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Emu 4 THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 195. ,...

'- Dusty Roads A contributor to Public Forum a fiwdays ago, an annual visitor from the United ,States, called attention the dusty condition of our side roads. This is a common complaint; and it is a well founded one.

We think that the present Pro- tdncial Government deserves credit a well designed and well imple- mented paving program. While we “not have comparative statistics at hand, we are inclined to think that in the past two or three years the paving of roads has proceeded at‘ a more satisfactory pace, all things considered, than in previous years. What is more, the paving, generally, has been of high quality. We doubt that any other Province has done any better, mile for mile. ,1 It is possible, however, that the ,e roads—Which, in their way, are just as important as the main ones -.—bave. not received their fair share dill attention. In dry weather, the dust is more than a-nUisance—it is a very real danger. If, as our Ameri- can friend suggested, there is a prac- tical and relatively cheap way, of removing this menace from the gravel roads, then we feel that the money so spent would be spent wise- 19:. After all, a large number of our

Wane 'live away from the main ‘

highways. They, too, are entitled to 4 aideration in the brad pattern of building and maintenance. The paving of shore roads, plan- ned under the Resources Develop- ih'é'nt scheme and the paving of ad- ditional main roads under considera-

tion as an extension of the Trans- '

anada Highway, are long, steps _' a he right direction. Dominion- Pg‘pvincial partnership can achieve important results as the Trans- Cfi'nada Highway scheme has already

g I I Another Mideast Problem

ga‘he Arab plan to wbrk out a better of life in the Middle East does appear to have taken account of onegserious problem. That ‘is ‘ the brute. The population, which al- imposes tremendous pressure on" the limited amount of habitable land, is increasing at an astonishing pace. Because of better health care. ' the area’s 95.7 million people increas- ed by 15 per cent in the last five years. By 1975 the area will have a total population close to 200 million! The figures come from the Pop- ulation Refgrence Bureau, Inc., of Washington, DC. The private, non- profit organization makes no recom- mendations, but the implication is

~ ’ strong that either population growth

must somehow be brought under con- trol or plans and programs for the area might as well be discarded.

“The job of feeding and educat— ing an additional four million people each year, in a region deeply engulfs ed in acute and chronic poverty, is staggering,” says Robert C. Cook, dir- ector of the bureau. “Peace and politi- calstability seem unlikely under such unprecedented rates of population growth.”

A Divided House

. The United States Supreme Court, whatever else itmight have to work on in connection with the school integration problem, does not have the concerted support of the Fede- ral administration. Tru e, '1 th e' Attorney-General has filed a brief urging the Court to order integra- tion at Little Rock, Arkansas, with-n out“ further delay. He has also de- claredpublicly that integration is not only legally proper but morally right. President Eisenhower, on the other hand, has taken a. different view: ‘While stating that Supreme Court orders should be obeyed, simply because they are the law of the land, he has let it be known that he personally favours a slowing in the integration process. Indeed, judging by his statements on the subject, it is extremely doubtful whether he believes in integration at all. This suspicion, undoubtedly, is responsible for much of the cur- rent trouble in Arkansas and else- where. -

This is a strange situation and

one which could hardly develop in

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any other country. Certainly, it could not develop in Canada. Our Government leaders do not usually discuss cases under consideration in the supreme Court. But, if they should, for some special reason, there certainly would be no public differ- ence of opinion between the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice.

It has been suggested that per- haps President Eisenhower’s am- biguous "stand on the issue is moti- vated by political considerations, that he hopes thereby to attract the support of those on both sides of the fence for Republican candidates in this fall’s Congressional election. That, surely, cannot be true. It is inconceivable that a man of his moral stature would stoop to play politics with such a deep-rooted and

serious social problem.

Pollen-Free Area

From the middle of ‘August to the end of September is the hay- t‘ever periodin the United States and parts of Canada. It is estimated that more than five million Americans suffer from the malady in various degrees of severity.

With this in mind, administrators of a hospital in New York have given out the following advice: “Persons allergic to ragweed should not take unnecessary country rides, should stay indoors if possible, on windy days, possibly even shut their windows, and should avoid dusty atmospheres of any kind. During housecleaning thenose and mouth should be covered by a _cheesecloth mask which has been moistened slightly. Cut flowers should not be kept in the house. No liquid or pow- dered insecticides should be used. Chlorinated swimming pools should be avoided”. "

No doubt, these preeautiOns will serve a useful purpose. But suffer- ers might have profited by at least one positive bit of advice: if you can afford the time and money, go to Prince Edward Island and forget all about hay fever. This island is one of the few places on the North

"American Continent where ragweed—

pollen is practically non-existent.

