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The Causeway Issue

It is gratifying to note the ex— planation, in today’s Guardian, by the Hon. J. Angus )Iachan as to the reference in a recent Ottawa dispatch to an item in the Gover- nor General’s Warrants for further investigation to d at e rm in e the “feasibility” of our Causeway pro- ject.

This statement dates back to the estimates which were prepared late in 1961. build the Causeway was made and announced several months later and the project is now in the planning stage. Under the methods of finan- cing expenditures when the House is not in session, however, the War- rants items have to be listed in ex- actly the same wording as they ap- peared in the estimates to which the expenditures have reference.

The feasibility study, Mr. Mac- Lean emphasizes, has in actual fact been completed and further refer- ence to the Causeway would have been contained in the 1963-64 esti- mates which were not tabled before the House prorogued, and there- fore are not made public. The study now is leading up to the actual con- struction of the Causeway, and is not related to a feasibility study at all.

This is in accord with the Prime Minister’s statement in the Com- mons on April 17 last year, when he said that the studies undertaken since 1958 had been to determine whether the project was feasible from an engineering point of view and justified from an economic point of View. and that “the answer in both cases is in the affirmative.”

This is it matter of vital import- ance to the people of this Province, and to the Maritimes generally. We trust that there will be no further confusion with regard to it. We have endeavored. in these columns, to back the project from its initial stages with all the arguments at our command. We have sought to keep the issue on a non-partisan basis, and have (ramped on a good many political toes in doing so. We have no. apology to make for that. But we would be remiss in our duty if we did not point out that the Conservatives, at present, are the only party pledged to this un- dertaking. We have failed to elicit a similar pledge from the Liberal Party leader. Mr. Pearson, and have heard nothing from Mr. Douglas as to the New Democratic Party’s views on the matter.

U.S. Dairy Controls 4 The U.S. Congress is now con- sidering one of its touchiest farm problems—how to reduce the $500 million a year cost of the dairy program. The agriculture commit- tees of both houses. meeting separ- ately, are in session on proposed legislation, about which there has

been a good deal of controversy. The U.S. government has price supported milk. butter and cheese for many years without controls over production. This year, with

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butter surpluses piling up, Presi-

; dent Kennedy asked for new dairy measures in the form of voluntary

yoluntarily marketed less milk would a higher price supports than who not join the program.

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incomes of dairy farmers. reduce the cost of the program to taxpay- ers. and curb the rise in government stocks of dairy products. Three bills which would modify the present pricing system for fluid milk and milk used for manufactured pro- ducts are under consideration by the Senate committee. showing a. marked disparity in viewa. One would set the price of surplus milk at a far lower figure than the others. There are also those who believe that the problem will solve itself without any change in law, as production and consumption come into balance.

After the present hearings are concluded the committees will re- port to Mr. Freeman who will later come up with his own report and recommendation. Under the present law, dairy products are supported by a rate of between 75 and 90 per cent of parity. For many years the cost of the program has averaged about $300 million or less a year. In 1961, however. it rose to more than $600 million.

It Backtired

One of the best Commonwealth schemes to be devised is that of pro. viding large numbers of scholar- ships to youths of newly developing African and other nations. It is working well, as was noted in these columns recently. But the Com- munists. too, have been making ef- forts along this line. The contrast in the results is striking, for no- where have they shown more clear- ly their faculty of clumsily wreck- ing their own clever designs.

They. too, offered tempting scholarships to African students. They carted them off to Moscow and Budapest and Sofia and other centres of the Communist bloc. In Moscow they established a “Friend- ship” university where the new- comers could be indoctrinated with- out danger of contamination to the native population. The A f ri c a n s We re herded together—segregated in fact—and fewer and fewer want.- ed to stay. When they did return home, their stories dissuaded others from accepting invitations to free Russian education at the price of racial segregation and mistreat- ment. . .A_

Now the same thing has been happening in other Communist countries. Currently the spotlight is on Bulgaria. There, recently, some 400 African students, angry at their treatment, formed an Afri- can Student Union to put force be- hind their protests. The government ordered it disbanded and arrested the leaders. When African students marched in protest, police and civilians attacked them, beat them and imprisoned many. About 100 Africans have fled Bulgaria. Most of the others are trying to find a way to get money to get out. Many are asking western embassies for help in doing so.

The story of these misadventures is spreading across Africa and doing more to show up Communism than any propaganda we can dream up.

' EDITORIAL NOTES

Soviet farms must double their output between now and the end of 1965. So said Premier Khrush- chev at a Kremlin conference of some 2,000 agricultural experts the other day. He didn’t say how it was to be done. That's for the experts to figure out, or else!

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In line with President Kennedy’s program for youth fitness, the story goes that a Wisconsin senator was so enthused that he gave up eating edible food and began to subsist on raw carrots, nuts and wheat grains. He also started walking five miles from his home to the capital, where be shunned the subway trains and ran through the tunnel. He caught his first cold in 47 years.

