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vs) ic strongest memory is weaker than the weakest link” FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1962.

The Old Story

While traffic is reported as being eased somewhat on the Borden- Tormentine run, the freight con- gestion remajns and ice conditions are still causing difficulty. This is the old story at this season of the year; but every year, until a new icebreaker is in service, the situa- tion will get more precarious as the burden falls more and more upon the Abegweit of keeping our con- nections open, and less and less de- pendence can be placed upon the old Prince Edward Island, for rea- gons that must now be as obvious at Ottawa as they are to our p>-ple here.

Why hasn’ t there been action in making a start on construction of a new icebreaker, since evidently the MV Confederation will not be cap- able of this work and the causeway project is still hanging fire? A bad winter next year could put the Prince Edward Island entirely out of commission, and one bad accident to the Abegweit would leave us isolated so far as rail and motor traffic is concerned. And what of the following year, and the year af- ter that, with no new icebreaking equipment in sight?

Surely the Legislature will not adjourn without a full discussion of this problem, and adoption of recommendations for immediate at- tention to the matter. There is no reason why it should not be brought up in the House of Commons, too,— by our own elected members, we mean, not by the member from Bonavista-Twillingate, Newfound- land, or the member from Levis, Quebec, whose concern for our in- terests we appreciate but who shouldn’t have to be fighting our battles for us.

We have been told, of course, that our own members are con- stantly at work behind the scenes, and that they are more effectively serving us that way than by being “big blathermouths” in the House. But that’s an old alibi, and it’s wearing pretty thin. From sad ex- perience, we are more inclined to accept the late Premier Lea’s dictum that the wheel that does the squeaking is the one that gets the

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grease. And if our members do get down to discussing this matter, here and at Ottawa, can’t they say some- thing by way of protest about the inattention to the needs of car ferry patrons during long hours of wait- Ing on the piers? We thought this matter had been disposed of last year, when there was a barrage of complaints that brought it promin- enty to the attention of the railway authorities. Yet, only last week, travellers were held up for 32 hours at Tormentine, with no facilities on the pier for accommodating them, or even for obtaining sandwiches or other refreshments. This is some- thing, at least, that could be remed- fed, and about which our elected spokesmen should be sounding off in loud, indignant chorus.

Farm Markets & Europe “From the point of view of American agriculture, we must be very firm in negotiations with the Common Market, making sure .we get full value for every concession we make. Perhaps the biggest test of Atlantic trade co-operation ir the next few years is going to be the test of agricultural trade policy. The tremendous natural advantages of North America as a food pro-

ducer must not be sacrificed either ,

because we are unwilling to bargain in trade or because Eurvpe turns to a new protectionism in agriculture.”

These thought-provoking words are not from a speech by Trade Minister Hees, or Finance Minister Fleming, at Ottawa, as one might expect in view of their importance to Canadian farmers. They are from testimony given at Washington by Mr. Orville Freeman, the U.S. sec- retary of agriculture, before the House ways and means committee, in supporting the Kennedy adminis- tration’s program for tariff reduc- tions in meeting the new European trade challenge.

Agricultural items account for only 10 per cent of the Common Market’s total exports to the United States. It is necessary, Mr. Freeman pointed out, for western Europe to gain concessions on industrial goods if it is to extend generous terms to farm imports. President Kennedy has recognized the importance of this basic point by offering to scale Gown the tariff on manufactured goods by as much as 80 per cent on a reciprocal basis.

By the same token, Canada will be able to maintain its farm market in western Europe only if the Can- adian government offers generous industrial concessions to the Com- mon Market. There has as yet heen no sign of any policy which paral- lels the Kennedy program. But it is equally important for Canada’s voice to be joined with the voice of the United States in making cer- tain that the disadvantages of a closed farm policy are fully un- derstood by the Common Market.

It is worth noting, in this con- nection, that Mr. Freeman referred to the need for safeguarding the agricultural interests of all North America—not just those of the Un- ited States. Surely it is not too much to expect the same breadth of vision to be shown by our Canadian spokes- men in discussing the implications of this movement.

Was This Needed?

The Opposition made out a strong case against the adoption in the Legislature of amendments to the Industrial Corporation Act, vesting authority for the expendit- ure of millions of dollars in a 5- member board appointed by the government and including no few- er than three members of the gov- ernment. The bill passed on a straight party vote, and we must say that it leaves a good many questions unanswered in the public mind.

