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-‘Musmanno concludes that “there is nét a single worm track spanning all three works.” What is the significance of this? The learned jurist explains:

Wallace Wend. ; Frenk wae “During my 34 years as a judge,” Pablthed every week day momid\iexcept Sun- | he writes, “I have had to pass on the fey and maiy hentee at 165 Prince = authenticity of thousands of docu- oar eiaen pla grab 7pePberon | ments. My judicial experience leads and Souris. ; me to conclude that no court in a Pie ne selreraagaadgpprey re tietgy 0 “Civilized country would accept as Empire 38894; Montreal 640 Cathcart Street Un | genuine the Vinland Map on the basis wersiny $9082) Waseem Ome 100 Went Sere | of the shaky, internally ent | Member Conadien Dolly Newspeper Puntinen proofs offered by the authors” of sepsis Saag a eg tc renu. | Yale’s publication of the map. ication of alt news, degaiches in. ths. paper: Justice Musmanno also has a word | eredited to it or to the Associated Press or Revtes | to say about some of the reported published herein. All | : ‘fae voation ot cpacial_clepatches here | North American finds sere as reserved. Subscription rete: = evidence pre-Colum orse 12.00 « Pee eg oy ore toeaes and grea3, | Visitors. He‘terms them “Skandikna- OF eon — sear is andiUe epee pe | VOU: He acknowledges the “good

faith” of Dr. and Mrs. Helge Ingstad in reporting archaeological finds of a Norse site in L’Anse sux Meadows,

PAGE 4 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1908. | in Newfoundland. But he accepts the 1966 verdict of Samual Elliot __ Another Tea Party Morison, the Harvard historian, that

“evidence so far produced indicates that the site was used for smelting iron by early French colonists.”

The Ingstads said :last-month that they would present their case this fall to the International. Conference of Americanists in Buenos Aires. Jus- tice Musmanno says he will welcome an invitation to attend and give “the: other side of the case.”

He should take the Yale authori- ties with him, to make sure they don’t go wrong again!

A Dreary Picture

The dreary sense of fatality that has engulfed the Viet Nam war has been noted by many American war correspondents in recent .months. The latest to write authoritatively on this subject is Neil Sheenan in a re- cent article in the New York Times. After two long tours of war cor- responding in South Vietnam, Mr. Sheenan ends with a disillusionment and a restrained sense of despair which make painful reading.

‘The positive factors.in the picture,

Like the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, the Liberal’ powwow at Ottawa this

ly difficult for the Pearson govern- ment to take it into its confidence. _ But the point at issue was that the

ease of its decision to shelve its medicare program for a whole year. It was a case, apparently, of the “leaks” having to be ‘plugged in

But Mr. Mcliraith agreed “in principle” with the idea that the gov- ernment should keep ‘its members well. informed of its plans through the caucus. So of course he got a big hand, as did Finance Minister Sharp and Mr. Pearson in their expressions of “regret” at having to renege on

promise

harass by ae. he says, are few and are far out- of the delegates that “commitments sive war effort has brought to the was cmine’ adit (oo oe intervention |

, postponing the date as an anti- has substituted Americans for inflationdey install wilde é-ecoib- Frenchmen in the eyés of the Viet- ae eta Or auttuithn Om erying in the wilderness. more terror:

France ever did. In the government - ‘and civil service, there are the same - “mandarins drawn from the merchant

‘Measure, it appears, was revealed— Sharp himself in a press interview in Washington. It was a gambit to keep the provinces from “howling for more money” at the federal-provin-

laborating withthe Americans «as . they did with the French in order to save their property and privileges.

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possible that if the United Sta- tes “wins” this war, it will be for the old ruling classes, not the present masses of Viet Nam. The Times makes this comment. editorially, That would have been a good. point ting that the mest disturbing fea-

for our Premier Campbell to have “i ised, Idn’t it? since his own ture of Mr. Sheenan’s report is that

ed a flop, since the provinces howled ‘louder than ever, and gave no as- surance that they will cut back spend- ing to help Ottawa resist inflation.

; land reform has never been carried

election campaign in with a onan i ae out; very little has been done in the ‘ fields of education ‘and low-cost hous- had good reason te do some “howl- ing: ahd the od, clas. ing” at the treatment we have receiv- | 46° ona n saree ri ah

ed financially. But it seems that New

Brunswick Premier Robichaud’ was | Te #lt in. evidence.

One can argue thatyHanoi can put

ft only provincial premier ter : os debat eiishs Cont an end to the escalation by agreeing : cana anttle @arlalgn; to make some peace gestures on its

part, and this is true enough. The is- sues, however, are not that simple. This is especially true of the period since February of last year, when major escalation of the war began. If it is to grow bigger, so will the United States contribution to it. If kept up long enough, the end will be the destruction of all of North Vietnam and most of South Vietnam: Then there will be peace. Before the ulti- ‘mate price is paid—by the Viet- namese—there is still the chance that “descalation, especially a long halt in the bombing, may save what is left. . The stakes are so high that the- gamble, surely, is worth taking.

Tougher On Criminals They are making it tougher for criminals to operate in London, ac- cording to a recent British news “story. An electronic alarm system -. known as the Radio Activated In- truder Detector—or Rapid for short—

That’s the way the majority voted, including our Island delegation, we ; are told. “Regretfully,” of course. “Disappointed,” even. But “strong” nevertheless, “in their support of the federal government. in its decision founded on the reasons on which this decision was taken.” _... What.could_ be more gratifying to _ all concerned than that?

Columbus Upheld Christopher Columbus’ claim to having discovered the New: World was disputed some time ago by Yale University: authorities, who have an ancient document in their library known as the Vinland Map which, they said, supports the theory that Leif Ericson reached here first. They calculate the date of the Ericson map _, 881440, which would be more than half a century before Columbus, a - Genoese mariner. in the service of the ..

. Spanish crown, sighted his first Carib- | thas been put into operation. The hean isle on Oct. 12, 1492, ““T system has two components, one’ This has been a sore point with | béing ‘a sensing device so small that

Columbus Day enthusiasts, but there seemed no way of meeting an argu- ment based on such convincing} evidence. However, a Pennsylvania | suspect may be burgled. If an in- Supreme Court jurist of Italian truder breaks in, it signals the fact to descent, Michael A. Musmanno, has | another building, where the second done just that. He has launched a | component passes it on to a one-man broadside against the Yale pundits | control desk at- the city’s new police in the form of a 160-page volume | headquarters. ; entitled “Columbus Was First,” and This, of course, greatly reduces the it has already attracted world atten- | number of men on patrol—and also tion. the city’s crime rate, as the records: “After examining and measuring | show. One gang which the device ' the worm holes that link the Vinland—| recently foiled might just as well _ Map with two other manuscripts | have done their weeks of planning in “~-Isnown te be of the period, Justice | the local-police station. -

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