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Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew W. J. Hancox, Publisher
Burton Lewis Frank Walker
Executive Editor Editor
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Lord Amory’s Visit
Prince Edward Island welcomes a distinguished visitor in the person of the Right Honorable Viscount Amory, GCMG, British High Com- missioner in Canada, who is mak- ing his first tour of the Maritime Provinces since his appointment and who is scheduled to address the Can- adian Club here this evening on the subject of the British Common- wealth.
Lord Amory has had a distin- guished record, both in war and peace. In the airborne operation at Arnheim he was severely wounded and taken prisoner, and following the war, in 1945, he began his political career, first in the Bri‘ish House of Commons, and, since his elevation to the peerage, in the House of Lords as Minister of Pen- sions, Minister of State, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and Chancellor of’ the Exchequer successively. The latter important office he filled from January 1958 to July 1960. He has also been prominent in the Organization for European Cooperation, at Co-~- monwealth economic conferences and in the International Bank and Inter- national Monetary Fund.
Lord Amory is particularly in- terested in youth movements of all kinds and has long been associated with the Boy Scouts, in which move- ment he has been for many years a Chief Scouts Commissioner. Be- fore his present appointment, he visited Canada a number of times and in 1957, as Minister of Agricul- ture in the British Goverr~--t, made a tour of farm areas through- out the country.
Few men are better qualified to discuss the Commonwealth in its changing aspects and aspirations, in the stabilizing influence it has had on world affairs and the -*1I- lenge presented in the way of fur- ther development among the grow- ing number of independent nations within its fold. The Canadian Club is privileged to have a guest speaker of Lord Amory’s calibre this even- ing. It is to be hoped that he will find further opportunity for visit- ing us during the summer, and of enjoying a more leisurely stay at that time.
Critics And The Budget
The Fleming budget continues to be the main subject of political comment, and on the whole it is etanding up well to adverse critic- ism. The critics, indeed, find them- selves entangled in inconsistencies of their own making. They have been harping so much on unemployment and recession that they find it hard to refute Mr. Fleming’s contention that pump-priming is more import- and at this time than budget balan- cing.
’ In vain does that staunch old Liberal organ, the Winnipeg Free Press, contrast the Liberal years of surpluses with “the five-year Tory binge” of deficit financing. By its own showing those Liberal years were years of prosperity, of trade
avore Han a hidden er cererrea wa, a device for charging off curreat expenditures to the future and leaving the bill—with interest—for another generation of taxpayers.”
Well, isn’t this precisely a “na- tional emergency” according to the Free Press’ definition of the term? At least it is a time when revival of the “sluggish economy” is most urgent, and when deficits can there- by be justified. The critics can’t heve it both ways, and their state- ments here are self-confticting.
Among the chief reasons for the deficit are the growing costs of defense, the vastly increased sums paid to the provinces, the he-vy outlays for housing; hospital care, university grants, pensions, na- tional works for jobs, etc. Which of these expenditures would the critics see curtailed? They miss also the point of Mr. Fleming’s remark that the net debt as a percentage of the gross national product is today but 35.9 compared to 41.6 in 1956, and that controllable expenditures have been held to an annual increase of but 4 per cent.
The budget, in short, is proving a harder nut to crack than the Op- position had expected, and there is confusion of tongues among them as to how to go about the job.
A Worthy Measure
One piece of legislation over which there has been no bickering at Ottawa will have the effect of increasing financial assistance, and extending the period during which it may be paid, under the Children of War Dead (Education Assista~~e) Act. The bill provides for allowances of $79 a month to students over 21 years of age, instead of $°* as has been the case since the Act was last amended in 1958.
For those under 21 the allow- ance is still $25 per month, but pen- sions paid on their behalf under the Pension Act may be continued to that age, provided the recipients are making satisfactory progress in their studies. The combination has resulted in most cases in an ef- fective income of $79 per student since the present pension rates came into effect on March 1, 1961. Since that date students have found their incomes reduced by $19 at age 21, and this situation is now to be corrected.
