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Another Labor Day

It has been said, truly enough. that many of us are heirs by accid- ent to the idle joys of Labor Day. When the crusade began, back in the last century, for an annual holi- day to honor those who toil it was the toilers that had to do the crus- ading-—-in their spare time, after putting in an average of 12 hours’ backbreaking work a da.V- T0fla.V. thanks to them, all of us who earn —-or like to think we earn—out' living in urban pursuits can lay aside our labors and enjoy our leis- ure on this holiday with an easy mind.

Organized labor has come a long way since those early days in achieving recognition of the rights for which it stands. The story of the movement has in the main been a. heartening record of the steady growth of human dignity. Much of the power that the plant and factory and mine owners once enjoyed has been transferred now to the unions and their leaders. And their success has been in direct relation to their recognition of the fact that with this transference of power has gone transference of re- sponsibility. The wisest leaders are those who freely concede ‘that the relationship is based not on the shifting ground of special interests but on the general good.

Ianada has a good record in this respect, and perhaps nowhere in Canada is the record more credit- able than in Prince Edward Island. A tribute is due here to the parent organization in Charlottetown, the Laborers Protective Union, which has set an example in which not only its own members, but all our citizens. can take pride.

It is to be hoped that Monday's holiday will not be marred by seri- ous traffic accidents, as has been the case too frequently in the past. The police have urged, in this re- gard, that special care be exercised on our highways over the weekend. It. is a warning that all should heed.

“The Needs Of Our Day"

Describing itself as "an inde- etructible believer in the virtue and need of political parties, and par- ticularly in the need and virtue of a Conservative party, rightly under- stood,” the Ottawa Journal under- takes to sum up its impressions of the Tory powwow in the federal capital this week. Mr. Diefenbaker, it notes, says he had seldom seen such enthusiasm. But The Journal has some qualifications on this point, and these are what make its com- mentary interesting.

' What. actually, was the enthus- iasm about? Did it mean, asks The Jiournal, that the party had rec- dgnized its possible mistakes and sbfeolved to profit by them? Or was this only something generated by fervid oratory-—“cheers which, like team. dry up and leave no trace?" The Party, sighs The Journal, "is terribly afflicted by romanticism. It can become completely emotional over wherasir John Macdonald stood in 1878 or 1891; it too seldom trou- ble: to ask itself where Sir John would likely be standing in 1962.”

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Can It be that these are the ones who were doing the enthusing at this week's party gatherings? Our Ottawa contemporary doesn't say so, but it reminds all and sundry that Lord Hailsham warned British Con- servatives that it is often only by change that conservation may be achieved—that they are "the ten- ders of a garden, not the curators of a museum." And it suggests that in Canada the party “might well consider chucking a lot of the airy, fleeting and insubstantial stuff of TV, get back to telling its story through the more solid, enduring way of the printed and spoken word~—stop assuming that the pub- lic are a lot of juveniles whose men- talities do not rise above Westerns.”

Good advice. and tendered in the right spirit. Indeed, it could be of advantage to all the parties if they pondered its implications.

The Wrong Reason

In announcing that the federal hog bonus is being reduced from $3 to $2 per head, effective im- mediately, Agriculture M i n i s t. e 1' Hamilton said the market is now very firm and grade A prices in Toronto are about $33 per hundred pounds ‘compared with less than $29 last. year at this time.

It is too bad that he didn't leave it at that. He went on to say. how- ever. that. the change was “related to the necessity of reducing govern- ment expenditures.” The saving would amount to approximately $1,500,000 in the current fiscal year.

Since the hog premium was given to stimulate quality product- ion in a. basic farm commodity, ob- viously it was justifiable on eco- nomic grounds, and it would be false economy to pare it down to suit the exigencies of the treasury. The government would be much better occupied in plugging the leaks in its bureaucratic expenditures in other departments.

