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~ Expanded Truck Service In his statements before the -House of Commons railway commit- tee this week, Mr. Donald Gordon {n- dicated that the Canadian National Railway is planning to expand its highway transport operations. sub- ’ gtantially. While cautious about’ its immediate plans, he said the Rail- way has in mind an integration of its own rail and road transpory+that will enhance its net financijgf posi- tion. There is some traffic now on the rails that could be better handled by trucks, including less-than-car- load lots of merchandise. Discus- sions regarding purchase of truck- ing organizations have been held, but none has yet been bought. Ac- cording’ to a Canadian Press report, an-unpublicized plan would be for expansion of the CNR subsidiary known as Canadian National Trans- portation Limited, with revenue which the railway expects to obtain shortly from the Federal Treasury.

If railway savings can be effected by this means, while providing more expeditjéus service! it should be wel- com v the taxpayers generally. In

- thefe Atlantic Provinces particularly,

have been handicapped every time horizontal rail rate increases have been imposed, and the Federal Cabi-

net has now indicated that no fur- ther boosts of this kind will be al- lowed until a Royal Commission in- quiry into the whole freight rate structure has been made. We cannot, | in reason, object to the railways seeking other means of meeting their financial problems, as they are already doing to some extent.

_ . Some years ago our Island Legis- lature turned down a CNR proposal for a bus service here which would, we believe, have been of great advan- tage to the Province. It was planned at that time to establish a bus main- tenance department on railway pro- perty in Charlottetown, and modern terminal facilities in the centre of the city. The buses that were being built for this service were the finest in Canada, and all the arrangements were drafted with a view to giving a service that would be a model for developments along the same line in- other Provinces. Interested parties were vociferous in their opposition to the scheme, however, and our legis- lators meekly .took their cue from them. :

They refused to grant the fran- - @hise which the Railway was séek- . ing; and it was not long afterwards that the Railway obtained, through

the Transport Commissioners, au- ‘thority to curtail its passenger train service during several months of the.

. year. Wehad then totake what

we could get in the way of supple- mentary service, and we have been taking it ever since. The Railway never renewed the generous offer it had made in the first place, and we ‘ean hardly blame it. 5

In the present case it is not a new service but-an expansion of its exist-

ee ——

ing truck service which the Railway. {-

is planning, and which has already proven of value on a limited scale in this Province. Since the details have not been announced, it is useless dis- éussing it further; but we see no reason why it should not make for

‘ added efficiency as well as economy. At any rate we hope it will not be damned out of hand before it gets under .way. We have many just causes of complaint in transportation matters, but we only harm ourselves by opposing measures that are nec- essary and inevitable.

Bad News From Turkey * Tt is disturbing to note the re- cent changes in Turkey, which seem- ed to be travelling hopefully down the road to full democracy. In the ‘period from January 15 to Febru- ,ary 15 this year, nine Turkish edit- ors were jailed or fined, or both, for “offenses” that would be laughed rout of court in countries with true internal freedom. For example, editor Beyhan Cenkci of the news- paper Ulus was given’a year in jail And fined $1,110 for publishing a tement of Kasim Gulek, Repub- . Titan party leader, which the gov- ernment said attacked the prestige

|) @f fthe administration, Cenkci, al-

ernment officials, harming the gov- ernment’s prestige, failing to print

It isn’t of course, just a quarrel with newspapers. This curbing of free speech is the inevitable first step to dictatorship and tyranny. History is full of examples of this

- kind, and there are no exceptions. -

Turkey has many friends in the free world, but she will not keep

them long if she follows the course }

her leaders have now embarked upon. _ 8

The Ontario Election

The provincial election in Ontario has been set for June 11, and it will surprise everybody, including’ the Liberals, if the Conservatives are not returned to continue, ine Premier Frost’s words, “our great program of the last 10 years.” That’s a long time to be in office, and it,may be that Mr. Frost is taking things too much for granted. But he has good reasons: for his optimism. The present party” strength in the Legislature is: Con-

servative, 83; Liberals 11; CCF, 3; -

wacant, one. The Government won 12 byelections more or less handily since the last general test, the last two by acclamation.

