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PAGE 5 sarofib‘nfiifit 27. 1968. His Passing Mourned The sudden death yesterday of

the Right Reverend R. V. MacKen-

zie, pastor of St. Pius X Ch u rc h,

Parkdale, comes as a shock to thous-

ands of devoted friends and admirers

in this Province and elsewhere. His long labors in his Master’s vineyard had brought him into contact not only with members of his own faith but with all classes of our citizens, and it can truly be said that he was one of our Island's most beloved citizens.

Father MacKenzie was rector of St. Dunstan’s University wh on he was appointed to organize the Roman Catholic Parish of Parkdale and be- come its first pastor in 1956. He had discharged his rectorial duties with outstanding success, and applied the same zeal and enthusiasm to his new responsibilities.

Not aways are scholarly attain- ments combined with a winning per- sonality and an aptitude for mingling with people and sharing their per- sonal joys and sorrows. Not always are such attainments combined with the rare qualities required for com- munity leadership. Father MacKen- zie fitted e..sily into these varied roles. He was a man of many parts, all reflecting different facets of a Christian character in which “ser- vice above self” predominated.

The Guardian tenders respectful sympathy to the bereaved parishion- ers of this noble servant of God, to the surviving members of his family and to all associated with him in his labors. His friendship was among our own treasured possessions, as it was among so many others in all walks of life. Truly the lives of such men are an inspiration to all, and an example that will blossom v in their dust.

Fishery Problems One of the Liberal p I ed g e s in the federal campaign was for a. 12- mile exclusive fishing limit, pro- tecting Canada’s inshore fisheries on both coasts from exploitation. The new fisheries minister, Hon. H. J. Robichaud, in a statement this week conceded “the international com- plexity which such action could in- volve.” However, he was convinced that an understanding with inter- ested nations—whether or not such nations are already protected by his- toric fishing treaties—can be arriv- ed at after proper deliberations and discussions.

Long-range fishing by other countries, Mr. Robichaud said, is ‘ reaching major proportions 310 n g Cnmdian coasts with a growing threat of over-fishing. The coastal fish stocks were in dire need of ad- ditional protection. This has been known for some time. It does not minimize the difficulties in the way

ed affirming a 12-mila limit. a , We note that at a meeting this ‘ week of the Fisheries Council of " Cnn'edn, two American spokesmen were present. They opposed unilat- en! widen, calling instead for "an clout, attack by Camda and the

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efforts to all world com or they would be “dis. rtbe abstention prin- ioi- or our on mine."

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Lumbar-g, observed that foreign ehipa fishing on the east coast are superior to most Canadian ships. The big improvement in fishery ships is due to the realization that world fishing is world feeding. cana- dian industry is privately owned, while foreign ships are mostly state- owned, and only recently have steps been taken in Canada to encourage the building of better ships by gov. ernment subsidy for shipbuilding “to bring our costs more in line with other shipbuilding nations.”

It seems that there are many- sides to this question. It is all part of the problem of national fisheries development which provincial min- isters will be asked to discuss with Ottawa at a conference shortly to be called. Mr. Robichaud says he wants all the data he can get from provincial sources, as an aid to his department in preparing “a full and comprehensive plan of action" to be submitted to the federal cabinet for approval.

Mental Health Week

From a bulletin received from the Canadian Mental Health Asso- ciation we note that there are more patients in mental hospitals than in all other hospitals combined. This is an arresting statement in- deed. Mental illness is thus the na- tion’s greatest health problem, re- quiring much study and research.

The cheering aspect of the situa- tion is that mental illness is no longer hopeless. Today, more than ever in the past, there is prospect for the return to health of the many Canadians who have been treated for mental illness in hospital.

The Association has fostered many important research projects financed by public funds. Current Dominion-Provincial mental health grants for research now approach a. million dollars annually. The or- ganization itself provides substan- tial sustaining grants to research workers to allow them freedom to direct their investigations in the most productive way. ~

It is surely incumbent upon each of us to give what aid and encour- agement we can in bringing the mentally ill back into the commun- ity as contributing members of society. This is the work to which the C.M.H.A. is dedicated, and we wish it every success in its en- deavors.

