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WEDNESDAY. MAY 14, 1353.

Vice Regal Vlsll’

Prince Edward" Island extends a most cordial welcome today to His Excellency the Rt. Hon. Vincent Mas- sey, Governor General of Canada, who will be with us for three days and will visit, not only Charlottetown and Summerside, but Montague, Victoria and Crapaud as -well. While he is ,no stranger here, this we believe will be the longest visit which His Excel- lency has had the opportunity of pay-

ing us, and we trust it will prove as enjoyable to him as it will be pleasur- able to our citizens. ’

As the first native Canadian to be appointed to his high office and the eightee.n.th Governor General since Confederation, Mr. Massey has lived constantly inthe limelight but has never lost the common touch. He has

.tra.velled hundreds of thousands of miles, visited every section of the Dominion, and made personal contact with allclasses of our people. It will ‘ be recalled that not long before his appointment Mr. Massey, in 1949, headed the Royal Commission on Nat- ional Development in the A rts, Sciences and Letters and in that cap- acity visited Charlottetown for the first time. His public career, how- ever, dates back to 1925 when he re- tired fromtthe Massey-Harris Com-’ pony-—founded.by his grandfather-

rand became Canada’s first Minister to the ‘United States. Later he was appointed. High Comrnissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom, and won great distinction during his ten-

Mon 4

' year term. in London. Back in Canada

only a year, Mr. Massey was honored in his native city in 1947 by his ap- pointment as Chancellor of the Uni- versity of Toronto--a tributeto his scholarship and love of the arts with which his name had been long as- sociated. It is a. source of gratification to all our people that Mr. Massey’s health has withstood the rigorous demands of his onerous duties as Governor General, enabling him to achieve such an outstanding record in this capac- ity. His present itinerary in the Mari- , times is a strenuous one, and we could wish that there was more time at his disposal for a really enjoyable holi- day in ourvmidst. His visit will, how- ever, give many of ‘our citizens, the opportunity of greeting him, and all of us the privilege of joining in the 4. welcome which will be extended by - His Honour the Lieutenant Governor and party this afternoon.

Physical, Mental Slanclarcls 7’

The United States claims to have the highest standard of living ever reached by any country. In the fields of edu.ca.tio.n and public health the nation’s facilities are certainly of a very high standard, judging by the» money spent on them. Yet, the rejec- tion rate among army recruits runs as high as 40.percent, mainly on phy- sical grounds, though mental “slow-l ness” is an important factor.

An,A_.P. report from Fort Dix, N.-1., one of the‘ country’s largest training centres, gives this picture of the situation: “By army standards, roughly 25 per cent of the young men in the United States are-. smart enough only to dig ditches, swab floors or polish pots and pan‘s.vAt a. time when a d vs 11 c e s in army weaponry require a large assort- _ ment of skills, 220,000 of the 884,000‘ soldiers are rated incapable of being trained for anything but menial tasks. Further, two out of every five men drafted through selective service this year will be rejected.

“To obtain 136,000 able-bodied men last year, the draft boards test-

‘ ed more than 50,000 others, a rejec-

tion rate of 37- per cent. This year, b°”“‘3° ‘if llllhteuerl physical require- ments. the rejection rate is expected V lo reach 42 per cent. And last year the army released 44,170 meh aftpr Dulltihfi them through. eight, weeks of basic training, because they were unable to learn anything of valueio the army. Of the 176,360 men in the marines, 31,750 are classed as men- tally slow. The Navy has 634,000 men, including 101,840 in the mar. 21.03.] intelligence group. As for the air force, a spokesman said in Wash- ingtonzit had never made a head count Oi Wits mcnytally slow, though one

sample lndicatecl that 9 per cent of its 993,000 lT1@l"l were ill this group, roughly 90,000 men. In money terms, all this means that the Government is spending more than $470,000,000 to train men of dubious value to the armed forces”.

