

| ty justice.

| This marketing board is also

promoting the Potato Producers | Association who are promoting the Potato Marketing Board, | and all with the blessings of Mr. | MacRae. |. When you receive your ballot | on the 21st you will have ro choice; a “‘yes” vote will give | you a permanent plan. You will | likely get Mr. Burge again as | chairman of the new board. | There will be a few new faces | but things will continué as in the past. 4 Now, what would a “no” vote bring?-Mr. MacRae has indicat- ed the present board will con-

few: the problem of consign- ment selling.

Disease control and eradica- tion — if we could dispose cf ring rot and prevent Newfound- | land’s potato wart from being introduced here we might be in |a better bargaining position to | | promote seed in Western Europe where the markets are huge as well as the North American market. ~

This plebiscite has been rig- ged from the beginning. Farm- ers are not supposed to think during times of good nan but |

they had better take stock im- | mediately. | There is no choice to be

| made; both are equally bad but at least the ‘‘no” vote will come up again in 18 months.

Mr. Burge has had his say up until now. Now its the Island potato farmer's turn to show | his displeasure.

So get out and get your opal-

lot. 1 am, Sir, etc., »

LARRY YEO. Lot 16, Prince County.

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was also known as the ‘Father of the Talkies.”

German troops occupying

Trondheim are encircled by Al- | lied forces which have landed |

a ag of them, French troops Getta ove ea Gan va port.

TEN YEARS AGO (April 21, 1955) Queen Elizabeth is 29-years-

day with a family tea , in- cluding the Queen M and Margaret, at Windsor

key to the City of Charlottetown. Attending the civic dinner where the presentation took place were Dr. and Mrs. Frank MacKin- non, His Excellency Bishop MacEachern, Lieutenant Gover- nor and Mrs. T.W.L. Prowse, Mrs. J.D. Stewart, Col. Frank

Mrs. Storey and Hon. Doug- | ald MacKinnon.

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—_-»-stressed_again— and

| ognize the danger signs:

deed descended to a shameful | |

| Young People Pearson Proposal Supported

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| By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen | There is a possibility we might | have less alcoholism if teen-ag- ers were told the facts about liq- uor. David W. ‘Northrup, Ph.D.,

| believes the temperance lecture | is old-fashioned, and the scarce technique is passing. There is no advantage in overemphasiz-

ic aleoholism which are the ex- ceptions rather thah the rule.

the truth because eventually the child sees moderate users of al- cohol who are in perfect health | and who live in ‘happy homes. | The youngster ludes that | his parents lied rejects ev- Oo rvmeisiie oe him on the sub-

The child should. be told that it-is used by some to “unwind” and by othérs for relaxation and rest. It also is helpful at | Social events to promote con-

; drunk or to escape reality, The

use is accompanied by certain | dangers: It depresses the ner--

with the performance of skilled

7 nets ape _With- the exercise of

proper judgment.

was before he took a_ drink, even small amounts.

These ee eee be again, be-—

cause. teen-agers hae not de- eloped . mature judgment and | skills.

The greatest danger in drink-

ing is the possibility of .becom-

HEPATITIS A reader writer: Is hepatitis

contagious after a person is cur- |

| ed of it? ~ REPLY

| uses remain in the blood fer at least a year after the disease | subsides. On the other. hand, it | is not easily passed from one person to another at this stage--- | except by transfusion or direct | >contact with the. bleed -T-hi-s— occurs, for example, to dentists, | laboratory technicians, and phy- sicians. ANESTHESIA M. Y. writes: Could too much anesthesia given during an op- | eration damage the brain? REPLY Yes, in that serious circula- | tory disturbances may result | from anesthesia. Lack

| rate, muscular spasms, and rig- idity followed by convulsions.

ing the serious aspects of chron- |

He believes in telling them |

-geniality. It is not used to get |

| youngster should know that its |

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Yes, in that the causative vir-_|

By Arch MacKe:

* Concdion Poem Guat Wiciter

Prime Minister Pearson's oe for a measured pause in. United States air strikes

» against Communist North Viet Nam at “the the right time’’ continue to draw. so) support...

Democratic Senator J. W. Ful- bright of Arkansas, chairman of the influential U.S. Senate com- mittee on foreign affairs, echoed

The idea is that the pause ‘ie air attacks would make it easier for the Communists to come to the conference table.

OPPOSED BY JOHNSON | But the three most senior gov- | ernment spokesmen in the U.S.

| mara and State Secretary -Rusk | ~have reiterated opposition to any air-strike pause: __

~ Johnson spoke in a special Easter. message from his Texas Rusk said in a special state- | ment that an air-attack pause | had been pondered but that it ‘would ‘“‘only encourage the ag- gressor and dishearten our yeas, ‘who bear the brunt of battle.”

