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* Speech From’ The Throne
“With one exception, to which we- < shall refer later, the Speech from the
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the Legislature was full and com- prehensive. It runs to 51 paragraphs, 10 being devoted. to agricultural matters, 12 to education and.8 to
_ health and welfare. So far as we can
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recall, this establishes something of a record and is to~be warmly com- mended on that score. . Among the highlights are the legislation to introduce hospital in- surance, increase teachers’ salaries, construct a stddents’ residence for Prince of Wales College, provide. extra grants to school districts 6n a fiscal need and per pupil require- ment basis, assist young’ people to become established on farms, extend the dairy herd improvement program and appoint a potato fieldman. These are but a few of the many progress- ive policies dealth with.
We note with approval the strong emphasis placed on the “critical and
serious” situation at Borden and the
the need for a new icebreaking ferry for’ this service; also the reference to the recent freight rate increase and the efforts being made, jointly with the other Atlantic Provinces, to obtain some alleviation of this burden.
All too. brief, however, is the para- graph dealing with federal-pro- vincial fiscal relations. The Speech of the monthly payments on the adjust- ment grant of $2,500,000 which was approved for each of the four fiscal years commencing April 1, 1958. It notes that we are the only Province not to benefit from the increase last year in the rate used in calculating income .under the Tax Arrangement Act. That is all. Not a word about the opportunity that may be knock- ing at the door of this Province during the present year, in the offer from Ottawa to join in a thorough study of our whole financial relat- ions. wae
The Provincial Government has evidently agreed to this proposal, for on Monday Finance Minister Fleming announced in Parliament that eight Provinces had indicated their will-
|. angness to take part:in the study.
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Only Newfoundland and Alberta were stil] to be heard from.
The joint committee to be set up for this fiscal inquiry will cover the field exhaustively. There will be “no limit” -on discussions provided they fall within a reasonable scope. Mr. Fleming expressed hope that the Provincial Treasurers would be able to meet with him as soon as possible—probably after the end of the regular Legislative sessions--- and set an. agenda of studies to be _ undertaken by technical officers of the committeee In the meantime, the provincial ministers have been asked for their proposals for subjects of study by technical officers. “The success of a conference,” he empha- sized, “depends on the preparatory work.” A federal official will shortly
- tour the provincial capitals to dis-
cuss with provincial officials the groundwork for the ministerial con- ference.
Here, we submit, is a matter of prime importance. It may be dealth with later in the seSsion, but the Throne Speech-should have covered it in general terms, if only to indi- cate the Government’s interest in the subject and the preparations being: made to present our fiscal claims convincingly. : ~
British-French Differences
One of the reasons why there. is allied disunity—or, at least, serious
differences of opinion--in matters affecting.the various European pradblems is the dispute’ between
Britain and France in trade affairs. Statesmen of the two countries may say thzt-all is welF politically. But politics and trade are- closely re- lated; and there is no doubt that at the moment Britain and France are engaged in an intense commercial rivalry. In fact, not for many years have -relatiens between the two countries been so strained as they are how. i
Britain blames France for turn-
The Guardian
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11, 1959. |.
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ing down the former's free trade proposal. France, on the other
want free trade in Europe without having to curtail the preferences given Commonwealth countries. The Common Market, an organization of six nations, including France but not Britain; is expected to help the French economy. That, of course, is why the French are so enthus- iastic about it. Reports say, how- ever, that if has already hurt Bri- “tish industry which is finding it in- creasingly difficult to compete suc- _cessfully with French and West German firms.’ The British feel,
-}.;probably correctly, _ that. the _Euro-
pean free trade formula, which would allow Britain to retain her trade ties with the Commonwealth, would be supported by all the other Common Market signatories, -were it not. for French opposition to the plan.
There is. evidence, too, that the United States is favouring the French-sponsored Common Market, as opposed to the wider free trade as advocatéd by the British. This
British-French relations.
Mr. Macmillan’s Trip
Prime Minister Macmillan’s im- pending trip to the Soviet Union is, in part, an act of diplomatic courtsey. The invitation has been open since Premier Khruschev visited Britain in the summer of 1956. In part, of course, it is an attempt to sound out the Russians on their real intentions regarding the _ reunification of Germany, the status of West Berlin and other European problems. While he is in Moscow, Mr. Macmillan might be able to explore the feasi- bility of a high level conference.
