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_ PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1959. A Misguided Campaign

In a series of articles appearing ‘recently in the Toronto ‘Globe and

“the “revolution” in agriculture and

the advantages of mass production

: Mail, a great deal was said about | é

: _on the farm as well as in the factory.

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Agriculture as carried out on small. farms, it was argued, is uneconomic -

as compared with other industries, and misuses the capital and labor in-

vested in it. The State, it was sug- gested, should remove 200,000 to $00,000 farmers and their families and settle them in towns and cities

‘where they could be “gainfully em- “ployed,” leaving the land to be cul-

tivated “in big units where science and mechanization could be fully ap-_

plied.” It was assumed that the nat-

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ional economy of Canada was eager te find jobs for 300,000 farmers and their families and to find homes for

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to be settled elsewhere and to start on their new jobs.

_ An editorial indorsing these rid- iculous articles appeared in the Tor- onto paper under the heading: “Let The Revolution Come!” We submit-

—_-ted it to Mr. Lincoln Dewar, secre- —tary of the P.EJ. Federation of

Agriculture, for his perusal; and his caustic comments appeared afew days—ago in our news columns. We note with satisfaction that farmers in Ontario are reacting in a_similar way to the Globe and Mail campaign, and are using that newspaper's Forum columns for their reply. One letter, jointly signed by a retired tobacco farmer and an agricul-_ tural representative, poses some challenging questions. Are all big Canadian industries really prosper- ous? it asks. The coal and textile industries, for example? Or our huge railway enterprises? If bigness is the ideal, why not do away with the Combines Act and let bigness be- { come. a monopoly? And what about the labor situation on these large farms? Most certainly labor would be organized; the eight-hour day’ ,

would become general. There would

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be no help available from neighbors and their families. Seasonal workers would be required.. Wages would rise rapidly and add to the cost of pro- duction. ob

The letter does not discuss the sentimental and social side of mov- ing 300,000 farmers and their fami- lies from their homes, nor the fin- | ancial problems involved in such a | large-scale movement. It merely cites the difficulties that were encounter- ed in moving a few small villages in connection with the St. Lawrence Seaway.

The advantages of scientific devel- opment;-the letter maintains, can be carried out on a 100-acre farm with 30 head of cows just as well as

-on a 3,000-acre farm with 1,000 cows, Farm machinery for small units is |

available, and is being more and more widely used. Many small farms are profitable ventures; many large ones are not. Profits from farming can never be as exactly determined as in most industries. There are too

‘ many acts of God affecting plant and

animal life. The small farm can be, and very often is, a blessing to the

farmer, his' family, and the whole

community, providing the surest an- tidote against Communism and the best opportunity for a happy family life. These things are worth pre- serving!

The British Proposal

Early next year, a 10-nation dis- armament committee composed of

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jron curtain will begin negotiations on military disarmament. The com- mittee will have before it the, pro- posals made at the United Nations on Sept. 17 by the British Foreign

day by Soviet Premier ether with some new

ary, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, and on |

disarmament over a four-year per- iod has been widely’ publicized. Less attention, however, has been given to Mr. .Lloyd’s proposal, which is in many respects more practical. It is the British position that nuclear dis- ‘armament alone will not be suffi- cient because several countries will be left with larger conventional mili- tary forces than others. Removal of the nuclear deterrent would upset the present military balance of pow- er and tend to increase, rather than diminish, tension between nations and. groups of nations.

| he British proposal would sep- arate disarmament negotiations in- to three separate stages, the first of which would be confined for the most part to-negotiations on such larger issues as the end of nuclear surprise attack, outer space and so forth. Major armament reductions would begin at the second stage up- on a foundation of confidence es- tablished in the first. The third and most radical stage would involve bans on the manufacture of all wea- pons of mass destruction, gradual elimination of existing stocks of these weapons, and finally an agreed reduction in conventional weapons and manpower to levels required for internal security only.

