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War, Fear And Pills

Ever since the hydrogen bomb made its dramatic appearance on the world's stage It has been re- garded more or less convincingly as a possible. and perhaps the only. deterrent of war. The theory is that no nation would dare put such a fearful device to use for fear of the terrible reprecussions it would set in motion. not only in quick destruc- tion but in slow death from radia- tion. This is not very complimentary to man's moral development, but at least it has an appeal to common sense. Under this theory. it would seem that the bigger and more powerful the bombs become, the safer the world will be.

The arithmetical formula is sim- ple: Bombs equivalent to 10 million tons of T.N.T. plus the resulting radiation equal the destruction of a large part of the world and the death of perhaps half of the world's population; bombs equivalent to. say, 50 million tons of T.N.T. plus the resulting radiation equal absolute destruction of all life. Therefore. the theory goes, war may yet be avoided. Fear may bring peace.

It seems. however. that the world is to be denied even this modicum of comfort. In the present series of tests in the Pacific. so It. is reported. British technicians have demonstrat- ed a bomb which carries relatively little fall-out. At the same time. British scientists have developed A pill which they have reason to hope will make the human body immune to the effects of radiation. Now, we have a new formula: bombs which give out little radiation plus a handy pill which can be taken three times a day before or after meals equal comparative safety from hydrogen danger. And, of course, it goes with- out saying that what Britain has today, Russia and the United Sates will have tomorrow-if indeed they did not have it yesterday. without wishing to make it known. There- fore. the new theory will probably go. war is still a possibility.

If wars must he-and there are philosophers who take that view--it will be good to know that a partial shield from total annihilation will be found in the world's bathroom cabinets. But. ironically. every al- leviativc may-and probably will. unless moral influence can somehow get into a position of favour in the meantime-take away some of the fear and thus reduce the absurdity of war.

Small Industries

A great boost for Newfoundland's small-industry program comes from a leading French authority in the field of clothes designing. Ted Bedin. an internationally known designer of sweaters. who fitted the American team in the 1956 Olympics, says that the sweaters made by a knitting mill In Brigus. I small town in Concep- tion Bay. are "works of art. the best in the world.” Mr. Bedin, who now llves and carries on his profession in New York, thinks he might purchase the concern if it is for sale and make it the largest mill of its kind in North America.

All this is very blah praise. and will, without doubt. Increase the de- will for Newfoundland-made sweat- I1-I.,AtthI Inme time it will give Provincial

pectntions. But on the whole they have been well administered: Ind the employment they have provided has more than compensated for the financial risks borne by the Provin- cial treasury.

There would seem to be reasons for assuming that something of the sort might be profitable on this Island. Small. diversified industries in towns which now depend for their trade almost altogether on farming and fishing activities would exercise a helpful stimulus on the general economy. Some will say that it isn't feasible here. Perhaps it isn't.' There would be little risk. however, in making the experiment on I small scale to begin with, and it might turn out well. Certainly. our geo- graphical position with respect to markets is as faxourable as that of Newfoundland.

Quiet Meetings

Reports from across the nation indicate that the current election campaign has been perhaps the quietest on record. Deportment of candidates is at an all time high. Audiences are so well behaved that even the most fastidious expert on etiquette could have no cause to complain. Few angry words have been spoken. Hcckling, what there has been of it. was lowspirited and dull. Only in a few instances has there been anything approaching the war cries of other-and, presumably. less enlightened-times. That. at any rate, is the gist of reports from St. John's to Vancouver. Whether or not it is a good state of affairs de- pends, of course. on its implications.

If it means that present day Can- adians are wiser and more cultured than their forbears and that politi- cal maturity is fast replacing poli- tical adventuring-well. that is a position hard to gainsay or resist. But if it means simply that most persons don't care about political arguments any more. as well it mightsthen. it may be nothing more edifyingz than a crack in our democratic structure.

It is one thing for voters to listen to all political speeches with grace and studied courtesy because of the pressure of the Golden Rule on their consciences. It is quite an- other for them to do so out of sang froid engendered by indifference. No doubt. the old fashioned hustings with its good-natured-and some- times ill-natured-quarreiing had its faults and cultural shortcomings and now and again went across the bor- der of good form into demagogy. But at least it demonstrated a public interest in things political. Whether the present over wrought experiment in civility is any better. all things considered. is a question which is not easily answered.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The only votes that count are those that are marked and placed in a ballot box. In 1953 there were 8.401.621 Canadians entitled to vote, and of these 2.699.436 did not go to the polls. Surely we can do better than that on June 10.

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Although malaria is relatively rare in Canada. there is a good deal of it not too far away. In Mexico. reports UNESCO. the disease costs S160 million annually. A four-year program under the auspices of the World Health Organization and the U.N. Children's Fund has been set. up to combat it. Present. plans call for the disinfecting of 31.; million homes and protection of 13 million persons by 1960.