But there is little doubt that the Prime Minister’s trip is tied in with British domestic politics. Sometime in the next year, probably in late spring or early fall, Mr. Macmillan _will be going to the country in a general election. Anything that might help the Conservatives to win is worthy of consideration: and it is clear that any lessening of cold war tensions resulting from Mr. Mac- millan’s private talks with Russian leaders would increase his prestige at home considerably.
Conservative prospects _at the moment are not as promising as they
cause of rising unemployment and other economic difficulties. The latest public opinion polls, for what they are worth, give them about-a 50-50 chance. Plainly, an imaginative and bold step in the (international | field is just the thing needed to give the Government a lift, previded, of course, something worthwhile and stimulating comes of it.
EDITORIAL NOTES
’ Science Service says that skin divers who go up to a shark and grab it by the tail are inviting trouble. Not only do they “invite” it; they deserve it.
Arnold Heeney, one of Canada’s top diplomats, has taken over his duties as Ambassador to the United States. This is the second time that Mr. Heeney has served in Washing-
ton.
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It has been discovered that in Britain the cigarette butts that are thrown away are 65 per cent shorter ‘than those discarded by American
’ smokers. This, of course, applies to Britain as a whole. In Scotland the percentage is somewhat higher.
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It is reported that U.S. Secre- tary of State Dulles and President de Gaulle of France have agreed on a “firm stand” on the future of Germany in face of Russian threats regarding West Berlin. “Taking a firm stand” is one of those diplo- matic phrases that have various shades of meaning. What is cone
sidered firmness in Paris might con- ceivably be considered rashness in Washington. It has happened ‘he- fore.
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An interesting ruling has been giv- en by Speaker Reland Mitchener in the House of Commons. Members, he said, can’t insist on, answers to their questions. “A question usually calls. for a reply, but not necessarily for an answer.” Our legislators will duly note this distinction. It was ap- plied when Hon. Paul Martin at-
«tempted, unsuccessfully, to draw Prime Minister Diefenbaker out on the subject of convening a new. fed-
eral-provincial’ tax conference.
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JACK THE GIANT-KILLER :
OTTAWA REPORT
Those CBC Press Conferences
By Patrick
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The mounting pile of letters, which readers of this column are writing to me about the CBC, | suggests that a dilution of the! one-sided viewpoint on current | affairs on the CBC is a topic near and dear to the hearts of many of you.
It would be unreasonable for me to make this charge of par- tiality on the part of the CBC) without ample evidence to sup- Port it. So today I will back up| earlier criticisms by taking vou behind the scenes on one of the best-known CBC programs on cur-| rent affairs. I will tell you sec- rets. which have never before been made public, andyou can) form your own opinion.
“Press Conference” had its ori-| gin as a radio program. In those days the chairman used to select four or five of his regular “‘birds of a feather’ and one or two guests, to form the panel of in-! quisitors with him. |
A genuine press conference is | intended to enable newspapermen to report the pros and cons on! current topics with a well-inform- | ed background. A promineat pub- lic personage makes a s‘atement | on some subject or set of cir-! cumstances; he is asked unre}! hearsed questions seeking clari-| fication or amplification: and’ he faces further questions on any topic which his audience of mewspapermen may consider of | interest to their readers.
Cc. B. C. BULL-BAITING
But the undisclosed purpose of | the CBC. program is evidently not | that it should be a genuine press/ conference. It is frankly a verbal |
bull-fight, in which the chairman
Nicholson g acts as toreador, and his panel must play picadors at his com- mand. The P. P. P. of course is slated for the role of victim, and the carefully planned climax would see him prostrated on the sand, bleeding to political death from the poisoned lances stabbed into his exposed hide
There is occasionally a CBC Press Conference with a reverse twist. in which ‘he P. P. P. is a
darling of the CBC boys. Then the object is not to assassinate | his public character, but to hoist | him onto a prepared pedestal. |
But it is the bull+ight which I shall describe.
