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Two Liberal Wins

Congratulations are due to Alex B. Campbell and William Acorn, the successful candidates in yesterday's provincial byelections in Fifth Prince and First Kings, and to their sup- porters on the efforts they put forth on their behalf. This is a double- barreled Liberal victory, and we shall hear a lot about it when the Legisla- ture meets next week.

It still leaves the Shaw govern- | ment with a slim working majority, | and that is not something to be | sneezed at these days. But the gov- | ernment would be well advised to study its implications closely. Two

such reverses, in widely separated |

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of Circulation.

to faulty organization if not to de-

fects in governmental policy as un- — derstood by the electorate.

Mr: Campbell's victory is regard- . ed as being particularly significant, in view of the fact that he has been mentioned as a likely successor to the provincial party leadership when Mr. Matheson steps down. A son of the Hon. Thape A. Campbell, Chief Justice and former Premier, he’ has proven himself an able campaigner, and is unquestionably a young man of promise. It is no disparagement of his opponent to say that his entry into public life is a matter of wide- spread interest.

But the contests in both ridings were strenuously fought by the Con- servative candidates, Claude Ives and Albert Griffin, and these gentlemen too are to be congratulated on their efforts. Of course -they’re disap- pointed at having lost, but there is always another day for good fighters. We expect to see them both in the ting when the gong sounds again.

Still Objectionable

Accordirig to a news report from Ottawa, the joint pension commit- ~—~tee-which—has-been-sitting--since_the parliamentary recess will recommend no major changes in the third—and what they hope will be the final— version of the Canada Pension Plan when the House resumes on Feb. 16. Yet it is the fundamental aspects

of the plan that have been under fire at the committee hearings. This criticism included a defailed brief by Premier Robarts of Ontario, which pointed out, among other things, that even after the scheme has been operating for ten years, only about one-third of the popula- tion over the age of 65 will receive - pensions, averaging $50 per month, and about two-thirds will receive nothing, even though the pension fund will have reached $5 billion and will be growing. These arrange- ments are so unjust that Mr. Robarts expects strong pressures, a little lat- er on, to modify the whole pension structure. Apart from individual inequalities

in the bill, Ontario regards it as dub- jous in a national economic sense. “There is no evidence,” says the brief, that the scheme “was preced- ed. bya comprehensive study of the needs of Canadians or of the finan- cial and economic limitations . . . /Changes that have been made in the plan since July, 1963, have been al-

atleast ....but.an bistorical accident ecg 0.0 se ob

- dustry, There can be no letting up

- ed foods and beverages being market- |

followed, in that order.

The Ontario premier has an- nounced that while his government will participate in the plan it is “not prepared to accept the present pol- icy as the last word.” Parliament made the mistake of approving this_| policy in principle before it was ex-

| amined by the committee, but it can- not afford to take final action until the loopholes have been plugged;

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and there seem to be as many of «:

them as there were in the previous two versions, after its earlier mis- takes were discovered.

A Point Well Taken

Some time ago Finance Minister ~ Gordon produced .an analysis of how much the citizens of each province pay in taxes to Ottawa and how much Ottawa pays back to the provincial government and citizens in services, contracts and so on. This has been countered by a similar study, made not in Ottawa but in Quebec. It is not surprising that the results, based | on different methods of computation, are quite different.

What is surprising. however, is | the lack of’emphasis in either study |

“on a key factor in the matter. The Montreal Star calls attention to this | omission, and lumps both the | studies in the category of phoney at- tempts to distort realities. |

For example, it says, the Cana- dian Pacific has its head office in Montreal and therefore pays its cor- poration tax to the Montreal federal tax office. But the money thus paid is earned all over Canada from its shipping and airline subsidiaries overseas. The fact that the tax is paid in the province of Quebec is nothing

Multiply this by scores of thous- ands, and the whole basis of these elaborate Ottawa-Quebec studies falls apart. Private citizens. and corpora- tions earn their incomes all over Canada—and many of them outside it, as for instance the big exporting pulp and paper companies of Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia. The location of their head offices is in- cidental.

This fact has been emphasized many.times in these columns, and in other Maritime papers. It has been noted in every brief this Province has presented at federal-provincial fiscal conferences. It was recognized in principle when the tax-sharing agreements were draftcd, and one would imagine that it would be ac- cepted as a matter of course by every literate person in the country. Yet it seems that a good deal of mission- ary work has still to be done, start- ing with the bureaucrats at Ottawa.