We are not questioning the gov- ernment’s intentions, but it has laid itself open to the charge of slight- ing legislative authority; and that charge was not refuted by stating that the corporation must report to the Legislature each year and that the provincial auditor has au- thority to check the accounts. That isn’t the same thing as ministerial responsibility at all.

Still less convincing was Premier Shaw’s complaint that the Oppos- ition was objecting for purely politi- cal reasons and that this was the sort of thing they did “every time we bring in legislation to help the Province.” What the Legislature and public expected was a full ex- planation as to why the Act should have to be amended in this manner, and why, if complete government control and participation in this measure is necessary, it should be vested in a corporation at all. If this isn’t government by commis- sion, as the Opposition leader char- ged, it comes so close to it that it is a distinction without a differ- ence.

neOHTORIAL NOTES haw Government acted i in moving to take away the right of the urban areas to tax non-resident workers, except where these workers are non-residents of the Province. This measure has caused a lot of bickering and hard feeling, which we can’t afford at any price. * «

Ontario’s deputy public works minister complains that women’s spike heels are cutting the life ex- pectancy of provincial building floors from. seven years to « «. That, comments the Ottawa Citizen, must be happening to floors all over the continent and wherever: else this peculiar fashion persists. Spik- ed heels may prove one of the most expensive forms of feminine adorn- ment ever invented by the fashion industry.

WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson Hopeful Economic Prospects Cited

Canada, in the slang of the | cosmonaut age, is “go”

Statistics now being released here show that Canada is well on the way up from the undesir-

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able and even dangerous econ- |

omic position slipped during the early and | mid Nineteen-Fifties

into which we |

Last year, for the first time |

in nine years, we sold abroad more goods than we purchased

from foreign producers, says the |

Bureau of Statistics. Year year, our foreign trade deficit has been clawed down from the

by |

ruinous level of $734 million in|

1956. Last year we got out of the |

international red figures, and achieved a foreign trade sur- plus of $88 million.

‘o pay for our excess imports in those reckless years, we had

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accepted a heavy inflow of for- | eign capital. To put it in simpler |

words, we sold off each year a further part of the old farm to pay the bill for the high living beyond our earnings.

ABBOTT’S BUDGET

We could have solved our

problem by stringent curbs on |

PUBLIC FORUM |

the discussion

pondents. All letters published are sub ject to editing an Seer tae ae necessary. The jan is unable enter into any eorrenpendeane vane ing letters submitted.

FARMERS’ PROBLEMS Sir —I believe that we can all agree, that the farmers of Canada are the real backbone of this country. They produce the food for our daily meals. The food that sustains us for our

* daily tasks. Therefore we owe &

debt of See to the agricul- rau of our land. aiapeiiee I am led ‘ io bellows that the farmers of Prince Edward Island are be- ing unfairly exploited. For in- stance, consider the potato sit- uation. I have been reliably in-

| about tres | past several months, it has been |

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formed recently by a woman |

who lives in Moncton, N.B., that this winter she has been paying 65 cents for a 10 Ib. and $1.59 for a 75 lb. of our a eet potatoes. Our farmers were be- ing paid as low 55 cents per 75 Ib. bag. I nave been told recent- ly, that the price was up to 70 cents for a 75 lb. bag. But that | lasted a very short time. What is wrong? Who is to be blamed | for this situation . which the farmer finds himself?

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Years ago the potato business |

in all its phases was not nearly |

so acute as it is today. A rem-

edy must be found to meet the

situation, or the industry will

be a thing of the past on P.E.I. The fa "s

our spending abroad, were temporarily impose Finance Minister Abbot’s ‘‘rad- io budget’? in the Fall of 1948. He made us severely limit, even cut out, holidays abroaa, tourist spending in USA, and imports of foreign goods. Cana- ians could not even- import the fresh salad and fruits in winter which health standards demand.

Mr. Abbott made his cynical comment: ‘Let them eat tur- nips.”

But instead of thus reducing imports to balance our interna- tional trade, the government’ in recent years had adopted the expansionist policy of increasing our exports. Although our im- ports were at a record high lev- el last year, our soaring exports exceeded them after a stupen- dous increase of 22 per cent in 5 years. This is partly the pay-off

or |

such as | of 1961 hit an all-time high, and |

the most widely respected ecun- omic forecast — that prepared | by the Prudential Insurance Company of America — estima-

| tes that it will jump a further |

on the Export Trade Promo- |

tion Drive, so vigorously creat- ed by Trade Minister George Hees.

