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Fl$l'I Exports

The Newfoundland Association of Fish Exporters, which controls the sale of salt cod to the West Indies area, has come under attack from Trade Minister Isaac of Jamaica. He calls it “a dictatorial cartel doing great disservice to the fishermen of Newfoundland” and has asked the Federal Government ‘to “smash” it. Pending a change in the association's methods--or its dissolution-Jamaica will buy the bulk of its fish require- ments from Iceland where the price is lower.

Commenting on Mr. Isaac’s words of censure, officials of the association said that without some such central- ized agency for the disposal of fish, the price to the fishermen would be much’ less than it is. This may "be true, although it is interesting to note that the N.A.F.E. has many critics in Newfoundland, among the fishermen and their union officials, as well as in the West Indies. In fact, the fisher-' men themselves seem to be of the opinion that the association's chief concern is the price paid to the ex- porters rather than the price received by the producers. '

In any case, as far as fish sales to Jamaica and other West Indies points are concerned, it doesn't mat- ter much whether the association is helpful to the industry as a whole or not. The fact is that itlhas lost the confidence of fish importers in the

West Indies. That, no doubt, is why -

the Federal Government is said to be considering measures to change the business methods of the. exporters or to abolish the association and try some other way of marketing salt cod.

For centuries Jamaica has been Newfoundland’s best customer in the fish business. If anything can be done to prevent the loss of this market, it should be done as_soon as possible, with or without the co-operation of the N .A.F.E. There is more to it than exports offish from’ Newfoundland. The whole pattern of Canada-West Indies trade is involved.

lmportant Rul'ing>

A judgement which will have a bearing on one phase of this country's relations with the United States was

_ recently handed down by the Supreme

Court of Canada. Its substance is that no local government has the right to tax United States firms working in Canada on defence projects. ‘

The decision was rendered on ap- peal by two contracting firms, Fraser Brace and Drake-Merritt, which had been assessed municipal and county taxes in the City and County of Saint John, New Brunswick, when they erected several buildings and brought in machinery and radio equipment in connection with the construction of the Distant Early Warning Line in Canada, a joint Canada-United States project.

The appeal was based on the ground that the property, both real and personal. belonged to the United States Government and, consequently was entitled to the same immunity from taxation as is enjoyed by dip- lomatic missions. This argument was accepted by the Court which held that the undertaking “was dictated by the international situation and implied an invitation to personnel and property of the United States Government ‘to enter the territory of this country for the execution of the common pur posan .

Flowers In May

_ Showers, contrary to poetic no- tion, don’t bring flowers in May or any other month. Nature has a strict schedule that brings a succession of blossoms ‘to fields and gardens from early spring through late fall. Spir- isa’ V1019“; asters. and chrysanthe- . “rim” f0” Instance. all bloom when it IS time for them to bloom—and not before. While rainfall, soil and tern- Perature control the growth and ma- turmg °_f Such plants. they have little to do with the actual flowering It's mainly the length of the days ‘and nights that counts.

‘Many plants that follow natui~e’s timetable refuse to crack their buds until they get rather exact doses of uninterrupted light and darkness, the National Geographic Society says. A

mature cocklebur flowers promptly in

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autumn when nights lengthen to 14 hours. This sensitivity to the rhythm of light and darkness is called photo- periodism. Certain plants are criti- cally affected by it, though in differ- ent ways. Some require the long nights of spring or fall to bring out their blossoms; others, the short nights andlong days of midsummer. There are neutral plants, like the to- mate, that seem indifferent to the relative length of days and nights. Under proper circumstances, the to- mato will bloom and bear fruit any- where from the tropics to the Arctic.

The phenomenon 'of photoperiod- ism has been known for several de- cades. Since then scientists have learned that darkness itself is the critical factor, especially for late- blooming plants. In effect the plant gets its vitality by day, does its work at night. Flowering of some mature plants can be delayed for months by shining artificial light on them for just a few minutes each night. That is how nurserymen fool chrysanthe- mums into holding up their great golden blossoms until, say, a special holiday weekend.

Scientists are exploring the me- chanics of photoperiodism from dif- ferent angles. Tackling the initial step in the process, physiologists are studying a pigment that absorbs red and far-red light. In darkness this pigment undergoes a. mysterious change. When nights grow long enough, a sufficient amount of the al- tered pigment builds up to trigger the plant’s complex blooming apparatus.

