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“ Worth Consideration.
CCF, leader Coldwell has again called for Canadian recognition of Communist China, whichever party wins the election. There is something to be said for it, too; although, no doubt, there is plenty to. be said against it. ‘ A
The fact, as Mr. Coldwell pointed out, is that China is a country of some 600 million people. It is poten- tially avast market fdr Canadian grain, lumber and other products which Canada usually has in surplus. Whether this country would be able to capture a large share of that market,’ if diplomatic recognition
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were accorded, no one can say with‘
certainty. But it seems certain that without that recognition Canada will
bk workingiunder great difficulties to ‘
expand its trade with China. It is probably Jlseless to send -trade mis- sions to Peiping so long as our Gov-
ernmént does not have. an official re- '
presentative there or the Chinese government = a representative at Ottawa. A _
: The main reason why Canada has never recognized the Chinese regime is that the United States has not done so. Britain, however, saw the situa- tion in a different light; and the gen- eral beliefiis -that its recognition of the regim'e_j-'-égwhich is ‘something ehtirely different from approval of
the regimeéé has brought the British _
a good deal-ofvtrade. It might'con- cpivably do thesame for Canada. -In any event,.-thequestion is one which should be explored a little more dili- gently than it has been in the past. Ejerhaps it could be shown that pol- itical difficulties attendant on recog- nition would. greatly outweigh any commercial" benefits it might bring. Rut, certainly,‘the mere fact that the United ‘States has taken a_ certain stand —— despite considerable ‘opposi- . tion in Congress and elsewhere -— is, not a compelling reason why the Can-
adian Government) should not give ,
the matter further thought- After all, the Peiping regime is, in fact, in control of China. Non-recognition on
the part of Canada or any other . c" ntryi ‘does not alter‘ that regret-_
glefact. > _ _ A ‘ Thalpi U..N. Police. Force
fin. viewof the personal claims and
me.
fhorship of the U.N. force to patrol ;‘ border ‘area/between Egypt and el, here, for what they are worth,’ _ the facts as reported inthe New k, Times, Nov. 1. to 5, 1956: ovember 1:‘ In London Prime Minister Eden said that the United Kingdom and France would welcome Ufiited Nations assumption of control i he Suez area.
f of the U-K delegation, made a
Qblic statement to the U-N Security G§§,izncil.in New York: “Our interven- is a temporary measure which were obliged to take in the ab-
nery for restoringlpeace and order matter of such extreme emerg- y.” X - ~ — ovember 2: Sir Pierson Dixon re- tedaand elaborated his Security incil statement before the U-N Ci’ eral Assembly: “Let me say with emphasis at my command that lther we nor the French govern- A nt have any desire whatever that e military action we have taken s; uld be more than temporary in its, ‘ ation . . We believe that the Unit- Nations now has a unique oppor- tunity to bring peace in the Middle East. . . The first task is to separate Israel and Egypt and to stabilize the position. If the United Nations were willing. to take over the physical task of maintaining peace in the area
no one would be better pleased than -
we.V Police action there must bé to separate the belligbrents and to stop hostilities.” ‘ ‘ I In the same day’s session the U-N General Assembly had voted, 64 to 5, for a United States proposal for an immediate cease fire in the Suez area. The United Kingdom opposed the pro- posal on the ground that Britain and France had already offered to with- draw in favor of the U-N. ~ The New York Times reported
c . nterclaims, circulating about the ‘
ovember 1: Sir Pierson Dixon,
cc of any effective collective ma- \
(page 12) that “Mr. Pearson solved the dilemma for Canada by abstain- ing.”
The Times the same day (Nov. 2) reported Mr. Pearson’s explanation of his abstention; that the»U.S. pro- posal had not provided for any steps to be taken by the U-N towards a peaceful solution, reported Mr. Dulles as saying the U.S. also desired such steps and urging the Canadian dele- gation to make a suggestion “along the lines which had been discussed.” That‘ is a police force.
