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PAGE 4 TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1964.

A Fine Citizen

The death yesterday of Major Roy D. MacGiilivary was a shock to his many friends in Charlottetown and throughout the Province, and a loss to many worthwhile commun- ity movemenis to which he gave so generoust of his lime and organiz- ing ability.

Having served overseas with dis- tinction in the Second World War, he returned to take an active part. in the. Reserve Army and later to serve as aide-dc-camp to Lieutenant Governor Hyndman and to his suc- cessor. Lieutenant Governor Mac- Donald. But he was equally active in civilian affairs. as local manager of the imperial Life insurance (“om- pany. as a director of the (‘anadian Welfare Council, as first president of the Catholic Social Welfare Bur— eau, as a Rolarian, as a leader in the Boy Scouts and Red Cross move- ments, as chairman of the conven- tion Committee of the Centennial Committee. and in other capacities.

The zeal with which Major Mac- Giilivary participated in these mani— fold activities was an inspiration to all his associates. Along with his ability to shoulder so many respon- sibilities he possessed a genial per- sonality which won him f r i e n d s everywhere. Those privileged to know him best admired him. most of all. for his many acts of courtesy and consideration.

The ('iruardian joins in tendering sympathy to his wife and family in their bereavement. at. this time.

Veterans' Hospitals

So much hot air was generated over the flag dispute at the Royal Canadian Legion convention in Win- nipeg recently. when the subject was introduced by Prime Minister Pearson. that little public attention was paid to other phases of the con- vention proceedings. It is interest- ing to note, however, that the Legion gave qualified approval on that oc- casion to the federal government's proposal to transfer operational control of veterans’ hospitals to civilian authorities.

In doing so. it. quietly buried a resolution expressing unalterable opposition to the government's plan. In its place the convention approved a resolution demanding prior con- sultation and other safeguards of veterans‘ interests before any of the eleven active-treatment military hos- pitals are transferred. The Legion's reconsideration of policy was ef- fected by a forthright. speech made to the convention by Veteran Af- fairs Minister Roger Teiilet.

“Over the years." the Minister told the delegates. “fewer of our hospital beds are being required by veterans needing active treatment. As a corollary, more and more beds had to be used for veterans not re- quiring active treatment——patienta who need some medical care and fre- quently a great deal of specialized nursing, but who do not require the sophisticated operating-theatres, laboratory facilities_ and technical staffs that constitute the real dif- ference between active-treatment beds and those used for convalescent and domiciliary care purposes. The declining needs for and use of these facilities speed their rate of obsoles- cence and the purchase cost of re- placements becomes prohibitive in terms of the use made of them. The most practical means of assur- ing the standards of care we now have is to arrange with the respon-

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tale where we anticipate difficulty.”

Mr. Harris went on to say that over $80 million was spent on hoa- pitel construction and reconstruction for veterans’ care. But in terms of active treatment it is a declining need. To sustain the high quality of the hospitals and their staffs they will have to provide the services for which they are equipped. Convales- cent and domiciliary care can be for- nished elsewhere at far less cost. To the extent. that they are not needed for veterans‘ care, the facilities of the eleven active~treatment hospi- tals should be made available to civilians with a minimum of delay.

The eleven military hospitals are located at Halifax, Saint John. Que- bec. Montreal, St. Anne de Beilevue, Toronto, London, Winnipeg. (Iai- gary, Vancouver and Victoria. These. with veterans' pavilions at- tached to civilian hospitals at Re- gina and Edmonton. provide 9,400 beds. Eight years ago the depart- ment was providing 13,500 beds in 48 institutions.

Surely Not!

A newspaper editor in Tulsa, Oklahome. complains that Americans are now at the end of the third dec- ade of national insanity known as “progressive education.” This was the education, he said. “where every- body passes ;- where the report cards were non-committal. lest the failure be faced with the fact of his fail- ure; where all moved at a snail pace like a transatlantic convoy, so that the slowest need not be left behind: and all proceeded toward adulthood in the iockstep 0f ‘togetherness’.”

