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MONDAY. Auousr so, 1954

Nearing Foil llioseiizatlon

The dieselization of Canadian National Railways, which started in Prince Edward Island on a Province-wide scale, will soon include the principal through passengep trains operating between Halifax and Mont- real, following a pattern which has been progressively broadening in Canada and the United States for some time past, v As instance of the expanding utiliza- , I tion of this newer type of motive power, I the Association of American Railroads re- vealed in a recent announcement that Class 1 carriers, those nilh operating revenues of more than S1,Ut)(),t)0t) a year, installed 788 new locomotives units in the first six months this year. Of those 781 were Die- sel-electric units and the seven others were gas turbine-electric units. During June the

- motive units, of which all were Diesels ex- cept for three gas-turbine electric units. That monthis deliveries reduced the rail- road's order backlog for new motive power to 124 locomotive units. On May 1 last the American railroad industry handled 83.35 per cent of its freight traffic with diesel power. This reveals that the rail- transportation companies are steadily near- lng a full dieselization of their lines.

Churchill And Pigs

. Britain's Prime Minister is A man of ,. many interests and one of them is the breeding of pigs. This is nothing new but it is of interest to breeders in Prince Ed- ward Island that Sir Winston's ideas of de- sirable characteristics in swine are close indeed to those pursued in this Province. From an American resident in Britain he purchased recently four Danish swine of A new breed called Landrace. Vi Landrace was developed in Denmark as t-- , essentially a bacon pig. It has a notably long body, hefty hams, narrow shoulders, a small head and no stomach to speak of. ”A mass production job of a streamlined pig if'ever I saw one," declared the man Churchill purchased them from, "the dachshund of the pig world and a great producer of bacon."

This, of course, would apply accurately to the particular breed of Yorkshires be-

a ing produced by Island breeders. It is true that local prices do not match the i1,500 and i2,500 being offered in Britain for the new Landraces but as producers through- out North Amcrica become as conscious of the desirability of these characteristics as are those in Britain the price will certain- ly jump.

It is quite absurd for Canadian and American swine breeders to continue pro- ducing short overweight pigs when the principle object for which they are requir- ed is bacon. it would be much more economical to feed pigs that are designed to produce bacon and lots of it.

Postal Anniversaries

Two major anniversaries worthy of celebration this year in stamp collecting circles are noted by the Hamilton Spec- tator. It is one hundred years since post- age stamps were introduced into India, and the same length of time since properly per- forated stamps were first put into general use. A century ago the Indian mail was car- ried by relays of runners who ran from Bombayathe port to which mails werc brought after trztvclling overland across Egypte-fanning out across the sub-contin- ent, travelling through jungles, over moun- tains, across rivers and plains to their destinations. Kipling has immortalized these fabulous runners in his poem. The Overland Mail.

When Rowland Hill won his battle for the penny post and the first of all postage

istamps, the "penny black", was issued on May 6, 1840, the stamp had to be snipped with scissors from a sheet. This nuisance might have continued for years, perhaps even down to the present time, if it had not been for the irritation it caused a young man named Henry Archer. Archer thought it would be a good idea to cut tiny slits be- tween the stamps so that they could be easily separated. He designed A machine which had spurs attached to rollers, but this was A failure because the machine wore itself out too soon. He next replaced the spurs with tiny knives, only to find that they .wouid not work either. These fail- ures did not discourage Archer; he con- , tinued to experiment and then, one day, he ' accidentally found the answer to the prob- "iem. He was strolling down A street when he glanced up and saw A blind with cir- culor holes punched in it. The idea of

industry took delivery of 100 new loco- '

to him in A flash. Thus perforation was born.

