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Sure It's A Raw Deal

‘ Perhaps we can't do much about. it just now, but we should at least be able to agree with Mr. Heath Macquarrie, MP for Queens. in his contention that we have much to lose and little to gain by the en- couragement Ottawa has given the bigger provinces in “opting out" of present and future shared-coat programs. With their vastly great- er tax base the wealthier provinces. by "going it alone". can provide their citizens with a higher scale of social services than we can hope to do in this Atlantic area.

But as Mr. Macquarrie has em- phasized. this is actually of more concern to us in Prince Edward Is- land than to any other province, east or west. He proved this from the results accruing during the last twelve months. Out of $187,000,000 new revenue made available to the provinces. the Island is to receive less than $900,000. and there is no assurance. that in further trans- actions of this kind we shall fare any better proportionately.

It is true that most. of the fields in which shared—cost programs oper- ate were originally assigned by the BNA Act to the provinces. But the programs were introduced because of a realization that the act no longer allowed the smaller provinces the sources of revenue they needed to meet their constitutional obligations. By jettisoning them now—by sur- rendering revenuc and initiative to the provinces to go their own way and let the. devil take the hindmosrt —-—Ottawa has put the clock back, not ahead as Prime Minister Pearson blandly claims to have done.

We are on the receiving end of the shabbiest deal we ever got from Ottawa since the tax-sharing agree- ments weriD introduced. and that‘s the proof of the pudding so far as we are concerned. We’ve been put. behind the eight-ball, and no mis- take. Given the raspberry. as they say. instead of the cream. Fobbed off with a beggarly morsel and told we should be thankful. Hit below the belt. and by nice fellows like Mr. Gordon and Mr. Pickersgill, too!

‘ Maybe we’ve got our metaphors niixed. But. there is no reason why any of us should get our thinking Ifilgfed one. vital subject of this kind, ’ her from motives of partisan " "‘lty or whatnot. ’ Liberal friends. is going to be big issue down here in the next fideral election. whenever it comes. if it isn’t straightened out in the meantime.

They‘d better pass that along the grapevine to Mr. MacNaught. who can relay it. to his colleagues in the Pearson Cabinet.

November Deadline The United States continues to insist on maintaining its economic ‘" of Cuba. and is increasing 1 we on other Western pow- do‘ the same. But it must ' ' . that its embargo policy is on

1 -»‘ dented it first by contin- . in non-strategic mater-

THURSDAY. MAY 14. 1964.

of iihe isolate-Castro policy and ready to jump in and trade with him—and any other Communist country—as soon as the policy is finally discredited. '

But this. observers predict, will not be until after the November presidential election. No softening toward Castro can be permitted be- fore then. After that. it is hoped there will be a. reassessment of American policy with regard both to Cuba and Communist China.

But before this deadline is reached another disturbing possibil- ity is looming in the Cuban situa- tion. At Miami. Florida. Cuban exiles believe the zero hour is beginning for a long, deadly campaign of land- ings in Cuba by anti-Communist action groups seeking Castro’s over- throw. The U.S. government is not openly associated with these activ- ities. but. it appears to have done nothing to discourage them. either.

The Miami area. with more than 100.000 Cuban exiles, is said to be buzzing with excitement over this invasion plan. which could turn out to be another Bay of Pigs fiasco. The Cuban independence anniver- sary date of May 20 has been fixed for launching it. If that deadline is to be met. time is running short.

Disturbing Trend

in a recent speech in Timniins. Ont. Hon. Rene Levesque. the Que- bec minister of resources. told an audience that he did not want the separation of Quebec from the rest of Canada. “but it won’t be the end of the world if it does come." Separation. he implied. would be bet- ter than the present squabbling.

Now. for the first time in Que- bec's history. a legislative commit- tee is going to study the effects separation from Canada would have on the province. The study was pro- posed by Opposition Leader Daniel Johnson and agreed to by Hon. Pierre Laporte. minister of municipal af- fairs.