November 4: General Assembly
approved, 57 to 0,ithe Canadian dele- . gation’s proposal that a police force
be considered. a
November 5: By the same unani- mous votd the U-N Assembly adopted a police force resolution spon- sored by Canada, Colombia and Nor- way. The U-K and France co-operated to enforce acceptance of the -police plan on Egypt and Israel by a. state- ment that their military action in the Suez‘ area would end only with its acceptance. , _
The record only points up the fact that Canada had very little to take credit for in Mr. Pearson’s proposal, and still less in his failure to support Britain’s stand in this emergency.
Purpose Of Learning
Here is a sobering thought for Education Week. It is from a letter in the New York Times by Harry R. Rudin, Colgate Professor of History at Yale University: ‘
“The Russian satellites have caused Americans to formulate extensive plans for educating youth in ‘science and engin ering. One level of think- ing makes it natural for men to make such decisions. But the hour has sounded when Americans, Russians and others must consider an even more sobering fact than satellites-—
) namely, that education has finally
brought us into that time of history
. when the future of mankind is threat-
ened not by ‘barbarians’ hunting one another with spears and clubs but by
educated men hunting other educated .
men with weapons fashioned by their learning to be so destructive‘ that their use may rob man of his’ very humanity if he survives. .
‘ “What is the meaning‘ of education, in a world devoting most of its talent
and treasure for a war Whose chief V
targets mustlinevitably be the sym-
bols of their culture--the great cities* ,
with their industries, libraries, art collections and so on? Is self-destruc-: tion, then, the l.igh goal of educa- tion? Have men of religion and of learning no higher purpose? Is the significance of our learning that of
those endless zeros traced by a dead
dog in the heavens above us ?
“There can’t be much time left for men to find out what their learning is really for.” ‘
I ‘ EDITORIAL NOTES
The United States has offered a
gift of 66 million pounds of food for
the relief of flood victims in Ceylon. Canada has already sent a. quantity. of wheat to the stricken country; but it would _do no harm to send an extra few thousand tons. ~ t ’ * -t Despite radar and other modern safety devices, there is still danger on the sea. The loss of the Turkish ferry “Uskudar” only a few miles from land with the loss of more than 300 lives must be numbered among the great seafaring tragedies of his- tory. .1 i I’. . If one were to take candidates’ reports from the hustingsfat their face value, one would be fore d to the conclusion that everybody is going to win on March 31. Since this is ob- viously a mathematical impossibility, it must be that some of the aspirants are being carried away by their own enthusiasnfi ' -n t xv The Swiss Government is issuing a. special stamp commemorating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Salvation Army in Switzerland. Other countries could do worse than honour the Salvation Army in at sim- ilar way; for the organization has done and" is doing so much good in every country where it is established. . . 1 a» 2 V Mr. Pearson says that the Conser- vatives’ proposed billion-dollar works program “won’t cure unemployment this winter”. In this, of course, he is right. The same thing must be said of his own tax-cutting formula, ‘how- ever valuable it may be. Whichever party wins the election won’t be able to put its program into full effect until Parliament meets in April or May. By then, let us hope, the winter will be over. The Conservative pro- gram, however, does have an advan- tage over the Liberal one, since part of it is already under way.
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TEACHERS’ SALARIES
S_ir,——Education Week brings to our attention for a few days some of the problems, which face teachers, trustees, and offi- cials throughout the year". In this Province, there is a great -deal of intelligent interest ,in educa- tional "mattens. This was shown last year by thegreat numbers who attended andthe high qual-
‘ity and number of bfiefs -present- ed to the Legislaltivelcommittee. Throughout Canada, -there ap- pea?s to be a great national awak- ening to the necessity of working for improvement.
One of many problems is the recruitment and retention of teachers in the profession on a permanent basis. In raising the status of the teacher, increased salary should be dependent upon increased qualifications. Many
gteachers at the present salary '
level feel they must take sum- mer employment in ‘order to live.