The chairman used to summon his minions to a secret’ prelimin- ary planning sesssion. For per- haps two hours the panellists | would be invited by the. chairman to suggest possible questions. But somehow they almost always broke up to find their own pet questions. vetoed, while they were each supplied by the chairman with two approved and general- ly loaded questions which they would be permitted to ask
The bull of course was not privy to this preliminary frame-up.
BULL ON THE AIR Gathered in the studio. chairman would call out name of each panellist in turn. Only then would he be allowed
to open his mouth, dutifully to,
thrust an approved banderilla into the bull. On one program I was so dis-
the the |
gusted by this one-sided crucifi- xion of a foreign diplomat, ‘who | had unwittingly agreed to be guest bull, that I raised my voice above the chairman's, to interject |
an unapproved question designed to steer the bull away from the plotted embarrassment. It took the picadors ten minutes to coax him back into the centre of the bull-ring. Then I loudly threw out apother red herring question. He was finally saved by the bell. Later, the\jntended victim private. ly thanked me for “getting me off the hook, as you say in Can ada.”’
After thus flagrantly disobey- ing the rules of that shameful plot. I was of caurse never again invited by any CBC agent to participate in ‘“‘Press Confer- ence:"’ nor do I expect or hope to be a party to any similar frame-ups in future
But three times since, the CBC tias asked me to broadcast a talk. Each time, the CBC has re- fused to meet my condition for a written undertaking that they would -censor neither my topic nor my script. The inference is obvious.
Lest you think I am just an angry young man finding the grapes sour, let me say that. de- ploring the dangers inherent in a state broadcasting system (which have partly come to pass here), I am very happy that for several years I have been invited to broadcast over 93 private radio stations. They allow me complete freedom of speech; they have paid me at higher rates than the C B C; ‘and they bring in a large fan mail. The head of the Radio Bureau recently wrote to me: “I am absolutely amazed at the mail response you are getting, never having seen anything like it in the 16 years I have been in broadcasting.”” _
That is the background for my belief that the CBC “Press Con- ference’’ should be purged, by having a changing panel repre- sentative of different viewpoints. and by inviting the bull to at- tend the preliminary bull-session.
Insect Extraordina
Armco World Magazine Publication of Arabian American Oil Co.
Before you grind your next cockroach under your heel, spare a thought for this astonishing lit- Ue fellow who is indeed one of the most remarkable creatures alive.
Of all creatures who lived 20 million years ago, during the car- only the cock- roach has survived viftually un- chanzed. While the dinosaurs per- ished and all other creatures had to undergo considerable. changes in order to survive, the cockroach went on living as it had always -done. This most primitive of ,all winged insects was, right trem | the start, perfectly fitted for its particular and peculiar way of life.
It came triumphantly through eons of time during which most
of the earth was disconcertingly
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frozen, fried, dried out and en- guifed, in succession. It has been constantly harassed by ernemiies such as birds, frogs, hedgehogs, dogs and wasps which eat it, Man has persistently waged war on it because of its scavenging dirty habits. EXTRAORDINARY QUALITIES Only extraordinary quali- ties have enabled the cockroach to survive so successfully. First of all, the cockroach is not bedev- iled by a fastidious palate vr bothered by a harassing hunt for vitamins. It w.ll eat or drink al-\ most anythmg. It’s as happy about the peeling paint on the | toolshed as it is with the white- wash on the wall or a moldering pile of papers, rags, cardboard, boot polish, hair, or its own moulted shells. If you were to go
. _ Island Centenarians
P. E. Island Historical Society
Did you know that our soil fs supposed to contribute to long life? :
We pride ourselves on the num-
ber of our citizens who have liv- ed beyond the century mark, and we recall such centenarians as Ronald Neil MacDonald of St. Peters who died in 1953, aged 104; Mrs. Hannah Rogerson of Coleman whose dates were Janu- ary 20, 1852-January 3, 1956: Mis. Steel of Gasperaux who died Jan- uary 8, 1842, aged 106: and Mrs. Donald Graham of Margate who probably holds the provincial re- cord for longevity and whose his- tory we shall now relate.