British call their plan, has had less attention than the Soviet proposal partly because it is less spectacular and partly because of the circum- stances of Mr. Khrushchev’s address to the General Assembly. More will be heard of it when the 10-nation committee meets in -January February. Meanwhile, nuclear test discussions at Geneva, which have been going on intermittently for a year, have produced a surprisingly wide area of agreement, and there is a feeling that some progress to- ward disarmament may really be achieved in the next few months. This progress, if made at all, will of course be in the way of political agreement? There will remain the formidable task of translating the

tice. That wil call for both time and patience. The British: Government’s attitude, as expressed by Mr. Orms- by-Gore, is very clear on this point. “Like the United States delegation,” he said, “we are prepared to take large steps or small steps provided only that they are steps that lead us in the right direction.” _

The first test which anysgovern- ment will necessarily apply to any proposal for any kind of disarma- ment is whether or not it will im- pair the security of its country. Just as at the abortive disarmament con- ference of a quarter of a century ago, that remains the kernel of the

whole problem; that, and the need for “effective” international control at each stage of disarmament.

EDITORAL NOTES

The Springhill disaster focused Canada-wide attention on the hard lot of Nova Scotia miners. THe same concern should be felt now, where

the Dominion Steel and Coul Corpora- tion announces that mines are likely to be closed and 2,500 workers kid . off.

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The notion that people lose their

retired upon reaching a certain fix- ed age has been neatly exploded by a recent decision of the Appellate Court: of Indiana, which has ruled that “professional men and women are known to be at their best upon reaching the age of 70.’ +. « %

In 1957, the first Canadian Chinese to be elected to the House of Commons, Mr. Douglas Jung, a brilliant young Vancouver lawyer, -was acclaimed across the country. And now Mr. Ho Lem, a Chinese- Canadian, has headed the polls in the Calgary civic election, scoring over thirteen other candidates in the contest for alderman. One in every three voters in Calgary marked their ballots for Mr. Lem, who was elected on the first count of the P.R. System balloting.

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Canadians last year were the highest per capita importers of Dutch bulbs in the worid. Thus it shared in one of the oldest and most lucra- tive branches of agriculture in the Netherlands, which now employs a- bout 9,000 farmers on 20,000 acres of land. Canadian fiower lovers have benefited by this trade, and the move helps to cement the warm re-

lations with the Dutch people which were established when Canadian sol- diers marched in. to free Holland dur- ing the last war.

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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON

OTTAWA REPORT

Banks And Tight Money

By Patrick

Astonishing details of the tight money crisis of the past two morths® are being heard here. A consistent pattern has envet ged, revealing how banks. in all parts of Canada mcde a com-. p.cte about-face,

In the Fall of last year, they rolled out the red carpet for any client who came to borrow mon- cy. But in the late summer this year, the head offices of several ct the bants evidently sent in- structions to their branches, not merely telling them to clap the lid on.leans, but also outlining the talk to be given to the dis- appointed borrowers.

There was a remarkable sim- ilarity between many of the. pit-° ches heard in banks north, south, east and west. Those head of- fices evidently set out to stimul- aie a nation-wide lobby of dis- espointed borrowers to press their demands for more credit and higher interest rates. And, with a. remarkable unanimiiy and simultaneously, bank . m2n- agers began to deliver to their ctients what were in effect poli- tical speeches.

In turning down would-be bor- rowers, they referred to “govern- ment regulations’ as the reason. This of course is nonsense. No government regulation told the Danks to halt small loans; th? | banks are not conirclled by suca!

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ukases, just by the Bank Act pas- sed by Parliament.

But meanwhile, where had the meney gone, which was in em Barra-sing over-supply a year ecriier?

The answer may lie largely in interlocking directorships beiwecn bars and big business, which make for facile operation of “The O'd Pals’ Act’. The banks, so snort of borrowers a year ear- lier, moved heavily into a ficid where they don't belong, namely providing medium to long term working capital for. big business.

Cases are being mentioned here of big companies, each with a director who also sits on the

“‘poard of its bank, borrowing $25

million, or $35 millien, or $40 mil- lion; this from a bank which then

turned around and refused Far- racr Canuck on the Prairies a loan of $500 to carry over the

harvest, or Johnny Canuck in central Canada a loan of $200 to finance the purchase of a wash- iag machine. :

A bank which loaned $40 mil-

lion to one big business thus -de- |

prived 200,000 families of a wash- ing- machine, or 80,000 farmers of a needed loan.