Check Prevents Accidents

The Canadian Highway Safety Conference has intensified its efforts aimed at cutting down the heavy traf- fic toll in life and property. This month has been set aside for a nation- wide campaign to ‘check on unsafe vehicles. Indeed, it is a triple check, for- the slogan reads: “Check your car. check your driving, check acci- dents.” -

The conference, through,provinei- al. and community safety’ organiza- tions, is stressing 10f vital safety checks: brakes, front lights, ‘rear lights, steering, tires, exhaust sys- tem, glass, windshield wipers, rear- view mirrors and horn. Defects in any of these items, warns W. Arch. Bryce, general manager of the Conference-, can result in a disaster. Their. im- portance to the operation of a vehicle is seldom appreciated until they be- come defective. Steps taken now can prevent these defects from occurring.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Opposition criticism of the high rate of interest charged on housing loans is, we believe, justified. A,sit- uation where a borrower over the normal 25 year period pays interest of more than $900 on each $1000 loan can scarcely be considered fair.

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“Those who, condemn mankind for being so wickedly agressive might remember that no representative body of citizens anywhere has ever

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bombs should be manufactured and used. They are here not because we are wolves but because we are more like hypnotized sheep. Our grand- fathers would have destroyed any government that behaved so mon- strously.”—-J.B. Priestly in his re- cently published “Thoughts in the , Wilderness.” I § ~ 0 Mr. Harold Winch of the CCF wants Canada to make clear to the United States that she will “control her own destiny.” It’s a fine rhetori- cal phrase but hardly one to be taken i seriously. No country, however, pow- erful, is complete ’ master of its des- tiny these days; and the smaller pow- ers, of which Canada is one, are par- ticularly dependent on strong friends and allies. Perhaps Mr. Winch meant that Canada should not submit to Am- “control,” which_is quite a different matter and a proposition easily defended. ' ‘E if ‘I In addressing the graduating class of Memorial University‘ in St. J ohn’s, Newfoundland, Dr. E.W.R. Steacie, President of the National Research Council, said: “The demand for more scientific manpower is leading to the concept of the university as a fac- tory, the value of which can be meas- ured in terms of units of output. I find the whole concept suggests the function of a university is to mould people to suit the demands of the labour market; and it substitutes the concept of training for that of ed- ucation.” This is a timely warning. I‘l0l_3l}1119_.' Worse could befall .Western civilization than for the function of a university to be regarded as purely utilitarian, just in order to keep up

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THE LION AND ‘THE LAMB--NEW VERSION

OTTAWA’ REPORT

An Open-Book Era

By Patrick Nicholson Special Correspondent for The Guardian‘

Ottawa: For many years while DEMOCRACY AT WORK

Mr. John Die-fenbaker was a pri- vate Opposition Member of Par- liament, he fought an unremit- :ti_n-g battle to resist "The Pass- ing of Parliament.” ‘ .

To many Canadians, that strug- -gle to preserve the rights of Par- liament appeared to be an aca- demlc and perhaps unnecessary -struggle, as he repeated his pro- tests against the arrogant atti- tude of the Liberal Government -backed by its steam-roller maj-

I. ority. That attitude became wide-

ly known here, as expressed tersely, brutally -but eloquently in those famous words spoken «by Right Hon. C. D. Howe: “Who’s to stop us?”

Th_rou gh the years, Ottawa heard M-r. Diefenbaker protest a.-‘ gainst -government by the Cabi- net through Order-in-Council, in- stead of the correct democratic method of government by Par- liament through the vote of the M.Ps, He protested against the withholding of information from Parliament; against the muzzling of Parliamentary committees; and finally, together with all oth- er opposition M.Ps, against the shutting off of Parliamentary de- bate through closure.

PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to ‘the discus- ,

sion by \.uI‘!‘eSPOIldel1l‘.S of question of

interest. The Guardian does not neses-

sarily endorse the opinion of corres- pondents.

raom ENTRY ISLAND

Sir,-1 understand that you published an interview some time ago, urging the need of a nurse for Entry Island. Now. please, could you do something for “that nurse.” -

I think you were a little mis- informed re “all the modern

. conveniences."

I need a housekeeper and would prefer a middle-aged woman, who did not smoke, and would come more for the satisfaction or plesaure of keeping a com- fortable home with good meals, for a lonely nurse, than for what she was paid for her efforts.

