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the la8t session) the mechaniza- program has been about two- thirds completed. But the nature of mining operations. in Nova Scotia has made this a long and Costly pro- cess. For example, machinery suit- ‘abe for use in the American pits ~ was unsuited for use in long cor- ridors running, some instances,
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It will be recalledThat at the last session of the Legislature a compre- hensive report on our car ferry and causeway requirements was submit- ted, discussed and unanimously adopt. ed for presentation at Ottawa. This report was prepared by’a special com- mittee. comprising Messrs. William Acorn, chairman, J. Brenton St. John, Harold P. Smith, R.R. Bell, Harvey Douglas and the Hon. Eugene Cullen.
need, an additional ferry, to be plac-
New Ferry Requirements.
It recommended, as our most urgent’
chinery adapted to Nova Scofian conditions had to-be developed. The high cost of machine development, of mine.. maintenance and under- ground transportation, combined with new surface costs—to- meet the de- mand for newer markets for coal more uniform in size and compos- ition—to make the industry slip farther behind in the competitive race At the same time Western produc- - tion fell off by about 40 percent - since 1948.
To relieve a crisis situation this year the Diefenbaker Government increased subventions to Nova Scotia coal moving to the Central Provin- ces by some $4,300,000 (it is now almost $12,500,000 a year) and also
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ed in service at Borden-formentine __ as speedily as possible and=to- serve
‘there until the Northumberland Strait causeway became an accom- plished fact...
“While the committee said that the ferry should be of modern icebreak- er design, and equivalent in carry- ing capacity to the M.V. Abegweit, it was careful not—tosay—that—it shouldbe builf, like the Abegweit, ‘as a train ferry. There were’ several asons for this. omission, including the extra delay that would be involv- ed and the difficulty of utilizing such a boat elsewhere when it was no long- er required here. These objections
ly on the subject. But there was an- other reason, more important evid- ently to the Legislature, which was stressed strongly in the discussion on the committee report. This reason was the need of mak- ing the new hoat independent al- together of C.N.R. schedules. Premier Matheson, Dr. Dewar, Mr. R.R. Bell “and other speakers on both sides voiced strong complaint with regard to the existing holdup in passenger and automobile. service, frequently for many hours, because trains had to be given priority. One speaker,
‘decided advantage not to have the
new boat built as a rail ferry; and he
gited one report of the Abegweit waiting.at Tormentine with 112 pass- | came a train two hours late with only.12 passengers aboard. Other speakers cited accommodation delays of as much as twelve hours. After investigating, and turning down, a suggestion for acquiring the old “Vacationland” in Michigan, the Federal Government announced _its plans for constructing a new boat
‘ : in accordance with the views of lour, Legislature. That is the situation, and we
think it would be highly detrimental te our interests provincially to press for a change of plans now. It would not only mean delaying construction of the new boat dnd placing us more than ever at schedules, but it would serve to con- vince Ottawa that we don’t really now what we want, and are consis- tent guily in our unreasonableness.
“New Coal Inquiry
All will hope ‘thttethe néw Royal
se bynes at
Commission to be appointed to in- |
vestigate coal industry will be productive of good results. Unfor- the efforts of
the
tunately, however,
i other Commissions to find a solution to the coal marketing.problem have been unrewarding, except to the |
government of. the day in shelving |
responsibility for the economic con- sequences. ? The must recent, and ‘one of the gloomiest, stuttibs was that included in the Gordon Repgrt on Canada’s
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Economic Prospects, «which _ re- gommended, if we remember cor- rectly, an exodus of miners from depressed Maritime. areas te more favored industrial centres in Ontario.