More than that, in the last decade—

Ontario’s population has increased y one-third—from four and a half aie in 1949 to approximately six million today. In that time it has at- tracted 800,000 people to the Pro- vince from other countries. There has been a $20 billion increase in On- tario’s physical assets, a threefold increase in its power supply, a 40 per cent improvement in the living stand- ards of its wage-earners, an increase of 425,000 units in its housing, and a doubling of its manufacturing out- put. e All this, of course, is not due to Premier Frost; but he can take cre- dit for aggressive policies that aided the Province’s phenomenal expan- sion, and there is no dashing Mitchell Hepburn to challenge his prestige among his opponents. It is hoped by most observers, however, that there will be a stronger Opposition after the election. Topv-heavy majorities are not good for any government, and we doubt if Mr. Frost would be much displeased if he“ost some twenty or more of his supporters in the last House—provided they were the right ones.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The financial position of this Pro- vince might not be as good as we

would like it to be. But it is a lot”

better than that of the State of Michigan. There, according to a re- cent report, the Government has only -$221% million to meet obligations to- talling more than $139 million.

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Sir David Eccles, President of the British Board of Trade, said in a re- cent speech that “no one in'Englard buys a newspaper except to find out what his football team is doing or what horse is likely to win the next day.” It should be noted that Eng- lish papers don’t go in much for

comic strips. * s *

A spokesman for the \United |

States Geological Survey says that

, a. new mineral discovered in Wyom-

ing has no known economic iniport. ance. It is called “labuntsovite, a complex sodium-potassium-niobium, titanium silicate’. One would ima- gine that anything with a name like that would be entitled to some dis- tinction. » s s

A rule that is strictly observed in news reports of Presidential con- ferences in Washington is that state- ments made by the President must be quoted exactly as they were spoken, without the slightest editing. Some- times this makes for strange prose—

for example, the following was re-_|

ported hy the New York Times: “Now I do believe that unless the United States is prepared to move forward, to carry forward a program of something, higher appropriations than.we are now using, and I say that because we have still been using the carry-over, something around: $8 ‘million, we are down to I “think a point, $1,800,000,000.”

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THE DOVE OF PEACE

~ Progress In.Cancer Research

By

Richard J. Gwynn

Ottawa Correspondent te The Guardian ;

A smail,. but potentsally very significant, step in the never- ending battle to find a’ cure for cancer has been taken in a joint program in Ottawa, Toronto and

_Guelph. The breakthrough hing- es around that well-known com- pound “royal queen bee jelly’,

which is the preparation gather- ed by worker bees to feed their

queen. Canadian scientists have found that by mixing royal bee -jelly

with a cancerous tumor and in- oculating this mixture into health mice. the mice do not contract the tumor. Important advance here is that normally if a mouse is injected with an extract from a cancerous fumor it will be infect- ed, develop a tumour and die m about two weeks.

Experiments along these lines, using more than 5,000 mice, have been carried out in the laborator- ies of the Health Department here. Dr. Joseph. F. Morgan, 41, has headed a group of research assistants.

ALONG SIMILAR LINES Working along similar, lines have been Dr. Gordon Townsend 44, of the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph; Dr. Wightman head of the therapeutics de- partment at the University of

| scientists co-authored

Toronto and his assistant, Dr. Barbara Hazelliton. These four a highly technical paper on their experi- ments which was read to a meet- ing of North American scientists at Atlantic City last month.

Research has been carried to a point where it is known that the substance which is capable ‘of stopping the growth of new tum- ‘ours lies in the fatty acid fraction. of the royal jelly. Its active in- grediemt carries the jaw-break- ing name of ‘‘Ten-Hydroxy-De- econoic-Acid.”

