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. , 7 8 . Tonight's Visitations
We are having quite an invasion of federal cabinet ministers in this little province tonight: Health and Welfare Minister Judy LaMarsh at Summerside; Fisheries Minister Robi- chaud at Rustico and Public Works Minister MclIllraith at Murray- River. Three more are to follow. Of course, there's an election in the offing, and it is to enlighten us on the Liberal viewpoint that they are coming. But the non-partisan welcome we extend- ed the other day to Prime Minister Pearson goes for all his cabinet col- leagues as well.
Fisheries, of course, is a basic in- dustry here, second only to agricul- ture. Public Works embraces our multimillion-dollar causeway project, about which we expect to hear more from Mr. Robichaud. Health and Welfare are matters of concern to all of us. Over and above the interest attaching to what the heads of these departments may have to say, is a policy statement attributed to Miss La- Marsh at a Liberal rally in Preston, Ontario, last Tuesday, which has given us very much concern indeed.
We refer, of course, to her state- ment that the benefits of increased pensions to elderly people would be based on the cost of living in the area in which a pensioner resides, and to the example she cited of how this ‘would work out. The Canadian Press report puts this part of her statement in direct quotes, as follows:
land doesn’t need in actual dollars
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anything like a pensioner living in Toronto.” Then the speaker went on to say that a majority Liberal gov-
sary to help those in need” along this line. :
- It is conceivable that Miss La- Marsh was misquoted in the Canadian Press report; in which case, however, one would expect that she would in- sist on having it corrected immediate- ly. We have seen no such correction. This is the third occasion on which we have had to refer to the matter, and we trust it will be the last.
We are hoping, indeed, that Miss LaMarsh’s main reason for comirig here at this time, if she was correctly
stance, is to apologize for having given utterance to this piece of claptrap. We regard it as the most objectionable, the most misleading and the most ir- responsible statement any cabinet minister could make. The more we think of its implications the madder we get, and we can assure Miss La- Marsh that we are not singular in this regard.
Whatever explanation she has to offer tonight will need to be good; and it should be accompanied by an explanation of why it took a whole week to get round to making it.
The Integrity Issue Under the above heading, the
editorial to explaining, why, for thinking people of all political creeds,
government is a major issue in the November & election campaign. It emphasizes, we believe righly, that in the welter of charges and counter- charges, ranging from the cruel significance of the Dorion Report to the unsubstantiated pamphleteering of Dr. Guy Marcoux, we are in danger of losing sight of the central fact the during the past year Canada’s gov- ernment has been exposed to, and tainted with, more corruption than at any time since the Beauharnois . scandals of 1931.
Pension plans and poverty wars, medicare and regional development; these are all issues. But before they
torate must be reassured on the one point where assurance now is tragi-
| minds off politics! Even if we don’ see it, we can picture it in our imag-~
cally lacking—the apparent arrogant
indifference of the Liberal party to corruption in its midst.
What is at stake, as The Spectator emphasizes, is not the integrity of the Prime Minister and the vast majority of his supporters; it is their attitude to creeping tentacles of wheeling and dealing, influence peddling, down- right crime; and their lack of judg- ment in matters of political ethics,
The furniture deals. The Dupuis The Asselin affair. The Stone- hill case. The Minaudo case, and the Dorion Report itself. The Hamilton paper reviews these cases briefly, pointing out that only that concern- ing Mr. Dupuis was handled with efficiency and dispatch. In all the rest, the same hear-no-evil, see-no-evil attitude is a consistant factor.
It is interesting to re-read Mr. Pearson's famous “code of ethics’’ let- ter of Nov. 30, 1964 in this connec- tion: “It is by no means sufficient for a person in the office of a minis-
ter—or in any other position in the public service—to act within the law. That goes without saying. Much more is required. There is an obligation not simply to observe the law but to act in a manner so scrupu- lous that it will bear the closest pos- sibte scrutiny.” This letter went to all the members of the cabinet. It is an excellent summation of that which Canadians would like to see in gov- ernment.
But in 1965 the Libera) emphasis has shifted. A manual on issues dis- tributed to party workers for specific use in this campaign puts it this way: “What about some of the dangerous issues now being groomed by the op- position . . . honesty in government
for example? Mr. Diefenbaker is al- |
ready pushing this one . .. Time and the proper decisions will do much to dissipate this as an issue. . legitimate and substantiated instance of wrong doing brought to Mr. Pear- son’s attention has been acted upon, firmly and unhesitatingly.” Glaringly to the contrary, Mr. Pearson’s attitude has not been firm and it has been hesitating. He has not been in sufficient control of his ministers to inculcate in them the absolute necessity of informing him the minute something fishy develops. Indeed, the issue of this election can be said to lie between the letter of 1964 and the campaign manual of If the opposition parties will not ask these questions, then the vot- ers must. In the absence of a recon-
“ciliation of=these views, what right
has the government to ask for a re- newed mandate under any pretext?