,. It would be interesting to know how the physical and mental stand- ards of Canadian youth compare with those of Americans. While we have no official figures to go by, we are of the opinion that the Canadian pic- ture is somewhat brighter.

‘ Diclaiorships

The violence which has greeted Vice-President Nixon in the course of his “goodwill” tour of Latin America is, of course, to be deeply regretted. The fact that it was perpetrated by Communist agitators does not miti- gate its seriousness‘. It does, however, publish to the world what American Government officials must h av e known long since——.th0ugh they have professed to ignore it--namely, that ' the Soviet propaganda machine is . working and working effectively in various parts of Latin America.

But it is not only Communist agi- tators who are making Mr. Nlxon’s \ journey unpleasant. On several oc- casions he has been questioned as to why the United States is extending aid to 1 Latin American dictators with the same liberality as to demo- cratic governments. Mr. N ixon’s stock reply is that the United States, while it “abho_rs” dictatorships, does not feel'like discriminating against any Government" because of its political complexion.

Democratic Latin Americans are finding it difficult to understand this view. Andno wonder. A dictatorship is a dictatorshipand thus an enemy of the‘-free way of life, whether it be ofthe Right or of the Left, whether it be located in Ascunsion or in Mos- cow or Peiping.

And So To -Becl

Premier Matheson has released for publication, without comment, the . correspondence between him and the Federal Minister of Finance, Hon.- Mr. Fleming, with respect to their difference. over what transpired at the Halifax grants-in—aid conference.’ It is fitting, since thecorrespondence has been quoted by Mr. Flemingin his statements to thepress, that the full text be’, placedion record. This could be done officially if the Legis- lature were in session, but there is no point in waiting until , the House meets next year to revive an issue which we hope will by that time have been fwgotten! Since neither the Pre- mier nor the Finance. Minister attend- ed the conference ‘in duestion, we trust that they will agree to disagree

down to the more pressing‘ business of our future fiscal relations. With the interests of this Province at stake, weare sure that this reason-

iablelview will prevail and that care

will -be -taken to évoid further mis-

munderstandings of this kind.

EDITORIAL NOTES

I'_tlis reported that a proposal for free trade between Canada and the West Indies Federation ‘will be placed before Parliament early in the ses- sion by a Liberal member. It deserves careful consideration. It might mark the beginning of free trade within _ the Commonwealth. ‘

I_ ’ I Q

The first industry to result from the e f f o r t s of Industrial Efiates Limited in Nova Scotia willbe estab- lished’ this summer in Stellarton. It is a. textile business owned by an Italian firm and is expected to em- ploy about 100 local persons in addi- tion to a. few specialists from Italy at the start.

‘A’ O W

The sale of Life Insurance in Can- ‘ ada in the first quarter of this year exceeded that of the same period in 1957 by about 12 per cent. If, as is « commonly believed, life insurance

. sales reflect the general state of the

economy, the present state of the

especially glooniy. I ' 9 in. in . “Sabotage”; a. familiar‘ term during World {War 11, comes from the French' sabot, meaning a shoe. The Book of Knowledge explains. that the heavy wooden shoes of the“

French vvorkcrs of the 19th century Were handy weeipons for use during 2. strike or other upheaval; in treading Upon or kicking the machinery in plants, mines or mills. Now the word IS Used to describe any acts of des- truction to the war rnachincrv of an enelmy nation. For example, defeated‘ all “"—U1lJ1ed countries in World Vi/ar ll Slilillcrl. the (it‘.l‘h'l2lll a(l\'-inccs‘ and qu.lckei’1cd (,§t‘si"iii,aiiy’s clcirnt l.l'ii~._,.,g}. 33b0l«'*1£E€ ll) t'Fi.ilroa.rlS -ihilis rwifls

..y »' -'7 »“-"T war plants. etc.

as to what actually!’ was said, and get ._

Canadian economic picture cannot be ‘

OTTAWA REPORT‘

members of Parliairnent began ar- riving two weeks before the open- ing of the new sesslon,.an_=d have spent the time finding living ac- commodation and in general lear- ning, their way around.