If the premtum was unnecessar- ily high because of the strengthening market, that of course is another matter. But since Mr. Hamilton seems to attach equal importance to the conflicting reasons he gave for the reduction, the suspicion re- mains that the government's con- cern has been chiefly with its budgetary problems.

As President Hannam of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture points out, the $3 premium has done much to encourage production of high-quality hogs, and this is important for Canadian agriculture as a whole. It would be as unwise to tamper with i-t for “austerity” rea- sons as to put the hogs on short rations and expect to save money thereby. Mr. Hamilton knows this, of course, which is why we are dis- appointed with his Janus-faced ex- plan-ation.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Mr. Fleming has been ousted from his post as Finance Minister but we note that he still remains Canada's representative on the Or- ganization for Economic Co-opera- tion and Development, where he will end his term as president late this year. He also remains Can- ada's representative on the board of governors of the International Bank, and on the International Monetary Fund, Finance Corporation and Development Agency.

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France has liberalized imports of most fish products, especially those of interest to Canadian exporters, eaye Foreign Trade magazine. Sales prospects are best for frozen sal- mon, groundfish fillets, fresh or frozen lobsters, and scallops. Al- though the number of French buyers" with facilities to handle and store shipments of live lobsters is limited, these facilities ‘are increasing and it is predicted that the market will continue to expand.

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Among the 17 nations at the Geneva disarmament conference are eight non-aligned powers-—Brazil, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden and the United Arab Republic. The West will have scored a substantial gain if they become convinced, and spread the word to their fellow neutrallete, that it is the Soviet Union ‘and not tho West which is standing in the way of disarmament. Every effort should be made to bring the facts to light in this connection. ‘

PRE-HOLIDAY REMlNDER OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

Business Tycoons As Cabinet Ministers

In the faraway days when the Caesars ruled the Roman Em- pire, it was said that Caesar‘: wife must be not only pure. but above suspicion.

So today it is widely and pro- perly felt that a Cabinet Minis- ter must be like Caesar's wife -—- at least in matters which ef- fect the taxpayers‘ money.

It is an unflattering sidelight upon the quality of patriotic self- lessness displayed by our big business tycoons and czars of industry that we very seldom hear talk about a Cabinet Minis- ter’s “conflict of interests." But the recent appointment of Sena- tor Wally McCutcheon to our federal cabinet has now arous- ed such .

In private life, Mr. McCutch- eon was privately considered to be one of the “four horsemen" who really made Canadian in- dustry tick. As a person of such prominence. he inevitably held directorships of many important companies: so too did he inev- ltably own stock interests in such business undertakings. CONFLICT “OF INTEREST But the lay Mr. Mccutcheon, business I:-fin, became Hon. Wal- ter McCu eon. Cabinet Minis- ter, there immediately arose the possibility that he would have to take part in government de- cisions which might affect one or other of his business interests adversely or favourably. This is the possibility of "conflict of interests" which faces every in- dustrial tycoon entering politics.

' Hon. H. H. Asquith, a former prime minister of B11- tain, set oul certain "rules of obligation" covering this situa- tion in Britain: in general, they have been accepted as valid for Canada too. More than half a century ago, Mr. Asquith said;

“The first and the most obvious rule is that ministers ought r. to enter into any transaction whereby their private pecuni- ary interests might. even con- ceivably, come into couflict with their public duty."

Other rules outline a mints- ter’s obligation to refrain f r o m using official information for his own private profit or for that of his friends: and his obligation to refuse any kind of flavour from persons holding or seeking government contracts. Then fol- lowed the “rules of prudence", which might be described as the Caesar's wlfe" admonition -not only to be right, but to be above suspicion of unrighteousness. PRUDENT

In line with these obligations and this prudence, Mr. McCutch- eon followed the accepted course of resigning from'a1l his direc- torships. This has not always been done, even in post-war Ca- nadian history.