Too Many Of Them

Within the past two years, notes the Toronto Globe and Mail, the pro- vincial Premiers of British Colum- bia, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Que- bec and New Brunswick have called elections which it was not constitu- tionally necessary to call. For some reason it omits Prince Edward Is- land, which falls into the same category. In any case, our Toronto contemporary’s point is that it is time a halt was called to this ir- regular procedure.

“In no instance,” it says, “had the government’s term run out or had it been defeated in the Legis- lature. The Premiers were using elections as political tools, or as the means of passing on to the elector- ate the responsibility for making a decision, they ought to have made themselves, or as a smokescreen, or —as in the case of Mr. Joseph S In all w o o d of Newfoundland— simply as an escape from the bore- dom of government.”

Elections, our contemporary re- minds us. cost public money and consume public time. They unsettle the life of the community, and in- hibit the orderly operation of busi- ness. They are a vital tool of our democratic way of life; but like all good tools they should only be used when they are needed. In Canada in the last few years, they have been over-used.

EDITORIAL NOTE

The Italian general elections, which will be held on Sunday. are regarded as of crucial importance not only to Italy but to the West- ern Alliance generally. The Christ- ian Democrats are the leading mod- erate party, and strongest in the owntry; but the chances of them gaining an over-all majority are ac alim as toba hardly worth consid- ering. The question, then, is whether or not the election results will make it possible to form a coalition that will be capable of governing

and will keep the country in ite

preeent democratic and meeatern course.

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FROM BIBLICAL TIMES

Lebanon Restores Its Famous Cedars

Devotees of scripture have read much of the cedars of Le banon but in these days. even in Lebanon itself, th famous cedars are hard to .

Today. Lebanon's forestry de- partment ls planting millions of trees to make the landscape bloom again with the cedars fa- mous when Solomon was king.

The cedars of Lebanon are this tiny Mediterranean coun- try's landmark. Lebanon's flag and Lebanon's money show the "cedrus libani” which. the Le- banese contend. Is the father of all cedar trees

Yet visitors looking for fabled forests like th use that built Solomon‘s Temple have to drive for hours or climb a rugged mountainside to see a single

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In Biblical times. the coastal slopes were covered with them. When the Roman Navy needed a new ship. down came a few . cedars of Lebanon. If an Egyp- tlon Pharoah wanted a wood- paneled room in his pyramid. or a solar boat. another cedar crashed in the forest.

2.000 YEARS OLD

Now the best-known cedars. some estimated to be 2.000 ye er 5 old. stand above 3 vii- lage called Becharre. Only 480 giants remain there. When one of t em d to s. newspapers In Beirut print obituaries. and the government holds an inquest.

But high in the mountains. ignored by almost everyone ex- cept the Forestry Department. more than 300,000 cedars carry on the Biblical tradition.

“The cedars at Becharre are the ones the tourists see, but they are really the smallest group in the country." says l-Ia- Iim Najjar, director general of the Ministry of Agriculture. “In other places in the moun-i talns there are entire cedar for- I ests where some of the trees; are even older and bigger. Bull they are difficult to reach, andI

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they get no tourist promotion.

“In the past three years we have planted more than 1,000,- 000 new cedars, and this year no less than 3.000.000 seeds or seedlings will be planted, or gi- ven to schools, industries, and municipalities." MOUNTAIN TERRACES

With tractors and by hand, workers are cutting out ter- races along mountain tops. at altitudes of 4.000 to 6,000 feet to plant seedlings. The refores- tation program — cedars, cy- press, and other high-altitude trees — was begun with United

Pakistan Capital Rising

National Geographic Society

Pakistan is building a new national capital with 3 works- day neighbor and an ethereal

View. . Islamabad looks to the blue

foothills of the Himalayas from the high northernmost corner of the Indus plain. The region,

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States aid money but now is on s own.