Tri-Partnership

We areglad to note that mem- bers of all parties in the Commons have urged the Government to see What can. be done to save the Cana- dian merchant fleet from extinction. ' At present the fleet consists of a few ships on the Great Lakes—not more than 20—and less than a half- dozen seagbing vessels of ‘various types. It is ‘an‘incongruous situation for a country which lives mainly on

l-export trade. In case of an emer- . gency, when foreign carriers might

be difficult to 'obtain, it could spell calamity. ‘ '

Apart from the importance of the subject itself, it is refreshing to hear that members of the three parties agreed that something should be dOne to tackle the problem in’ earnest. We have noticed this bis partisanship—or is it tri-partisan- ship?—approach at work in other

' matters of national interest which

have come before the present Par- liament. It should be encouraged and developed. It is foolish for a member of one group to feel that he is under obligation to oppose a suggestion made by a member of another group —even though he believes the sug-

‘ gestion to be sound. Yet, that is

often the case in parliamentary debate.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Enough has been said in the bear- ings of the Commons’ Public Ac- counts Committee on matters con- nected with the Government printing bureau in Hull, Que. Everyone knows bypow that from start to finish mon- ey was “poured down the drain”.

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Civil Defence officials report that

, “the public is more concerned about v survival in an atomic attack now than 'at any time since 1945”. That, sure

1y, is a strange way of putting it. Everyone is concerned about survival and always has been. What bothers a great many people is the fear that no precaution would be of much value in the taCk. « . C 0

Royal Commissions are never in a hurry. It was expected that the com- mission on price spreads would be able to complete its work in three or four months. A longer period has passed, with no indication that its work is nearing completion. Accord- ing to the Prime Minister, it will re- veal its findings “as soon as possible”. That might be next month, or it might be a year from now.

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event of an all-out atomic at- _

LOVE LETTERS IN E 5ND

onAWA REPORT

- A Valuable Watchdog

By Patrick Nicholson , Special Correspondent For The Guardian

Desperately anxious to smoth- er the damaging revelation that the fomner Liberal government had spent the taxpayers' money with wanton waste and for par- tisan political purposes, Liberal M.Ps on the headlined Public Aac- counts Committee—«and their sy- rup-a icons—are resorting to ev—

gbsslble subterfuge and red herring to discredit that com- mittee.

,First came tailmerasti-ug. Ex- Liberal Cabinet Minister Lionel Ohevrier managed to waste sev‘ eral hours by lengthy and repet- itious questioning of witnesses. Another former Liberal/Cabinet Minister, J.W. Pickersgill, assis- ‘tcd him in this by initiating long procedural wrangles.

Then there was the mass ab- sentee-ism of the Liberals on the committee, who refused to attend a meeting called for 2.30 pan 0 the grounds that it would inter- fere with their attendance in Par- liament (which opens at 2.30 p. m.) and their other pailiamen-

tary work (posSibley that placu

ed before them in the restaur- ant).

C.B.C. RED HERRING

The latest manoeuvre is the at- tempt to smear the committee which has discredited the former Liberal government. This centres round the lavish but ignorant use of such phrases as “McCarthy witch hunt”. This'is a misplaced and unclever olfort to compare Ottawa’s parliamentary commit-

‘tee work with his enemies’ des- cription of Senator McCarthy’s

a-ntiacommunist - committee hear- ings in Washington. An intensive as it is clumsy, this campaign

[is throwing up that comparison

morning, noon and night, espec- ially by the correspondents of Liberal newspapers, either in print or over the C.B.C.

What makes this innuendo far- cial is that nearly all the critics never attended a McCarthy Coun- mittee hearing in Washington, while some of them. had not even attended meetings of the Ottawa committee which they were cri- ticislng.

These cornmentators have over- looked one relevant parallel. 'Ilhe Republican Senator McCarthy set out to uncover enemies of the state at a time when his political oppoents, the Democratic Govern- ment, were trying to bush up past scandals. He succeeded in exposing a number of commun~ ists, some of whom were exe~ outed or imprisioued. The Pub- lic Accounts Committee here has similarly succeeded in uncover- ing enemies of the taxpayer whose actions—such as balloon- ing the cost of building the new Printing Bureau from $8,000,000 to $16,000,000—had been carefully concealed by the previous gov- ernment.