Our over-valued dollar was a

severe handicap to our export- ers, and also crippled our man- ufacturers by making foreign | goods cheaper in our. domestic market. Our dollar, as this col- umn suggested, should have fall- en to perhaps 85 cents US in the | mid-Fifties: instead, it rose to But over the

brought down to around 95 cents US, largely thanks to the opera- tions of the Bank of Canada un-

7.3 per cent during 1962. MORE JOBS, MORE PAY The experts in our, federal Fi- nance Department have a rule of thumb relating tax yield to} gross national product. Each 1 per cent increase in the latter creates approximately a 2 per cent increase in the former Thus, on the present scale 2 taxes, our increased G. should yield an additional is million in revenue to the gov- ernment this year. Finance Min- ister Donald Fleming budgeted for a deficit of $650 million in the fiscal year just ending, but predicted that our national ac- counts should be roughly in bal- ance by the end of this year.

That now looks like coming true. Last month there were al-

ready 196,000 more jobs filled in Canada than a year previously. House building is expected to

| rise 3 per cent this year; exports

der its brilliant new Governor, |

Louis Rasminsky

All forecasts are now confirm- ed by positive indications that our economy is heading into a substantial boom. Our gross na-

tional output in the last quarter |

will jump 5 per cent: govern- ment purchases of goods services will go up 8 per cent; and consumer baat will be up over 5 per

This all pati ‘a to an estimat- |

ed increase of a near-record $2.- 7 billion in our gross national product, to a new record high of $39.4 billion this year.

In more down-to-earth terms

| this is seen here as offering | nearly 500,000 new jobs for 'Ca-

| nadians this year, coupled with a jump of about $2.80 per week in the average Canadian earn- ings.

Canada At Geneva

Alan Harvey ian Press Staff Writer

It can be reported without , ae parochialism that Canada |

8 playing a useful and vigorous na at the Geneva conference on disarmament.

Though there are probably

times when the big powers wish |

that External Affairs Minister Green had kept his delegation

| at home, the general impression | is that Canada’s stand has im- pressed many countries attend- ine the 17-nation talks at the Palais des Nations. It should -be realized, of

a oe Canada’s "eee to xerted

cour, per

ends | most " hrequoltty a eealivehia

less than top - That is to s Green and his officials are ast necessarily in

| the thick of things when the

products are | oumauane: Therefore, he must market oe at the proper mur or be a emetene Veen, |

inauaries have the pun

able to hold over their

pee for indefinite periods of time. Not so with the farmer. The farmers of this Island

Province can pluck a leaf out | of

ey of the Country real first shot in the arm in the year 1874. Now, due to the un- reasonable demand of labour, the an is swinging to the her extreme. Yet the farmer rs in profit by the way pt labour, as a rule, sticks togeth- “Sticktogetherness” is the

subject matter is Berlin. This is strictly a big-power affair and though Canadian delegates are tug at ‘the coat-tails

myko and retary Rusk.

SUBJECT For the Big Two, ane is an —

ite Sec-

casts everything on, possibly oe aa nuclear ae into the The is know that "saan they rattle the ae bell, the Americans will

= ecg tests, ‘Canadian |

may heve irritated Britein and the |

United States. Green is per- sistently

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| Russian Foreign Minister Gro- | American Sta

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“T think it is all to the good at Canada should exert its

in a reasonable way. think we can say you have been reasonable.”

| PRAISED BY PRESS

Among members of the dwin-

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in Geneva, there has been con- sistent praise for Canada’s ef- | forts in seeking to foster the | role of the eight non-aligned nations as a moral force ve | ing “pressure from below .. es giants. vor able comments were dame & by Yugoslav, Greek, Ital- jan, French and British news- paper men here for the talks. Individually, there gs praise for delegation lea G whose _ sincerity ont energy were widely en In the — Toom at Genev. known as the as foreign og ister who aa had time newspaper men

The Age Old ~—T

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Little League Tensions Lead To Nervousness

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen MANY children between 8 and 12 years of age have been into Little League

tournaments are ¢ “ali stars” are selected at the end of the oem. Baseball is a cise and aan preferable to mis ie ee oe and or uel ju . eae ted to awe frustration, and pres- hen is

winning emph Many physicians wonder if ke preadolescent is ready for i

Growing lads are gregarious and want to belong to the group. The smaller and underdevelop- ed must overexert to keep up with their more, precocious team mates. A mature boy of 12 usually can outperform an immature boy of 14. Coordina- tion also enters the picture.