.There are two suggestions I would ,make to encourage teach- ers to remain in the profession. ‘An immediate increase of two months’ salary so that the pre- sent ten _mouth-s’ pay cheque would be ‘extended to twelve months‘. If this is done then all teachers below first class shoiild be required to study each sum- mer until they reach that status while those of first class and above should be required to take refresher courses every five years..The second .suggestion is that a married status allowance
. of $1,000. per year‘ be paid to
heads of households to encourage teachers with heavy personal res- ponsibilities to stay in the pro- fession rather than search for needed salary in industry.
In order to attract recruits to the profession, something bold and imaginative needs doing.
I am, Sir, etc., FREDERIC A. LARGE Charlottetown.
’ VACANT FARMS
Sir,—-I note from rdading the local papers recently. that the number of vacant farms on Prince Edward Island has increased in the last fifteen or twenty years to five thousand. This seems to me a serious matter and must mean a large monetary loss to the Is- land in general. I think it is time
v the Government took notice of the
situation and did something to remedy the condition that exists. I believe that all citizens of the Island should be) interested in this problem and help to find a solu- tion. .
One way would be for the Gov- ernment to set aside enough money at the next session to re- settle thirty Island farms, ten in each County. First the Govern- ment would have to buy these farms which should c o n t a i 11 houses and buildings in good con- dition, then call for applicants from young Island-born married men between the ages of twenty- one and thirty-five. These applic- ants should be sponsored by some responsible farmer or business man. The money loaned should be in the form of a long tbrm loan , and all farms should be under the supervision of a government over- seer.
This ‘plan is only a small be- ginning, but it is a step in the right direction and to quote an old Chinese proverb: “A journey of one thousand miles starts with one single step.”
I am, Sir, etc., KINGS COUNTY FARMER. Montague, P. E. I.
MAXIMS
Genius is entitled to respect on- ly when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of
mankind.
- PUBLIC" FORUM A
* Tax Free Ci3ombles In ‘
By Patrick Nicholson Special Correspondent for The Guardian
London, England‘: A new auto- mobile and ‘ffree motoring‘ for life" is the enticing prize offered by today’s newest contest in this home of the Welfare State and legalised lotteries. For an ‘ en- trance fee of 31/: cents, I have: bought my chance for‘ this prize worth an estimated $25,000.
Many‘ million Britons will be paying their 31160 cents too, just as they -do on the Football Pools (recently banned In Canada) and similar contests. '
The great attraction of those gambles to over-taxed Britons is that the prizes are generally free of tax. Income tax is graduated to such high levels that it is vir- tually impossible for anyone to keep more than 6,000 pounds ($16, 800) of income per year after pay- ing taxes. .
Many Britons f:herefore.devote much timeto competing in the yarious get-rich-quick tax - free lotteries, while an estimated 50 per cent of accountants’ time is now "spent devising dodges to :- vadc taxes. ‘
NEW ARISTOCRACY
The sales m~auager with the generous expense account has re- placed the ‘Milord rAn»gl'ai_s” as the pampered f-ree- spending cus- tomer at luxury European holi- day resorts, and at the expen- sive English pleasure - palaces. This New England is a country where the enormous costs of the Welfare State are crippling the taxpayer, while the average work- er has to pay $1.40 out of his weekly pay packet of $34.30 for health and insurance benefits, in addition to high income tax.
Wage demands and rising pric- es have forced on England -an in- flation even more destr-uc-tive
than in post-war Canada. Thisls vividly shown by the 41 per cent rise in -the cost of the British Health Program over the past 5 years. ‘
SEEK UNTAXED GOLD
Taxation ‘and high prices pre- vent the ordinary Briton from saving much out of_his pay pack- et. Hence the great interest in these tax-free gambles.
They bet on horse races. They buy tickets in the Irish Sweep- stakes. T-hey compete in football pools. And they buy the Govern- ment’s premium lottery-bonds.