It is true that, as one com- mentator said, we. have never seen anything like this in 0t- tawa during the past 25 years—‘- because the Liberal Government hog-tied its committoes and gov- ernment chairmen ruled embar- rassing quedcious “out of ord- er”.

GOOD PRECEDENT SET Another critic declares “West- minister never saw anything like this committee”. (Ii-low does he know?). But neither—«and the‘ writer of course omitted to add

Travels In Moslem East

National Geographic Society

In parts of the Moslem East, wars of long past centuries some-

v times seem’ closer to the traveler

than the headlined struggles of today.

Supreme Court Associate Jus- tice William 0. Douglas tell-s in a National Geographic Magazine article, “West from the Khyber Pass,” how he and his party cros- sed and recrossed the path of Alexander the Great.

The Justice—with his wife Mer- cedes and their friend, Mary Wat- kins—took to Asia’s rugged back- woods roads. In their hard-pres- sed station wagon, they pushed through high mountain canyons that had once rumbled to the tramp of Greek, Persian, Mongol, and Moslem armies.

NEAR SOVIET BORDER

Motoring near the Russian fron- tier, the Douglases explored sun seared plains that had felt Alex- ander’s might.

They visited Afghanistan’s Her- alt (fortified by the conqueror in the 4th century B.C.) and photo- graphed the ruins of the 01d Per- sian treasure city of Persepolis. After taking this royal capital of Darius and Xerxes, Alexander carried away its gold and silver hoard on-the backs of 5,000 oa- mels and 20,000 mules.

Justice Douglas, however, was not tracing ancient history in his wanderings. He was revisit- ting Asian lands and friends with the hope of learning more of their ways and cultures, and thus bet— tering understanding between ’West and East.

The journey started in Pakis- tan’s bazaar city of Peshawar near the mouth of the narrow Khyber Pass of Kipling romance.

The party first made a short trip to the little state of Swat. Its ruling Wall, who speaks fluent English, gave an informal din- oer.

The Wall was pround of his state’s free schools and medical care, its college, and six hospi- tals; but the Justice was profes- sionally interested to learn that Swat has no lawyers.

Cases are settled by local au- thorities under Koran Law. or— iu more serious circumstances

—by decision of the Wall him- self. A lawyer, it was explained, “only makes a lawsuit compli- cated and confusing.”

FRIENDLY GREETINS

As the travelers drove through north Afghanistan’s cultivated val leys, they met migrant farm fam- ilies who exchanged friendly calls with their chaulfeur guide. ls- tala mashi, “May you never be tired.” was the greeting; Kwar mashi, “May you never be poor, the reply.

In the black wool tents of no- mads, the Douglases listened to plaintive guitar music. When the car bogged down on a dark hill- side, they feared the swarming tribesmen were bandits—abut lear- ned they had come to help.

Along the way, the party vls- ited with officials, merchants, rug

this—has Westminister in living memory seen anything like the costly bungling at the Printing Bureau. /

The Conservative Government has this year set a very desir- able precedent. Expenditure of the taxpayers’ money is being closely studied by this watchdog “commlttee as never before. This practice will continue henceforth. So it will be unipo' ssible for the Conservative Government in fu- ture' years to refuse that com- mittee the opportunity to probe into Conservative expenditures, just as this year it is probing into expenditures made by the form-er Liberal Government.

It is in the interest of all tax--’ payers that our government; any government, knows that in future it must exercise lull care inrspen- ding our dollops and centsyor else reap the taxpayers’ wrath at the polls.

For ten years this Printing Bur- eau story has been hushed up. In ten days Conservative M.Ps on the Public Accounts Commit- tee ha-ve expose-d it. They can~ not got us back those extra $10,- 000,000, but they have done their best to make sure that such a thing does not happen again- in future.

My opinion, as a regular at— tendant at the (\wmrnittee hm lugs, is that the leading Conser- vative M.P. on, the committee. David Walker Q.IC., and his chief assistants J.W.‘ Murphy, Noel Dorian and RA. Bell, and the C.C.F. representative Harold Winch, have done a good job-— in the eyes of everybody except the Liberals. As this column said last week, I think the commit- tee might have turned its atten- tion to other topics more quickly. But otherwise the committee has established a wholesome example and has not in any sense, as has been suggested by its critics, damaged \ either Parliament’s dignity or the status of our senior civil servants.

saw ancient but effective irriga- tion works, and modem resorts and ports on the Caspian Sea. in the garden city of Tehran, they called on the Shah of Iran. In Bagdad, where a violent revolt would soon overthrow the govern- ment, they found a reminder of home in the air-conditioned Am- eI-ican Embassy patterned after the White House.

