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TUES_D-AY, APRIL 29, ‘Ed;

‘Yukon Jubilee

In August the Yukon will ob- serve the 60th anniversary of the big «Klondike Gold Rush, an event which was credited, with alleviat- ing a North American economic de- pression‘ in the last years of the 19th century and with fostering the rapid growth of such cities as Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle and Edmonton.

To mark the occasion fittingly the Yukonites have planned a great Gold Rush Festival which will con- sist of events depicting the life and history of the territory. The com- mittee in charge of the‘program says that the main problem to be overcome is the ignorance of Can- adians in general regarding living conditions there. With an eye to correcting this situation, the com- mittee has arranged essay and map- drawing contests for school children all across the country. “Yukon,” it says, “is one of Canada’s last fron- tiers——a rapidly changing one, des-

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tined to play a key role in the coun- ‘

try’s growth in this second half of the 20th century".

The purpose of the contests is to encourage Canadian students to examine the Yukon in terms of its economic and geographical relation- ship to the rest of Canada. 32 cash prizes totalling $700 will be awarded. A top prize of $100 will be given the best 750 word essay written by students from Grade 9 to Grade 12. There will be other "prizes in this category of $75, $25 and $10. Other prizes will be awarded pupils from Grade 14 to Grade 8. The topic in each case is “The Importance of Yukon in Canada’s Future”. Prizes will be given also in the various categories for the best maps of the region. I

Incidentally, it would be interest- ing to know just how many -Prince Edward Islanders could say off-hand exactly where the Yukon is situated.

Hulcliison On Dulles

Mr. Bruce Hutchison, editor‘ of the Victoria, BC; Times, is one of Canada’s most influential newspap- ermen. He is highly regarded as an unofficial interpreter of Canadian opinion in the United States; and it is in this capacity that he under- I takes to tell the round, unvarnished truth on a subject of considerable embarrassment to both countries.

The subject is Mr. John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State. Writing in the May issue of Harper’s Magazine, Hutchison says that “an overwhelming. majority of coma. diaiis, including all their leading statesmen, regard Mr. Dulles as an unmitigated disaster—a "disaster af- fecting Canada as deeply as it af. fects the U.S. No Canadian gov.

ernment can say these things aloud, I

of course,” says Mr. Hutchison (who is a Liberal), “but in the last five years the largest preoccupation of Canadian diplomacy has been to re- pair Mr. Dulles’_ blunders, as Canada sees them. . . .

“It is merely factual to say also that the former and present govern- ments of Canada have nottrusted either the wisdom or the reliability of Mr. Dulles. They have awaited his every statement as a mountaineer watches the slip of an avalanche.

“The removal of Mr. Dulles might not alter American policy in the least, for all we know, but it remove the largest single antd losrilaclin the border—the symbol frictions pItp\0mt1 of-an the other States a’ chagfuf give the ‘United confidence f ‘e to-re-esgabllsh the

0. its friends in Canada Zilidt eizewhere. We Canadians doubt

a e thin ‘ Wise.” 8 C811 be done other.

Hutchison Says American “in. difference” toward Canada, and its “stubborn refusal” to try to on. derstand it, are other causes of the present difficulties between the two countries.

He reminds Americans that Can. ada is “a piece of real estate abso- lutely vital to American defense and lying directly in Russia’s air

path to America,” and that Canada has mineral resources “without which the United States could not fight any war.”

He adds: “If the American peo- ple would pay half as much atten- tion to the great land mass lying beside them, in Russia's path, as they may to a score of small, neut- ral countries in all corners of the world, the problems of the border would soon be solved."

Mining‘On The Shelf

Although the U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea, in which Can- ada played a leading part, was ob- liged to adjourn without having come to any agreement on the ques- tion of territorial waters so far as they pertain to the fisheries, it was not, apparently, a total failure.

One agreement which delegates

appeared to believe was of some importance has to do with the so- called “continental shelf", the re- latively shallow part of the sea which stretchesout from the main- land, varying from a few miles to several hundred miles. It was de- cided, subject to ratification by signatory states, to give coastal na- tions sovereign rights over these shelves “for the purpose of explora- tion and exploitation”. This means, in the language of the report, “that, regardless of territorial waters for other purposes, the limit of a shelf for-purposes of mineral "exploitation will be the limit beyond which-, use of its natural resources would prove impossible.” 1

In other words, a country will be able to exploit mineral resour- ces for as far off its coasts as it is practicable to carry out the work, whether it be outside I “territorial

waters" or not.

