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‘PAGE THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1962.

Prison Farm Plans

It is pleasing to note that the Shaw Government intends to make a concrete start on its plans for a prison farm this year. The need for this project was outlined by Attor- ney-General Melvin McQuaid in speaking on the Draft Address, and in his budget presentation as Pro- vincial Treasurer on Tuesday night he indicated that an appropriation of $25,000 is being made. It is hoped this will permit the government to proceed to the point of acquiring a suitable site on which to locate the farm, and have the plans and specifications approved. He is also budgeting for an amount of $14,500 to assist in making the three county jails more habitable.

In its report last March on the condition of these jails, the Island division of the Canadian Mental Health Association dwelt on their “drab, often filthy surroundings, where discipline is honored more In the breach than in the observance, where criminal tendencies and crim- inal ideas find a veritable hothouse in which to flourish.” Yet apart from overnight lockups in Char- lottetown and several towns and villages, these are the only custodial institutions for prisoners in the Province.

The proposed prison farm would enable these jails to be used only as lockups for overnight custody, and for the custody of prisoners await- img trial. The farm would pro- vide facilities not only for useful employment, but for occupational training to some extent, and for the treatment of prisoners who are mentally ill, including alcoholics. Mr. McQuaid went into all these matters in his remarks on the Draft Address, and there is no need to deal further with them here. Suffice to say that they are of deep moral concern to the whole com- munity. We have no doubt that the proposed improvement of a condition which for many years has been a disgrace to this.Province will re eeive full support from both sides of the House.

In South Africa

Until Dr. Verwoerd walked out of the Commonwealth all South Africans, like other Commonwealth nationals, had dual nationality. In South Africa they were South African citizens ; in the United King- dom they were regarded as British subjects. As such, they had all the privileges of the ordinary United Kingdom citizen. They needed no visas, for instance, to enter Eng- land, nor did they need work per- mits. And in foreign parte where South Africa had no diplomatic Tepresentatives it was the United Kingdom which looked after the in- terests of South Africans.

But since last May that position has changed, and English. South Africans are watching closely the terms of the South African bill flow up in the British House of Commons. For after May 81 this year South Africans will become foreigners in Britain. Also, unless South Africa decides otherwise, British citizens will be foreigners there. For many English-speaking South Africans this is a matt-r ef some concern. It is estimated that something like 30,000 of them

‘travel with British passports. Another trouble which its racial has brought on South Africa

Olympic committee. That woud pe a bitter blow to the sport-loving South African community, both English and Afrikaans-speaking.

Premier Verwoerd, however, may not be worrying over-much about these matters As a counterbalance, he can show that the bank reserves of the country have risen to an ail- time high. His government, as a re- sult, proposes to pay off all its in- debtedness to the International Bank in the next three months—a sum of approximately $38,000,000. A year ago the reserves were at s0 low an ebb that stringent measures had to be taken to safeguard them. Import controls were reimposed, ind the country’s speedy reaction to this and other government measures has proved once again the intrinsic soundness of the South African economy. It is seemingly well pre- pared to go its own way financially, for the time being at least.

Money Well Expended

The federal government’s voca- tional training plan has come under fire in the House of Cofmons, Mr. Walter Pitman, NDP member for Peterborough, complained that the scheme has dissolved into a “wild spending spree”, unrelated to need. We do not know how far his detail- ed criticism was justified, but surely the principle of increased aid for promoting vocational training as a means of combating unemployment is a sound one. Indeed, it is one of the best policies the Conservatives have come up with at Ottawa, and merits commendation rather than blame.

Under the act which took effect @ year ago the federal government contributes 75 per cent of provincial expenditures in retraining unem- ployed workers; 75 per cent of pro- vincial capital expenditures for technical and vocational training facilities up to March 81, 1968 and 50 per cent thereafter; and 50 per cent of the costs of other training programs. In addition, the federal government will pay 50 per cen: of any financial assistance granted to trainees. As Provincial Treasurer McQuaid explained in his budget speech on Tuesday, this Province is providing $2,387,193 under this plan for the coming fiscal year, and it will receive in return from Ottawa some $1,790,394.