Dr. Morgan, a native of Van- couver who studied at the Uni- versity of British Columbia and Toronto, emphasized in a special interview with a Guardian re- porter, that progress so far does not hold out prospects fer an im- mediate cure for cancer. ‘We have taken an important, per- haps vital, step forward. We have found a substance that under certain conditions can probibit the growth of tumours in mice where ther would be expected to grow. But I want to emphasize very strongly our findings do not have any immediate application to the treatment of cancer. There is absolutely no suggestion of a

cure--yet. The potentialities of our discoveries at this state ‘must

Forest Fertilization.

Canadian Industries

Fertilization of Canadian for- ests for increased ‘tree produc- tion: may become as common some day as the fertilization of our crops. G.R, Snyder, techni- cal service manager of the agri- cultural chemicals division of Ca- nadian Industries Limited, says that growing trees, like any crop, remove Jange quantities of

pose mutrients from the soil which re-

quires replenishment.

Mr. Snyder maintains that one- quarter of all fores' land is in poorly stocked condition and that more fhan one-third of all com- mercial forest land is in medium or poor productivity. “The old belief that the humus which con- situtes the top layer of forest soil is rich in alil plant: nutrients is fast becoming a myth”, he says. “Laboratory tests have shown that many forest soils are defici- ent in nitrogen and, to a lesser de- gree, in phosphate, potash and a number of minor elements like boron _and magnesium”’.

Experiments in ebec during the last four yea C.LL, in co-operation with the Quebec Provincial Tree Nursery, Canad- ian International Paper and the Southern Canada PRower Com: pany, showed that young trees grown in nurseries on fertilized plots were much healthier and grew faster than trees on unfer- tilized check plots. At the Har- rington forest farm of Canadian International Paper, a cultivated and fertilized plot of hybrid pop-

PUBLIC FORUM

interest. The Guardian does not neses sarily en‘orse the opinion of corres” pondents.

STUDENTS’ TAX ASSISTANCE

Sir,—The university students in their request for tax assist- ance asked that the $500 exemp- tion” allowed parents be increas- ed to $1,000 for students. The present $500 exemption gives the sdowest income bracket parent $70 per year while the $50,000

able income parent receives $218.50. To double these wouldn't be much assistance where needed, most. ag

‘Because of the inequality in the income tax method of assistance

it is too bad the family ,allow--

ance assistance fbr students cuts off at age 16. This leaves some parents without federal help and makes ona wonder whether there is any merit in having two forms of family assistance. I am, Sir, ete. i

JOHN GILBERT

Hanover, Ontaria,

Limited, Montreal «

lars grew to a height of 21 feet in three years.

Canada, Mr. Snyder feels has been lagging behind other count- ries in research into forest fer- tilization. In the United States. Germany, the Netherlands and Japan there has been a w de- spread awakening to the fact that there will be an increasing. de- mand for forest products and

| that natural growth, eventually,

‘will not keep us with this de- marti Japanese foresters are currently working on a tree-fer-.

Airship See

PIONEPRS are not — rophets, and Dr. er, ae fame, was mistaken when he predicted the doom of the airship, warning ‘against any and all attempts to revive it. The increasing number of blimps hov- ering in the skies for a variety of purposes -is ample proof of the fact that the lighter-than-air craft still has its uses even in the atomic age. Nevertheless, it does not seem likely that lange air- ships will in the foreseeable fut- ure cross oceans and continents with cargos of passengers and freight.

When men who. had once signed and built airships of the Zeppelin: type recently consider- ed the question, decided,

Working out the new airships, they

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be purely guess-work. And scien- tists don’t guess.”

Dr. Morgan explained that while the addition of royal bee jelly to an extract from a tumour would prevent the development of a tumour in a healthy mouse, it would not kill a tumour which had already grown in a mouse. He said that experiments with the mixture even on tumours which had just begun to develop had not been successful.

THE NEXT STEP

The next step, he said, would be to make derivatives, ‘“‘per- haps tens, perhaps hundreds” and try them under varying con- ditions to discover one which could do just that—kill or stop a tumour which already existed. Dr. Morgan gaid that parrallel research had been going on in the Health Department labora- tories to grow normal and can- cerous cells and that the mix- ture, so far used only on mice, should be applied to these cell in test tubes and bottles under laboratory conditions. The pro- gram has been going ahead for three years. Dr. Morgan could give no idea when it might reach @ successful conclusion.