_ Unpredictable Show ' Early risers around the world on Thursday may see one of the greatest space spectaculars of the century— if they’re lucky, that is. Astronomers are promising nothing.- They say the whole thing could be a fizzle. But its a rare event in any case—a blaz- ing comet racing faster and faster to-
ward its rendezvous with the sun. No matter where you live—with a few exceptions—the: best time for seeing it, should he an hour before sunrise Thursday. It should last a little over; an hour. ‘The exceptions include Alaska and Hawaii, which
-are-expected-to have-the-best-view-of |
all. At that longitude the full glory of the comet and its tail are expected to be visible at sunset Wednesday. Officials of the Smithsonian As- trophysical Observatory estimate that the Ikeya-Seki comet,-as it is named, will be 100 times brighter than the planet Venus. The tail, which is still
growing, is already more than 10 mil- |
lion miles long. It will sweep an
estimated 30-degree arc through the |
sky, passing 300,000 miles from the searing surface of the sun. Pieces of it are already being blasted off by solar wind, and as it recedes from the sun the tail will be ahead of it. Travelling now at roughly 500,- 000 miles an hour, Ikeya-Seki will have accelerated up to more than a million miles an hour by tomorrow. At this speed it will whip around the sun in a mere three hours and begin its journey back into deep space. A good topic, this, to.take oan
ination. And if it lives’ tip to the dazzling displays put on by some of its predecessors which have passed within close range of the sun—the Great: Comets of 1848 and 1882, for
| example—it will be something to re- | member indeed.
EDITORIAL NOTE
It is predicted that Canadian homemakers will pay more for com- forters and pillows as a result of the war in Viet Nam. Most-of the down for comforters comes from the breasts of Vietnamese waterfowl. Not.only are the birds failing to breed because of the noise of battle, but there is no one to pluck those that remain.
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| Capital Celebrates Its Own. Centennial °
Today is the one hundredth anniversary of Ottawa's status as the capital city of Canada.
John Fisher, the Centennial | Commissioner, will drive across | the new Macdonald- Cartier In- terprovincial Bridge, from Que bec to Ontario, in a horse-drawn landau, carrying the original proclamation. On arrival at Ot tawa City Hall, he will hand this to the Mayor of Ottawa as the highlight of the anniversary ceremony.
For 10 years a bitter dispute waged within the newly united Province of Canada as to the site for the capital. Canada East the new name-for Lower Can- ada, of course wanted the seat of government to be in Quebec City; Canada West, which was
Canada, fa-
previously Upper voured Kingston. Finally the
Queen Victoria. She heeded: the |
advice of men on the spot, and chose Ottawa as a
acceptable to both factions. Further, Ottawa was suffic-
choice was left to the young |
iently removed from the U.S. border to make it safer against military raids, it. was thought. '| But this conclusion was proved erroneous some _ years | when a’ Fenian raiding party | was actually rounded up and | captured inside the grounds of | Government House here. ont The honour of being the chos- |
en capital of course entailed | preparations, such as new build: | ings to house the Legislature | and the civil service and the - General. These had
been started some years earlier .
when Ottawa was selected as | one of two alternating capitals | —the other being Quebec City. .
The fine buildings on their im- pressive. natural site were much admired. ‘‘Magnificent, sur | passingly fine,’ ‘wrote Hon. | George Brown. But he complain- |
cost half the révenue of the pro- | vince to light them to heat them | and to keep them clean.” i | Ottawa was quickly called | “The Westminster in the Wind- | | erness.”’ Americans admitted | that it was safe against attack, | “because invading soldiers | would get lost looking for it.” To | find the new Capital, they said; | one should start from the Nerth Pcie, strike’ a bead for | | Lake Ontario, and Ottawa would be found at the point where the glacier ceases and ve- getation begins. Perhaps more subtly, Goldwin Smith made his | famous quip that ‘“‘a sub-arctic lumber village has been convert- ed by royal mandate into a pol- itical cock-pit.” ‘
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AN AUTUMN THOUGHT |
It’s autumn now, and summer's | }
past. | The colored. leaves, no longer |
' By fragile stems to maple
Are failing gently to the ground.
The only sound from off the sea
| A seagull’s far and lonely cry.” | Grey waves are topped with | foamy white.
| Along the shores,
die.
