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iueacllock At Cairo

The net. result of the Cairo con- fercni-c, it uoulrl secm, will be to ' leave hlgypi in possession and et- feclive control of the Suez Canal, with some kind of international Ir- rmigcin.-nt .lIilllIL dues and mainten- IIl('t'. This would represent a diplo- matic tIPIl'iil. for Fi'2ill(t9 and Britain I with all its consequences on their I-I um-ill to-iiion, but it is not neces- l.: 53,-.” im jam move in the game. (inc cnril lSrn;iin and France do lg, have, suggests the London Spectator, I' which they have so far shown I ll strange rclucianu-p to play. This is h the Egxpllzill blockade of Israeli lhipping and goods shipped to Israel through the canal. For here is an Instance. of denial of free navigation I to the shipping of a state with which

Egypt: has I political quarrel. Article

10 of the Constantinople Convention

H specifically stated not to be in-

iended to intcrfere with "free use

"III the canal." In this matter Colonel

Nuser has not I leg to stand on. It - h the one point on which the West-

ern pots or: could force him to yield

without being accused of "colonial- ism", and also the one point on which his yielding would do most in disable him for the post of un- crownerl king of Arab nationalism.

British reluctance. to use this issue

has been hardly comprehensible. up

to now. It is I point which entirely discredits Nasser's assurances and justifies British and French alarm at this international waterway being in his hands.

The Spectator suggests, too, that

I Nasser's position now appears un-

Issailable, this will not always be . so. The inexorable logic of Pan-Arab nationalism must lead him to further action against the ”colonialists" or Iizaiinst Israel. if he wishes to main- tain his prestige. Whatever happens is the Suez, it is certain that it is i only one round in the fight between Egypt. and the powers on whose in- teresis she is encroaching. Britain and France should concentrate on weakening Egypt's diplomatic posi- tion raihcr than. hy an ineffective display of touizhness, wrcck their chance of halting the march of Nas- ser'a future ambitions.

Plight Of Small Farmers

Prcsidcnl lull-3PiiIl0Vi'(-ll"S nicssagc on agriculture of two years ago noted that the pro(iuction of 3,500,- Ollfl of the nation's 5,.')0il,0O(l farms is so .-niall (fhcy account for but 15 per cent of the whole) that these farmers individually derive little benefit from crnp supports. And the Sci-rctary of Agriculture, in co- operation hill) the National Agri-

, cultural Advisory Commission. was directed to give "special attention to the prohlcnis peculiar to small farm- ers."

The U.S. llcpartmcnt of Agri- cuture now announces it has begun Its "Rural Development. Program" in 5.3 counties showing especially low farm incomes. (Congress pro- vided no money for this project for last year.) The program, I coopera- tive one with states and counties. lncludcs technical assistance, emcr- gency loans, and I line of credit for iarmei-I who present sound plans. I ” Political pronouncements aside. as the (fhrlatian Science Monitor. rfsrm-aid measures eventualLV take account of the fact that : V ' lture II midatreem in the tran-

; rm a handicraft to a mech- -. The new kind of

of life. Some people prefer I Splrb

they can call their own to more com- forts in the city. Should these people be forced to leave if they wish to stay? Marginal farmers, particularly the older ones, are often the ones least fitted to learn new skills. Any farm-aid program in the lonl'1'l-"I. can do little more than minimize the hardships of the great transitlop.

'One should hardly question direct- ing a relatively inexpensive project toward aiding those whose personal needs are the greatest to help them- selves.

Insurance Saieguards

From a Royal Bank of Canada news letter we learn that there are more than 300 competing companies in the fire and casualty insurance business in Canada, registered with the Federal (love-rnmcnt, and several hundred incorporated in the prov- inces. All of them operate subject to government -upervision, and all are required maintain reserves calculated to be sufficient to protect their policy-holders. The fire and casually business has more than fililfifi million in compulsory reserves with the Federal Government.

The prevention of loss is closely associated with insurance. The life insurance companies are energetic in promoting health measures and movements. Fire insurance com- panies co-operate with fire depart- ments and safety associations in urging the removal of fire hazards and the inspection of factory, home, school and public hall fire protection. Many communities enforce building laws that tend to prevent conflagra- tions, The steam-boiler insurance companies have succeeded admirably in their effort to prevent by in- spection service every boiler ex- plosion that could possibly be pre- vented.

Education by the insurance com- panies, by community organizations, and through other means, can do much in two areas of the unhappy tendency of. human beings to get into disastrous trouble. We my learn to prevent what we can prevent by thoughtfulness and carcfulness, and we may learn about insurance, so as to protect ourselves against the perils that are beyond our control.