It was in 1946, however, that the industry, last received: the benefit of a full seale inquiry by the Carroll Royal Commission. The main con- elusions were that coal should con- tinue to be subsidized in the Central Canadian markets by freight sub- ventions, that the industry: should
_ by the introduction of modern ma- tance of a Dominion coal boafd, D of the fuels board which had ed up to that time. ‘the heip of loans provided
| vritical. period between now and_
* we referred to in commenting recent-~
Mr. Frank MacNutt, said ft was a”
the mercy. of -railway .
attempt fo cut its’ production costs
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_ added 50 cents a ton on ay tons of Alberta coal moving -+0- Japan. :
There is a general belief, says a writer in the Winnipeg Free Press, . in which the subject is dealt with comprehensively, that the situation will be easier by the mid-1960s., This hope rests in part on evidence that coal will continue to be in de- mand by steel plants and other heavy industries. It is also thought
increasing resort to thermal power units.as low cost water power sites become inadequate. But even if the
1965 is passed, the brighter pro- spects of that year will not mean much to Nova Scotia mines unless costs can be cut to a point where Maritime shipments can: compete with American coal. . ee Perhaps, the new. Commission will find a better solution, discern- ing possibilities not evident to its predecessors or to the permanent : _ coal board. If so, no time should be lost in implementing its recommen-- dations.
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An Atlas intercontinental \ mis- sile “capable of hurling nuclear de- | vastation one-quarter - way ‘around the world” was fired on Wednesday by the U.S. Air Force.-An advance salute, no doubt, to Premier Khrush- - chev.
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Our lobster packers should heed Mr. Eugene Gorman’s warning that the Island industry is declining and | that more advanced processing methods are needed to bring it back. This was once a major source of wealth to our fisheries; we can- not afford not te supply it with the modern: machinery required.
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' Maritime trade opportunities in the booming North were again em- phasized by APEC President Frank MacKinnon in his address—to the Island members of -the organization on Wednesday. Dr. MacKinnon has done a great_work-.in inspiring en- © thusiasm for this, new outlet for our products, which years hence will be of much greater value than it is today. Getting in on the ground ; floor is of vital importance to our shippers.
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It js a measure of how things change, says the Montreal Gazette,, that the new Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada should be the Archbishop of Edmonton. For the first Anglican bishop in Canada, ap- pointed in the 18th century, was the Bishop of Halifax. He had all Can- ada for his diocese- Only once did he: have time to make the journey as far west as Montreal. As for Ed- monton, it was a place unknown, part of the vast prairie that spread
away to the foothills of the Rockies. ¥ ° = * t
According te the Dominion _ Bureau of Statistics, June milk pro- | duction was larger this: year than last .in all provinces ‘except _Priace Edward Island and New Brunswick. Output in each in thousands of pounds (year earlier figures in brackets) was Prince Edward Island, 27,443 (28,478) ; Nova Scotia, 44,530
(41,367) New Brunswick, 54-206 (55,237) ; Quebde, 789,115 (786,714; Ontario, 695,369 (675,959); Manit- oba, 135,727 (130,194); Saskatche- wan, - 153,114 7149,795); Alberta, "168,604 (167,955); and British Col-
PUBLIC FORUM
_ TAKE YOUR TIME--SAVE A L
IFETIME-
~ Looking Back Financially~
Arthur Blakely in the Montreal Gazette
the end of the fiscal year 1958-59. Ottawa would be spending far more ($136,240,959) through the
tha > will-be_provided-by —|———_— ; sf na wiglincca tend Governments come, and govern- ;ment--will manage to spend. at
menis go. But governmental: ex- | penders keep climbing.
The records make for melan- | choly reading: j
eration, the Government of Can- | ada spent money on a scale that at once dismayed and appalled! “the critics of the time. One| explanation that was advanced |
at the time was that some of the |
spending was.of an unusual and | non-recurring nature: necessary
to launch the new nation 2
~ The figure for total federal-Ger— ernment -spending-for-all budzet- |
eritiés: $13,716,422.
Today, the Penitentiares Branch of the Department of | Justice, alone and unaided, spends | ‘more than $19,338,000. "By 1871, total budgetary expen- ditures of the federal Govern- ‘ment had crept up to $18,871,812 and ‘the critics were certain that the nation was headed for bank- ruptcy.
But in the fiscal year 1956-60, the Department of Fisheries will spend a minimum of $19,500,- -000 and will be quite certait, in so doing, that the funds placed as ite displosal are totally in- adequate in the light of demands made Ypon the departmest.
