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lines for avoiding policy differences ~ between the two governments. The in- tention, no doubt, was commendable, and Partnership,” as the report is called, contains some sensible and_ helpful
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“than the weakest ink”
and ecohomic realities. This. was only ~~ piitly due to their ignorance or pre conceived notions: it was also due to | the willingness of Canadian politicians | ‘to saddle the Judicial Committee with problems which should have been solved politically in Canada.
It would be unfortunate if the authority of the Canadian Supreme Court should be similarly undermin- ed, especially at present when the new “co-operative federalism,” with its many~options, overlappings and
| joint jurisdiction, will in -all likeli- hood demand a good deal of judicial interpretation and elucidation. And
' that is what is likely to happen if the federal government insists on pur- Suing its present course.
The Hudson Bay case, involving the interests of the two powerful central provinces, serves to show that Ottawa does in fact regard the issue - as calling for political settlement. It should be consistent and stick to this
‘A special report 6n Canadian-
These gentlemen were named a
o study the practicability of guide-
the resultant “Principles for
ecommendations. But they are blem-
ally awkward. Many Canadians will policy in its dealings with the claims
_find it anything but palatable. _
we are told. “that-Canadian authori- ties should have careful regard for the United States Government’s po- | sition in this: world context (heavy |
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blers enough to need advice of this kind, no guidebook on diplomatic | manners will serve to prevent need- less and hurtful rows. In any case, as | an American newspaper, the Toledo | Blade, has been prompt to point out, © itpasses~over—far—too—lightly—the Canadian government's responsibility, to its-citizens and the community of _Nations, to speak out on issue that af- fect peace and survival. eo
of. other ‘provinces... ‘
Auto Insurance Dodgers -Auto insurance dodgers have be- _come an increasingly serious traffic | problem both in-Canada and the Un- ited States. In New York, with its | congested population, it has reached |
“Jt is important and reasonable.” |
1S. responsibilities as leader of the bsence of special Canadian interest | an acute stage. Eight years ago pub- lic liability automobile insurance was , Made compulsory, but thousands of _ owners have flouted the law with ' seeming impunity. Now. criminal pro- secutions are being launched on a big scale.
District Attorney Frank S. Hogan of Manhattan, who will _prosegute some of the offenders, estimated that
ible. public disagreement especially
If our political leaders are bum-
| have furisdiction in extending their |
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Donke Ponds And Puddles
By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen The outdoor bathing season is
at its peak and every available
pool, pond, lake, ocean, an
| stream will be utilized. We will
escape infections involing the |
NOTES BY THE WAY
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An idea of the size of the North, “Yes,” the newly - wed gai is by this fact: yon | sighed to her friend, “modern can stand on the arctic Circle | girls marry for. keeps. Look at | and still be as far from the North | me — I keep house and I keep on Pole as Ottawa is from Regina. working.” — Financial Post.
— Ottawa Journal. The R -- A man whe walks down the Canada estimates that cars pour
here to the courts themselves when “
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eyes, ears, throat, and sinuses if | street with his head up and his
the water is clean. After all, hu- | shoulders back is a man who mans are not adapted to under- | has just caught a glimpse of his
stitution—in—harmony_ with political |
water life In the alligator,-the muscles of
when the head is submerged. Diving birds possess much the same anatomical arrangement. The closure of-the nose of the | hippopotamus is so perfectly formed that not a drop of fluid can enter” . | We are not protected in this way and it is surprising we get along as well as we do. Water enters the nostrils and some may reach the openings. to_ the sinuses. and trickle into the throat. The same fluid under | greater pressure may enter the | sinuses and the Eustachian tube | leading to the ear. Infection fol- lows when it is contaminated. Pollution comes frdm three
| usual slouching posture reflect- ed in a shop window.—Toronto
as much as 800 gallons of oi! ona mile of highway in a year.
