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PAGE 4 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1967.

Costly Reckoning

0f concern to Island motorists

are some figures released last week

' in the annual Green Book of auto

i insurance premiums and claims ex-

perience. The statistics are for all

Canada except Saskatchewan which

still has a government-operated

cdmpulsory insurance scheme, and

‘ are collated for the superintendent

I of insurance by the Canadian Un- derwriters Association.

: Average increases in next year’s insurance premiums (including all classifications except commercial arid farm vehicles) are shown for all but one province; and Prince Edward Island faces the biggest i jump—22 per cent. Average cost -' of liability claims in P.E.I. went up 21.6 per cent during the year, to $399.

British Columbia is next in line with an indicated boost of 14 per cent. For the other provinces the percentage increases are, respect- ively: Quebec 10. Ontario 8, New Brunswick 6. Manitoba 5, Alberta 8, Nova Scotia 2. In Newfoundland the rates could go down by as much as 11 per cent on the average.

According to the Financial Post, severe competition pressures with- in the industry may temper the actual increases, as has been the case in the past. With claim fre- quency and average claim costs going up every year, however, some insurers claim that rates should actually be increased by more than the Green Book indications.

In any case, they afford a strik- ing example of the connection be- tween mounting liability claims—— resulting from mounting traffic ac- cidents—and the premiums that must be paid for car insurance. Our claims average has been ex- ceptionaly high, and our average premiums will go up accordingly. It is an unenviable achievement for this little pr0vince to be at the top of the list. and it is to be hoped that it is the last year in which we shall find ourselves in this position.

Close Harmony? Canada, said Finance Minister Gordon in addressing the Canadian Club of Hamilton recently, has out- ta. paced the United States in increas- ll ing production, exports and jobs. and in decreasing the rate of unem- ployment. The gross national pro- duct will be up, and the federal budget deficit will be down. “I see no reason,” he said, “why the pres- ent trend of economic activity should not continue into 1965.” The re- sults, he added modestly, “have

been right up to expectations.” Joining in the same theme on the someday but before the On- tario Liberal leadership convention was External Affairs Minister Paul Martin, who said: “All over there is a new mood, a mood of confid- ence in the economic destiny of this country, and the present Prime Minister of Canada deserves the lion’s share of the credit for the achievement.” This made an in- teresting contrast, he said, to the péeimism of a year and a half ego—just before the Liberal vic-

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l . duty—when unemployment was ' é ’3 ilh, trade low and Canada's af- ' in a mess.

“A. i This cheering news almost coin- : with a statement by another 'flinet member, Defense Minister _‘,_ in a somewhat different

_ . It acorns that for a compar- ‘ ' ' ‘small plant of expert tech- in Charlottetown the gov- , has been unsuccessful in A '7 “alternative employment” “has been doing of aor- ' of jet planes now being

phased out of RCAP‘ operation.

With all this economic and in- dustrial boom, this increase in jobs and gross national product and what- not, there just isn’t anything to do for a local plant that could presum- ably adapt itself to other types of government work if it had the chance, as plants in other parts of the country have done. Not a thing to be found for it, says Mr. Hellyer, “despite our best efforts.”

Which just goes to show that even the best efforts, sometimes, don’t amount to very much.

Diplomats Confident

There will be a great many dis- tressed and discredited diplomats at Washington, says the New York Times, if Senator Barry Goldwater wins the U.S. Presidency. “A No- vember chili would spread through the 105 foreign embassies, not only because most of their occupants do not want Goldwater to win but be- cause these normally cautious ob- servers of the U.S. scene have been emphatic and virtually unanimous in advising their governments to ex- pect a Johnson triumph.”

Judging by the opinion polls, these diplomats won’t have to eat crow. No country in the world in- dulges in the game of opinion samp~ ling with the same passion as the United States. There are literally scores, probably hundreds of them going on at this time in an effort to read the mind of the electorate prior to voting day; and they are producing an astonishing uniformity in their results. They all show that Goldwater is speeding toward a repudiation so complete that it should, if it comes to pass. elimin- ate him forever as a Presidential contender.

