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tage The other day we had o¢casion to

Red-Letter Event

It may have taken an election campaign to speed up the calling of

tenders for our causeway project, but |

we're not sping to let that stand in the wav of congratulating the Pearson

‘ government, and\the Hon. J. Watson

MacNaught in particular as its spokes- man in this instaafce, on the announce- ment that the first tenders—on, a 4.5 mile approach road from the Trans-Canada Highway on the coast of Northumberland Strait at Jouri- main Island in New Brunswick—have

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now been called. It’s a red-letter event _ in the history of this great under- | taking. We trust it means that there |

will be no further delay in pushing the work through to completion. As we have said on many 0c- casions, this is not a political issue but a project to:which both. the lead- iag parties have been pledged. It goes Back to 1956 when a feasibility study Was requested by Premier Matheson ip this province with the full support of the then federal minister of public works, Mr. Winters. Initial surveys were begun. and were continued on a more extended scale by the Conser- Vatives until on April 17, 1962, Prime Winister Diefenbaker was able to an- flounce the project to be feasible gconomically as well as from an en- neering standpoint. and to commit £s government to building it. That year the actual planning was official- fy authorized and*placed in charge of Sorthumberland Consultants Ltd. * The surveys were continued under the Liberals when they returned to Q@ffice and the project, as it emerged in the blueprints, proved a more for- midable and more costly undertaking than had first been contemplated. What is important, however, about fhis extra cost.of a combined cause- Way, bridge “and: tunnel to. provide, @ong with tail accommodation, two- lane traffic facilities for 600,000 toll- ying vehicles a year—nearl ya reefold increase over the present maximum—is that it is justified économically as against the mounting - épst of providing adequate ferry ser- Yices to the Island in future. * There has ‘been a considerable amount of criticism of the project in mainland papers west of the Mari- times, on the ground that it repre-

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gents an exorbitant election bribe to;

the people of this province. The facts do not substantiate this charge. But

unfortunately the economic study by |

the federal works department,

in

which they arés¢éntained and which |

was of cardinal — in deter- mining federal ‘policy’ in the matter, fias not yet been made public.

Wouldn't this be an opportune _

time. for releasing the details of this - $tudy, and ‘giving’ ‘the critics some grithmetic to work on?

~ Premature Optimism

comment on the far from infallible nature of government statistics. Since — then the Domitiion Bureau of Statis- tics has issued a report to the effect that high consumer spending, continu-

ed business expansion, and prospects |

of a bumper prairie grain harvest

ee sarteo—enny

have pushed the estimated total out- | put of the nation’s economy in 1965 |

past the $50,000 million mark for the

first time. Special emphasis is placed

_the report on the. bumper wheat est in prospect. “,

§ We should all like to see these ex- tations realized. But according to head of the Manitoba Wheat Pool,

firairie wheat growers have experi-

diced the wettest and coldest Septem: r in 14 years and are facing an es- ted loss of $100 million. Over the

been cut and is yow in swaths in

fields waiting for the combines.

_ Where the rain has been heavy | steady, some

g to mildew and some of it is

uting: A dry October could save

of the moist er but the un-

ole West. more than half the crop.

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eut grain is a cause for serious Con- cern, <

The quantitative loss will be heavy, but much lighter than the loss of grade. A crop which might have averaged three northern in grade, worth $1.65iper bushel on the farms, may be discounted to tough four northern and less, worth $150 a bushel. A third loss is by way of the greatly increased costs of harvesting the grain. '

Has the Bureau of Statistics taken this misfortune into consideration in

its recently isued figures? Apparent:

ly they were prepared when the pros- pects of a bumper grain harvest look- ed brighter. Before word came from Alberta, for example, that over wide areas the crop in the fields is a tangled mess. It has been rained on, snowed on, and wind blown, In all such cases, cutting will be slow “and very hard on machinery. Where the land is plowed in the fall, the stubble will probably have to be burned off before it is amenable to plowing. “Over the whole country,” says a Calgary dispatch, “hangs the great cloud of doubt—will there be any crop left when the weather permits the farmers to get back on the land?” If it’s as bad as all that, the statisticians are going to have some explaining to do in the next issue of their gross national product report.

\ In 22 Months?