The Three C's

Many do's and don't's for motor- ists have been formulated, but they are too long to remember when one goes holidaying. They might, sug- gests an exchange, be reduced to the following "Three C' ":

Be Careful: This includes putting to usc the knowledge and skill I safe driver must have on today's

In

. crowded highways-

Be Courteous: This points to everything implicit in the Golden Rulc that should be applied to pilot- in: I car-including acceptance of the other fellow's right to the right of way as well as of your own.

Kccp Cool: This means resisting every tcmplaiion to feel frustrated. Irritated, angry, or pressed.

A real contribution to highway safctv could he made Irv rcmcmhcr- lnr: thcsc simple rules and putting thr-m into practice.

EDITORIAL NOTES

In lied llccr, Alhcrta, :1 till pound uoman was fined 510 for assaulting I 200 pound police officer. Next time, no doubt, she will pick on somcone her own size.

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A traffic expert. says "we have I lot to lqam about the physical and mental conditions of drivers. which may cause accidents." Yes, and as far as the mental conditions are concerned there will always be something new croppinz up.

D O I

According to the annual report or the Bible Society of India, Pakis- tan and Ceylon, the Scriptures have now been translated into languages used by 9896 of the Indian POPU- lation. It is I remarkable achieve- rnent, considering the difficulties that were involved.

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BEGINNING WITH CARTIER

Impressions Of P.E.I.

Lotta Dempse, in the Toronto Globe and MI

The sea In a forever thing.

The sea is a poet. writing and erasing the rhythm of the universe forever day after day on I long scroll of pale sand.

And when the sea in blue. wine and the wind is salty and the tide whllens up toward earth-cliffs as red as the beard of Jonathan. the old fisherman workins al his net-S. this is Prince Edward Island.

”Where men and women may find peace of mind and tranquil- lity of soul," Prcmicr Mathlcson says, in welcoming visitors to the l40-mlle long. four-to-forty-milc wiii-e smallest and gentlest prov- Ince.

Perhaps peace lies in the sense of verities, strong always in stur- dy people who meet the dawn In high-prowed fishing boats and match the will of wind and water to bring home sustenance from the sea.

And in those who work in sun and storm and the benficient rain to make this little land vivid with flowers and rich in the products of the soil.

CULT OF THE SEA

Until I visited The Island. I did not, I realize. know my country. You cannot put Canada together properly with such I vital aeg- ment missing. You cannot pericnce Canadianism without some awareness of these 100.000 Canadians, their ways. thicr lives. their white-steepled churches and small neat farms, their Puritan- tlnged cities. their stubborn sense of identification in the face of I rising tide of national progress in the industrial heartland.

And their immersion in the cult of the sea. which rings them with some of the most beautiful beach- es In the world, and throba and beats and vitalizeii their beings, through bone and vein and ainew.

The Premier": promise was not false.

There were days of the deepest peace of mind and tranquillity of soul in the lovely big old residence that is Dalvay by the Sea, and on the long, almost Ioncl.V sands and waves of Tracadlc Bay, which is Canada's easternmost national park.

Everyone who made nne com. fortable at Dalvay lives, before and after the tourist season of .luIy and August. on forms or In villages and cities of the island. PARTY-LINE PHONE

Major and Mrs. F.W. Worth, who lease the resort from the Govern-

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meni, are native Islanders. When i suggested to Major Worth that I hoped to make arrangements lo see the Lieutenant-Governor and the Premier. 25 miles away in Charlottetown. before I left. he went to the party-line front office phone which is heaven be praised. the only one in the residence. and called Charlottetown

"Bill." he said to l.ieul-Gov. Prowse. ”will you be around your place tomorrow?”

"Alex" he asked the Premier in the next call. "lady from Tor-

- onto want to drop in on you in the

ex- -

morning.”

So I drove the Worth: car in for leisurely interviews with two of the men who are most concern- ed about the social and economic welfare of their native health.

when I arrived at Government House-a beautiful white Georgian residence overlooking gardens and green lawns and then Charlotte- town”: blue harbor. I delightful woman. her gray hair. tied with I blue ribbon, was just going indoors with I basket of freshly cut flow-

ers. I QUEEN LIKED DECOR

She couldn't. have been more gracious. as we welked from one lovely high-ceilinged room to Intr iher, and I admired the tall-pillar ed hallway. all while with crimson rugs, and its swerving two-prong stairway.