All the nation-wide polls tell the same story: President Johnson ahead by a two-to-one margin. These national straw votes are back- ed by samplings being taken in in- dividual states by local organiza- tions such as newspapers and farm organizations. They show John- son far out in front almost every- where but in the deep South.

Over in London at Madame Tus- saud’s waxworks, however, they’re playing it safe. The management of that famous institution is pre- paring to include both the Presi- dent and the Senator in its exhib- ition of distinguished Americans.

Berlin Agreement

Last week there was rejoicing in Berlin, where an agreement ‘was signed which will permit West Ber- liners to visit their relatives in East Berlin on special holdays and more often in hardship cases. It is hard for us, here, to realize what this con- cession means. It required eight months of negotiations to produce the new agreement, after the expir- ation of the original pass arrange- ment last Christmas.

That agreement had lasted from December 18 to January 5, during which period West Berliners made an estimated 1,300,000 visits to the Communist side of the city. The new arrangement is to last for one year, with renewal possible.

Visits will be permitted four times during the period—14 days this fall, 16 days over Christmas and New Year’s, probably 14 days at Easter, 1965, and another 14 days at Pentecost. For West Berliners with urgent family problems in East Berlin, visits will be permitted throughout the year.

In no case, however, will East Berliners be allowed to visit West Berlin. The agreement is a one- way street.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Most new cars now have seat belts, which have proved their value time and again as safety devices. The strange thing is that many people still refuse to use them.

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Experimentally, s o m e 20,000 American schoolchildren have start- ed learning to read this fall with a 444character alphabet devised by a British educator. Each letter rep- resents only one basic sound in con- trast to combinations possible in the conventional, 26-letter English al- pha-bet. This new or Initial Teaching Alphabet (I.T.A.) was first intro- duced to the United States in 1963, the National Geographic Society says. A test group of 600 first- graders in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was reading I.T.A. books at the third and fourth-grade level after only seven months of instruction.

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PASSING THE PEACE PIPE

DIGGING UP SECRETS

Excovoting Herod’s Poloces & Storerooms

Ronald Harker in the London Observer

Uncovering the last secrets of the rock fortress of Masada will begin when an Israeli ex- pedition to the Dead sea start: its second season of digging Nov. 27

Prof. Yigael Yadin and his team of archeologists and vol- unteer workers from 28 coun- tries have already excavated the palaces and storerooms o Herod the Great.

In the casemate walls of the fort (where Jewish zealots in revolt against Rome in adr. their last stand in 73 AD.) they have discovered weapons, uten- sils and precious scrolls th at shed new light on life in Pales- tine in the days after the cruci- fixion.

Exploration was suspended in ‘

April because of the summer heat. But 50 workers and guards remained to protect the me against molestation.

RECONSTRUCTED

In temperatures often reach- ing 111 degrees they have re- constructed rooms in the for- tress walls and palaces. which were destroyed nearly 70 years after Herod‘s death, when the Jewish defenders set fire to

em.

Priceless frescoes. not seen for nearly 2.000 years, have been removed, panel by panel with greot care. First, cloth was stuck to the surface, and then they were detached by drilling behind. The panels were encas- ed and taken over the desert road to Jerusalem.

There, spending about four weeks on each panel, experts peeled off or ground down the plaster to a thin layer, replac- ing it with fresh and stronger plaster backing. panels were then taken back to Mass da and will be permanently pro- tected behind glass or trans- parent plastic.

All the rest of the transport- able flnds — hundreds of brok- en vessels, pieces of jewelry. ancient mone boards and scrolls— were trucked to Jeru- salem for study, reassembly and classification.

All the scrolls have been un- rolled, treated and photograph-

ed. Prof. Ya in o pun- lish first a scroll of Ecclesiasti- cus. because of its ’ _ ‘ to biblical study and in response to inquiries from scholars on over the world.

About one-tlflrd of Masada e- mains to be excavated. The most important finds so far. in cluding the scrolls, were made in rooms in the casemate walls; and out of 120 of these, 40 an still unexplored. Hopes of new

and exciting discoveries a so

high. but Prof. Yadin said, "i' is safer to pray than to proph- 53.."