Should a minister also sell his shareholdings in business? That is a more difficult question. If, in his official capacity, he has deal- ings with those companies —yes. If. in his official capacity, he makes decisions which might affect those companies or their competitive trading position —

yes. The former Liberal govern-

ment repeatedly came un d e 1- heavy criticism, especially from the then CCF member from Win- nipeg. Stanley Knowles. one the charge that certain ministers in- Iringed the rules of obligation.

The kind of question in Mr. Knowles‘ mind, and in the mind of many others in and out of Parliament, concerned the fact that certain ministers seemed to have acquired inexplicable or abnormal wealth. Mr. Macken- zle King himself, for example, the child of unwealthy parents, left a fortune approximating to every nickel he had drawn from the public treasury through the years as M.P. and minister.

The most vivid resentment of Mr. Knowles’ queries was shown by Mr. C owe, who died an extremely wealthy man. On parliament's last day, his last remarks before his defeat con- cerned this topic and himself. One was a terse “Nuta!" (Han- sard, page 3503): then be pro- tested “Why hould I answer?", to which Mr. Knowles replied “Because I happen to be a mem- ber of parliament."

By which Mr. Knowles inferr- ed: “On behalf of all Canadians. I seek to know If you are llk e Caesar’: wife."

That is why Senator McCutch- eon is no longer a director of any company.

A Threat To Leisure

Hartford Course!

The president of the British Medical Society has taken a long look at human illness, and it leaves him melancholy. Ian Fraser is a leading surgeon, but It is not so much the troubles of the flesh that disturb him.

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MORE TRAFFIC IDEAS

Sir, — Your report of the City Council meeting on traffic re- form reminded me of a verse I learned as a boy in grade so cal:

“The king was sick, and the king -should know,

And doctors came by the score;

If they did not cure him he cut off their heads,

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According to this principle. the City Council is probably in the market for a new traffic expert right about now, and I believe I have the man for them. He has guarantc-rd to provide a permanent traffic solution not only for the busy season whic the Mayor assures us is now pest and beyond concern. but another for the chaotic situation we have on rainy days and Tuesdays and Fridays. and yet another for the stormy days tn winter. His plan is still in the development stage. but It calls for the Mayor to pro- claim March and April as the busy season, so that the worst traffic conditions will be concen- trated in the months when there are fewest cars In the city.

My man does agree that an Independent traffic commis- slon is necessary. e proposes to solve this problem by extend in: the term of office for city Council to four years, so that Council will have three year! out ofeveryfourlnwhlchtolgnore the wishes of the people, which is about par for mother ‘ ly not far removed from It. He has also shown nse'lils recom- mendations drallng with one-way streets. Re to permit

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driving pattern of Prince Ed- ward Islanders. He figures that by installing a middle lane most Island drivers will be accom- modated, and after a few weeks the normal casualty rite will reduce the travelling public to manageable proportions.

My expert's parking solution is a little tricky, as I understand that It requires each of us to leave his car home every sec- ond dny, a step which he says will -cut the parking problem in

half. This will admittedly re- quire negotiation. He does not a ree that uncll is re-

sponsible for a solution to the parking problem. but says they just think they are because they put a tax on It. (He would like to turn the parking meters over to the Junior League so nobody would mind glvlng. but I think ltlhei is) not really serious a b o ut e.

There are a few additional de- tails which are not yet complet- ed. For example he thinks that the traffic problem at the cor- ner of Great George and Graf-

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Speaking at a conference of his colleagues, he was able to re- cite a heartening list of advanc- es in medicine e brought cures for once diseases.

Where Mr. Fraser finds man sicklied o'er la in moral health. Though physicians study how to add to the of man’: lives, men's ethics and manners are pushing them to earlier graves. LONG A PROBLEM

Much of what Mr. Fraser de- plores has burdened the cure of so s lo :1 g ago. selfishness. carelessness, Indulgence, a host of disloyalties between men and against their Creator, are ancient slcknesses.