“A new member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach, him ~.how’t~o hang up his overcoat and hat. and take his seat in a manner befit- ting a gen«t~1'emr-in.” These were words of that great Parliamen- tarian, our first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. Without dotting the “i‘s” allid crossing‘ the “t’s" quite so tastidiously, it would still be correct to say that it takes .3 new member his first session’ to learn his‘way round.

I saw one new ~M.‘P. losing him- self among a group of tourists, to be escorted round the highlights

l l

of the six-storey Parliament Build- ing. Not such a silly idea.

All tourists are led round the building by one of the u~n~ifor~med members of the Piarli.aimenil.ary Protective Staff. These men have many roles to play. and they play them all with great knowledge and unfailing good humour. The private policemen are variously Speaker's Escort, door - keeper,

tourists? guide, wiatch-man and lin- formation agency. ALL THE INTEREST ,

These officials show tourists all the highlights of the building: the Commons Cliiaimbeii, the Senate

»'Clha.mber, the Hall of Flame, the

Parliamentary Library, the Mem- orial Charnber, and the Observa- tion Gallery -at the top of the 290 foot Peace Tower; They explain that the Commons Chamber" is sometimes c a 1 1e (1 the Green Chamber because of the colour of the up-ho-lstery on the seats, and

On .Porlicimeni Hill

By Patrick Nicholson special Correspondentfor The Guardian

Ottawa: The flood of 105 new.

that likewise the red chairs and i red carpet. give another name tol the Senate. They ‘describe the‘! symbolism of -certain picturesl and carvings, and point out the? quality of the imported marblel floors and the durability of the Ottawa exterior stoneu

they do not describe officially are perhaps just as interesting.

Mthougli the C=a-nadia-n B.a-by? goes to bed at a decent hour inl most homes. there is one Baby‘ you can always see night and day in the Parliaments Buildings. But do not worry, for there is ailways a parent nearby.

The oil paintings of all Speak-

ers of the Senate and of the House 1-

of Commons hang in the corridors on the main floor. Among these

‘ are some portraits darting back to 1

before Confederation. One of

these, in Speaker of the Legisla-‘,

tive Assembly of Upper Canada, was born in 1702 and died in 1833; his name was Hon. Jaques Baby. ‘

Near his portrait, hangs llhall. of = the‘ Senator who served as Spea-‘ - or from 1940 to 1942: Hon. George Parent. . , SEE THE OUTSIDE

‘Now many tourists get to learn , that a walk "round the outside of the building is well worthwhile. hf Parl-lament is sitting. they may see- one or two of the regular ,’ political lukers, who do several; circuits each d-ay for their health’ and their waistline. This recognis- ' ed constitutional lasts four min-1 utes per circuit. for a brisk walk— ~ er like Hon. George Hees. ex-Ar-‘ gonaut footballer," and perhaps ten m«.'inu.tes for the more leisurely M.PS.

At the back. there can be en- joyed the magni»fic-ent, view across the riverside cliff, over the Otta- 1

The End Oi Paul Bunyan 1

Bruce Hutchison in the Winnipeg Free Press

A few inc-ti, still living. can re- member the days when the turn- ber industry of British Columbia

consisted of an ox team. a greasr ’,

ed skid road and a tiny sawmill powemd by steam and fueled with corolwood. ,

Even this reporter can remem- her the timber industry when it had recently substituted a crude donkey engii~n~e for the oxen but still snaked the logs out of the woods on the same old skid road. Then came that marvelous inven- tion, the high - lead, which lifted the butts of the logs from the ground and dragged them with little effort to a central spar tree. When the sky-line was invented and carried the logs far above the ground in bundles of six at a time to drop them onfa‘ flat car, it was thought that ‘automa«lj-on had reached its final peak in the forest.