All nature’s beauty now has
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| Destroyed by wind and chilling
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| The air is filled with keen regret
| For things that will not live
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| When sadness fills our inner hearts { We happily should be aware ~
That though dark clouds have masked the sky i
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ed: “They are just five hundred”: years ahead of their time. It will |
Despite the criticisms and the cost, Ottawa became our only capital in 1865. sary was celebrated last month by the issue of the brown five cent postage stamp, depicting the Parliament Buildings on their beautiful cliff-top site tow- ering above the Ottawa River.
The: ambitious lumber village at once tried to grow up into the appropriate status. Tt was a)- ready a boom, produc- ing a 65 million bo ard feet of lumber. That first year, its first daily newspaper was launched; a paid police force was formed; tracks were laid
This anniver-.
‘for tramcars drawn by horses; |plank sidewalks were built on ithe second side of the two main | streets. Then in October the first contingent of civil servants ar- rived, to prepare for the open- ing of the first session in the new Parliament the next Spring. Those beautiful buifdings had been completed, with tower, ro- tunda, fountaitis and other em- bellishments. ‘‘They could at least serve as lunatic asylums jin the future,"’ predicted one critic. And that, in the view of some people, is just what they have become today on our Cap ital’s one hundredth birthday.
A Humane Weapon?
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nauseating gas supplied to by the United States. The Star
| joined in that.
The chemical used last spring
was a genuine “poison gas’’, |
producing severe though temp- orary iliness. Tear gas, on the other hand, is simply an an irr- itant which produces a copious flow of tears for a.short time, making it impossible for the vic- fight. It has been used for
introduction on the battlefield—
where far deadlier weapons are
| in_constant_us—hardly qualifies |
as an atrocity.
were used in World War 1. Gen- eral Westmoreland, on the other hand, is asking prmission to use gas only “‘in cases when its use would be more humane than let- thal weapons.”
The only serious objection— and the real -ource of the alarm that is so widely felt—is the pos- sibility that if once tear gas is authorized it may start a pro
| rumored tobe almost as deadly as the atom bomb.
Before Columbus
Montreal Gazette
_A map of North -Amer ica, drawn half a century before Col- umbus made his voyage, is cer- tainly a startling discovery. Its authenticity has been guarante- ed by experts in the British Mu- seum and in the Yale Univer- sity Library. There is agree ment that the date is about 1440.
The discovéry has all the more interest. because it was made almost by accident. It turned up in an old bookshop in New. Haven, Connecticut. It shows the portion of North Am- erica explored by the Norsemen. and even outlines two large riv- ers opening into the ocean—pro- bably the St. Lawrence and the Hudson.
The map ts believed to have been drawn by a monk in Basel, Switzerland, using source ma- terials dating back to earlier times. A handwritten notation reads: ‘Discovered by Bijarni and Leif.”
Remarkable as such a map ‘is,
it only confirms what was al-
‘ready khown. Newfoundland has | fat
relics of ‘ Norse explorations. The Norsemen established a small settleinent near the vil- lage of |’Anse aux Meadows, in Newfoundland’s nothern tip. It has been scientifically excavat- ed by the Norwegia, explorer, Dr. Helge Instad.
The remains of several build- ings have beeen found. There was even a smithy, and slag heaps from a small iron work- ings- j Quite apart from its historic- al importance, the/_ newly dis- covered map is a_ fascinating example for all collectors. You never know what you may dis cover in an bookshop.
the other day, found an impor- tant early map of Canada in a bookshop in Japan. The casual discovery of a map of America dating half a century-before Col- umbus proves that anything is still possible. .
Rise And Fall Of Cocoa
Carnia Observer
Overproduction of cocoa in
‘Ghana and Nigeria has backfir-
This old law appears to have
shifted about. It works fast sometimes—but only in one di-
the 12 cents now marking
decline. Customers paid for the | the way up.
increased cost to the manufac- turer in a hurry. There has been so far as we know, no equal rush to pass the present saving on to the customer.
Chicolate and cocoa are not the exception. When wheat pric-
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bread—which caused it to jump in price—was so negligible it could not be measured.
Mt could be of course, that now that the price of cocoa has been
cut more than half. the manu- facturers of candy— forced to raise their price when it was go- ing up— have discovered there is | 80 little used_in the manufacture ‘of their delicacies it cannot be | Measured with the same yard-
cess of escalation which will end | i “) MULTIPLE TRANSFUSIONS
One Montreal collector, only |,
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answer the questions of our | writer. The. outcome also de- | pends upon the age of the vic- tim and whether the blood pres sure is extremely high. A pert- son with normal cerebra) arter- ies seldom has a stroke. The ex- ception occurs in those paralys- ed when a blood cot in the heart or lungs breaks loose and is shipped to the brain (emboil- ism). : LEG PAINS AND SALT 0. G. writes: M a person on 8 low salt diet develops pain in the calf of the legs, could too lit- tle salt be resvonsible? f REPLY Yes, in the same way that men working in hot places, such as steel mills, may develop ad- dominal and leg cramps If ex- cessive sweating causes them to lose too much salt through per- spiration. ANESTHETIC RAMBLING _ A. D. writes: Do patients talk on the operating table while un- der the are,
REPLY . ;
No, but frequently they talk for a few moments while going under and on coming to. This is more likely to occur when they are tense, fearful, or excited.