The reconstruction work is tht biggest ever undertaken in is- rael. It will turn the 23 acre as summit of Masada. dominating the surrounding wilderness of

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Judea. into one of Israel‘s mau- tourist attractions.

Masada is the special glory of Israel, but the work there is adding significantly to the sum of human knowledge, and so it Is appropriate that Prof. Yadm uses volunteer workers from the outside work as well as from Israel.

Crusader Unchained

Montreal

Now that Lord Beaverbrook is dead, it is perhaps fitting that one of the symbols of his career should have disappeared too.

In 1931. when Beaverbrook's hopes of E mpire unity were high. he had the figure of a small, red Crusader. wit‘i shield and spear, placed at the top of his f a m o u s newspaper, the Daily Express.

Twenty years . later, in 1951, chains were suddenly placed about the Crusader. No explana- tion was given for a few weeks. Then Beaverbrook announced that the chains would stay on until a B ritish government again took p an Empire

Now the chains have disap-

peared, as mysteriously as they came, without explanation. It

Gazette

can only be assumed that. as far as the Daily Express is concern- ed, the mpire Crusade hes died with he Empire Crusader.

The failure of Beaverbrook‘s Empire free trade and unity campaign was the great failure of his career. Almost every- thing that he did in politics and journalism was designed to pro- mote this campaign. T y were means to an end. He was astonishingly successful at the means, but the end proved be- yond his grasp.

No one now stands for Em- pire free trade, and it is unlike- ly that anyone ever will again. l Perhaps, then, the Daily Ex- press should not only remove ‘

the chains, but the Crusader as [

well.

Cousewoy Responsibility

Moncton Transcript

A private firm reportedly is seeking federal government ap- proval for construction of a causeway across the Northum- berland Strait between Prince Edward Island and New Bruns- wick. This newspaper feels that it would be a bad mistake for the construction and subsequent control of such a link to placed in private hands.

is is a major project of far- reac'ting importance, a develop- ment which will have many and varied effects. The effects will not be purely geographical or oceanographical. but will also be sociological. An undertaking of this nature can and must be handled by the government.

Its cost must. borne by the nation as a whole. It is a project of a nature similar to the Canto Causeway: even similar to the

construction of the St. Law- rence Seaway. Surely. no one would argue that the Seaway should have been left to private enterprise.

The provision of a continuous link between the mainland and the island can only be the re- sponsibility the government or, possibly, governments, for' provincial administrations could be partners to some extent with the federal authorities. We fa- vor the federal level accepting the total responsibility.

The causeway. or bridge. or tunnel, or combination system finally settled upon must pro- vide for a rail line. It would be unrealistic for a road causeway only to be constructed. Freight requirements demand that a

railway be provided. This was done at Canso.

Tough ExportPBecision

The objectives of the Canad- ian dairy industry seem to be the crossroads. A. B. Williams federal etabllizatlon board chetf. says the producers and the government must decide

Chinese Checkers

Montreal Star

Canada has been edging to- wards a new China licy for

almost as long as ey ave been two Chinas. Officially this country is still committed

to the China of General Oblong Kalr- shek, but in practice more and more do factor recogni- Pek-

g . now firmly established with Chinese mainland; Canadian offi- claldom has contacts Peking offlcialdom; eVery step i as been taken, in fact. except the formal exchange of diplo- mats

In the last few weeks both Mr. Martin and Mr. Pemou have taken up the China quest- ion once more. Mr. Pearson an- gued, before he Atlantic Treaty Association in Ottawa, t at

little and understand less of outside world. If we exposed them more to the views of the seat of the world, we mus sum

day expect a more realistic po- cy from them."

It is doubtful on the record whether such an expoeu re would do what Mr. Pearson suggests. The Chinese People's government is not isolated o d a y. It h a s diplomatic relations with a large major- ity of the peoples of the World. It does not have them with North America. nor does it sit in th e United Nations.

