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Ri pepesede toes: ; ; _ Disaster At Pictou > unie-o sae at Pictou was still out of control. The” |: ferryboat, Prince -Nova has been destroyed, along with several fish- ing craft, two piers and a freight shed; the residential part of | the town was threatened and a high wind

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is calculated, as vell as an assistance grant supplementary to th e’-other payments, for the less favored pro- vinces. es oe

‘A strong plea for assistance to the municipalities was included in Mr. MacDonald’s statement, which, as noted above, was in the way of an opening gambit aiid by no means a

” full-scale presentation of our mani-

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sury. A Communist Defeat |

_ Elections in Iceland are usually not’

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nounced last week were read eager-

was driving the flames northward into the shipyard of Ferguson In- dustries. Limited, Pictou’s chief in- "dustry. Te The North Nova was, until-re~ cently, on the Wood Islands-Pictou route and it is fortunate that this service Will not be disrupted by her loss. Yet the damage will ungpubted- ly be very heavy and industry in our sister Province, as well as the Mari- times nerally, will be adversely affected. SO far there has been no . "Keport of any fatality or serio&s in- | jury to the firefighters or others~in- volved, but this is about the only redeeming feature. of the disaster, ‘ "We have ‘a sentimenta} interest im the stury old boat which sank at her berth amid the flames, and |. which served us so well. for many | years despite her limitations in ac- commodation. Along with the Dunn- ing she provided the first transport- ation service on the Wood Islands route, which today is so important in__our communication with the mainland. We felt, too, that with. the Prince Nova-around it might be possible, incase of accident to the Dunning or Lord Selkirk, to re quisition her again. These consider- ations, however, are of-minor import-* ‘ance in view of the extent of yes- terday’s fire damage, and of the: anxiety over what yet may happen before the flames have been subdued.

Fiscal Claims Reviewed

The meeting of finance ministers- and provincial treasurers, called by

- the.Federal Government, is now un- der way at Ottawa; and this, noted previously, will be followed by a meeting of officials comprising the continuing committee on fiscal rela- tions. The opening brief for this ‘Province, presented yesterday | by Hon. B. Earle MacDonald, deals only with the tax rentak agreements and general financ¥al arrangements be- tween the Province and ‘Federal Gov- ernment, It does not attempt to re- state, at length, the Island’s position as set out in the brief presented in November, 1957, but merely to re- iterate some important points.

The present meeting, as we under- stand it, is the prelude to a f{ull- scale inquiry into the whole field of fiscal relations with Ottawa, and it is important that we provide all

the data available for a study of our

grievances. There is very little con- crete information in Mr. MacDon- ald’s statement, but we assume that such material is being prepared and will be presented in due course.

Chiefly stressed by Mr. MacDon- ald is the need, over and above the general tax-sharing : arrangements, © for a system of fiscal need grants payable to those provinces in which per capita income falls below a cer- tain average} The past agreements have contribeited in large measure to |

“the orderly development of provin- . eijal finance, but the formula is still ‘ unsatisfactory, inasmuch as each province receives about the same per capita amount, regardless of -wheth- —er-—it_is_rich or poor. The disparity of taxable income among the pro- & vinces is so great that equalization | in respéct of the major direct tax | fields is not enough; some: additional enrrection, should be made in res- _ Peet to loeal sources of revenue. The Federal Government has re- ~eognized the deficiency gf jthe tax potential of the Atlantic Provinces by the ‘payment of special ; assis- tanee grants—in our case of $2,%

This, said Mr. MacDonald, is_ appre- diated very much; but it does not » fur enough. The whole basis of ial grants should be reex- & more flexible system !

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' indictment, says The Star, is not .