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The accomplishments of mechani- cal brain devices are becoming more and more frightening. At I recent test in California an electronic com- puter solved in 15 minutes a prob- lem that I mathematician couldn't complete in I lifetime. Then the on- lookers were invited to sit in It I game of cards known as blnckjsck. To their amazement the robot was put to work and played I perfect hand.

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British Foreign Secretary Lloyd believes that his country's Iction in removlm restrictions on trade with China will remove "I cause of fric- tion" between Britain and the United Stntclnofcourneltwili. since then IInouIIin arguing Iboutthe nint- ir further. It may. however, Itnrt I new dispute. but thnt is mother

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FRANCE STRIKES IT RICH

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French engineers have made In extraordinary discovery at th e foot of the Pyrenees. Drilling down to I considerable depth they ob- tained such an abundant eruption of natural gas that III roads had to be closed and trails brought to a halt in the Grave Valley to elimin- ate all risk of blowing up the whole area.

This typical French countryside has been disrupted by the advance of modern times. Before there were the poplars and meadows of Claude Geller. and now there are the Hashing beams. silvery masts and tall lower: of the derricks. as in the fields of Texas and the lagoon of Maracaibo.

Other countries may possess fuel gas that rises from the ground. but the French gas. Lncq Gns. in not like others. It is more powerful. more difficult to harness and prod- iglously rich. With this rather be- lIt.ed gift. providence. II it were. has bestowed something magnifi- cently dangeroua upon France.

in the first place. Its depth. Lacq is one of the deepest fields of gas in the world. At Elk Basin in Wy- oming, U.S., the prospectors drill found gas It 1.500 metres; the lini- inns It Cortemaggolre found it at 1.800 m.: the French. not far from Lacq. found at L600 m- I field that supplied gas cookers as far afield as Toulouse and motor vehicles Is fIr as Bordeaux. At Lacq. gns reached 3.500 m. Ind some Ihnfts go down of 4.000 m. DANGEROUS FACTOR

The natural pressure of the gnu is I very dangeruuu factor becIuIe It tends to wrench out shaft buds, that is to any Ienls Ind tap: top- ping the shaft tube that rises out of the ground. At Lncq there is I pres- sure of 070 kg. per Iq. cIm.. which is about eight times that found in the boiler of I locomotive. it. is In unheard of figure in Ill other field: throughout the world. At Saint-Marcel. in ItIly, In the Unit- ed states, pressure is five Ind Ilx times lower. ..

What is more. men gas is not "neutrIl." it is I true Icld.. with 15 per cent sulphur-Ited hydrogen. which rapidly con-odes the steel of the shaft tubes. No foreign Itccl firm was able to solve the problem. A 6.000.000 franc well was put out of action in 10 days! The French iron and steel Industry hII evolved I type of steel thIt resists corrision Ind COI'ISIdQl'n the problem has been Iolved.

There is I bright side to every tcchnlcnl difficulty. The Lncq sul- phur extracted from the crude ans will meet all the country" require-

ments Ind much more. France. hi- iherto importing sulphur Ind py- rites. II to become I big sulphur exporting country-

POWERFUL MACHINERY

How does this cludden gush of riches come about? it is not. strict- ly speaking. due to sheer luck. but to very powerful mnchinery used by the French in the inst few years for oil prospecting Ind bor- ings.

Natural petroleum oil and the gas accompanying it do not remain stationary in the ground like ore Ind coal. After being produced by the decomposition of organix mn- terlai in what were once sens -- like the phenomenon occuring to day in the Black Sea -- they trI- vel I long way through under- ground strata. untii I pnrticulnr geological structure occurs. form- ing I lock or oil trap. This is pre- cisely to be found It the foot of the Pyrenees.

By "geophysical" methods of prospecting it is now possible to detect these natural traps without drilling the ground. French engi- necrn are well equipped in this re- Ipect. Electric currents shot into the ground, "echoes" cnused by Irtifical earthquakes produced with explosives. or even very ren- sitlve instruments indicating loc- Il vnrlntions in gravity. are used.

Lncq gas. after being filtered. loses its corrosive properties. It is dry and doel not freeze like town gas. it is twice II rich 9.000 cIlor- ies per cu. m.. in stead of 4.300. It also provldeI I high percentage of butnne Ind propane. mid in steel bottles. and I consldernble amount of petrol - I regular gold mine. ..

REPLACES PETROL

Lncq gas. I chemical raw mn- terinl of prime importance. can be used in the manufacture of Im- monln. Igrlculture fetllluars. In- numernble plnstlc mnterinls Ind synthetic rubber. Used in bottles for motor traffic. It rcpinces petrol with I ruin of one cu. to. per 1.12.5 litres of petrol- Three steel- 30-litre bottle: charged with 100 kg. per sq. cm.. Ire equIl to I- bout 1) litres of petrol Ind are not Imported.