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We don’t know who Lord Shack- leton is, but he sits in the British House of Lords as a Inborite, and he gave that august body a rare anthropological titbit the other day. He told it that Polynesian cannibala no longer allow their tribes to eat Americans because their fat is con- taminated with insecticides. "We are rather more edible than the Americana," he added reassuringly. “Recent figures published show that we have two parts per million DDT In our bodies, whereas the figure for Americans In eleven mm per million.”

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THE BALD EAGLE I

Fighting To Save A National Emblem _

National Geographic News Bulletin

The United States is trying to save the national emblem—t e bald eagle—by protecting golden cousin.

As part of a three-way effort by government agencies. Con- gress has passed a law protect- inig all easie; The h'zld ewle has been sacrosanct since 1940. but it was often shot mistaken- ly because it looks like the more populous golden eagle. Both have large, dark-brown bodies

and a wingspread of about six . feel.

To spur public interest in the magnificent bird's welfare, the

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l Post Office recently put a bald- 1 eagle design on airmail cards. To learn why the eagle popu- ‘ lation is dwindling, the National Audubon Society and the Fish and ildlife Service are c on- ducting a five-year study. FW R EAGLES

Once a king of the skies and common over the entire United States, the bald eagle now num- bers less than 5.000. The guns of hunters. spreading civilization, and the widespread use of insec- ticides have taken the life and ‘, liberty of many bald eagles.

i Eagles have a vicious reputa-

PUBLIC

FORUM

ACTION NEEDED Sin—As a taxpayer of this Province I would like to remind our worthy representativm of the First Electoral District of Kings that the people of Souris River have been sadly neglected

when it comes to mad plowing. 3

After every snow storm we are the last road opened. We

have had no mail for several 3 days. Roads were to be opened i but our 3

for the school - bus. students must walk as well as our teachers.

Who is responsible for this; unfair treatment? Is It the plow- 3

despatcher? The operators? How about some action. Mr. MacDonald and Mr. MacLean'.’ I am, Sir. etc. TAXPAYER.

AN EFFICIENT JOB Ska—At this time. I would like to compliment the city authorities and through them the for snow removal. the problems of dispo think they did a very efficient Job utilizing all the machinery

at their disposal, to keep traffic 3 l

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Like most citizens, we tend to take public efficiency for grant- ed and are as disgustingly slow to commend It. On the o t h or hand. we never hesitate to complain, if we feel the situa- tion merits it.

As our Mayor stated. "Public parking is and will continue to be one our greatest pro- blems". Those who double-park possibly do not r e a l i z e how much they tie up the traffic flow. besides impeding the fire department and other essential services. Those utilizing public 3 a r a g e a seam partlcularly prone to make this error. seem- lngly It It a w a re this merits a heavy penalty in most other cit- Ies. After all, (the flow of traf- fic la important and the police cannot be everywhere.

Once again, my congratula- tions to all concerned. I am. Sir, etc..

A CITIZEN

—: Education through

MODERN DRAMA

Sir, — We would like to take issue with "Disgusted" w h 0 seems to be very uninformed about the nature of modern drama and Its purpose.

He says that "Quest" has pro- duced many programs of a low moral standard." Whose stand- ard is be using? "Quest" and "Playdete" are among the bet- ter CBC productlom in nu r

gr a watch; (1) they are Intellectual- ly beyond the mind of a child. and (2t chldmo lurid be in

bed at 11.30. He ovum “Gallows Hu- me" on a moral basis. But

what about such classics ea "The Beggar's Opera” by Gay. which one could say Is "muck." Much of “the prlceless drama of the ages" ls prlceless. but It too would collapse under such nar- row - mlnded crltlclam. which overlooks the reel theme of

the work.

In our opinion. "Disgusted" should recognize that “Gallows Eamon" is representative of the

individuals responsible i COH- ; sidering the heavy snowfall and :I so]. I.

drama of our age. Its purpose Is to reflect the people in this age and show their standards. If he does this, the playwright is showing how people act and think. This play. like most other plays. is using satire and exag- geration to convey the truth 1about our age. When it “hits i home," the truth hurts. We are. Sir. etc. TWO STUDENTS Charlottetown.

. LIQUOR CONTROL Sin—It is with deep regret that we note that pressure is ‘ mounting to have some altera- ‘ tion in the control of the liquor , traffic in this province. particu- larly as it appears that the wish is for relaxation of con- rol. This is of especlal concern to

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i this is a matter In which there , is deliberate evasion of the ugly ‘ far-ts.

We note the efforts of govern- ments and public agencies as 1 they work strenuously to eradi- f cafe killer diseases like TB. {and poliomyelitis while at the same time liquor is often made ‘ more readily available; this in i the face of the fact that again and again it has been noted that beverage alcohol has been a major contributing factor In many of the cases coming be- fore the courts. not to mention .the many derelict lives and homes throughout the province and the lncalculable number of lost man-hours directly attribu- table to the use of alcohol as a beverage. .