McNamara, replying _ specifi- | cally to Fulbright, took a sim- | ilar line and said the U.S. has

“no indications that a cessation of. the bom! would move the North Vietnamese to discussions | leading to termination of the | aggression against the south.”

Other alth leaders | who have picked up the Pearson

I~ ister Ali Bhutto of Pakistan. During the weekend, on grounds of pressing domestic and Viet- namese problems, Presi- dent Johnson postponed sched- uled visits from Pakistani Pres- ident Mohammed - , Ayub Khan and Shastri.

The statements by Johnson, Rusk and McNamara _also coin- cided with public demonstra- tions in the United States against the American presence in Viet Nam—conducted — near- the Johnson ranch in Texas and by an estimated 15,000 i - the White House in W

o speaker at the While House demonstration was Demo- cratic Senator Ernest Greuning of Alaska, who has been one of the few vocal congressional crit- ics of US. Viet Nam

MUTED CRITIC

Fulbright, while at odds with U.S. policy in several fields, has been comparatively muted on Viet Nam while not hiding his concern. He said Sunday that, while he heped for a two-day cease - fire. ‘I: believe there

. the bombings temporarily.” | Kemnan’s chief fear; though, as he said again in Montreal while answering reporters’ questions, is that there is a risk of “‘need- less damage to Russia's rela- tions with the US” In other words, Kennan fears that the Soviet Union. while | deeply embroiled in its ideologi-. cal fight with China, will feel it- self increasingly forced to take a harder line against the US. to keep from losing more ground in the*Communist world Pearson made his praposal for

|,am air-strike pause in a speech |im New York April 3 and dis-

| drink; (3) a tendency to drink |

Readers For City Child

Milwagkee Journal

A new kind of primary school reader is beginning to replace the ‘‘look, look, see, -see’’ books in many major cities. It is aim- 'ed particularly at catching the | | interest of the urban child, in- | cluding the slum pupil. « Reading ability has | critically important. A Cook county (Illinois) welfare offic- ial remarked. recently that unde- | tected illiteracy may be the ma- jor enemy in the war on poverty. of Chicago welfare re- _cipients showed that more than | half fell below ‘“‘the minimum | pracy level necessary to fune- | “tion in modern-society.””-—~- The growing demand for more realistic readers has put the | | textbook publishing industry in a ferment. Sociologists, psychol- | ogists, teachers and

‘through a

ogists have worked with publish ers to produce better book s. | Some, like the series developed Ford Foundation | grant, already are in use in Mil- | waukee. | Specialists at the Bank Street | College of Education in New York worked with one publisher to produce the latest series of primary readers. Illustrations show the big city with its parks, | Seectopers, red brick row

j Reaeee traffic supermarkets,

corner "grocery stores, even clo- theslines hanging from the fire escapes. This is a familiar world | to the city child, an imperfectly

| suburb inhabited by white faces.

It is an interesting world: liter.

| acy and learning begin with in terest. In the campaign against

anthropol- |

poverty, literacy is a key word.

| New ‘Spy Bait

There is something distress- ingly unromantic — quite non- James Bondish, in fact— about |

| Respiratory . paralysis -.also-.oc- - Britain's --latest —-spy - case. An

curs. These rare, KIDNEY INFECTION M. W. writes: Does drinking | large quantities of liquid help | get rid of pus in the kidneys?

complications are

REPLY ‘It. helps keep structures | well irrigated. The” ideal treat- |

| ment is a combination of ade- |

engineer at the Ministry of Avia- |

| tion is alleged to have passed figures who recruit

_ classified documents to the Rus- sians to get money to pay his mortgage:

Men have been drawn into the

Soviet espionage apparatus in a variety of ways. Some have been

political ambition. Some have

payments on a mortgage. How utterly bourgeois!

Disclosures of this kind tend to -upset the -popular. idea -not only of spies but of the shadowy spies. We had—always pictured Comrade X lurking discreetly in the cas- ino at Monte Carlo watching the . hapdsome captain in the Guards

in too deep at ‘the roulette

| table, and then offering to take

inspired by ideological zeal or |

up the deficit in return for a copy of Plan Z from - War

| quate fluid intake and a suitable \ been led astray by Mata Hari or | Office.

| renal antiseptic such as Gantri- |

| sin or penicillin or one of the i

other antibiotics.

TODAY’S HEALTH HINT— Don’t neglect skin irritations.

a reasonable facsimile es Some have needed money pay for gambling or high tine.

But now it looks as though the Comrade must spend his duty days in the Land Titles office

| But this is the first time anyone trying to find out which atomie | has been accused of ve | scientist is in arrears with his

| aldte. secrets -to keep up

| split level.

From:the bitter battleground in South Vietnam comes a front- line report by Peter Ward. In this, the first of three Weekend Magazine articles titled Southeast Asia, Ward describes a

gunboat patrol in the Mekong delta where the war rages

through dense jungle and over flooded rice fields. ;

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