With what results? he asks. “We have watched juvenile delinquency climb steadily. We have produced tens of thousands of high-school graduates who move their lips as they read and cannot write a coher- ent paragraph. While our Russian contemporaries—who were suppos- ed to be dedicated to the mass man ——-have been busy constructing an elite. we have been engaged in the wholesale production of mediocrity. What a switch! . . .”

Maybe it‘s not as bad as all that! Surely not in Canada, at any rate. where “progressive” educational programs lag behind those of our American neighbors. But we seem to recall that there have been warnings sounded on this side of the line to the same effect. Remember that. book, “So Little For the Mind”, by Dr. Hilda Neatby? And. more recent- ly. Dr. Frank MacKinnon’s book, “The Politics of Education”? They would bear re—reading in this con- nection.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Associated Press. which operates hundreds of thousands of miles of leased wire in the United States. carried a fine story recent- ly on the success achieved by our Prince Edward Island Rural Beaut- ification Society.

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The faster you drive. the less clearly you see the road. warns John Atkinson, general chairman of the Canadian Highway Safety Council. When driving at 60 miles per hour, or 88 feet. per second, you can see little more than the width of the road. You really put biinkers on yourself. As the speed increases, the vision narrows.

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The Pearson government has promised to consider the proposal of Reid Scott, NDP member for Danforth, to establish a ministry of housing. The national housing pro- gram. Mr. Scott; maintains, has been an abject failure. Yet. housing is as important as health and welfare, fisheries and forestry. The appoint- ment of a minister wouldn't guaran- tee results that would be 100 per cent satisfactory, but it could hard- ly fail to be an improvement on the existing sétup.

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West German road builders have hit upon an idea which might start off one of the most daring projects in the history of modern highway planning. Their plans envisage the building of an elevated autobahn, running above the track of the exist- ing highway, between the industrial towns of Oberhausen and Leverku- sen. This second-storey highway would have the same width of track as the other-asix lanes, two driving and one parking lane in each direct- ion. separated by a centre strip. The cost of the project is estimated at. five times that of a normal auto-

THE SURFBOAR‘DER

OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

Hod Vivid Experience In Red Chino

Our former Minister of Agri- culture from the Prairies was of course delighted to be the guest ofa country to which he had sold huge quantities of prairie twain. ExMinisterr Ham- ilton was no stratum to Asia: he had mmt in 31mm as a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War Two, and he had negotiated Wheat sales on Hons Kong as a mem- ber of the Diefenbaker Cabinet.

But. when Hon. Alvin ton had finished peeping around Peiping's “Forbidden City" and the more modern attractions of Communist China. he was bug-eyed as any honorable sir. on his first visit to Asia.

In China Mr. Hamilton was neither converted nor brain- washed: but he has brought home some vivid new concepts. along with about 400 fascinating coloured and black-and-white snapshots of the charms of an- cient. Chinese culture and of modern Chinese girl athletes.

THE CHINA HE ADMIRES

"The Chinese today." Alvin Hamilton told me. "are a puri- I tan consewaitive

It is wrong to think of the 600 million citizens of Communist

his as a backward people who go to bed with empty bei- lies every night. He told me "i- vid and mouth-watering stories of 20-course banquets which he enjoyed on special occasions. and lZ-course dinners served so regularly to him that he became adept with chop-sticks.

Canada will sell no more wheat. to China, he considers. unless again that country suf- fers the disaster of two consec- utive crop failures. But Canada could sell millions of dollars worth of our products of other lines to China: he quotes the country‘s immediate need for 10.000 farm tractors as an ex- ample.

How w o u l d China pay for huge purchases of manufactur- ed goods from Canada? China could not offer her products in

could assist China to er world markets so that by a system of multilateral trade she could afford to make large pur- chases from us; this is Alvin Hamilton's novel formul .

But in a long talk with the re- turned traveller. I found that his most. interesting and surpris-

ing conclusions related to the Chinese people themselves. not to their trade nor to their cur- rent political ideology.

The most remarkable .14sz

PUBLIC FORUM

to the discussion ta-

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VISITOR'S COMPLAINT

Sin—My pleasure at visiting your Island has been marred by an as incredible piece of bad planning as .I have ever experienced.