EDITORIAL Nous

Good runs of herring are report- ed from various places on the Island. Now, if the lobsters will co-operate by taking what they are offered, it

should be a good season for fisher- men. I ‘

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“It's no wonder that Diefenba- ker’s promise of a greater, stronger Canada, developing her own resour- ces_Ain her own way, kindled a flame of nationalistic pride. It is dangerous as well as stupid for the U.S. Gov- ernment to act as if Canada were on the dark side of the moon”.—Louis- ville Times.

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The mayor . of an Ontario town was threatened with “mob violence” if he persisted in introducing Day- light Saving Time. There was some harsh talk on the subject here a few weeks back; but, happily, no“ one went so far as to suggest vio- lence. It must be that our people are more cultured than Ontarioans.

- o «n 9 One highly placed American of- ficer thinks that the threat of a gen- eral war increases each day the Sov- iet Union grows stronger. Another thinks that general war is unlikely because of the nuclear strength of both sides. When the experts dis- agree in this way, the rest of us can only hope and pray for the best.

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Inter-Church co-operation in a very important matter is reported from the United States. Under: a newly reached agreement Roman Catholics, through their Catholic Relief Service, and non-Roman Catholics through Church World Service will join forces for the first time in distributing American sur- plus food. First recipients under the new agreement will be 350,000 re- sidents of Taiwan, on a 50-50 basis, regardless of religion. According to a Church World Service official, “the joint program, under discussion for some time, is being worked out largely to provide more efficient dis- tribution.”

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Since its inauguration here in 19- 47, the annual Music Festival has been a phenomenal success. This year the competitive events are more varied and interesting than ever, and all parts of the Province are represented among ‘the par- ticipants. It is amazing what the Festival has done to stimulate ap- preciation of good music in recent years. Those who compete are of course the chief beneficiaries, but

_ the life of the whole community has

been enriched through this truly cultural movement, and the same can be said for many other com- munities across Canada where simi- lar activities are being carried on every year.

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APPLIES TO NON-SOCIALIST GARDENS TOO, NIKITA

OTTAWA REPORT

Unconventional Reactions

By Patrick

Nicholson .

special Correspondent for The Guardian

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_ Ottawa: Simonee has gone back to the Arctic, grateful for benefits which the White Man of- fered liim in Ottawa, but appar- ently quite convinced that we are completely nuts.

This 25 year old Eskimo paid his way to Ottawa by air from his home on Baffin Island, when government doctors up t h er e sent his wife as a patient to an Ottawa maternity hospital; The pretty 24 year old Martha, who has lost two previous babies, suc- cessfully gave bIflh.Ilel'e to twins —' I rauity amon.g‘Eskiimoes.

Ten years ago, Simonee left an orphan, lived as as a nomad- ic hunter, travelling from igloo‘ to igloo. Chance took him to Frobisher Bay, where an air base was'being constructed, and there he took what few Eslcimoes wanted and even fewer could get, wage-paying work.

Simonee had enjoyed no formal education, but he quickly learned to speak English, and acquired manual and mental skill as u mech-antic, a carpenter and a driv-

er. NOW A YOUNG LEADER

Today Simonee has risen to a the Eskimo assistant to the Nor- thern service officer of the Fed- eral Government, who is in effect pro-consul for that hu.ge.Arctic area around our Northland’s most important aerial cross-roads. Si-‘ monee has added the role of in- terpreter to his other work, and he also acts as foreman of a con- struction gang of Eskimoes, who. are building white - painted clap- board bungalows for their fellows to live in.

He says these little homes are called “five twelves," because their government - approved floor plan gives them a living area of 512 square fet — small by our

divded into a living room, two bedrooms. a toilet and a vesti- bule. Heating and cooking is pro; vided by an oil-burning stove in the living room.