Premier Lesage is credited with having stated. some time ago. that. seperation was not the answer to Quebec‘s problems—that indeed it would be suicidal to the province’s interests. Most Canadians will be in full accord with this statement. But there appears to beta differ- ence of opinion on the subject in the Quebec Legislature. and even among Mr. Lesage’s own cabinet colleagues.

The committee of inquiry is to have the study made by “experts”. who are expected to be named with- in a few days. It is a disturbing decision. whichever way one looks at it. For whatever the results of the inquiry, it cannot fail to serve the purpose of keeping a bitterly controversial issue alive; of giving a sounding board. under official sanction. to the views of extremists ‘who are already. goodness knows, audible enough. even at. this dis- lance.

Timely Warning

Once again. the Department of National Health is warning that

“holidays spent on the farm are

usually happy and healthy but ac- cidents that happen there are not. so happy." A visiting child will enjoy the equipment and the ani- mals. but if he is a city youngster

Y‘ he should not have his freedom.

He should not be allowed to get in- volved with the cattle or horses— the "gentle kine" are not all an- gelic in temper and the horses may not be used to children.

We shall soon be into the sum- mer holiday period. with an antici- pated big increase in tourist traffic this year. and it. would be well to keep this warning in mind. It could save a lot of trouble. and perhaps remorse and heartbreak.

Even a small boy who has spent. his life on the farm, as the Health Department bulletin warns, is not infrequently the victim of farm ac- cidents. He should not be allowed to operate machinery. including a tractor. A visitor should be made to keep a reapectful distance from any of these dangers. '

EDITORIAL NOTE

Program note for the 55th an— nual mating of the Canadian Pub-

,lic Health Association to be held

at “cactus, N.B.. in June. as quot. ed in. the Financial Post: "On Tuesday evening all regiatrants are invited to be M of the Province offlinande Island ataahore dinner at which Inhalers will be the m of honor.”

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_O_'I_'TAWA REPORT by Patrick NICI’IOISOn

Of Proctcol Value To Medical Researchers .

Doctors and veterans alike have expressed their delight and support after reading this column's recent comment: "The Coming Crisis in Medicine: Ca nada’s shortage of doctors.“ In that piece. I discussed the crili. cisms levelled by Dr. P.B. Ry- nard. M.P. against the govern- ment proposal to turn Veterans Hospitals over to provincial and municipal authorities.

At a, time when our own out. put of trained doctors is falling behind both qualitatively and quantitatively. the significance of the chain of Veterans Hospi- tals is growing. Our G e n e 1‘ al Hospitals. said Dr. Rynard. arc largely "active treatment hos- pitals". filled with emergency cases requiring short-term care. Veterans Hospitals. on the oth- er hand, are invaluable for. training both medical students. and medical researchers. TRITE VERDICT

Some people. notably t h o s 2 without medical experience. dis missed veterans hospitals as be-

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ing of no practical significance. I I

Tommy Douglas. the national

leader of the New Democratic l .

Party. concerns himself with the nation's body politic. but he

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certainly lacks the training to ‘

constitute himself an intellect- ual midwife to the medical pro- fession. Nevertheless he ignor- antly and foolishly dismissed veterans hospitals as providing only "custodial care." have suggested to me. is thar. the greatest medical need of

co diseases of old ago. Here veterans hospitals could conbribube a lot: here general

The deeper truth. as doctors

hospitals are precluded by their [ clientele from contributing so much.

The greatest cause of sickness befwaen the ages of 5 and 35 is accidents. Our general hospitals are filled with accident cases. pregnancies and emergency op- erations -— “plumbing jobs" one doctor called them - for the most part. Our veterans hospl tals on the other hand by defm ition seldom have a patient un- der 35. while the bulk of their

cases now are suffering from

' ' can- cer. mental illness. and of co the of wounds.

urse on

The first three are daily be- coming more important as our average life span is lengthened; as they grow more important. so does our need to conq u e r them. Otherwise we will have a larger and larger proportion of our population reduced to being helpless institutionalized 0 people. literally needing costly custodial care and living a usc- .- e life as bed- L

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ridden cabbages. CURES NEEDED in veterans increaa- ‘ ingly more widely required.l thus the lessons learned. byl

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The physiotherapy practised . c howl

graduate doctors doing re. search as much as by student doctors under training. in vet- erans hospitals have a valuable application to all Canada.