Because the valley dominated by the Bec‘har're cedars serv as. a haven for the Maronite Christian sect, the grove is k n own as "An er Rab" (the cedars of the Lord). and the trees are under the direct pro- tection of 'the Maronite patri- arch. Standing 80 to 100 feet high with circumferences of 45 feet, their huge fanlike branch- es are lit by torchllght In an- nual festivals. They are singled out in tourist pamphlets as the

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true historic trees.

golden age apparently lasted for many centuries. Rare jewalry of 1500 B.C. has been unearthed there. Taxila bowed to Alexan- der the Great in 327 B.C.. but it flowered again in the 1st cen-

a long-enduring

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A Sissy Seeks Rest from Politics

. fury AD. as I center of sculpture and architec-

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some 800 miles northeast of Ka- t ure

rachi, is lusth green‘ with many of the trees. flowers. fruits. and vegetables that grow in London and Washington. DC.

The setting of the world's

newest made-to-order capital is i

not only pleasant: it is practi- cal. Islamabad is rising along- side Rawalpindi. a sizable .old army town that will serve nice- ly for the capital’s commerce and industry. It was from Ra- walpindi that the British tom- mies immortalized by Kipling defended the Khyber Pass and the North-West Frontier.

GREAT TRUNK ROAD

Asia's Great Trunk Road, whose dusty human swarms in- cluded Kim and the Holy Man, ran through the area.

Nearby are the ruins of Tax- ila, a great seat. of learning long before the Christian Era. Taxila was capital of the Gandhara re- gion of ancient India, and its

PUBLIC

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ELECTION PROMISES

Sir.—In 1957 before the elec- I lion. Premier Shaw had. pro-I mlsed the people they would[ pay the teachers‘ supplements but after the election they put on a four cents tax on the dol- lar.

And last year December 10, 1962. Premier Shaw said they would relieve the people of hospital insurance. The Prem- ier should have told the people the was going to impose more taxes on us.

What will

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how long the city will exist without us.

I am, Sir. etc.

A COUNTRY WOMAN. Suffolk . P.E.I.

TOO MUCH NAME-CALLING Sim-How many readers of this paper had a feeling of revul- slon. as I had. on reading ac- counts of recent meetings of our Legislature? The actions there were, to say the least, rude and ungentlemanly. with no regard for others’ feelings and little practice of the simple art of be- ing kind. ‘ , In our homes. schools and church echoola we try to teach our children to be polite and to respect authority. What example of politeness is set before them by our political leaders? How can they respect filoae who call each other cats. liars and m

‘ Pakistan's capital represenlsl

a fresh force in Asa: 96,558,000 . people unfed by that Islamc j fath nto a strugglng young 112- I r public model on Western lin- ’ as after the partition in 1947 of I I Imperial India. I I Though Pakistan's dark - eyed ; :women in their saris suggest; ; tropical flowers. they are

1 well educated and have equal

I status with men.

The Moslem nation's ultra-i

‘ modern metropolis presents an i open, airy, uncluttered l o o k fil-

ling for plains and mountains. :

Federal buildings will rise as1

- long, gleaming - white slabs from natural terraces on the un- even site. Even the main mos- que will have the severe, cool lines that typify much present- day architecture throughout the

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A national park within the , city will contain its cultural and I educational institutions. as well I as sports and recreatonal faci- ties ‘

workers began transferring to Rawalpindi from Karachi. a former interim capital, in Octo- ber. 1959. Because Karachi 3 an overcrowded, blistering - hot seaport surrounded by desert. i was never intended to be Pak-

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e project will con- tinue. in carefully budgeted phases. for 15 years.