Our esteemed Liberal contempor- ary, the Winnipeg Free Press, has been: doing some soul-searching on the subject of Mr. Pearson’s an- nouncement of a $500 million health resources fund as part of his govern-

ment’s medicare plan. It recalls that |

when. the report of the royal com- mission on health services was releas- ed last year, no deadline was set for the full implementation of the medi- care program: but the year 1971 ap- peared prominently throughout the report, and costs were estimated on that basis.

It recalls, too, that when a con-

ference of provincial health ministers

was held in Ottawa following pub- lication of the report, Health Minister LaMarsh indicated ‘that introduction

of a plan such as envisaged by the- Id be a lengthy busi-~~

Hall report ness, with all governments inclined to move cautiously..She refused to sug-

gest a target date. She thought it

would be before 1980, but preferred not to: answer when it was asked if

she believed it would be operative by |

1975.

‘no such hesitancy. At the federal- provincial conference in July this year, he revealed the government's medicare plans and ‘suggested that each province should have its plan in operation (with 50 per cent federal .

But the prime. minister has shown

help) not by~1980 or 1975 nor even” |

1971, but by July 1, 1967-—Canada’s 100th birthday.

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“This is less than two years off,” |

says the Winnipeg paper; “but ap-—

parently Mr. Pearson and his advisers |

believe that in spite of the lack of | facilities and personnel noted jin the- Hall report, in spite of the immense | complications of ‘setting up so huge | and comprehensive a program, all can |

‘be put to rights in 22 months and

Canada can enjoy full medical health-

insurance of, the kind recommended by the Hall commission.

ers would probably feel easier in their minds and have greater faith in this

promise if Mr. Pearson or some of |

the Liberal candidates would’ now spell out just how the vision is to be | | achieved. Y ey

Yes, indeed ~The promise of medi-._

This is a | challenging vision. But Canadian vot- |

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care in operation by July 1, 1967, is.

wonderful; but_it would make us all feel better if it could be shown how

“ft‘can be kept.

EDITORIAL NOTES

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the total United States resi- dent population as of June 1 this year was 163,644,000. This represents an increase of 1.3 per ceht over June, 1964, and an increase of 8 per cent since April 1, 19608

deaniting ine a blistering criti- cism of his policies by Senator Wal-

lace McCutcheon. Finance Minister |

Gordon has challenged the senator to |

run against him for the House of Commons in the Nov. 8 election. This isn’t an argument at all, of course. If

“it were valid; it-would- apply-as-well—

te the president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and other business leaders, who also have been

critical of Mr. Gordon's record in of- . as a right to ex-.

fice. Any,

. press his Views on this subject with-

swathed grain is be- had

out being challenged to political com- “bat by the minister. who puts a low' estimate on the electors’ intelligence sister denne doner ed

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HELPING

OTTAWA REPORT By

Patrick Nicholson

Recalling Previous Electoral Encounters

The actual figures of opinion , patronage, dispose of the huge | have spent long hours stydying

polls and ballots cast in recent election campaigns indicate that, if Prime Minister Pearson

gets into a cross-Canada ‘battle | aster caused in the 1958 election result, Lester | man Walter Gordon announced imposed. | that

Diefentaket! he |

of

against John will lose about six per cent potential Liberal exactly as he did in their three previous electoral encounters. The percentages of support ate so close now ‘that tion of past successes by

a re at

campaign funds,

Party,—these men;

by ,their new front man, Pe nm. They had

him upon the party, in _prefer-

ence to the popular and wiser

or of’ Paul Martin; but in |

ign, Pearson led

wuss the most disas-

defeat

Diefenbaker would cause Mr. \‘which their parliamentary rep-

lose his election of

Pearson to gamble. In fact the winds political change, reported from all parts of Canada, daily indi- cate that Mr. the Conservatives are attract- ing more’ support than in 1962 and 1963.

resentation fell to an all-time By of 48 MPs.

The ‘Spike Mike” group at | the head of the Liberal Party

.Diefenbaker and had not yet had the opportunity

to complete its: three- year old plan to shuffle Mr. Pearson off as president of

Before the first election battle |

between Dief the ief and | smiling Mike im 1958, Gallup | Poll! showed‘ a 15 cicistans |

point spread in popular support between them, ’favouring Dief. Fifty per cent of those voters | who had decided their voting | preference would vote Conser- | vative, while 35 per cent would vote Liberal, and one in four | were undecided. But Diet's | campaign so ‘successfully wooed | the potential Liberal voters and persuaded the undecided, that , he increased that spread by five percentage points in» the ballot | boxes: In 1962, Dief did even better, capturing seven percent- age points from Pearson by his _campaign. And in 1963. his amazingly persuasive and cour- ageous performance on the hust- | ings won back six percentage | points for him.