A good bargain, surely. Not a “wild spending spree”, unrelated to need, but a program very ’ closeiy related to the most pressing need the country is facing now and will continue to face for some years to come.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Conservative candidate de- feated in the recent Orpington by- election in Britain had the best alibi we've heard yet. “Nothing went wrong with our campaign at all,” he explained. “It’s just that voters did not respond in the way we had

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* Mr. Pearson concedes that there is at least one incouraging thing about Canada’s foreign policy—it shows a desire to understand and co-operate with the African and Asian nations which have awakened to political consciousness and free- dom. This is a tribute to the zeal shown by External Affairs Minister Green—with whom, we suspect, Mr. Pearson has more in common than Mr. Green has with some of his government colleagues. Ooo ee It is a fair inference, says the Victoria Colonist, that the Union Jack will be omitted from the desizn of the proposed new Liberal national flag. Concern in some circles may now centre on whether or not the fleur-de-lis, the fount of Quebce sentiment, will be included in the design or left out equally with the Union Jack in a new flag arrange ment all her. This is the Liberals would do well to dis- close before the forthcoming election. ee oe

Commenting on the crisis in the disarmament talks at Geneva, the New York Times goes back to the last words of the eighth chapter of Genesis: “While the earth remain- eth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.” Mankind, says The Times, can now very nearly make them. cease. But nobody, not even the most logical Marxian, wants to do this. “Let us be patient in this coming new grow. ing season,” it adds, “in our ettorte to find a method for life, not

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INTERNATIONAL DOWNHILL RACE OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

Deplorable Tactics On Both Sides

Indications that the 1962 gen- | eral election might deteriorate into “the Battle of the Mud" were recently deplored in this column,

“Liberal politicians,” I wrote, “have descended to personal attacks, staging an almost daily vilification of Prime Minister Diefenbaker.””

Specifically, Judy LaMarsh, | the able M. P. for Niagara. and Lucien Cardin, the bearer of a famed Quebec name who repre- sents Richelieu-Vercheres, had both used expressions in the House which contravened the rules of debate; and in each case the Speaker had ordered the of- fending Member to withdraw | their words,

Panning is not an acceptable substitute for planning on Par- Nament Hill. And in this, 1 wrote, the Liberals are not showing us Canadian politics at their most admirable.

STOP THE CLOCK

That column was intended for publication in this space on March 9. To permit simultane- ous publication of this column

all 23 daily newspapers of the Thomson Company, some as far distant from Ottawa as P.E.I. | and Vancouver Island, I have to write approximately seven | days ahead of publication date.

This time lag caught up with me in my comments on Liberal mud-slinging. For between the! writing and the publication of | my criticism, two Conservative M.Ps joined in this deplorable practice. On March §, Harry White, the mild-mannered long- time M.P. for Middlesex addressed a small private ering of about 35 Conservatives in his riding; he charged that Liberal Leader Mike Pearson had sided with the Communists against Britain and France at the time of Suez.

condemned “the supermen of | Europe" in the same bag with | communist Ru: with the heat hindsight of 1962,

and his award of the Nobel Peace Prize, |

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‘The outcry which has assault- | ed Messrs Cardin, White and Woolliams and Miss LaMarsh | may serve the admirable pur-

| pose of halting the 1962 trend to-

wards” mud. And in deploring this trend as I did two weeks ago, I was writing with the in- side knowledge that distinguish- ed and decent - minded Lib- erals were already aghast at their party's search for muddy ammunition. digression from the important work of planning for Tomorrow, Lib- erals were, for example, seek- ing out Yesterday's criticisms of the war records of Conserva- tives twenty and even forty years ago. To which irrelevancy, of course, the scathing answer could be the now equally irrele- vant question: What did Prime Minister Mackenzie King do from 1914 to 1917?

Young Kennedy's Aims

Milwaukee Journal

Edward M. (Ted) Keanedy | wants to start at the top. Just turned 30, and therefore just | qualified for the job, he is going | to run for the Massachusetts se- | nate seat formerly held by his brother, the president.