On the other side of the coin, there is a commercial—but octr- haps not a moral—case to be made cut for the bank:. By mak-

| ing just the one big loan, instead

ef many small Ioans, it saved itself hundreds of thousands of

Research On Hurricanes

National Geographic Socicty

Hurricanes, those huge whirl- °

se : { ing disks of destruction, may

some day find their match in a small group of determined me- teorclogists. a

Year by year scientict8 ‘of the

d States Weather Burean7

2 improved their: h ng system. This year the | is sending aloft its first |

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fleet of “‘flying weathe mI rp'anes that fly into a , “eye” and

a‘ta collected during thes issions are recorded on tapp, vhich. scientists can feed inwe*a

+ digital ecmputer- or electronic “brain.”’ The comouter is used to predict the meandering wind pat- terns that determine a hurricane’s course. : HOPE TO CONTROL

Accurate prediction of hurrl-

cane behavior is only a first goal of the Weather Bureau. The_ult- imate aim is to steer hurficanes away from_areas where-they could cause havoc, or to pre- vent thom from forming in the first place.

Conceivably,\ scientists might devise a way to knock a hurri- cane cff balance, altering its en- ergy pattern so that its force would be dissipated harmlessly at sea. Unfortunately, a_hurri-

PUBLIC FORUM

This column 1s open to the discus

sion by correspondents of question c

interest. The Guardian does not nesem

sarily en‘orse the opinion of corres pondents.

INFORMATION SOUGHT ~ Sir,—I am looking for informa- tion on Peter Steward of Parish of Dull, Perthshire, Scotland, who settled in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

A son James, born 1783 at Dull, became a teacher and settled in New York state where he mar- ried in 1808,

Peter also had a son Donald who lived and died on Prince Ed- ward Island.

A daughter Grace married & — Cumpoell. Were — Campbell (Perhaps John) and Grace Stew- ard Campbell parents -or grand- parents of Anne Campbell who: married Daniel MacKenzie? She had sisters:Grace and Belle; bro- thers Peter, James, and John.

Would any of your» readers have information -en .this fam-,

Ly? : : I am, Sir, etc., MRS. GEORGE R. MODRICKE

trricane | thi

cane packs a force of a half-

trillion horsepower and releases |

in @ single second more energy

than several atomic bombs. - Meetting such a meteorological

Hence, scientists

ver be easy.

+ erhouse head-cn will probab'y

centrate on nipping hurricanes in the bud. As a hurricane starts to form, it is possible that the rain pattern could be changed by seed- ing clouds with silver iodide or some other chemical.

Recently weather research was improved by the installation in Minami of new radar sets spec- ially @ signed for tropical storm work. The radar apparatus can soct a hurricane’s eye 259 miles away. Heretofore,scientists could net precisely locate a hurricane’s center from their radar screens.

Data fom reseach flights in- dicate that a large portion of the energy that drives a hurricare is released within a-few miles of the calm eye, in a space of 'ess than one per cent of the entire area of the hurricane. This discovery has heightened hopes that hurri- canes eventually can be control- led.

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TROUBLESOME SMOKESTACK

interviews and book-keeping en- tries, and hence boosted its pro- fits. I believe three banks have just paid extra Dividends.

WHERE SHOULD WE G0?

A solution to the tight money crisis, say the banks, would be for the government to remove the ceiling of 6 per cent upon the interest which they may charge on loans.

Prime Minister Diefenbaker is set against raising the ccst of borrowing for the small business- mz2a, who is the backbone cf cur

commerce. Likewise he is deter |

mired not to. undermine by crit-

icism our faith in, and friendship.

for, the chartered banks, who heave made possible the develop- ment of nerly every small busi- ress achieving ‘success,

A compromise solution heard here is the seemingly brilliant suggestion of a two-tiered inter- est rate on bank loans. Say, 6 wr cent would be- charged on the first $10,000 borrowed, and 7 cr even 8 per cent would be charged on the excess amount cf a loan above $10,000. This would not . penalize the little man; it would not hit the pri- vate borrower; it would not ruin big business; and it would en- courage bigger .business to go to the stock or bond market rather than to its bank to get perman- cnt working capital.