Mr. McCrea’s Warning The fight for the food dollar is a continuing one for the dairy in-

in the campaign to increase sales, if the industry is to hold its own in the~ highly competitive field in which it is operating. This was the keynote of a warning recently sounded by M. R. McCrea, president of the Na- tional Dairy Council of Canada. It seems that despite so much that has been said on the subject, there has been a tendency to forget the value of merchandizing techniques.

The industry must recognize, said Mr. McCrea, that competition for the consumer’s food dollar is sharpen- ing and that it faces not only the challenge of substitutes “but from the thousands of new and establish-

ed-by other components of the food industry.”

Dairy products must have an en- viable. reputation for purity and nu- tritional benefits. But, as he sug- | gests, they may lose out in the fight for markets unless they are consis- tently and vigorously promoted. “Consistently” is an important word in this context. It means that a now- and-then advertising campaign by the national body isn’t enough. It must be followed up by individual advertising of distributors and pro- cessors on a year-round basis, if it is to vie with its competitors.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Now for a good turnout at the polls in today’s civic contests, match- ing the enthusiasm shown in yester- day’s provincial byelections.

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In a report by the 21-nation Or- ganization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Canada is pro- claimed the second most affluent na- tion in the world after the United

States. It reached this position after passing Sweden in 1963. Canada’s total national output pér person in ‘this year, in terms of U.S. currency, was $2,263, compared with $2,045 in Sweden. Switzerland, Denmark, France, West Germany and Britain

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OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson

If ever you sought proof of the truth of the old adage about

an ijl wind blowing nobody any |

good, or of the simitar saying about every cloud having a silv- er lining, surely the situation on Parliament Hill today is vivid proof.

While the two leading heavy- weights are slugging it out—not against each other—the image of Parliament grows daily more tarnished. Prime Minister Pear- son is fighting for the life of his government against internal weaknesses which should never have been there and should long ago have been excised with firm- ness; Opposition Leader Diefen- baker is beleagured by his own roosting chickens as he fights for his political life. And Canad- ians generally are sickened and ashamed by the total picture.

But there is a silver lining. If |

the decline of Parliamentary prestige has done nothing else, it has aroused a greater nation- wide interest in politics than we have known perhaps since World War One.

POLICIES OUTDATED

The new public mood has evi- dently been sensed by one figure on Parliament Hill. Senator Wallace McCutcheon appealed

exactly to this mood when ie |

4 addressed. a Conserva- tive meeting in Toronto.

When Canadians went to the polls in 1963, we had a number of questions weighing very heav- fly upon our minds, he said.

“First of all, there was. a con- cern about Canada’s ‘image’ in

the world. Canadians are quite |

sensitive about our national re- putation... We tend to think that we ape entitled to be admired by all oursister nations unani- mously, when we are not, we tend to think there must be something wrong with the way the government has been con- ducting itself on the internation- al scene.”

The second point worrying |

Canada, the Senator said, was the present state and the future of Confederation. Storm signals were beginning to show, the most dramatic of which was the rise of a separatist movement in Quebec. Together these in- spired the vague belief among Canadians that some action was

| Necessary to strengthen our na- | tional unity

The third pojnt. Senator Mc- ; Cutcheon suggested, -was that | People somehow felt that the | country had not been given the | bold leadership which it needed and wanted, although the legis- | lative record of the Conser-

| vative government had been a_

productive one PROBLEMS NOT GRASPED

Mr. Pearson an! the Liberals correctly sensed this vague yearning in 1963, he suggested. Mr. Pearson's answer won him office, and ‘‘he spoke earnestly to the Canadian people of the bold and daring days ahead, and of the new kind of politics he was to usher in.” ’

And what happened? ‘‘After almost two years in office, Mr. | Pearson has today exhausted

Unesco

A group of Swiss high school students in Einsiedeln, in the

| dertook a project to increase | better understanding of their

new neighbors—Italian workers | employed by local industry.

As a guide to local people who were -setting up a nursery school for the children of the 500 Italian families established in the district, the students started compiling statistical, social and legal data, and ended up with a full sociological report on the status of foreign workers.

The large number of foreign- | ers working in Switzerland has created economic and _ social problems which the Swiss auth- orities are endeavoring to Solve.

At the present time, one out of every three workers employed by industry comes from outside the country—in all, a total of

ian.

It should not have been nec- essary for Great Britain to have asked Canada to stop selling

planes to Indonesia. Nor was it

Seeking New Home

Wanted: South Sea island for 5,000 people. Must have pleas- ant climate, fertile soil, shelter- ed fishing waters, and potential. as independent nation.