MAY LOSE GAN

If Dief can repeat his cam- paign over Pearson again this year, he will not merely thwart Pearson's gamble for a

LE

may even lead his Conserva-

tives back to Parliament Hill as | in |

the largest party. This is those past figures. The masters of the Liberal

Party, the strategists. who in

their back rooms handle the |

Our Yesterdays (Fram The Guardian Files)

TWENTY -- FIVE oo AGO | (October 1

The Royal Air Force ruled the

air over Berlin for a time last

night and early today, making |

the German capital the key |

point of bombing raids which spread in a large swathe over the most populous and-industrial sections of the Reich. In Berlin

the ‘screeching alarm which) 00,000 residents tumbling ‘

sent 4 out of bed and into the cellars lasted: five hours atid eight min- utes and was the — of the war, x

Out at the 368 young men in the 21-year-old class in P.E.I. there are 100 who have not yet responded to the notices sent out to them over a week ago under the National Resources Mobliza-

‘tion Act, it was announced last

But through two steps they hope that the Liberal Party is now inoculated against the haemor- rhage of another’ disastrous | Pearson performance on the | hustings. Their

and control | the the direction of the Liberal) text books, rue the ‘dis- | President”,

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eir history in|

hand-picked |

| choice as Pearson's successor |

| in English.French alternation must be Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage; he has toured the hos-

a university.

two American * campaign “The Making of the 1960 and 1964. As a Liberal Campaign Chair-

Prime Minister Pearson would adopt the technique used by President Johnson for his re- election. He would wrap him- self in the cloak of his high office, non-campaign against his chal. lenger Dief.

In more detail, he would speak in lofty prime ministerial tones before the all- Liberal

audience at the official romp, in

ing of his party’s campaign Ottawa; that he would retire to the duties of his high office, running the country (although

| Parliament is dissolved and the

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Cabinet is scattered on the hust- | is |:

ings from which “Pearson barred).

Finally, to.cap a very few iso- | lated platform and TV appear: |

ances, Prime Minister Pearson |

| will make a whirlwind tour!

tile West to woo the voters. And |

the leaders are effectivly pro- tecting Mr. Pearson from ex- | posure to the voters. YANKEE SOFT-SOAP

The Liberal strategists. Such as advertising man Keith "\avey

| thus hope to avoid the inevt | ‘ able losses

of a cross-country comparison between Dief Mike.

‘| swallowed,

and virtually conduct a |

| Sunday

Throat

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen The entrance to the lungs is

guarded by a very sensitive and |

protective mechanism that pre-

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and shortness of breath. Food particles are irritating the bron- chi or producing. an aspiration pneumonia. The cause is detect-

| throat and bronchi followed by X-ray studies. When barium is small er the respiratory tract. Most of | these individuals improve when |

be done for the remainder of life in order to avoid respiratory symptoms and fever.;

Now and then the coughing is traced to aspiration of a f6reign | body such as a chicken bone, | pill, toothpick, or dental pfosth- |

aware of the incident because of loss-of sensitivity in’ the mouth and throat. Removal of the sub- | stance is followed by dramatic ecovery.

PREPARING FOR SURGERY Mrs. N. writes: My five-year- | old -is scheduled for tonsilec-

‘| tomy. Should’ [I tell her in’ ad-

Vancé« about the operation, and if so, how much? REPLY.

Tell her what to expect, but there is no need to describe the | technique. Concentrate on the - care she will receive, the sooth-

the: dish of ice cream she will get after the operation.

VIRAL DISEASES R.V.. writes: What symptoms are caused by virus? REPLY Almost any symptom in the book. The viruses cause many | diseases varying from meningi- ~ | tis to the common cold. Further. | more.‘‘a virus’ is a popular | diagnostic wastebasket for any | ill-defined illness that causes | minor distress.

ont | GRACEFUL OR AWKWARD |

G. H. writes: Why do some

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The old question: of iow many |

| drinks can be permitted before a driver is ypronounced unsafe | to drive is exercising the doc-

parliamentary majority, but he | amount which would make a

man unstable one day may: have . little adverse effect on him the next. There is no such thing as an average drinker.