Or, like me, they compete for a free automobile, with free gas, insurance, repairs, licences and trade-ins “for life." _ .
The lure is the huge prizes which the lucky winners receive and which are Slowillgly report-. ed on newspaper frontlpages.
Last week Mrs. Kat-hie Brock-J‘ well, 25 year old wife of a Lon- don ,wine-merohant’s cellarman earning $32 a week, won a rec- ord Football Pool prize of about $570,000. From their humble su- burban home, the~Brockwel1s of B-ermondsey moved -to one of Lon- don’s. plushiest hotels, to 'live~it up for one week. Behind them in their bank lay the equivalent’ of 340 years’ wages for Jack Brock- well at his old job — and all tax free. ‘
By the end of the week, Jack had to spend a day in bed taking tranquillizing pills, Kathie did the same with stomach medicine, and their 31/é,year old daughter E- laine was bilous from eating too many chocolates. '
sun‘, the Brockwells of Ber- moud-sey -had struck Britain’s Pot of Gold, and were the envy of all their over-taxed fellows.
The Algerian Ulcer
The Montreal Gazette '
The Duke of Wellington once described the Peninsular war as- “the Spanish ulcer.” He meant that it was draining away the strength of France, even though it was being fought away from French soil.
Now France is suffering from another ulcer, no les-s malignant. It is the Algerian ulcer. Not only is it draining away the strength of France it is weakening. the Western alliance in which France ought to be an essential part.
The drain is tremendous. Near- ly half a million troops ( about 450,000) are being maintained in North Africa. Nor is the drain merely in the maintenance of troops. In the unending fighting, the casualities are considerable. In the last three years they have amounted to 14,000 — about 4,- 000 killed and about 10,000 .wound- ed. In terms of dollars, the cost is about $2 billion a year.
The troops needed for NATO operations in Europe are in Afri- ca. The money from the United States primarily intended to fi- nance France as 'a NATO part- ner is disappearing in Algeria. So, too, is a great part of the arms that‘_the United States is supplying. Most of the 25 planes that took part in this I month’s French attack on the Tunisian border village had been made in U.S. factories. .
The drain of the Algerian ul- cer upon the NATO alliance is not only in manpower, arms and money —— important as all three are for Western defence. The drain is even worse in its effect upon the standing of the West a- mong the Afro-Asian peoples - the peoples so great in number, so strategic in their territories, and so uncommitted in their al- legiances.
France, faced with the terro- rists in Algeria, is determined to “get terror by the throat.” But the history of the world has nev- er yet shown that this can be
- done, if that terror represents
the upsurge of a people.
The reasons why France con- tinues this inconclusive struggle are deep. There is the feeling that the loss of Algeria would be a further blow to Frances posi-
vestment in Algeria.
"to the French spirit,
tion as a world power. Algenla has also been a possession of France for a century, and the habits formed in a century are not easily revised.
During that century, moreover, there has been heavy French in- Following the classic colonial theory, Al- geria has been a source of raw materials for France and a con- trolled market for French manu- facturers.
Further still, there are the French settlers in Algeria. It may be true that they are outnumber- ed six to one by Arabs. Yet they total about half a million — no inconsiderable number. Their in- fluence is important. They could scarcely be left in Algeria under Moslem rule, nor could they be easily gepatriated to France.
It might seem that the dispos- ition to seek a settlement with the Algerian rebels would have been made easier by the fact that France has already had to withdraw from? Syria and from Indo-China, while a real meas- ure of autonomy has been gran- ted to Morocco and Tunisia. OVERSEAS LOSSES
lBut these losses in French ov- erseas areas appear only to 11-ave intensified the determination to hold on to what is left, As for Morocco and Tunisia, these are c a s e s differing from Algeria. They were. protectorates only, a fact which gave French rule a provisional character and which gave’ French concessions less the character of defeats. Algeria, how ever, is literally a “possession." Its surrender would be ya wrench
Yet it is hard to see how the Algerian war can be carried on without involvements with Tunis- ia. The president of Tunisia, Hab. bi Bourguiba, though doing his best to be a friend of the West, cannot hope to suppress sympathy with Algerians among the people of Tunisia, without upsetting his own position. But if France is to attack points in Tunisia as part of the Algerian campaign, an NATO will suffer an unfathoma- ble loss of prestige in the Afm- Asian world.