Recent visitors to the capital area say Rawalpindi has more traffic tangles per block th e ii any other city east of Sueuz. 'Ilha deluge of care and pie is a far cry from the pukka aahib days when army ladies rode about in two - wheeled carriagee protected by pretty canopies. At night. H: a polished carrl a g e lamps glimmered like fireflies in the an a. ,

Moat foreign diplomats con-

accepted of office space and living quar- ters for a small staff In Murrae,

a near aurnrner resort in t Himalaya foothills. At 7. feet it is the Uni States'

highest diplomatic outpost in Asia ’

To make the "Pindi Run,” ens zigzag 0.000 feet

down to the plateau. 'flsair first the Main

adventurous one, “'5

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mment. I Construction of Islamabad'e first offices and homes began , in

are much lower than they are

Do Doin Noises

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til an or pie? Hearing loss in the known as preabycusis (prer - ale). Dr. Samuel Roascn of New York considered this possibility of noises as the source after ex- amining the hear'ng of .‘ilotlc tribes in Africa. Home struck by the fact that the elderly in these tribes seldom were bother ad alo this line — at least. much less til a 11 those of th same age In the United States. Rosen's theory gained support from the fact, that there is more preabycuah in American men than in women. presume ly because males are exposed to more noise. The Nilotlca live in areas where the sound levels

in this country. 3

Dr. A.J. Philipszoon of Ama- terdam had an opportunity to test this theory. He was consulto' ad by an 82-yearold man w o complained of poor hearing. It had reached the stage where a hearing aid was needed because the man was almost deaf. Ac- cording to a report on this case

the Journal of Laryngology and Otology. the eardrum on the right was normal but that on the left could not be examined cause the canal was filled With wax. .

When Dr. Phlllpszoon attempt- ed to remove the “wax” it prov-

to be a piece of dirty cotton wool that had obstructed the ear completely. The plug had been in so long it had to be ra~ moved fiber by fiber. When ask- ed about it. the patient became angry and told of having had ear trouble 32 years previously and the family doctor must have left the cotton in the r.

e Dutch ear specialist then conducted hearing tests and was surprised to find a marked dif- ference in hearing between the two sides. There was normal loss of hearing for age in the right ear but this type of deaf- ness was less pronounced in the left, although he had a mix e (I type of hearing loss. The chang- . es were not caused by time, sug- I gesting that the plug of cotton served as an ear defender.

Mrs. J. M. writes: My h ul- band had fever and loss of weight for some time before a diagnosis of actinomycosis was made. Is drainage from the ab- scess in his jaw contagious to others in the household?

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No, but reasonable care is needed in changing and dispos- ing of the dressings from the draining wounds. The causative fungi are frequently found in the mouth of normal persons. The condition is treated with anti- 1b. .

cs. ON-THE-JOB BURPING

L. V. writes. I «have been bel- ching for 10 years. I haven been able to work for 2 years because as soon as I take a job I start belching and get a pain in the chest. What can be done

REPLY If Work makes you psychiatrist s h o u 1d sul

POOR LEG CIRCULATION R. H. J. writes: Do you have any literature on hardening of the arteries of the lower limbs. which causr "‘i' on walking? REPLY

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belch, a be con-

Yes. Send a stamped. self-ad- dressed envelope for leaflet on : poor arterial circulation. which i discusses various measures to r '

re re . EATING AND ANXIETY G. L. F. writes: Are anxiety

reactions sometimes accompa-

nied by loss of appetite? REPLY

Yes, but some persons develop the opposite reaction and eat more during these unsettled per-

iods. TODAY’S HEALTH HINT—

Give yourself a chance to Im- prove your appearance.

Our Yesterday’s

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0n the basis of recent stands taken by many rand- cra. it appears that some public concern is developing over th

by these raadera. “haven't saute" to discuss sud: diverse matters as the possibility of changes in provincial liquor restrictions; recent changes provincial electoral provisions: the pay hike put through ‘in the legislature; adoption of Daylight Se Time. and perhaps a scone more of sim- ilar matters.

Additional condemnation has been provided on. the grounds that I "didn't dare" to come out boldly for one party or the other

version given the

palgn; and showed “moral cowardice" by failing to give space in this column to vari- ous views expressed to It by a number of correspondents.