-R DECADE
A decade later, by the end of 1881, a bigger..and better Canada was beginning to emerge. But many businessmen argued persu- asively that too high a price was being paid for progress. Ottawa's budgetary spending. for all
responsibilities in all fields of federal jurisdiction, had soared to $32.579.499 — something like
$7.66 per head af population: Some said it couldn't last. 4
How little they knew.
This year, the Department of Mines amd Technical Surveys— one of the small-to-medium ag-\
| —In—1868—the—vear—after-Confed-1 and it was found that the Govern-_|
| stagle 12-month period, sp enta
ary. purposes which worried the } i things
| the funds placed at its disposal.
least $36.066.205 and will encou ter not the slightest difficulty i $0 doing.
The vear 1891 came and went mgnt of Canada had in a grand total of $38,855,130, for all budgetary purposes. The opposi+ tion of the day insisted that Ot- tawa's free-spending habits must he réstrained or the nation was headed for min.
In 1959-60) the Canadian Gov- ernment will -spend-mo less than $63.000,000 through the National Research Council and_ for all associated with atomic | energy. = AFTER MORE PLEDGES
By 1901, Sir John A, Macdon- ald was some tears in his grave and his Government had been supplanted by a new Liberal Government pledged to economy. Yet, by the end of that year,
lowing year, the Post Office would be spending: $163,581,9657 In 1921,. another major pene- tration of spending levels had been accomplished, budgetary whopping $526,899;290, or about $61.82 capita. . Yet the total is far smaller than the combined expenditures, this year, of the Transport De- partment ($229,000,000), the Pub- lic Works Department. ($221,000.- 000) and the Veterans Affairs De- partment ($291.000,000). _ A “decade later, the Federal Government's budgetary spending
with Canada fit hard by
depression. And this total, as i#¢ happens,
| help’ such persons.
Department of Agriculture alone; and—that— bythe —end—of—the fol
expenditures; that-year, fran toa
of most alcoholics:
“I can lick anybody in the place.” Yet, at the same time, mos drinkers have an inner desire to be dependent upon someone. They want to be babied. Thev are fill- ed witti selfpity. Theze conflicting characteris- tics maké it doubly difficult to
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_A heavy drinker is likely to be a stubborn person and probably jealous. He, blames others for hiss troubles, real or fancied.
COMMON CHARACTERISTIC
But —_probably__the—most—_com-] mon characteristic of ail prob- lem drinkers is their steadfast refusal to admit that they are, or are about to become, real lushes. Atmost to a man. (or wo- man'_they will insist: 3 ipiaets «“I can contro] my drinking. I can give it up any time I want to. Why. I have stopped dozens
of times!
QUESTION AND ANSWER
C. G. P.: Every few months ! have-to have a course of shots for anemia. 7
Can you te#..me what causes this condition and if there is any
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was—eut_hack—to $441.568.413-| diet that could keep .my blood
count up? : ; Answer: There are numerous causes for anemia, including ex-
ig little more than half of the
amount ($815740,528) that Ot- tawa will spend ih 1959-60 throush the. t of . National
Health and Welfare alone if, in- deed, K is fortunate enough to avoid exceeding this total
federal spending had reached $55.- 502,530. And the end was where in sight.
In the 1959-60 fiscal vear, the Department of Citizenship and Immigration will, through its own unaided efforts, account for expenditures totalling more than $57,107,730 while wondering, the while, if there is no way to induce the Treasury Board to increase
And the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will be requiring as- sistance from the Federal Trea- sury to the tune of at least $69,- 641.975
By i91!, a major break through in federal spending had been achieved. Ottawa's expendi- tures for all budgetary purposes thad reached a whopping $121.- 657.834. Anxious critics, and they were numerous, shook their heads and wondered what the world was coming ‘to.
FURTHER INCREASES
encies. of the federal Govern-
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breaking his way. '
With the disarming frankness | that has become something of a political trademark, “Supermac”™ acknowledges—-privately and pub-
the last few months ee
But, he says. blandly, you musn't begrudge a politician a} little luck now and again. SURE. TEST ¢
Macmillan now fs moving to- ward a date that will show whether his luck ‘can Iast. Con- ‘firming an almost unanimous ‘forecast. he announced Tuesday night that the general election will take place Thursday, Oct. 8.