There scem to be no insuper- able political or technical. flaws in this brilliantly simple propos- al, which in its basic form is said to be the brainchild of the far from insignificant baby of the Cahbinct, Associate Defénce Minister Pierre Sevigny. |

ed like a giant smokestack, with the eye in the center.Te eye is about.-20 miles in diameter; the wall of the <acrounding “smcke- stack”’ is about five miles thick. The smekestack may develop more energy in a minute than

all the electric power stations in |

the United States can produce in a decade.

Tlic stack consists of: violentty

re eziteted: moist air which moves rk it might be better to con-| a s

upward. At the top, the air svirals outward, comes against surrounding air, and releases its water. As the air cools, it sinks, and thus pushes air en lower le- vels toward the stack. The dis- turbed low-level air devecps high- speed winds which may reach 150 miles per hour.

Thus a hurricane is like a huge pump, whose energy comes from water vapor condensing in the clouds around the storm’s eye. Weathermen do not know how the pump-is created, but avvar- ently there must be a combina- tion cf warm moist air over a re- lative'y: warm stretch of water. Scientists believe the water tem- perature\ must be above 80 de- grees Fahrenheit.

The Age Old Story

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering;

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About thoes Twisted Symbols

He might write “W” instead of “M” and “saw” instead of ‘‘was,” or he might write a word as it

‘would appear in a mirror.

He probably is neurologically immature, but his intelligence has nothing to do with the cause

‘| of the trouble.

LANGUAGE CENTER

Most of us, you see, have the so-called language center of the brain on the side opposite our

right-handed. for example, your language skills generally are con- trol'ed from the left side of your brain. :

Such is not the case, however, with children suffering stretho- symbolia. These youngsters are confused because neither side of the brain has become clearly do- minant in ecntrolling the percep- tion cf letters. : Teachers tell me that many first greders occasionally write upside down or beckwards, but that they soon outgrow this ten- dency. However, when it is very pronounced and continues into the second and third grades, it is something to be concerned about.

If the situation continues for any length of time, it can often serious'y affect a child's ability to lea read and write.

VISIT EYE SPECIALIST

If your yourgster has a “mir- ror writing’ habit, better take him to your doctor who will us- ually suggest, if the case does not improve, an eye specialist. You might just as well get at the trouble as quickly as possible. ,

Even if your child isn’t bother. ed by strethosymbolia, a peri- odic vision examination is a good ‘idea for every child.

Nearsightedness, for | examole, hampers schoolwork more oftza than any other visual trouble. Or- Ginarily, it develops scmewhere between the ages of six and ten.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

Mrs. S. H.: Is milk detrimen- tal to high blood pressure?

Answer: Milk, taken in rea- sonable amounts, is permitt in most cases of high blood _pres- sure. s

Since there is a certain amount of sodium in milk, this must be considered in low sodium or so- dium - free diets.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the “Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Oct. 28, 1934)

Ending a season of brilliant shooting during which he went over the King’s Range, 200, 500 and 600 yards, in competition fourteen times for an average of 100.2 pts., Q.M.S. A. J. Gormley of the 2nd Coy. 6th Div. Signals, reached the goal of all mark men a: the Charlottetown Rifl Ranges «n Saturday when he scored '°3 points in the annual goose sit¢t which wound up the season's fhooting.

Mr. Herman G. Bryan of Lot 11 was a visitor to Summerside en Friday and reported consid- erable damage in the west of the srovince, Besides several bria- ges being washed away, a fisn- ¢.man’s house on the sand _ hills rear Black Banks was washed cut to sea: The fisherman with his wife and family had been liv- ing there during the lobster sea- son and had not yet moved back to the mainland.