Teco low an alcoholic quota | would be s0 opposed by the

nking-and-driving public as

ae ate the rule into disrepute | and disuse, ps ‘was the-case with prohibition.

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Is Drunk?

oie Mercury

The London Observer, which | seemingly has given profound thought to the medicine men’s quandary, accuses them of being

tors and lawyers of the United | too tolerant. The British Medi-

|cal Association's proposéd _ al- lowable ratio of 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millimetres of blood is assailed a. far too high.

The scholarly Observer has translated the chemical jargon into drinks and works it out as five pints of beer or 12 single (presumably one ounce) whis- kies. Even .the-typical two-fisted Canadian. drinker might con- cede that not only are the ra-

ios high but so would be their

| carriers. As the Observer contends, such high levels of Tolefance ) could actually, entourage ‘driving ; under the influence, ‘‘a much more objectionable crime than | housebreaking”.

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Before the First World War the Ukraine, the Hungarian -plains and the Elbe valley of Bo- hemia provided bread grains for most of Europe. Today, the So viet Union and most of the Eur-

| opean satellites are large buy- | ers of bread grains on the North

American market. Some of their grain shortages

weather, soil erosion in the Kazakhstan virgin lands, but the principal culprit is Marxist

night by Lt. Col. Parker Hooper, | dogmatism: The peasant in the

district registrar.” TEN YEARS AGO (October 1, 1955) © The Canadian Decoration wa presented by Brigadier G. K. Peake to: Major E.A. McCarey, Capt: H-W.F-Hughes,-R.S.M.,J- F. Smith, RQMS, A.E. Richard; SSM J.B. Gallant and S-Sgt. A. W. Wellner. For the first time on issue, the image and super- scription. of Queeu Elizabeth IT” was on the decoration. had the on it was stated by Mr. R.C.; rent, Sup- erintendent of the Dominion Ex- petimestal Farm, Charlottetown in commenting on the year’s

Prince Edward Islan

| ed.at the planeloads of

Soviet Union, who has never achieved his dream <of owning land, and the dispcssessed farm- er of Hungary or Bohemia herd- ed into a kolkhoz, are not very interested.

“God will provide,” used.to be a—centuries-old_excuse for Eur-

| opean rural indifference infused

by feudalism and serfdom, and if it has changed at all it is mer- ely in that the all- powerful | ,state has been substituted for di- vine Providence. :

The Soviet government, diarny | gold | it | has to ship to Switzerland to pay ‘for anadian and- ‘Argentine wheat, is considering what to do about agriculture. More capital . better fertilizers,” higher prices;

i ing activities, ~ . = /

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could be explained by inclement |

| question.- _

all these have been tried’ belore. mints Petes

Land Of Peasants

Winnipeg Free Press Now, however, for the fir st |

time voices are being heard 2 the Soviet Union suggesting tha the land be given back to the peasants: not to individual peas-

ants— the break with the faith);

has not gone that far— but toa sma i “collective” of five or six

"| peasarits who would then till the

land as they pleased. A farmer from Kazakhstan

-wrote to: the Komsomolskaya

Pravda: “If they gave us the land. we would produce ei! g ht bushels per acre— in any drought.”

How far such a distribution of |

land would be feasible in an ec- onomy that is based on central ized planning and heavy invest-

ment in large-scale units is still, perhaps, largely an ——_

At any rate, it wil be a Jong time yet before the wheat board | need fear the loss of that export mafket. And even then, should | the miracle happen and the So | vit peasant be given the land that he was promised in 1917; and, if, as a consequence, he should start producing wheat surpluses, there is always China and her satellites whére ufdiult- ed Marx — with attendant short- ages will continue to rule for

people have better coordination than others? I’m teferring to

eS gery.

REPLY

~People differ-in 101 ways: ie ‘ondioation is one; thé ability to think quickly is another, Per-~ sonality and reaction time are . others.

PAINFUL CLAVICLE

A: P. writes: Every day 1) awaken with pain in my collar | bone. It eases gradually during the: day. I'm 59 years old.