The defeatism of “custodial care" is recognized in veterans medical circles. These lessons will increasingly be adopted by .general hospitals. which more and more will have arthritic units. mental sections. sw1m- ming pools and so on; no more mental hospitals will be desig- ed and built in Canada when the present programme is com- pleted. one doctor told me. Yet every second patient who can suits a general practitioner is suffering from mental illness. with or without a physical ill ness.

The gradual reduction of men- tal “custodial care" is being made [possible partly by new medical knowledge. partly by the development of new treat- ment. especially drugs which can in many cases be self-ad- ministered by victims whose life

0 veterans hospitals should be continued as now. the interests of all Canadians well as of the veterans.

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National Geographic Society

Some linguists would welcome

guages Javanese. Korean.

Useful Tool For Millions

a new name for Pidgin English ; to give this highly useful lan- guage an air of respectability.

Some 30 to 50 million people 1 speak Pid ' an- i guage. putting it in a class nu- l merically with such formal lan- ‘

PUBLIC

FORUM

WONDERFUL FEELING ir. — Two years ago. at the age of seventy. I received my first Old Age Pension cheque. It was kind of hard to believe. i had reached that age. and yet I was thankful that God had spar- ed me for that many years. 1 had reasonably good health and my farm which I had grown up on. was still mine to w a l k around upon. even though if was made over to a young “cou- sin-in-law" after my good wife's death. Too. I had a room in the house on this farm. where I first saw the light of day. but I wasn't really happy.

ay. asI sat under the big birch tree In the back yard. an en struc me. I’m passing it along to you for if has brought. me such. peace of mind that I feel it must be shared. I decid- ed to give away some peace of mind to others! You see. when you reach venty. moat of you will find that there are still a lot of bills due you. You .meet these guys on the road and you know just what they are think- ing — "Here comes old - — I bet he wants that money for those two pair of pigs - or that ion of hay or something simi- lar." So I thoum — “Why not make a lot of people happy while I'm still around to see their happiness?" You can't see

from under six feet of clayl You can‘t see If your few paltry dollars nude scene one happier (or drove main to drink as is sometimes one).

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In ' or "Forget

ever ag . about that ton of hay. consider it paid. over

a i when they died. relatives fought

would just pass on. I’d be clear of that debt I owe him". Not only did I lift a weight from oth- er people’s shoulders but. burdens and worries all seem to have slipped away too.

But on give. remember this — never say “such a per- son owed me so much. but I crossed it off." That spoils the whole game. What good is mo- ney anyway? You can’t take it with you. Personally. I n e v e r found too much of it here. and in a way I'm 31 a d. I’ve seen me . nd women too!) hoard- lng pennies all their life.

over it. friends fell out. and a younger generation threw it awa .

Moat young folks nowadays have a much harder time than we had any way. The school books some out more for Gr

Just plain pork. Can't you a 'a

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' Pidgin can be regarded as

as Polish. and Ukrainian. the Na- Sooietv says-

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language in its own right and not his] formal international ba-l . _ l ' Pidgin is admittedly crude. If is hardly a tool for classical ex-

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pre ssion. Presn. man belong . w ‘_ . nau can‘t compare With the original.

"Friends. Romans. countrymen. ears "

me your .

.On the other hand. Pidgin ca give a fresh Word picture. Wa- ter he kni-kai ‘

gen-more prosaic. “He drown-

“BIGFEDLA ELEKSON”

_One of P-idgin's claims to dig- nity is that it does a job in cer- tain regions of the world that no other Iangsage is doing.

On uatnilila’s

d Papua. the southeastern section of New Guinea. the natives speak perhaps 750 different lan- Pldgin is the closest thing they have to a mother tongue. Recently. Pidgin-speak- ing Anon-alien foams won all over Papua telling the tribes- men about fordrconung "big- fella elekson" for the Mortal

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Another form of Pidgin la the only common hum for poo- ples living along 2.000 to. 3.000 miles Africa's western coast.