It wasn't until much later that I dlscovsred the Lieutenant Gov- ernor had forgotten to tell Mrs. Prowse I would be calling. and. so far as she was concerned, an unknown had dropped in from the street.

The Queen-then Princess Ells- abeth- had admired the colonial wallpaper in the drawing room when she stayed there. The for- mer Governor-General, Lord Al- exander, had come here often when he painted and holldayed It the little cottage near Dalvay to which the Alexende family went for un- pretentious vacations.

Charlottelown's Government House is the centre of the small city's pleasant social life, and for- mal nails. dinner parties and re- ceptions are held throughout the winter.

But I met I lot of young people in Prince Edward island do not attend the comlngout balls and the garden parties at Govern- ment House.

I'd like to tell you Ihoul some of them later.

Canada And The Suez Crisis

ly Patrick NICIOIIOI

OTTAWA: Our booming devel- opment may gei I sensational fil- llp from such an unlikely booster as Egypt's dictator, Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Worry rather than optimism ciisracterises the deep thinking given here to the flue: Canal cris- it. Yet although we are only on the sidelines of this big interna- tional fray, we may find I silver lining to the dark cloud which threatens European prosperity and even world peace.

U.S. Forelunsecretary Dulles, I self-confessed flirter on the brink of war. is the bigger in this troub- le-pile. First. lie precipitated Egypt's aelsure of the canal Ml withdrawing his country's offer of financial help in building up so wan dam in Egypt. Thea lie exert; ed pressure on Britain and France not to use mllltay force to pre- serve the international trustee ship of the vital waterway. In this. he was more cautious in the face of the Democi-Its' threats in 1056 than in the face of the Kremlln'a threats in the three previous yearn.

Tiiesissiional socialization" of the es is shaping up less for NJM can make other Cd arI,b p.vu-Innis led ode "Y .. .. rwt. to ism ierrlorr. N None: sea ga Irpasny asst the else! has

tern interests have developed in their lands. BACKED IY THE KREMLIN

Promptinu and encouraging such I step. needless to say. will be the masters of the Kremlin. Cmmunlsm. they have always be- lieved. can conquer other count- ries better through one "fifth than tll rou gh four columns attacking from within. iii an attacking from without. And com- munist fifth columns find the Iround moot fertile when Icono- mic prosperity fades. And how bet- te could it be made to fade in Western Europe than by cutting off the vital How of oil which keeps that industrialised economy booming? l

Last year, the whole of Western lurope consumed 117 millions use of oil. In contrast. the United States alone consumed on million tons.0f Europe's supply. I! per cent came the Sues Gen- II on the Mablsa pipelines.

If Nasser should raise the canal

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OUR YESTERDAYS

from The Guardian Files

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (September I. 1931)

There are over fifty boats fish- ing lobsters this season from West Point. The season so far has been . ccessful, with large catches re- ported. The largest catch thus-far being made hy W. T. Mr-Isaac - 2400 pounds.

In Ayrshire cattle lugs and Son. Charlottetown. led in the aged hull class with their imparted bull Netlierton Ambition. The lnges also led in the 3 year old milk class Willi Bucklca Primrose. the Aged Hcrd class and the Get of Sire class.

TEN YEARS AGO I” ptember I. 1346) Thrones of people, well wiahers of the Salvation Army represent. mg all sections of the Province. watched Premier J. Walter Jones as he officially turned the key which opened "Sunset Lodge" Saturday afternoon.

7"-lm May 1 in August 31, 3,573 more cars entered the Province via the Tormentlnc-Borden route than for the same period last year.

In the reverse direction there was I

an -increase of 3.03.! can crossing to the mainland.

PUBLIC FORUM

his calsma is open to u. an. IIII by uorrnspeudenls el gnu;-. of interest. The Guardian den 1 necessarily endorse the Iplslee If earrespendenle.

COVERED 'BllIDGES

Sir:-My wife and I wish to ex"- preas appreciation of our motor trip to. the Maritime Provinces. We enlnyed the trip along the Saint l.lohn River in New Hm". wick. in Nova Scotia and in Prince Edward Island very much and look forward to repeating it.

The hlllhways were wonderful, much better than we were land to believe. There could be I few more direclinn signs as twice I took a wrong turn, but that was not gar. low: in almost four thousand miles.

When on the ferry 'Abegweit' they showed movies of the longest C0Vl"t8d bfldxe In New Brunswick. which we drove over. stating they ivcrr covercd to provide shena- from snow in winter and prevent thawing and wet from rotting the

The alternative would he war a. aalnst I united Arab world. with the celalnty that it would lead to an atomic world war.

