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PAGE 6 serum In Vigorous Form

Prime Minister Diefenbaker was in vigorous form in his address here last evening, and flailed his op- ponents in great style. Among other things, he taunted them on their dire predictions on the results of pegging the dollar, then went on to show that as a result of this and other measures we now have the greatest upsurge in Canadian his- tory, with the la r g e s t increase, percentage-wise, in national product- ion of any country in the Western world.

He reviewed the beneficial legis- lation with regard to agriculture, freight rates, contributory old age pensions and other matters that failed to pass in Parliament because of obstructive Opposition tactics. He spoke glowingly of Northern Lands development and the pros- pects of future expansion in the next five years. And he concluded with probably the best review he has yet given of the Government‘s national defense policy, of the in- consistencies in his opponents’ state- ments on nuclear armaments, and his reasons for refusing to go along with even some of his own cabinet, colleagues on the issue of commit- ing the country to Washington’s demands in this matter.

He spoke also of the benefits this Province has derived from in- creased federal assistance under his administration, of the close co- operation between his government and that of Premier Shaw's, and commented on the accuracy and truthfulness of the statement in the Speech from the Throne in the Legislature yesterday, th at the planning for the Causeway is “now in the hands of highly qualified con- sultant engineers and an early start on this important connection link is pseured."

Mr. Dietenbaker’s o p p o n e n t it have a quite different interpretation (to place on the matter of the Gov- prnment’s defeat in Parliament, on its fiscal policies, on the reasons for the resignation of so many cab- inet members and on the kind 'of “leadership the Prime Minister him- pelf has been giving since the last election. It is not the same picture at all! Mr. Diefenbaker appears as 3.1. quite different man, and the elect- ;rs will have to decide which is the Erue image of him. and which the Cause. Certainly he seemed to have :10 doubt last night, either of his identity as a true champion of the iteOple, or of the decision which the hople will make in favor of his barty candidates when they come to

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iicientists from forty countries came down to earth with a vengeance at is meeting in Unesoo House in Paris. ll‘he title of their meeting alone—- :he Commission for the Geological tiap of the World--s e r v e d as a inted reminder that we are look- lifg at Venus. and will shortly be flocking at Mars, in an era that does hot yet possess a unified map of he world's sub-soil. ' The Commission has been at.

"Let- itt‘t session in Paris. There. gar edition of a geological map “incorporating the results i ' geological research ,fl. past twenty years, was - The map can also serve for what the specialists

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The Paris meeting approved plans to go ahead with the prepara- tion of a world geological atlas which is also to be published with the aid of Unesco. Geological maps of Europe and the United States al- ready exist for inclusion in this atlas and a new map has just been published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and

the Far East, covering South-East

Asia. But there are still great un- known blanks—including parts of Latin America and Asia—that havo to be filled in before the geological atlas of our planet can become a reality.

Shorter And Better

One thing to be said in com- mendation of the Speech with which His Honour the Lieutenant Gover- nor opened the Legislature yester- day is that it had some mercy upon the Queen’s representative, and did not oblige him to make the mara- thon effort in reading its provis- ions which the Speech at the last session entailed. This one was con- fined to 36 paragraphs of moderate length, as compared with the 60 paragraphs of its immediate pre- decessor; and the gain was not only in brevity but in the ster of com- position as well.

It read much better than last year’s monstrosity. The phraseo- logy was less cumbersome and the statements of policy more clearly expresed. Emphasized particularly were the policies of the Government in connection with agriculture, fish- eries, education and technical train- ing, forestry, transportation and rural electrification. There was also reference to electoral reform, hous- ing accommodation, tourism, road building, public health and other matters. In all quite a meaty docu- ment. well served up and digestible.

Perhaps the members on both sides could take a lesson from the improvement wrought in the Speech by whoever wielded the blue-pen- cil on this occasion. Their own speeches. conceivably, could gain by being shorn of circumocutions and repetitive phrases.

The Gall Of Them!

The pundits in the Liberal party headquarters who dreamed up the idea of putting a “truth squad" on Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s trail should get some kind of decoration for addle-headedness.

Who are these chosen custodians of "truth" upon whom the public is to depend for enlightenment? Lib- erals all—a former Liberal MP, a freelance journalist and a “research consultant" for the Liberal party. The Prime Minister, it is assumed, is such a congenital liar that his every statement must be sifted by these high authorities, who carry “official statistics and records" around, and issue correctives to the Press—~mark you l—"minutes after" the Prime Minister has finished speaking.

Fast work, this, in sifting the chaff from the wheat! An electronic gadget coudn’t be expected to func- tion with greater efficiency. But the thought persists, are these peo- ple as well qualified as they think they are? Would they infallibly know truth when they heard it? That “divine, melodious truth" of which the poet sings; the. inquiry into which. we are told, is “among the sovereign goods of human na- ture”: which outweighs rubies in value, and is as hard to come by, even for the very wise?