~ REPLY

Arthritis behaves fashion. TODAY’S HEALTH HINT—

Artificial dentures should. be | kept clean.

in this

ed by careful examination of the | amounts ent-

nutriment is administered ‘hrou- | gh a stomach tube. This must |

esis. The oldster usually is un- |

ing effect of the anesthetic, and |

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lal

“Madam, they are positive

y insulting. "* —- Montreal Star. “Just because you have been |

An American doctor says oa

kept waiting,” said the nurse to) bath a day is not only unnecced-

mean that the baby | will be a girl.” —

‘influence, try ordering around

. — Wall

j

teacher was trying to im- press upon her students the ad- | Senlonne of peace and disarma- “How many of you ob war?” she asked. Sever- al. hands shot up in the air, so she turned to Jimmy and said, | ‘Jimmy, you tell the class why | Ble object to war.” “Cause

Pg ae make history,” replied

Jimmy soberly. Montreal

Britain And T

By suspending the of Aden and booting out the local administration,/Britain has clearly indicated to) Gamal Ab- del Nasser and Arab national- ists that Britain is not’ to be pushed’ out of the Middle East.

near the southern tip of the Red

Sea has been whipped up by un- |

ceasing terrorism alleged to be encouraged and supported by

Nasser’s United Arab Republic |

and by local Arab sentiment which . wants British military | forces: to pull out of Aden.

This, in’ effect, would, cripple British "influence in the’ Middle East and might even reduce British military effectiveness in Asia and particularly in Malay- sia’ which in turn has been weakened by Its ruptuve with ‘Singapore.

But while Britain has ex- pressed the goal of bringing in- dependence to the South Arab- | ian protectorate, including Aden by 1968,-there seems to be some question of whether Britain | | would be willing ta pull ou‘ of Aden at that time. A United Na- tions committee on colonialism | has recommended Britain yield the Aden base as well.

URGES FEDERATION In diplomatic ,working ses- sions that have broken down for

| the expectant father, ‘doesn't

Vancouver

if you really think you have |

The crisis in the little colony |

sary byt often harmful. This may explais the auccens. stores Spectator.' ~4

“Where do you think you are | oi shouted the’ policeman to the driver going the

| Sone know,” he “but must be late. Feo ow ns seems to be coming back.’ —

| Toronto Star.

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Proverbs are wonderful / things. A city-slicker can say

“you can lead a horse to water ” when he’s probably toe scared even to take the water te | the horse, — Ottawa Journal.”

he Middle East,

By Harold Morrison Press Staff Writer

itution |

Thebwave of Arab nationalism has been accompanied by de- | feats for UAR forces in Yemen, | just north of Aden, and the na- tural ambition of Cairo support- ers seems to be that this is an appropriate time to exploit the situation in Aden.

OPPOSE BASES

Britain still is atiempting to recover ‘from an _ International raid on the pound. The Labor administration has publicly stated it is reviewing its so- | called East of Suez policy. Many in Britain-would like to see Brit- | ish bases folded in the and Far ‘East, of the tiny Liberal party, even | suggesting that such bases merely bring nothing more than unprofitable hardship and war. The more conservative ele- ment in Britain suggests Britain

show its mailed fist; that it should not be driven out of the’ Middle East by threats and murder

Prime. Minister Wilson. seems | to agree. He says it is still his

Labor government's aim te grant the South Arabian Federa- tion independence by 1968, but. this must be done, through peace, stability and security-- | not torongh murder and terror-

want of unanimity, the British ism.

position - appears to have been

one of trying to urge Aden to ound. It will be up to the Nas-

form part of an independent fed- eration of some 20 states which would have a sympahtetie link | | with London.

| Britain then would have | | reason to hope its military base in Aden would remain intact. | But the majority view in Aden

‘| opposes joining the federation |

| and opposes continuance of the | Aden base. :

Britain established military footholds in the--Arab. world more than a century ago by foree—te—protect her shipping lanes and her dominance in | world trade.

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_1, “Introductory Conversational French _

Registration -and opening class --

Monday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m.

Advanced Conversational French—

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Registration aid opening class—

Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 72p.m.

|| Duration: Two hours per week for 20 weeks,/

Tuition: $40 per person; $70 per couple. LeClair,

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In effect, Britain will siand ite

ser forces to attempt to outmas noeuvre the British military ;po- | sition in Aden. The current view in London {s that Nasser is not strong enough to force a mili- | tary showdown.

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