Perhaps the oil association couls ©
tell how much rubber is left os roads by tire-squealing morons.
the nostrils close automatically Star
—Ottawa Journal.
Sometimes men trapped ip “Few remember the day of waiting room have to look at the iceman,” an old timer re. women's fashion magazines sim- minisced. “We could depend os ply to pass the time. And they | him to leave a chunk of ice on.s always come away feeling hot day. And if we were gone and pleased that™they don’t know | the house was locked, he woulo any woman who looks half as | accommodatingly deposit the 56 ridiculous as the models in the pound block between the kitchens style pictures do.— Port Arthur door and the screen.” — Algo News-Chronicle. | ma Record - Herald.
; Welcome To The Maldives
Christian Science Monitor
Welcome to the world’s youn- |! ministered by the British High gest nation the .Maldives. Commissioner in Ceylon, whe Afloat in the cobalt blue of the now ‘becomes Her Majesty's Indian Ocean, best known for | first ambassador to the new na-
there may be as many as 73,000 of |
| when it falls through the dirt- | filled air above large cities. The | other sources are drainage from the land, and disease- producing organisms from other bathers. 4 Potential troublemakers are pools lacking filters and chlor- ine, crowded beaches, stagnant water holes, and rivers contain- ing sewage.
We are inclined to forget the bather when considering pollu- tion. Some swimmers are incon- | siderate in many ways. Water {s gargled, for example, and then expectorated. It is not unusual to trace a strep throat epidemic among ‘pool users to a few infected occupants. Do not swim
GOING SEPARATE WAYS Disintegration Looms In East Africa
i | | One of the disappointing déve- « lopments in the new Africa is failure of the attempt to create | an East African Federation of | Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, | former. components-of British | Africa. This seemed:a practical | possibility only two years ago | and was widely regarded as a pilot project for regional cooper--| ation and unity in a continent menaced by President Nyerere of Tanzan- ia declares: “We stand for fed- eration now as we have always | stood for federation."”’ But feder- | ation is not coming. The ques | tion now is not whether the three countries will federate but whe- |
ther they~can~halt~disintegra--} 8-domimant_chore_of_the_period. tion of the common services and |
_common market which were le- | | er; he operated the turnip slic-
gacies of British rule and re- _garded as the bases on which to
construct federation. | ON THEIR OWN
. Nyerere has pledged Tanzan-
ia’s ‘‘full coperation in main- | taining the common market and | common services’; yet his gov-
ernment is going ahead with | plans to issue its own separate | currency in place of the com- mon East African currency that has served all three countries.
these unlawfully -tininsured in the city and 140,000 in the state. He be- gan action after an investigation by
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are linked in partnership for better or worse.” the Toledo paper goes on to say, “let us remember that one reason it is usually for better is that Canada has never been an American puppet. Its views have won a global respect out of all proportion to its | material strength just because of its record of fidelity to its many obliga-
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including those to the United Nations and the Commonwealth. Americans _.would be. the losers if this were not so, or if Canadian, officialdom ever really stretched mean a gag on public utterances ...where_we_are concerned.”
bad_it wasn’t embodied in the diplo- mats’ report. instead of having to be given by wavy of clarifying the: faulty wording of their conclusions:——-——
jurisdiction over Atlantic and Pacific coastal waters, Prime Minister Pear- son appears to be less concerned with the declared intention of the premiers of Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba to cut up-Hudson Bay to suit. them- selves. At last month’s federal-pro- vincial conférence he gave them grounds to think so. According .to Premier Robarts, Mr. Pearson said that Hudson Bay was_a different mat- ter because it is an inland waterway, - and could be dealt with without ref- erence -to the courts. “Having got the
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12 miles off the Atlantic and B.C.
coasts. in that no other country can
claim any rights to it; it is entirely
within Canada. Nevertheless, ' Still coastal water and official geog- raphers so describe it. It is a huge arm of the’sea—a 250,006-square-mile ) “sea in its@Lf,.more than twice as largé _ ,88 all the freshwater Great Lakes.