The early stamps were not printed with the exactitude of their successors, hence the perforating machines sometimes bit into the printed edge of the stamps, giving phllateliats in theselater days An indication of age. The Post Office accepted Archer's invention and Parliament awarded him A bounty of 264,000. In the end, however, Archer's machine was discarded and only his idea was used. One hundred years ago this year, in Somerset House in London, the first general perforation of postage stamps began.

iiow loosing Loans

As A result of the passing of new hous- ing legislation at the 1954 session of Par- liament, there have this year been many changes in the provisions of the National Housing Act. In order to make these known to the public in A simple and easily understandable form, the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation has issued a time- ly booklet. Entitled "NHA Loans for Homes”, it contains in compact form, the new provisions of the Housing Act, and cites in clearly understood figures, just what the prospective home owner can and cannot do under the the terms of the amended legislation.

As is generally known, the terms of the National Housing Act as they are today are such as to encourage the building of new homes without the requirement of an excessive down payment. The home builder can now secure a loan of 90 per cent of the first 80 per cent of the lending value of the home to be built, plus 70 per cent of the remainder of the lending value. In the case of 8. builder planning to build a home with a lending value of lE10,000, the down pay- ment would be h1,400. The new maximum amount of loans is given in the booklet, and full information regarding terms of repayment.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The band of the R.C.S.C.C. Summer- side, having attained marked proficiency and having received the benefit of eight weeks of training at Point Edward naval base. will undoubtedly be 8. distinct asset to the Town and the Sea Cadet movement.

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External Affairs Minister Lester Pear- son has done what is possible to induce France to avoid scuttling the European Defence Community. This country can feel

that in this instance, at least, we have done our duty. 0 O I If present trends continue the North-

west Passage may well become a practical trade route. The St. Roch made the journey each way some years ago and now two U. S. ice breakers have plowed through McClure Strait, north of Banks Island. The

St. Roch was forced to use Amundsen Gulf, south of Banks Island. 0 I 0 Reports indicate that the Russian Gov- ernment is gradually coming outside the walls of the Kremlin, which will eventual- ly be established as a national museum. It is to be hoped that the trend reflects and will encourage a more open attitude of mind on the part of the rulers of the Soviet Union. 0 The success of the first summer school in this Province for Gaelic, Highland danc- ing and piping entitles the many local peo- ple connected with it to congratulations. Warm thanks are due to the Department of Education of Nova Sc3t"n and to Major Callum Ian MacLcod, Nova Scotia Direc- tor of Gaelic studies, for generous assist- ance in making the project possible. I I 0

Gilbert Abbott a' Beckett, humorist and playrxright, died this date 1856. He was the first editor of Figaro in London and one of the first contributors to Punch. He also wrote for a number of London dailies. More than 50 of his plays were produced, including dramatisations of Dickens' nov- els. He is best known, however, for his ”Comic Blackstone" and comic histories of

England and Rome.

The desirability of A "positive" rather than A negative approach is frequently emphasized these days, perhaps even over- emphasized. It is interesting to speculate just what "positive proceedings” the C. O. of Chanute air base, Illinois, proposes to take about the Pachuco terrorist secret society whose activities he recently ex- posed. Punishment may be the negative approach but has its uses.

'By the end of this year the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organiza- tioii will have completed the first volume of the third census ever taken of World agriculture. It will summarize statistical methods used in the census and will be followed by two more volume, tabulatlng the data for each country and making com- parioono between counties and regions. It

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LADY LOST

ThiA morning, there flew up the lane

A timid lady-bird to our bird-

bath

And eyed her image dolefully As death;

This afternoon, knocked on our windowpane

To be let in from the rain.

And when I caught. her eye

She looked Aside, but at the clap- ping thunder

And sight. of the whole earth blaz- ing up like tinder

Locked in on us Againtmost. miser-

ably, Indeed as if she would" cry.

so I will go out into the park and say, "Who has lost. A delicate brown-

eyed lady

In the West. End section? or has anybody

Injured some fine woman in some dark way,

Last night or yesterday?