The bill contains a clause giv- ing the minister discretionary authority to extend the period dur- ing which allowances and fees miy be paid, and to pay them up to the end of the academic year in which a student reaches age 30. It also ex- tends, or clarifies, the eligibility re- quirements to include a few students who, through technicalities, have been excluded from the benefits of the Act.
The legislation is commended editorially by The Legion, official organ of the Royal Canadian Leg*~n, which notes that since the Act came into effect, applications from 2,541 students have been approved. About 700 of these have completed their courses and approximately 1,000 are now in training.
EDITORIAL NOTES
It seems that implementation of the report of the Royal Commission on Transportation, whieh recom- mended fuller freedom for railways to set rates and run trains, will have to wait until after the election. Finance Minister Fleming has an- nounced that another $50,000,000 government subsidy will be paid to the railways this year as an interim measure pending a decision on the commission’s proposals. No govern- ment action on its findings, he add- ed, need be expected “in the near future.”
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RED FLAG AND THE BULL OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson
The Little Old Lady Liked It
The speaker on the platform was describing to the overflow audience how, just five years ago, the Liberals had declared that our old folks should be able to live on th; so they had given an increase of only six bucks in pensions.
“But this rich country can afford adequate dignity and comfort to those who worked hard all their lives,’ said the speaker. ‘‘So my gov- ernment has added not six bucks but $19 to the pension for old folks.”
A little old lady, her head
cocked on one side, had never |
taken her eyes off the speaker; like the whole overflow audience, she had hardly moved a mus- cle in her wrapt attention. But now a warm smile showed her appreciation.
She had been interested in Canada’s great statesmen all fher long life. She remembered when Sir Robert Borden .was our prime minister; she recall- ed Sir Wilfrid Laurier. But she had never heard oratory as mov- ing as that of John Diefenbaker when he had visited her home- town, and he was coming back to Strathroy tonight.
CHILL NIGHT, WARM CROWD
So the little old lady had put on her warm pale blue over- coat against the chill Spring evening; she put her favourite hat, trimmed with pale blue, on her neat grey coiffure; and as befitted the modest pension- ers’ life and the evening chill, she put on warm cotton stock- ings. Setting out early, she was able to get a centre aisle seat right in the front of the hall. Lucky I did arrive in good time, she thought, as she noted the two hundred standees at the back, and heard an usher say the expected 700 had become an overflow crowd of 2,500.
My goodness, thought the lit- tle old lady, that’s more than half our population. Then to the
soon the familiar voice of John efenbak: saying how glad he was to be back in
ed his 1957
election campaign. He spoke of the achievements of his government. “We inherited mounting un- employment, and unfavorable milli
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The little old lady laughed, everyone laughed.
“But,” he emphasised with his pointing finger, ‘‘the doom and gloom boys are going to run on their record too.’’ She clap) “The six buck boys ride again.’’ And she shrieked with laughter.
INTEREST AND LAUGHTER John Diefenbaker ‘1ad_ been speaking already for 50 minutes. Not a movement stirred in the hall as all eyes were rivetted on the orator delivering the free-wheeling speech. 200 stood still, unaware of discomfort; 2,- sat unmoving but moved. There had been no 10-minute rustle nor 15-minute cough such
verbose preacher. The little old lady still had her head atten- tively cocked on one side, some- times nodding appreciately, sometimes stroking her chin in contemplation.
“We already hearing some personal criticisms and vicious attacks, many directed against me personally,” said Mr. Diefenbaker. ‘‘But, as Sir John A. Macdonald said in 1872, the apple tree which has the biggest pile of sticks and ston- es around its trunk is always the one which carries the best apples.” | The little old lady shrieked with laughter, and she clapped
her nineteen buck Prime Minis- | ter as he ended the 65-minute | speech which had seemed so | much shorter.
Steel Bosses Criticized
By Joseph
MacSween
Canadian Press Staff Writer
American steel boss
es di sucha flat-footed job of public |
relations
believe it was calculated. One theory was that the big steel companies — whose chiefs
are often Republicans — took a |
dramatic method of declaring war on President Kennedy and his Democratic advisers, and of down - grading Kennedy in the public eye.