As the 1llavord announcement cam? from 10 Downing Street, a
This column ia open te the discus
sion by correspondents of question c
interest. The Guardian does not neses
sarily ex‘orse the opinion of corres pondents.
A GREAT ACTOR
Sir,—Your kind reference to that sterling ‘actor, Edmund Gwenn, was much’ appreciated. During thé passing years many stage and screen actors and act- resses have answered ‘“‘the final curtain’. The latest to anspver the call is Edmund Gwenn, a fine character actor who won the Academy Award in 1947 for the role he played as Santa Olaus, that benevolent-old gentleman in “The Miracle on 34th Street.” He made his atidience feel that there is a Santa Claus and always will be, kind, generous and bene- votent— Mr--Gewenn--a-_great-tover a@f children, retired in 1956 from the stage. I had met him per- sonally -and to know him was to ‘love him.
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Sun Shines On British Tories i
‘snadian Press Staff Writer
Prime Min{tster Macmillan! warm September sun shone from smilingly admits that things are | S
licly—that fortune has favored | his, Conservative government in |
How could they know -that by
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a flawless sky.
Figuratively, the political sun shone just as brightly for the Tories. :
In fact, things seemed almost too good to be true. The weather | itself. lulling electors into a som- nolent, couldn't-care - less-about- polities moods, was one son for Conservative optimism. - ‘
The list could go on and on:
ernment forces with a clear edge over the opposition Labor party. Little more than a year ago, La- bor was in front. . : VISIT HELPED S :
President Eisenhower's visit to Brit¥in helped to cast Macmil- lan in the role of international peacemaker. After the pally Ike- Mac television broadcast last week, commentator Randolph Churchill referred to Fisenhower as, Macmillan's campaign _man- ager. : Labor, traditionally a party. of | protest, has little to eomplain: about jin a period of economic stability and jobs for all. And the Conservatives have adopted — some of Labor's pet policies, blurring the differences between the parties. |
Death has claimed some of La- bor’s greatest post-war statesmen
—Sir Stafford Cripps and Ernest |
Bevin—and Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison have stepped down since the jubilant days of , Labor's 1945 victory. The Con | servatives, of course, have also) lost strength through the retire- ment of Sir Winston Churchill and Sir Anthony Eden. \'
The Conservatives are favored!
by an automatic bias in the elec- |»
toral «ystem. Labor voters tend to be concentrated in.certain con- | stituencies. whereas Conservative making it possible for Labor to attract the greater number of total votes and still lose the elec-
tion. ; : To all these points. Labor can
Opinion polls showed the gov- |
SOARING AGAIN But 10 years later, Canada was at war. Spending skyrocketed to ‘an unprecedented $1,249,601 ,446 for all budgetary purposes as the Spending on this gigantic scale was something completely new and rather frightening. People kept their fingers crossed and thoped for the best as expenditur- es exceeded $109 per capita. But, in the light of subsequent events, it turned. out that this re- | cord spending didn't really amount to very much after all. In 1950-60, the Department’ of Finance alone will account for the expenditure’ of more money than this ($1,261 434,605). And the Department of Nation- al Defence, of course will be far ahead with expenditures totall- ing more than $1 700,000,000 ‘with- out being too sure, even then, that it is providing adequate de- fences in the process.
eount the opposition out. But the superficial signs, at present, give Macmillan good reason for think- “ing that fuck is on his side.
DOVES TRIAL FLIGHT: Tit to the sun their pearl gray feathers flash
to be free, 7
Joyous to swing in widening cir- cles high,
Weaving in air a bright and flow ing sash. .
Sunlight has left the trees as now we stand,
Proud and possessive of the flock we raised,
Proud as they pivot homeward. unrehearsed,
Settling as darkness setties to th land.
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Praising and pleased we welcome their descent,
Offer them grains and
~ from our hands.