_ NEW REVOLUTION

In fact, the traveler will see to- day, even the sky—line was only

the beginning of a new mechan-

ical revolution. That rev-olution already makes the modern log- ging operation almost unbeliev- able to the old timer, a ‘blessing to the conservationist and a nice problem to the economist.

Among other things, the logging camp, residence of Paul Bunyan and the centre of a great Canva- dian myth, is gone. No longer can the traveler pause in his journey to eat one of Bun_van’s (or Gar- gantiiasi mighty feasts and gos- sip around a re-d—hol drum stove. The modern logger lives in town

and is carried to work every mor— ,

ning in a bus. Only the name of the bus is familiar. ll is still call- ed a “criiinmy.” the name ap- plied to the vci‘miii-infested mil- way cars on the which the log- gcrs used to travel.

The railway is gone, too, ln

most places. Now-a—days logs are; (.‘Fll'1‘lC(l to Mic mill 01" the son in‘

(liscl ti'ii(:l<s on El vast iir>1\\'ni'l< of i'o;ir{s liluli in the hills wlicro no l‘.'lil'-.l.'.’ly could he built. One com- ozaiiv on \»‘ai1t'nuvcr' island h.a«s lilllll H7-ll lllllI3$. oi l‘(i,'g(",, nppning up .5 isilrlcrness whit.-la few white

men or Indians had penetrated until a few years ago. THE GREAT CHANGE

But the great change. from the viewpoint of the conserv.atl=on-'ist and the econc-m.is«t. is in the me- thod of cutting and removing the forest.

With the cumbersome mar,-hin-.

UNCLE SAM SNEEZES

. -1" l‘ C'i.Ad't-' 1 But some of the things which! ‘nesmm 0 a’ we u “mum S

PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the ‘discus- sion by correspondents of question of interest. The Guardian does not 11650!“ sarily endorse the opinion of cone!-

pondents.

A SUGGESTION I

Sir,-—-Re the Market Building, everyone seems in agreement that the recent fire has left an ugly blank in the City. The sug-

'excellent.: we certainly need 91 large Public Town’ Hall in Char

and eight-year-olds m_ of i'cl.ai'ded devel0Pm‘“-“l- “V 3 fantilc pi:ese~i'vat1on. are alenl, problem. usually can. be cured. are caught in time.

SPECIAL THERAPY

school children speech disorders serious enough to require special speech ther; apy, according to Dr. Margare-

Hall for the Chicago Board of Edn-

cation. slie reports. is about We Same“

are; children receiving therapy are avoidable types. such 35 93“

Inning and stuttering.

talk in older children. can hin-

Wotch Child's Speech Detects

B Herman N. Rundi-seii. M- “-

Baby talk may he f‘.l.llP 701‘

is A signal‘

U‘ pa>l‘0I\tSl and aware of the

_ K ech defects these we if meyl

About 5 per cent of Cliicag:o’s have various

powers, speech specialist

The national avm'ag€‘~- Some 80 per cent of these‘ speech disorders in Chicago

tended use of baby talk. lisnin-S.

BINDER. PROGRESS

Speech disorders. like baby der a child’s academic l31‘0'S1'955 and social adjustment ‘at school- even though he may have the same inielligeiice capacity as his classmates.

Speech retardation, natuitslly. causes poor V-articulation. . This leads »-to confusion and difficulty in learning to read and spell- Obviously. this can lead to frus- tration, embarrassment. and hu- miliation and ultimately result in feelings of insecurity and in- feriority.

CAUSE OF INABILITY»

Inability of a child to produce language sounds, Dr. Powers ex- plains, usually is related to par- ental methods of child training and tile nature of child - parent relations-liips.

Th e emotional atmosphere surrounding the young child is an effective force in determin- ing his speech development.