III. Medieval fr ad a Moll mainly of c. . a

the famed (1

Greek. Ar- Ifallan that ha-

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; are seen on a chest X-ray.

Dilated Bronchi

By Or. More R. Van Dalian Bronchi-octane la a chron- lung condition associated with cough xpector- ation of large amounts of spu- tum. The disorder usually dev- elops after a prolonged chest infection such as influenza or pneumonia. Many victims have an associated sinus infection.

The broohial walls and ad- jacent lung tissue become wea- en bronchlectasis. They balloon out to form reservoirs in which secretions usually are located to the lower part the lung. This is where the secretions gather. eapecialLy during the day when the indi- vidual is upright. -

The sputum is not Influenced by gravity at night but the sit- uation changes on arising from bed. Shifting of the mucus sftm- ulates the cough reflex. The individual may hack and hack for several minutes. trying to clear the lungs. A cupful or more of this tick material may be expectorated before cough- ing stops.

This may be the only spell of the day. But bouts of cough- ing are more frequent in those w i t h extensive involvement. The same occurs when a fresh cold develops. The involved area is more susceptible to pneumonia so that every new respiratory infection must be treated vigorously. Now and then coughing is so a e v e r e. bleeding or chest pain ensues.

The disorder is diagnosed by inserting an iodized solution into the lungs. The material fills the dilated bronchi and air sees and the ensuing shadow.»

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True bronchiectasis is diffl cult to cure unless it Is confin- ed to one or two lobes of the . In these instances the are removed surgically. Medical treatment is aimed at destroying the caus» Ive micro-organisms. Penicillin chloramphenical. or other anti- biotic is used for this purpose Postural drainage should be practiced daily. Deep breath- ing and elevating the foot of the bed at night encourage drainage through gravity.

LOW BACKACHE

W. B. writes: What would pain at the base of the spine indicate?

REPLY

Arthritis or strain of the low- er part of the spine or sacrol- -lac Joints. Pain in the tailbone (coccygodynial usually follow.

NOTES BY

' THE WAY‘

An minds psychologist folk us — he went and fold ova-y. body — that newspaper editors and writers are the moat an- xious people in the oun "somewhat"

more anxious than student fly- era and underwater demolition experts, He also said anxiety is associated with a low stand- ard of living. We knew the lat- ter but not the former. —Balt- imore Sun.

| We have still to one to m" with most of the problems pm. seated to ulwby Inmaalng m,

. e good the old as if they w; all in the sixth and seventh ages of kespeare‘s Seven Ages of Men. We continue to chum people by the calendar instead of their physical and moms! condition. We continue to pinch the aged out. of sight into institutions. Peterbor. er. ~

Concerned About Goldwater B Marthnd

y Barrie Canadian Press staff Writer

Moderate Republicans are be- coming increasingly concerned that Senator Barry Goldwater. despite his arch - conservative politics. will be the Republican party's candidate for the U.S. presidency.

The handsome senator from Arizona seems 0 have. like young Lochinvar. ridden in from the west and got away with the

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The goods in this case being more real and potential voles from delegates to the national convention in San Francisco this July than any other candi- date now in the field.

The latest Associated Press survey shows that of 70] dele- gates now chosen 266 will vote for Goldwater in the first bal- l . other surveys more than double the AP figures but in- clude probable votes. To win he needs 655 of the possible 1.308.

Goldwater. w h o s e political philosophy puts him in opposi- tion to U.S. participation in the United Nations. the partial nu- clear-test ban treaty and social security. i: lined his votes through state conventions and primaries.

MODERATES SPLIT

Since announcing his inten- tions earlier this year he has criss-crossed the country piling up votes while more moderate Republicans. unable to unite be- hind a challenger. have done lit- tle but stand in the wings and jeer. ' They now‘ seem to have awak- ened to the threat but it may be too l to.