Kennedy,
apparently, knew
nothing of the price increases |
until Roger M. Blough, chair- man of the U.S. Steel Corpora- tion, asked for an interview at the White House Tuesday and handed him a press release.
This, says Kennedy, was a shock and humiliation to him since the steel companies and the United Steelworkers America had Ww CO! tract after negotiations in which there had been no threat of a price increase. URGED CONCERN
Kennedy’s administration was not a partner at the bargaining table. But the president and Labor Secretary Goldberg have long been urging that labor and industry — in their deliberations
more concerned with the
publi cgood. Kennedy had spec- ifically pleaded for stable prices.
unanimous in puzzle- ment about the timing of the announcements, ff they
in announcing price | increases that some observers | t
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hey came as Kennedy pre- pared for a regular press con- ference in which he had a tremendous opportunity immed- iately to lambaste the steel com- panies via television, newspa- pers and radio.
As one commentator put it:
“This might make no dif- ference if American business didn’t spend a lot of money try- ing—as the advertising boys say—to improve their image.
“In this case they must have sent their public relations men home.”
attack big business as such, spoke of a “‘tiny handful of s executives whose pursuit of pri- vate power and profit exceeds their public responsibility.”
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fAlice’s Dreams Seem Parallel To Epilepsy
By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen THE dreams of Alice in Won-
epilepsy of developing a con sion, blackout, or headache, the individual feels he is changing in size or floating like a feather pells are e equivalents, especially when they occur in persons with a family history of these diseases. An English psychiatrist told of a 24 year old housewife who periodically developed a feel- ing that “the ground comes up and I go down or vice versa, so that sometimes I feel myself to be six inches and sometim- es 12 feet.” At other times her feet felt as though they were a yard long and walking on the level gave her a sensation of go-
ing up or downhill.
Sometimes her head seemed divided into ; th one slightly behind the other. Brain wave tracings were abnormal and the attacks were regarded as migraine equivalents,
When Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland, was the tale imaginative or had the au- thor experienced those fantastic dreams of his heroine? Carroll was a victim of migraine and many authorities believe he suf- fered from these symptoms.
At any rate, people who de- velop illusions like these are said to be suffering from Alice in Wonderland syndrome. She had fantastic dreams in which she was remarkably tall or ex- tremely small on different oc- casions,
Other patients have reported equally bizarre fantasies. One woman had the sensation that her bedroom changed from a cubicle to a long hall. She also
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experienced distortions of body image, similar to those seen in the parabolic mirrors at a fun house.
(Dr. Van Dellen will answer questions on medical topics if stamped, self-addressed envel- ope accompanies request.)
EXCESS SCAR TISSUE F. B. writes: My son has had a keloid on one leg for about seven years. I would like some information on this condition.
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Skin repairs itself with a scar when cut or lacerated; after it repairs the damage it stops growing. But in some, scar tis- sue continues to pile up until it protrudes beyond the level of the skin (keloids). We do not know why some persons are more prone to these lesions, Surgical removal is possible but the individual runs the risk of developing another,
FATTY TUMORS H. W. writes: I do not like or eat fatty foods but I have had five fatty tumors removed. Now I have four more. What is the cause of these nasty growths? PLY
We do not know. Fatty tu- mors (lipomas) are com- mon and rarely become malig- nant. It is unusual to develop more than one or two tumors but some surpass the average.
BONES LOSE CALCIUM F. P, writes: What would cause osteoporosis of the spine in a man of 54? EPLY
R Loss of calcium from the bon- |
es. This may stem from the ag- ing process, disease of the legs, or deficient vitamin D. Send a stamped, self-addressed enve- lope for leaflet on osteoporosis.
REGULAR MEALS W. A. H. writes: What foods
should be eaten to regain strength after a bout of intestin- al flu?
REPLY. A normal diet, provide- the gastrointestinal tract is in a re- ceptive mood.