The ship ‘‘Falmouth,” bearing settlers for Covehead, sailed from Perth, Scotland, in 1770. Among the company was a Jamieson family in which there was & comely maiden named Jean who caught the fancy of a young, set- tler named Laurence Brown. Now in those days it took a long time to cross the Atlantic, and youths and maidens had plenty of time
te fall in and out of love several-
times over. Laurence and Jean became so attached to each other that they pledged their troth, and eaused a fellow settler, Mr. Dru- mmond, to enter a note in his diary under date of December 21, 1770, that Laurence Brown and Jean Jamieson ‘‘were marr.ed and bedded in new house at Stanhope."’ As further proof of their mutual. affection, ‘the pair became the parents of thirteen children: ,Charlotte, Jane, John, Elizabeth, William, Catherine, Margaret, Janet, Isabella, Mary, Ann, Rebecca; James. ae Catherine married Donald Gra- ham and lived in Margate, and on the day of her death, this re- markable lady lacked bft four- teen days of being one hundred and eleven years old. When she was seven years old, a vicious rooster pecked out one of her eyes, but this only seemed to make the other stronger. and it retained its strength and luster to the end.of her long and busy
life, she being able to read and sew without glasses to the day of her death.
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so far as to give the cockroach the lease of your bathroom cabin- et, it would graze contentedly there on a diet of aspirins, sham- poo, toothpaste, soap, hair brush- es or anything else it coyld lay its tongue on.
‘It drools over anything sweet and starchy such as bread and potatoes, but when imes are hard it will eat ink, boot polish. oilcloth and even its own empty egg cases—or the bodies of its dead companions. Or it may even attempt to dine off your eyelashes and fingernails wiile you’ sleep. Q LIKES BEER :
Amusingly, beer 1s its delight —and sometimes its undoing. Do- zens will tumble head first into an inch of beer in an abandon- ed glass and drown. The cock- Toach’s sweet tooth for beer has occasionally driven it into ex- cesses. It has been known to chew fway the beer soaked whis- kers of a man who was sleeping off a particularly good party.
On the other hand, if it is fore- ed to go on a diet of fresh air the cockroach can stick it out for 76 days at least and come up smiling, if somewhat wan.
Beer apart, the cockroach guided by good sense and ab- stention. After being starved fo: 76 days by a curious entomolo gist, the weak and transparen‘’ cockroaches did not rush the vlates of food set before them «They ate sparingly over the first few days until their systems haé become adjusted.
IN PRIME CONDITION
Dieting or not, the cockroach is always in ‘prime athletic con dition. Even its wide belly is no obstacle if it has to make a quick getaway from one of its myriac enemies. It can sheer off at ; startling rate. (Incidentally, cock reach racing is a popular spo’ in China and‘ India. Mature mal- es are raced toward a rope smeared with honey. A good per- former can cover 50 yards in un- der a minute'. ,
The cookroach's second name .§ probably caution. Nocturnal by nature, it can go about its cellar: and basements as silently as the grave. Very sensibly the cock- roach avoids gaudy raiment. Its wings mimic the shape of leav-
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| By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D.
Your ability to differentiate be- tween tones is likely to deterior- ‘ate, too. ‘
TEMPORARY TROUB ES
How Alcohol, - Dims Vision
These troubles, of course, are
As a group, bus drivers prob- ably are among the best drivers in the nation. _
Yet tests applied to a group of experienced bus drivers showed that, after a couple of drinks, some of them were ready to try to drive through a gap which was 14 inches narrower than their bus-
es. A DEPRESSANT
It was not that the alcohol made them more willing to take rists; it was that its depressant effect on the central nervous sys- tem made them fail to see the danger involved. :
The conclusion of this study is that a man’s judgment of his own driving ability is impaired when the alcoho] con¢entration in his blood is less than 0.5 milli- gram per milliliter.
Now that is not very much al- éohol. When you are driving, however, it is too much, far too much.
QUESTION AND ANSWER
M.N.: My husband takes about! 100 aspirins a week. Also, he drinks liquor frequently.
What effect will this have on his health?
Answer: -Excessive indulgence in both alcohol and aspirin is not conducive to good health.