The harm,-if any, will ° stem from the pressure created by | competition. This is less bother- some when the athletic pro-| gram is geared to bring pleas- ure and is directed by those who understand the needs and feelings of Little Leaguers.

The important question is | whether the child is mature | enough to hold his own in the proposed sport. The players should not be treated as minia- ture adults, with no concern for their safety and welfare. Most boys can take the tension of competition but others become frustrated and upset when they cannot deliver the goods.

Many of our most successful

| been led to believe. The boy

independence from time to time | And I |

dling international press corps |

and well adjusted men grew up n an era when boys were not | ecoddled but were made to ac- cept responsibility and tension. The stress associated with fail- ure to hit in the pinches and not making the all star team may not be the burden parents have

may bounce back stronger than ever.

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

| past, for no reason I can see

lope accompanies request.)

TIRED MOTHER Mrs. A. B. writes: I’m 25 | years old and feel like 80. I’m | tired and nervous all the time | and often fear I'm going te! have a heart attack. I have sev- | en children and people tell me | I have them too fast. Can you advise me? REPLY Seven children by age 25 could account for your fatigue and distress. This is a common complaint among busy _ house- wives who have more than they can handle. Your husband can help by being sympathetic and sharing some of your duties. Better organization of the work and time schedule will go a long way toward conserv- ing your strength and lessening your nervousness.

A FORM OF INSANITY

writes: What is

treatment for hebephrenia? REPLY

the

Psychiatric care, usually in a mental hospital. This includes the use of medicines, shock, and psychotherapy. Hebephrenia is

a form of insanity marked by nelenés ella, seclusive- ness, meaningless laughter, silli- ness, and hallucinations.

TODAY’S HEALTH HINT— Actively support schools their safety programs.

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An exasperating woman had spent almost two hours looking over the store’s stock, complain- ing constantly, criticizing inces- santly. ‘“‘Why is it,” she snapped at last, “that I never get what I ask for in here?” “Perhaps, Madam,” said the tired sales- woman, "it's because we are toe polite.” — Montreal Star.

London Hates Change

The new face of London, Eng- rapers ris-

ings,

lace, is causing. great misgiv- ings in many quarters. There are some who view that some

House of Lords, iby several peers on the new face of London, and used some strong language. He said: “Authorities seem to

sessed with the modern artistic outlook that favors everything that is outrageously* ugly and evil. They do everything to ruin the charm of the present and

make cheap the glories of he ex- cept the satisfaction of calling | those who disagree with ‘squares.’ The British ‘square’ history. I | would rather be a_ British ‘square’ than one of those irre- gular polygons who | think they know all about art |

Lord Sempill was : Set as em- phatic in his denunciation of the changes to London's old ar- chitecture, ‘“‘What we see today is a once unique city turned in- to a mass of undistinguished, if not uniform high buildings, encircled and _ penetrated by ever-wider lanes of motor traf- fic. We are not worthy of this great city which we are bring- | ing to ruin.”

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exercised, as he puts it ‘Squat buildings like squat ladies at a cocktail party get lost in the crowd.”

OUR YESTERDAYS

From the Guardian Files |

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO | (Mar. 30, ) Included in the list of -

sengers on the liner, “Lady So- mers’ Canadian National Steam- ships, which sails from Halifax tonight, is Mrs. Benjamin Ro- gers, Charlottetown. The ship is leaving on a voyage via Boston to Bermuda, The Bahamas and Jamaica.

Berton E. Robinson, who for the past year and a half has been editor of the Pioneer dae Island Farmer, has joined

| production department of ‘—

Canadian Broadcas

them | mission. He, with his wife and | family, will reside in Halifax.

Mr. Robinson, during his short stay in Summerside gaye un- sparingly of his time and talents for the benefit of the commun- ity.

TEN YEARS AGO

(Mar. 30, 1952) The Northern Cross and the

Zenith, the two RCAF Lancast-

ers returned to their base in Summerside yesterday. The planes carried members of the specialist navigation course and the instructors who have com-

| pleted an 18-day visit to th

United Kingdom.

Ranald Cameron, B.A ent at Pine Hill Divinity Ha 1] Halifax. will the studen minister of the onited Chure of Canada at Loch Lomond

| Cape Breton for the spring an

summer months, His wife an small daughter Anne will joi him.

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