The train a day which effectively connects with Mon- treal, Toronto. and points West. leaves Amherst at 2.05 p.m. and

3.5 The one bus

I day from Charlottetown is scheduled to arrive at Amherst at 2.55 p.m. and at Moncton shortly after 4 p.m. There is no train on Sunday. so in order

from Amber-a

a t at 2.06 pm. on Sunday. I must leave P.E.I. by bus at 10.45 on Saturday.

COW blames-once to the needs of travellers which permits such chaotic schedul-

atiageaa the true-

7. a. IOUALTER University of Waterloo. Waterloo. Ontario.

of the Chinese people, he told me, is the almost prophylactic cleanliness of their homes and even to their back yards. "I re- member how in Saskatchewan we used to laugh about the way the German settlers even swept their yards clean; that was. so unlike Canadian farm- ers. But the Chinese people out- do even those Gcrmans in the spotless cleanliness of their homes and their persons."

Then there is the great re- spect and consideration evidenc- ed for the individual. The Chin- ese through many centuries of

civilization have exalted polite— ness to a ritual. Their mutual courtesy is quite unmatched by anything in Canada. Alvin told me.

a . he was immensely impressed by the discipline and good order They are not a craven and suppress- ed youth; they are happy. But their respect for authority and I their pride in their discipline is a wonderful thing. This is espe- cially noticeable among the "Young Pioneers". he said. dev scribing these as a sort of super Boy Scouts organization.

Sputtering Fuse

Globe and Mali. Toronto

Figures issued by the South African Government last Janu- ary showed the country had It million Africans. three million whites. 1.5 million persons ot mixed blood and 500.000 Indians. The ratio of non-white to white was 13 to 3.

Apologists for South African racial policies say the great Ma- jority of the 13 million non- whites are happy with their sit- uation in life. that trouble comes only from a minority of agita- tors. saboteurs and mmun- ists. But the Magnitude of dan- ger from the smoldering black feelings becomes clear each

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y. Members of the countrya white community are permitt- ed to attend a Oomiba Survival

School where for 318 they can take a lodleason course in killing with any weapon available -— pistols. sticks, knives, umbrel- las or bare hands. Weekly pistol parties are conducted more cas- ually, with coffee and sad'wicih- es served between shoots. Rcr guitar schools provide pistol practice time and explore the mysteries of anti-sabotage mang and unammed combat. Tear-gas shells are available whites over 18. Half the white population have guns which are frequently seen in handbags and

trouser ops . e maxim of the Coronal Sur- vivai School is one of desperat- tton: "You want to survive—- red iio kill." Pre-

pared to kill — how often? To survive — how long

More Than Flogs Involved

Financial Post

Prime Minister Pearson says that neither his cabinet nor his caucus wants a genera eleck lion. There is nothing the voters want. loss.

What would an election be about? Fought over the design of a flag. it would make Canada a global joke and belly laugh. Yet this is the only question currently raising the public temperature above normal. No other debatable issue is in sight.

Aside from that. the present parliament was elected in 1963 for a five-year term. We do not have fixed election dates as the U.S. does but our flexible sys- tem rests on an assumption that nearly every parliament will live long enough to let the gov- ernment. develop its policies.

This is certainly how it work- ed until very recent times.

The present House of Com- mons ls Canada's 26th. Of the

25 earlier ones. 30 lasted to u 1- years or longer. One wss cut. short at age two by the Pacific scandal (1873) that knocked out Macdonaid. and another at three years by the great reciprocity debate of 1911.

The established rule is there- fore quite clear. A parliament la to live at least four years unless some unforeseen issue, 01' em- ergency. like an exceptionally juicy ecandal or a new national policy, makes an earlier consul- lation of the voters necessary— in the public interest.

Getting business done in a splintered parliament is diffi- cult; but the politicians to u s I learn how to do It. restraining their natural ferocity and even modifying their rules if neces- sary. It is for them to accom- modate themselves to the pub- lic‘a wishes. decisions. and even wbIma. not the other way around.