Dr. Powers says that when the mother. in particular, is not a source of pleasure and grati- fication to the infant, the speech sounds she makes become nega- tively. conditioned. and the child

draw from them.

DELAYED . DEVELOPMENT Thus. he is not. motivated to

produce speech- sounds himself

and his speech development is

lottctown, but why not in the in-

lerim have an Open Air Market place as seen in England and the : Continent, for the S u m m e r l months. Well erected stalls with bright canopies would be quite is tourist attraction, make a bright spot on an ugly one, and help the stall holders consider- ably, who would soon double ‘heir previous business with more ‘attractive displays. Re- ital space could be , charged and I am sure many others, not previously stall holders would be ‘ianpy to start a summer bus-

iness by displaying tourist ware. Worth a. try? I think so., ; I am. Sir. etc,

INTERESTED C‘ITIZEN.

..e river, beyond. a commercial

eyesore which we will pass over 1

but Wl1l.Cl‘l often pervades Parlia- ment. Hill with an unpleasant o- dour. and -to the beautiful distant hills of the Gatineau.

Also there is the very beautifuil and unusual Library building. a treasure to all photographers.

One of the many human touches

in this not- so- cold stone build-:

ing can be seen above a window on the west side. Carved into the

, stone lintel is: Vimy Ridge April’

9th, 1917. At that time, the build- ing was being rebuilt aifter the destructive 1916 fire. One of the stonemasvons made that unofficial‘ carving to commemorate open- ing of the battle of Vimy Ridge announced that day. The following day. his son fell to a hero’s death in the climax of that bloody but. glorious Canadian victory. aiccm.'-

b cling to the legend of The Hill.

T..-

as e dozien acres where some

trees of special size. species or’

quality are needed for the mill.

and then. to move on a few days ,

later. Even the wooden spar tree.

, upended like a flag pole and sup-

ery of the old days it cost much ‘

money, labor and time to move a logging camp; Donkey engines mounted on log skids. dragged themselves woods from stump to situimp. 'l‘l.1c other equipment and the camp buildings were transported in the same clumsy fashion.

Consequently, once a camp was established after weeks or months of work’. 11. must out every tree within r'ea.cli, whether it was the ; desired and economic tree or not. Moreover, in the immense i,ra=c:t:s of naked land and fallen debris; left by this hutch-cry, the repro-l duction of a new forest. was slow j and hazardous, since thetim-hers‘ left standing on the distant. mar- zin of the cut could not quickly seed the vaca.nit, places. i

In recent years - and under‘ strict government regulation -- thc forest is cut. in si,iccessi.vc patclics. Living trees are left, close by out area to scatter their seeds upon it. Where they fail. as they sometimes do if the DI?‘--. vailing wind carries the seed ml the wrong direction, the empty; ground is planted with seecllinvgsl or sown with’ seed, often from ai—rplaues.

COSTLY BUSINESS

This is a (‘ostly biisi-ncss includ-3 inc. for example. the desvtinictionl of mice, witli poisoned graiii, bo- loro' tlicy can consume the un- sprouied tree s(‘.(‘(lS. ‘The poison- ed graiii is dyed zrccii so that birds will not rec-.ogni7.e ard eat it). .

Lately the forest engineers have developed new and mobile machl-l Il(‘l‘_\' which can transport it.<elf_ quiolcly from one lo::,:-ring ‘‘show'‘

to aiiothoi‘. lravelilig on its Own whc—r2l..= and iiillatcd tires. For the fii‘::-.1 time ii is econo-

slowly through the‘

ponted by costly guys of steel cable. is being replaced by the movable steel mast, mounted on wheels.

l\/lost curious of all to the old- limcr is the disappearance of the double— bitled axe, that indispen-

sable and universal tool. It is no 1.

longer needed, when mechanical chain saws fell the largest tree’ in a few minuites where the earlier felling .ci‘ew, with h-andsaw‘ and axe, would need sev~er.a|. hours.