Simonee now earns $1.65 an hour. He works a six-day week in winter, and in the long days of summer -his whole gang works ten hours a day for a similar

working week. If that is not e- nough to stimulate some ’11nion official to rush up to Baffin Is- land ‘and “organise” those too- willing workers, listen to Simon- ee’: list of trades covered by his daily work: foreman, interpreter, and truck-driver

Simonee noticed one great dif- ference between the working con- ditions on Baffin Island and those prevalent in our Capital. Ottawa’s civil servants do not demand ten days off several times during the

‘winter, so that they may revert

to primitive customs and hunt their traditional food. Simonee puts up with white inan‘_s canned food most of the time, but he frankly prefers cairiboo and sea food which he has killedvhimself. FISH SUNDAE

Nobody has yet sold a refriger- ator to that Eskimo, for storing his catch and kill. Each ‘ 'nter, white cudgel-like objects lie stack ed on the brightly coloured roof of his bungalow. Those are fish, frozen as hard as iron in nature's refrigerator, but delicate and tas- ty when Martha has cooked them. 0f,if you are hungry as you ap- proach his home, Simonee will gladly hack off a hunk with his clasp knife for you to gnaw raw.

. Now this refreshing couple with t h e'i r unconventional reactions have gone back to Baffin Island; Mairtha with two new babies and two new sausages of black hair in a new “do” which some beau- ty parlour fashioned out of her pretty Eskimo-style plaits; and Simonee is shaking his head with amazement at seeing “so many people walking about idle” in Ot- tawa for, unlike his fellows at home, Ottawans do not carry a- round liarpoons and axes al- ready for immediate action as they walk down the street.

This swarthy and well - built young man, who has so recently changed his rawhide pyjama - like garb for a white man’s wor- sted suit, is in the vanguard of a developing new civilisation‘. Go- vernment officials here, with an alert eye on the coming Northern Development, say that Simonee may well grow into one of the top officials of a future Arctic eleventh Province of Canada.

A Northern Inventory

Toronto Globe and Mail

With national attention focused on Canada’s North as perhaps ne- ver before, a special interest at- taches to the report of a Royal Commission appointed by the Al- berta Government to investigate the resources and prospects of Northern Alberta. This is defined, for purposes of the survey, as the se ctio n of the Province lying north of the Fifty-fifth Parallel.

»Although Northern Alberta was one of the first parts of Western Canada to be visited by white men, it has remained largely un- settled and undeveloped. With a total area of 129,000 square miles.

73,683. Of these, 64,561 are con- centrated in the fertile Peace Riv- or district, famous for sixty years for its championship quality grain. The rest of the region, with 88,000 square miles, has on- ly 9,122 people. ' PRINCIPAL ASSETS _

This is certainly not due to any lack of natural resources. The Royal Commission lists the fol- lowing as the principal assets of the .region:

(1) Some 14,500,000 acres of good but unoccupied agricultural land, in addition to 3.960,000 acres now under cultivation.

(2) Oil and natural gas reserves estimated at 1.4 billion barrels of gas. One field is already under of oil and nine trillion cubic feet development in the Peace River area: in 1956. it produced 2.566,- 344 barrels of oil and 1,899 mil- lion cubic feet of gas. Besides all this. there are the famous A- thabasca Tar Sands, which con-I stitute a reserve of possibly 300 billion barrels of oil.

I3» Extensive forests with a po- , tential Yield. Accordion to tho

commission's estimates of 27 bil- lion feet of saw-log timber and 333 million cords of pulpwood.

(4) An extensive iron ore de- posit, in which the steel industry is already taking an interest.

(5) Three major waterpower sites, on the Peace, thabasca and Slave Rivers, with possible total yield of nearly 2,700,000 horsepower.

(6) Great deposists of salt and sulphur.

RICH TERRITORIES

As significant as this inventory of resources is the extraordinary way in which they complement those of the northwest Territories, especially the Mackenzie Basin - to which Northern Alberta has always been the gateway. ,The Territories.are known to be rich in metallic minerals. Northern Al- berta can supply the fuels and electric power necessary for min- ing and smelting these ores, and also, perhaps, much of the tim- ber and foodstuffs needed for Far Northern settlements. It requires little imagination to foresee a great integrated development in the future

With all these potentialities, the Royal Commission seems quite justified in predicting that by 1987 Northern Alberta will have a population of 270,000.

The commission emphasizes that “transportation is the key which will unlock the resources of Northern Alberta.” Of its many recommendations, the most im. portant are the building of a rail- way to join the existing Alberta railway system to the extremely promising base metals develop-

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ment at Pine Point on Great , Salve Lake in the Northwest Ter- 2 ritories, and the improvement ofl

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This column is open to the discus-

sion by correspondents of question of

interest. The Guardian does not neseb

urily endorse the opinion of correl- pondents.