Commonwealth Bruises Ottawa Journal

Not much of the old Common- wealth spirit is in evidence in 0 1th mm

arms of recent days. Prime Minister Smith of Southern Rhodesia says he is not being invited to the Commonwealth conference in London in July. His conclus- ion Ia that there is no room for: his country "among the motley

of small comm fact to the Commonwealth without re- gard to their adherence to the ideals and concepts on which II was founded.

That is bad mus. althde Southern Rhodesia has never been a full member of the Com- monwealth club. Her status is that of a self-governing colony and until ' ta minority government gives as- suranca that the interests of Africans will be safeguarded both Independence and an invi- tation in Commonwealth confer- ences are improbable.

But. independent Ghana has been a in II Commonwealtn member for years. The Ghan- aian Times, tha’voioe of all-

powarful President Nkmmah. resolved the me that mtbesa

Rhodesia lild not been invited to London with the cry that Gha- na had achieved a “glorious vie- tory'es _

Ghana has regarded the gov- ernment led by Mr. Smith as a threat to Commonwealt.. clarity. That may be. but if has been customary for Coman- we a 1 lb leaders to speak with caution and without boa . Those who proclaim their desire to en- aure Commonwealth solidarity nowadays go about it in strange and disconcerting ways.

STUDYING TECHNIQUES

KUALA DUMPUR (AH—The commander - designate of US.

rilla secrets that mind help him win in the Indochina kin.-

Role Of Thymus

In Development

By Dr. Theodore a. Vaa Dallas

The discovery that the thy- mus has a function is one of the big medical stories of the dc cede. The [land plays a role in the development of immune bo- dies. The delay in acquirlnl ev- curate knowledge abdht the thymus stems from a series or honest errors.

The organ is located in back of the breeaibone. It is not. as previously believed, the cause of sudden death due to respira tory obstruction. Enlargement was blamed when an otherwise healthy infant was found dead in the crib and an autopsy dis closed a large thymus. This con dition also was blamed when a baby developed heavy breath in: with intermittent attacks of coughing, choking, asthma. and sudden pallor. x-rey revealed enlargement of the structure and radiation treatments were advised to shrink the tissues.

Later research showed the thymus is largest during infan- cy and grows smaller gradual- ly, reaching its tadult also after puberty. us it is normal for infants and children to have a large thymus.

The gland is more active dur- ing the early months of life. This was not fully appreciated until fairly r e c e n ti y. Laboratory workers. for example. studied baby mice to determine what happened when the thymus was removed. These animals thriv- ed after thymeclomy. Most the researchers waited until the mouse was 3 days to 3 weeks old before operating but the situa tion was different when the gland was removed at birth These mice failed to grow prop erly and did not develop protec- tive antibodies against infec-

OTIS.

This work Indicated that the thymus has a specific job to do during the first few days of life. These functions are passed along to other organs during this pot iod, and when the researcher waits a week before taking out the organ, it is too late to deter mine the truth.

Abnormalities of the thymus are found occasionally in vic- tims of myasthenia gravis. a disease causing excessive mus- cle weakness. Removal of the gland has resulted in improve- ment in some but others w e r a not helped. We do not know why.

ONE-SIDED HEADACHE R. .S. writes: How are clus- ter headaches handled?

Methysergide helps in a n y victims of cluster headache This condition. formerly called histaminic cephaigia and Horn ton's syndrome. is .of s h o r fer duration than migraine. It at- iects only one side. with pain, watering of an eye. and conges- tion of the nostril on the involvo

NERVOUS OR NEUROTIC

M.B.,writes: Can a person be nervous and not neurotic, and vice versa?

REPLY

Yes. provided you consider a high-strung or jittery person nervous. Neurotic disorders in- clude anxiety and tension atalea. depressions. hysteria. and ab- normal fears.-

BONE INFECTION W.M.G. writes: Is diet of any value in osteomyeiitis? REPLY

No. Best results are obtained in this bone infection when an opening is made to allow drain- age of pus. The antibiotics are prescribed to eradicate causative organisms. TODAY'S HEALTH HINT—

Bare feel may blister.

(Note: All correspondence to Dr. van Dellen should be a - dressed to: Dr. Theodore Van c-o Chicago Tribune.

Dellen. Chicago. Illinois.)

NOTES BY THE WAYf

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