But the issue is not the educat- Ion of a "lime: it is the simple fact that the govern- ment of China is not aslanz Ral-

e.

s t Mao thung. a ad that the chances of the Formosa er the

first lathe nited Nations and then by this country coins so we in

tea is being about Peking .4 we Just cannot afford to b-

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now, for federal support must be fitted to this decision.

Some time ago Canada ship- pedathlrdof her dairy pro ducts abroad: in use it was only 2% per cent. Now the speaker says the decision must be made to concentrate entirely on the local market or plan for export with lower price avail- able for milk production. To- day to meet foreign competi- tion Canadian prices would have to be pared materially.

In 1004 dairy farmers claim that costly equipment demand- ed for the product for human consumption makes their pro- tits minimal. If Canada wants to export dairy products subsi- dieswouldhavetobapald the producers to compensate for the lower price that is essentl al for sales abroad. Otherwise producers 'would quit the dairy bus use.

A two - price system might be set up retaining the high con- sumer price here and payme nt ofa subsidy to the farmer on mill: prod u c t s shipped over- seas. This is almost certain to

bring comlaint under the GATT trade regulations. Yes an almost similar position exists in our export of re as allowance is made for milk used for the overseas trade. .

A must similar motoc- meat faces the Ontario tubes“

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' Heart Attacks

While Hunting

By Dr. Theodore R. Van belles Many men are beginning to realise that in fatalities among deer bum. duee times as many die from heart attacks as from accidents."l'hls is under- standable because this type of hunting is hard work. The level of energy expenditure is

four times that used by most

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But this is only part of the story. There are thousands of hunters, and a certain number were destined to havo a heart attack regardless of when they were or what they were doing. died en route: others while sitting around the motel or hotel on the night before the season 0 ns. Hunting la bl am ed even though their guns were not un- packed. In these instances. tak- ing the trip is purely coinciden- tal. They might have had coron- ary thrombosis if they remain- ed at home or had gone on a business trip. We do not want to give the impression that deer hunting is not hazardous. Many men have heart attacks while walking through the forests, up and down bills. or dragging a deed deer. Some of these men had angina pectoris and should not have gone hunting. It is too hard on an ailing ticker. In addition, when chest pain develops while wal through the brush, the hunter is likely to continue on, than sit down or lie on t ground. He does not want to be a burden to others. It is this ad- ditional exertion that does the damage. Furthermore. on rea- ching camp, the sick hunter may insist on being driven home. This is a mistake that may prove fatal. My advice is: Do not go hunt- ing if you have known heart dis- ease. Stay put, if chest pain de- velops while hunting. Call the local physician rather than take a chance on getting home.

EYE BUNKER Mrs. M. writes: My son is a nervous child, and when he gets overexcited. he starts blinking his eyes. His worst times are the holidays, when he is taking exams at school, and when we have company. Is there some thing I can give him in advance when I know he is going to be very nervous? REPLY A tranquilizer may be help- ful. But best results are obtain- by keeping the home atmos- phere calm and restful and giv- ing the boy a little extra love. attention, and encouragement. ROID DURING PREGNANCY

R. A. G. writes: Could the un- born baby be harmed lf an ex- pectant mother took one thy- roid tablet daily?

No, and it is advisable if this woman’s thyroid is underactive. TODAY'S HEALTH HINT— Don’t irritate cuts with strong antiseptics.

NOTES BY

THE WAY

. We don’t patent to knew anything aboutchupeed oflllht except,thatlt'etsberetiooearly in the morning. - Hamilton Spectator.

Mrs. Climber (sect-ll! Inclin- edt— “My dear, I've picked out

for you." Do r~—- “Very well, but I tell you em-

aelect the mater“ mlf.”

“A baby first lalsha at the age of about four months," says a pediatrician. By then baby can focus his eyes well enough to see what his father looks like. —-W.lndaor Star.

The after-dinner speaker had t f fifteen minutes. "After partaking of such an ex- cellent meal," he continued, “I feel that if I had eaten any more I would be unable to talk." From the far e of table came an order to a waiter: "Bring him a sandwich." - Galt Reporter.