"Let the owner come And claim possession, No questions will be Asked. But stroke her gently With loving words, And she will evidently Resume her full soft.-haired white- breasted fashion, And her right home and her right pauion." -John Crowe Ransom

Sprig Of Heather

tsydney Post Record)

Flora, the Macleod of Mncleocl in the spring of 1952 sent shoots of heather to the Gaelic College of Cape Breton Island for tran..- planting in the Norman MacLeod Memorial Park At St. Ann's. Four clumps of the delicately-leafed plants figured in the shipment. They had been dust from the moor adjoining the Chief of Mac- leod's home Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye. All four clumps are growing well and have been

blossoming for the past few weeks. Recently the director of thc

Gaelic,Colle::e sent A Icw sprigs ofpthe flowers to Dunvegan (Instlr as testimonial hr-r gifts are thriv- ing in no alicn air but in A place congcnlnl nn more than out count. We can Accept it as A tok- en of the human trcmpinnline that occurred here when sclllcr came from the hicjlilnnds and is- lnnds where heather ins growr for Ages beyond cnlcvlntlon.

Heather is ll moorland plant flourishing in an environment 0' l)ountlful rnin anrl mist uoow grassy uplifts nrnrt from for- ests. Cape Breton hnx "lift of man" have in certain arcrls hordcrin' the sen. So we cwnnot cxpt-2: heather to flourish nhundantiv here in the wiirl nnd wonderful profusion which makes the moor: of old Scotland A breath-takln,". blaze of color in August. Heather would suffer from claustrnphobin within the thick growth of this forested island, but there are cer- tain open expanses where we might expect it to flourish if given A chance.

Some people here grow heather in gardens but it never seems At home within domesticated en- closures. It is too wild And free in plant to seem happy when con- fined. It is A pin! with an urge for riotous expression. for free- dom to roam In growth upon wide uplift: and expnnses under skies generous with clouds shed- ding the pure water of hcAven'.I bounty. Cape Bretonors would take it kindly if heather from Scotland began here the Adven- ture of unrestrained growth In place: suited for It. Even on we cannot deny that Cape Breton Al- renriy is blessed with A prolon- slon of wild flowers in sweet As they Are wild. It In A pity that so few of, us know their nomeit although without A nome-to coll them by they Are no in! beauti- ful. We would feel better educat- ed it we know - more-.About the flower! native to this inlnntl.

KITIMAT. B. C. (CP)-The oit of A multi-million dollar Alumi- num plont hero may idnco hove been covered by no water. This

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The Value of A

A potentially deadly substance is the basic Agent in 8. plan to pro- tect millions of lives A year. Like many other substances - ranging

effect: depends upon the size of the dose. A Aingle pinch of the innocent cream-coloured powder. known as Tuberculln PPD (Purl- fied Protein Derivativei, is suf- ficiently toxic to kill more than L000 men; diluted, the same quant- ity is enough to test. 2,000,000 child- ten for signs of TE infection. Ana only when the results of such A trst have been seen is it possible to begin the real worksof pro- tcctzon with BCG vaccine.

In its disease-detecting form, PPD is the new material of nation- wide mass Anti-TB campaigns undertaken by the United Nations Children's Fund and the World Health Organization. Including the 30 million children tested by the UNICEF-assisted International Tuberculosis Campaign, the Child- ren's Fund has so far helped check 65 million children for signs of TB infection A the equivalent of the combined population of France, Belgium, Holland, Austria and Sweden. The test consists of an in- jection of M10 cc of A solution,

containing 1y10,00,00o gram of the powder, into the skin of the lore- arm. From 3 to 4 days later, the existence and size of A swelling at the point of injection shows whether immunizaton wth BCG vaccine is desirable and likely to be effective, or whether the in- divldual has already been infected with tuberculosis and has acquired .mmunit:y. O I O