‘ I am, Sir, etc.,

AGNES M. TIBBS, R. N. Canadian Red Cross Nursing Station, Entry Island, Magdalen

Islands, Quebec.

PARENTS AND TEACHERS

Sir,—It is true that much is being said about education at the present time in Prince Ed- ward Island. I am of the opinion that many present day parents will have to be educated them- selves, and, to a certain extent home-educate their children (in manners) before any teacher can properly carry out his or her laborious task of teaching in the classroom.

I have quite often heard of teachers getting assistance from trustees, butvwhen trustees start to condem their teachers (some even -think they know more than supervisors) I think it's time a -through moulding minds.

Some parents, I think, are very childish. This is quite true when many children trot home from school, telling their parents in- credible stories---something like fish stories. Many parents enjoy these fish stories, especially if little Johnnie is telling them. Johnnie never tells a lie; he has always been a good boy at home; he never talked back to Daddy-» therefore he should always be perfectly «all right in class. Oh! no, my dear parents, be very careful of making this assump- tion. Perhaps you have for-gotten your own childhood. _

I would suggest that parents leave the teachers alone in re- gard to punishing their children in class. I -am of the fir in opinion that no teacher will punish -a child unless he or she deserves it.

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I am, Sir. etc. I AN 1SLANDERl

“Parliament is the guardian of our freedom and of our free in- stitutions," he declared passion- ately in those long- ago‘; days. S-ti‘-essiiig the important function which the Opposition to the Gov- ernment must perform, and must be permitted to perform, in our Pairllament, he went on to give a definition which deserves its pla c e in Parliamentary text- books: '

"if Parliament is to be preserv- ed as a living institution, the Op- position must fearlessly perform its‘ functions. It upholds and maintains the rights of minor- ities. It must be vigilant against ,.oppression and unjust invasions by the Cabinet of the rights of the people. It should supervise all expenditures and prevent ov- er-expenditure by exposing to the light ‘of public opinion wasteful expenditures or worse. It must scrutinize every action by the Government."

That was said when the Lib- eral steam- roller was crushing Parliament. Today -the boot is on the other foot; the Conservative majority is so large that in com- parisoh that Liberal steam - roll- er looks like a pastrycook’s roll- ing- pin. Does Prime Minister Diefenbaker ask defiantly; “Who is to stop us?”

On the contrary, at the ‘first -possible opiportutnity after he ob- tained a working majority, the Prime Minister made abundant- ly clear his intention to restore the rights of Parliament. The Op- position will be enabled and en- couraged to examine and dis- cuss every action by the Gov-

ernment; and as a final built- in auditor of Government activi- ties, an Opposition M.P. will be invited to serve as chairman of the parliamentary committee on Public Accounts. OPEN BOOK ERA

This new Conservative regime will be no possibility for skele- tons to rattle in dark closets in a Parliament where every offic- ial should be, like Caesar’s wife,

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (May 22. 1933) Professor G. D. Steele, Vice- Princlpail of Prince of Wales Col- lege, will receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the convocation of Mount Allison Un- iversity tomonrow afternoon. Pro-

Wales in- 1909 as instructor in Eiiglis-h and since 1911 has acted as v:ioe- principal.

'I‘.h-alt Prince Edward Island by reason of recent concessions ob- tained in connection with the car ferry operation between Tormen- tine and Borden, has entered a new era of transportation im- provement, was the opinion of Justice A. E. Arsena-uit, who re- cently returned from Montreal. J ustlce Aiwse-nau-lt referred not on- ly to the change -‘in -the a.ccou.n.t- ing of the car fenry but also to tht i‘-cccnt changes in ferry rates for automobiles. -

TEN YEARS AGO (May 22. 1948)

Organization work has been completed and application for in- corporation applied for in the case of a new company which has been formed to operate a new radio station in Summ-e«r.sid~e. The Company will be known as the Gulf Broad-casting Co. Ltd. and will operate the station un- der the call letters CJRW.

Seriou-.. consideration is being given by the Sumimensid-e Town Coun-cil to installing parking met- ers on Water Street, it was learn- ed yesterday. The parking pro- blem on Water Street, Mayor J. F. Ariiett said, has been a ser. ious one for a number of years. It is thought that parking met-e.i's

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above suspicion.