PULSE AND PRESSURE
D. A. writes: Is the pul-e fast when the blood oressure is high?
REPLY
There is no retationshio be- tween the two and many indivi- duals with pressure readings tver 200 have a normal pulse rate.
Mrs. 0. writes: Is there any limit to the number of blood transfusions a person can have?
REPLY
No, if there are no reactions and if enough time elapses , be- fore each transfusion. f TODAY’S HEALTH HINT—
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War Against Trichinosis
Richmond (Va.
latest issue of the Journal of American Medical Associa-
He is there to call attention to an article in the magazine which says that “there has been a striking reduction in ence, mortality and severity of infection due to trichinella spi- ralis ‘trichinosis) in man and
s reas- ons cited are reduction in the per captia consumption of pork, low temperature storage which
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kills the larvae. and more lie awareness of the
Journal article, was 194, But here's that will
preval- | surprise many people: It js er
timated that, as recently as 2% years ago, one out of every five or six- people was infected with trichinosis worms, and that even today, about four per cent the population is infected.
sizable number of people at some time in their lives apparently
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Students And Professors
Calgary
the quality of individual mem- bers of the professional staff. It is childish and insulting be- havior of the kind which encour- ages critics of higher education to wonder why taxpayers should be asked to spend good money on supportng university insti- tutions. ;
It takes no smart-alec student to know that some teachers are good, some are indifferent and some are not ideal. But the
same thing goes for students. |
Indeed, it goes for the 1. ation as a whole. ae
In this instance. some of the | qualities which some students |
cism_ might be of tetle “ae or no
significance. It is ont the func- Oct tica of proteaonts, te. be eatee-. | Wed., . 20 tainers capable of keeping the |
cto I stiches ot oven sree. | Charlottetown t is the function of to guide sad help students ime | Hotel _ helping themselves. - The. big | part &f Se work at university has | 6:30 P.M. pode lige Rf Be '
es, | i There is no ai” reed to | Guest ' Speaker
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(NOTE: All correspondence | te Dr. Van Dellen should be | addressed te: Dr. Theodore Van Dellen, co Chicago Trib- une, Chicago, Mlinois.)'
Our Yesterdays
(Fram The Guardian Files)
TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (October 20, 1940) }
In one of the greatest nee | ever staged in the Charlotte- |
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#. chauffeur at the Saint John Tuberculosis Hospital, died in a ditch at Simonds Parish, about eight miles east of the city. Harold Cunningham, about 65, hospital buciness manager. fs in Saint John General Hospi- tal — a gunshot wound in the neck. |
j manips en fected reales was e of the third district Queen’s Lib- eral Association at a meeting held at Stanhope. -
MANY LEAVE SCHOOL About 40,000 young Canadians are ted to graduate from
| INTERRUPTION. NOTICE EASTERN KINGS COUNTY .__
There will be an_ wer on Sunday, October 24, weather pe een the hours of 8:00 a.m.
light Saving Time.
Lorne Valley Swite
fanning, and
Herald f ledgeable person or he wouldn't be a professor.
to be unfair or to invite student dislike and criticism, he be treated with respect for his” scholarship, appreciated for what. ever can be learned from him and not made a target to be so
out rientlessly and destroyed- Canadian Club of P. E. I.
wn and: to-comm the ig Station. —
The area affected will be from St. Peters to Souris and East Point, Dingwell Mills to Gilen- Annandale, St. Georges and Launching
adjacent north shore areas.
MARITIME ELECTRIC = Conary, Limited
fib INDUSTRIAL
| DINNER | MEETING
interruption of electric and 3:00 p.m., Day-
to interconnect with the new trans-
DEVELOPMENT BANK
A representative of
the bank will be at
‘Charlottetown, P.E.I. On October 21st, 1965
If you require a term loan
for a new or existing busi-
ness, you are invited to discuss your ‘needs with him.
An appointment can be arranged by telephoning
Mr. B. K. Williams at-the Kirkwood Motel
or in advance by writing to
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BANK
236 St. George Street
_ SE
Moncton, N.B.
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