The plea com from the in- habitants of Nauru who will have to leave their tiny Pacific island when its only economic resource, phosphate, runs out in 30 years.

Nauru, smallest of the United Nations Trust Territories, lies west: of the Gilbert Islands just below the equator.

COCONUT ECONOMY

Nauruans have already turn- ed down offers to settle Palm, Woodlark, Prince of Wales, Cur- tis. and Goodenough Islands.

“Our people once lived on

urt, “but since the phosphate in- dustry arrived, we have raised our standard of living: We do not want to revert to old times. Education is now compulsory for*our children, and they will not want to knock coconuts off trees for a living.”

, huge chunk of phosphate. rock. | The rich fertilizer was probab- ly created by thousands of years of guano deposits building up on coral formations. Commer- cial mining began in 1906 when 4 mineralogist in Australia found that a rock doorstep souv- enir from Mauru was almost pure phosphate.

Discovered in 1798 by an Am- erican whaling skipper, Nauru was first called Pleasant Is- land because of its cool, palm- fringed shoreline aid gracious brown-skinned people: Whaling ships frequently dropped anchor to swap muskets for coconuts and pigs.

Germany annexed Nauru in

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| canton of Schwyz, recently un- |

700,000 of whom 500,000 are Ital- |

1888, and in 1919, after World:

“Roused-Over Parliament's Tarnished Image

| the store of goodwill and confi- | dence that was his when he formed a government.” Instead

; of a new kind of politics, his gov- .

|ernment is now ‘‘bogged down in the economic theories of the depression era and in the polit- ical morals of the prohibition era.”

So people are beginning to | think that national politics is not | contemporary; there is’ not a

| real grasp of the problems of |

this age, said the Senator.

Canadians obviously are hun- gry for effective, competent and imaginative government;

lieve Senator McCutcheon is en- | tirely correct in asserting that. | | Further, I think that Canadians |

| are now taking a more search-

ing look at their politics and | politicians than for very many years past. And this is good

Not As A Stranger

Features | all aspects of the problem: the

legal status of the immigrant, his economic situation, housing

| conditions, and how the local | population reacts to families with different customs, lan-

| guage and beliefs.

|. The result of -their enquiry based on official texts, articles, interviews and questionnaires ‘has been published in a 54 page

| report.

| The study is a contribution to

| the campaign undertaken by the +

| Swiss National Commission for UNESCO to encourage young people to take an interest in the lives of the foreigners living among them.

A year ago, the National Com- |

mission held a seminar to dis- cuss the question. On December 10, Human Rights Day, the Na- | tional Commission made a spe- cial appeal for greater under- standing to ail Swiss students.

London Wakes Ottawa . suelph Mercury

imperative that Canada think tt over. Sales should have been stopped immediately Ottawa was alerted, not just suspended.

ment has now cancelled the or- der. Canada’s allies, whose men are already fighting Indones- ians, would have been reassur- ed by an instant response.

| Twelve Otter aircraft were due’to be delivered next month. It is true, as Ottawa protests, that they were not tc be shipped directly to the Indonesian gov- ernment, but to an UN agency serving part of Indonesia, this is mere quibbling.

aircraft built in Toronto, carry a ton of supplies or ten soldiers with full equipment. Indonesia is waging an unde- clared war against Malaysia. Britain, Australia and New Ze- Ind are helping the new coun- try stave off Indonesia's gueril- la attacks. (Australia has instal- led air-raid s'

I be- |

The 20 students investigated |

It is a fact that the govern- |

but | The Otter, a single- engined |

Calon Pockets

Comnion To Age

Infected or irritated divertic-

testinal distress in men and wo-

men over age 50. These finger- |

like projections deVelop in areas | that are weakened, often where | @ bleee vesse! pierées the wall of the intestine One to 100 may be present X-rays after the ad- | ministration of barium often | Show clusters of these lesions,

| which look like bunches of grap- |

es and

are often referred to as tic

iverticulitis (inflammation) appears in only a small fraction of those who have these pouch- , es. The resulting abdominal spasm of the intestine mimics that of spastic bowel. Cramping occurs in the lower abdomen, especially after eating roughage or overindulgence in alcohol. A more severe inflammation may be associated with leakage

abdominal cavity, causing lo- calized peritonitis pain and tenderness in the low- er left side of the abdomen, similar to appendicitis, which -oecurs on the right side. Diagnosis is easy when the | physician knows of the existence | of the diverticula. When this is not known, tress is treated until the acute phase subsides and X-rays are suggested to determine exact cause. This is a good rec- ommendation because disorders | other*than. diverticulitis can lead to pain in the lower abdomen.