One of the most interesting ex- periences of the trip occurred in the Afghan capital, Kabul, where a building and development pro- gnam‘ is under way with Rus- sia’s technical and financial as sistaucc.

Seeing two men and a woman who looked like Amerdcla‘nls, Jus- tice Douglas asked the way to the American Embassy. One man gave directions in perfect Eng- lish.

‘Thanks a lot,” said the-Jus- tice. “You folks here with the Point 4 aid program?"

makers, and tenant farmers. They

1 Greece ‘Explo

Daniel Behrma-n in GREECE — The land which

“gave the world the word “atom”

-is now entering the atomic age.

At the foot of Mount Imitos, six miles from Athens, the Greek Atomic Energy Commission is constructing a new centre which will house a 1,000 - kilowatt “swimming pool reactor." Nam- ed after the 5th. Century B.C. philosopher Democritus, who first visualized the atomic struc- ture of the universe, the Centre will be an operation next year.

This was reported in Paris by tion. Professor Banendregt, a tall, blond Dutch sceiutlst who has just completed his second technical assistance mission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Oeglaniza- tion. Professor Barendregt , a chief scientist at the Netherlands Reaction Centre in The Hague, previously spent eighteen months in Pakistan teaching nuclear phy- sics at the University of Karachi.

The Greek “swimming pool re- actor” will be used for research and also for training scientists

in handling the future power re- actors which Greece hupes to use

“Point 4?” the speaker gasped. “We are Soviet citizens."

res The Atom

Unesco Features

in order to help solve her chronic fuel shortage, be e 'ned in an interview.

THREE PURPOSES

“Swimming pool reactors” - the Greek reactor will operate in more than 15 feet of water - use water for three purposes cooling moderation and protection from radiation.

During his mission to Greece, Professor Barend-reglt was 'also able to work with two Athens hospitals - the Alexandra Hospi- tal and the ‘Evaugellsmos Hospi- tal - on the use of radio - isotop- es in therapy. The Alexandra Hospital, he explained, is also conducting research to determine the uptake of certain elements by the liver while the Evangelis- mos Hospital is building a new radio - isotope department.

Other activities already being carried out by the Greek Atomic Energy Commission include the measurement of fall - out and the use of irradiation to improve crops.

DISCOVERY Greek scientists and Professor

Thirsty AncI Don’t Know If?

N. Bundesen, M-D-

By Herman thirsty and

MAYBE you are ’ know it. ‘ “him is Nature’s way of W?!- ning us that our bodies _l‘equfl'l‘e water. But sometimes this n. of water can become great with- out any sensation of ' Under ordinary conditions, drin- king .3 glass of water wui quench your thirst. So will suckmg .011 1 piece of ice or even chewmg a piece of gum. The latter increas- es the saliva flow, thus 935mg the thirst sagssgtion. RIDES THI . However, this very habit—e)" casslve gum clawing—crab sortie- times hide the thirst sensatlon. it keeps the membranes so moist that they may not function in the proper manner. Habitual smoking or breathing also can make the thirst scum. 'on by keeping these mem- branes" dry. Thus you becom_ e somewhat insensm- 'tive to this mod- .er‘ate degree of dryness.

Then, too, you may become so occupied in your -job or some other activity that you don't even notice the minor discomfort gen- erally associated with a moder- ate degree of thirst.

DON’T REALIZE IT

Sometimes the need for water is present even though you are not thirsty enough to get up and get a drink.

Your body needs an adequate water supply to function prop- erly. most of your body. in fact, is water.

If you weight, say 150 poundsv , about 100 pounds and maybe even a little more is water. There is Water in all body cells and be- tween all cells. Your muslces are more than 70 per cent water and your blood is 90 per cool: water.

A human being can go with- out-water for as long as eleven days, but if food is eaten dur- ing this period, death will occur more qnilckly, since Water is need- ed in metabolism of the food. HOW MUCH TO DRINK? I

How much fluid, then, should a person drink during the. co of an average day? '

It islmposscible, of course, to laydowna-nyhardandfastmles.

however, I tlilimk between six and eight glasses a day, but no less, is sufficient. .