How extensive II the Lncq field. in other words. whIt is the totnl number of cu. m. buried under the soil of the Pyroneen At int 150 billion cu. m. Ind probably twice this amount.

it in I form of cIpitIl on which the French people will be Ibie to live for two generntlons until the In of Itomlc energy! Even this you. In output of one million cu. m. of crude gas I dIy II being esti- mated thIt is I'll million: of filter- ed gas per yeIr. plul propane. butane. petrol Ind sulphur (70- 000 tout.

Then: figures should be lncreII- cd fourfold in 1030 Ind twentyfold

(four billion cu. in. crude gut in '.'ie you 1901. it implies I .ompletI change in French economy-

TTTELEPROMPTED POLITICS

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fill in the slilly night the voter caught in the tentacles of his tele- viniol net must wonder whIt it will menu on election day. By cour- tesy of the CBC the lenders and their most iluome Ind well spok- en lieutenant: have been rmitud to Ict for the multitude. bIvI been Imnteur Icton Ipenking to millions unable to show tion or dines, . Ind prenentdiql will be reviewed in the donut!- lng "X" to be plIcId on tho bnihna

At this Itnge we would Iny the Ibow hns been spotty. The Prime Minister hn improved. BI endo- us his diIdIiI for mnhn-q on occncion. II I cruel critic

Work: will fin I strain of words It the pIges of I mnnuscrlpt (won- derlftherenrennywordnonthelc sheets?) It which they hIve nev-

PLANE FLIGHT

These motors fnaten on the II: A stitch of time precise. exact: Yet not I mm or trace is there To prove the pulsing or the fact...

We ride. by cnlculnied role.

Upon I roIdwIy never seen.

A formuln of thrust Ind float Compelling motion Ind machine.

But for I metal Ihenth. we stand Or blithely wIlk within I cloud: Never cIn science on the land work us I miracle II proud. -Chnrlen A. wngner. In the New York Times-

OUR YESTERDAYS From the Guardian l'tleI

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (June I. 108!)

The tender of Stewart Construc- tion Company of Sherbrooke. the lowest of twentydwo tenders. bu been Iccepted for the construction of the new Prince of Wales Col- lege. The under price is 449,314. Work on the foundntion will begin next week and it is expected that the building will be completed by November.

For the tint time in the binary of the hind I Ihlpment of own- hnugs hIve been not to Toronto from the Enmore River. Thu in In entirely new venture being tried out by Mr. Wnllcc Noyc of Enmore Ind. having made the shipment by refrigerator car. he hopken they will In-Ive in good con- dit n.

TEN YEARS AGO (Jun 6. D47)

Following prellmlnnry tutu Ind completion of wiring Ind interior finiahlng. the new on ferry Abu- welt has been berthed It Inother wharf for finishing. It is not ex- pected thIt the fcrry will be on duty before the third week of July. Ind pouibly before going to Bon- den it will Itop for I time It ChIr- lottetown to give the people an opportunity of inspecting it.

The first diesel-eledric locomo- tive ever to opernte in P.E.l. under its own power left the town ItItlon yectardny Immmn for Mun-Iy Harbour. superinten- dent C. T. Montgomery's prlvIte cIr wu Imdied to the trnin Ind be Ind I number of invited pet- Ions mnde the return trip.

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YOUNG IOUSEWIVES

Rheumntoid Irihrttls. the 111001 severe form of the dluue. Itrlkcs women three tlman II often I men. Mom of these victims In young housewives Ind worklni W0- men between the Inc: of 20 Ind 35.

Very often the disease bitI If- ter In illness when I womIn'I phy- ..IlcIl condition is below pIr. Soms times it appears in I young0moth- er Ifter the birth of her first child.

it no Ilso be blamed on contin- ued exhaustion resulting from ov- erwork either around the house or in In outside job. We have long recognized the fact that grief. wor- ry and fear can trigger develop- mentor rheumatoid arthritis. CONTRIBUTING FACTOR

But possibly In even more im- portnnt contributingjnclor is fa- tigue from overwork.

All of you women should be on the Ilert for these symptoms: may. ning stiffness, pain and swelling of the lolnts. persistent muscular aches and pains. fever and wax.

ness and unexplained loss of weight. The Foundation lists five rules

to follow which will help granny to check the effects of arthritis: '

1. Relax your hornekeeplng sun. dards as much as possible. Do your major housecleanlng in In- stallmentr. Do not do all your ironing in one batch.

UNDUE AGGRAVATION

2- Try to take it easier with the children. Undue Iggrnvglion due. not pay.

3. Get In much rest as possible and keep well nourished wii.hout becoming overweight.

4. Avoid strain Ind tension; u much as you possibly can. Try not to let domestic and financial pro- blems get you down.

5. Protect yourself against damp- ness. cold and sudden chills. QUESTION AND ANSWER

T. V. N.: Will contact lenses in- lure my eyes?

Answer: It Pmperly fitted. there is no evidence that contact lenses cIn cnuse injury to the eyes, How. ever. it seems that many people who try to use contact lenses enn-

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