Glad to renew acquaintance at close range, -
Glad t#& rejoin them in our ele- ment. .
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' --Vietor Howes, in the Christian Science Monitor
CROSS-CANADA TRIP _ TORONTO (CP)-—John Sehmitz and Ed Fitzgerald of Prince George, B.C., arrived here Tues- day on their crossCanada trip in a midget European car. The pair left Prince George Aug. 15
and oil on their trip so far.
SEWER PLATE MISSING TORONTO (CP) — The unlik-
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and have spent only $46 on gas.
/cess loss of blood -from some | source, iron deficiency and cer- tain internal diseases. .
In iron deficiency cases, a diet rich in iren - containing foods, such as meat and liver, and sup- plementary iron and mineral | vitamin medication will be help- ful.
OUR YESTERDAYS
(From the Guardian Files)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Sept. 11, 1934)
The P.E.I. Dental Association held its 34th annual i on Wednesday evening in the Cana- dian Legion Rooms, Charlotte- town, with Dr. A.L. Purdy of Al- -berton presiding. Officers appoin- ‘ted include Dr. A.M. Bell, Car- leton: president; Dr. D.T. Waye, Charlottetown, vice-president, and Dr. J.H. Ayers, Charlottetown, Secretary-Treasurer.
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Five members of the Charlotte town Fire Department left yester- day morning and about fifteen more will leave today for Lunen- burg to attend the Old Home Week and Firemen’s Tournament which is being held there this week. The local firemen wil] compete in the hose and reel race the hook and ladder, hose coup- ling. duty race and veterans’ race. ;
TEN. YEARS AGO (Sept. 11, 1949) Lt. Col. A.W. Rogers, command- ing the i7th P.E.I. Recce, and Major J.T. Davies with 14th Ar- moured Brigade Headquarters, will attend the annual conference of the Canadian Armoured Corps Association at Camp _ Borden. They will leave on September 26th|
Some 150 parking meters for! / Queen and Grafton Streets were authorized by the City Council at the regular monthly meeting pre- sided over by Mayor B. Earle MacDonald. The Potice Commit- tee -was instructed by the Coun- cil to make arrangements for the installation Which may be extend- ed later as. the necessity arises.
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. TORONTO ‘CP) — Two ‘new appointments to national posts were ‘announced Thursday by the women’s missionary society of the United Church of Canada. Miss Esther Highfield of Salt- coats, Sask., becomes home mis- sion executive secretary succeed- ing Mrs. C. M. Loveys. Miss Ida MacKenzie of New Mills, N.B.. becomes associate missions exe- cutive secretary succeeding Miss Wilna Thomas, now on furlough.
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followers were not just sweeping away the Batista gang but are setting out-to-realign the order of Cuban society and‘to reshape the nature of Cuba’s economy. The
change is very likely one reason why the Castro regime shows no immediate concern over the prop- er functioning of civil rights, or over the outlook for representa- tive elections, or even over the dubious philosophy and intentions of some of its Communist pseudo- friends. ~
There are many in this wide-eyed manner of operating a government. Premier Castro himself, still worked up over the supposed need to protect his rev- olution against its enemies. is unseeing as to the need for pro- tection from the pseudo friends. The business and professional and university men who speak out in the Government's behalf represent that middle class which provided the support for Castro's movement during its long guerril-
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to provide a reliable market for = Cuba’s vast sugar output; no other country can so quickly and cheaply supply Cuba in return with manufactured goods. No other_country can shield it or_{ _ send it so many tourists. Castro | may have hoped that his spring- time visit to the United States would satisfy American opinion _ for the time being. But events have moved far since then. He may simply not realize the im- portance attached by Americans to the processes of representa- tive democracy, especially the ~ elections which he thinks to post . pone, the word now is, “‘for four —- or five years " Americans regard the absence of such processes as _ one sign of dictatorship.
Castro is fond of the word “mandate,” in the sense of an ex- pression of the popular will. He would do well to give more thought to the fact that Cuba’s friends abroad regard mandates that have no basis in free elee- tions with high misgiving. —Baltimore Evening Sun
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