Tests so far have consumed 325 grams (less than one pound) of the rarely produced PPD powder. Re- maining United Nations stocks iota fl mere 25 grams - les than one ounce - still sufficient. to check on the health of 3 further 25 mil- lion children. One Kilogram (2.2 pounds) of PPI), costing 57,000 (520,000) would be sufficient to pro- .'idc for the world's needs for 10

years. The technique of suppressing .uberculosls by first testing with

:'PD and later applying BOG vac- :lne- to ncjgative cases, was origin- ally developed in piactical form n Scandinavia during the 19205. Later in 1945, when TB raged Al- mcst. out of contrcl in many war- :'zu'a;ed areas of Europe, the Scand- .nnvlan Red Croa sent out mobile health columns to test. and vaccin- ate millions of menascd children After A period of cooperation be- .wean the Red Cross, UNICEF And WHO, the two U.N. Agencies final- ly took complete control of the i.ogr:m:me in June 1951. By then. .he Ssandlnnvian theory of TB control over an entire nation's childhood had been proved a prac- tical possibility.

Today, Asia is the busiest field of U.N. action Against T8 with 24,- 000,000 people tested every year, and 8,000,000 vaccinated. Such ex- tensive campaigns account for one

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Monique do Fsucon, United Nation; Child:-en'o Fund In Uneoco Feoturcl.

scrum Institute consider on An- other Atop towoido the eventual eradication of tuberculosis in the world.

with '13 currently killing one man every seven seconds, the era of A TB-free world appears dis- tant and.even hypat.het.ical. And yet the theory that TB will final- ly be suppressed through the com- bination of PPD with BCG vaccine in mass campaigns. is held by Dr. Johannes I-lolm, chief of WI-lO's TB section. His evaluation of ex- perience to date suggests that mass control projects, applied on A still wider scale, could reduce TB in A matter of A few generations to A sickness no more menacing than the once rabid smallpox or the plague.

Between this ultimate victory and the present incidence of TB stands A gigantic gap in future history. To narrow this gap, A group of Serum Institute scientists on A small green island, near Copen- hagen, are ready to prepare an- other cupful of PPD - enough to bring us ten years nearer the time when TB can rate as one of the world's negligible problems.

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of the largest single pnrta of UNICEF expenditure. so for the Fund has opent 36.6 million for PPD and vaccines And 333 mil- .on for laboratory equipment And trained personnel. This BOCDIIIILI for Almost 596 of Iii UNICEF Ap- proprlationa. .

Following the methods develop ed by the Scandinavian Red Cross SOCICNIEI, thirty govemmenta in Arts, And many other: in Africa And Latin America Are currently cooperating with UNICEF And WHO on TB on trot campaigns. Indlo for exomp has now mobil- land A small Army to fight TB - ioo toomz. each of six technicians," tint Are together capable of making and ovoluottng one Ami A half million tooto ooch month. at Jun threo times the number of 1nd- ilno Ibo: die .ot '11! every yeor.

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No mom: in which - continent Lhooo homo moron. they muot All Ahoto port of the original 200 Ann batch of PPD mode for WHO And UNIOEP ILIICG mo. loch 1110.000 of I mlillgmn of PPD injected Into Avery poi-oon tasted lo A diluted particle of one of the larger oblo- inonu uni rcgulorly by Air from- tho Donlob Onto Box-um Iruutute. Hero, pluu Are now ofooi. to re- plonilh UNICEF:-otock of PP!)

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powdor during the coming year - A"i& ihwffhls Iijfll"

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SAILORS

HOPE

"This settlement in Lot 56 was named after the residence of Cap- tain Cooper, succauor to Edward Abell as Lord 'rown.shend'A land agent for the Lot. After filling Lhe position for several years Coop- er was superseded. only to become the determined enemy of the pro- prietary system. He led the eschent agitation in Prince Edward Island for several years. Alhough AA Speaker and leader of the domin- ant party in the Legislature he was backed by A strong majority of the House of Assembly, the Ex- ecutive Government wu strongly oposed to him And was Always Able to nullify Any Act passed in the interests of the tenants. I-Ila Agita- tion prepared the way for the set- tlement. reached under the Ad- miniatmtion of Cotes And Whelnn, which resulted in the farmers be- coming the owners of the land they cultivated.

tton the settlement of theiland question in 1849, Cooper built A brig, loaded her with mAt.e'riAl for building houses. And with his lam- iy sailed around Cape Horn for California, where he left. his fam- ily and returned home to end hiA dAys.at. Sailors Hope."