| the State Motor Vehicle Department. But the Motor Vehicle Commissioner, struggling with what he says is “forty years of bad record-keeping” in his department, was in a poor position— to take the initiative.
| The Times adds, by way of com- mentary, a statemenf which has gen- eral application and to which, in fut- ure; more attention will have to be paid by traffic authorities every- | where; “‘An uninsured motorist,” it
ions in international co-operation—
ate aenapiananoneasseemantl
the highways. The very fact that he | allows himself to be uninsured indi- __|_¢ates Pn or worse, fin- This is well said, indeed. .T ancially and otherwise. The chances
Oe — me that an innocent victim of his negli-
et diplomacy to
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__cally small, and if there is. compen- sation it will probably be at the ex- pense of the pooled-extra premiums -paid by dll- insured motorists in the | state—a necessary, but unfair, levy on them.”
EDITORIAL NOTES_ : Tt_ might surprise some Cana- dians, notes the Ottawa Journal, that a venture so popular and weil at- tended as the Stratford Shakespear- | ean Festival is not a “cemmercial | success.” Last season, aided by . $130,000 in grants from governments | and private sources, the festival had a | deficit of $5,000. a *
The Hudson Bay Case
While strongly defending federal
A railway that was never nation- alized in«the United Kingdom cele- brated its 100th anniversary recent- ly. It is in Wales a narrow-guaged
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reen light,’ says Mr. Roberts, “we're - Hudson Bay differs from waters
_ During the centenary celebrations a 100-year-old engine, a tribute to Brit: ish éngineering, hauled 100-year-old rolling stock, and carried special mail.
| It was. met at the station by a 100-
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specified), driven by.a postman (age _| undisclosed) in a 100-year-old uni. If the three bordering pfovinces form. * —_ :
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line called the Talyllyn Railway. |
"year-old. “trap” -with pony -(age un- |
' a | import restrictions on a wide | range of goods from Kenya, an- other blow at the previously ex- isting common market. that was vancedas-any inthe world. Uganda has decided to remove
vanced colleges in Nairobi and
Dor-es-Saleam have received
bigger shares of the common de- | velopment fund.
This action probably’ will ™ean separate development of three national universities with duplicating facilities competing
against one another for faculties. | who played a vital and gallant ly four regiments specifically staffs and financial assistanc® | role at the Battle of Waterloo | mentioned by Wellington in his
‘from abroad. THE WRONG WAY
Kenya undoubtedly has bene- fited most from th common market, though it has also paid the biggest share of costs for -common-services. Tanzania .and. Uganda long have feared indus- trial domination by Nairobi and complain that Kenya has been unwilling to agree to adjust- ments. that would. share out -be- nefits of economic cooperation more equally.
Instead of making new efforts to accommodate its partners,
Our Yesterdays (From The Guardian Files).
| ‘TWENTY - FIVE. YEARS AGO (August 10, 1940)
Howard Hughes’ famous “Fly- {ng Laboratory’ in which he flashed around the world two years ago to set a globe-encircl- ing record left Los Angeles heading for what was believed to be a war-time mission of cou- rier service hetween London and Egypt.
Egypt. a neutral thus far in _the developing desert-war_of the Near East, prepared to foin forcés with British troops at the moment Italy’s African armies make their expected attack upon that ancient land.
neninchetiameen mens
} TEN YEARS AGO (August 10, 1955) | P.E.1. had a distinguished vis- “jtor in the person of Vice Admir- al Lachlan Donald Mackintosh of - | Mackintosh, CB, DSO, DSC, 29th | Chief of Mackintosh, who arriv- | ed here from the Gaelic Mod in | Nova Scotia to officially open | the 93rd annual Highland Gam- ’@s of the Caledonia Club in the Charlottetown Driving Park. -:
“Donald Sterns Webstér, son of Mr. and. Mrs. Sterns .Webster, | Jeft this morning for Regina; * Sask., where he will begin train-
* Balkanization.”’ | ;
its excellent Makerere College |
“New: York Times, ‘would have ~been— “trom the federate’* East African? *%¢~ The.