Even factual “truth"——lf there is such a thing—can be made to look very much like untruth in political controversy, and vice versa. The electors are aware of this, and prefer to do their own sifting and assessing as they go along. They have the idea, somehow, that this is one of their duties and privileges under democracy.

EDITORIAL NOTE The idea that business and In- dustry are working people to death has been refuted by Dr. Robert H. Felix, of Bethseda, Maryland, a not- ed psychiatrist and former director of the National Mental Health In- atitute in the United States. It's not work, he says, that kills people. It’s, not having enough to do. The absence of purposeful activity is not a state of health but the almost

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ELECTION COSTUMES

OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson Sharp Political Gunfire In Ottawa West

Two Ministers of Citizenship and Immigration finally brought the election to this capital for a one-night stand in the residen- tial constituency known as Ot- tawa West.

Incumbent Conservative Min- ister Dick Bell was the starred speaker at his party's nominat- ing convention. 200 supporters filled the Cambridge Street School auditorium to hear him.

On the same evening. former Liberal Immigration Minister Jack Pickersgill was the main draw at. the Liberal nominating convention where 400 party fans crowded the auditorium of the Elgin Street School.

Ottawa used to be one large two-member riding. It was split into “Ottawa East" and “Ottawa West" by the redistribution of 1933. Neither riding has ever failed to return a Liberal candi-

date. TORY DEAD DUCK newcomer Donald Hues- ton, former National Organizer for the Young Progressive Con- servative Association. is unlike- ly to unseat veteran Lib eral George Mclllraith, now working for his eighth consecutive elec- tion victory in a run starting in 1935

Former civil servant Jack Pickersgill gave the demure but confident Liberal audience his own version of comic fire and brimslone. designed to mock his opponents. Echoing the Conser- vative jibes at “The Four Horse- men of the Commons" —Pear- son, Martin. Chevnier and him- self—he introduced “The Trium-

virate of the Senate. the new firm of McCutcheon, O‘Leary and Flynn."

O'Leary he described as "the most accomplished smear- artist in Canada". and he emphasised the historical fact that a few years ago he was oppOSed to the present leader of the Conserva-

A sea-farer only by adoption. since he was offered a safe pol- itical haven in Newfoundland. Freshwater Jack confused his audience by mixing his salty metaphors. First he charged that the Conservative

en “made complete wreck of the Canadian ship of state." Then later, he alleged, it had performed the nautically

impossible feat of “scuttling the ship of state further." A short mile away. the Con-

,servatives were equally enjoy- . ing the pounding

which D i c k Bell was giving to Liberal prom- ises.

“Liberal Leader Lester Pear- son has threatened that. if his party is returned to power, it will take some unpleasant deci- sions. Why should the Liberals' policies be unpleasant? and what would they be meant to ac- complish?" he asked.

WORK AND WRATH

Dick Bell. a skilled campaign- er who was formerly national organizer for his party, with happy confidence. he differs from his Liberal pre- decessor Pickersgill is in the comfort and security of his own seat. Fisherman Jack could not be beaten in faraway Bonavista- Twillingate but lawyer Bell faces a tough fight in Ottawa‘s suburban riding of Carleton, once the political home of Sir John Macdonald and solidly

Tory in 25 general elections and six by-elections since Confedera- 'on.

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The only Conservatives east of the Saskatchewan border to get a larger majority than Dick Bcll i 1962 were Wally Nesbitt (Woodstock), and Cabinet Min- isters Monte Monteith (Strat- ford), Walter Dlnsdale (Bran- don. Manitoba) and Mike Starr (Oshawa). Yet the rising Liber- al flood threatens Bell's Tory citadel now.

"Too many of us thought we could win without work last time." he warned his support.- ers. “But this will be the most bitterly fought campaign in this century."

So after that one evening of respectable enthusiasm for 600 citizens, the English-speaking burghers of Ottawa have pushed aside political participation. and gone back to running Can ads from their civil service offices. But the French in Ottawa East

will keep up their divisions and debates.

The Sea As Barrier

St. John's Telegram

Canada has two island prov- inces. One of them, Prince Ed- ward Island. is little more than an outcrop of the mainland, with a very short soa trip separating one from the other at any given point; and it lies in a sheltered nook of the Gulf. In relation to the mainland of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Prince Edward Island is not very different from the way that Bell. Fogo and Twillingate Islands stand in re- lation to Newf o u n dland mainland.