| more dangerous stage,

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of the infected material into the |

! A More Dangerous Stage ©

Canadian Press By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen

A weekend of military strokes

tted | | ula are a common cause for in- | and counter-strokes commi |

the United States more deeply

Viet Nam. It extended military activity

| ACTION AWAITED

This leads to |

the abdominal dis- |

the |

Mild inflammation usually is |

relieved within a few days with bed rest, a liquid diet, and an antibiotic or sulfonamide. More time is required’ with severe cases. Surgery may be needed should complications develop. | The chance of recurrence is les- sened by avoiding constipation, roughage, and alcoholic binges. A bland diet is best SWEATING FOREHEAD Mrs. F. writes: Why do drop- lets of water appear on the fore- }head-about..an .inch.above.t he. ‘ eyebrows? They appear at tim- es of tension more than at other times

REPLY Sweating. in this area | common e¢ign of tension. It oc- | curs also during a hot flash. In | all probability, the individual is perspiring elsewhere but it is visible only on the forehead and temples FEARS VIBRATIONS

V. L. writes’ I have an elec- tric juicer. When I press down | on the orange, the yibration | from the motor goes -through my fingers and up the arm. Will | this harm my heart?

REPLY

No, it won't even tickle the | old ticker. These vibrations ex- | tend along the bone and are dis- | sipated by the time they reach the shoulder

} (Of taving-“thens placed “in ~junk-}—ment-of the cars: along the-high-.—°.—. -

is a

Now awaited are indica as to how far China and the So- | viet Union will go in backing their harsh condemnation of the US. raids.

Events have put heavy pres- | sure on the new men in the Kremlin. But they seem to have closed ranks with China on the | question of help for North Viet Nam against the US. to that extent at least, the Sino-Soviet ideological battle has been set aside.

New stresses have been im- posed on relations between the U.S. and Russia. This comes at a time when both sides seemed to be making progress in lining up a leadership visit exchange this year.

again. | | |

than ever to the bloody war in |

Staff Writer

Hopes have been sent reeling within the U.S. for a negotiated extrication from a war costing nearly $2,000,000 a day.

Although not popularly sup- ported, this objective has been

to North Viet Nam, for the du- | nursed by some government of- ration apparently, unless the | Communist Viet Cong stops at-+

ficials and congressmen

SEES NO OTHER CHOICE

It also seems probable that President Johnson, who sees “no choice now but to clear the decks and make absolutely clear our continued determina- tion to back South Viet Nam.” may order fresh reinforcements for the military forces aiding South Viet Nam

The swiftness of Johnson's re- taliation against the Communist attacks and his accompanying message to the US. people re- flects the heavy domestic polit- ical pressure on him .

Republicans and many Demo-

erats are in no mood to counsel caution or negotiation. « There is conjeeture in ~Wash- ington and elsewhere North Viet Nam, perhaps with Chine:e help, has effectively mouse- “trapped both the U.S. and Rus- sia.

This view suggests that the Communist Viet Cong baited its trap with concerted attacks on U.S. forces and drew the Amer- ican response it expected

This left Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, visiting Hanoi, particularly vulnerable to North Vietnamese requests for more of the aid promised by Russia

It also left Kos¥gin the choice of backing China's hard line on Southeast Asia or facing fresh Chinese vituperation about he-

' ing soft on the U.S

aa ZL e * Jalopies In The Sea __ Waterloo, N.Y. Times Sweden has solved the prob- being junked every vear in lem of what to do with old cars Sweeden and the authorities

which have long outlived their usefulness. They abhor the idea

yards where the beauty of the highway is marred. They are- now being consigned to a_ wat- ery grave in the Balti¢ sea.