University because the less ad- |
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POLITICAL OCOPOGO _.
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Kenya has sent teams of minis- ; cations, railroads and the ters to many African countries line; tax collection, porting. kets to replace those lost be- | and public health? It is difficult to believe that | gh the nose while below the suf- | i-men-as able as Kenyatta, Nyer- | face. : :
Can anyone stop the disinte- | ere and Uganda's Milton Obote | gration in East Africa before it | will allow this to happen without |
recently, trying to find new mar-
cause of import controls. impos- ed by Tanzania and Uganda.
when a head cold exists.
to breathe when swimming. In- haling is accomplished through the mouth when the head is above water. This maintains a
alr- al cavities and keeps fluid weather re- from entering susceptible areas. agricultural research Take a deep breath just before diving, then exhale slowly throu-
PRICKLY HEAT J. M. writes: My daughter al-
effects such vital common ser- | making yet another attempt to | ways has broken-out in a rash
vices as post and telecommuni-
reverse the trend.
| whenever she becomes oveft~
Licking
When the countryman looks
back to the 1910 era, it seems Ice and salt were packed | thing possible to keep this girl to him that crank turning was tightly and a lad began the | from engaging in activities that _eranking. Se | induce overheating and sweat~ |
He turned ‘the grindstone; he) turned the one-hole corn shell-
,er-and he cranked the cedar rn. There was,
however, one)
crank he was always willing-to_Gradually you could feel the | ducts work that tan the skim)
turn — the old ice cream freez- | er. Along about four o'clock on a blistering day when a lad had | been ‘hoeing and thinning tur- | nips until his strength was com- | pletely exhausted, it was hear- }-tening when Father came out, | | surveyed the scene and said, oc t call k | day and see if Mother will mix | up a batch of fice cream? "
{ A big cake of ice was pulled . ' from the ice house to the milk
pirouges the sawdust sloshed off
and the ice pounded fine*in a ~turn to the hand-cranking days
| bag with the flat side of an old | whee wy in the shade of
the wood-shed. The mixture of rich cream, sugar and_ flavor-
awa Journal { A heat. rash (prickly heat) ts , ings went int®é the metal can.
hear
| crank.
paddies for a lad. Then the = on stored dry
| ice
Sea | heated as“in running and bicye- | le riding. Have you any idea ' why this happens”
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e Dasher
the most likely cause. Do every-
It was easy at first. You could | ing profusely. This means less the loose cream slurp | exercise and clothing. Sleeping /in an air conditioned bedroom
among the wooden paddles. Wa- | helps victims of this condition.
ter ran from the little hole, and
from time to time one tamped- TANNING WITHOUT. THE. SUN
im more crushed ice and salt.| M. S. writes: How do the pro- mixture thicken and at the end | without exposure to the sun?
it was real work to turn the | REPLY
Tt iy my understanding that _But the reward was worth the the proteins in the skin mix with effort Sistérs had small sauc- | the chemicals in the cosmetic.
erfuls, but’an understanding fa- | The ensuing reaction has beens |
ther always left plenty on the | jikened to the browning noted foods. aoe for supper. A soup bow! full nee oe the skin may cream with a generous | PLEURISY amount of crushed, juicy rasp- N. 8; writes: Is"pleurisy-a.vir- berries is always acceptable. 1 sence? A man doesn’t hanker to re- wre REPLY
The virus is only one of many
and left.
of yesteryear, but sometimes he turn an ice cream freezer | eumoccocci, and tubercle bacil-
k and lick the dasher. li are common offenders. — = — CHANGE HANDS
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Senttish Tourist Board
|. The Cameron Highlanders,
in 1815 were represented last | | month in Belgium at the 150th | | anniversary of the famous bat- | tle.