TEN YEARS AGO

- (Oct. 28, 1943)

A definite move towards the provision of a new skating rink for Summerside was teken last evening by the local branch of the Canadian” Legion at.a spe- cial general meeting when they. voted the sum of $10,000 from their building fund for the erection of a new rink. A committee was appointed to meet with the Town Council to discuss ways and means of getting the project und- erway. :

The town of Montague appre- ciated the henour of a visit from the Chief Commissioner of Can- adian Girl Guides, Mrs. D.E.S. Wishart on Thursday. The Guides, with their Captain, Mrs. Petei Sinclair, presented a- choral pro-

gram ‘for the occasion. Following en interesting talk with Mrs.

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a distance. Besides, an untbrella isn’t nearly as heavy as a snow suovel.—Vancouver Province

Fieldmen of a hailstorm in the Saskatchewan, region in

court the otner day. When the jadge asked why, the defence ai-

replied: “Because the man’s been “dead for five years”. There was one minute of silence. —Il Popolo, Milan

Last Halloween my neighbor

fronted a wee girl beautifully cés- tumed but without a mask. As tne child opened her paper bag to stow away her treat, my neigh- bor noticed that her mask lay at the bottem of the bag. “Why con't you wear your mask?” she asked. A tiny voice whispered, “I'm scared cf it.”—Mrs. Betty Lacey in Coronet

A U.S. pilot in Hong Kong met a fellow who claimed he had been a kamikaze pilot in Korea for the Reds. “War all over now,” he said. “We be friends—my name Chow. Mein.” “But kamikaze flyers were suicide pilots,” said the American, “If you really had been cre y-u'd be dead now.”’ The Chinese fellow smiled wryly, ““Me chicken Chow Mein,” he said.— Chicago Tribune

_ The bad blood between Presi- cent Eisenhower and former Pre- }sident Truman has been a silly, almost childish, thing, far be- neath the dignity of both men and the office they have held. The American people will hope that Tuesday’s handshake as the fur- eral services of Gen. Marshall, to whom both owed so much, will cnd the unscemly tiff for good. —Milwaukee Journal

MAXIMS

Frugality is a fair fortune, and habits of industry a good estate.

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until it is possible to see half way round the world. When they double the distance, if a fat wo- man wearing slacks would use it to see how she looks from the - south when she’s waddling north, she would be cured of wearing slacks, — Woodstock Sentinel-Re- view

THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

At last I see it, who was blind so long:

The love I cherished and rever- ed is gone,

-| Your love, which was my morn-

ing and my song, My light along the way—this EET a any ak oves is extinguish- Naar nataty; erhaps not suddenly; I “blind eyes or Refused to recognize the sun could set, The light go out that shone on Paradise, foe

guilding tongue; I ate in innocence the tempting fruit, Not dreaming that the tree from ‘ an it hung ‘ou yee By “canker gnawing at its 2 — Not dreaming in a world so fresa and young That I would turn from Eden, resolute! —Helen Rowe Henzé ir the New York Herald Tribune

These are the hoarding days. Not only the traditional ant and bee lay up stores for hungry times ahead but so do the trees and bushes. And the provident ones among the animals come to their busiest season.

Field mice have been harvest- ing and stowing away for weeks, Stiff-tailed chipmunks scurry a bout their tasks, busier than they have been for weeks, filling

| their winter granaries.

The squirrets put even the ants to shame with their industry. And [the woodchucks stow their win- ter’s reserves under their own skins; they are gorging now, lay- ing up that bedy fat which will carry them through the long sleep in winter-locked dens.

The bees are busy making a last harvest of honey, thanks to late goldenrod and persistent as- ters. Less provident and shorter- lived insects must do their hoard- ing in another way, in egg and larva and pupa. hoarding life for

| another generation.

Even the woolly-bear caterpil- lar hurries now to find a shel- ter, to hoard his precarious spark

- The Hoarding Days

New York Times

i of life which next spring will emerge as a pink-tinged yellow

The colorful extravagance of the trees just now would seem more like generosity than econ- omy, but it, too, is proof of hoarding among the trees. They have withdrawn sap and other vital substances into stem and trunk and -root.

The expendable leaves their chlorophyll worn out and not re- newed, now reveal sugars, acids and other pigments in the annual glory of color.

And even the falling leaves be- come a kind of hoard of mulch and humus, food for another sea- son's growth. Waste is rare in

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