Newfoundland. on the other hand, is vastly different. In the first place it is an Atlantic is‘ land. and its main point of con- tact with the Canadian main- land is across the Cabot Strait, a rough sea passage of 31 one hundred. miles. It is not likely that the visionary plans to put a tunnel under the Straits of Belle Isle or a c a u s eway across it. will materialize in the next few years. Therefore New- foundland‘s main link and points of c o n t a c t will continue to stretch to the Maritime prov-

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DUNK RIVER PROJECT Sim—1h last week's column “The Hunter's Corner", the East Prince branch in particular, and the P.E.I. Fish and Game Aa- aoclaiiion in general. came under fire again from the one who al- ways leads you to believe he can do or say no wrong. it do admit he does have some good ideas and sound rea- soning at times. but you'll also find him patting his own back. T on why “big on in dam building last year. or re- building the dams that went out with last apring’s run-off, Prince County dams stood up wel un- der this fury but we note that many of the recently construct- ed dams In the east went out. Last year, our branch decided rather then build a dam or two we would devote our attention to the Dunk River. still the most fished stream on P.E.I., so the fobowlng is what we accomplish- ed with the $500.00 grant from the Government. Our provincial executive were

in agreement with our proposal for building deflectors in the Dunk River for the se of

cleaning out at least two of the favorite liaising holes. and keep than ‘ cleaned out deep by directing the force of water into them year round.

This is the first time deflect- m have been med on P.E.I..

and though It w- an expert- they

ment, we are happy to say are doing the job intended deflae

a small group of men, some members of the branch and some hired on to help in the pro- ect.

Dam building can be consid- ered much easier a project to- day with nearly all mechanical equipment used. It might be of interest to some as to how these deflectors were constructed.

First of all a good number of 8-inch beams were trucked to the sight. strapped and spiked together to make 35 and 55 foot units. over three feet deep.

These bettms were then rein- forced by five foot iron stakes driven in about every eight feet. and then the unit was placed in the stream and the stakes driv- en into the rock bottom about two feet.

The deflectors were placed at an angle so as to force the water into the hole to be cleaned out.

Wire mesh was placed over the deflector and externled four feet on each side to help hold more than a ton of rock which was put on both sides as well as gravel on the upper at .

This is to help weight the de. flector and provide strength needed for Inc

or was then anchored to shore as an added security. Two separate deflector units were

placed at the hatchery hole and W I

one at brute. It was our intention to build one or two more last summer but the wee- ther conditions as everyone re- (Contlauetl an page is)

inces. particularly the province of Nova Scotia. In a few weeks, Newfound- land will be entering its fifteen- th year as a province of Can- ada. Many people must find it difficult to realize this fact. There will soon be a whole new generation of teenage boys and girls who were born since the spring of 1949. and it will not be many more years before we have a whole new generation of voters born since Newfound- land became a Canadian prov-

They will be the ones who can say they are “real Canadians”: but it takes more than the fact of merely being born in Canada to make a citizen feel a close kinship with the people of other provinces. even the nearby ones.

This is especially true when, like Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. the sea presents a barrier all year round.

Our Yesterday’s

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (March 15. use)

Angus McGilllvs-ey and Niels- oles n, Cardigan, drove to Charlottetown yesterday and expect to drive back to Cardigan today. They made the trip by horse and in two hours and a half.

A meeting of parents and tea- chers was held in Prince Street School Monday evening for the purpose of organizing the Prince Street Parents- Teaches-a Assoc- iation of Charlottetown.

TEN YEARS AGO (March 15. 105:)

The Atlantic Provinces will soon have to make a united stand more industries. it was listed it the Legislature yesterday by J.W.D. Campbell.

alve Conservative, First Prince. when he took part in the Draft Address debate. lie aaid we grow the finest potatoes in the world. and then spend money elsewhere on potato chips.

OTTAWA (CP) — The feder- government decided to extend the length of runways at own Charlottetown City will mate the field, Transport Minister Chevner' said In the Commons May right. He made the nastiest

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Tobie Burper Needs Change Of Eating Habits

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellee

THE AIR swellower can be the most unpopular person at the dinner table. He belches im- mediately after eating or drink- ing to expel the large amount of air that distende the stomach. This bnings prompt relief, es-

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presses upon the chest.

Most air swallowera are tense, nervous individuals who talk while bolting their food. Many wash down each partial- ly chewed mouthful with large amounts of fluids. They then complain of indigestion where- as the witnesses are annoyed by the resounding burp s and the everlasting pill taking. *

There is nothing wrong with the air swallower that correc- tion of his eating habits won’t cure. He should eat more slow- ly, never talk with food in the mouth, chew food more thoro- ly. and relax during the meal. Foods need not be washed down with liquids if the sell- vary glands are give enough time to dilute the particles while chewing. If this does not work, the victim ought-to drink thru a straw.

Some persons are a large gas bu stomach approximately one hour after eating. The gas comes from fermentation of the digesting foods. Drinking car- bonated beverages duplicates the symptoms. Distress often is described as a severe pain “under the heart” and Is more noticeable when sitting or driv- ing a car. Relief follows stand- ing up or stopping the car and walking about.

This is only one type of trointestinal discomfort that not caused by ulcer, infections. tumors, or lack of ferments or digestive juices. The majority are related to the nervous sys- tem, as the intestinal tract mirrors the emotion

Many of the daily rumblings, cramps. s p a s m a, and altera- tions in bowel habits can be ex- plained on this basis. But phy- sicians have learned through ex- perience to make a thorough ex- amination of these uncomfort- able persons before blaming worries and anxieties for diges- tive symptoms.

ACNE ROSAC"\

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