| -They were members of the
4-5th Battalion Cameron High- |“ landers...(TA)_—.five_from.In-_! ‘continuous...existence... since ..be |
verness and one from Nairn. | Evety unit which originally | participated in the Battle of Wa-+ terloo was invited to send rep- | resentatives_to_the anniversary celebrations in Brussels. i In the Cameron detachment | paae Lt. Campbell Welsh (an | insurance agent), Sgt. Neil Fra- | ser (postal worker), Sgt. James | Thomson (butcher), L-Cpl John ; Cameron (clerk) and-garage em ployees Donald Laing and John MacMillan. L-Cpl. Cameron was | the odd man out. He hails from | Nairn. : i
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Highlanders) were stationed in Ireland when the news came through that Napoleon had es- caped from Elba.
The regiment was promptly sent to France as part of the Ist Brigade of the 5th Division, led by Lt.-General Sir Thomas Picton. j
.At the Battle of Quatre Bras, the Camerons~ were on the ex-— ‘treme left of the line and were — heavily engaged throughout the | day.
| Two. days later, on June 18, Picton’s division was-in the cen- tre of the British line at Wat- | erloo, astride the road that led to Brussels — -Napoleon’s des- | tination. : S| During the cavalry onslaughts which followed the British in- fantry formed square —_ and one of the’ pipers, Highlander | Kenneth MacKay, . stepped out of the Cameron’s square of rais- | ed bayonets and, despite the on- _ rush of the French, marched round playing: “‘Cogadh na Sith” to; encourage his.comrades, «+ — zawd Toward evening, the strviv- ‘brs of the ward -in_ the British . advance. The Camerons’ (otal strength on |
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| ing with the Roval Canadian Mounted Police —
the morning of the balile had | been
675. Only 21% remained i
| K. I. writes: I always have written with my left hand but |-wish to change to my right. Is | this safe at age 14? ’ « REPLY
Yes, if you initiate the pro- cess yourself and are not forc- ed into it. Many people are am- | bidextrous. =e | TODAY’S HEALTH HINT—
nt Role
The Camerons were one of on-
Waterloo Dispatch after
In 1815 the 79th (the Cameron
Camerons pressed for- i
great victory. | Scrub and disinfect -wading MINT HAS LONG HISTORY | pools frequently. iti i (NOTE: All correspondence The British Mint has been in | le Dr. Van Delien should be fore the Norman conquest of | Van Dellen, co;Chicago Trib- 1066. |_une, Chicago, Illinois.)
“HEY FELLOWS - I've Got A Job! HERE’S HOW I-GOT IT -- -
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a newspaper route. How he learned - - -
To make and save money, To sell and keep records, To work with people and fellow carriers So iatigte > I dropped in‘to see the Carrier Supervisor at the
in thir first business venture.
needs more boys. Come on in and see him. Join the _ enjoy the fun of having your own business.
The expert has learned how |
positive air pressure in the nas- |
organisms that cause pleurisy. “Streptoceeet 2
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’ HAVE MY OWN NEWSPAPER BUSINESS
Dad was always telling me about when he was s boy and had.