OUR YESTERDAYS
From the Guardian Files
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (April 14, 1937)
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stormy Jamaican election helped me recall the way in which he gave me much the same message, in reverse, al- most 20 years ago. It was his declared opinion it the West Indies could get along without me just fine, if Canada could be persuaded to welcome me home.
TOO MUCH BOUNCING
As a general policy, though, a man can’t make a life work of cing around. between places just to satisfy his crit- ics, so I lingered for a while in Jamaica; and have some
pes, wanted or not, of avoiding any enforced depar. ture from this Island.
Anyway, before I left Jama- ica, my relations with Busta- mante (this was a long time before he was knighted) be- came reasonably friendly. He was a charmer of a kind I'd never met before; the pos- sessor of the greatest force of magnetism, the greatest pow- ers as a rabble-rouser, I've ever seen at work.
It is out of these memories that I feel some alarm over Tuesday comeback elec- tion victory— he'd been out of power since 1955 — and the things he has said since win-
TRADITIONAL ROAD
It is hard for me to believe that Busta, as he is known to everybody in Jamaica, is the right man to guide his coun- try into the complete inde- pendence in nationhood which it is due to achieve on Aug. 6.
Oh, he has travelled the traditional road to becoming the “savior,” the ‘freedom bringer’’ to a colony. He scor- ed the first modern victory for a labor force in his land— suffered imprisonment for his beliefs early in the Second
orld War—and went on to become Jamaica's first ‘chief minister’ and gain knighthood following the broadening of suffrage there in 1944.
All I question about him is his wisdom and his vision, and, good heavens, how Jam- aica will need greatness of wisdom and vision as it moves into independence.
TERRIFYING PROBLEM
It is a lovely yet most un- happy land, with the most terrifying problem of unem- ployment to be found in an y British Island in the Carib-
an. In recent years it has gained many new industries without achieving matching social and economic advanc- es
As for its place on the map, it lies in the very shadow of Cuba, Haiti and Dominican Republic, the lands that offer the greatest threat to the sur-
val of the democratic con-
cept in the Caribbean. It is a threat that should not be view- ed lightly in any part of this hemisphere.
And Busta’s first thoughts, as he headed back into power, were to call for a defence pact with the U.S. “‘to protect us against foreign invasion”
ice prove inadequate.
CUBA’S LESSON
These probably were the natural things to say at
ce. The ger that the army will be needed is likely a great deal more serious thay most Canadians imagine.
e perils in Jamaica lie far more in joblessness, poverty, hunger, and the way they open a path for Commun. ism, than they do in the com munist credo itself.
seems too bad that Bus- ta's first words were about fighting Communism, rather than fighting the forces which could make Communism ap- pear attractive.
If there is any lesson to be learned from Cuba, surely it shows that this is going at things the wrong way about. FLAUNTED WEALTH
I find it easy to doubt that Bustamante, at the age of 77,
is capable of learning that lesson now. The best is that the men who stand in line
to succeed him will help guide him along the right line; but he is a strongly self- willed man who is convinced of his own ‘‘vision’’, which he sets ahead of differing ideas from others.
It has to be said, too, that Jamaica, as it enters nation- hood, is likely to have only a short time to find the answer to its problems, ifitis t avoid turning in the direction of Cuba.
Behind the picture -postcard loveliness of Jamaica, there is a frightening sullenness at work among its people. It is a product in part of the way in which the few wealthy per sons in their midst osten- tatiously flaunt their wealth— the placing of luxury resorts for tourists in areas where the natives know extreme want,
CAUSES FOR CONCERN
It is a situation in which there has been little develop. ment of a middle-class society, There is scarcely any buffer between the very rich and the very poor.
It does not cure sullenness tu repress it, which seems to be Busta’s immediate plan. It
could boil over into some- thing that would shock us ail, Accordingly, I feel that
those who love Jamaica, as I do, have some causes for con- cern over the presence of Busta at the helm as the island becomes a nation. I found it easy to like Busta, as I cam to know him, but that isn’t the same thing as trusting his ability to deal with new and dire situations which I fear are going to face him.
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