Slr. we were happy to note that your view of the matter did envisage some enoulry. There- fore we suggest that lhla en- quiry include some evaluation, on a factual basis. of the cost in time and money to this province l resulting from liquor Indul-

nce. We suggest, too. that

some close look be taken at the l way in which clubs are operat- l ing to the scandal of law. . We request that controls be I tightened and that to save lives

and money the 'Department of its Alcohol F Division continue in an all out

programme of education such ' as has been used to fight other killer diseases.

e compliment the Govern- ment on what it Is doing In the field of alcohol education and ask that the causes leading to the detrimental effects of alcor holism be faced with the same determination. with a view to prevention, as other critical di- senses.

I am. Slr. etc. C.B. JELLY. Moderator. On behalf of the executive of the United Baptist Association. ’ of P.E.I.

THE EASTER Ln.

The Easter llly. wondrous lair, Does not ask the "Why?" and

"Where?". W not In to! ltd can. But humbly stands Head bowed In prayer.

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tion, largely undeserved. Hunt- ers mistake them f".- hawks. Farmers blame old “Ba dy" for missing chickens and chop down his nesting tree. Egg collectors rob eyries.

The burgeoning population has built roads, factories, and hous- ing developments in pl a c e s where the eagles formerly nest- ed. Unfortunately, both people and eagles being fish eaters. prefer shore-front property.

Audubon studies in Alaska and Florida. the last'two strong- holds of the bald eagle. indicate that DDT poisons fish which. in

i turn. can poison or produce ster-

ility In fish-eating eagles. Revered in image and perse- cuted in life: This is the para- dox of the American bald eagle. The bald eagle wasn't even popular with all the countrv's founding f a t h e r s. It took the Continental Congress three com- mittees and a dozen years to de-

ius‘bccause It Is apparent that.

cide on an appropriate national symbol. Ben Franklin led the I dissidents. calling the bald eagle ; a “coward, robber, and of bad 1 moral character." He preferred 1 the wild turkey. l The United States Govenmen! 1 from 1917 to 1952 paid hunters lin Alaska a bounty to kill the ' bald eagle as a pernicious pre- dator. More than 100.000 wer i slaughtere . , It was not until 1940. 158 years t after it had been the Congress. that the bald eagle received legal protection In all . the existing states.

ALL-AMERICAN BIRD .

Eagle fanclers maintain that the bald eagle (Halieeetus leu- cocephalus) is a most approp- riate American emblem. It is native to North America. rarer ventures outside the United Stat- es except to friendly Canada.

Strong and swift, the eagle Is

as majestic as any bird aloft. o of prey, “Baldy” is scarcely more rap- acious than a sparrow. mainly on fish and has such good eyes that. from three miles up it can spot a dead one float- ing on a lake.

The bald eagle mates for life and returns annually to Its huge nest. A nest in Ohio was used for 35 years, weighed two tone. One house-proud eagle furnish- ed its eyrle with scavenged light bulbs. s p a r k plugs. candles. sheets, magazines, and a family photograph in a heavy frame.

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Getting. Drunk Is Esciope Hatch

From Problems

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen IS ALCOHOLISM a disease? Many authorities are of this;

opinion and recommend medical

treatment and hospitalization when necessary. Total abstin- ence is essential.

But th e r e are other view- points. including that of Dr. Ed‘ win Matlin of Garden City, NY. In his opinion, alcoholism is not a disease but a way of life that is desirable to the drinker. He may not admit this but he likes to imbibe for whatever solace it may bring. Getting drunk is an easy way to escape the prob- lems of the day and his responsi~ bilities at home and at work.

This psychological weakness also can be found in drug ad- dicts, prostitutes. and smokers. These people like their way of life and will continue to pursue it until it becomes more advan- tageous to quit the habit.

Dr. Matlin makes this point in a letter to the editor of the Medical Tribune. He says that c all in g alcoholism a disease gives the alcoholic a good ex- cuse for imbibing— “I'm sick and can't help myself." There is no doubt these men and wom- en need treatmenf but Dr. Mat- lin prefers to tell them that the fault is their own. He is willing to help them if they want it but they must r c a l i z e that they alone are to blame for problem drinking.

Most psychiatrists have found that alcoholics are more likely to err-corral: when they admit drinking too much and really want help. They have physical and social problems. in addition to those of a psychological na- ture.

The use of alcohol in harmful quantities leads to the shakes, blackouts, neuritis, or cirrhosrs of the liver. The social aspects are well known in that alcohol takes precedence over family. occupational. a n d community activities. But. regardless of any other factor. the alcoholic must admit his dependence upon al- cohol, stop his alibis, and sur- render to treatment.