How then could the West re. trlsve the situation. if events should deiericrate to the point Where Europe's supply of Middle Elsi oil were diverted elsewhere '- perhaps to Russia?

The Mideast today produces on- ly one-fifth of the world's yearly In ly by nil.But its reserves are all flcient to last 11) years. or ten times as long as the reserves in the world's other producing oil- fields.

This in where Canada might glimpse the silver lining to the black clouds. Enormous unmeas- ured reserves of oil are known to lie in our North. on the banks of the Atlubaska River. There. the far not are estimated to coir min as much oil as is now knows to exist in all ptodtlclns etlflelb In the whole world. The mix prob lem is how to Ilnlrate it from the sand. and how to ship it to distant markets It eompetitivo

rt es. vii: the competition of the lid- dls not were removed. Csneb

, Medically Speaking

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oorras anus CAN I!

A IIALTEY PI-EAIUII That old American etsndlm the coffee break. might be I MINI belp if it is just taken is Inodeb

won.

While most of us drink codes simply because we enlov 1!. III!!! In other reasons for to this beverage.

For mince, two cups of heav- ily roasted coffee contain your daily requirement of the vitamin niacin. -

KEY DEFECT

Niacin is one of the B vitamins A deficiency of it is the kw nutri- tional defect in the human dil- eIIe pellagra. once I serious pro- blem. ,

Chemical and bacterial tests. conducted about ten Y0” ICU. Ihoowed that an average cup of coffee contained about one-tenth of the minimum daily requirement of

niacin. Recently, Dr. L. J. Teply, of the Wisconsin Alumni Research

Foundation. revealed that heavy routing, as practiced to some ex- tent commer..:.liy. brings the nia- cin level to nearly .06 per cent. That's about five times the niacin content of the roasted coffees most widely used in the United States.

GOOD REMEDY

Caffeine - which is found In coffee - Is I good remedy for re- lieving several varieties-of had. Iches. according to Dr. Arnold P. Friedman of Columbia Univer- sity's New York Headache Clinic.

He sayl caffeine taken alone or II on-iblnatiuu with other drugs may be better than the new tran- quilizers for tension and ; sing

headaches. He calls caffeine com- bined with aspirin "the sovereign remedy" for the garden variety of headache that troubles many. QUESTION AND ANSWER

D. C.: What causes night sweats?

Answer: There are many causes .for night sweats. The most com- mon one. of course. is sleeping with too many covers. It may also be due to the presence of I chronic infection in the body.

Tuberculosis is another com- mon cause. but the other symp. toms of this disease are more pron ounced. such as loss of weight, coughing, and fever.

MAXIMS

Discretion is not so much Indic- ated by never making I mistake as by never nepeulng it.

THIS PORTICO OF GOD!

Theme seekers, pause upon this duel-t floor

And look across this range of rim- rock land:

There let your wit flow as the drifting sand,

For you have found I theme for- evarmore:

alien wine. Mellowed an Ice la caverns of the soul-

Look in its ruby depths and tip the bowl,

Dreaming the fragrant vineyard and the vine:

For such I scene as this must move the pen

Or cause I Phidias in awe to slbre

And ponder chiseled line and cryp- tic shade-

Recordings in red marble for all

men.

On some dim Parthenon. not yet aware

This portico of Gods will never fade.

--(fnllen Jones. In the New York Times.

timbers.

Now that might be the reason the bridges were covered down east. or they have no old people residing. or have faulty memories. For the snow would drift in anyway and the covering would retard thawing and actually make it worse.

I suspect tine real reason In the same as in Ontario and parts of the U.S.A. Before the days of the auto any old farmer can tell you how difficult it was to drive I horse over I long bridge. Cows and pigs were impossible over Iv- en small short bi-idles. By com- pletely covering the bridges the task was greatly simplified. And livestock did travel long distance: on foot only in the old days.

Perhaps this will catch the In of the responsible party and serve. either as I correction or to pin my own ears back.

I am. Sir. etc.. r..c. LANTZ Kitchener. Ont.

Rest then. and drink I draught of .

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I-causal menus as XI-UQVIIDOIBIIVTIIHIII StIteswillbawbarevestIiIPrIsi-

am Ieppsas to be menu I politi- cal speech.-Ottawa Joni-III

Tlt-far-tat is fair we In told. For example. she not the guaranteed wan be offsst. by a guaranteed work effort?-oshm WI Guettl