With new cars. selling at a furious pace in Sweden, mo- | torists began to abandon their old cars on the streets, much to | the consternation of the authori- ties. But first the car owners stripped their machines of all

| galeable parts

NARROWED HEART VALVE |

E. H. writes: What tests ee used in diagnosing mitral sten- osis?

REPLY

The stethoscope is best. fol- lowed by chest X-ray, to deter- mine the shape and size of the heart. When surgery is consid- ered, various special tests in- volving cardiac catheterization are used

BLOOD AND WATER

E. F. writes: Does the blood

turn to water in dropsy? - REPLY

No. Fluid accumulates in the

tissues, leading to puffiness (ed_

A firm in Stockholm figured out the idea of a watery grave-_ yard for the unwanted cars. |

It now offers to collect the automobile, load it onto a con- verted trawler, sail it 13 miles in the Baltic and then drop it in- to the water. With 75,000 cars |

| than the junk piles

|-cause the sand and

clamping down on junk yards and the promiscuous abandon-

tha’ the should be

ways, it can be seen ear burial business quite profitable

In the U.S. there also has de. veloped a new way to find a place for old automobiles, other The army engineers are using them in dike construction on the Missis- sippi river. The cars are fasten- ed together end-to-end and re- semble huge chains as they slide off the launching barge parallel to the upstream side of the standard wood pile dike

These old bodies will aid in filling some of the voids and silt to ac- cumulate at a faster rate.

Cause For

Concern

London Free Press

ANY kind of epidemic that,

| claimed between 125,000 and | 300,000 lives a year in one nat-

| caused annually by cigarette |

smoking in North America. While the figure is appawing enough, the annual report of U.S. Surgeon - General Luther Terry does contain a note of hope. In ever - increasing numbers,

| smokers admit they know what

ema). Some of the water comes |

from the liquid part of the blood but the red and white corpuscl- es remain CHEST X-RAYS FOR CANCER E. K. writes: Does lung can- cer always show up on X-rays? REPLY No. Small lesions may escape

or produce complications. TODAY’S HEALTH HINT— Cancer is best treated with | surgery, radiation, or chemic- | als. (NOTE: All correspondence te Dr. Van Dellen should be

une, Chicago, Illinois.)

Our Yesterdays (From the Guardian Files) | TWENTY . FIVE YEARS AGO

(February 10, 1940) Mr. HE. Miller,

_ | tested the peepholes as an in- Charlotte- |

town}, was named Councillor for |

| P.E.I. in the Canadian Institute | of surveying at the annual meeting held in Ottawa.

Mr. Charles D. Riley was el- ected president of the 20th Cen- tury Liberal Club at the annual | meeting held last night in the Board of Trade Rooms.

TEN: YEARS AGO (February 10, 1955)

On Wednesday evening, the department managers and sup- ervisors, and their wives, of Holman’s Charlottetown store met at the Charlottetown Hotel to do honor to Mr. Gordon Toombs, Hardware Floor Sup- -ervisor, on the occasion of his 25th year with the firm.

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| detection until they grow larger | &TS haven’ acquired the habit--+

And an estimated 18,000,000 | have taken the cancer statistics seriously enough to stop smok- ing. This still leaves enough to

account for Dr. Terry's predic- ted minimum of $25,000 deaths — atotal that would likely be comparable on a per capita basis in Canada.

Tobacco companies and the U.S. Government are now wran- gling over the wording and type- size of a warning that must be

| printed on every cigarette pack

this year. There is an understan- dable reluctance on the part of the manufacturers to label the product as a killer

But what confirmed smoker will read or heed such a warn- ing anyway? The two-pack-a- day addict has already rationl- ized- his~habit;-he~-is-either“a- fatalist or is still ignorant of the overwhelming statistical evid- ence that cigarettes may give him lung cancer or heart dis- ease. .

The only real hope lies in edu- cating the young: many -elder smokers are beyond redemption. And as in most other habits, the best example will come from responsible parents.

Invasion Of Privacy Hamilton Spectator

It was with some gratification that those C jians who trea- sure the ic oms learn- ed that observation holes in the men's washroom at the new Fort William post office have been closed. Postal workers pro-

vasion of privacy. Postal officials may view this turnabout with some disgust. The holes were put in the wash- rooms to help prevent mail theft. Now they may have to think up even more artful ways of spying on their employees. It is quite true that perhaps one out of every hundred work- ers is dishonest Perhaps even two out of every hundred. At the outside, maybe even three. But if workers are properly

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treated, chances are even the dishonestly inclined won't steal from his employer.

No man likes to be spied on. Nothing infuriates him more than to know that someone else is prying into his private affairs. Some people—perhaps the maj- ority— don’t even like to watched, unless they know the watcher wants to hold their hand.

The Fort William postal im- broglio has now, we hope, been cleaned up for good. Having been on newspaper front pages from time to time dur’ g the past year, it has taken on the aura of a cause celebre. It should therefore have reminded

many people that the lifeblood @

of democracy is freedom.

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