First Alclln Poison C0865
By Herman N. Bundesen, During the ye_a1‘S- I favte written many amcles °l‘ ‘.rS' aid treatment for poisoning. Just recently, I.d1scussed Wglifi should be done in case a 9 . swallows an overdose of asp1l‘1n- Now the American Medical Association’s_Comm1ttee on Tox- icology has summed up various first-aid procedures and formula- ted an official recommendation for thef general pugblic on treat- ments or polsonm . ~ IMPORTANT INFORMATION
I would like to pass this high- ly important information on to y(S1«;ieed is essential in all cases of poisoning, since ‘the aim of first-aid measures IS to prevent absorption of the poison, Whether you should administer an antidote first and then call the physician, or call the coctor before you begin any. type of treatment, depends upon the nature of the poison.
If the poison is a corrroslve or petroleum product be sure to call the doctor first and follow his instructions.
SAFE GUIDE
A safe guide is to‘ call the physician at once if any of the following have been slallowed. Acid and acid - like corrrosives such as sodium acid sulfate (toilet bowl cleaners), acetic acid (glacial); sulfuric acid, 113- tric acid, oxalic :acid, hydro- fluoric acid (rust removers), iodine, silver nitrate (styptic pencil).
Alkali corrroslves such a.s sodi- um huroxide - lye (drain clean- ers), sodium carbonate (wash- ing sode), ammmonia water, sodi- um hyliochlorite (house- hold bleach.)
Petroleum products such ‘as kerosene, gasoline and lighter fluid.
SEVERE PAIN _ Symptoms of corrrosive poison- ing generallly are severe pain, a. burning sensation in the mouth and throat and vomiting.
While one of the most impor- tant actions in most poison cases is to make the victim voinit, this does not appply when a corrr-- osive or petroleum product has beeen swalllowed. , ‘
- If the victim can stwalllow af- ter taking‘ a corrrosive poison-, he may be given:
For acids—mi1~k, water or milk of magnesia (one tablespoooon to one cup of water). ~
For al-kalis-—,milk, water,
fruit juice, or vinegar. -If the victim is one to five years old, he should be given one to two cups; age five and older should be given up to one quart. UESTION AND 'ANSWER
_T. G.: My baby has a dis- charge from the navel. What could be) the cause?
Answer: It may -be caused by some khrouic infection which
any
has failed to clear _up, or by an abscess of the navel.
CRAGS
I did not know those crags were there . When summer trees were leafy I’ did not guess the rugged face That I now see so briefly.
‘-Tis only when the leaves are gone And snow not yet its shielding done That we can see the granite rock Which binds that hillside into one.
And so with Man, ‘us only when
That others see the rock of soul Which crag-like strengthens; him.
—-GLADIYS TAYLOR In the United Church Observer.
judged that the Spanish ulcer would drain France to defeat in the Peninsular War. The Algerian ulcer would have the same effect, were it not for the. fact that France hasibeenv receiving blood transfusions through {he NATO al- liance, above all from the Unit- ed States.