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step but it's not much use to the hiisband who puts his wife's let- ters in his pocket and iets them hibernate there.—Ottawa Jgurmal
out the suggestion of industrial- ist Cyrus Eaton that U.S. State Secretary Dulles be fired is that he never stays anywhere long enough for a count-down. — Braxtford Expositor. 4s
Eisenhower was ‘the sident criticized for golf? In 1908 ex =~ President- ~—Roose- yelt wrote Taft: I am convinced
rlaying has not been wise; I hope your people prevent one word being sent ouf about it— Toronto Telegram ee
6 Shades of the wild and woolly West! There’s rustlers in them Manitoba hills and cattlemen in the province. are banding togeth- er to stamp the varmints togeth- Last week some 350 ‘cattlemen, quite properly riled about the dis- appearance of good fat beef from their-corrals, held meetings. in various parts of the province.— Winnipeg Free Press
Admiral Deoenitz, Hitler’s suc- cessor for 20 days as Chancellor of the Reich, says in his memoirs that he cannot understand how ‘orrors such as Buchenwsld could have existed in Germany: vithout his knowledge. Someday, “omewhere, there may be found a former Nazi who admits know- ing there were concentration comps. — Ottawa Journal.
MAKE IRON CHEAPER
LONDON (Reuters! — Russian experts are designing the worki’s biggest blast furnaces, able _ to produce iron five per cent cheaper than normal, the Soviet news agency Tass said Monday. Several of the furnaces will have a capacity of 2.615 cubic yards and one will reach 2,985 cubic yards—614 cubic yards more than the biggest one in the United States, the agency claimed.
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But say it ten times each on the other
And you dare not use it: you chose another.
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In the Christian Science Monitor
The Age Old Story
Then shalt thou have they de- light in the Almighty, and shalt lift up they face unte God.
president of the Eastern King’s Board of Trade at the annual meeting held last night in the Twon Hall. Other officers in- clude Art Peters, vice-president; R. A. Leard, secretary-treasurer; executive committee, Walter Mac- Donald, L. W. Roper, J. H. M. Dalziel. W. A. Acorn and James Brennan.
MAXIMS
The greater the difficulty, the
| more glory in surmounting it. |
Skilful pilots gain ther reputa- | tion from storms and tempests. |
OUR YESTERDAYS
(Frem The Guardian Fiies)
TWENTY—FIVE YEARS AGO (Feb. 11, 1934)
With the thermometer register- | ing just a few degrees above | zero the Victoria Driving Club carried on their program of ice races Saturday afternoon, but it was somewhat abbreviated by the absence of a number of start- ers who preferred comfort at home to being partially frozen} on the harbour ice. There were, | however, over one hundred spec- tators watching the races.
The deciding game between | the O'Leary Maroons and Well- | ington Battlers for a right to! play in the playoffs for the Mac- Lean Cup was played at O’- Leary on Thursday evening and ended in a 3-3 tie. This gave the section to O'Leary with a staand- | ing of 8. to Wellington 6. O'Leary | will now play off with Summer- | side. |
' TEN YEARS AGO ee (Feb. 11, 1949) i
A resolution “to proceed’ to} form a co-operative’ with a pro- | posed share- capital of $20.000, | “to handle surplus milk, feeds | and groceries and any other lin- es which subscribed share capi-' tal will warrant’’ was adopted at a representative meeting of the | Milk Producers of the Charlotte- | town area in the Co-operative Union offices last night.
Mr. B. L. Stewart was elected |
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Early in its career the cock- | roach acquired remarkable ae. | sight. Its eyes combine the best features of infrared and radar. Each eye has 1,800 lenses that can pierce the deepest gloom and (in human terms) spot a morsel of food two miles off. ANOTHER TALENT
Another talent that has always stood the cockroach in good stead ds its ability to compress its bulk into the tiniest holes and the nar- rowest cracks. If they should get | into a really tight spot. more- over, many—but aot all—can rev up and become airborne. In some species, the females are wingless. g
The only thing that worries the cockroach much is climete. It prefers the tropics, and its ideal temperature is from 70 to 80 degrees. When the mercury drops to 35 degrees, today’s cockroach becomes uncomfortable, and around 20 degrees it curls up its toes and dies.
Long sea voyazes don’t upset it: Traveling as a stowaway the cockroach has established itse’! as an unwelcome citizen in every country of the world. When the Phoenicians explored the Mediter- ranean the cockroach stowed away in their galleys. It almost certainly went to the new world with Columbus or shortly after- ward. America today has 53 spec- fes \of cockroaches, but only a handful of these members of the
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