-Place-Names of Prince Edward Island. Ottawa 1925. C

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I NOTESBY

What will happen to when Dlor'o new fashion: come in?-Brandon Sun.

You Inn good willpower I1 you can pan on excovotion without stopping to see the steam shovel At work.-Toronto Star.

A on: u ” 1 my open the Pullman window. so it Air-conditioned tho t.rAinPBron- don Sun.

A girl whooo loco In her for- tune make: A new fortune every time she goes out on A date.- Port Arthur News-Chronicle.

A Hollywood Aotrooo woo 'mAr- rled on the edge of A swimming pool, knowing she would get in- to deep water eventually.-Port Arthur News-Chronicle.

Another trouble with our econ- omic system is that As A dollar becomes easier to catch it gets

Kitchener-Waterloo Record.

The new flvtrcent stomps won't go any further than the old four- cent or the older three-cent ones did. And with no Added surety either.-Moose Jaw Times-Herald.

I-Inllotoneu in Toronto were the size of small apples, that being the city where they estimate small apples by the size of the stomnchache.--Port Arthur News- Chronicle.

Hare surely is the moat fright- ening Loci. in the world today: The thinking of the United States is not poles apart from the thinking of Russia, so much as it is poles apart from the thinking of her own closest Alllia.-Vancouver Sun.

"A news story raises the pos- sibility that the French islands of St. Pierre and Mlquelon. just off the coast of Newfoundland, might like to join Canada, presumably As part of the 10th province. If that should be true let the overture come properly from the islands through the French gov- ernment."-Ottnwa Journal.

Fotaliiieo in the operation of farm tractors continue to be re- ported with distressing frequency, and the proportion of child victims

died under an overturned tractor near Fort. Erie. Last week A tractor upset: At A farm gate in Bruce County and killed the driver, Aged seven. According to the news item. neighbors said the boy had been driving the tractor About. two years! Ontario law prohibits Anyone un- der sixteen from operation A trac- tor on A highway (except directly across it). -Toronto Telegram.

The Age Old Story

We Arc of God, little children,

and have overcome them: be- cause greater IA he that In in you, than he that In in the world. '.I;hoy no of the world: there- fore speak they of the world. And the world beu-eth them. We Arc

of God: he that knoweth God heueth us: he that is not of God heoreth not us. Hereby

know we the spirit of truth, And the Aplrlt of error.

CRANBROOK,B.C. (CP) -

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Farmer A. G. McFai-lane thinks moose perhaps jump into his deep spring well to escape heat and flies. With the aid of neighbors and A rope, he liberated the sec d moose in three years. the most re- cent weighing 1,200 pounds.

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Everybody Icon: to 1.. Joe McCarthy-including ti: ff" curtain hangers-Windsor Star. on

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Now we can wear on clothes we hesitated Abosiehginu .and blame it on high cmsu" Sudbury Daily Star. "

The little red schoolhouse 1.. been supplanted by the mg L low bus taking children in central vachool.-Ottawa Journal.

Another thing we can-t under stand is why A heat wave d0esn'i kill those persons who app,-H-cub ly live in telephone booths- Kitchener-Waterloo Record. '

In Toronto An old mansion um As A nurses' residence is be;

torn down so that its sltr can be made A parking lot for motor cars. And there's progrrsssog. tawa Journal.

An Automobile executive W, diets that by 1965 Canada W,” have three motor vehicles 10, each two now using our load,

That's something to think about as we view with some Alarm whni pass today for major traffic prgb, lcms.-Ottawa Journal.

For every man who has iwn .1. luded into leaving Wcstcrn free dom to voluntarily take on int chains of Red Autocracy. therr havu l been hundreds to flee the grasp oi Communism. Included in than hundreds have been more than just A few men, who, in their own right, were as vital to the Russian system As John was to the Allied gdmlnistration in Europe.-Sudbury

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