TRIBUTE FROM CHIEF JUSTICE CAMPBELL

Sir,——The late I-Ionourable George D. DeBlods had very numerous friends in Ottawa, all of whom were greatly shocked and sincerely sorry to hear of his death.

He leaves behind him a career of outstanding achievements in the business world, in the church and other welfare organizations, and in public life. But. of course, he be most widely remem- bered for the period during which he represented His Maj- esty as Lieutenant Governor of the Province.

For three and a half years of that period, I had the honour of being his Premier and principal adviser, and I had an opportun- ity to observe the vital interest which he took in all legislative and executive measures which concerned the welfare of the Province. The dignity and dis- tiiiction with which he performed

only by the gracious hospitality extended by himself and Mrs. DeBlois to all guests and visitors at Government House.

The culminating event of his career was the visit of King George VI. and Queen Elizabeth in June 1939. On that occasion the dignified and well-«planned hospitality of His Honour made a unique contribution to the cor- dial welcome with which their Majesties were received by the people of Prince Edward Island.

The Honourable Mr. DeBlois will be very greatly missed not only by his sorrowing family, but by his wide circle of friends throughout Canada.

I am, Sir, etc., THANE A. CAMPBELL. Ottawa, April 25. . .-

A BELOVED CHRISTIAN

Sir,—A deep sense of grief was shown by people in all walks of life on Thursday last during the funeral procession of the Hon. George De-sBrisay DeBlois as it wended its way through the city streets lined by citizens paying their last respects to a truly great Christian gentleman. It can be said perhaps that much of his deep human interest in people came by inheritance to this beloved gentleman from his Colonial ancestor, the Rev. Par- son DesBrisay, Rector of the Parish of Charlotte, known as the Parish of St. Paul.

I am, Sir, etc.,

Spring. You’re driving along 1111111‘ \ ming to yourself, pausing ‘ and then to listen to the cheerful i

Don't Get Mad At Wild Driver

By Herman N. Bundesen. M.D.

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chirping of the birds flowing 111'» through the open windows of y0111' car. All is right with the world; , you are completely happy. _ i Suddenly, another auto swislies « past and cuts sharply in front of I, you. You swerve to the side and I escape being killed. You _d011I even have to st0l3- Nothlflg 15 d3‘ maged e x c e pt your peace of. mind.

OFFENDING MOTORIST.

By this time. the offending 1110' torist is a block ahead of 370“- Now here is where 3'0“ must make a quick decision. _ ' _ You can reflect about his idi- ocy for a minute‘ and then con- tinue on. still enioymg the 11109 day, or you can give vent to your emotions, chase the driver, punch him in the nose -— and P10- Ibavbly wind up 111 the $101199 1091*‘

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Hardly a day €995 by when 3

driver is not irritated by the tihoiiglhrbleness of another motor- ist. With all the traffic on our streets and highways, these days. it’s a wonder more of us don’t become emotionally upset and de- veop a good case of the lieebee jeebies after only a few minutes in the car. ' OVER "THE YEARS I have been driving for a lot longer than most of Y011. I dare say. And through the years I have gradually developed an at- titude which has soothed count- less irritating moments,_ saved me from a lot of anguish and kept my intestines from knot- tiii-g up. When a driver cuts me off. or another speeds through an aim- ber Zlight inches in front of me, I simply consider this an ordin- ary hazard of driving in a com- munity where even siimple-mind- ed persons can drive cars.

I actually feel sorry for the other driver. Obviously, he is not as happy and content as I, or he wouldn’t be burning up the road. Life, aippareiitly, has heap- ed more good fortune on me than on him. ‘ -

PLANNING HIS SUICIDE

Besides, that nut probably is headed for an early death. If he keeps driving so reckileswsl-y, he is planning his own suicide. The very least he can expect is sev- eral broken bones- and a long stay in the hospital.

He’ll probably lose his job. And maybe his wife. will divorce hi-m.

So the next time someone pass- es your auto like a wildman, just remember: He has nothing per- sonal against you; he just isn’t as lucky as -you. V

Keep callm. It will aid your mental and _physical health. QUESTION AND ANSWER:

A. H.: My baby had a high temperature and convulsions a- bout three months "ago. What is the best way to bring down a fev- er in order to prevent convul- sions?