The glamous of living danger- ously for exhibitionism, delin- quency, broken homes. disdain of religious beliefs. per- haps h eve a more modern sound as Mr. Fraser ticks them off. But an ailment even newer, in th at it will affect more peo- ple than eves-’before, is » the black plague of '~elsure. T h e steltlldlly shrinking work week

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Heart Attacks Occur Only After Long Buildup: "i:ii'i':'i:I-"‘.°.'x'i° 'l'..‘I."ll. ”.f.'.'.‘§.'5

bar of hunters die of coronary . Hunting Is blamed,

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are never would have happened had the victim remained home or vaca- tioned In Europe with his fem-

_ The truth of the matter is that the heart attack was in the m - be-

set when the coronary arteries became hardened and par- rowed. The Inner wall of these‘ vessels may have contained pla- ques of calcium and other ar- terloeclerotlc changes for 10 or years.

Like the partially clogged drain of a sink. it was just a matter of time before complete obstruction took place. Hunting w a 3 held responsible e v c u though the heart attack came on while the man ‘was alt g quiet- ly on a stump or sleeping in a motel en route to the hunting

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groun s. [ Moat heart a t t a c k s occur

when the individual is asleep or resting. Approximately two per cent follow severe exertion. This is mentioned because th e ' widow is likely to blame the 3 sad ending on sloughing .~ through the marshes. walking over hills. crawling under fenc- es. or inclement weather. In all probability, the exertion was coincidental.

On the other hand. a person who has a heart attack while hunting is at a disadvantage.

He may be alone or miles from help. He may not recognize that the distress is coming from the old ticker. This is true when ‘ the chest pain is associated with .‘ a feeling that gas has accumu- lated or there is upper abdomi- nal discomfort.

Every hunter should suspect the heart whenever pain, pres- sure, or a burning sensation develops beneath the brestbone or radiates into the neck and e left arm. The same . applies when there are signs of ,‘ shock such as p lor, profuse n, and a thready; pulse. Sit down and call for . help. It is the exertion during or after the heart attack that endangers life.

(Dr. Van Dellen will answer questions on medical topics if stamped, self-addressed enve- lope accompanies request.)

STRAIGHT AHEAD ‘ writes: What is tunnel

REPLY Most of us can see over a wide area when looking ‘ straight ahead. The person with tunnel vision sees only

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VIRAL IIEPATITIS '

L. M. writes: How can a per- son avoid coming down Wltll viral hepatitis? I understand there is an epidemic.

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There la no epidemic but the condition is more prevalent than usual. Send a stamped. self - addressed envelope for leaflet on viral hepatitis.

PETITE WOMAN

N. S. writes: I'm 47 years old and less than five feet tall. Can I be made taller by in jectione?

REPLY

This is doubtful unless your shortness is caused by a glan- dular disorder. Forget It if you are otherwise healthy.

BASEMENT BEDROOM

L. S. writes: Are there any health hazards in sleeping in a bedroom in a finished base- ment?

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REPLY No. provided it is not too damp and there is no leakage of carbon monoxide from the furnace or the water heater.

Today's Health Hint-—

Blcyole riders should obey traffic signals.

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NOTES av THE WAT‘

"Thanks very much for the beautiful necktie." said Jua- tor, kissing Grandma dutifully on the cheek. "Oh. that's noth- ing to me 1'," mur- mured. "That’s what I thought. but Ma weld I had to." - Mon- treal Star. _

The bride of a few weeks noticed that her husband was depressed. “Gerald. dearest." she said, ‘.‘I know something ls troubling you. and I want you to tell me what it ls; your wor- rles are not your worries now.

say are your worries" “Oh. very well," he said. “We've just had a letter ffom a girl ln« New York, and she's suing us for breach of promise." Montreal Star‘.

Who could be employed In a

second attempt to re. sign his seat In Parliament must be the envy of those whosé unsuccessful attempts have an been in the other dlrection.——ot. we Journal.