4in which too much death and des- | ’ standards not at all smal!. Shake-

' struction of Rew

ly in every capital affected by the cold war. Memories of Icelandic op- position to the American military base at Keflavik,, plus the current fishing dispute with Britain, have evi- dently obscured cértain other de- velopments Which are much more encouraging. In_ this election the Communist party campaigned on a “Yanks-Go-Home” platform and were badly beaten, losing 25 per- cent of their popular vote and a seat im Parliament. ° / ‘Since the beginning of this yea Iceland has been ruled by a minority party, the Social Democrats, with only eight of the seats-in the Ath- ling (Parliament). This has been pos- sible because ef support-from the Independence Party (which held 19 seats) plus divisions among the oth- er parties. : . Previously a coalition government which ; included {Communists had comé to power partly because of Ice-

THE VITAL LINK _

~ « A Negative Approach: — I -& Globe and Mail, Toronte. . E

Details of the national crop“ in- largely depends on one crop, with surance plan have been \ made | weather a constant threat. If that | public simultaneously with th’e | crop (grain) is lost, all is lost. latest Dominion Bureau of Statis- | But crop insurance merely deals i tics figures on farm cash inceme | with the symptoms of the West's | , across Canada. This is a lucky | basic problem: it does nothing to coincidence. The farm income fi- | remedy: that protitem. The rem- gures tell a great deal about the.! edy lies in irrigation and_diver- crop insurance issue which’ was | sification. This is the positive ap- not related by Agriculture Minis-! proach: crop insurance is the ne-

glandié discontent ever a “foreign”

military base’ on the island, over relations with the bigger “SATO ally, Britain, and over lack of eco- nomic — integration within —_NATO which might have helped Western markets for Icelandic fish. The reported shift of votes from |

‘the Social Democrats to the Inde-

pendence Party may prove an add tonal setback to t

that in trying to’ make an issue of | the fishing dispute and of Iceland’s |

membership in NATO the Commu- nists overplayed their hand. As ‘a résult, the air base stays on guard.

EDITORIAL NOTES

At least 46 persons died in ae- cidénts- connected with holiday activities in Canada during the past weekend—10 in traffic © mishaps and 17 through drowning. An ap- palling toll indeed.

™ © It is expected that \the current session of Parliament, which be+

gan on January 18, will. end July

ernment departments-and still. has to deal with estimates of 14 others. Séven of these, however, have been before various House ¢committees. a 7 a2

Liquor law enforcement has broken down in Ontario, complains the Sud- bury Star. There has-been no whole- sale prosecution of those’ who serve liquor and beer until impairment or drunkenness results. The province has failed to come to grips with | teen-age drinking and vigorous court

| vide crop insurance directly, the | ‘| Dominion Government will par

ia@iso stand ready to provide loans | ite Provinces faced with heavy

e Communists | who based some. of’ their influence | mers will be covered up to 60) on the Social Democrats’ need oie their cooperation. It is evident, too,\“A PRAIRIE PLAN

= ‘Harkness in his statement to! gative one. e Commons What large Constitutionally _unabl tion would mean for Prairie ag- | | riculture is indicated hy the DBS | = age ; “| figures which coincided with Mr. Sevauail ios tone ee cae Harkness’ announcement. They | of the premiums charged. It will cover farm cash eee i p : the country for the first quar: | ter of 1959. Ontario, where na- | seen aie Gide Semmens Dante: Oe tural conditions favor diversifi- | ‘tip aikathie, Previnetal seus a: cation, had an income in the per- |: e. Plans must | 44. of $238.178,000 — almost ex- j be actuarially sound, and apply | actly the same as Saskatchewan 7 . and Alberta combined acreage in the insured area. Far- | 99) This. be it noted, despite the much larger cultivated area

of the two Prairie Provinces.

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announcement confirms {t—that | " start and> Mr. Harkness’! of Ontario until there is diversi-

in application the natiogal plan; fication Diversification will not will be essentiaaly a. Prairie Pro- | come until there is large-scale ir- vinces plan. This region, more | rigation to, overcome the vagaries than any other in Canada, still{ of weather. Where diversifica-

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There is good news for tuber- culosis patients, too. A study in- dicates that one big swallow of PAS, a rather nauseating medi- cine,-is better than the three or four smaller doses generally re- commended for TB patients. of that Province. ‘ NEW METHOD

If the experience of ‘the Fed-|° pr. Albert H. Coons, visiting eral crop insurance plan in the | professor of bacteriology and im- United States, and the Canadian Government's experience with the Prairie Farm Assistance Act (in operation since 1939) can be taken as guides. a great deal of Ottawa's money is going to be poured into the Prairie Provinces for crop insurance in the years ahead. The PFAA has so far cost the Dominion Treasury over $200,- 000,000—about enough to pay for the South Saskatchewan dam a

y tion has been attempted, notably in Southern Alberta and Southern

Manitoba, it has greatly in creased the prosperity of the ar- eas concerned. The South Saskat- chewan River dam will provide

School, has been honored by pub- lic health officials for developing a new method of diagnosing more quickly infectious virus diseases. The method uses a fluorescent dye ‘to tag anti-bodies--so they will glow under ultra-violet light “Thus, the presence ofa specific virus not only can be detected un- der a microscope, but it can be accurately located within*;t he QUESTION AND ANSWER

000 acres. Mrs. M. S.: I have had three |

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munology at the Harvard Medical }.