Dr. Morgan said one vital ad- vantage of royal bee jelly was that it had no harmful side-ef- fects on the mice. The majority of other potential cures for can- cer have had to be ruled out be- cause they could seriously harm the patient. tilization project which is ex- pected to speed up the growtfi of red pine for pulping to usable size from the normal 30-year per- iod.to 20 :ears.

“It has been predicted that in Canada the demand on our for- estis will be doubled in 40 years”, he says. “Add to this the destruc- tion by fires, insects and diseases and we will wake up some day to find that a great na- tural resource has diminised as surely as did the buffalo unless we give the same scientific atten- forest soils as we do to soils on which our agricul-

tural crops are so effeciently pro- ed”’.

o Comeback

Hew. a Steifibach hit on a principle in physics which the cra! the Zeppelin tradi- tion , apparently, over-look- ed: the vacuum.

Theoretically, at any rate, it would appear that an enclosed vacuum, being devoid of and therefore lighter than air, should float, provided of course that all other factors, such as the size of the vacuum and the weight of its walls, were nicely~balanced.

DISCRIMINATION ST. JOHN'S (CP) — Most of Newfoundland has been basking in warm sunshine since May 1,

~|but not St. John’s The weather-

only seven hours of sunshine in es many deys.

The Age Old Story By the Word of Thy lips I have

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which contains the spinal fluid.

When this fluid enters the needle, the anesthetist knows it is in the proper place. He then

ts an anesthetic’ solution

through the needle. The solution bathes the nerves running from the spinal cord in the area in the anesthetic, thus ‘anesthetizing them. HEAVIER FLUID

Now spinal fluid containing an anesthetic is heavier than spinal fluid alone. And this can be worked to the anesthetist’s ad- vantage.

Simply by adjusting the head of the operating table higher or

accuracy just how high the an- esthetic will spread along the spinal cord.

The cord, you see, is a long soft cord-like structure floating fn the fluid. It ranges fronmx the base of the skull downward. TWO NERVE TYPES

There are two types of nerves branching out from the cord. These are the sensory merves and the motor nerves. The sens- ory nerves carry sensations to the brain and the motor nerves transfer impulses from the brain to the muscles. It is-these im- pulses which make the muscles move.

Since the anesthetic solution works on both types of nerves, the brain feels oo pain and the muscles temporarily are unable to function.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

C.A. Is there some sort of so- dium shot which helps in mo- tion sickness?

A. Recently, injection of so- dium bicarbonate has proved helpful in preventing motion sick- ness in some cases for as long as one month. You should, of course, consult your doctor about this treatment. ‘

MAXIMS

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dark be too silent;

Ready, in the moment, to leave itself

If the dark should prove too dark.

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For the prints that it knows must be there,

Proving that the darkness is not new

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Into the darkness with the cau- tious step.

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TEN YEARS AGO

(May 9, 1949) ey

The main office of R.T. Hol- | man, Summerside, has been completely re-planned and reno-. | vated with the object of greater ~ efficiency and the object of giv- | ing better service to the custom-* ers. While the work has not been ~ entirely completed, the results so | far indicate a remarkable in= crease in efficiency with the work ~

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to prevent any peak or rush per-

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Members of the P.E.I. (17th, Reece) Regiment Band have. agreed to go to Newfoundland if~ the Band is selected by Com- . mand Headquarters to attend the. “Discovery Day” celebrations on June 24. A decision is expected in” the near future, and an accounce- ment will also \be made whethel

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Important Business Meeting

The business people of Tignish, St. Louis and

~ other centres in the western part of Prince County

TIGNISH LEGION HALL THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 14th NEXT = | AT EIGHT O’CLOCK To talk over the procuring of a bank in-Tignish in son. by athe near future. Everyone interested will kindly attend and dis- cuss the matter.

: ‘Tignish Village Commissioners.

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