It would not be possible for hor- ses to be put on the army pay- roll; for $35,000 apparently to dis- appear in connection with the purchase of a residence for an ambassador; for the Brass to e- quip its private houses at public expense; for questionable subsi- dies to be paid out of the taxpay- ers’ money to Toms, Dicks and Harrys of the right political hue; for uncanadian standards of lux- ury to be incorporated in public buildings; for public servants’ country ne s t s to be feathered with your dollars to a luxurious- ness which you would not buy for yourself; for innumerable fa- mily hangers-on of Cabinet Min- isters to go swanning in public transport at your expense. Each of" these, and the many similar past cases, may have a legitimate explanation. Under an open book system of inspection. such items will in future either

be rectified. That will be much better than the previous atmos- phere of suspicion which was in- evitable when sordid skeleton and Ca»esar’s wife were bundled to- gether and unexamined into a locked closet.

be explained satisfactorily or will‘

Teething May Present Problem

By Herman N. Bundescn. M- D- WHILE teething presents no great problems to a normal» heaithy baby, it can be very dangerous for a victim of hemo- philia. _ _ Hemophilia is a C*0I1d1t10n- often inherited, which prevents blood from clotting properly- Thus, even a tiny wound might cause profuse and uncontrollable bleeding. HOW To CONTROL ~ Erupting baby" teeth. flaw!‘- ally, can cause the gums *0 bleed. This bleeding can be con-

trolled by applying pressure at

the site of the eruption and then smearing the area with Vaseline.

Even after the teeth have erupted, they require consider- able attentlon. ‘

Dr. Joseph G. Mondo, a mem- ber of the Medical Advisory Council of the Midwest Chap?-91'. National Hemophilia Founda- tion, advises that parents of hemophiliac children should brush the youngsters’ teeth af- ter each meal until the children are old enough to perform the tasks themselves.

TELL THE DENTIST

Dr. Mondo, a clen-tisit, cautions parents to be sure to tell their dentist if their child is a hemo- philiac the first time he visits the deiitlst’s office.

A hemophillac must take very good care of his teeth. I sug- gest that children with this con- dition visit their dentist at least every three moiiths for a check- up. In some cases, Dr. Mondo advises, a monthly visit might be in order.

A child with hemophilia should never be permitted to pull at his teeth. In fact, Dr. Mondo says, you .should permit his baby teeth to drop out by themselves. . a

When this «occurs, application of Methocal to the area prob- ably is advisable. PREVENTION

extract a. permanent tooth, if a baby tooth should become abscessed and must be pulled, follow your dentist’-s ,advice. There are various techniques which can be employed to pre- vent imuoh bleeding.

, Some of ‘these require an ex- ‘tended period of treatment, but usually are very successful.

In an emergency, when a tooth must be extracted im- mediately, it probably is best to have -it done at a hospital. Then the tooth can be removed ‘sur- gically and a blood transfusion can be given the youngster. The transfusion should be continued until the bleeding stops. QUESTION AND ANSWER

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to such an extent.

OF BLEEDING When it becomes necessary to or

My daughter’s palms sweat excessively. lit seems no other part of her body does so

What causes this, and is there

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calized sweating is not always clear. It often occurs in other-

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Those of us who can tear our eyes away for long enough from the monster in the corner of the living room should spare a thoughtfor -the sad plight of the people of New Zealand. There's no television down there. Nor is there likely to be for some years. -Winnipeg Free Press.

Representative. Brooks Hays, who has the reputation of being the capitol‘s top story teller, in- sists this is the way public speak- ers were trained when he was young. “The instructor emulated Demosthenes. who practiced his speeches with pebbles _in his mouth. At the beginning of the course, each student was given a mouthful of marbles. Every day the instructor reduced the number by one marble. The stu- dent became a public speaker when he had lost all his marbles." —-Washington Post

THE CHERRY TREE

One year a chenry flowered be- low my room. ‘ I watched its blossoming from

day to day

Until the flowers had covered ev- ery spray,

Unitii my heart was aichlin-g to as- SU’IIl€ '

Possession of its poignancy of bloom. I

I-t’s beauty-made desire I found no way T -

By poem or song orlooklng to 8411337.

Nor yet by tearing train the bough its plume.

V Then came the time when flower gave way to leaf And d-ay by day I watched the _ green progress, . Eating slowly through each petal- ed sheaf And day by day Ifelt my pain grow less . ‘Until at last I knew more-joy than grief To see the chenry’s final sh-abbi- ness. . 0 ---Patricia Duff McGlnley in the New York Times.

The Age Old Story