The agricultural prosperity i. the Prairies will never match that | make sense only if there is built

pity from the standpoint of the Canadian taxpayers who must

‘$238.924.-| nay the shot, and from the stand-

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miscarriages and am_ told that these were caused by the condi- tion of mv cervix, which is dilat- ed, as in the first ‘stages of lab- or. :

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_: Sixty ‘scouts and leaders are now enjoying themselves at Camp

looking “Georgetown and- Lower ' Monfague. The camp opened on Tuesday with Scouts from Sum- merside, Montague and Charlotte- town attending. Camp Chief is William Warren and the assist- ant is R.C. Parent.

W.S. Hughes, Charlottetown was

dian Legion at the annual meet- ing held at the Canadian Nation- al Hotel last evening. Other of- ficers afe vice-president, W.A. Mcbaggan, Montague; chairman, B. W. Robinson, Summerside; treasurer, Leo Bradley, Charlotte- town; secretary, G. E. Sherren, Chariottetown. -

TEN YEARS AGO (July 7, 1949) - The appointment of K.M. John- ston, Charlottetown as command- ing officer° of 5 Division Signals Regiment (Reserve with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel has b e en announced by Headquarters Eas- tern Command. Col. Johnston suc- ceeds Lt. Col. Frank J. Storey who has commanded the ‘unit for the past two years. ;

Reverend H.E.D. Ashford, M.

week to take up his duties as ‘ minister of Trinity United Church Charlottetown. Rev. Mr. Ashford comes here from Calgary where he has been Field Secretary for Wester Canada for the Mission- ary and Maintenance, Department of thé United Church’. of Canada.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Files)

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baby? : | ‘Answer: Wt is possible that a)

plastic procedure on the térvix |

may correct your trouble.

A competent gynecologist is best able to answer your ques: | tion after a careful examination. |

_A Precious Tradition Dying

Ottawa Journal

When Oxtord. and Cambridge, | those bastions of classicism, now

“think of abandoning Latin as a

compulsory entrance subject, the . ramparts of tradition appear to |

be imperilled. The long fight seems about done. Latin is doomed to -go

down, the way of Greek, to be a

quirement of .all who pretended te education. The universities are | now only -dallying with the tim- ing of official oblivion. Vernacular tongues. or worse, have won. For centur- ies it has been argued that Eng- j lish can do. anything that Latin can do—and better. Even in, Shakespeare's time there were the champions of English and the defenders of the classical lang- | iuages. ‘i £ Shakespeare has always been 8 principal exhibit of those who say that Latin is a superfluity. Yet when Ben Jonson wrote of bis contemporary \playwright’s,

for better |

_pedantic, eccentric pursnit where | Must come in Latin or in Greek P

- it once was the indispensable re-

' “Naturally Tam biased in favor and 1

‘NOT USELESS ORNAMENTS

| honor and Greek a treat. To say

uage to pass Oxford's entrance examination with rather more* distinction than most of today’s” candidates. |

So important was the know - ledge of the classical languages | jn 1668 that Edmund Waller

wrote: : “Poets that lasting marble seek

The best poets, .even the anti- infeliectual romantics, knew their | Latin. . L

Bat the argument that has pre vailed since education became de- mocratie is Winston Churchill's:

of ‘boys learning English: then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and_ Greek as a treat’.

Latin of—eeurse- should -be an

that, however, should not be to suggest that these are useless or- naments, effete luxury. The great argument for Latin ia no that by mastering a few declensions

action against those who supplied | the teen-agers with the liquor. This |

directed aga nst any local situation; it is part of a province-wide picture

truction on the highway can be trac- ed-te. impairment and drunkenness. . 7. ° Maritime development receives special attention in the current issue of the Financial Pest, Toronto, which notes that the value of con-

struction in the Maritimes this year

is spiraling up to new records. New | Brunswick's construction projects will reach $196 million for the full

' year against $161 Inillion in 1958.