“and Evening Patriot office and found I had the same oppor- tunity as Dad. Now I have a route near home and find the Carriers are a swell bunch of fellows, all anxious to succeed
The Carrier Supervisor has some new routes opening up and
Apply:Now! CIRCULATION DEPT. THE GUARDIAN - THE EVENING PATRIOT ~
| ber known as coir, and lying | astride the One-and-a-half- de- | ‘gree Channel, the little country now sees the Maldivian flag fly in independent . pride above the | tiny capital city of Male. After years of neogitation with | the British, who retain the right to keep a Royal Air Force base | and to conduct foreign relations | for the new nation, the Maldives | have joined the growing list of
| tials have been presented to a land which every day grows lar- ger. ° For many of the atolls, and particularly well-known Minikol, +-are- growing outward in every direction given time. the Mal- divians muse, who knows how large we shall become. In the meanwhile, however,
the 100,000 or so Maldivians
. sources..Rain_no longer is pure | ity export of tough” coconut” fi tion: Furthermore, his” credes--~
‘lands — small in stature but continue to fish, climb the coco. J
, great in self-confidence — which | have come to freedom since | World War 11. Lying some 400 miles south- west of Ceylon, the Maldive co- | ral islets have hitherto been ad-
It {s apparent that Alan Mac- “ naughton, Speaker of the House | of Commons, wore his other hat | while heading the 14- member ' Canadian Parliamentary delega- | tion to the Soviet Union. As Speaker, and when wear- | ing-a_tri-corner hat, he is sup- | posed to be impartial, non- con- troversial, and refrain from en- umicating government policy. But for a brief moment in Rus- sia, he was again the practical
| politician. © |... When interviewed by a Soviet | newspaper, Mr. Macnaughton
said that foreign nations—includ- | ing the United - States— should | withdraw from Vietnam and leave its people alone. _
“We—should_likethis—problem to be resolved on a fair basis.” | he is quoted, ‘‘in respect to all } sides concerned.” . | For a man in his position, this | was a most unusual statement for Macnaughton to make. The fact that he was in an unusual role— head of the delegation — | doesn’t give him license to es- | pouse Canadian Government policy.
His remarks will be taken to
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A bill to abolish capital pun-
|ishment in Britain has passed _ _| the House of Commons, and is
|much of the way through the | House of Lords. A notable fea-
| only apply for a five-year exper- | imental period.
The inclusion of this feature {s
clearly {intended to force a re- view of the whole matter after | five years when, presumably, it | would be known whether or not | abolition was a success. If mur- | ders were to increase markedly | during this period, many parlia- | mentarians might want to: re- | verse their opinion. :
But the presumption, behind | this clause is faulty. It is very
| unlikely that a five-year- period
_| will provide evidence thatcapl-_
| tal punishment is either neces- | sary or unnecessary as a deter-
nut trees, read the Koran, speak a very ancient dialect of Sin- halese, manufacture lace, and prepare to take their place in the new -world of independent ‘ lands,
His Other Hat
Toronte Telegram
mean, both in East and West, | that they reflect the policy of | the Pearson Government.
Prime Minister Pearson has admitted that the comments of Mr. Macnaughton were ‘‘unus- ual.” He also agrees that as. +chief spokesman for the Canad- jian delegation, the Speaker, | must find himself in an unusual position “
Mr: Pearson doesn’t think any
harm ‘has been done. In fact, he shares the same view as Mr. | Macnaughton. And he also be- | lieves that President Joh nson | would be happy to see all for- eign powers. withdraw from Vietnam, including the Commu- nists. ‘
For Mr. Pearson to voice such an opinion is one thing. After
all, he is the head of the Govern- ment. But for Mr. Macnaughton to enunciate Government policy His’ something else again.
There can, be only one expla- | nation as to why he veered from ; the traditional role of Speaker; | he must have been wearing the black homburg he uses when on
the election campaign trail.
___._. Inconclusive Test
Montreal Gazette
_ rent. If Murders do not increase, this need not mean that capital , punishment is necessary. And if ‘they do increase, this need not” mean that the abolition of capi-
isis made clear by a care- | ful study recently prepared by this country’s federal depart- ment of justice. The study brought together evidence from many countrieg, including Bri-, | tain, where partial or total ab- olition has been in force. It show- ced it was impossible to find a clear cause- and- effect connec- | tion between the number of mur- ders and the existence or non existence of capital punishment.
Although there may be a rela- tionship between deterrence and the crime of murder, this must be a very subtle one.
makes it obvious that any such relationship is not clear-cut.
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The_justice department study