But the bitter irony of the sit- uation is that the ulcer is draining not only on France, who is re- ceiving these transfusions, but NATO, by which the transfusions are being Provided. '
NEW TYPE PLANE WASHINGTON (AP)—The de- fence department made public Friday photographs of an experi- mental airplane that can, by tilt- ing its propellers, do the tricks of a helicopter. The plane looks much like any small aircraft ex- cept that its propellers are housed in big circular ducts on
Emotion rips the veils from him’
The King of Sweden has-asked for a raise, and we hope he gets it. The king’: business isn’t the kind where you can get a job with another firm if you don’t like the pay.—Winnipeg- Tribune
- An Indiana woman, asking di- vorce, said her husband paid more attention to the TV set than he did to her. Maybe because he
Free Press
A man who has taken an inter- est in his foods for several de- cades, and who has experiment- ed systematically and logically, still believes that the deteriora- tion of the social order began when folks stopped eating Die fol‘ breakfast.—-Ottawa Journal ,
Inside the TV set that a~Tulsa (Old-a.) repairman came" to fix he found the following items: Nineteen’ pencils, three toy drum sticks, three lollipop sticks, two silvers of bamboo, a safety pin, a hair curler, seven wood screws,
inch cast iron rod, an’ earring, four soda straws, two pearl beads, two pieces of yvallboard, a four inch cast iron rod, an earring, four soda straws, two pearl beads a button, aclock gear, a lipstick
10 cigaret butts, six matches, and one chicken bone. -’ M American Mercury ‘ ‘
i The whale bears compelling tes- timony to the abundance of the ocean pasture. The sea is esfiimat-’ ed to be as produciveof organic food, acre for acre, as the land.
ered by oceans, in the’ aggregate the sea must produce five to ten times as much living matter as
Considering that half the world
day, the sea’s food potential‘ can- not be neglected much longer.-‘-‘ Scientific American \
(From The Guardian Files)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARSAGO , (March 5, 1933) :, In connection -with the admin-
th-is Province, Mr. G. Mao- Laren has been appointed super-
Lennan. St. Georges. . -
Miss Constance Macliarla-ne, B. A.. M.A., teacher of chemistry and physics at the Sinmuerside
from Montreal that she had been
si-ty Women. This is the only one
fers a great honor on Miss Mac-
pool, England. _‘ . ,, TEN YEARS AGO v , 1
. (March 5, 1348). Es_tabl=ishment at No-
a possibility today when Trans-. port Minister Chevier
_he would give close consideration all railway workshops.
tions at Borden Ferry terminal was given considerable discussion V side Board of Trade last evening. It.was pointed out that due to
the narrow pier whi-chiexltends to the boat that facilities .for°carI‘
couldn’t turn her olif.—London .
two pieces ‘of wallboard, a four ‘
cap, two rocks, a butter bean, ,
With '70 percent of the globe cov-' .
Yet we take only 1, per cent of our food from this source. .
population lives on the edge of »
starvation and, that we must feed " " 100,000 additional mouths every‘
oua YESTERDAYS "7
lstration of old Age Pensions in‘ A
intend-ent. Members of the Board - l of Review _are William Gibson, . ~
Marshfield; John F. Ars;cna-ult," Union Corner; Roderick J,
High School has received. word 7
awarded the ,.scholarsh:i,p from tho. Canadian Federation of Univer- I
Farlane,-who‘ will be entitled ii)!" " one year res'earch.work-in Liven:
tioual repair and work shops-‘on 1 Prince Edward Island as ‘
an all-Canadian delegation of the ‘In Trades and Labour Congress that , to -their representations on region ‘
The matter of parking
at the meeting of thersummeru '
awarded in a1l.Ga-nada. and con,‘ "
to park were poor, and that con-
siderable widening was necessary, '
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’Stea.d’s Pharmacy.
ca-ch wing tip.
Pharmacy, Medical Pharmacy
——Remcn1ber Last Y0”,
Dan‘? 33
Wellington was right when 5.
Central Farmers Institute ' Wednesday, March 12th, 2:00 P.M., Legion Hall-
Sheep Breeders Association Wednesday, March 12-—8:00 P.M., Birch C0
Dairymen's Association ’ Thursday, March 13—1o:3o and 1:3o—Legi°3 Banquet 6:30 P.M.—Charlottetown Hotel
Federation of Agriculture , Thursday, March 13—8:30 P.M.-Charloiitelifl
Communify Programs Workshop Friday, March 14—9:o0 A.M.--Prince of
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