It isn’t clear how the president feels about it. Most of his advis- ers don’t like it. If the younger Kennedy wins, his success will be attributed to White House in- fluence. If he loses, it will be

eld proof that there are too many Kennedy's in high places.

Young Kennedy's chief op- ponent is a nephew of House Speaker McCormack, who strongly supports his kin. Rela- tions between the president and frequently |

McCormack have

been strained, This could strain them further, and that wouldn't be good for executive - legisla- tive harmony.

The stand of young Kennedy is that it is the duty of any American to undertake public service, if he is in position to do so and can make a contribu- tion. He feels that he can mal

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Her husband died at a) from drinking when her young- est child was 2. “I'm now

wn housework, and work outside five days a week the year around.”

year old widow, 8.8, | takes care of her apartment, including the laundry. She driv- es her car on errands and to vi- | sit friends, While she is not a Pollyanna, she says, she always | has taken each day as it came | and tried not to worry about tomorrow.

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well and happy. All I need is a good waltz partner.” These letters are wonderful. (Dr, Van Dellen will answer

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this view. It is a free country,

We suspect, however, that one of these days the president may have cause to wis of his relatives would tend to the Kennedy family’s wide flung business interests and keep out of the headlines. There seems to be a growing feeling of “too many Kennedys.”

Next Move In Algeria

By Doug Canadian

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NEW BLOOD VESSELS M. writes: you

A. M. R mentioned that angina pectoris | could be helped when the nar- | rowed coronary artery develops

new branches. I am troubled severely by this ailment and would like to hear more about | how this ts done, |

EI | The heart meets this crisis |

by opening up new passage: | ways to bridge the obstructed | segment of ry artery.

e corona: More blood is brought to the heart muscle through these col- lateral vessels. This is a long and tedious process, requiring year or more to complete. |

ACTIVE SLEEPER | E. P. writes: My 18 year old daughter has been. talking and laughing in her sleep since age | 4. We ask her if she remembei what it was all about when she awakens, but she says no. Is | there anything wrong? Shi perfectly normal otherwise.

REPLY No, so long as her nocturnal activities do not interfere with | sleep.

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for French gourmets. are selling for gastronomic pric- es. The “black diamonds of the kitchen” recently brought a re- cord $21 a pound in Paris, Truffles are a vital ingredient | of the highest of the high cui-| sine. They impaft a distinctive Pungent flavor to sauces, gar- nishes, and stuffings. A sauce Madere without truffles is un- thinkable.

Gourmets also relish truffles baked whole in hot coals, steep- ed in cream or wine, grated | in omelets, chopped in fondues, sliced over eggs Benedict, and tossed in salads,

TRUFFLE IS FUNGUS

This paragon of the palate Is | a small, black fungus. A mem- ber of the genus Tuber, the truf- fle is related both to mushrooms | and to less appetizing fungi such | yeasts, molds, and mildews. | Tt occasionally is found in the United States but is not often hunted here.

Truffles grow in clusters un- derground. Misroscopic filaments attached to the roots of trees, usually oaks, are believed to supply nourishment.

‘The fungus is capricious in

1005 | a host tree. A recent French study of truffle culture Indicated that some trees have “a special truffle vocation.” The problem for truffle farmers is that no one can predict with certainty which tree will be hospitable. It often is the scraw- niest oak in a grove.

A truffle grower needs, besid- es trees with vocations, a dog, a pig, or a goat. The human sense of smell rarely can de- tect the piquant perfume of the buried fungus, Fi people usually hunt with trained pigs, In Italy dogs lead the search,

ians use goats.

jot every pig is a potential truffle hunter. The female's sen- - smell seems to be more acute than the male's. French farmers test the females in a litter by offering them truffle tidbits. The animals that dis- play the most interest receive basic training around the age of

two,

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acorns, beans, or corn,

vorite fungus for centuries. The | Roman poet Juvenal wrote that | Libya might keep its wheat if only it would send its truffles The ancient Greeks and Ro mans them as delicae | cies and love stimulants. They | dedicated the fruit to Venus and warned that “those who wish to lead virtuous lives should ab stain from truffles.”

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