Nova Scotia will hit $190°- million | against $164 million. Prince Edward [sland will be close to $30 million

§00,000 afnually for four —yeais|-which compares with $24. millionJin®

1958 and is more than double the ~ {sland’s 1957 total. Largest per-

centage gains will be shown in con- . manufacturing

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“small Latin and less Greek’, he | or by conjugating a few verbs

did not mean that Shakespeare the mind is any better. Perhaps was what he was because he! Latin is-not the help-for Eng-

knew so litfle, but in spite of | lish grammaras once was thought. what Jonson certainly felt was a | But Latin—and this is its justi- handicap. How much better, Jon- | fication—does unlock ‘the great son believed, Shakespeare would storehouse of classical knowledge “have been if he had been trained | upon which so much of Western

in the disciplines. civilization is built. i FURTHER MISCONCEPTION Without the key we must ac- There is this further miscon-| cept a paler product; the subtle ception: so high were the stand- , ty and the feel of the thing are ards of Latin instruction in the gone. We are always once re- sixteen century that Shake- | moved from the source and we peare’s “small Latin” was by our abdicate the transmission to. oth- | tion to turn over lightly to same

speare knew enough of the lang-' one else's trust.

That Mass Resignation ; , ° Sadbuary—Daily Star ¥ one employee of the Canadian | over the air waves. In many

ti ’ ‘ it his | Tespects broadcasting has degen- Broadcasting Corporation qui and . ae at galt

“HOSPITAL INSURANCE |

DISCUSSIONS

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The forthcoming Province Insurance Plan will he discussed and questions regarding operation of .fhe plan will bg answered. All adults are urged to~ attend these meetings, which will be held in the:

hall of each District. EAST -

MONDAY, JULY 6—8 P.M. Tracadie Hall _ St. Columba Parish Hal] Kingsboro School

TUESDAY, JULY 7—8 P.M. Rollo Bay Parish Hall

St. Margaret’s Parish Hall St. Charles Parish Hal WEDNESDAY, JULY | P.M.

Forest Hill Bridgetown Hall , ~ St. Teresa’s Parish Hall

THURSDAY, JULY 9—8 P.M. Cardigan Parish Hall Lorne Valley Hall New Perth School

. FRIDAY, JULY 10—8 P.M. Marie School : Morell Rear Schoo!

St. Peter's Lake School

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MONDAY, JULY 6th—8:00 P.M. St. Anthony's Hall, Bloomfield Elmsdale School

TUESDAY, JULY 7th—8:00 P.M. O'Leary Hall

job there wouldn't be a ripple | of interest. Is i to be assumed | that a “mass resignation” is for publicity punposes? Particularly when ‘the accusation of ‘‘politi- cal interference’**is made over the cancellation of ‘a program. Gould the Canadian people care less? This country is not devoid

| “heefs’’ off the chest or try to Impresq, the «listeners. with their}.

tainment to a forum in which self - styled experts get their

egoism. . If it is “political interference” to clean the air/of some of this

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CHARLOTTETOWN

_ expendable. As for commentators | dollars of taxpayers’ money

of talent. It couldd be said that | awe more of it. A few million

every employee of the CBC is

and those airing opinions they are | might be saved in the process.

a. dime: a_dozen in alt provinces | it is a sorry state of affairs in Canada. Wt is the easiest thing | when Parliament cannot get all im the world te? round, up people | the information it seeks on CBC readyat the-drop of a hat+p-ex- expenditures. The thought—oc-

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elected president of P.E.I. Cana-.

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I leaned one fil red flower & gainst the stone

—that frail white sione on whick no name is shown—

and, riding back, I saw not Re man streets” °° -

through trolley-windows, but your face, John Keats.

My tears, your fears, were for an unfilled page; but, now that I have lived long

past your age, . I ask: is it more frighfening to ~ die. the page unfilled, the quill not ;

nearly dry,

than to be marching, hale of limb and lune,

your song?

—Aaron Kramer in the New York Times

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